[Tony Pua]: Christmas Carol in Recesion

An interesting post from Member Parliament Petaling Jaya, Tony Pua's blog:

You'd better watch out,
You'd better not cry;
You'd better keep cash,
I'm telling you why:
Recession is coming to town.

It's hitting you once,
It's hitting you twice
It doesn't care if you've been careful and wise
Recession is coming to town

It's worthless if you've got shares
It's worthless if you've got bonds
It's safe when you've got cash in hand
So keep cash for goodness sake, HEY

You'd better watch out
You'd better not cry
You'd better keep cash
I'm telling you why:
Recession is coming to town!

Finance products are confusing
Finance products are so vague
The banks make you bear the cost of risk
So keep out for goodness sake, OH

You'd better watch out
You'd better not cry
You'd better keep cash
I'm telling you why:
Recession is coming to town.

【The Nut Graph】 : Why Malaysia needs the ISA

Article below took from The Nut Graph :

Why Malaysia needs the ISA

10 Dec 08 : 8.00AM

By Wong Chin Huat
editor@thenutgraph.com

Corrected on 10 Dec 2008 at 10.00am

Police negotiating with protester wearing "Mansuhkan ISA" headband outside Masjid Negara, 13 Sept 2008
(pic by Lainie Yeoh)

NO, your eyes do not fool you. Nor have I been visited by Special Branch officers and “turned over”.

I was at the Petaling Jaya Civic Centre car park Sunday night, 7 Dec 2008, attending the weekly anti-Internal Security Act (ISA) gathering. A passionate speaker lamented that there were so few Malaysians there because they were afraid of the ISA. He was also disappointed that corrupt governments can be overthrown once and again by demonstrating crowds in Bangkok, but not in Kuala Lumpur.

The gentleman could not be more wrong if he thought the causality works only in one direction — that the ISA causes people to shun demonstrations. It actually works both ways — the ISA also exists because of some people's fear of demonstrations and all other forms of political expression.

Also, one could not be more wrong to think that the ISA is merely an evil tool of the Barisan Nasional (BN) to control citizens. It is not a complete falsehood when BN politicians claim that the people want the ISA since they support a ruling coalition that desires the ISA.

The ISA is here because it has served a purpose to a sizeable segment, probably the majority, of Malaysians. What purpose is that? Having a strong government.

(Corrected) Without the ISA and all other draconian laws, a government cannot be strong in an autonomous sense — it can only persuade and not coerce people to support it.

But why would people want a strong government? Because we are fundamentally a Hobbesian nation.

Thomas Hobbes (source: wikipedia.org)Hobbesian nation

Thomas Hobbes, the 17th century conservative British philosopher, believed that human beings living in the state of nature were living in a state of war, their lives short and brutish. Incidentally, it was Hobbes who invented the concept of the social contract.

Driven by our selfish desire to compete for resources, we would pose threats to each other in the absence of government. Therefore, it is justifiable for a government to be absolute and disregard consent because the people cannot be trusted.

Push the Hobbesian logic to the extreme, and you will believe that even a bad government is better than no government. If only Hobbes was Asian, he would assure us that the government is always benevolent.

Most of us are Hobbesian because we do not believe that a multi-ethnic society can remain peaceful if the citizens are free. We are insecure with our differences.

Some of us wish for the differences to be eliminated through assimilation, with everyone professing one faith, speaking one language, observing one custom, or inter-marrying for common posterity.

And there are bound to be some among us who feel hurt when a “sensitive issue” is raised. The issue could be the constitutional “special position of Malays and natives of any of the states of Sabah and Sarawak”. Or it could be the extra-constitutional issues of bumiputeraism, Islam, the Malay language, the Malay rulers, or Chinese and Tamil schools.

And feeling hurt gives us a strong reason to ask others to shut up. So, we wave the keris, stage demonstrations, point fingers at other's noses, tear people's pictures up or even threaten to burn down buildings. The message is simple — stop this or you will incite ethnic riots.

Preventing ethnic riots 101

How do you prevent an ethnic riot? The government's answer is simple — crack down with the ISA.

In other words, the ISA and the authoritarian state that it protects is the lesser evil compared to looting and irrational mass killings. And since the ISA is here, everyone expects the state to use it against others who hurt their feelings. For many, the ISA is actually legitimate insofar as it is impartially used.

That is the reason why a government defending the ISA has been supported by more than half of the Malaysian electorate. It's like an insurance premium paid to hedge the risk of a disaster.

Protesters at anti-ISA candlelight vigil, 27 Sept 2008

But then, why have there been continuing anti-ISA gatherings that attract ordinary people, rather than civil society activists and opposition members, after 8 March, with the date a constant reference point?

A simple explanation is that there have been no post-election riots. It is obvious that for some Malaysians, the risk of being an ISA victim is a premium unnecessarily paid to hedge against a fake hazard.

But have we really outgrown our obsession with a strong government? I am afraid not.

The need for a strong government can only be gone when we believe we can deal with our differences without resorting to violence, whether by private citizens (riots) or the state (political crackdowns).

It will happen only when we believe we can trust our rationality. If we are right, we will win the debate; if we are wrong, then it is still beneficial for us to be proven wrong.

Are Malaysians willing to engage in rational debate when it comes to issues of religion, the labelling of natives and immigrants, or the future of multiculturalism?

No, more often than not, we respond with our emotions. “We are hurt, so you must shut up and apologise! You refuse to do so? We will take matters into our own hands or lodge a police report against you.”

In this sense, the ISA is more than “detention without trial”. It is one of the many tools — alongside the Sedition Act, the Printing Presses and Publications Act and other draconian laws — available to a Hobbesian state to save us from killing each other.

Antidote

The antithesis or antidote of the “unjust” ISA is therefore not “justice”, for justice in the minimal sense could mean a wrong universally and impartially applied.

Remember how many Malaysians condemned the arrest of journalist Tan Hoon Cheng? “How could the government arrest the messenger when the culprit is left scot-free?” The implied message was, it would have been less unjust if Datuk Ahmad Ismail were arrested together with Tan. But if Ahmad alone were arrested, how many would protest against the ISA?

The ISA serves our subconscious need for a strong government, like kids who turn to parents to punish their siblings to win a fight. To eliminate the ISA, you cannot just change the law. You must eliminate such deeply-rooted psychological needs.

We need to be comfortable with freedom. Right now, there is a fear of the “other's” freedom to think, say and do as they please. “We” perceive this as different from what “we” think, say and do. Thus, “we” perceive “their” freedom as threatening “our” world. This chain of reasoning, triggered by fear, is what created the ISA in the first place.

Blaming the BN for the ISA is easy, but such self-righteousness will blind us from acknowledging our own evil taste for authoritarianism. It does not get us closer to freedom, which is a combination of confidence to live our lives as we please and humility not to ask others to do the same.

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A political scientist by training and a journalism lecturer by trade, Wong Chin Huat uses the Federal Constitution as his “bible” to fend off the increasingly intolerable evil called “state”.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTION : REINSTATEMENT WITHOUT AMENDING LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1976 THROUGH PARLIAMENT

From blog Yap Boon Hau (A Lawyer)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTION : REINSTATEMENT WITHOUT AMENDING LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1976 THROUGH PARLIAMENT

INTRODUCTION

Much has been said and argued about the reinstatement of the local government election (“LG Election”). In fact, reinstatement of LG Election formed part of the manifesto of opposition in the 12th General Election. The very fundamental movement towards a matured democratic society must start with an LG Election. Without which, there cannot be true democracy.

This article is not written to analyze the effectiveness/efficiency of elected local authority than the appointed local authority. Rather, to provide some thought as to the alternatives available to those States which differ from the Federal Government in respect of LG Election. To put in another words, the purpose of this writing is to seek solution available to the State Governments (quite clearly the State Government under Pakatan Rakyat) who wish to hold LG Election, but feel constrained by the Federal Law and Federal Government, where the latter prefers local authority members to be selected.

Now I may sound naïve to assume that there is genuine intention of the Pakatan Rakyat State Governments to move for LG Election. Nevertheless, without such naïve presumption, it serves me no purpose of writing this article.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTION – LAWS THAT PERMITS AND PROHIBITS

From historical perspective, there was a legislation called Local Government Election Act 1960 (“LG Election Act”), authorizing LG Election. Section 5A of the LG Election Act provides :

“Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the provisions of any written law which relates to Local Councils in force in any State, the State Authority may, after consultation with the Election Commission in respect of the boundaries of the local area and the number of Councillors to be elected to the Local Council having jurisdiction in such area, by order published in the Gazette of the State direct that the whole or a majority of the members of a Local Council shall be elected under this Act”

Subsequently, the Parliament deemed fit to enact the Local Government Act 1976 (“LG Act”) comprises of the provision affecting the LG Election in Section 15(1), which reads :

“Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any written law, all provisions relating to local government elections shall cease to have force or effect”.

It is accepted that the Federal Law ceases to have effect when it is expressly repealed by another Federal Law. In this case, the Parliament appears not to label their intention to stop LG Election by repealing the LG Election Act, as the Parliament did not include LG Election Act as lists of repealed law in the Second Schedule of LG Act pursuant to Section 166 of the same. However, by introduction of Section 15(1), Section 5A of LG Election Act became inconsistent with Section 15(1).

So, there arises a question whether Section 5A of LG Election Act has been repealed by “implication”. Repeal by implication is not unprecedented, and certainly not ruled out by Courts as unconstitutional. Nevertheless, there is always presumption against repeal by implication. The rationale is simple : the legislator is presumed to know the existing law, so when enacting a new law without providing repeal of old law, it gives out an intention not to repeal the existing legislation. In this case, Section 166 of LG Act provides for list of repealed acts/enactment, but LG Election Act was omitted. What is the proper interpretation of these provisions?

Quite clearly, these two provisions (Section 5A of LG Election Act and Section 15(1) of LG Act) cannot stand together. They contradict each others. In my view, this is a classic case where the Court would apply the principle of repeal by implication to strike down one of them. So, under this principle, the later supersedes the earlier. In the words of the Indian Supreme Court, the expression of “notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any written law” is a simple way of doing away the effect of pre-existing inconsistent law. The LG Election Act appears to have been enacted in 1960 where the LG Act was in 1976. Hence, LG Act prevails, and the operating law is Section 15(1) of LG Act which PROHIBITS LG Election.

The State Assembly is authorized by the Federal Constitution to enact law relating to local government. This is provided in Ninth Schedule, List (II), paragraph 4(a), including, of course, the local government election to its office bearers.

However, the Parliament may, in certain matters, and for the purpose only of ensuring uniformity of law and policy, make laws with respect thereto. According to Article 76 of the Federal Constitution, these matters include local government, which necessarily include local government election too.

The law made under this list shall be considered as Federal law but not State law. The State Assembly is limited by Article 75 of the Federal Constitution which provides :

“If any State law is inconsistent with a federal law, the federal law shall prevail and the State law shall, to the extent of the inconsistency, be void.”

It is therefore without doubt that the Federal legislation has power to make law pertaining local government election, and the State Assembly does not have power to repeal or amend it. The State Assembly too cannot make law that is inconsistent with the Federal law. The interim conclusion at this stage of analysis is that : in view of Section 15(1) of LG Act, the State Assembly cannot make law, despite so authorized by the Ninth Schedule, to “reinstate” LG Election. This conclusion of course is premised on the assumption of constitutionality of Section 15(1), which is the subject of my next discussion.

LEGAL SOLUTION (1) : CONSTITUTIONALITY OF S. 15(1)

Let me recap my conclusion above so as not to give impression of confusion and inconsistency. The incontrovertible conclusion of “the Federal legislation has power to make law pertaining local government election” does not necessarily means “the Federal legislation has power to make law to deprive local government election.”

Article 113(4) of the Federal Constitution provides :

“Federal or State law may authorise the Election Commission to conduct elections other than those referred to in Clause (1).”

Article 113(1) expressly confer power to either the Federal legislative body or State legislative body to command the Election Commission to conduct “other election” by way of Act of Parliament, or Enactment of a State. In my view, the words “elections other than those referred to in Clause (1)” encompass the LG Election.

The intention of this provision is clear : both Federal and State are conferred power to conduct LG Election through the Election Commission. Such power, in so far as the States are concerned, is vested by the Supreme law of the land.
It is my argument, Section 15(1) of LG Act, by declaring ceasation of all law relating to LG Election, has the effect of depriving the State legislature to make law to conduct the LG Election. Not only Section 15(1) of LG Act repealed implicitly the Federal Law authorizing LG Election, it prevents the State Assembly from making law within their express purview. It renders a constitutional power conferred by Federal Constitution ineffective.

It is provided in Article 4(1) of the Federal Constitution that

“This Constitution is the supreme law of the Federation and any law passed after Merdeka Day which is inconsistent with this Constitution shall, to the extent of the inconsistency, be void”

The Supremacy of Constitution has been repeatedly upheld in all the Courts of modern societies, and recognised as sanctity of law. Thus, the inconsistency between Section 15(1) of LG Act and Article 113(4) should be resolved in favour of Article 113(4). Section 15(1) of LG Act, in my view, should be declared unconstitutional.

Section 15(1) of LG Act cannot be saved by its constitutional backing in Article 76. Article 76 is an enabling provision or power conferring provision, namely to provide power to the Federal legislation to make law that regulate local government, including local government election. So, there should not be any dispute if the Federal legislation makes law to regulate local government election by setting out the procedure and rules applicable throughout the Peninsular. Article 76 only serves to protect Federal law, like LG Election Act from being struck down for unconstitutional for transgression the State List. The conferring of power to regulate a matter cannot be taken to include conferring power to repeal or deprive the other legislative authorities’ power to make law pertaining the same, particularly when it is confronted with the express provision on specific matter in Article 113(4).

LEGAL SOLUTION (2) : EXEMPTION BY GAZETTE

If the State authority does not wish to engage with the Federal on legal battle, which in any event, uncertain as to it outcome, a practical approach may be found in LG Act itself.

Section 1(4) of the LG Act provides :

“The State Authority may, notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (2), by notification in the Gazette exempt any area within any local authority area from all or any of the provisions of the Act or from any by-laws.”

So, Section 15(1) of the LG Act is not absolute and permanent. The Act itself permits exemption of its operation by Gazette. In this respect, perhaps Section 1(4) is the better option. At the risk of being inconsistency, an argument can in fact be advanced that if we read Section 1(4) and 15(1) of LG Act together, there is nothing unconstitutional about Section 15(1) because after all, the State authority is still empowered to suspend operation of Section 15(1) of LG Act in the event they GENUINELY wish to reinstate LG Election. In such situation, Section 15(1) posed no prohibition to LG Election.

So now left the question of political will on the part of Pakatan Rakyat which is tested by time.

Police Attack of Citizens Singing National Anthem Contempt of Nation and King

We the undersigned civil society groups express our strongest condemnation on the brutal attack by policemen on 100-strong Malaysians singing the national anthem last night in the BERSIH peaceful gathering in Civic Centre Petaling Jaya. It is not only an outright human rights violation, but also an outrageous contempt of the Nation and the King.

We urge Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Syed Albar to immediately apologize and Selangor Chief Police Officer Deputy Comm Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar to resign or be transferred over the matter. We call on all Malaysians to unite, regardless of our political persuasion, to unite in defending the national symbol and human rights.

We stress that, first and foremost, it is Malaysians' birth right to peacefully assemble, enshrined in the Article 10 of the Federal Constitution. Police dispersion of members of public gathering peacefully is contempt of the Constitution. The police has therefore acted unconstitutionally in dispersing the gathering to commemorate the 1st anniversary of November 10 BERSIH rally and to demand for abolition of ISA.

We are further deeply appalled by the unusual manner of police dispersing citizens in peaceful gathering. Usually, the police officer would demand the crowd to disperse within five minutes before taking any action. While Malaysians are taught from young to stand still when the national anthem is sung, the police acted as if they had so much contempt for Negaraku that the singing must be stopped and the singers punished.

We express our grave concern on the excessive force used. A 53-year-old woman Dian Abdullah was attacked from the back by a few policemen caused her to fall and injured the back of her head. She was left bleeding and was only hospitalized to have four stitches by a by-stander. Petaling Jaya parliamentarian Tony Pua and Kampung Tunku state assemblyperson Lau Weng San were also manhandled and punched.

Ironically, some were assaulted by the members of Malaysian Royal Police (PDRM) when they were singing "Raja Kita (Selamat Bertakhta) [May Our King (reigns in peace)]. The 1109 police attack on the citizens, the nation and the monarchy has just proved the dire need to have the Independent Police Misconduct and Complaint Commission (IPCMC) established.

The undersigned Organizations:

1. Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (BERSIH)

2. Writer Alliance for Media Independence (WAMI)

Tony Pua : Been Released and Back in Parliament

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Just a quick note to everyone who have shown great concern, I'm out of the police station now on personal bond (I think that's what it is) and am currently in parliament, in time to ask my scheduled question for No. 2.

I'm due to check back with the police station together with the other 23 persons who were arrested on the 24th November.

I'm in good spirits, so no one needs to worry, will write more later. The Public Accounts Committee is schedule to convene at 11.30am as well to discuss further on the Eurocopter issues.

Crazy Arrest Action ~ Tony Pua Has Been Arrested

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Was at the candlelight vigil against ISA as well as to commemorate the first anniversary of BERSIH gathering. the story you can read from Malaysiakini.

I was arrested while seeking out Ronnie Liu and the senior police officers in charge to make sure that everyone is ok.

the CPO Selangor issued the call to arrest me, and 2 guys came over to grab one arm each and pushed me towards the Black Maria.

I stated that I will walk, don't be rough but they tore my shirt instead. I repeated my call and 3 other police officers came at me, one with the knees into my belly while another attempted to kick my shin.

They then chucked me against the back of the Black Maria truck and shoved me up despite me stating that I can climb myself.

Apparently after waiting some 2 hours plus, it appears that they are going to keep us for the night here, and charge us tomorrow.

Weng San was also assaulted and had major bruises and some bleeding on the face. He saw the police who assaulted him here at the station, and Ronnie confronted him for his name. he appeared shaken by the demand and he refused to give his name and gave insted some very rude retorts.

Will update if I have sufficient battery. We are in good spirits and the lawyers have just been allowed in. So don't worry guys and gals :-)

Ah, and yes, its my first time. Not at all glamourous. :-)

Malaysiakini:Raja Petra dibebaskan dari ISA

Raja Petra dibebaskan dari ISA

Nov 7, 08 10:00am

Mahkamah Tinggi Shah Alam pagi ini mengisytiharkan bahawa penahanan penulis blog Raja Petra Kamaruddin di bawah ISA adalah tidak sah dan memerintahkan supaya beliau dibebaskan segera. Hakim Datuk Syed Ahmad Helmy Syed Ahmad yang menerima permohonan habeas corpus pengendali blog popular Malaysia Today juga memerintahkan beliau dibebaskan serta-merta. Hakim juga memerintahkan Raja Petra dibawa ke mahkamah menjelang 4 petang hari ini sebelum beliau dibebaskan segera. Penulis blog ditahan polis pada 12 September di suatu tempat yang tidak didedahkan sebelum dibawa ke kem tahanan Kamunting di Taiping pada 23 Sept. Raja Petra dibawa dari kem tahanan itu menjelang tengah hari sebelum sampai di Shah Alam kira-kira jam 3 petang dan dibebaskan setengah jam kemudian.

Raja Petra dihantar ke kem Kamunting

Dipetik daripada Malaysiakini :

Raja Petra Kamaruddin dihantar ke Kem Tahanan Kamunting hari ini untuk menjalani tahanan selama dua tahun bawah Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri (ISA), kata peguamnya.

Menteri Dalam Negeri telah menandatangani perintah tahanannya malam tadi mengikut seksyen 8 akta tersebut, yang membolehkan beliau ditahan tanpa bicara.

Mengikut akta tersebut, perintah tahanan ke atas Raja Petra itu boleh disambung setiap dua tahun.

Menurut peguamnya, pihak polis telah memaklumkan kepada mereka pagi ini bahawa Raja Petra akan dibawa ke Kamunting.


Mahkamah Tinggi Kuala Lumpur akan mendengar hari ini permohonan habeas corpus yang difailkan oleh peguam Raja Petra untuk membatalkan penahanan blogger tersebut.

Habeas corpus adalah permohonan untuk membawa tahanan ke mahkamah untuk menentukan sama ada berlaku kecacatan dalam perintah tahanan tersebut dan menjadikannya tidak sah.

Isteri Raja Petra, Marina Abdullah mengesahkan bahawa polis telah memaklumkan kepadanya bahawa KDN telah mengeluarkan perintah tahanan tersebut semalam.

Raja Petra, 58, yang ditahan bersama dua orang lagi minggu lalu, kini ditahan di lokasi yang tidak diketahui.

Dua orang lagi - wartawan kanan Sin Chew Daily, Tan Hoon Cheng, 33, dan exco kerajaan Selangor, Teresa Kok, 43 - telah dibebaskan.

Tan dibebaskan 18 jam selepas dia ditahan, manakala Teresa dibebaskan tujuh hari kemudiannya.

Mengikut peguam J Chandra, Raja Petra ditahan kerana menyiarkan artikel dalam lamanwebnya yang mencemarkan kepimpinan negara dan menghina Islam.

Beliau sebelum ini telahpun dihadapkan ke mahkamah atas tuduhan menghasut dan fitnah selepas mengaitkan Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak dan isterinya, dengan kes pembunuhan wanita Mongolia, Altantuya Shaariibu.

Utusan Melayu - utusan yang tak bermakna

Dipetik daripada blog bins for thoughts:

Saya menggesa supaya rakyat Malaysia yang berotak berhenti membaca ataupun membeli Utusan.


Saya merujuk kepada berita ini yang mengatakan bahawa Utusan mencabar Teresa Kok mengambil ujian untuk mengesahkan bahawa dia tidak berbohong ('lie detector test').

Tidakkah Utusan berasa serba salah kerana telah mengakibatkan seorang MP ditangkap masuk penjara?

Tidakkah mencukupi bagi Utusan untuk memfitnah seorang MP, malah sekarang hendak melupuskan maruah Teresa sama sekali dengan mencabar dia untuk mengambil ujian ini?

Adakah pemberita Utusan begitu 'racist' sehingga tergamak buat apa sahaja untuk memburukkan nama Teresa termasuk memaparkan berita yang jelas sekali 'one-sided'?

Adakah Utusan begitu zalim, walaupun pada masa Ramadhan yang menegaskan maaf and keinsafan?

Sebelum ini, saya masih lagi memahami kenapa Utusan diperlukan, sepertimana kaum Cina memerlukan Sin Chew. Namun sekarang semua ini sudah berubah. Saya yakin Utusan Melayu tiada nilai lagi. Utusan-utusannya tidak bermakna dan sekarang hanya berfungsi untuk membangkitkan kemarahan kaum Melayu terhadap kaum lain di Malaysia.

Saya harap bahawa akan terdapat akhbar Melayu lain yang dapat mencabar monopoli Utusan. Ini supaya kaum Melayu dan rakyat Malaysia masih lagi boleh baca berita yang sahih dalam Bahasa Melayu tanpa bergantung kepada Utusan yang kian ketinggalan zaman dan hilang nilainya.

(Bagi kawan-kawan Cina saya yang belum pernah baca Utusan. Cubalah bacanya untuk seminggu dan cubalah merasai bagaimana ia mewujudkan persepsi yang amat salah tentang kaum-kaum lain di kalangan pembacanya. Juga jelas sekali adalah bahawa Utusan memihak parti politik tertentu di Malaysia dan saya rasa semua orang tahu parti yang mana sedang saya cakapkan di sini.)

Teresa Kok Bebas!

Teresa Kok bersama ibu bapanya ketika dilepaskan.

"Hello my friend,
thanks for your support and prayer for me while I was under ISA detention.
Sorry for unable thank you ealier as I received hundreds of calls and sms since I'm out.
Million thanks to you. May the blessings of God be with you always.
Teresa Kok"

Terima kasih kepada semua yang memberi sokongan kepada Teresa Kok.
Kita harus meneruskan perjuangan untuk mansuhkan ISA!
Tekan kepada kerajaan BN untuk lepaskan RPK dan semua penahan ISA!

Sign the Petition to Free Teresa, Abolish ISA!

Please forward to all Malaysians:

Sign the Petition to Free Teresa, Abolish ISA!

http://www.petitiononline.com/freetkok/petition.html


The Barisan Nasional Government has on the 12 September detained Member of Parliament for Seputeh, state assemblywoman for Kinrara as well the senior state executive councillor for Selangor, Sdri Teresa Kok without trial under the draconian Internal Security Act (ISA).

She has been accused of stirring up racial sentiments by instigating residents to petition against mosques in Kinrara and Kota Damansara to lower the volume of their speakers. Teresa has denied these allegations and both mosques have come out to deny these accusations. There is hence absolutely no basis for this arrest. She has already threatened to sue Dr Mohd Khir Toyo, the former Selangor Menteri Besar and Utusan Malaysia for making and publishing these unfounded allegations.

The arrest of Sdri Teresa Kok,Raja Petra Kamaruddin, the Hindraf 5 as well as others is hence arbitrary, high-handed and a mockery of democracy. By labelling Teresa and others as threats to national security without any shred of evidence is a travesty of justice and a gross violation of human rights.

The petitioners hence resolves that the BN government should not use draconian powers under the ISA to cling on to power and demands the immediate and unconditional release of Teresa, Raja Petra, the Hindraf 5 and other detainees. In addition, we the petitioners demand the immediate repeal of the ISA to prevent abuses that oppresses the fundamental liberties of each and every Malaysian.

As loyal and upright Malaysians, sign the petition today!

http://www.petitiononline.com/freetkok/petition.html

Bebaskan Teresa Kok!

ISA: Teresa Kok turut ditahan
Sep 12, 08 11:59pm

Pemimpin DAP, Teresa Kok turut ditahan di bawah Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri (ISA) hari ini.


Beliau merupakan orang ketiga ditahan hari ini di bawah ISA, selepas editor Malaysia Today, Raja Petra Kamaruddin dan wartawan Sin Chew Daily, Tan Hoon Cheng.

Difahamkan, ahli Parlimen Seputeh itu ditahan pada kira-kira jam 11.18 malam ini.

Beliau yang juga exco kerajaan Selangor ditahan ketika pulang daripada menghadiri satu majlis di Kuala Lumpur.

Teresa yang setiausaha organisasi kebangsaan DAP, ditahan selepas kenderaan yang dinaikinya dihalang oleh tiga kereta peronda polis.

Timbalan Ketua Polis Negara, Tan Sri Ismail Omar mengesahkan penahanan Teresa mengikut Seksyen 73 (1) ISA.

Menurut pemimpin DAP, Lim Kit Siang, tiga kereta polis bersama 10 anggota menahan Teresa di pintu masuk kondominiumnya .

Katanya, Teresa baru pulang daripada menghadiri satu majlis festival kuih bulan di pejabatnya di kawasan pilihanrayanya.

Kontroversi azan

Teresa menjadi tumpuan laporan media - terutama akhbar harian berbahasa Melayu - selepas timbulnya dakwaan bahawa beliau telah meminta pegawai masjid di Kota Damansara, Sri Serdang dan Puchong Jaya supaya memperlahankan pembesar suara ketika melaungkan azan.

Kok bagaimanapun menafikan dakwaan tersebut. Tidak dipastikan sama ada penahanannya itu ada kaitan dengan dakwaan tersebut.

Di Pulau Pinang, Setiausaha Agung DAP, Lim Guan Eng turut mengesahkan penahanan Teresa.

Menurutnya, parti itu akan mengadakan mesyuarat tergempar esok untuk membincangkan perkara tersebut.

Sementara itu, Bernama melaporkan Guan Eng meminta supaya kerajaan dan polis membebaskan Tan dan Teresa.

Bercakap kepada pemberita di hadapan Ibu Pejabat Polis Kontinjen (IPK) Pulau Pinang, beliau berkata, tindakan menahan mereka dilihat seolah-olah kerajaan dalam keadaan terdesak terutamanya menjelang tarikh 16 September ini, tarikh Penasihat PKR, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim dikatakan akan mengambil alih pentadbiran kerajaan Barisan Nasional.

"Sementara pemberita berkenaan hanya menjalankan tugasnya dan tidak sepatutnya beliau dipersalahkan," katanya.

Kira-kira 100 pemimpin dan penyokong parti politik termasuk MCA, Gerakan dan DAP berkumpul di luar perkarangan IPK sambil menyalakan lilin sebagai tanda membantah penahanan wartawan itu.

Mereka berkumpul sejak jam 9.30 malam sebaik sahaja mengetahui mengenai penahanan Tan oleh polis Bukit Aman di rumahnya di Bukit Mertajam pada kira-kira jam 8.30 malam tadi.

Beberapa pemimpin PAS juga dilihat berada di kawasan itu.

Keadaan di situ terkawal dan anggota polis Simpanan Persekutuan (FRU) dilihat turut berada di bahagian dalam IPK untuk mengawal keadaan.

Sokong RPK - Mansuhkan ISA

Tindakan Kerajaan BN dalam penangkapan Raja Petra Kamaruddin dengan ISA adalah sesuatu yang tidak rasional dan harus dibantah!

ISA membolehkan kerajaan menahan sesiapa sahaja tanpa perlu dibawa dan dihadapkan ke mahkamah.

Kerajaan tidak boleh mencabul hak asasi manusia dengan memenjarakan sesiapa sahaja tanpa bicara.

Sokonglah kebebasan bersuara rakyat semua, sokonglah RPK!
Membantah gerakan kerajaan yang keras dan tidak berlantaskan hak asasi manusia!

Lamanweb RPK- Malaysiatoday

Raja Petra ditahan bawah ISA

Dipetik daripada《Malaysiakini》：

Blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin telah ditahan di bawah Akta Keselamatan Negeri (ISA), kata isterinya Marina Lee Abdullah.

Menurutnya, 10 anggota polis datang ke rumah mereka di Sungai Buluh pada kira-kira jam 1.10 tengahari tadi untuk menahannya.

Ketika Malaysiakini menghubunginya pada jam 1.25 tengahari, anggota polis masih berada di rumahnya.

Raja Petra kemudiannya dibawa polis dari rumahnya pada jam 1.50 tengahari ke lokasi yang tidak diketahui.

Pada 6 September lalu, Menteri Dalam Negeri, Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar telah memberi amaran bahawa editor lamanweb Malaysia Today itu mungkin dikenakan ISA kerana menyiarkan komen yang didakwa menghina Islam dan Nabi Muhammad.

Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia (Jakim), Yayasan Dakwah Islamiah Malaysia (Yadim), Majlis Agama Islam Wilayah Persekutuan (Maiwp) dan Jabatan Agama Islam Wilayah Persekutuan (Jawi), telah membuat laporan polis terhadap Raja Petra berhubung perkara itu.

Mereka mendakwa komen beliau dalam artikel yang bertajuk "I Promise to be a good, non-hypocritical Muslim" didakwa menggunakan ayat-ayat yang menghina orang Islam.

Lamanweb Malaysia Today telah disekat sejak minggu lalu, tetapi sekatan itu telah ditarik balik semalam.

Raja Petra, yang popular dengan panggilan RPK, juga didakwa telah membenarkan komen-komen disiarkan dalam lamanwebnya yang menghina Islam dan Nabi Muhammad, dalam artikel bertajuk "Not all Arabs are descendants of the Prophet".

Sementara itu, Marina berkata, mereka masih belum melantik peguam untuk mengendalikan perkara itu.

Ini adalah kali kedua Raja Petra ditahan di bawah ISA, yang membenarkan tahanan tanpa bicara.

Kali pertama, beliau ditangkap di bawah ISA pada 11 April 2001 ketika gerakan reformasi di mana sembilan orang telah ditahan. Pada masa itu, beliau merupakan webmaster lamanweb FreeAnwar.com
ketika itu.

Raja Petra dibebaskan selepas ditahan selama 52 hari. Bagaimanapun, enam daripada pemimpin reformasi itu dihantar ke Kem Tahanan Kamunting di Taiping di mana mereka ditahan selama dua tahun.

Sebelum ini, Raja Petra telah dihadapkan ke mahkamah atas tuduhan menghasut dan memfitnah selepas mengaitkan Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak dan isterinya dengan kes pembunuhan Altantuya Shaariibuu.

Abdul Razak Baginda, rakan rapat Najib, didakwa bersubahat membunuh wanita Mongolia yang berusia 28 tahun itu, di mana mayatnya telah diletupkan.

Dua anggota polis, yang tugas mereka termasuk mengawal keselamatan timbalan perdana menteri, menghadapi tuduhan membunuh Altantuya.

ISA yang dibantah oleh kumpulan-kumpulan hak asasi manusia, membolehkan seseorang itu ditahan tanpa bicara selama dua tahun - dan boleh dilanjutkan setiap tahun seterusnya - dan biasannya digunakan terhadap suspek pengganas.

Ia juga digunakan terhadap mereka yang tidak sehaluan dengan kerajaan dan tahun lalu, lima orang pemimpin Hindraf telah ditahan tiga selepas mereka menganjurkan perhimpunan besar-besaran di Kuala Lumpur pada 25 November.

syed hamid albar 170608 talkingSementara itu, Menteri Dalam Negeri, Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar mengesahkan bahawa Raja Petra ditahan mengikut ISA tengahari ini.

Katanya, tindakan itu terpaksa dilakukan setelah diyakini Raja Petra boleh mengganggu dan mengancam keselamatan dan ketenteraman awam.

"Raja Petra ditahan di rumahnya pukul 1.10 tengah hari di bawah Seksyen 731 Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri," katanya ketika dihubung Bernama hari ini

Syed Hamid berkata tindakan itu diambil setelah pelbagai kenyataan dibuat oleh Raja Petra dalam laman blog Malaysia Today termasuk yang terbaru yang didakwa menghina Islam dan Nabi Muhammad (SAW).

"Kita telah banyak kali memanggil dan menasihatkan beliau berikutan kenyataannya namun beliau masih terus menulis hingga boleh menimbulkan ancaman,"
katanya.

Fwd : Have some balls Datuk Ahmad

Petikan daripada blog bins for thoughts:

Clap clap clap...

Only an UMNO MP is capable of this. First you call Malaysian Chinese "squatters" and "penumpang" then you demand our apology?

Now you say you are taken out of context because you were "merely" saying the state of the Chinese community during the pre-merdeka era?

Puhlezzz......

Hey how about I call you barbarian? I'm just referring to the pre-historic era.

Or I call you monkey? I'm referring to the pre-homosapien. (that is if Datuk Ahmad even know what homosapien is....)

Explicitly, you spoke of us as though we are immigrants during the Permatang Pauh election to warn us that as immigrants we should be satisfied with what we have and not demand anymore than what is already given to us now. That is what you meant. That is the context in which you spoke of the Chinese "squatters". Period.

You want Malaysia for yourself and hated the fact that non-Malays are given citizenship. In UMNO, you are not alone in thinking this. Unlike a lot of the rest, at least you have the balls to say it.

But, you only have the balls to admit the partial statement - "Chinese as squatters during pre-merdeka days" (gosh). Why don't you admit that you weren't taken out of context, and that you are a racist, that you think Malaysian Chinese as immigrants, and that you do not want their lives to be improved, and you wanted to harm the Chinese community feelings?

Why only admit part of it? Having a ball for the former and nothing for the latter?

I call this syndrome unity ball. And I've decided to call you one-ball Ahmad until you have the balls to admit the whole damn thing.

916 Benar ke Tak?!

Sama ada 916 akan berlaku ke tidak?!
Tiada siapa pun ada jawapan kecuali Anwar Ibrahim. ;)

Gambar tersebut dipetik daripada laman web Malaysiainsider.
Adakah 916 akan berlaku? Entahlah....

Malaysia Today Diharang

Malaysia Today yang ditulis oleh Raja Petra telah diharang oleh kerajaan Barisan Nasional.

Tindakan kerajaan BN yang mengharang kebebasan media adalah tidak berlantas kepada kebebasan media dan tidak mematuhi janjian yang dibuat sebelumnya.

Mencapai Malaysia Today dengan IP berikut:

Malaysia Today : http://202.75.62.114/2008/

Malaysia Today : http://mt.harapanmalaysia.com/2008/

Tunku Aziz dilantik naib pengerusi DAP

Dipetik daripada Malaysiakini

DAP melantik tokoh aktivis Melayu berprofil tinggi dalam bidang kempen ketelusan dan integriti Tunku Abdul Aziz Ibrahim sebagai naib pengerusi parti itu yang baru dalam usahanya memikat sokongan kaum itu.

Tunku Abdul Aziz merupakan bekas naib presiden organisasi antarabangsa terkenal Transparency International (TI).

DAP hari ini memperkenalkan barisan baru pimpinan tertinggi parti itu melibatkan 10 lantikan baru bagi mengisi jawatankuasa eksekutif pusat (CEC) di samping 20 ahli yang dipilih semalam.

Keputusan itu dicapai hasil mesyuarat pertama CEC semalam, kata setiausaha agung parti itu Lim Guan Eng.

Selain Tunku Abdul Aziz, Teresa Kok yang sebelum ini menjadi setiausaha publisiti turut dilantik berganding dengan M Kula Segaran dan Chow Kon Yeow.

Lim, dalam sidang media selepas pengumuman 10 nama itu, ditanya sama ada barisan CEC baru itu merupakan pasukan impiannya.

"Ini adalah kehendak perwakilan. Hanya ada satu pasukan dalam DAP iaitu roket (semua ahli DAP)," katanya.

Menjawab soalan wartawan, beliau menafikan lantikan Tunku Abdul Aziz bertujuan menyediakan calon menteri kabinet jika Pakatan Rakyat berjaya membentuk kerajaan baru selepas 16 September.

Tunku Abdul Aziz, yang pertama kali mengisi borang DAP semalam, berkata beliau memilih parti itu kerana ia tidak berasaskan kaum dan paling konsisten serta bekerja keras memperjuangkan ketelusan, keadilan dan menolak penyalahgunaan kuasa berbanding parti-parti lain.

"Tiada wang dalam DAP. Ada yang kata saya dibeli, ada kontrak menunggu. Parti ini disertai kerana prinsip-prinsip asas kita," katanya.

Ditanya kenapa bukan PKR, kerana ideologi kedua-dua parti itu hampir sama, Tunku berkata:

"Saya lebih selesa dengan DAP."

Dalam ucapan penggulungannya, Lim yang juga ketua menteri Pulau Pinang, menggesa DAP memikirkan "pendekatan lebih menarik" untuk memancing penyertaan pelbagai pihak khususnya kaum Melayu.

Dalam sidang media yang sama, pengerusi DAP Karpal Singh pula berharap dengan penyertaan Tunku Abdul Aziz, lebih ramai golongan Melayu menyertai parti itu.

Tokoh popular DAP, Lim Kit Siang dan penasihat parti, Dr Chen Ma Hin juga menerima baik lantikan Tunku Abdul Aziz dan barisan baru CEC DAP.

Dr Ma Hin diminta mengulas Kit Siang yang tidak tersenarai dalam mana-mana jawatan parti.

Beliau berkata, pemimpin veteren itu tetap mempunyai peranan besar dalam parti walaupun tidak dilantik memegang sebarang jawatan rasmi.

"Beliau boleh jadi setiausaha agung, pengerusi, apa saja. Beliau adalah pemimpin yang penting. Beliau tidak perlu jadi pemimpin rasmi," katanya.


Dipetik daripada laman web The Malaysian Bar:

Tunku Abdul Aziz: Why I joined DAP
Sunday, 24 August 2008 09:51pm

©The Sun (Used by permission)
by Tim Leonard

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 24, 2008) : One of the country’s prominent icons for transparency, Tunku Abdul Aziz Ibrahim, who joined the DAP on Saturday and was today appointed one of its national vice-chairmen said his move to join the ‘rocket’ was not for monetary reasons but purely because he shared the same values and ideals as the party.

"There is no money...," said Tunku Aziz at a press conference attended by DAP stalwarts during the party’s 15th Triennial National Congress at a hotel here, today.

"If anyone thinks I have been bought, then they have to think again," he said.

"I have been targeting DAP without their knowledge for the last 20 years.

"A lot of people might be thinking why I joined DAP…but the reason is simple. While other parties talk about democracy, justice and equality…DAP not only espouses these values but try much harder than the rest (to practice these values)," he said.

"I am very pleased to say that I have made up my mind. The decision (to join DAP) was taken a long time ago but the signing of the form was yesterday ," he added.

Asked why he chose to join DAP only now and not earlier, the former Transparency International-Malaysia president and member of the Royal Commission on the police force in 2004 said:

"Yesterday (Saturday) was as good as any other day".

Tunku Aziz said his decision was also based on the fact that there was no future for race based political party or system in the country and there is a need for Bangsa Malaysia.

"After 50 years (of independence), we've got to decide what kind of Malaysia we want. Do we want a fractured Malaysia?" he asked.

"People must have a stake in this country," he said.

Questioned by reporters why he chose DAP instead of other opposition parties such as Parti Keadilan, Tunku Aziz said:

"Let’s put it this way. I am much more comfortable (with DAP)… I trust people around me…"

Tunku Aziz, when asked if he shared the same take as DAP on nominating Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim as leader of Pakatan Rakyat if the Opposition topples the Government despite being critical of Anwar in the past, said:

"I have always been an independent person with independent view…based on my principles."

Meanwhile, DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng said it was an honour to have Tunku Aziz join the party.

"This is the first time Tunku is involved in a political party and it is indeed a great honour to have him in our team," said Lim.

"This is in line with our objective to be a multi-racial party," he added.

Tunku Aziz formerly held senior management positions in large private and public sector organisations in Malaysia, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom.

He began his business career with Guthrie Corporation Ltd and later became the advisor of Bank Negara. Later he returned to the private sector by joining Dunlop Malaysian Industries before being appointed a Sime Darby Group director.

He left Malaysia in 1985 to take up a directorship at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London before returning to Malaysia in 1992 following his retirement.

Pengenalan terhadap Tungku Aziz :

Tunku Abdul Aziz Ibrahim has held senior management positions in large private and public sector organlsations in Malays/a, Hong Kong and the UK.
He began his business career with the Guthrie Corporation Ltd. after tertiary education in England and Australia. He then moved to the Central Bank of Malaysia as Advisor.

He returned to the private sector, his preferred option, joining Dunlop Malaysian Industries before being appointed a Group Director of Sime Darby limited. He left Malaysia in 1985 to take up II directorship at the Commonwealth Secretariat, London, returning to Malaysia on retirement, in 1992.

He was at one time or another a member of the Council of the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers, the Malaysian National Shippers Council, the Asean Business Council, the Asean-US Business Council, and the Aslan-EU Business Council. He was for two terms Chairman of the Asean Chambers of Commerce and Industry Working Group on Industrial Complementation that produced the Asean Motor Industry Guidelines. He served for several years on the Employers' Panel of the Industrial Court of Malaysia.

Tunku Aziz founded, with the support of like-minded Individuals, the Malaysian Chapter of Transparency International, the global coalition against corruption, known locally as The Kuala Lumpur Society for Transparency & Integrity of which he was the President until December 2004. In October 1997 he was elected to the international board of Transparency International and in March the following year, he became Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of Transparency International. He was re-elected Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors in October 1999 and relinquished that position in October 2002.

Tunku Aziz devoted the whole of his time to Transparency International on a voluntary basis from 1995-2004 and has written and spoken widely on corruption and integrity Issues both domestically and internationally. His book, Fighting Corruption: My Mission, has just been released.

He is a member of the World Bank High Level Advisory Group on Anti-Corruption in the East Asia and Pacific Region, and a member of the Advisory Board of Global Public Policy Networks, a project of “Visioning the UN", an initiative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the United Nations Foundation. He also serves as a member of the Asian Pacific Advisory Panel on Good Urban Governance, and is a member of the Board of the International Institute of Public Ethics. He was a member of the UNDP Advisory Panel for the Human Development Report 2002.

He is on the Global Advisory Council of Caux Roundtable, a US-based business organization promoting, among other things, principles of good governance. In February 2004 he was appointed a member of the Royal Commission inquiring into the police service.

Pendapat Mahathir terhadap AUKU

AUKU - AKTA UNIVERSITI DAN KOLEJ UNIVERSITI

Posted by Dr. Mahathir Mohamad at August 18, 2008 11:45 AM | Permalink | Previous Blog

1. Saya mengaku yang sayalah orangnya yang telah perkenalkan AUKU (Akta Universiti dan Kolej Universiti) semasa saya menjadi Menteri Pelajaran.

2. Walaupun kita sudah merdeka lebih 15 tahun ketika itu tetapi bilangan kelulusan daripada universiti tidak ramai, terutamanya di kalangan orang Melayu. Jumlah jurutera, doktor perubatan, arkitek dan lain-lain ahli profesional amat kecil dan menyedihkan. Sebaliknya maju mundurnya bangsa dan negara bergantung kepada ketinggian jumlah rakyat yang berilmu. Tidaklah sihat bagi Malaysia jika dari rakyat berbilang kaumnya jumlah Melayu dan bumiputera lain yang berkelulusan universiti sangat berkurangan. Setelah Dasar Ekonomi Baru diperkenalkan maka jumlah penuntut Melayu di tiga buah universiti tempatan sudah bertambah dengan banyaknya. Tetapi kemasukan sahaja tidak akan dapat menambah jumlah Melayu yang berpelajaran tinggi jika ramai yang diterima masuk tidak lulus dan tidak berjaya memperolehi ijazah.

3. Kita terpaksa menerima hakikat bahawa ramai penuntut Melayu dan bumiputra lain yang diterima masuk universiti memiliki kelulusan yang kurang baik daripada penuntut bukan Melayu. Samada mereka mendapat ijazah universiti atau tidak bergantung kepada kegigihan mereka menumpu sepenuh masa untuk menguasai ilmu melalui proses-proses pembelajaran ala universiti.

4. Kita dapati penuntut Melayu amat berminat dengan kegiatan politik. Mereka suka melibatkan diri dengan demontrasi jalanan dan lain-lain aktiviti politik yang memakan masa mereka di universiti. Dengan ini tidak dapat tidak tumpuan mereka kepada penguasaan ilmu tentu kurang. Amatlah merugikan mereka dan masyarakat Melayu jika mereka gagal.

5. Apakah kerana mereka tidak boleh berdemonstrasi dan lain-lain maka mereka akan kurang berpengetahuan dalam bidang politik; mereka akan jadi robot? Tidak juga. Mereka boleh ada forum perbahasan dalaman atau antara universiti, dan mereka boleh mendapat pakar yang tidak punyai kepentingan politik parti untuk memberi syarahan dan sessi soal jawab. Tanpa terlibat secara langsung dengan aktiviti politik berpartian, mereka masih boleh menguasai dan memahami selok belok politik.

6. Kegiatan seperti ini tidak akan memisah mereka daripada menumpukan masa yang mencukupi untuk menguasai ilmu yang menjadi sebab utama mereka berada di universiti.

7. Harus diingat bahawa pembiayaan bagi tiap-tiap penuntut samada yang dapat biasiswa atau tidak datang daripada duit rakyat. Duit itu disalur dengan rela hati oleh mereka kerana kepentingan penuntut dan ilmu yang dituntut oleh mereka, yang akan menjamin masa depan yang cerah bagi mereka. Rakyat yang sanggup wang ini dibelanjakan untuk penuntut sedia berkorban jika korban mereka mendatangkan hasil yang dikehendaki. Tentulah mereka akan kecewa jika wang mereka disalahguna, dihabiskan untuk kegiatan yang lain. Negara juga akan rugi kerana tidak dapat warga yang berilmu. Dan penuntut itu sendiri akan rugi kerana masa depan mungkin tidak cerah seperti yang diharapkan.

8. Pengorbanan yang kita pohon daripada penuntut kita hanya sedikit sahaja. Masa untuk menuntut tidak begitu lama - hanya tiga atau empat tahun sahaja. Setelah lulus tumpukanlah sepenuh masa untuk kegiatan politik atau lain-lain jika ini menjadi minat utama. Pada masa itu kita tidak habiskan wang orang lain. Kita habiskan duit dari titik peluh kita sendiri.

9. Saya percaya orang yang bertanggungjawab dan tahu kenang budi seperti ini akan menjadi manusia dan pemimpin politik yang lebih baik.

10. Tetapi jika kita sanggup habiskan duit orang, kita hampakan harapan orang, sebaliknya kita tidak rela mengguna duit dan masa kita sendiri untuk sesuatu yang kita gemar, maka tidaklah kita dapat berkata yang kita begitu prihatin dan rasa bertanggungjawab terhadap masalah negara kita.

11. Penuntut universiti tentu tidak suka dengar pendapat saya ini. Yang amat marah kerana AUKU ialah penuntut Melayu. Saya rela dimarah oleh siapa sahaja tetapi saya tidak berniat buruk semasa memperkenalkan AUKU. Bagi saya peningkatan kebolehan bangsa saya adalah lebih penting dan utama daripada apa kecaman terhadap diri saya.

12.

Jika hari ini penuntut lebih dewasa dan bertanggungjawab batalkan sahaja AUKU.

[Tony Pua]Urgent Motion Denied, Denied, Denied

Dipetik daripada blog Tony Pua:

Saudari Teo Nie Ching of SERDANG filed for an urgent motion 2 days ago, due for a hearing by the Speaker today on whether it could be debated in the House. Almost as expected, the motion was denied.

There are probably some 10 or so urgent motions which has been denied the chance to see the light of day in the House. So far the most frequently use reason for rejection is "not urgent" - be it urgent medical treatments on ISA detainees (not urgent), death to National Service detainees (not urgent) or death under police custody (only very few such cases).

So far, the only motion allowed for debate was on the issue of the sharp increase in the price of rice and its possible shortage.

Today, the Deputy Speaker once again rejected SERDANG's motion, that is to debate the police action and inaction over the Bandar Mahkota Cheras - Grand Saga toll controversy, which has resulted in individuals being hurt by thugs in full police presence and another being beaten up by some 20 police officers. This issue has hit the headlines over the past 3 days or so.

The Speaker ruled that the motion is not urgent, and that since the matter is under court action, the House is not permitted to discuss the issue as it would then be sub-judice.

Both SERDANG and myself stood up to point out to the speaker that the issue that is being discussed here in police inaction and brutality and not the case due for hearing in the courts. Hence there is nothing sub judice about the case.

The Speaker would have none of it, despite more members from the opposition bench speaking in support of the motion, of course with the BN backbenchers at the same time vocally opposing our cause for the Malaysian victims.

SHAH ALAM (Khalid Abdul Samad / PAS) stood to ask the speaker to explain to the house, if death and being beaten up by authorities isn't sufficiently "urgent", then what is the criteria the Speaker use to define "urgent"?

Well, obviously the question didn't require an urgent answer, and I don't expect to hear it any time soon.

[Malaysiakini]S'gor jejak 'samseng' Grand Saga

Dipetik daripada Malaysiakini:

Jimadie Shah Othman | May 28, 08 3:00pm

dikemaskini Kerajaan Selangor akan menyiasat hubungan kumpulan samseng yang didakwa diupah oleh syarikat konsesi lebuhraya Cheras-Kajang sehingga menimbulkan ketegangan berdarah di Bandar Mahkota Cheras (BMC) semalam.

"Kerajaan negeri akan memanggil (mesyuarat agung tergempar atau EGM) untuk membuat audit terhadap Grand Saga Sdn Bhd untuk mendapatkan penjelasan aliran kewangan untuk mengupah samseng tersebut," kata menteri besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim ini.

"Jika ada bukti syarikat (konsesi lebuhraya) tersebut ada berbuat demikian, kerajaan percaya pegawai-pegawai termasuk pengarah syarikat boleh dihadapkan ke mahkamah atas tuduhan mencedera."

khalid pc in suk on cheras mahkota 280508Dalam sidang media selepas mesyuarat exco kerajaan negeri di Shah Alam hari ini, Khalid berkata Selangor tidak boleh mengetepikan hak orang awam walaupun anak syarikat kerajaan negeri memiliki saham dalam Grand Saga.

Keputusan memanggil EGM syarikat tersebut dibuat dalam mesyuarat exco kerajaan negeri petang ini.

Bagaimanapun Khalid tidak menyatakan tarikh mesyuarat tergempar itu akan diadakan.

Kerajaan negeri yang memiliki kepentingan dalam Kumpulan Perangsang Selangor Bhd, yang menjadi pemegang saham terbesar atau 20 peratus dalam Taliwork Bhd.

Syarikat ini pula mempunyai 55 peratus pegangan dalam Cerah Sama Sdn Bhd yang memiliki Grand Saga, syarikat kontroversi dengan penduduk BMC apabila terus-meneruskan berusaha membina penghadang konkrit di laluan ke taman perumahan tersebut.

Semalam, lebih 10 orang tercedera termasuk seorang wartawan Utusan Malaysia yang didakwa akibat dibelasah sekumpulan samseng upahan Grand Saga.

Majlis mesyuarat kerajaan negeri hari ini turut memutuskan untuk memastikan hadangan konkrit itu mendapat kelulusan Lembaga Lebuhraya Malaysia (LLM).

cheras mahkota road grand saga barricade fru assault 280508 01“Jika LLM mengesahkan bahawa ia telah memberi kelulusan untuk membina penghadang jalan tersebut, pihak kerajaan negeri akan meminta supaya penghadang itu dialihkan," kata Khalid lagi.

Tambahnya, Selangor berpendapat isu tersebut yang berlarutan bertahun-tahun, tetapi semakin teruk selepas pilihanraya umum 8 Mac, asalnya perbalahan Grand Saga dengan syarikat pemaju taman tersebut Narajaya Sdn Bhd.

Keputusan itu dicapai setelah mesyuarat memanggil pegawai kanan empat pihak terlibat dengan isu tersebut, termasuk Jabatan Kerjaraya dan Majlis Perbandaran Kajang.

Menurut Khalid lagi, kuasa Selangor terbatas kerana persempadanan lebuhraya melibatkan kuasa LLM yang ditadbir kerajaan persekutuan.

Exco negeri Elizabeth Wong, yang hadir di sidang media itu, mencadangkan menteri kerja raya Datuk Ir Mohamad Zin Mohamed sendiri harus turun padang untuk menyegerakan penyelesaian konflik.

"Cara paling cepat adalah menteri kerja raya turun padang, tengok keadaan di situ dan beri arahan. Itu saja," katanya.

Semalam, pekerja-pekerja Grand Saga membina semula penghadang konkrit, yang terus-menerus menimbulkan kontroversi, di jalan akses bebas tol di lebuhraya tersebut.

Mereka memulakan kerja tersebut pada kira-kira jam 1 pagi dan mengambil masa kira-kira 14 jam untuk menyiapkannya.

Bagaimanapun, keadaan menjadi tegang apabila penduduk BMC - yang cuba meruntuhkan benteng tersebut - bergelut dengan sekumpulan lelaki yang ditugaskan untuk mengawal benteng tersebut.

cheras mahkota road grand saga barricade 270508 stand offMenurut penduduk, sekurang- kurangnya 12 orang cedera selepas dibelasah oleh kira-kira 30 lelaki yang dipercayai "samseng".

Pertikaian berhubung pembinaan benteng di jalan tersebut yang membolehkan penggunanya mengelak bayaran tol, berlarutan sejak tiga tahun lalu tetapi ia sampai ke kemuncaknya pada 21 April lalu apabila penduduk di situ - dengan sokongan beberapa ahli exco kerajaan Selangor - bertindak memusnahkan penghadang yang dibina pada 2005.

Grand Saga kemudiannya membina semula benteng di situ, tetapi penduduknya bertindak memusnahkannya semula.

Bagaimanapun, percubaan Grand Saga untuk membina benteng konkrit setinggi tiga kaki - bagi kali ketiga - pada malam 8 Mei lalu terganggu, apabila polis melepaskan tembakan gas pemedih mata untuk menyuraikan penduduk yang berhimpun di situ.

Empat hari kemudiannya, penduduk gagal mendapatkan perintah dari Mahkamah Tinggi untuk menghalang syarikat konsesi lebuhraya itu mendirikan semula konkrit di jalan tersebut.

Selepas mahkamah membuat keputusan yang memihak kepada Grand Saga, Zainal Abidin mengeluarkan notis kelmarin bahawa benteng konkrit akan dibina semula di situ dan berharap orang ramai tidak
mengengkari mahkamah.

Penduduk di kawasan berdekatan menggunakan laluan tersebut tanpa perlu membayar tol di Plaza Batu 11, Cheras sebelum pembinaan benteng tersebut.

Sejak wujud penghadang, mereka terpaksa memandu sejauh enam kilometer dan membayar tol 90 sen kepada Grand Saga.

Keganasan Grand Saga

27 May 2008, pekerja Grand Saga membina semula benteng konkrit, yang terus-menerus menimbulkan kontroversi, di jalan akses bebas tol di Mahkota Cheras.

Mereka memulakan kerja tersebut pada kira-kira jam 1 pagi semalam dan mengambil masa kira-kira 14 jam untuk menyiapkannya.

Bagaimanapun, keadaan menjadi tegang apabila penduduk BMC - yang cuba meruntuhkan benteng tersebut - bergelut dengan sekumpulan lelaki yang dipercayai ditugaskan untuk mengawal benteng tersebut.

Menurut penduduk, sekurang-kurangnya 12 orang cedera selepas dibelasah oleh kira-kira 30 lelaki yang dipercayai "samseng".

Pertikaian berhubung pembinaan benteng di jalan tersebut yang membolehkan penggunanya mengelak bayaran tol, berlarutan sejak tiga tahun lalu tetapi ia sampai ke kemuncaknya pada 21 April lalu apabila penduduk di situ - dengan sokongan beberapa ahli exco kerajaan negeri Pakatan Rakyat - bertindak memusnahkan benteng yang dibina pada 2005.

Grand Saga kemudiannya membina semula benteng di situ, tetapi penduduknya bertindak memusnahkannya semula.

Bagaimanapun, percubaan Grand Saga untuk membina benteng konkrit setinggi tiga kaki - bagi kali ketiga - pada malam 8 Mei lalu terganggu, apabila polis melepaskan tembakan gas pemedih mata untuk menyuraikan penduduk yang berhimpun di situ.

Empat hari kemudiannya, penduduk gagal mendapatkan perintah dari Mahkamah Tinggi untuk menghalang syarikat konsesi lebuhraya itu mendirikan semula benteng konkrit di jalan tersebut.

Selepas mahkamah membuat keputusan yang memihak kepada Grand Saga, Zainal Abidin mengeluarkan notis kelmarin bahawa benteng konkrit akan dibina semula di situ dan berharap orang ramai tidak
mengengkari penghakiman mahkamah.

Syarikat konsesi lebuhraya itu telah membina benteng di jalan akses tersebut tiga tahun lalu dan tindakan itu dibantah oleh penduduk di situ yang menggunakan laluan tersebut tanpa perlu membayar tol di Plaza Batu 11, Cheras.

Ekoran pembinaan benteng tersebut, penduduk terpaksa memandu sejauh enam kilometer dan membayar tol 90 sen kepada Grand Saga.

Penerangan berkenaan:

Bantahan Tol Mahkota Cheras

Kerajaan Negeri Sokong Penduduk Bandar Mahkota Cheras

Pergaduhan di BMC: Reaksi Grand Saga

BMC: Penduduk cedera dalam pergelutan


BMC fracas: Police beat up youth

Political Forum

The University Malaya Alumni Association is holding a forum entitled New politics in Malaysia : Problems, issues and changlleges at 10am on May 24 at Dewan Kuliah A, Faculty of Arts, Universiti Malaya.

Panel members include Assoc Prof Dr Johan Sabarudin, Tan Sri Dr Roman Navaratnam, Prof Datuk Mohamed Abu Bakar and MPs Tony Pua and Wee Choo Keong.

For registration and further information, call Liew at 03-79551061 or Maya at 03-79562564.

Kerajaan Negeri Sokong Penduduk Bandar Mahkota Cheras

Petikan daripada Laman Web Kerajaan Selangor:

SHAH ALAM, 22 Mei – Kerajaan negeri Selangor hari ini secara terbuka menyatakan sokongan terhadap penduduk Bandar Mahkota Cheras untuk mendapatkan laluan percuma dari taman perumahan itu ke Lebuhraya Cheras-Kajang.


Dato’ Menteri Besar Selangor, Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim berkata masalah itu membabitkan di antara dua syarikat, pemaju Bandar Mahkota Cheras, Narajaya Sdn Bhd dan pemegang konsesi lebuhraya itu, Grand Saga Sdn Bhd.

“Pada saya perkara itu antara dua bisnes entiti yang akan ditentukan oleh mahkamah. Jika Grand Saga tidak berjaya bererti jalan tol itu dibuka. Tetapi jika Narajaya tidak berjaya tol itu masih lagi boleh dibuka tetapi Narajaya kena membayar kepada Grand Saga,” katanya dalam sidang media selepas persidangan DUN Selangor di sini, hari ini.

Tambahnya perkara itu tidak akan melibatkan masyarakat kerana kedua-dua penyelesaian itu menunjukkan bahawa pembukaan jalan itu tidak akan menjejaskan keputusan kedua belah pihak.

“Walau bagaimanapun kita berharap Kementerian Kerja Raya dan Lembaga Lebuhraya Malaysia (LLM) akan menguruskan perkara ini sebab untuk menggunakan laluan itu perlu mendapat kelulusan dari mereka,” katanya.

Beliau juga difahamkan jalan itu kini sudah boleh digunakan oleh orang ramai.

Sementara itu, isu penutupan jalan keluar masuk Bandar Mahkota Cheras timbul apabila tembok konkrit yang dibina bagi menghalang kemasukan terus trafik dari Bandar Mahkota Cheras ke Persimpangan Bandar Tun Hussein Onn, Lebuh Raya Cheras-Kajang dipecahkan, dipercayai dilakukan penduduk setempat. –MURIZA ABDUL HAMID

Hulurlah bantuan kepada mangsa Sichuan dan Burma

Bencana alam yang melanda di Sichuan dan Burma telah mengorbankan puluh ribu nyawa. Memberilah bantuan yang dapat dihulurkan untuk menyelamat mangsa-mangsa yang berada dalam kesusahan.

Petikan daripada Kosmo!

Bencana petanda rintihan alam

Belum reda dengan krisis kekurangan bekalan makanan yang turut diakibatkan oleh perubahan iklim global, dunia terus cemas apabila satu demi satu bencana meletus sehingga mengorbankan ratusan ribu nyawa.


SATU demi satu bencana mencemari alam dan paling teruk, meragut ribuan nyawa yang tidak berdosa. Tanpa amaran, ia memusnahkan segalanya dalam sekelip mata.

Namun, beginilah keadaannya apabila bumi 'mengamuk'.

SICHUAN, China: Gegaran sekuat 7.8 skala ritcher menyebabkan banyak mangsa maut di bawah timbunan runtuhan bangunan.

Bermula dengan kes letusan gunung berapi di Chile pada 2 Mei lalu, penduduk-penduduk di bahagian selatan negara itu lari bertempiaran meninggalkan rumah dan haiwan peliharaan sebaik saja Gunung Chaiten memuntahkan laharnya.

Di bandar Futaleufu, asap tebal dan abu hitam menutupi kebanyakan kawasan.

Hanya 400 daripada 1,500 penduduk di kawasan itu dibenarkan tinggal di rumah masing-masing meskipun bekalan air sudah terputus.

Sesetengah pakar ekologi berpendapat, bencana ini meninggalkan kesan perubahan yang ketara ke atas alam semula jadi seperti hutan pokok sipres dan pain di samping spesies rusa yang jarang ditemui.

LABUTTA, Myanmar: Mangsa taufan Nargis merenung masa depan kehidupan mereka yang kini semakin sukar.

Chile merupakan 'rumah' kepada 2,000 gunung berapi, di mana 500 daripadanya masih aktif dan hampir 60 gunung berapi ini telah meletus sejak 450 tahun yang lalu. Chaiten buat pertama kali meletus dalam tempoh beribu tahun.

Di Myanmar, hampir 30,000 nyawa hilang sebaik Siklon Nargis melanda pada hari yang sama dengan kekuatan tiupan angin selaju 120 batu sejam dan ribut taufan.

Secara rasminya 33,000 penduduk dipercayai maut dengan lebih 50,000 masing hilang meskipun seorang jurucakap dari Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu (PBB), Richard Horsey percaya besar kemungkinan angka itu lebih tinggi, iaitu boleh mencapai sehingga 100,000 orang.

Dalam situasi genting sebegini, lebih daripada dua juta penduduk memerlukan bantuan segera dari segi makanan, minuman dan pakaian tetapi usaha untuk mencapai ke kawasan-kawasan luar bandar memang sukar.

Di kawasan yang paling teruk ditimpa malapetaka, Delta Irrawaddy, penduduknya hidup dalam keadaan serba kekurangan dengan beratus-ratus orang mendapatkan teduhan di dalam biara.

LABUTTA, Myanmar: Adakah pukulan Nargis akibat kemurkaan alam kerana pemanasan global yang semakin membimbangkan?

Selebihnya mereka cuba mendirikan khemah di luar tanpa bekalan air bersih kerana telah dicemari najis dan mayat yang bergelimpangan.

Amerika Syarikat (AS) turut tidak terkecuali apabila ribut petir dan puting beliung melanda di bahagian tengah negara itu pada 10 Mei lalu.

Pengurus Agensi Pengurusan Kecemasan Oklahoma, Michelann Ooten, memberi amaran bahawa angka kematian mungkin meningkat lebih tinggi.

Beliau berkata, sebuah kawasan kediaman yang mempunyai 20 blok bangunan di Oklahoma mengalami kerosakan besar akibat bencana tersebut.

Sementara itu, pada awal minggu ini, satu gempa bumi yang kuat menggegarkan bumi China, berdekatan dengan bandar Sichuan. Bermagnitud 7.8 pada skala Richter, ia menyebabkan kematian kira-kira 10,000 orang penduduk dan ramai lagi yang masih terperangkap di bawah ranapan bangunan konkrit.

OKLAHOMA, AS: Tidak terlepas daripada amukan alam, AS antara negara yang paling kerap menerima pukulan ribut taufan.

Gempa bumi ini dilaporkan yang terburuk dalam tempoh tiga dekad. Di bandar Juyuan, sebuah bangunan sekolah bertingkat tiga runtuh lalu memerangkap 900 pelajar hidup-hidup dan 50 lagi terbunuh. Seramai 1,000 lagi pelajar dan guru dipercayai tertanam atau terbunuh di sekolah menengah yang runtuh di Beichuan.

Selain di wilayah Sichuan, angka korban juga tinggi di Gansu, Yunnan dan juga Chongqing yang berjiran dengan Sichuan, lapor akhbar harian Xinhua.

Pusat gegaran tertumpu di daerah Wenchuan di Sichuan dan kekuatannya menyebabkan bangunan-bangunan tinggi di seluruh China bergoyang.

Gempa bumi itu yang berlaku pada pukul 2.28 petang (waktu tempatan), dirasai selama beberapa minit di Bangkok, Thailand, yang jaraknya kira-kira 3,300 kilometer ke barat daya China. Bangunan di ibu negara Vietnam, Hanoi, juga dilaporkan bergegar.


Media Statement by DAP National Headquarters in Petaling Jaya on Friday, 16th May 2008:

At 11.30 am this morning, DAP National Treasurer Fong Kui Lun (MP for Bukit Bintang) accompanied by DAP National Organising Secretary Tan Kok Wai (MP for Cheras) and DAP Selangor State Chairman Ean Yong Hian Wah (Exco member and SA for Seri Kembangan) presented a cheque for RM20,000 to the Chinese Embassy in Kuala Lumpur on behalf of DAP MPs and Assembly members as humanitarian aid to the victims of the massive earthquake disaster in Sichuan, China.

Fong, who heads the DAP Donation Drive for China and Burma Disaster Victims, announced a week-long nation-wide humanitarian aid collection drive by DAP State committees. Public donation drives would be launched in Ipoh Timor and Ipoh Barat tonight.

Public can hand their donations to DAP MPs, SAs and the respective DAP State Offices. Receipts would be issued on request.

Bantahan Tol Mahkota Cheras

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1,000 penduduk bantah di bandar Mahkota
Abdul Rahim Sabri | May 7, 08 5:48pm

Kira-kira 1,000 penduduk di taman perumahan di bandar Mahkota di Cheras berhimpun petang ini bagi menghalang syarikat konsesi - Grand Saga - membina semula tembok menutup jalan masuk ke perumahan mereka.

Mereka mula berkumpul tengahari tadi selepas mendapat tahu yang syarikat berkenaan akan memulakan kerja membina tembok penghalang tersebut.

Sebelum ini, tembok penghalang di situ telah dibuang pada 21 April lalu, selepas bantahan keras dari penduduk yang sama.

Pada kira-kira jam 3 petang, para pekerja dilihat mahu memulakan kerja-kerja pembinaan tembok di situ tetapi dihalang oleh penduduk terbabit.

Menurut pengerusi jawatankuasa bukan jalan, Tan Boon Wah, beliau telah merampas kunci jentolak yang digunakan untuk membina tembok tersebut.

Manakala ada juga yang bertindak nekad duduk di tempat di mana tembok itu sepatutnya dibina.

Kemudian, kira-kira jam 4.50 petang, Lembaga Lebuhraya Malaysia (LLM) menghantar seorang pegawai dari Majlis Perbandaran Kajang (MPKj) mengarahkan syarikat konsesi itu menangguhkan kerja tersebut.

Polis tiba

Tetapi pengarah eksekutif syarikat konsesi tersebut, Zainal Abidin Ali menafikan menerima sebarang arahan daripada LLM.

Sebaliknya, tegas beliau, pihaknya akan meneruska kerja untuk membina tembok menutup jalan tersebut, demi keselamatan lalulintas di situ.

Selepas itu, penduduk dilihat mula bersurai tetapi menjadi kecoh semula apabila mereka melihat lapan trak Unit Simpanan Persekutuan (FRU), termasuk meriam air tiba di situ.

Ia menyebabkan berlaku kesesakan lalulintas yang teruk. Polis juga mengadakan sekatan di jalan tersebut.

Selepas rundingan antara ahli parlimen Cheras, Tan Kok Wai dan ahli parlimen Serdang, Teo Nie Ching dengan pihak polis, penduduk di situ diarah bersurai.

Menurut Teo, polis menerima arahan daripada peguam negara supaya jalan tersebut mesti ditutup semula.

Pada jam 6.45 petang, polis mengeluarkan arahan kepada penduduk yang berkumpul di situ supaya bersurai.

Anggota FRU kemudiannya mengguna perisai untuk menolak orang ramai dari tembok tersebut, menyebabkan keadaan menjadi tegang antara penduduk dan polis.

Dua ditangkap

Dalam proses tersebut, dua orang penduduk - kedua-duanya lelaki - ditahan.

Selepas itu, para pekerja Grand Saga memasang tembok konkrit untuk menutup jalan tersebut.

Ahli exco Selangor, Ean Yong Wah, yang berada di situ mengecam tindakan polis yang disifatkannya "bias dan tidak munasabah".

"Saya telah menunjukkan dokumen dari Jabatan Tanah Hulu Langat yang dengan jelas menyatakan, kawasan tembok itu milik kerajaan negeri, tetapi ketua polis Selangor, Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar tidak percaya dan sebaliknya bertindak bagi pihak Grand Saga pula," katanya.

Ean berkata, beliau akan meminta MPKj membuang tembok yang baru dipasang itu, esok.

Polis meninggalkan kawasan tersebut pada kira-kira jam 8.20 malam selepas penduduk mula beredar ddari situ.

Komen MB S'gor

Bagaimanapun, penduduk tidak bergerak. Ekoran itu, anggota FRU menggunakan perisai untuk menyuraikan mereka.

Terbaru, pekerja syarikat konsesi telah memasangkan tembok penghalang di situ, manakala orang ramai mengejek mereka.

Sementara itu, ketika mengulas kejadian di bandar Mahkota, menteri besar Selangor, Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim berkata, kerajaan negeri sedang mengaturkan pertemuan dan dialog tiga penjuru antara kerajaan negeri yang diketuai Ronnie Liu, syarikat konsesi Grand Saga dan Kementerian Kerja Raya supaya semua pihak dapat manfaat.

Beliau berkata pertemuan itu mungkin diadakan akhir bulan ini.

"Krisis akan sentiasa berterusan kerana ada dua kumpulan. Satu kumpulan hendakkan jalan supaya tidak membayar tol. Orang yang memiliki tol merasakan mereka jika mereka (orang ramai) menggunakan jalan ini (melalui tembok penutup jalan), mereka tidak akan dapat mengutip tol yang sepatutnya.

"Tapi kerajaan negeri Selangor berpendapat, dan saya buat kajian, jika tanah yang terlibat itu melibatkan tanah kerajaan negeri Selangor, benteng untuk menyekat perjalanan tidak boleh dibuat," kata Khalid.