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Friday July 1, 2011

PR ‘rallying’ for lost support

ANALYSIS
By BARADAN KUPPUSAMY

The July 9 rally is an attempt by PKR leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to shore up its public support ahead of the next general election and in the wake of recent by-election losses and negative publicity.

The July 9 Bersih 2.0 rally is really a Pakatan Rakyat effort to win back the political momentum it once enjoyed after the March 2008 tsunami but has since lost to Barisan Nasional in a series of by-elections – except Sibu.

Even the Sibu by-election was won by the DAP with a slim 300-vote majority.

Although the party went on to win 15 urban seats in the Sarawak state election, the state Barisan Nasional managed to win a two-thirds majority, clinching most of the rural seats and losing only the urban seats to the DAP.

To recapture the political momentum is the unstated goal of the Bersih 2.0 rally going into the 13th general election, which is near, going by the latest hint dropped by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak at a closed door meeting of the Sabah Barisan Nasional on Wednesday.

PKR leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, the man behind it, senses that a major public rally, which would galvanise the public mood, shake the Barisan Nasional and prepare Pakatan Rakyat for seizing Putrajaya, is the best chance of getting the political momentum back.

In tandem with that goal, Bersih 2.0 has lost its public face as an independent NGO and increasingly showing its Pakatan Rakyat face, even as police step up their action to stop the rally, which they have termed illegal and a nuisance.

The political momentum enjoyed by Pakatan Rakyat moved back to Barisan Nasional with victories in the Kerdau, Batu Sapi, Tenang and Merlimau by-elections, which were won by Barisan with large majorities, indicating that Malay and Indian voters have returned to the coalition.

Syed Ibrahim Syed Ahmad won the Kerdau seat in Pahang with a majority of 2,724 votes while Roslan Ahmad won the Merlimau seat with a majority of 3,643.

In the Tenang by-election on Jan 30, Barisan Nasional also won by a 3,700 vote majority whereas in Batu Sapi, the majority was massive with over 6,000 votes.

Pakatan Rakyat initially had a dream run that left it victorious in eight of the first 11 by-elections held, results which were seen as a sign that it had cemented its support among voters.

However, Barisan Nasional then won two by-elections last Novem­ber, one in January this year and two more later, in a major boost for its morale ahead of an early general election.Read more.

Simple Questions For Ambiga And Pakatan Leaders

Hantu Laut

I would like to ask Ambiga, Pakatan's leaders and the ilk very simple questions:

1.How in hell PAS can ruled Kelantan continuously for over 20 years?



2.How PBS who was in the opposition then won the Sabah state elections 1985 and 1990 ?



3.How Pakatan Rakyat won in 5 states and took over 80 parliamentary seats in March 2008?

4.How Pakatan won in 8 out of 16 by-elections?

How do you expect Malaysians to believe you that there is no free and fair elections in Malaysia.

Grateful if you could answer the above questions.

Lest your forget, read the famous Lincoln's statement below about people like you.

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time." - Abraham Lincoln

Say NO! to Bersih




IT'S A PAKATAN'S SCAM!

Is BERSIH Instigating Mob Rule ?

Hantu Laut

I have deep antipathy for street's demonstration for whatever the cause may be.We can take and copy many good things from the West but simply aping some of the negative elements that could throw the nation into chaos to fulfill one man's agenda is totally irresponsible.

Who would believe there is no free and fair elections in Malaysia?

It makes one wonder how an educated person like Ambiga Sreenevasan had the cheek to fool the people that there is no free and fair elections in this country.Can she explain how the oppositions managed to capture 5 state governments and 83 parliamentary seats in March 2008 if truly the general elections were rigged.If so, why was the BN so stupid by not giving themselves at least the two-thirds majority if they can manipulate the election results as accused by the oppositions.

It is obvious Ambiga is doing Pakatan's dirty politics.She hasn't got the clout nor the potency to attract people to her cause without the strong backing of Pakatan.



Will the massive street protests bring about the desired change and a cleaner electoral system or rather create havoc and chaos to the country peace and harmony and a strong possibility of mob rule. The Arab experience has shown how combustible massive assembly of people could be, that could turn violent, destruction to human lives and properties and eventual mob rule.

Without any doubt, there were corruptions and abuses of power but this government is not as evil as painted by the oppositions.It is still a legitimate government elected by the people.

The BERSIH walk for free and fair elections is a charade and an excuse to go saberattling the BN cage and to show the people the undemocratic action of the government to deny the people the right to peaceful assembly.

The ultimate goal of BERSIH is not free and fair elections. The ultimate goal is the saving of Anwar Ibrahim. They expected the announcement of the foreign experts report of the sex tape to be made during the court case of the Datuk Trio with conclusive evidence that it was Anwar in the tape.

Why wasn't the BERSIH's walk executed before the announcement? Because they want to inflict maximum collateral damage on Najib's government.

The government foolishly fell into the trap.The pre-empative arrests of BERSIH organisers and followers, allegations of communist elements and the banning of BERSIH's T-shirts have done the damage and the job to placard it as an evil government without them even going to the streets.

The Home Minister Hishammudin Onn has risen to the highest level of incompetency by his heavy-handedness in dealing with the situation. You can't arrest people before a crime is committed.The Home Minister and the Police should know this better than anyone else.

I am against street demonstrations but in the same manner I do not tolerate police action of arresting people before they have done anything against the law.

Here, reported in Rocky's Bro a person wrote on twitter:

@5xmom: I think all Christians shud march for all the persecution they had done to us and our Lord.

Either he is suffering from persecution complex or intentionally wanting to cause trouble.The Allah controversy can't in any sense of the word be construed as persecution of Christians.Persecution is hostility and ill-treatment that may include the banning of the religion.No one in this country have been persecuted because of their religion.

As a matter of fact most religious persecutions were under the Islamic flag, those considered deviants.Strange as it may be, Shia, the second largest denomination of mainstream Islam is also banned in this country.

How can the Christians be persecuted when there are more churches in this country than mosques.

Come to Sabah and see for yourself that there are more churches than mosques here.We see it as our legacy.

I was in church last week for the funeral service of a close friend and even saw a lady with a todong attending the service.

Why can't you West Malaysians be more tolerant and behave the same way.

I know the danger of a huge rally but the government should be prepared to take the risk and act constitutionally and according to the law against the protesters.

I hope the people in BERSIH would come to their senses stop the clarion calls for people to go on the streets to serve the opposition's agenda

Open Water, Divers Beware

SYDNEY (AP) — Australian safety officials said Wednesday that they were investigating a dive boat company that accidentally left a U.S. tourist behind while he was snorkeling on the Great Barrier Reef, forcing the panicked man to swim to another boat for help.

A spokesman for the company denied Ian Cole was ever in danger. But the incident drew immediate comparisons to the infamous case of Americans Tom and Eileen Lonergan, who died in 1998 after their tour boat left while they were scuba diving on the reef. Officials believe they drowned or were eaten by sharks.

Cole, 28, of Michigan, said he was snorkeling on Saturday when he lifted his head out of the water and realized his tour boat, the Passions of Paradise, was nowhere in sight.

"The adrenalin hit in and I had a moment of panic, which was the worst thing I could have done at that point," Cole told The Cairns Post. "I was able to calm myself just a little bit because there was another boat still out there and I made my way to that vessel. Lucky it was there because otherwise I may have drowned. I did not handle the situation well and I was tired."

A spokeswoman for the Queensland state government work safety agency, Workplace Health and Safety Queensland, confirmed on Wednesday that the department was investigating the incident, but declined to comment further.

Passions of Paradise referred calls to Association of Marine Park Tourism Operators executive officer Col McKenzie, who did not immediately return messages from The Associated Press. But he told the Post that Cole was never in danger of drowning, since other boats were nearby.

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