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Monday, May 10, 2010
Women's Bitching Gives Home Minister A Headache.
HANTU LAUT
Most victims are women. What do women do? They go to the hairdressers ... they chit-chat and suddenly it is everywhere and cause people to fear,” Hishammuddin said.
The remark is not an insult to women it is an insult to Najib for appointing this kind of brain to his cabinet.This man has not, as far back as I can remember, since he was made a minister made any intelligible statement.He is what the Indonesian would say good at "homong-homong kosong".
People would accept if his brevity is the soul of wit.Unfortunately, he is not.There is nothing funny in what he says it is just a big void in his skull that incapacitated his judgement.No minister in his right mind would dare make such outrageously irrelevant statement.
As most women are victims of crime so he concluded that women's chit-chat are the cause of the rise in criminal activities and not because psychologically criminals tend to prey on the weaker sex, making them easy picking.
Was his remark the result of police survey given to him as Home minister that the rise in crime is attributed to women's relentless gossips and not due to police dismal performance or was it his own knee jerk reaction?
Such impertinence is an insult to the intelligentsia.No one holding public office should have the balls to resort to such rudimentary reasoning, let alone making it public.Even the Bocor MP's grabby angle sounds better than his skewed postulation.
If anyone were to be offended it would be the Prime Minister not the women in this country.
To downplay street crime to women’s idle chatter is infuriating and demeaning. Perhaps the minister needs to take a bus, walk to the shops and cross a street to understand how frightening it has become. For the record, most of us women cannot afford to go to the hairdresser,” said Women’s Aid Organisation’s executive director, Ivy Josiah.
You are too kind,Ivy.
I say, take a hike, Hishammudin.
Most victims are women. What do women do? They go to the hairdressers ... they chit-chat and suddenly it is everywhere and cause people to fear,” Hishammuddin said.
The remark is not an insult to women it is an insult to Najib for appointing this kind of brain to his cabinet.This man has not, as far back as I can remember, since he was made a minister made any intelligible statement.He is what the Indonesian would say good at "homong-homong kosong".
People would accept if his brevity is the soul of wit.Unfortunately, he is not.There is nothing funny in what he says it is just a big void in his skull that incapacitated his judgement.No minister in his right mind would dare make such outrageously irrelevant statement.
As most women are victims of crime so he concluded that women's chit-chat are the cause of the rise in criminal activities and not because psychologically criminals tend to prey on the weaker sex, making them easy picking.
Was his remark the result of police survey given to him as Home minister that the rise in crime is attributed to women's relentless gossips and not due to police dismal performance or was it his own knee jerk reaction?
Such impertinence is an insult to the intelligentsia.No one holding public office should have the balls to resort to such rudimentary reasoning, let alone making it public.Even the Bocor MP's grabby angle sounds better than his skewed postulation.
If anyone were to be offended it would be the Prime Minister not the women in this country.
To downplay street crime to women’s idle chatter is infuriating and demeaning. Perhaps the minister needs to take a bus, walk to the shops and cross a street to understand how frightening it has become. For the record, most of us women cannot afford to go to the hairdresser,” said Women’s Aid Organisation’s executive director, Ivy Josiah.
You are too kind,Ivy.
I say, take a hike, Hishammudin.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Are We A Police State ?
Hantu Laut
People who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat the same mistakes.
Let us go back to the year 1940, when Hitler's armies were driving the French and British forces back across France, and Britain faced imminent invasion.The British people heard the words of Winston Churchill:
"I have nothing to offer but blood,toil,tears and sweat"
Only a great leader would have dared to make such a promise - and the British people suddenly knew they had such a leader.
When Churchill turned to America for help he didn't spend hours to persuade Roosevelt, all he said was:
"Give us the tools, and we will finish the job"
He got the tools and finished Hitler off.
One would have thought after the bad outing at the recent polls the government of Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi would bring some meaningful changes to its administration for the benefits of the people.Many promises were made but none have been implemented. There seems to be certain forces in his government who were against reforms.They still wish to continue their old feudalistic and unrealistic way.
A government that believes in strong-arm tactic to protect themselves from public scrutiny would eventually self-destruct. History is kind to those who learned from it and damned to those who don't.
The sheer arrogance of those in power are shown by the recent police harassment of the infamous( through the government eyes) blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin on an article he wrote which the government deemed to be seditious.
What is sedition ? The Oxford Dictionary says "the use of words or actions that are intended to encourage people to oppose a government". The Webster Dictionary says "incitement of resistance to or of insurrection against lawful authority".Both gave the same meaning and we will examine whether the article is seditious.
Although I don't quite agree with some of Raja Petra's composition, I couldn't find any word, sentence or phrase in his article " Let’s send the Altantuya murderers to hell" inciting the people to go against the government. It was more directed at a few individuals associated with the murderers of the Mongolian model and the way investigation was conducted and the snail pace of the court case. If the article had offended or defamed anyone the rightful thing to do is to take civil action against Raja Petra and bring him to a court of law.Using the police to harass and intimidate him is most improper and makes Malaysia looks like a totalitarian nation and a police state.
It would be interesting to know which part of the article the police found to be seditious and whether such writing can bring down the government.
The police not being able to produce a police report they purported to have is inexcusable.It is within a person rights to know the allegations made against him by someone in a police report before he gives his statement, if he voluntarily wanted to. Why would a policeman and not the aggrieved party makes a police report against Raja Petra ?
The recent police action against a well-known blogger goes to show the government talk of reforms and freedom of expression are nothing more than lip service.We are back to square one and the old-fashioned way to settle a score.
Another very disquieting and absolutely ridiculous news is the proposal by Foreign Minister RaisYatim for local women to get consent from parents or family members before they can travel alone overseas.It says out of 119 cases of Malaysian women hauled up before foreign courts, 90% were linked to drug. I would say out of the 119 women 90% knew what they are doing, only 10% are gullible, stupid and innocent. Are you going to inconvenient millions of women in this country because of 119 women whoring themselves to drug traffickers.
Honorable Minister, put on your thinking cap and think again whether your proposal makes any sense.
I know one thing for sure come next elections you would have lost most of the women's votes.
What happened on 8th of March 2008 was only the beginning. If you don't get your act together now and repair the damaged bilge pump on your ship, it may not make the journey to the next polls.
Related article:
People who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat the same mistakes.
Let us go back to the year 1940, when Hitler's armies were driving the French and British forces back across France, and Britain faced imminent invasion.The British people heard the words of Winston Churchill:
"I have nothing to offer but blood,toil,tears and sweat"
Only a great leader would have dared to make such a promise - and the British people suddenly knew they had such a leader.
When Churchill turned to America for help he didn't spend hours to persuade Roosevelt, all he said was:
"Give us the tools, and we will finish the job"
He got the tools and finished Hitler off.
One would have thought after the bad outing at the recent polls the government of Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi would bring some meaningful changes to its administration for the benefits of the people.Many promises were made but none have been implemented. There seems to be certain forces in his government who were against reforms.They still wish to continue their old feudalistic and unrealistic way.
A government that believes in strong-arm tactic to protect themselves from public scrutiny would eventually self-destruct. History is kind to those who learned from it and damned to those who don't.
The sheer arrogance of those in power are shown by the recent police harassment of the infamous( through the government eyes) blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin on an article he wrote which the government deemed to be seditious.
What is sedition ? The Oxford Dictionary says "the use of words or actions that are intended to encourage people to oppose a government". The Webster Dictionary says "incitement of resistance to or of insurrection against lawful authority".Both gave the same meaning and we will examine whether the article is seditious.
Although I don't quite agree with some of Raja Petra's composition, I couldn't find any word, sentence or phrase in his article " Let’s send the Altantuya murderers to hell" inciting the people to go against the government. It was more directed at a few individuals associated with the murderers of the Mongolian model and the way investigation was conducted and the snail pace of the court case. If the article had offended or defamed anyone the rightful thing to do is to take civil action against Raja Petra and bring him to a court of law.Using the police to harass and intimidate him is most improper and makes Malaysia looks like a totalitarian nation and a police state.
It would be interesting to know which part of the article the police found to be seditious and whether such writing can bring down the government.
The police not being able to produce a police report they purported to have is inexcusable.It is within a person rights to know the allegations made against him by someone in a police report before he gives his statement, if he voluntarily wanted to. Why would a policeman and not the aggrieved party makes a police report against Raja Petra ?
The recent police action against a well-known blogger goes to show the government talk of reforms and freedom of expression are nothing more than lip service.We are back to square one and the old-fashioned way to settle a score.
Another very disquieting and absolutely ridiculous news is the proposal by Foreign Minister RaisYatim for local women to get consent from parents or family members before they can travel alone overseas.It says out of 119 cases of Malaysian women hauled up before foreign courts, 90% were linked to drug. I would say out of the 119 women 90% knew what they are doing, only 10% are gullible, stupid and innocent. Are you going to inconvenient millions of women in this country because of 119 women whoring themselves to drug traffickers.
Honorable Minister, put on your thinking cap and think again whether your proposal makes any sense.
I know one thing for sure come next elections you would have lost most of the women's votes.
What happened on 8th of March 2008 was only the beginning. If you don't get your act together now and repair the damaged bilge pump on your ship, it may not make the journey to the next polls.
Related article:
Women's groups express outrage
Thursday, February 28, 2008
A MAN FOR EVERY FAT,OLD AND UGLY LADY
Hantu Laut
Is Malaysia short of writers who can present uncomplicated and condensed manifestos that the man in the street can enjoy reading and understand.
Have any of you read the BN Manifesto? If you have, and you have read the full text to the minute details, than you are a rare specie and ought to have your head examined. A voracious reader would have eaten the whole piece of paper it was written on and try to digest it through the stomach rather than the brain. All I can say it was most uninspiring and makes dismal reading.
If it comes from the 4th floor, the den of the Oxbridge nerds, than I would rather send my children to Nanyang in Singapore or Beijing University in China where academic excellence not only prevailed on the scroll but are translated into reality.
Somebody should come up with an abridged version for less intellectually challenged mortals.
To be honest, I have no desire to read the 'Excellence, glory, distinction' and the 'not so honest to God' manifesto. Aren't excellence and distinction the same (in the form it is used in the manifesto) and carry the same meaning. A 'work of distinction' could also be called 'an excellent work'. Maybe, the 4th floor geeks should have consulted the Oxford lexicon before they decide to use it as the buzz words.
Almost all the major political parties have come up with strange sounding manifesto.
PKR, in sheer desperation for supports has promised a minimum wage of RM1500 per month. The ex-Minister of Finance (de facto leader of PKR), Anwar Ibrahim has lost touch with the economic viability of such promises. Many SMIs and small businesses with high labour content would be in serious trouble if such high minimum wage were to be imposed. A figure of RM800/Rm1000 would make the proposal more feasible, economically viable and without having to kill the goose that lay the golden eggs.
Anwar may have forgotten that the biggest chunk of employees in that income bracket would be immigrant workers and most of the money would be repatriated to the home countries, unless he has no intention to include them in the scheme.
Anyway, since PKR is not going to form the next government why bother making true promises.
The strangest of the strange is PAS manifesto. Completely out of this world and very very Islamic.
PAS promised to deliver a man to every fat, ugly and old women. Women who are afflicted with a combination of all those handicaps or any one of those handicaps and those who found it hard to find a mate would get matchmaking assistance.
Unless she is Han Andersen's ugly duckling, I wonder what kind of a man would want a fat, old and ugly woman.
The following report by AFP appeared on Tuesday, 26th Feb:
Well, many old ladies in this country will soon be happy to find their mating mates courtesy of PAS.
Is Malaysia short of writers who can present uncomplicated and condensed manifestos that the man in the street can enjoy reading and understand.
Have any of you read the BN Manifesto? If you have, and you have read the full text to the minute details, than you are a rare specie and ought to have your head examined. A voracious reader would have eaten the whole piece of paper it was written on and try to digest it through the stomach rather than the brain. All I can say it was most uninspiring and makes dismal reading.
If it comes from the 4th floor, the den of the Oxbridge nerds, than I would rather send my children to Nanyang in Singapore or Beijing University in China where academic excellence not only prevailed on the scroll but are translated into reality.
Somebody should come up with an abridged version for less intellectually challenged mortals.
To be honest, I have no desire to read the 'Excellence, glory, distinction' and the 'not so honest to God' manifesto. Aren't excellence and distinction the same (in the form it is used in the manifesto) and carry the same meaning. A 'work of distinction' could also be called 'an excellent work'. Maybe, the 4th floor geeks should have consulted the Oxford lexicon before they decide to use it as the buzz words.
Almost all the major political parties have come up with strange sounding manifesto.
PKR, in sheer desperation for supports has promised a minimum wage of RM1500 per month. The ex-Minister of Finance (de facto leader of PKR), Anwar Ibrahim has lost touch with the economic viability of such promises. Many SMIs and small businesses with high labour content would be in serious trouble if such high minimum wage were to be imposed. A figure of RM800/Rm1000 would make the proposal more feasible, economically viable and without having to kill the goose that lay the golden eggs.
Anwar may have forgotten that the biggest chunk of employees in that income bracket would be immigrant workers and most of the money would be repatriated to the home countries, unless he has no intention to include them in the scheme.
Anyway, since PKR is not going to form the next government why bother making true promises.
The strangest of the strange is PAS manifesto. Completely out of this world and very very Islamic.
PAS promised to deliver a man to every fat, ugly and old women. Women who are afflicted with a combination of all those handicaps or any one of those handicaps and those who found it hard to find a mate would get matchmaking assistance.
Unless she is Han Andersen's ugly duckling, I wonder what kind of a man would want a fat, old and ugly woman.
The following report by AFP appeared on Tuesday, 26th Feb:
Match-making manifesto woos Malaysian voters
AFP - Tuesday, February 26KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 26, 2008 (AFP) - Malaysia's conservative Islamic party pledged Tuesday to provide match-making services for older women and cut the cost of dowries in an election manifesto for its stronghold of Kelantan state.
The fundamentalist Pan Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), which is hoping to retain control of Kelantan in March 8 polls against fierce competition from the government, also promised to boost development in the impoverished state.
"We are providing benefits like match-making and reduced dowry for women, but we have also come up with a plan to address the needs of all people in Kelantan," PAS deputy president Nasharuddin Mat Isa told AFP.
"It's about reassuring voters in Kelantan that we are the best choice for the people," he said.
A party leader caused controversy in the past by saying that ugly women should be given priority in public service jobs because pretty women can find rich husbands to provide for them.
Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's coalition government is trying to regain Kelantan -- the only state it does not rule -- with plans for a slew of new projects and investment funds if it wins.
At its peak, PAS controlled Kelantan and neighbouring Terengganu state which it won in 1999 elections.
However its fundamentalist line, including a campaign to turn Malaysia into a religious state, and prohibitions on nightclubs, skimpy clothes and alcohol, saw it lose Terengganu in 2004.
It now holds a wafer thin majority in Kelantan, a state considered a key battleground in the polls.Well, many old ladies in this country will soon be happy to find their mating mates courtesy of PAS.
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