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Keputusan kerusi MP Tian Chua minggu depan Posted: 20 Jun 2011 10:40 PM PDT Keputusan status ahli parlimen Batu Tian Chua di Dewan Rakyat akan diputuskan minggu depan, kata speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia. Pandikar berkata pihaknya telah menghubungi Pejabat Peguam Negara untuk nasihat berhubung implikasi hukuman denda RM2,000 yang dijatuhkan oleh Mahkamah Tinggi Kuala Lumpur ke atas Chua kerana menghalang tugas polis ketika menghadiri demonstrasi. Beliau merujuk soalan dari Datuk Ibrahim Ali (Bebas-Pasir Mas) hari ini mengemukakan surat menuntut penjelasan status Chua setelah Mahkamah Rayuan mengekalkan keputusan sebelum ini. Menurut Ibrahim, Chua sepatutnya dilucutkan haknya sebagai ahli parlimen kerana perlembagaan persekutuan dengan jelas menyatakan mana-mana ahli hilang kelayakkannya jika didenda tidak kurang RM2,000 oleh mahkamah. Pandikar mengakui beliau menerima surat daripada Ibrahim dan juga surat daripada peguam Chua bagi menjelaskan kedudukan ahli parlimen itu berikutan keputusan mahkamah. Beliau bagaimanapun tidak membenarkan perdebatan diteruskan dan berkata sebarang pertanyaan mengenai perkara berkenaan sama ada di dalam ataupun di luar dewan tidak akan dilayan. "Kesilapan saya apabila sya mula-mula terima jawatan ini adalah saya memberi kenyataan apabila ditanya mengenai sesuatu isu (di luar Dewan). Tetapi saya sedar peranan saya juga seperti seorang hakim, jadi tolong jangan tanya saya (di luar) kerana saya tidak akan buat kenyataan," kata Pandikar. "Buat masa ini, saya sedang mengkajinya (isu Chua). Saya telah baca apa yang dikatakan oleh hakim Mahkamah Tinggi dan juga keputusan Mahkamah Rayuan. Parlimen secara rasmi telah menghubungi Pejabat AG untuk mendapatkan pandangannya. Insya Allah saya akan keluarkan kenyataan minggu depan." Sebelum Hakim Mahkamah Tinggi, Datuk Ghazali Cha menegaskan pada penghakiman bertulisnya 17 Jun tahun lalu bahawa denda RM2,000 yang dikenakan ke atas Tian Chua dari PKR tidak akan menyebabkan beliau kehilangan kerusi parlimen Batu. Dalam penghakiman 18 dokumennya, hakim itu memetik sebahagian penghakiman hakim Mahkamah agung, Tan Sri Gunn Chit Tuan yang berkata "Tidak kurang dari" seharusnya membawa maksud "lebih daripada". Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price.

MAP: Jayakan BERSIH, heret Ibrahim ikut Akta Hasutan Posted: 20 Jun 2011 10:04 PM PDT NGO, Rangkaian Memacu Arus Perjuangan (MAP) menggesa semua pihak supaya bersama menjayakan perhimpunan aman Gabungan Pilihan Raya Bersih dan Adil (BERSIH2.0) yang akan diadakan pada 9 Julai nanti. Timbalan Presiden MAP, Zulkifly Ibrahim (kiri) berkata perhimpunan aman itu dibenarkan oleh perlembagaan negara. Merujuk kepada perhimpunan BERSIH 1 sebelum ini, beliau berkata tiada kekecohan ketenteraman awam dan perhimpunan itu berjalan dengan baik dengan memorandum berkenaan berjaya diserahkan kepada wakil Yang di-Pertuan Agong di Istana Negara. "Kepada pihak berkuasa, terutama polis yang menguatkuasakan undang-undang, hendaklah menghormati dan melaksanakan seksyen 27 Akta Polis, mengawal selia perhimpunan, perjumpaan dan perarakan yang bertujuan menjayakan objektif kebebasan bersuara dan bukannya menghalang kebebasan tersebut," katanya dalam satu kenyataan akhbar hari ini. Menurut Zulkifly, adalah tidak wajar bagi bagi Timbalan Ketua Polis Negara Datuk Seri Khalid Abu Bakar yang pada 15 Jun lalu mengugut rakyat bahawa tangkapan pencegahan akan dibuat sekiranya perhimpunan BERSIH 2.0 diteruskan. Katanya, Perkara 10 dalam perlembagaan jelas menunjukkan jaminan terhadap hak asasi warganegara untuk berhimpunan secara aman. Agenda buat kekacauan Mengulas kesediaan Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya (SPR) bagi bermesyuarat dengan BERSIH, Zulkifly berkata ia sangat dialu-alukan. Justeru, katanya tuntutan Bersih 2.0 terhadap lapan perkara untuk memastikan pilihan raya telus dan bersih tanpa sebarang penyelewengan, iaitu membersihkan senarai undi, reformasi kepada undi pos, guna dakwat kekal, tempoh kempen minimum 21 hari, akses media yang bebas dan adil, kukuhkan institusi awam, hentikan rasuah dan hentikan politik kotor hendaklah diterima. "Tuntutan ini sebenarya sudah disuarakan sejak sekian lama. Oleh kerana SPR tidak menghiraukan tuntutan ini, BERSIH melanjutkan perhimpunan ini sebagai manifestasi kegagalan SPR melaksanakan proses demokrasi di negara ini," katanya. Dalam pada itu, MAP kata Zulkifly membidas sikap presiden kumpulan pendesak Melayu, PERKASA, Datuk Ibrahim Ali yang mengarahkan ahlinya menghalang perhimpunan BERSIH. "Ini adalah satu agenda untuk membuat kekacauan di negara ini. "Amaran Ibrahim supaya masyarakat Cina menyediakan stok makanan bagi menghadapi perhimpunan BERSIH 2.0 merupakan kenyataan bersifat perkauman, menghasut dan berbahaya," katanya. Sehubungan itu, Zulkifly bersetuju dengan Ketua Pemuda Umno Khairy Jamaluddin supaya tindakan perlu dikenakan ke atas Ibrahim kerana amaran berkenaan jelas merupakan satu ancaman kepada negara. Katanya, Ibrahim perlu disiasat di bawah Akta Hasutan 1949 kerana sebelum ini banyak kenyataannya terlalu berbaur perkauman yang tinggi. "Kenyataan dan tindakan ini jelas menimbulkan satu ancaman kepada keselamatan negara," katanya. PERKASA perlu belajar Tambahnya, MAP menyaran PERKASA supaya belajar memahami perlembagaan persekutuan yang membenarkan perhimpunan dan kebebasan bersuara. Beliau berkata tindakan Pemuda Umno pula kononnya untuk mempertahan SPR merupakan suatu tindakan yang dangkal. "Pemuda Umno jangan terus mewarisi sikap pemimpin dan ahli-ahli Umno yang sentiasa mempertahankan kemungkaran dan penyelewengan. "Sebaliknya Khairy dan pemuda Umno hendaklah menunjukkan sikap yang berani menegur kelemahan kerajaan termasuk SPR sekiranya pemuda Umno berhasrat menjadi pemimpin pelapis di negara ini," katanya. Menurut Zulkifly, semua NGO yang membuat laporan polis untuk menyekat perhimpunan BERSIH juga hendaklah mempunyai kematangan dalam tindakan mereka. "NGO-NGO berkenaan jangan menjadi budak suruhan kepada Umno dan pemerintah sebaliknya secara terbuka mereka wajar menghormati hak asasi warga negara Malaysia untuk berhimpun secara aman. "Semua pihak diseru supaya menjayakan perhimpunan Bersih 2.0 ini dengan semangat muafakat dan menunjukkan sikap bertamadun demi rakyat dan kelangsungan maruah negara di mata dunia," katanya. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price.

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Kritik orang Islam, bukan ajaran Islam Posted: 20 Jun 2011 06:00 AM PDT Saya merujuk sebuah artikel yang disiarkan Utusan Online dan juga disiarkan dalam akhbar Utusan Malaysia edisi cetak 5 Jun lepas yang menyentuh kartun karya saya. Artikel bertajuk "Penghinaan Kartunis" itu ditulis oleh seorang bernama "Malim". Dalam artikel itu, kartun-kartun saya dituduh sebagai "menghina dan fitnah orang Islam lain". Artikel ini terbit selepas tercetusnya kontroversi sebuah kartun yang disiarkan oleh akhbar Utusan sendiri. Turut disiarkan ialah dua karya saya: Kritikan terhadap ulama yang tidak mengikut ajaran Islam. Kritikan saya terhadap orang Islam yang mempersenda Al-Quran dengan menjunjung kitab suci itu dan bersumpah bagi membuktikan tuduhan jenayah sedangkan perbuatan itu tidak terdapat dalam ajaran Islam. Ingin saya tekankan di sini: Saya mempunyai pendirian yang jelas dalam soal ini; mesej dalam sesebuah lukisan kartun bebas mengritik orang Islam, tetapi tidak wajar mengkritik atau mempertikai ajaran Islam. Ajaran Islam, termasuk kitab-kitab suci serta Nabi Muhammad yang menjadi pembawa. Konsep ini juga terpakai untuk semua agama di dunia ini. Kedua-dua kartun saya yang disiarkan oleh Utusan itu jelas mengkritik perlakuan orang Islam dan bukannya ajaran Islam itu sendiri. Sungguh dangkal, Utusan melalui artikel ini tidak dapat membezakan antara mengkritik orang Islam dan mengritik ajaran Islam. Utusan boleh siar dan kritik sebanyak mana pun kartun-kartun saya, tetapi saya tetap bertanggungjawab dan sedia mempertahankan kartun-kartun saya. Saya sarankan Utusan untuk bertanggngjawab terhadap kartun mereka yang mempertikai ajaran Islam yang kini dikritik oleh masyarakat Islam termasuk oleh PAS. Dan saya rasa adalah satu perbuatan terhormat bagi Utusan atau kartunis berkenaan untuk meminta maaf sekiranya terlanjur. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price.

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Lynas: Making Kuantan residents the lab rats Posted: 20 Jun 2011 04:17 AM PDT On June 7, 2011, in a live interview with CNN, Arnie Gundersen, a licensed nuclear power engineer with 39 years experience in managing and coordinating projects at 70 nuclear power plants in the US, noted that with the prevailing wind patterns after the Fukushima disaster's radioactive discharges, air filter monitors in Seattle detected about half the level of 'hot' (radioactive) suspended fine particulates as were detected in the air over Tokyo, 7,700 km away. Gundersen didn't clarify what the baseline level of airborne radioactive particulates in Seattle was, pre-Fukushima, but if the measured levels in April 2011 were indeed largely blown over from Fukushima, it's very sobering considering that Kuantan and Kemaman are within a 28 km radius of the Lynas rare earths refinery being built at Gebeng, which will be handling rare earth concentrates ground and milled into a fine powder for acid extraction at the plant. The are experiences from Bukit Merah in the 1980s that tells us that beyond the dust-generating cracking, grinding and milling operations, powdery thorium cake waste was also spilling onto roads during transportation, during packing and unpacking, loading and unloading, and children were frequently playing in the vicinity of exposed mounds of the waste. Indeed, the thorium waste was reportedly offered to local farmers as fertiliser. It is for these reasons that the issue of radioactive dusts and internal emitters - from inhalation and ingestion, or absorption through the skin - becomes crucial. It matters a lot whether the source of radiation is a solid lump of radioactive material (intensity of external irradiation rapidly falls off to the degree of the square of distance), or whether it exists as a pile of fine radioactive particulates that are respirable when airborne and mobile. The Lynas Radiological Impact Assessment submitted by Nuklear Malaysia (dated June 2010) does attempt to estimate the risks from inhaled emitters for LAMP employees (average volume of air intake, presumed level of dust concentrates and associated radioactivity internalised by the employee) (p.56) but it then proceeds to compare the (internalised) absorbed radiation energy - averaged over the whole body - with existing threshold levels of 'safe' exposure. This is precisely what was contentious in CERRIE's deliberations (www.cerrie.org), and within radiobiology and radiation carcinogenesis circles - by way of analogy, averaging the absorbed radiation energy over the whole body is equivalent to saying that a burning cigarette butt on your palm doesn't hurt because the heat is negligible when averaged over your whole body. But cancer biologists and educated lay people know that cancer can emerge from a single cell that has sustained the requisite mutations which allow it to multiply uncontrollably, i.e. it is a highly discontinuous phenomenon and averaging radioactive exposures over the whole body is not meaningful for a discrete event in radiation carcinogenesis which involves intense, localised radiation doses delivered to cells surrounding the radioactive particle. Aside from cancer biology, radiation risk can also be approached from an epidemiological perspective. One of the very few empirical attempts at this was a 1993-1994 study of male miners at a combined iron ore-rare earth minerals mine in China which was reported in the Journal of Radiological Protection in 2005. In that study, highly dust-exposed miners had 5.15 times the age-adjusted lung cancer rate as compared to the rate among Chinese males in the general population. The less-exposed mining staff had 2.30 times the general population rate. Both groups had similar smoking rates (78 percent, vs. 67 percent for the general adult male population). On this basis, the authors concluded that the excess lung cancer risk among the less-exposed was largely due to above-average smoking, and the further difference between the two miner groups was due to high exposure to airborne crystalline silica particulates (mainly) and to thorium-containing dusts and its radioactive daughter nuclides such as radon gas. These conclusions are highly debatable, and it is precisely in this situation of uncertainty and lack of consensus that the Kuantan-Kemaman community shouldn't end up as tikus makmal (lab rats) in a natural experiment for Lynas. Finally, it should also be noted that the ores that the Chinese miners were exposed to contained 400 ppm of thorium. The rare earth oxide concentrates that will be arriving shortly at Kuantan port will have 1,600 ppm of thorium. The US Public Health Service (1990) reports that the natural background level in soil is typically approximately 6 ppm of thorium. Chan Chee Khoon, ScD (Epidemiology) writes from the Centre for Population Health, department of social & preventive medicine, University of Malaya Faculty of Medicine. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price.

Peaceful assembly: Any 'chaos' police's fault Posted: 20 Jun 2011 03:27 AM PDT The Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ) Malaysia expresses its support for Bersih 2.0's call for a peaceful assembly on 9 July to highlight the need for free and fair elections. CIJ is also concerned that various parties, including the police and Umno-controlled Utusan Malaysia, have condemned this peaceful assembly and asked for it to be called off. CIJ is particularly concerned that Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein has raised the possibility of detentions without trial under the Internal Security Act arising out of this assembly. CIJ would like to remind the authorities that the right to peacefully assemble is a guaranteed under Article 10 of the federal constitution. Furthermore, the need to apply for a police permit for peaceful assemblies goes beyond the permitted restrictions under Article 10. CIJ draws attention to the Malaysian Human Rights Commission's repeated recommendations that the requirement for police permits for peaceful assemblies be repealed and that the police actively cooperate with demonstrators. CIJ also would like to state that "causing traffic jams" is not a legitimate reason to prevent peaceful assemblies. Such assemblies are a constitutional right and the authorities should be taking steps to actively protect this right and educate the public about the importance of this fundamental right. If the government and the authorities are truly serious about preventing "chaos" and maintaining public order, it should cooperate with Bersih 2.0, instead of taking steps to hinder the gathering. Properly cordoned-off roads, traffic marshals and police escorts along the demonstration route will help to ensure a smooth demonstration and maintain order. Setting up unnecessary road blocks across Petaling Jaya and Kuala Lumpur, calling in hundreds of anti-riot police and busing in reinforcement from outside Klang Valley, firing tear gas and water cannons and making hundreds of arrests, as has been done in the past, only contributes to the chaos that the authorities are purportedly keen on avoiding. Bersih 2.0 has pledged to hold a peaceful, responsible gathering and has openly stated their wish to cooperate with the police. This offer should be actively taken up by the police to ensure the gathering remains peaceful and orderly. CIJ supports Bersih 2.0's call for free and fair elections, especially the call for free and fair access to media during elections. It is apparent in CIJ's ongoing media monitoring exercise that most of the mainstream print media are heavily biased towards the ruling coalition Barisan Nasional. Pakatan Rakyat leaders are often criticised without being given the right of reply. This violates journalism ethics and must be corrected before the next general election. All political parties should be given equal access to the media and be allowed to advertise in all media without discrimination and censorship, as demanded by Bersih 2.0. CIJ also supports Bersih 2.0's demands that proportionate airtime be allocated on RTM and Bernama for all contesting parties, since these are publicly funded media agencies. Masjaliza Hamzah is CIJ executive officer. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price.

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