Sunday, June 28, 2009

Menghormati Negaraku - hanya si bahlul membantah arahan supaya jurugambar tidak mengambil foto...


Arahan Datuk Rais tidak membenarkan jurugambar mengambil foto/video semasa Negaraku dimainkan memang sesuatu yang tepat sekali.

Msia Today dan beberapa blog anarkis tidak berlengah menyiarkan puluhan komen mengecam tindakan tersebut. Hampir kesemua memperlekeh arahan itu dengan memberikan pelbagai alasan cetek.

Telah begitu lama jurugambar tidak mengindahkan keperluan ini hinggakan ia diterima tanpa soal oleh banyak pihak - hinggalah Rais menilai kembali keadaan dan bertindak.

Arahan ini, walaupun dianggap kecil, antara langkah ke arah memupuk semangat 1Malaysia.

Kepada mereka yang mengecam arahan tersebut, sila baca peraturan berikut di Amerika Syarikat berhubung cara menghormati lagu kebangsaan negara itu:

'"United States Code, 36 U.S.C. § 301, states that during a rendition of the national anthem, when the flag is displayed, all present except those in uniform should stand at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart; men not in uniform should remove their headdress
with their right hand and hold the headdress at the left shoulder, the hand being over the heart; and individuals in uniform should give the military salute at the first note
of the anthem and maintain that position until the last note; and when the flag is not displayed, all present should face toward the music and act in the same manner"

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

A doctored pix of Najib...another feeble attempt at character assasination....


Anyone who believes the above pix as the real McCoy must go have their head examined.

C'mon just bring out the truth like a man (or woman?)... if the facts dictate otherwise, forever hold your peace...

Monday, June 15, 2009

Nizar dgn perangai tegar yg menjurus kpd anarki

Wakil Bkt Gantang Nizar dah hilang akal. Masuk dewan tanpa dekorum pakai lilit kepala kononya mendesak bubar DUN Perak. Betul-betul mencerminkan kebiadaban dan fikiran singkat perjuangkan agenda politik. Wakil BN pun ada yang tak puas hati, tapi taklah sampai berkelakuan begitu sekali.

Friday, June 12, 2009

Pembohongan Membawa Anarki di Malaysia


Saban hari kita mendengar dan membaca pelbagai dakwaan yang sebahagian besar (jika tidak kesemuanya) pembohongan belaka.

Mungkin timbul persoalan dalam pemikiran orang ramai kenapa tidak sesuatu tindakan keras diambil oleh pihak berkuasa untuk menangani keadaan ini?

Jawapannya bukan begitu mudah kerana pada dasarnya penipuan memainkan peranan penting dalam politik, terutama sejak kebelakangan ini.

Dengan pembukaan 'frontier' baru dalam bentuk internet, pelbagai kaedah negatif ditiru dan diteladani oleh aktivis dan pembangkang - kebanyakannya dicontohi daripada strategi yang digunakan oleh negara-negera blok komunis abad yang lalu.

Lebih ketara digunakan ialah strategi kotor politik di Amerika Syarikat seperti yang diamalkan semasa revolusi sayap kanan yang dicetuskan oleh Nixon dan diketengahkan oleh Reagan - strategi yang disemarakkan oleh kebencian sosial. Renungkan: apakah sebabnya seluruh wilayah selatan Amerika Syarikat beralih memeluk ideologi Republikan selepas era hak asasi awam (civil rights era?).

Dan di Malaysia dewasa ini pembohongan berleluasa di seluruh pelusuk internet. Strategi yang diamalkan begitu licik kerana elemen yang paling utama dalam strategi ini ialah supaya mereka yang melakukannya bermati-matian mempertahankan kononnya pembohongan mereka itu benar belaka. Dan apabila berhadapan dengan fakta, mereka akan terus menyatakan pembohongan. Kunci kepada strategi ini ialah kesediaan untuk berbohong dan berbohong berkali-kali hingga dipercayai oleh orang ramai.

Jika keadaan begitu rakus dikuasai pembohongan, apa yang bakal berlaku seterusnya ialah anarki dan ketidaktentuan sosial/politik. Inilah yang sedang kita hadapi. Walaupun Mac 8 2008 telah berlalu dengan penghakisan ketara sokongan terhadap BN, namun apa yang nyata, parti itu masih pihak yanag sah memegang tampuk kerajaan setelah diberikan mandat dan kepercayaan rakyat.

Pemberian mandat dan kepercayaan bererti kita mempercayai kewibawaan kerajaan dan institusi-institusi yang diberada di bawahnya. Oleh yang demikian, apa yang telah diputuskan, seperti keputusan mahakamah perlu dipatuhi. Inilah demokrasi.

Dan sekiranya segala-galanya dipersoalkan; mahkamah, polis dan segala tindakan kerajaan diperlekehkan, apakah erti mandat yang diberikan?

Kepercayaan itu penting. Tanpa kepercayaan segala-galanya akan musnah setelah dirundung pelbagai kebimbangan.

Ini membawa kita kepada tuduhan melulu terhadap Ketua Polis Negara dan Peguam Negara Abdul Gani Patail. Kedua-dua mereka telah dibersihkan daripada dakwaan bersabit pemalsuan dalam kes konspirasi politik seperti yang didakwa Anwar Ibrahim. Ini perlu dihormati. Jika tidak apa lagi pilihan kita? Apakah orang Melayu/Islam rata-rata jahil dan korup belaka hinggakan tiada satu pun yang telus dalam kehidupan mereka? Mustahil. Kita mempunyai conscience. Punyai suara hati.

Sama juga dengan tohmahan terhadap PM Dato' Seri Najib. Jika nak dihitung tuduhan melulu terhadap dirinya di internet, tak terkira. Tetapi apa yang pasti, tiada siapa pun yang tampil kehadapan untuk benar-benar membuktikan kesahihan tuduhan mereka.

Para anarkis ini menangguk di air keruh. Mereka mengambil kesempatan daripada kesempitan pemikiran pengikut mereka dan sebahagian besar orang ramai yang tidak bermaklumat.

Kini fikir dan fikirkan lagi keadaan ini. Apakah pemimpin dan kerajaan Malaysia begitu pincang hinggakan segala-galanya buruk belaka? Jika anda mempercayai ini, jelaslah anda hanya memperagakan bentuk singkat minda sendiri. Bermuhasabahlah.

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

They may be maids, but do respect their religious beliefs


This is one of many unreported cases of maid abuse that happen daily in Malaysian households.

If physical abuse is not enough, bigotry has often driven some employers to transgressing even boundaries of respectability when they force their maids of different faiths to break religious boundaries, such as forcing them to consume or handle pork.

We talk to freedom and respect for the individual rights, and yet such things that happen in our very own households are ignored...

"For three years, Indonesian maid Siti Hajar endured constant beatings and was fed plain rice.
 Siti Hajar escaped from her employer with the help of a taxi driver
Siti Hajar escaped from her employer with the help of a taxi driver
She was offered pork with the rice, which she, as a Muslim, refused. Neither did she get her RM500 monthly wages.

Recently, the 33-year-old was scalded by her temperamental employer.

Unable to bear the pain and constant abuse, Siti knew she had to get away. She made her break early yesterday.

She ran from her employer's posh residence in Lanai Kiara Condominium in Mont Kiara here at 1am and hid in some bushes until sunrise when she stopped a passing taxi.
With not a sen on her, she begged the taxi driver to take her to the Indonesian embassy. Seeing the state she was in, the man took pity on her her and drove her to the embassy, even giving her RM10 as pocket money.

Indonesian ambassador to Malaysia Tan Sri Da'i Bachtiar said the traumatised maid, who is from west Java, arrived at the embassy in Jalan Tun Razak at 8.30am.

"We are grateful to the taxi driver."

Da'i said embassy employees were shocked by the extent of Siti's injuries.

He said Siti arrived in Malaysia on July 2, 2006, and was employed with another person for four days before she was sent to her current employer.

He said after interviewing Siti, embassy officials took her to the University Malaya Medical Centre for a check-up and to lodge a police report.

Da'i said the officials later contacted Siti's agency to obtain her employer's phone number.

"We called her employer and asked her to settle Siti's salary, which is around RM17,000," said Da'i, who claimed the employer, a 43-year-old woman, went to the embassy yesterday at 11am and willingly admitted abusing Siti.

"She cried and apologised for abusing Siti," he said.

Brickfields police chief Assistant Commissioner Wan Abdul Bari Wan Abdul Khalid said the police report was lodged at noon at the Jalan Travers police station.

The employer was later arrested by police outside the embassy and will be brought to the magistrate's court today for a remand order." - From NST