Bapa Borek, Anak Rintik

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A man with a huge chip on his shoulder and a terribly bad attitude.

When confronted about his son's appointment he responded with sheer indignation and arrogance.

Herein lies his retort:

"You must know, I am a trained lawyer and I know what I am doing.

Nadim shall remain a special officer to me.

I don't care what people think.I don't care what bloggers, netizen, journalists write about me.

Today I am still a minister appointed by a bigger majority in my constituency, so what do they have to say.

I don't please anybody but myself.If making him a special officer makes me happy then that's it"

He says he is a trained lawyer and knows what he is doing, if so, why so many criticisms and contention of his action. We are not talking about legality here, it is more moral grounds and convention. 

He claimed he is a trained and good lawyer. Does he not know that the law also disallow as witness to signature of certain documents to anyone closely related to the signatory?

Why so? 

When the chips are down, blood is thicker than water.

That's why the law frown upon such practices.

Now, you people decide.

Is he a good lawyer?

Is he fit to be a minister?

He also mentioned that his family was already rich, so what the fuzz?

If that was the case, why work on such miserable and meagre minister's salary and if adding salt to the wound not enough, appoint his son to work for him in his ministry. 

Shouldn't the young man be out there somewhere managing the family's fortune...........? 

"Bapa borek, anak rintik" for those who don't understand Malay idioms, it carries the same meaning as the English idiom "like father, like son"

BN On Death Throes ?

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Haven't posted anything this past week, things haven't changed and getting sick of defending the indefensible.

I once was an ardent supporter of Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak's 1Malaysia, him trying to unite the different races in the country and trusting him as the man who could bring viable changes to a system that is insidiously killing the country, politically and economically.

It looks like we are becoming more rudderless than before. Like his predecessor he has fallen victim to UMNO greedy warlords and think that everything will be hunky-dory to continue the status quo. I scratch your back, you scratch my back in typical UMNO style.

Adding to his woes is a home minister who has a penchant for saying the quirkiest things and doing things "thick as two planks". Seriously, besides his two planks act this "Yang Berhormat" also needs to seek anger management therapy. Him getting physical against a man who claimed he was physically abused by him was recorded in a law suit against him. Angry man do not make wise decision and unwise decisions aplenty, the latest being stripping a poor Singaporean businessman off his permanent resident status. Though, I agree the government has the prerogative to cancel his PR, a bit of leniency and compassion over heedless and unintentional mistake sould suffice with a slap on the wrist. 

To err is human, to forgive divine. 

I am not even sure if there was a breach of divine law here, or just the angst of a small fraction of Muslims.

Mecca, before the dawn of Islam was full of idols particularly the Kaaba, used as a place of worship for the deities of Arabia's pagan tribes. When Islam took over Mecca they demolished the idols but not the buildings. The Kaaba now stands as the holiest shrine of Islam.

From the quirkiest to the smuggest, a minister of tourism who broke all conventions and claimed he was right to appoint his son as his special officer in his ministry and the conviction of righteousness came in the form of salary paid from his own pocket.A bumptious and opinionated ass who forgets the ministry is  not his personal fiefdom, but property of the people. It's fine if it was his "SDN BHD" He can do what he likes! Nobody cares!

If the quirkiest and the smuggest not enough to piss you off, try the scummiest of excuses, using religion in furtherance of racial domination. When the empire strikes back protecting the sanctity of Islam, more often than not, it's for racial consumption rather than religion.

PAS, whom I thought was the real fundamentalist looked more and more coy and innocuous. PAS leaders must be watching the show from the sidelines with their tongues hanging out in disbelief.

Bak kut teh, dogs, surau and improvised temple add more fun to a growing list of DOs and DON'Ts against Islam, an official religion but not constituted law of the country.

Any Muslim slighted over the slightest slight can lodge a police report and you are in a deep shit. The police will react faster than the bullets they used to shoot down criminals, because it is easier to find you and harder to find criminals.

The reason crimes on the rise, the police can't find the criminals, they outsmarted the police.

The EO (Emergency Ordinance) and ISA (Internal Security Act) had been blamed for the rise in violent crimes. The Home Minister claimed there were over 2000 hardcore criminals released when the EO was repealed and over 200,000 criminal foot soldiers are now working for these crime chiefs. 

New York City is a huge city compared to KL and had no EO or ISA, how come Mayor Rudy Giuliani succeeded in bringing down organised crimes in the city? Triad infested Hong Kong had no EO or ISA, how come they can clean up the city of big crimes making it one of the safest cities in the world today. Singapore, another gangster infested city before is now almost crime free and another one of the safest city in the world. 

How come our Home Minister is more interest in protecting the police than looking at the problems with an open mind and finding real solutions?

As they say "if there is a will, there is a way"

Someone asked me the other day "with is wrong with Islam today"? 

It is not Islam the problem. Muslims are root of the problems. Muslims are the trouble with what happened to Islam today. Muslims have become easily humiliated, use religion as a tool to retaliate and have become arrogant and self-destructive.

The current government is heading the same way, its arrogance will lead to.......self-destruction!

They do everything to agonise, antagonise and caused people's antipathy toward them.

The have lost the popular vote, completely lost the Chinese supports and lost the urban Malay votes.They have only one more thing to lose....the next general elections, as sure as the sunrise, if Najib keep dragging his foot on his transformation policy.

As proven in the past two general elections without Sabah and Sarawak the rural Malay vote bank in West Malaysia is insufficient to keep them in power. I expect the KDM in Sabah and Dayaks in Sarawak to abandon the BN in the 14th GE. They may also lose significant number of UMNO seats in Sabah.

As I have said before and still bear the same opinion, BN will lose in the 14th General Elections, unless some sort of miracle happened.

It better be soon!

Manila Times Porkiest Lie...Sabah Invaded Again!

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A friend once said if they don't know how to do all this things..... lie, cheat and steal, they are not Filipinos. You can accuse him of racism, but he has a point. Time and again, such aptitude is proven true of the community.

Read a fantastic story of fairytale of a battle between Kiram's soldiers and the Malaysian armed forces from a paper (not worth the shit it was printed on) trusted since 1898 for shitty journalism.

FROM THE MANILA TIMES ONLINE:

While the Muslim community was celebrating the end of Ramadan last Friday, clashes between the Malaysian forces and the fighters of Sultan Jamalul Kiram 3rd erupted anew in Lahad Datu, Sabah.

Kiram’s spokesman Abraham Idjirani on Sunday said eight members of the Malaysian forces were killed after they were ambushed by at least 50 members of the Sultanate’s Royal Security Force (RSF) and volunteers composite headed by Utuh Ubie, RSF’s top officer.

He said the incident was relayed to him by RSF commander Raja Muda  Agbimuddin Kiram,  brother of the  Sultan during their conversation over the phone.

Raja Muda leads the 1,600-strong RSF that is holed up in Sabah in an attempt to regain its claim over the territory from Malaysia.

The ambush took place early morning Friday at Felda area in Lahad Datu, Sabah.

Idjirani, who is also the secretary general of the Sultanate of Sulu and North Borneo, said while the RSF always takes defensive positions, it decided to attack the Malaysian troops, fearing they could be outnumbered.

“The Malaysian’s operations was a total violation of the principles of Islam. So the RSF decided to attack,” he said.

Idjirani said that in the tenets of Islam, after the commemoration of  Ramdan Muslims have seven days in which to seek forgiveness from the people they have sinned against.

Prior to the incident, Idjirani said a relative of Raja Muda who lives in Lahad Datu had informed Raja Muda that the Malaysian troops will launch a new offensive against the RSF.

The relative also said the Malaysian Forces have intensified their  coastal perimeter defense from Tawau to Sandakan after receiving reports that more Kiram fighters are set to enter Sabah to join the fight in “reclaiming” the island.

To reassert its territorial claim over Sabah, Idjirani said the Sultanate will be sending more volunteer fighters from Mindanao to the territory.

He said that a group of Bangsa Suluk volunteers from Sulu, Tawi-Tawi, Basilan, and Zamboanga Peninsula are preparing to sail for Sabah.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak last March 1 ordered an all-out offensive to flush out the Sulu fighters, who were initially holed up in Lahad Datu.

Subsequent clashes resulted in the death of 68 RSF men and 10 Malaysian policemen and soldiers. Read more crap here.

Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri

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