LDP:We Were Only Absent, We Did Not Boycott

Pathetic ! We were only absent, we did not boycott! .

Salleh Keruak wasn't born yesterday, you can't fault him for his hawk-eyed observation of missing LDP leaders at the CM's Raya open house, he has been in politics longer than V.K.Liew.

Liew and all top LDP leaders can visit Rahim Ismail away in Papar who is not even a cabinet minister (of course that's his choice) but people can see through him and his pathetic excuse.Obviously, he is not in charge of LDP and completely lack finesse and the cultivated veneer of refinement expected of a politician of his stature.

Maybe, he should also just send his minions to the Prime Minister's house and say he is just too busy to come himself.

Photo showing Lim Guan Eng talking to Prime Minister Najib during the PM's Raya open house.In spite of being jailed before by this very same government Guan Eng holds no grudge against Najib and the administration.LDP leaders should emulate this man and should stop being political toddlers which only reflect badly on their political immaturity.

We did not boycott – LDP

by Nancy Lai. Posted on September 7, 2011, Wednesday

Liew says Salleh’s claim not true and party leaders went unnoticed at open house

KOTA KINABALU: Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) president Datuk VK Liew has again stressed that party leaders and members were present at the state government’s Hari Raya open house which was hosted by Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman and the Muslim Cabinet ministers.

The Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department was in fact disheartened that State Assembly Speaker Datuk Salleh Said had made such unnecessary disparaging remarks against LDP.

Liew was of the opinion that Salleh had made an incorrect factual statement by saying LDP leaders were absent when its youth chief, divisional chairmen and members were there but they went unnoticed in the crowd of thousands.

According to Liew further, unlike in previous years, the state government’s open house this year was held on the second day of the Hari Raya Aidilfitri celebrations and not on the first day.

“It is the norm for me and LDP elected representatives to return to our constituencies after the first day of Raya to celebrate with our constituents and programs have been fixed in advance.

“As a matter of fact and as confirmed by Salleh himself, we already met at the Istana together with the TYT Tun Juhar Mahiruddin on the first day where Raya greetings were exchanged between me, my Supreme Council members and the Cabinet members of the Sabah state government.

“The allegation that we boycotted the Chief Minister and State Cabinet Minister’s open house on the second day is not true and a myth. Such allegation coming out from the mouth of the State Speaker is most incorrect and immature,” he said.

Liew said this when asked to comment on the statement of Salleh, who is also Sabah Umno Liaison Committee deputy chairman, on the absence of LDP senior leaders at the state government’s Hari Raya open house.

The State Assembly Speaker who hosted a similar celebration in conjunction with the Hari Raya Aidifitri on Monday, told reporters there that he was puzzled as to why none of the senior LDP leaders attended the recent Hari Raya open house hosted by the Chief Minister and the State Cabinet at the Likas Sports Complex.

Salleh said he found it strange that they managed to attend the open houses at the state palace and that of Umno vice-president Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal and Pantai Manis assemblyman Datuk Abdul Rahim Ismail which were much further away.

“Were they really too busy with other commitments or were they boycotting the event?

“If indeed it was a boycott, then it is sad because it did not show respect to the Chief Minister and State Cabinet. And there was no spirit of the Barisan Nasional family or 1Malaysia concept,” he said.

On the first day of Hari Raya, LDP president Datuk VK Liew attended the state palace open house but neither he nor other senior party leaders were seen at the state’s open house the next day, he said.

He said on the third day, Liew and other leaders were present at Mohd Shafie’s open house in Semporna and on the fourth day at Rahim’s function in Papar. Read more.

Bukit Kepong: Malaysia's Alamo

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The issue of Bukit Kepong is getting hotter each passing day, both sides of the political divide are not giving up.I am not a fan of people who tries to rewrite history to suit their political agenda and ridiculous propaganda.

Mat Sabu claiming that the commies were the real heroes is just playing to the gallery...... the target audience ?............ the young uninitiated pea-brained Malaysians that you find all over the blogosphere with their bad English and nasty comments......and so easily indoctrinated.

Below are some excerpts from Wikipedia on what happened on that tragic day 23 February 1950 at Bukit Kepong:

The incident started just before dawn with the Communists launching a guerrilla assault on the police station leading to the deaths of almost all of the police officers stationed there. When they began the siege, the attackers strongly believed that they would be able to defeat the policemen and gain control of the police station within a short span of time. This is due to several factors in their favour: their arms and numerical superiority and the relative isolation of the station. The battle began at about 4:15 am.

According to eyewitness accounts, there were about 200 Communists attacking, led by Muhammad Indera, a Malay Communist. Despite the odds, the policemen led by Sgt. Jamil Mohd Shah, refused to surrender, although numerous calls by the communists for them to lay down arms were made. Several officers were killed as the shooting continued and two wives of the defending officers took up arms when they discovered that their husbands fell in battle.^[2]

Desperate and alarmed at the defenders’ tenacity, the Communists captured one of the officers’ wives and threatened her at gunpoint to urge the policemen to surrender. The defenders replied that they would never surrender and continued fighting. Another wife of the officers and her daughter were also forced to do the same. Their refusal then resulted in their execution.^{[citation needed]}

In the final hours of the fierce battle, the Communists set fire to the officers’ barracks and station. Two women and their children were burnt to death in the married quarters. At that point only 3 policemen plus a village guard were still alive. They rushed out from the burning station, unable to withstand the heat. They then assaulted the Communists position, killing at least 3 of them.

Only about five hours after the first shot was fired did the communists manage to break their defences and set the place ablaze. They then retreated into the jungle.

14 policemen, 4 village guards, 3 auxiliary policemen, wife of Abu Bakar Daud (one of the surviving policemen) and three of their children were killed in the incident. The total number of deaths is 25. Those who survived the bloody encounter are 4 policemen and 9 family members including their wives and children. Read the full story here.

Almost all killed in action that day defending the police outpost were Malay policemen and their families against 200 commies.There was no European or British casualty.

Mat Sabu really need to apologise to the Malays.

Also read:

Kin wants Mat Indera named freedom fighter

LDP's absence too glaring: Salleh

As they say "Clothes do not make the man". Taking political hatred to the extreme.Even Lim Guan Eng had the courtesy to visit Najib's Raya open house.


LDP's absence too glaring: Salleh
Daily Express

Kota Kinabalu: The absence of top echelon leaders from the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) at the Chief Minister and State Cabinet Hari Raya Open House in Likas, last Wednesday, did not go unnoticed.

State Legislative Assembly Speaker Datuk Seri Salleh Tun Said Keruak hoped it was due to them being unavailable rather than a boycott, saying it was not right for Barisan Nasional (BN) component parties to boycott the Hari Raya open house held by Muslim members of the State Cabinet.

He said they should respect one another despite their political differences in line with the BN spirit and the concept of 1Malaysia.

He also said they ought to respect the leadership of the State Government, even though they may not see eye-to-eye on certain issues.

"Maybe they were too busy but if there were elements of boycott, I'd (rather) leave it to the LDP to comment," he told reporters during his Raya open house at the State Assembly building, Monday. Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman and members of the State Cabinet were among those present.

Salleh said many people (including leaders from BN coalition parties) came to the Raya open house hosted by Musa and Muslim members of the State Cabinet. However, he noted there was hardly any from the LDP.

Strangely, he said LDP leaders attended the Raya open house hosted by Head of State Tun Juhar Mahiruddin on the first day of Aidilfitri on Aug. 30.

"They were also willing to go to Semporna and Papar to attend the open houses by (Rural and Regional Development Minister Datuk Mohd) Shafie (Apdal) and (Pantai Manis Assemblyman Datuk) Abdul Rahim (Ismail)," he said.

Nevertheless, Salleh said it is unnecessary for the LDP to give any explanation on the matter. "Some people were only querying why they did not attend (the CM's Raya open house)," he said.

On the non-attendance of Shafie and Abdul Rahim at the Chief Minister and State Cabinet Hari Raya Open House, he said the duo probably had commitments elsewhere.

He also said that the Hari Raya open house is open to all and that there is no pressure on anyone to be there. "If you can't attend because you are busy, there is no problem, but if it is a boycott, it is unhealthy," he said.

When contacted, LDP President Datuk VK Liew, denied any planned boycott on its part.

"As matured politicians we never boycott any government event, so please don't make speculative statements," he said, and suggested Salleh check his facts before making such statement.

"As a matter of fact, LDP was represented at the open house by Youth Chief, Chin Shu Ying and a divisional leader, Datuk Lee Chuen Wen.

"Just because they are not in the picture, we are accused of not being there," he said, adding it so happened on that day most of LDP elected representatives, including him, had to return to their respective constituencies to attend programmes with their constituents.

On the question of him going all the way to Papar to attend the open house hosted by Rahim, Liew said:

"Is there any restriction for me to go anywhere? This is Hari Raya so I will visit many places É I don't think this should become an issue.Read more.

The Tyranny Of History

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George Santayana's "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" or George Bernard Shaw's "If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience".

Henry Ford laments "History is more or less bunk( rubbish)", but I say one must learn from history as not to repeat it.We can collated history but once carved in stone we can't change it.

When I was a young man at lower secondary school we learned world's history, history of the British Empire and local history as well.

In one local history we learned about a man called "Mat Salleh" who was branded a pirate and a rebel by the British.For many years the school children of Sabah had been taught to deplore Mat Salleh as a pirate, a rebel and a troublemaker.Read the story here what caused Mat Salleh to rebel against the British.

Now, Mat Salleh is a patriot, a fighter and a hero fighting against unjust (?) British rule.Young Sabahans that have not read the old history book were asked to revere Mat Salleh as a true freedom fighter and a hero.The government even built a fort in Tambunan in his honour that looked more like a church without the cross.




Tambunan was his last stand before he was killed by the British.There is even a folklore that he may return one day to finish the job.

Sabah used to be owned by Brunei whose Sultan later ceded the territory to the Sultan of Sulu, who later ceded the territory by way of a lease to an Austrian, Baron Von Overbeck, who later sold the lease to Alfred Dent who formed the Chartered Company that ruled Sabah from 1881 until 1946 when it became a British crown colony.

There was no central government and no law and order before the Chartered Compay took charge of the country which they called North Borneo and later known as British North Borneo when it became a British colony after World War II.

We all know 16 Sept 1963, when Sabah, Sarawak,Singapore and Malaya became a new nation called Malaysia.Singapore was kicked out of Malaysia two years later. After that as we all know..... the rest is history.

Depending who wrote the history books, historical events can be adjudged according to the prevailing time or manipulated to suit the capricious and often blinkered mood of the person.

Most, if not all, history books that we read and learned from were written by Western writers. The East do not have the resources and education to write their own history books then.

What is history?

In a nutshell, it is a study of past events, particularly in human affairs.History can be the accretion of facts, half-truths or fictions.Why fight tooth and nail over it. Why don't we just leave the tyranny of history behind us and look forward to the future.

Malaysian politicians surely came off the same mould, both sides are over reacting to such useless piece of history.

Malaya gained independence through peaceful means and the wisdom of people like Onn Jaafar,Tengku Abdul Rahman and the ilk, certainly not those idiots who stormed and killed innocent people at the Kepong Police station.

To sum it all up, Malaya gained independence through the wisdom of UMNO leaders,the Chinese and Indian leaders at that time......and as they say "The rest is history".