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Tony vs Lilian - where's the spat? Posted: 29 Jul 2011 03:39 AM PDT I take offense with Helen Ang's letter to Malaysiakini titled 'Behind the Tony Yew - Chan Lilian spat'. I can understand why Helen felt the need to defend herself over a random commentator mentioning of her name. But to go the extra miles of lamenting at the language use and the name calling of the commentator as Pakatan Cheerleader is not just uncalled for but also missing out the big picture. What was expressed at the comments section of the Malaysiakini letter were a lot of raw emotions and disgust against Tony Yew. It is understandable for he has committed a despicable act. In Helen's blog entry, 'Tony Yew and Chan Lilian duke it out', Helen made it sounds like a spat is going on between Lilian and Tony. But the fact is, on closer examination in what has happened, there weren't any real exchanges that had taken place between the two at all. What happened was Lilian had expressed a personal thought by tweeting a message that read "I think all Christians shud march for all the persecution they had done to us and our Lord. Don't you think so? I go sleep now, bye-bye. :)" Being on Lilian's private follower list, Tony followed her tweets and replied with, "Don't turn a political statement to a religious one. I am demanding a retraction or else I am making a police report tomorrow." I do not know how Helen could see this as a rational verbal exchange between Tony and Lilian. Tony's reply is a threat, and a demand of tweet retraction. The problem with Tony's action is that, he received Lilian's tweet because he chose to follow her on Twitter. And for Lilian to tell Malaysiakini that she had added Tony unknowingly means that she had put in place a privacy setting on her Twitter account. For the uninformed, on Twitter you can't receive tweets from anyone unless you have opted to 'follow' someone's tweets. And also, there is a setting on your Twitter account where you could set your tweets as private, hence people will not be able to follow your tweets unless you have granted them access. In that case, your tweets are meant for your private consumption and for sharing with your friends. Tony was able to receive Lilian's tweet that would mean that he had sent a request to Lilian to allow him to follow her tweets, and Lilian had granted him the access. In this scenario, there is an inherent trust given, meaning that Lilian had placed her trust on Tony to follow her private thoughts expressed on Twitter. For Tony to file a police report over a private tweet of Lilian's is unacceptable and despicable. Not only that he had curtailed her freedom of expression in her private space, he had betrayed her trust in allowing him access to her private place. He had also infringed her privacy by filing a police report over a private tweet. The act is like a friend filing a police report over a private conversation they had in a private room. Tony is the secretary of Blogger House, a bloggers' association. That must mean that he is a blogger; he belongs to one of the many who takes advantage of the freedom of speech provided from the internet to express themselves. As a blogger, that he would go to such a low to file a police report with the full intention of curtailing the freedom of expression of another is hypocritical. There is just no silver lining in Tony's act of filing the police report, whatever the motive. Anyone who believes in the freedom of expression as enshrined in the constitution will not condone Tony's action, let alone defend him. Helen, in her rush to uphold her dignity and even in her initial blog post, had completely missed out this. Perhaps it is because she is not a Twitter user and hence does not know how Twitter works. If that is the case, she has not bothered to find out the particulars of the "spat" herself before putting her pen down, committing the exact same crime she is accusing the commentator. However, I can not fathom how she could completely missed the bigger picture on the consequences of Tony's action on our fundamental right to freedom of expression. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

Media self-censorship over coin makeover? Posted: 29 Jul 2011 12:10 AM PDT Star on Wednesday published my letter on the 'coin makeover' in response to their report on July 26. But why were my questions removed when my letter was published? Is it an editorial decision or a government directive, or self-censorship? In the age of good governance and transparency, I do not see any problem with my questions - if all things are done above board, allow the questions to be asked and hopefully Bank Negara can be given the chance to reply. Having seen what happened to the Australian currency scandal, what I asked are valid questions. As a tax-paying Malaysian citizen, I think I have the right to know as it will involve public funds. What Star did not print: "I would like to ask (Bank Negara) a few simple elementary questions (regarding the plans for the coin makeover): What is the name of the company awarded the contract to manufacture the new coins? May we also know who the board of directors in that company are? Was the award done by open tender? If so, how many bids were submitted and by whom? Is there any open tender called for the replacement of all coin-operated parking meters in the country (that are necessitated by the new coinage)?" Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

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Rosmah: Dakwaan beli cincin RM24 juta fitnah Posted: 28 Jul 2011 08:12 PM PDT Setelah dua minggu khabar angin bertiup kencang tentang pembelian cincin bernilai RM24 juta, isteri Perdana Menteri, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor akhirnya bersuara dan menyifatkannya sebagai satu fitnah dan tidak ada masa mahu melayannya. "Tak ada apa yang saya nak cakap (mengenai pembelian cincin lebih RM24 juta) sebab saya tidak ada masa hendak layan perkara seumpama ini. Ikut sedap dia (blogger) saja hendak cakap (tuduh). "Ini bukan perkara seronok-seronok, ini adalah fitnah.... apa yang saya tidak rasa? Semua saya sudah rasa (difitnah). "Justeru, daripada saya layan perkara seumpama ini lebih baik saya beri perhatian kepada hal rakyat kerana itu lebih penting," katanya Pokok Sena, Kedah, semalam dan dipetik Berita Harian Online hari ini. 14 Julai lalu, pengerusi Solidariti Anak Muda Malaysia (SAMM), Badrul Hisham Shaharin, membuat laporan di Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) berhubung dakwaan pembelian sebentuk cincin oleh Rosmah. Bantu rakyat Menurutnya berdasarkan maklumat yang diterima SAMM, berlian yang dikenali sebagai"Natural Fancy Gray Cushion Cut Diamond" diterbangkan melalui Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kuala Lumpur ke negara ini. Badrul Hisham berkata beliau juga mempunyai salinan cetakan dokumen itu dari skrin komputer bagi membuktikan pembelian cincin berharga RM24.4 juta itu bebas daripada dikenakan cukai import. Rosmah yang berada di Kedah mengiringi Datuk Seri Najib Razak dalam rangka lawatan kerja sehari ke negeri itu semalam diminta mengulas dakwaan pembelian cincin bertatahkan berlian itu. Katanya, sebagai isteri Perdana Menteri yang mempunyai kelulusan dan kelayakan lebih wajar baginya untuk menyumbang kepada usaha membantu rakyat termasuk usaha memantapkan pendidikan awal kanak-kanak terutama di luar bandar. "Saya lebih senang dengan apa yang saya lakukan sekarang bagi membantu rakyat terutama dalam hal memperkasa pendidikan awal kanak-kanak terutama di luar bandar kerana bagi saya ilmu adalah harta paling bernilai untuk masa depan mereka," kata Rosmah. Malaysiakini baru-baru ini ada menghubungi Airoceanic Express Sdn Bhd - yang didakwa agen bagi urusniaga tersebut. Bagaimanapun syarikat berkenaan enggan mengeluarkan sebarang kenyataan berhubung perkara itu. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

PERKASA batal himpunan - elak Melayu bertembung Posted: 28 Jul 2011 07:07 PM PDT Presiden PERKASA Ibrahim Ali mendakwa beliau membatalkan perhimpunan 9 Julai bagi membantah perarakan BERSIH 2.0 pada minit terakhir bagi mengelakkan pertembungan di kalangan orang Melayu. Dakwanya beliau mengeluarkan arahan berkenaan kepada penyokong PERKASA kira-kira 90 minit sebelum mereka sepatutnya berkumpul di Taman Tasik Titiwangsa pada jam 2.30 petang Sabtu itu. Menurut Ibraham, keputusan menarik diri itu dibuat selepas kira-kira 50 ahlinya yang dihantar sebagai penyamar menyelinap di kalangan penyokong BERSIH 2.0 bagi memantau perkembangan pada hari tersebut. "Mereka beritahu saya, peserta (BERSIH 2.0) adalah orang Melayu. Cina hanya sedikit, mungkin satu atau dua peratus, dan India lagi tidak ramai. "Saya tanya mana (pemimpin DAP) Lim Kit Siang dan Lim Guan Eng, mereka kata tak ada. Kemudian, saya tanya siapa yang ada? Mereka kata (ketua umum PKR) Anwar (Ibrahim) dan (presiden PAS) Abdul Hadi Awang," kata Ibrahim. "Jika kita (PERKASA) berkumpul, kita tidak boleh menahan penyokong kita daripada berarak, dan akan berlaku pertembungan di kalangan orang Melayu," katanya dalam wawancara eksklusif dengan stesen TV internet - eTV - minggu lalu. Keputusan 'berani' Ibrahim juga mendakwa dua faktor lain yang mempengaruhi keputusan 'berani' yang diambilnya itu bagi membatalkan perhimpunan PERKASA adalah kerana menghormati titah Yang di-Pertuan Agong dan Tuanku Sultan Selangor yang tidak mahu demonstrasi jalanan diadakan. Pada masa yang sama, dakwanya PERKASA tidak mahu menambahkan beban polis yang terpaksa berdepan dengan perhimpunan haram BERSIH pada hari berkenaan. "Jadi mengambil kira titah Agong dan Sultan, dan demi orang Melayu serta menyedari polis sibuk mengawal BERSIH, jadi saya buat keputusan berani supaya perhimpunan (PERKASA) tidak diadakan. Saya batalkan perhimpunan pada jam 1 petang. "Jika saya teruskan pada hari itu, dengan senang saya boleh kumpulkan 3,000 orang. Apabila saya batalkan perhimpunan itu, di Titiwangsa sudahpun berada 300 ahli PERKASA," dakwanya. Sambil menafikan dirinya itu pengecut dan dakwaan bahawa PERKASA gagal mengumpulkan penyokongnya, Ibrahim, 61, yang juga ahli parlimen Bebas bagi Pasir Mas berkata menjelang 9 Julai, 15,000 orang telah berdaftar bagi menyertai perhimpunan itu. Ibrahim bagaimanapun mengakui pada hari tersebut beliau berada di rumah dan berulang-kali menafikan ahli PERKASA adalah penakut dan mendakwa semua penyokongnya telah bersiap-sedia dan hanya menunggu arahannya. Malah, dakwanya mereka yang membuat tuduhan seumpama itu adalah golongan yang sakit, bodoh dan banggang yang cuba memprovokasikan dirinya. [Baca berita penuh] Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

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Behind the Tony Yew-Chan Lilian spat Posted: 28 Jul 2011 03:44 AM PDT I refer to 'Blogger in trouble over tweet "promoting" Bersih' where one Malaysiakini subscriber made a reference to me. Going by the moniker 'Ade', the person commented: "Coming to that Tony Yew character, I don't believe he is a Christian. He's just like most non Christians who use Christian names for glamour. Remember Helen Ang?" It is a sad day for Malaysiakini if 'Ade', along with his like-minded compatriots who troll the feedback section, is representative of the crowd comprising the news portal's most ardent and addicted supporters. But it's beginning to look as if their mindset is the one prevalent as the general tone of the regular commentators suggests. Firstly, for Ade's information, 'Helen' is not a Christian name. His claim merely reveals his own ignorance. My best known namesake is Greek mythology's Helen of Troy. The earliest written record of her appears in Iliad and Odyssey - which clearly Ade has never heard of - an epic by the poet Homer who lived 800 years before Jesus was born. Secondly, on Ade's allusion that I'm a "non Christian who use(s) Christian names for glamour", again his unfounded allegation is telling of the childish malice that prompts certain readers to slander others simply for holding contrary opinions to theirs. I have dozens of relatives and cousins who call me Helen, the name by which they've known me since birth. That my mother chose it for me indicates that she was an educated woman, schooled during the British colonial rule. That Ade chose to take such a cheap shot indicates how the Pakatan cheerleaders, who are the most vocal segment, operate and their approach - the template of which I am cataloguing below. Thirdly, regarding Ade's slur, "I don't believe he is a Christian", Tony Yew similarly has family and friends who will vouch that he surely is. So what are we supposed to make of approved comments which scatter such baseless accusations like some nasty birdshot? For the sake of Malaysiakini's credibility, I hope that Steven Gan is reading this letter. Next, at the time of my writing, there are almost 60 comments in response to the said article on the Chan Lilian vs. Tony spat. They fall into a few broad categories. First is the personal attack on the 'offending' individual which does nothing for public discourse. Examples: "go to hell Tony Yew!", his name is "too obscene to be uttered", "so much crap coming out from him". In short, anyone critical of anything to do with Lim Guan Eng's office where Lilian is a contract staff must surely be "two faced hypocrite BN bootlickers". Actually, the level of sycophancy I've noticed accorded Marina Mahathir for her Bersih walk makes me wonder that a tongue infection epidemic had not broken out. Second, the knee-jerk assertion that Tony is trying to get a ministerial post, or a title/datukship. Any rational reader knows that it is unlikely to happen - with no disrespect to Tony but certainly it is unfathomable to imagine a reward over this trivial matter. Other wild comments insinuate, for instance, that Tony is taking instructions from Ibrahim Ali. Again, needless to say, the commentator had not substantiated his statement and nor will he be able to. Third, profanity and name-calling directed at Tony: The 'f' word, "MF", "idiot", "bonehead", "blockhead", "asshole", "arsehole". Evidently some readers spell the British way while others follow American spelling but in the same breath, these blindly charging brigadiers refuse to permit everyone else the privilege of diversity of thought. Coerced censorship through mob intimidation is symptomatic of fascism, just in case you weren't aware. Fourth, the holier-than-thou grandstanding of many commentators insisting that "shameless" Tony can't possibly be a Christian and that he is a disgrace to their religious community. This particular thread of abuse goes in tandem with a recurrent 'Christian traitor' motif. In addition to several comments along the same Judas line, there is the following: "the whole Christian community will curse you for behaving just like JUDAS" - a comment coming from someone who frames him/herself 'anak,bangsa,malaysia'. All I can say is that is if his/her hexing is illustrative of a typical follower of the SABM movement, then I can only hope I'm spared the misfortune of my path ever crossing theirs. They seem to lack the realisation that life is too short to be spent barbecuing those refusing to be DAP Malaysian First-ers over fire and brimstone. Fifth, in the Malaysiakini-reader lynching of Tony Yew can be seen the quite predictable attempt to silence the speaker, in addition to declaring him an outcast: "Diam lar", "let's excommunicate this unbeliever". However, some of the readers lent the cyber-ranting - already vile enough as evidenced in the sampling above - a greater earnest and extending their enmity to the physical environment. Malaysiakini subscribers wrote: "Please post a picture of Tony Yew, so all (especially Christians) will know how he look like", "if anyone knows which church this IDIOT Tony Yew attends, please let us know online", "So if anyone knows of this guy please place his photograph for all to see", "any Christian group (Catholic, Methodist etc.) know who this 'Tony' is, please post his picture and we will see who this guy is". Since these folks are so keen to know Tony's appearance and apparently to stalk him, may I ask what is it that they have in mind to do to him should they recognise him in the street? Tar and feather? The extreme political partisanship displayed by Malaysiakini pages has so clouded the commentators' judgment that none (as far as can be discerned from published remarks) bothered to take the trouble to find out the particulars of the spat before rushing in one voice to canonise Saint Lilian, and consigning Tony to hellfire. On July 7, I wrote an article that touched on the behind-the-scenes of the Lilian-Tony tweet war, where I said that I didn't buy Lilian's flat out denials and disagree with her harsh language used on Tony. For reason of space constraint here, an elaboration can be found in my blog posting 'Tony Yew and Chan Lilian duke it out' at www.helenang.wordpress.com. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

Trend is towards multiple identification system for voters Posted: 28 Jul 2011 03:04 AM PDT There has been a lively debate on whether using indelible ink or biometric system will be more effective in curbing electoral frauds such as personation and multiple voting. I would like to put forward a few points here from my experience as an international election observer to dispel some myths around the issue. Many electoral democracies in Asia have been moving towards a multiple identification system to ensure voter identification is done right. Bangladesh and Philippines lead in using electoral rolls with photographs to provide easy identification of voters, on top of the usual identification card and name. As if this is not enough, some countries e.g. Philippines, require voters who have claimed their ballot to sign a receipt of the ballot to stop the same person or another person, from claiming a second ballot using the same identity. In these countries indelible ink is also used to add another layer of safeguard on voter identification, which can be utilised in the most challenging situations e.g. locations where there is no electricity. So the trend is towards multiple systems of identification rather than relying on one supposedly sure-fire method. In additions to the above there are also administrative improvements to ensure that the above identification methods work. Bangladesh, for example, spent half a year to renew the entire electoral roll of close to 90 million voters, ahead of their last presidential elections, to get rid of multiple registrations and other dubious registrations e.g. dead voters. Some countries e.g. Indonesia, Singapore, Australia allow automatic voter registration, while others allow quick registrations eg 1-2 days in New Zealand, so that no one citizen is denied their constitutionally guaranteed voting rights. Not only that the entire electoral system-from the appointment of election commissioners to the complaint handling mechanisms, are overhauled to ensure that electoral frauds are minimised and the results of the elections closely mirror the voters' choices. From the rough sketch above it is clear that the characterisation of countries which are using indelible ink as `backward' with no identification papers is sweeping and, in most cases, factually inaccurate. It is true that some of the countries are poorer economically than Malaysia but their investment in democratic institutions are well in advanced compared to Malaysia. In fact these countries have gone beyond hardware dependence and adopt multiple safeguards to ensure integrity of the electoral operation. It would be most ironic if the Election Commission of Malaysia refuse to consider the use of cheap and adaptable method of indelible ink as an additional safeguard on voters identification, based on factually unsound allegation that the method is somehow `backward' and linked to a lack of identification papers for the citizens. From the discussion above it is clear also that any voter identification method can only work well in an electoral system where the election administration is transparent, credible, clean and fair to all. Just for discussion: there are many polling centres in Malaysia where there is no monitoring of polling by enough Polling Agents and Counting Agents, and where the Form 14 confirming the polling results are not available immediately to all stake holders -including the candidates, due, e.g. by the absence of the counting agents or their disappearance. Under such circumstances, the voter identification methods would not be helpful to ensure that only bona fide voters were voting or, as a whole, to ensure the integrity of the election result. Factually there is also no country -even so called `advanced' democracy that chooses to spend heavily on a biometric system for voter identification. They are happy to use multiple identification system coupled with more enhanced electoral administration to ensure, as much as practicable, fraud-free elections. In comparison our choice of heavy investment into an untested biometric system which is expected to operate within an electoral administration regime which is far from international norms, let alone best practices. It seems that the decision making in this regards had headed towards wrong direction if electoral integrity is the real objective. It may be speculative that the biometric system is considered not so much for its effectiveness on voter identification but because it has already been used on millions of legal as well as illegal migrants for another purpose. Putting the tool ahead of its intended purpose is certainly not a rational let alone cost-effective method of decision making. Just a word on the biometric system: since the system can only be used in conjunction with a computer/internet based database there are practical/logistic considerations to roll out the system in remote areas where there is no electricity, let alone internet connection. There are numerous such locations e.g. in interior of Sabah and Sarawak, where there is not even a computer to service the polling centres. ONG BK is part of the Malaysian Election Observers Network. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

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MIC: Tahanan PSM6 beri kesan kepada BN pada PRU-13 Posted: 27 Jul 2011 10:46 PM PDT Penahanan berterusan enam pemimpin Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) menarik "perhatian dunia" dan mungkin memberi kesan kepada BN pada pilihan raya umum akan datang, kata presiden MIC Datuk G Palanivel . "Jika awak tonton televisyen setiap hari, ada demonstrasi (di luar negara) dan polis menggunakan gas pemedih mata, meriam air dan semua (untuk menyuraikan orang ramai). "Tetapi kemudian, mereka akan disuruh berbaris dan dimasukkan ke dalam lori dan dibawa ke balai polis (di mana penunjuk perasaan) akan dikurung selama tiga atau empat jam sebelum dibebaskan," kata Palanivel pada sidang media hari ini. Bagaimanapun dalam kes ahli parlimen Sungai Siput Dr D Jeyakumar dan lima yang lain, mereka ditahan kerana menjadi "penggerak utama" perhimpunan BERSIH 2.0 pada 9 Julai, beliau berkata tindakan kerajaan itu hanya memburukkan imej negara. "Perwakilan rakyat yang dilantik itu akan masih dalam tahanan dan semasa pilihan raya, mereka tidak perlu keluar untuk berkempen - mereka boleh terus menetap di penjara dan menang kerana rakyat akan mengundi mereka," katanya. Bimbang dengan sentimen rakyat berhubung penahanan itu, Palanivel menasihatkan Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak, supaya fokus untuk mendapatkan sokongan pada pilihan raya ke-13 ini. Palanivel berkata beliau sedar tindakan kerajaan itu terus menerima bidasan dari dalam dan luar negara dan telah berhubungan dengan Najib beberapa hari lalu dan meminta tahanan itu dibebaskan. Ini kali pertama seseorang ahli parlimen ditahan mengikut Ordinan Darurat yang membenarkan penahanan tanpa bicara selama 60 hari. Penahanan itu boleh dilanjutkan sehingga dua tahun, sama seperti peruntukan dalam Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negara (ISA) yang sedang dipinda. Selain Jeyakumar, anggota PSM yang ditahan mengikut EO sejak 2 Julai lalu adalah M Sarasvathy, Choo Chon Kai, M Sugumaran, A Letchumanan dan R Saras Babu. PSM6 itu pada mulanya ditahan bersama 24 orang lain atas dakwaan mahu 'melancarkan perang terhadap Agong', tetapi pada jawapan balas permohonan afidavit habeas corpus berhubung pembebasan mereka, polis mendakwa mereka sebagai penggerak utama BERSIH 2.0. [Baca berita penuh] Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

Pembantu MP kecam dikait dengan keganasan Posted: 27 Jul 2011 10:32 PM PDT Setiausaha politik kepada ahli parlimen PKR Ampang, Zuraida Kamaruddin - Fareez Kamal Iltizam - hari ini mengecam kempen dalam talian oleh penulis blog pro-Umno yang menggambarkan dirinya sebagai seorang pengganas selepas penangkapannya di KL Sentral semalam. Fareez Kamal menyifatkan penulis blog tersebut sudah melampau apabila menuduh beliau cuba membunuh Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak di hab pengangkutan itu. Fareez - ahli Angkatan Muda Keadilan (AMK) - serta sembilan orang lagi, ditahan selepas mereka - sebahagian besarnya berpakaian kuning - cuba mendekati Najib untuk menyerah memorandum tuntutan pembaharuan pilihan raya BERSIH 2.0. "Dalam tempoh 24 jam penangkapan saya, saya telah teruk diserang dalam Twitter, Facebook dan blog pro-Umno yang mendakwa saya ditahan kerana cuba mensabotaj program pengagihan Jalur Gemilang," katanya. Malah, katanya, ada juga mengatakan beliau merancang untuk mencedera atau membunuh perdana menteri kerana beliau adalah pengasas NGO Pertubuhan Revolusi Anak Muda Malaysia. "Dear PM, nama saya Fareez. Dan saya bukan seorang pengganas," katanya merujuk kepada sebuah filem popular Hindi di mana seorang lelaki bertemu presiden Amerika Syarikat untuk menunjukkan bahawa tidak semua umat Islam adalah pengganas. [Baca berita penuh] Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

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GSTT ancaman atau keperluan? Posted: 27 Jul 2011 12:23 AM PDT Guru Sandaran Tidak Terlatih (GSTT) merupakan individu yang berminat jadi guru namun tidak mempunyai sjil, diploma atau ijazah dalam bidang perguruan. Kebiasaannya mereka akan menjadi guru ganti bagi memenuhi kekekurangan guru di sekolah. Merekta tertakluk bawah kontrak tertentu dan boleh ditamatkan bila-bila masa sahaja. Perkembangan semasa menyaksikan Timbalan Menteri Pelajaran Datuk Dr Puad Zakashi mengeluarkan kenyataan berhubung penyerapan 13,000 GSTT kepada guru berjawatan. Dilaporkan surat penawaran jawatan telah mula diedarkan kepada GSTT yang sedia ada dari bulan lepas lagi. Tindakan ini dilihat terlalu tergesa-gesa selepas rungutan GSTT tidak mendapat sambungan kontrak. Apabila kenyataan ini dikeluarkan, ia memberi keuntungan kepada GSTT. Tahniah saya ucapkan. Tetapi bagaimana dengan nasib bakal-bakal guru terlatih atau digelar sebagai Guru Sandaran Terlatih (GST) yang menamatkan pengajian pada Disember 2010 dan Mei 2011. Apakah penempatan mereka akan diumumkan dalam masa yang terdekat? Penulis menanti dengan penuh harapan, dari Disember 2010 sehingga penghujung Julai 2011. Hanya satu penempatan sahaja diumumkan pada bulan Jun untuk mereka yang mengisi borang pada bulan Januari 2011. Penulis yang baru menamatkan pengajian pada bulan Disember 2011 tidak layak mengisi borang akibat kelewatan surat tamat pengajian dikeluarkan. Sehingga kini, sudah tujuh bulan berlalu. Penantian untuk mendapat penempatan amat memeritkan. Jika hanya penulis seorang sahaja tidak mendapat penempatan, itu tidak mengapa. Namun bagaimana dengan nasib graduan-graduan pendidikan daripada pelbagai universiti awam dan institut pengajian tinggi awam swasta (IPTS) yang menawarkan kursus sama jika tiada penempatan diumumkan dalam masa yang terdekat. Sepanjang tempoh penungguan, jawapan yang diterima berbunyi: "Kami tidak dapat memberi tarikh tepat tentang bila borang penempatan akan dikeluarkan dan selalulah semak di laman web KPM (Kementerian Pelajaran Malaysia)." Selalunya juga tiada orang yang menjawab panggilan telefon sekiranya kami menghubungi talian KPM. Memang benar ada yang menyatakan, carilah kerja lain dulu. Tapi satu persepsi berkumandang di telinga penulis apabila pergi temuduga, susah bagi majikan sektor swasta mengambil graduan jurusan pendidikan atas anggapan kumpulan ini tidak akan lama berkhidmat. Kami bakal warga pendidik tiada hasrat untuk menyalahkan pihak KPM mahupun pihak menteri yang berkenaan. Cuma kami berharap jika warga GSTT mendapat pembelaan sewajarnya, kami graduan pendidikan terlatih wajar mendapat penempatan dan keadilan. Janganlah jadi seperti "kera di hutan disusukan, anak di rumah menangis kelaparan". Abdul Rahman Usman merupakan Graduan Fakulti Pendikan, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

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Dr M deserves prize for bringing accord with MCP Posted: 27 Jul 2011 01:54 AM PDT It is a welcome historic announcement that the celebration for the anniversary of Merdeka/Malaysia will be held on the same date as that of the formation of Malaysia. I believe it to be in the national interest that a "token" award of a peace prize, should be awarded to Tun Dr Mahathir as well as the author of the book; 'The Finest Hour: Malaysian Government -MCP Peace Accord in Perspective', to commemorate the peace accord between the Malaysian Government and the Malayan Communist Party. Indeed, it is most surprising that an award was not given when the agreement itself was signed. As a result, Malaysia stands among one of very few countries in the world where political independence was declared without peace in the country. The accord itself has spectacular significance, coming as it did thirty-two years after political independence, and after Malaysia entered the book of records as one of the very few countries in the world where peace became a reality only much later after political independence from the British. This was the splendid achievement of Dr Mahathir, the then prime minister, in attaining peace so that the Malaysian people, particularly through the politically neutral business and corporate sectors, could embark on the development of a nation-wide nation-building political economy. The book is being translated to Chinese and Malaysians should now recognise this milestone by offering the Peace Prize to Tun Dr Mahathir for single-handedly orchestrating the entire peace process, as well as to the author for the publication of the book. The tremendous and continuing post-Emergency contribution of the corporate sector towards nation-building would not have been possible without the declaration of peace whereby vital financial resources of government were re- channeled for the development of the political economy. There is no question therefore that the book provides focused coverage of 'the Finest Hour' as that which overcame the need for mere technical explanations, in demolishing the notion of local 'Cina Komunis' attempts, to overthrow the government by revolution. Indeed the book which in his foreword Dr Mahathir called "bold and extraordinary" with 'stunning observations', brings into sharper focus the much neglected nationalist contribution of the local Chinese community in the struggle for political independence and for peace. For the first time ever the work, as identified by Blackwell's Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, acknowledges that the Chinese community, labeled as Communists by the colonial power, did in fact take the lead in organising and orchestrating popular resistance among all other local groups against British rule that ultimately led to political independence and peace. Therefore it is now opportune that the corporate sector should sponsor the lead, especially on behalf of the Chinese business community comprising grassroots manufacturing enterprises and industries, and the larger enterprises in the corporate sector, in offering this token award. Indeed, such recognition was also called for by other groups notably by trade's union organisations one of which went so far as to suggest that a suitable "monument" be built to entrench Dr Marathir's unprecedented achievement in bringing peace to Malaysia. The Ministries for Heritage and communication should co-ordinate these efforts as a matter of urgency. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

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Makna dan tanda 9 Julai Posted: 27 Jul 2011 12:54 AM PDT Dalam pensejarahan, setiap negara bangsa akan wujud satu tarikh untuk diingati dan dikongsi bersama. Warga Palestin mengingati Nakba atau malapetaka pada 15 Mei setiap tahun. Pada tarikh ini Israel diwujudkan. Pada tarikh ini juga tanah warga Palestin mula di rampas oleh kaum Zionis. Semenanjung Tanah Melayu menyambut hari 'malapetaka' pada 31 Ogos setiap tahun. Malapetaka menimpa Tanah Melayu di tarikh ini apabila British mengagihkan kuasa pentabiran tanah Melayu kepada United Malay National Organisation. Malapetaka ini sedang sama-sama kita rasakan. Tetapi apa sangkut pautnya malapetaka ini dengan tarikh 9 Julai? Bukankah pada 9 Julai yang lepas hanyalah hari perhimpunan BERSIH? Untuk memahami 9 Julai ini saya akan bawa kembali kepada surah sejarah agar para pembaca yang budiman akan dapat memahami makna dan tanda tarikh dan haribulan ini. Saya bawa kembali para pembaca ke zaman Julius Ceaser dan kerajaan Rom. Di Utara Itali ada sebatang sungai bernama Rubicon yang airnya berlumpur merah. Sungai ini telah dijadikan garis sempadan. Kerajaan Rom telah membuat undang-undang bahawa tidak ada sesiapa pun boleh melintasi sungai Rubicon dengan membawa bala tentera. Pada tahun 49 sebelum Masehi, Julius Ceaser telah melintasi sungai Rubicon dengan membawa satu ketumbukan bala tentera menuju ke arah kota Rom. Menyeberangi Sungai Rubicon memberi makna bahawa tidak ada lagi jalan pulang melainkan mengambil kota Rom. Tetapi 9 Julai kita lebih dari ini. Kini biar saya bawa pula ke zaman sesudah Perang Dunia Pertama. Pada tahun-tahun 30-an kerajaan Perancis telah mendirikan tembok-tembok pertahanan di sempadan Perancis/Jerman. Tembok dan kubu-kubu pertahanan ini di panggil Garis Maginot - diambil daripada nama menteri pertahanan Perancis sebelum Perang Dunia Kedua. Garis ini cukup kukuh dengan kubu-kubu batu, tembok yang lengkap dipersenjatai dan pengkalan askar yang strategik diatur sepanjang Garis Maginot. Apabila Perang Dunia Kedua pecah, Hitler mula menyerang Perancis. Kubu-kubu di Garis Maginot yang pada awalnya kelihatan kukuh dan mustahil untuk soldadu German menorobus masuk ke Perancis. Tetapi pada 10 Mei 1940, Garis Maginot ini ditembusi oleh soldadu Hitler. Pada 14 Jun 1940 Perancis jatuh ke tangan Nazi. Tetapi 9 Julai kita lebih dari ini. Biar saya bawa pula para pembaca yang budiman ke tahun 711 di zaman kegemilangan tamadun Arab. Pada 29 April 711, Tariq ibni Ziyad, panglima perang dari Moroko telah berjaya menyeberang Laut Tengah dan memasuki Semenanjung Ibera. Sesampainya di pantai Selatan Laut Tengah, Tariq telah membakar semua kapal yang membawa bala tenteranya. Tariq ibni Ziyad telah menerangkan pada bala tenteranya bahawa di hadapan mereka terbentang luas negara Sepanyol yang subur dan menjanjikan untuk diambil. Di belakang mereka ialah Moroko. Tetapi mereka tidak memiliki pilihan kerana semua kapal untuk pulang telah dibakar. Hanya satu pilihan - iaitu terus mara dan menawan Sepanyol. Tetapi 9 Julai lebih dari ini. Sekarang mari kita sama-sama melihat kembali pensejarahan 9 Julai. Apabila BERSIH mengumumkan 9 Julai sebagai hari perhimpunan dengan lapan tuntutan, saya rasa tidak bagitu ramai yang ambil pot. Lawak menjadi seram Ada komen yang mengatakan kempen BERSIH 2007 dahulu lebih baik kerana masa berkempen agak panjang. Kali ini masanya singkat. Pasti tidak ada sokongan. Ada yang mengatakan bahawa Rosmah dan Najib ini amat popular dan susah untuk digelincirkan. Ada pula yang memberi komen bahawa tunjuk perasaan ini bukan budaya kita. Semua hujah-hujah ini menjadi hampeh apabila Mat Sabu dipilih menjadi timbalan presiden PAS. Semua suasana politik berubah. Perubahan mendadak berlaku apabila Mat Sabu membuat kenyataan terbuka bahawa sebagai timbalan presiden PAS, dia akan memastikan 300,000 ahli parti PAS turun ke jalan raya pada 9 Julai. Kenyataan Mat Sabu ini terus menaikkan kemarahan Rosmah Mansor sebanyak tiga kilo. Biar saya terangkan sejelas mungkin di sini. Semua daulah yang zalim, untuk meneruskan kuasa, akan menakut-nakutkan warganya. Ini adalah teknik dan strategi yang digunapakai oleh semua pemerintah. Raja, emperor, ratu, presiden atau perdana menteri, semua menggunakan 'takut' sebagai alat. Warganegara yang takut akan menjadi bodoh. Warga yang bodoh tidak berani bersuara. Warga yang takut dan bodoh amat senang untuk ditambat dan dijadikan kuli batak. Apa yang telah dilakukan oleh Rosmah dan Najib ialah mengarahkan sepupunya Hishammuddin Hussein untuk menakut-nakutkan rakyat. Yang menjadi orang suruhan untuk menakut-nakutkan orang ramai ini ialah timbalan ketua polis. Lihat bagaimana pada satu ketika warna kuning untuk kasut, payung dan baju telah diisytihar sebagai warna haram untuk dipakai. Ini contoh terbaik gerak kerja orang suruhan. Tidak cukup dengan tangkapan polis, rakyat juga cuba ditakut-takutkan dengan kehadiran para pesilat yang memiliki ilmu kebal dan ilmu ghaib. Untuk terus menakut-nakutkan orang ramai, tiba-tiba kita melihat kemunculan berita di mana polis dan tentera telah mengadakan latihan bersama. Tidak cukup dengan berita ini ada sepanduk yang tertera dengan tulisan besar dalam empat bahasa termasuk tulisan Jawi: Jika Tidak Berundur Kami Akan Tembak. Taktik untuk menakutkan orang ramai ini dinaikkan lagi suhunya dengan kemunculan Perkasa dengan juruhebohnya Ibrahim Ali. Setiap hari tanpa henti-henti Ibrahim Ali telah berleter dan berheboh dengan segala macam berita yang bertujuan untuk mengancam dan menakut-nakutkan orang ramai dari turun ke jalan raya. Dalam masa yang sama saban hari media milik United Malay National Organisation telah mengeluarkan dua bentuk berita. Satu berita-berita yang berniat untuk mengancam warga agar jangan berani turun ke jalan raya. Satu lagi berita untuk memburuk-burukan dan memperlekeh BERSIH. Tidak cukup dengan semua ini , enam ahli Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) telah ditahan. Kali ini dengan menggunakan Ordinan Darurat. Entah macam mana putar dan belit, Rosmah, Najib and sepupunya telah memintal lidah untuk menipu orang ramai. Sepupu Najib telah berkata bahawa enam anggota PSM ini ingin melawan Agong. Ya ampun, lawak ini menjadi seram apabila kita diberitahu bahawa hanya Dr Jeya seorang sahaja yang tahu di mana rumah Agong dan pernah melihat muka Agong! Ini kerana Dr Jeya seorang ahli parlimen dan Agong telah beberapa kali datang ke parlimen. Yang lima lagi ini, saya difahamlan hanyalah aktivis PSM yang rata-rata tidak tahu sangat tentang jalan-jalan di Kuala Lumpur. Malah mereka berlima ini mungkin tidak dapat membezakan muka Agong. Jauh sekali nak melawan Agong. Di belakang semua huha huha ini ada pula perang saraf yang disebarkan oleh 'desas bin desus'. Ada cerita tetang tangkapan ISA, tentang askar akan ambil alih negara dan kisah penangkapan beramai-ramai ala Operasi Lalang. Cerita penglipur lara dari Desas bin Desus ini sebenarnya adalah sebahagian dari pernah saraf yang tersusun untuk menakut-nakutkan orang ramai. Rentasi Garis Maginot, bakar kapal perpaduan Untuk saya bukan 6,000, bukan 60,000 atau bukan 600,000 warga yang turun ke jalan pada 9 Julai untuk dijadikan ukuran. Untuk saya angka ini bukan persoalan. Kalau pun hanya enam orang yang turun pada 9 Julai yang lalu, saya anggap ini adalah satu kemenangan. Kenapa saya berkata sedemikian? Mungkin ramai yang tidak sedar. Mungkin ramai yang belum faham lagi. Apa yang terjadi pada 9 Julai dahulu ialah kita warganegara Malaysia telah melintasi 'Garis Takut'. Garis Takut ini adalah sebahagian dari garis psokologi yang telah dipasang apabila malapetaka 31 Ogos dihempapkan kepada kita semua. Garis Takut adalah Garis Maginot, garis pertahanan untuk United Malay National Organisation untuk menyebarkan falsafah ketuanan Melayunya. Pada 9 Julai yang lalu Garis Takut ini telah sama-sama kita lintasi. Dari kajian awal BERSIH, hampir 120,000 warga telah turun dan terlibat di jalan raya pada 9 Julai yang lalu. Kesemua mereka telah melintasi Garis Takut. Garis Takut ini juga telah memecahkan mitos Mei 13 dan pergaduhan kaum. Babak Mei 13 ini telah menghantui kita selama berpuluh tahun. Pada 9 Julai yang lalu hantu dan mitos 13 Mei hancur berderai-derai. Anak anak muda yang turun ke jalan raya pada 9 Julai yang lalu telah menangkap hantu 13 Mei ini dan memasukkan ke dalam botol untuk dibuang ke Laut Kalzom. Pada 9 Julai yang lalu terbukti anak-anak muda - anak semua bangsa - tidak ambil pot langsung terhadap Pekasa, polis, tentera atau ISA. Inilah bukti sahih yang mereka telah melintasi Garis Takut. Anak-anak muda di jalan raya telah masuk ke satu dunia yang baru. Melintasi Garis Takut ini bermakna kita semua - para penyokong Bersih - telah juga menyeberang menyeberang Sungai Rubicon. Seperti Julius Ceaser kita juga tidak ada pilihan melainkan mara mendobrak kezaliman dan ketidakadilan. Pasti ada yang akan menyoal, kapal mana yang telah kita bakar pada 9 Julai yang lalu? Senyum dan senyumlah. Kapal yang telah kita bakar pada 9 Julai ialah 'Kapal Kerajaan Perpaduan'. Seperti Tariq ibni Ziyad, pada 9 Julai dahulu segala mimpi, segala angan-angan untuk mengundur pulang ke Tangier telah musnah. Segala mimpi, segala angan-angan untuk PAS dan United Malay National Organisation menubuhkan kerajaan perpaduan telah terbakar di Lebuh Pudu, di Jalan Petaling dan di Menara Maybank. Tembakan gas pemedih mata di terowong stesen bas KL Sentral adalah mancis api yang membakar kerajaan perpaduan. Apabila Hadi Awang ditangkap dan Mat Sabu dilanggar kereta polis ini adalah keruntuhan tiang layar kapal kerajaan Perpaduan. Kita telah menyeberang Sungai Rubicon, kita telah melintasi Garis Maginot dan kita telah membakar kapal perpaduan. Kini kita sedang berada dalam dunia yang baru. Kita berada dalam wilayah yang memungkinkan kita menamatkan malapetaka yang menghempap kita semenjak 31 Ogos 1957 dahulu. Di belakang kita ialah takut, di hadapan kita ialah Putrajaya yang subur dan menjanjikan untuk diambil. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

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