Stop Dr M before he burns M’sia, says Bishop

The vocal Bishop Paul Tan wants the government
to act against the former premier and all those
who stoke racial and religious tension.

KUALA LUMPUR: Once the object of love and veneration but now hate and denigration, Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s constant outbursts have made him one of the most criticised individuals in this nation.

And even on Valentine’s Day, it is brickbats and not bouquets for the former premier.

Ironically, Mahathir who threw scores of people behind bars without trial on the basis of national security is now considered to be a threat himself.

And his unrestrained remarks on sensitive issues had earned him the wrath of a vocal senior clergyman as well.

‘Tentera Diraja Kesultanan Sulu’ Sebalik Pencerobohan Bersenjata Di Sabah

KUALA LUMPUR : Satu kumpulan yang mendakwa mahu mengembalikan semula tuntutan Filipina ke atas Sabah dipercayai menjadi dalang di sebalik pencerobohan kira-kira 100 warga asing bersenjata ke Lahad Datu, Sabah, seorang pegawai Moro dipetik sebagai berkata.

“Laporan belum disahkan dari sumber-sumber kami berkata bahawa satu kumpulan yang menggelar diri mereka Tentera Diraja Kesultanan Sulu adalah di sebalik kehadiran kumpulan bersenjata yang tidak dibenarkan itu,” kata satu sumber yang enggan mendedahkan identiti kepada akhbar Gulf News.

Menurut laporan, kumpulan lelaki bersenjata terbabit yang menaiki beberapa bot kecil telah mendarat di Lahad Datu, Selasa lalu dan kini sedang berdepan secara ketenteraan dengan pasukan keselamatan negara.

Pasukan keselamatan tahan penceroboh di Lahad Datu

Pasukan keselamatan menahan sekumpulan warga asing menyamar sebagai anggota tentera cuba menceroboh perairan negara di Lahad Datu, Sabah semalam.
   
Menteri Pertahanan Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi berkata beliau mengarahkan Angkatan Tentera Malaysia (ATM) bekerjasama dengan pasukan polis mengambil tindakan segera berhubung perkara itu.
   
"Kita tidak mahu sebarang unsur pendedahan mengenai pertahanan negara berlaku di mana-mana kawasan di negara ini termasuk di Lahad Datu," katanya kepada pemberita pada majlis penyerahan memorandum sokongan kepada Barisan Nasional (BN) daripda 28 badan bukan kerajaan di kawasan Bagan Serai hari ini.
   

Most of new voters in seven states

PUTRAJAYA: The 13th general election promises to be especially lively in seven politically “hot” states that have recorded the highest number of new voters.

The electorate in Selangor, Johor, Perak, Sabah, Sarawak, Kelantan and Kedah each grew by at least 150,000 voters, all of whom signed up after the 2008 polls.

Of the seven, Selangor recorded the biggest jump with the number of new voters rising 29.06% – from 1,565,494 in 2008 to 2,020,500 in the third quarter of last year.

When sweeteners are not an election offence

There is no legal provision to prosecute political parties or organisations for giving out money or gifts during an election campaign, according to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).

Deputy chief commissioner (III) Sutinah Sutan said, however, that candidates, agents and supporters can be charged with corruption for similar activities if this is done in the candidate's interests.

RCI: Lebih baik lambat daripada tiada

Oleh Newmond Tibin

Ketua Menteri, NGO dan individu di Sabah
menyambut baik penubuhan suruhanjaya ini.

KOTA KINABALU: Walaupun kerajaan Barisan Nasional (BN) pimpinan Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak mempunyai kedudukan selesa kepentingan seluruh rakyat negeri ini berhubung masalah pendatang asing tanpa izin (Pati) yang berlarutan sejak sekian lama, dengan penuh ikhlas, ia menubuhkan sebuah Suruhanjaya Siasatan Diraja (RCI) untuk menangani perkara itu.

Kebanyakan pemimpin negeri, termasuk Ketua Menteri Datuk Seri Musa Aman, pertubuhan bukan kerajaan (NGO) dan individu di Sabah menyambut baik penubuhan suruhanjaya ini, walaupun ada yang berpendapat kerajaan persekutuan sepatutnya berbuat demikian sejak lama dulu.

Mengundi untuk masa hadapan

Oleh Tommy Thomas

“There is a tide in the affairs of men,

Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;

Omitted, all the voyage of their life

Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

On such a full sea are we now afloat,

And we must take the current when it serves,

Or lose our ventures.”            

 - William Shakespeare (“Julius Ceasar”, Act IV iii 215)

Bayangkan Britain ditadbir oleh parti politik yang sama, contohnya, Parti Buruh, selama 55 tahun berturut-turut dari tahun 1957. Ataupun Amerika Syarikat ditadbir oleh Parti Republikan untuk tempoh sama yang berterusan, tanpa henti.

Itulah takdir Malaysia semenjak Merdeka. Pilihan raya umum ke-13, yang mesti diadakan sebelum 28 Jun tahun ini, memberi rakyat Malaysia satu peluang untuk bebas dari monopoli kuasa politik yang dipelopori UMNO, pada asalnya, berlindung di sebalik Perikatan dan setelah itu, sebagai Barisan Nasional.

The same threat of Phillippines swallowing Sabah if...

Joe Fernandez' note

KOTA KINABALU : There's a comment in Malaysia Today that if Sabah opts for freedom, the Philippines is waiting (meaning to swallow Sabah).

This is the same bogeyman story that we were told in 1963 by the Malayan Government and the British: that the Philippines and Indonesia are the big crocodiles in the region, waiting to swallow Sabah and Sarawak after the British leave.

Bishops expose ploy to convert under-aged students to Islam (Part 1)

Written by  Bob Teoh

Islamisation at matriculation college
In Part 1, the Catholic Church in Sabah has exposed a covert ploy to convert under-aged students to Islam in Labuan and complained that non-Muslim students at the Labuan Matriculation College between 17 and 18 years old, “are constantly subjected to various forms of harassment, ridicule and pressure to change their religion.”

What the bishops found out shocked them. Some teachers there were proselytising Christian students resulting in some converting to Islam. The called for full probe after which a strongly worded letter jointly signed by the four Catholic bishops of Sabah together with a report prepared by the Sabah Catholic Diocesan Centre was despatched to the highest levels with copies to Education Minister Muyhiddin Yasin, who is also the Deputy Prime Minister as well as two Sabahan Christian ministers, Bernard Dompok and Dr Maximus Ongkili, as well as to Murphy Pakiam, President of the Bishops’ Conference of Malaysia.

I accuse once again Dr Mahathir for racism in Malayasia

This is the most damning article I have come across on the Mamak-Pseudo Malay’s granting of citizenship to Filipino and Indonesian Muslims in Sabah in 1994 so that they may vote his political party into power.

And what was worse than that criminal act was his utterance that Tunku Abdul Rahman did something even more outrageous in granting citizenship to Chinese, Indians and other non-Malays when Malaya achieved independence from the British in 1957.

I ACCUSE ONCE AGAIN, DR. MAHATHIR MOHAMAD, EX-PRIME MINISTER OF MALAYSIA (1981-2003)!!

by Donplaypuks®,

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