by Dr. Chen Man Hin
Despite intensive propaganda by the government and Umno publicity machines against Anwar Ibrahim, the people still trust him. This is shown by the polls taken by Merdeka Centre research which indicate that only 11% of those polled believe the allegation that Anwar sodomised Saiful. An overwhelming 89% prefer to trust Anwar - that even 76% of Malays polled do not believe the government propaganda about Anwar
When news about allegations of sodomy against Anwar were spread in the international print and electronic media, there was shock and dismay.
Condoleeza Rice, US secretary of state, a Canadian ex-prime minister, former World Bank president, former IMF president, Gus Dur ex president of Indonesia, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch - all expressed dismay and disbelief.
They say Anwar is innocent and called upon the Malaysian government to free Anwar of the sodomy charge.
Gus Dur visited Malaysia and declared that Anwar is innocent and not the type of person to commit sodomy. He has called upon the prime minister to practise democracy.
International opinion must be valued and not taken lightly. If foreign investors see that democracy and justice are absent, their confidence will be affected and foreign investments to Malaysia will diminish.
Obviously, to foreign leaders, ANWAR IS THE ONE.
THE HOPE - THE LEADER
There is a crisis of confidence in the country. Merdeka Centre has from a poll found that PM Abdullah’s standing has descended rapidly from its high point in 2004 to only 26% today. This is because corruption has gone from bad to worse, the judiciary is corrupt, there is no rule of law and there is a corrupt police force. All the promises to clean up the judiciary and police force have come to nought.
Government policies which are supposed to treat all races equally and fairly have deteriorated and are now based on the concept of ketuanan melayu or supremacy of Malays.
Instead of good governance, the entire government is now engaged in a conspiracy to convict Anwar of sodomy on a false charge.
Mafia methods are adopted. The police attempted to pressure the Burmese doctor to change his medical report of Saiful by repeated visits, but the doctor stood by his findings. After filing his sworn affidavit, he and his family are now missing - probably fled overseas for refuge.
if PM Abdullah perceived Anwar as a threat to his government, he should deal with him through democracy, not by subverting the government administration, the Attorney-General’s chambers and the police and pursuing a desperate conspiracy to trap and convict Anwar of sodomy.
The whole country is tired and disgusted with the conspiracy and lack of good governance. The people want a change, for someone to take the country out of the mess and become a clean, corruption-free, multiracial, multireligious, multicultural, democratic and progressive society.
THE HOPE, THE LEADER. ANWAR IS THE ONE.
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Sunday, August 24, 2008
Saturday, August 16, 2008
YB Lim Kit Siang on Permatang Pauh
Dear YB Lim Kit Siang,
On behalf of the PKR team I thank you, YB Karpal Singh, our popular Penang Chief Minister YB Lim Guan Eng, your grassroots team in Permatang Pauh and the entire DAP national organisation for the excellent cooperation and support.
Your presence today at the nomination center in Tuanku Bainun Teachers Training College in Seberang Jaya is appreciated. I, therefore, share your assessment that if we are to use the turnout today as a rough indicator and assume that there are no hanky panky antics and tricks by Rashid Rahman and his SPR boys–my sources tell me that he has a room next to Badawi in Sunway Hotel–, Anwar can win BIG against their “best BN candidate”, Ariff Shah.
Najib and the entire UMNO-BN machine assembled at the Sunway Hotel in Seberang Jaya are under enormous pressure now. Because of this, he will resort to a dirty campaign (e.g, asking Saiful Bukhari to swear on the Holy Koran), and deploy state assets including military intelligence. He thinks that by asking Puteri UMNO and Khairy Jamaluddin’s UMNO Youth to buy voters of Permatang Pauh, he can reduce Anwar’s margin of victory.
The people I met and talked to here have dignity (MARUAH) and want their local boy Anwar in Parliament on August 27, 2008. They also know that the present government has messed up the economy.
I could not help but notice that Najib was heckled by the pro-Anwar crowd who shouted “Altantuya! Altantuya!!” when he raised the hands of Ariff Shah, Shahrizat Abdul Jalil and others. —Din Merican at Permatang Pauh
source: www.limkitsiang.com
Permatang Pauh by-election – Anwar will win hands down if decided by Nomination turnout by YB Lim Kit Siang
If the Permatang Pauh by-election is decided by the Nomination Day turnout this morning, Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) adviser Anwar Ibrahim would win hands down.
Never before in any by-election nomination in Malaysian electoral history has the Barisan Nasional been so-outnumbered and overwhelmed, whether in terms of supporters; publicity materials whether flags, buntings or banners; or sheer enthusiasm, morale and spirit of the supporters.
In the sea of humanity at the Nomination Centre this morning, Anwar’s supporters from the three Pakatan Rakyat parties of PKR, DAP and PAS simply drowned out the Barisan Nasional supporters from Umno, MCA, Gerakan and MIC, led by a very subdued Deputy Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak himself, Umno Youth leader Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein and his deputy Khairy Jamaluddin.
There are those who estimate that the crowd was as big as 100,000 or more, with the Pakatan Rakyat supporters exceeding the Barisan Nasional supporters by a ratio of from 1:7 to 1:10.
UMNO Youth Hishammuddin yesterday played the sympathy card when he “begged” Permatang Pauh voters to support the Barisan Nasional candidate “because we are the underdog”.
The role of an “underdog” does not sit well with Hishammuddin as memories among Malaysians are still fresh that he was far from being an underdog when he wielded the Malay keris at the Umno Youth general assembly for three consecutive years, utterly insensitive of the sensitivities of a multi-racial Malaysia. Nor is the Prime Minister’s son-in-law best cast in the role of an “underdog”!
The impression the outnumbered and demoralized BN team gave at the Nomination Centre this morning was certainly not one of an “underdog” but of a Chinese description of the “rat running across the street”!
Anwar is right however in his caution to all workers and supporters not to be complacent and take the BN mechanism lightly, as the BN is fully capable of turning the table on polling day by snatching victory from the jaws of defeat with its tested “bag of dirty tricks”.
It is a sad commentary on Anwar’s total lack of confidence in the independence and integrity of the electoral system that Dr Mansor Othman, former Penang PKR leader, had to be nominated as an independent candidate as a “strategic contingency” move in case Anwar was unreasonably and unjustly disqualified - with Mansor announcing his withdrawal when Anwar sailed through the nomination process, forfeiting RM15,000 in the process!
Anwar had very good reason to take such a precautionary measure as the decision by the Election Commission to fix a Tuesday – August 26 – as the polling day for the by-election was clearly unfair and undemocratic, designed to discourage a high voter turn-out being a working day particularly for the high percentage of factory workers in the constituency and therefore unfavourable to Anwar’s candidature.
The battle royale of the Permatang Pauh by-election for the next ten days is on - with far reaching consequences not just for Anwar and the constituency, but for the nation and 27 million Malaysians.
On behalf of the PKR team I thank you, YB Karpal Singh, our popular Penang Chief Minister YB Lim Guan Eng, your grassroots team in Permatang Pauh and the entire DAP national organisation for the excellent cooperation and support.
Your presence today at the nomination center in Tuanku Bainun Teachers Training College in Seberang Jaya is appreciated. I, therefore, share your assessment that if we are to use the turnout today as a rough indicator and assume that there are no hanky panky antics and tricks by Rashid Rahman and his SPR boys–my sources tell me that he has a room next to Badawi in Sunway Hotel–, Anwar can win BIG against their “best BN candidate”, Ariff Shah.
Najib and the entire UMNO-BN machine assembled at the Sunway Hotel in Seberang Jaya are under enormous pressure now. Because of this, he will resort to a dirty campaign (e.g, asking Saiful Bukhari to swear on the Holy Koran), and deploy state assets including military intelligence. He thinks that by asking Puteri UMNO and Khairy Jamaluddin’s UMNO Youth to buy voters of Permatang Pauh, he can reduce Anwar’s margin of victory.
The people I met and talked to here have dignity (MARUAH) and want their local boy Anwar in Parliament on August 27, 2008. They also know that the present government has messed up the economy.
I could not help but notice that Najib was heckled by the pro-Anwar crowd who shouted “Altantuya! Altantuya!!” when he raised the hands of Ariff Shah, Shahrizat Abdul Jalil and others. —Din Merican at Permatang Pauh
source: www.limkitsiang.com
Permatang Pauh by-election – Anwar will win hands down if decided by Nomination turnout by YB Lim Kit Siang
If the Permatang Pauh by-election is decided by the Nomination Day turnout this morning, Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) adviser Anwar Ibrahim would win hands down.
Never before in any by-election nomination in Malaysian electoral history has the Barisan Nasional been so-outnumbered and overwhelmed, whether in terms of supporters; publicity materials whether flags, buntings or banners; or sheer enthusiasm, morale and spirit of the supporters.
In the sea of humanity at the Nomination Centre this morning, Anwar’s supporters from the three Pakatan Rakyat parties of PKR, DAP and PAS simply drowned out the Barisan Nasional supporters from Umno, MCA, Gerakan and MIC, led by a very subdued Deputy Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak himself, Umno Youth leader Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein and his deputy Khairy Jamaluddin.
There are those who estimate that the crowd was as big as 100,000 or more, with the Pakatan Rakyat supporters exceeding the Barisan Nasional supporters by a ratio of from 1:7 to 1:10.
UMNO Youth Hishammuddin yesterday played the sympathy card when he “begged” Permatang Pauh voters to support the Barisan Nasional candidate “because we are the underdog”.
The role of an “underdog” does not sit well with Hishammuddin as memories among Malaysians are still fresh that he was far from being an underdog when he wielded the Malay keris at the Umno Youth general assembly for three consecutive years, utterly insensitive of the sensitivities of a multi-racial Malaysia. Nor is the Prime Minister’s son-in-law best cast in the role of an “underdog”!
The impression the outnumbered and demoralized BN team gave at the Nomination Centre this morning was certainly not one of an “underdog” but of a Chinese description of the “rat running across the street”!
Anwar is right however in his caution to all workers and supporters not to be complacent and take the BN mechanism lightly, as the BN is fully capable of turning the table on polling day by snatching victory from the jaws of defeat with its tested “bag of dirty tricks”.
It is a sad commentary on Anwar’s total lack of confidence in the independence and integrity of the electoral system that Dr Mansor Othman, former Penang PKR leader, had to be nominated as an independent candidate as a “strategic contingency” move in case Anwar was unreasonably and unjustly disqualified - with Mansor announcing his withdrawal when Anwar sailed through the nomination process, forfeiting RM15,000 in the process!
Anwar had very good reason to take such a precautionary measure as the decision by the Election Commission to fix a Tuesday – August 26 – as the polling day for the by-election was clearly unfair and undemocratic, designed to discourage a high voter turn-out being a working day particularly for the high percentage of factory workers in the constituency and therefore unfavourable to Anwar’s candidature.
The battle royale of the Permatang Pauh by-election for the next ten days is on - with far reaching consequences not just for Anwar and the constituency, but for the nation and 27 million Malaysians.
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