Showing posts with label Forum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Forum. Show all posts

Monday, September 10, 2007

Peluru Hidup dan Erti Sebenar Kemerdekaan

E-mel Khas Buat Kemerdekaan

Perayaan Hari Merdeka ke-50 telah berlangsung di Dataran Merdeka seminggu yang lalu ( 31 Ogos 2007 ). Namun, saya baru sahaja mendapat e-mel berikut pada pagi ini. Sememangnya ia adalah sesuatu yang patut dibaca dan direnungi. Cuba fahamilah maksud yang tersirat.

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Hello Kawan,

SEKARANG BILA KITA MERDEKA SENDIRI
1. Kereta yang kebanyakan kita mampu pakai hanyalah WAJA, WIRA, MYVi, KELISA dan KANCIL
2. Gaji minimum kita di kerajaan ialah RM900 tapi di swasta ialah RM450 (mungkin telah bertukar sekarang, namun tidak dimaktubkan sebagai undang-undang)
3. Harga minyak dan harga barang bila dibandingkan dengan gaji SANGAT TIDAK BERPATUTAN
4. Kita kena kerja 7 hari seminggu, 12 jam sehari. (Pekerja Swasta)
5. Team Bola Sepak kita hanya layak ke SUKAN SEA dan ranking 152.
6. Kita hanya pernah ke Oversea (Pangkor, Redang, Pulau Pinang)
7. Perdana Menteri hanya 5 orang sejak 50 tahun merdeka dan dari satu Barisan sahaja.
8. Kebanyakan kita bila berumur 55 tahun, kita terpaksa retire dari satu kerja dan berhijrah ke kerja lain.
9. Kita kena bayar TOL setiap hari dan jumlah Lebuhraya baru bertambah sama seperti gerai pasar malam 10. Kita hidup dengan aman dan damai setiap hari tanpa sebarang halangan.

KALAU KITA MASIH DIBAWAH JEPUN
1. Kereta yang kebanyakan kita mampu pakai hanyalah HONDA, TOYOTA, MITSUBISHI, NISSAN, SUZUKI dan ISUZU. Kita gelak dengan orang yang pakai kereta HYUNDAI dan PEUGEOT.
2. Gaji minimum kita di kerajaan ialah JUTA2 YEN tapi di swasta ialah YEN JUTA JUTA juga
3. Buat apa nak kisah beli minyak sebab kita ada banyak PENGANGKUTAN AWAM.
4. Kita kena kerja 5 hari seminggu, 8 jam sehari. (Pekerja Swasta)
5. Team Bola Sepak kita pernah main kat WORLD CUP. WORLLLLDDDDDDDDD! !!!!!
BANGGA WA CAKAP LUUU........ ...
6. Kita sering pegi oversea, around the world dan semua orang bila jumpa kita nak cakap bahasa kebangsaan kita di negara mereka hahahaha bangang betul la mereka tu...
7. Aku tak tau berapa banyak Perdana Menteri dan berapa banyak parti politik, tapi sering tukar2 la, tapi RAJA satu jer, tak pernah tukar2 RAJA pun.
8. Kebanyakan kita bila berumur 55 tahun, kita jalan2 makan angin ke negara lain, kalau kita tak pergi makan angin, member2 kutuk sebab mereka semua pergi makan angin.
9. TOL??? ape kemende tu? Buat apa bayar jalanraya yang kerajaan buat guna duit rakyat?
10. Kita hidup dengan aman dan damai setiap hari tanpa sebarang halangan.

KALAU KITA MASIH DIBAWAH GREAT BRITAIN
1. KITA MAMPU PAKAI SEMUA KERETA SEBAB SEMUA KERETA MURAH NAK MAMPOSSS!!!! TAK PAYAH REPAIR, ROSAK BELI BARU. ADA JUGAK ORANG NAK AMBIK KERETA ROSAK KITA TU.
2. GAJI DAPAT DUIT POUND STERLING. KITA GELAK KAT EURO DAN US DOLLAR SEBAB MURAH!!!! LOW CLASS!!!
3. PENGANGKUTAN AWAM BANYAK DAN MINYAK PUN MURAH.
4. Kita kena kerja 5 hari seminggu, 8 jam sehari. (Pekerja Swasta)
5. SEMUA ORANG SUKA NATIONAL TEAM BOLASEPAK KITA. TAK PERNAH MENANG PUN TAPI RAMAI ORANG SUKA PAKAI JERSEY BOLA KITA, SPONSOR KELAB KITA, SOKONG SAMPAI PAGI2 BUTA GAME KELAB2 BODOH KITA. WORLD CUP????? TAK PAYAH CERITA LAAA, DAH BORING LAYAK TAPI TAK MENANG FINAL PUN.
6. PERGI OVERSEA??? AKU NAMPAK ORANG DATANG TEMPAT AKU ADA LAH, AKU PELIK APA SEBAB MEREKA MINAT SANGAT DATANG TEMPAT AKU......... .
7. Aku tak tau berapa banyak Perdana Menteri dan berapa banyak parti politik, tapi sering tukar2 la, tapi QUEEN satu jer, tak pernah tukar2 QUEEN pun.
8. Kebanyakan kita bila berumur 55 tahun, KITA PERGI JALAN2 SANA SINI DAN TENGOK BOLA JER. SAMPAI BORING DUDUK RUMAH TAK BUAT APA PUN.
9. TOL??? ape kemende tu? Buat apa bayar jalanraya yang kerajaan buat guna duit rakyat?
10. Kita hidup dengan aman dan damai setiap hari tanpa sebarang halangan.
11. WOI !!! Merdeka tu apa? bila masa Great Britain kena jajah? Penjajah terakhir kami ialah Tentera ROM lebih kurang 300 Masihi............. aku pun dah lupa kemerdekaan kali ke berapa, dah tak celebrate dah kot........

Fikir2 lah wahai sahabat.............. ERTI SEBENAR KEMERDEKAAN........... .
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Peluru Hidup di Terengganu

Sementara itu, saya terbaca berita bertajuk " Surai ceramah: Pembangkang dakwa anggota polis lepas tembakan " di laman Malaysiakini .

Menurut ringkasan yang dipaparkan:
Parti-parti pembangkang PAS dan PKR mendakwa, polis telah bertindak ganas, termasuk menembak peluru hidup, untuk menyuraikan satu ceramah di Pantai Buruk, Terengganu lewat malam tadi.
-> Dua cedera parah
-> Gas pemedih mata

Saya membaca cerita ini dengan perasaan penuh dukacita. Seminggu selepas perayaan Hari Merdeka, demikianlah bentuk berita yang menggambarkan keadaan "kebebasan" di tanahair.

Menurut parti-parti yang terlibat, ceramah sebegitu adalah lazim. Baru-baru ini pula terdapat desas-desus yang mengatakan negara kita kemungkinan akan menjalankan pilihanraya pada bulan November, selepas Hari Raya. Sesungguhnya, kalau bukan sebab pilihanraya, adakah salah untuk parti-parti bukan-Barisan Nasional untuk menyuarakan pendapat dan berkongsi pengalaman?

Setahu saya, Malaysia ini negara demokrasi, raja berperlembagaan. Adalah termaktub di dalam perlembagaan yang menjanjikan hak bersuara untuk sesiapa sahaja yang mempunyai perkataan "Warganegara" tertera di atas kad pengenalan yang dikeluarkan oleh Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara selaku wakil kerajaan Malaysia yang kononnya dipilih dan diberi mandat oleh rakyat sendiri.

Sudahlah ada ISA yang zalim untuk mengongkong kebebasan, ditambah pula dengan kekerasan. Apakah FRU patut melepaskan "peluru hidup" ke atas orang awam untuk menyuraikan ceramah? Sememangnya, kelakuan ini adalah sesuatu yang amat mengejutkan. Harus diketahui yang Harakahdaily menyatakan, rakyat-rakyat yang pergi ke ceramah tersebut tidak mempunyai senjata.

Adakah penyuraian tersebut lebih penting daripada nyawa rakyat yang kerajaan sepatutnya pertahankan? Kini dilaporkan, dua orang warganegara Malaysia telah cedera disebabkan oleh peluru yang dilepaskan. Tidak tahulah sama ada bererti kalau nak kata nasib baik. Kalau malang tidak berbau, peluru tidak mengenal mangsa, silap haribulan terkena kepala sesiapa pastilah nyawa melayang.

Tambahan lagi, jumlah FRU yang hadir dikatakan oleh sumber-sumber yang diperolehi adalah ramai. Ada juga trak penyembur air berasid dan bom pemedih mata. Tidakkah itu lebih dari cukup untuk mengendalikan hadirin sekalian yang tidak bersenjata?

Ceramah yang dianjurkan berniat baik, oleh NGO BERSIH atau nama panjangnya Gabungan Pilihan Raya Adil dan Bersih. Matlamatnya baik. Sepatutnya kerajaan dan FRU memberi sokongan yang padu, keganasan tidak harus dipraktikkan. Diharap kerajaan memandang nyawa orang awam sebagai bernilai sepenuh masa, bukan hanya waktu pilihanraya sebagai pengundi

Penulis blogger menyokong panggilan Malik Imtiaz Sarwar, selaku Presiden HAKAM kepada DYMM Yang Di-Pertuan Agong untuk menubuhkan Suruhanjaya Bebas bagi menyiasat kejadian "peluru hidup" yang sangat tidak diingini dan tidak sepatutnya berlaku di Malaysia, yang kononnya sudah "Merdeka" setengah abad (50 tahun).

Rakyat Malaysia bukanlah Musuh Negara.

Malaysia Today telah memetik dua berita dari Harakahdaily:
1) Menteri, polis 'hilang akal' hadiahkan peluru hidup untuk surai majlis ceramah
2) Mengapa polis lepaskan peluru hidup di Batu Buruk?

Sumber-sumber berita lain yang penting:
3) Elizabeth Wong: Magic Bullet
4) Malik Imtiaz Sarwar: Seriously, Mr. Deputy Prime Minister

Monday, July 23, 2007

Democratic Forum: No Debate on Islamic State?

As posted and requested by Tony Pua.

Democratic Forum: No Debate on Islamic State?

Panel of Distinguished Speakers:
Lim Kit Siang, Parliamentary Opposition Leader
Ambiga Sreenevasan, Malaysia Bar Council President
Malik Imtiaz, Human Rights Lawyer
Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim, PKR Treasurer
Rev Dr Hermen Shastri, General Secretary, Council of Churches*
Lim Guan Eng, Secretary-General to DAP

* To be confirmed

Venue: KL & Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall
Date: 25th July 2007 (Wednesday)
Time: 7.30 pm

If you feel strongly about the above issues, please bring friends and turn up in full force! Please forward this post to all concerned parties.
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As reported by Bernama, the Deputy Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak proclaimed on 16th July that “We have never, never been secular... we are an Islamic state.”

Subsequently, as reported in Malaysiakini, the Internal Security Ministry has confirmed that they have given a directive to all mainstream media not to publish any news on the issue of Malaysia being an Islamic state.

Publications Control & Al-Quran Texts Unit senior officer Che Din Yusof said, “Yes, we have given the directive to all mainstream newspapers. Islam is a sensitive issue. They cannot publish any news on whether the country is secular or Islam.”

However, he said newpapers can still publish statements from Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and his deputy Najib Abdul Razak on the country being an Islamic state.

“Reaction from political parties and the public cannot be published especially the negative reactions,” he said.

In light of the seriousness of the above two major development on a 'democratic', multi-racial and multi-cultural Malaysia, and the reluctance of other BN component parties to pick up the gauntlet, the DAP is organising a public forum to discuss the above issues.

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Sagaladoola's note:
Previous related articles of http://sagaladoola.blogspot.com/
1) MCA Stressed: Malaysia Is Not What Najib Claimed
2) Weeping for a Merdeka State or Islamic State?
3) Hisham, Ultraman and Scared Kitty
4) MCA Bangsar Open Letter to UMNO Youth

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Nat Tan Forum: No to a Police State in Blogosphere

Forum In Solidarity with Nat Tan

Extracted from:
Tony Pua's Blog

Nathaniel Tan, a 26 year old dedicated blogger, a Harvard University alumnus and an aide to Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has been arrested under the Section 8 of the Official Secrets Act (OSA) over allegations that he had documents linked to Deputy Internal Security Minister Datuk Johari Baharom’s alleged involvement in corruption.

To demonstrate our solidarity with Nathaniel who has been dealt with great injustice, to show our steadfast refusal to let the Government curb the democratisation impact of blogs and the Internet, and to voice our displeasure at the OSA, we are organising a forum with invited speakers from across the civil society with details as follows:

Venue: KL & Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall
Date: 19th July 2007 (Thursday)
Time: 7.30 pm
Admission is Free; Bring Friends

The panel of Distinguished Speakers include:

Nathaniel Tan, Blogger & Aide to PKR Advisor*
Jeff Ooi, Protem Vice-President, All Blogs Malaysia
Haris Ibrahim, Lawyer & Founder of The People's Parliament
Nurul Izzah Anwar, Special Assistant to PKR Advisor
Lim Guan Eng, Secretary-General of DAP
Tony Pua, Economic Advisor to DAP Secretary-General
Chairperson: Soon Li Tsin, Journalist & Blogger

* We will be inviting Nathaniel to speak to us and relay his experiences at the Forum should he be released from remand on Tuesday, 17th July or before. We'll also be trying to leave as much time to the floor as possible, so as to enable greater interaction at the forum.

And for those who would like to find out a little more about the young man who wants to do so much for his country, check out the write up at Jeff's blog.

A quick note on the OSA:

The OSA in its current form allows for a government to administer this country covertly and in defiance of the accountability and transparency that is crucial to democratic process. As human rights lawyer, Malik Imtiaz says, "this impacts on all our lives in more ways that we can begin to understand as the government is given a means to thwart legitimate public interest by the forced suppression of material and relevant information."

See you there!! ;)

Thursday, June 28, 2007

Abolish the Criteria of Race and also Religion in Forms

Jeff Ooi spoke in the 'Re-thinking Malaysia: Media and Civil Society' public forum co-organised by organised by Youth For Change (Y4C) and National Young Lawyers Committee (NYLC), Bar Council.

In his Merdeka 1234 blog entry, it was suggested that forms requiring the entry of ( 1 ) for Malay; ( 2 ) for Chinese; ( 3 ) for Indian; and ( 4 ) Lain-lain for the field of "Race" to be abolished.

I am living in this country which is governed almost entirely based on racial structures. Everything; From the areas of business to education runs from the racial aspect.

As a Malaysian, I am no stranger to racism or in its slightly more polite form racialism. I definitely welcome this move. As you can see, for these past few years, racism has been rampant. There had been the infamous racial incident in Kampong Medan, May 13 threats in meetings, cries of "Supremacy", racist demands in job application etc. etc. Rude and racist statements are also prevalent in the websphere. There are those who call the other race as "pigs" and names which do not belong to the "nice" category.

When I refer to racists, bear in mind that it encompasses all Malaysians, be it Malay, Chinese, Indian and everything in between. I do believe, every single Malaysian has been one way or another do or say something racist once in our life. It is high time for us to change our third-world mentality.

We are now drilling into the weakness of racism rather than capitalising on the strength of multi-culturalism. I agree with Omega Lee who wrote a letter by the title of "Malay-Chinese antagonism won’t serve either side" to Malaysiakini. That is why the economic growth of our country is not exactly good. Foreign investors are shunning our country. Thierry Rommel, the European Union envoy commented on the discrimination policies in Malaysia.

These days, discrimination is not only limited to race. If it's possible, in addition to the original idea, I would like to suggest the abolishment of the "religion" category from all forms as well.

There is no doubt, calls to abolish aspects detrimental to national unity is great. This is not the first time such ideas are tabled and discussed. They sound good in theory but how are these organisations planning to put it into practice?

Still, we are required to fill in our "race" and "religion" in almost all forms nationwide. Failure to comply would mean we are rejected from participating in any events, dismissed from memberships, denied entries into institutions or unable to update our passports, bank books and ICs.

Are Malaysians ready to go through "hell" for that?

Perhaps, these are the main issues that should be addressed. Otherwise, it will all be talk and no concrete plan for effective execution and Malaysia will return to square one.