Archives for August 2008
Censoring The Internet Is Illegal
In instructing ISPs to block access to Malaysia Today, MCMC chief operating officer Sharil Tarmizi argues that:
“We are governed by the Communications and Multimedia Act (1998) which allows us to take preventive measures and advise our license holders (such as ISPs) when a service user may be contravening national laws,” he said.
Under Section 263 of [...]
Light At The End Of The Tunnel
Mahathir says this is his blog:
36. There is a tendency among Malays to regard the discrimination in their favour [ie. the NEP] as a privilege, as a recognition of their superior status. I think this is wrong. The discrimination is in order to give them a kind of headstart so that they can catch up [...]
Occasional Swearing
I swear this is beginning to look like a tennis match:
Barisan Nasional, or more accurately Umno’s campaign, for Permatang Pauh looks set to be in tatters after the drama surrounding Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan’s oath took a turn for the worse.
Round-the-clock ceramahs and screenings of Saiful taking his oath, alleging that PKR chief Anwar Ibrahim [...]
I Label You, You Label Me
Utusan Malaysia has outdone itself.
Read this pseudo-intellectual, pseudo-scholarly article, which describes Anwar and PKR as “Anarchists of the New Left Wing“.
Pretty good read, despite it being so much crap.
BAHAROM, can I then describe UMNO as “Purveyors of Malay Neo-Nazism”?
I think if you’re willing to undertake the same leaps of logic with Umno as you did [...]
Bagi Kaw-Kaw Punya
He’s alive! For a while there, I was wondering where our beloved Umno Youth deputy chief had slunk away to:
Barisan Nasional (BN) will not only defeat Anwar Ibrahim in the Aug 26 Permatang Pauh by-election, the ruling coalition will also bury his political career.
This bold prognosis came from Umno Youth deputy chief Khairy Jamaluddin.
Speaking at [...]
Corruption In Pakatan Rakyat Perak Government
UPDATE Malaysiakini says the exco members are from PKR.
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Perak exco members kena for corruption:
The ACA has arrested five people including a Perak state exco member for alleged graft, involving a housing project worth RM180mil.
The five were arrested on Tuesday in Perak following a report lodged by a complainant.
Three of them including the exco member were [...]
Solid Ground
Read this in Malaysiakini, “Growing pains in PAS“, by Dr Bridget Welsh, assistant professor in Southeast Asian studies at John Hopkins University. Welsh attended the recent PAS muktamar in Ipoh.
It’s good shit. Some key quotes:
PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang revealed how confused the party is in its ideological agenda in his speech in Ipoh. The [...]
I Was Raped, Dammit
Saiful was in action yesterday:
Was it consensual?
I wish to stress here that it was done without my consent.
Are the allegations you’ve made against Anwar frivolous?
Everything happened without my consent.
Some people have said that you were sodomised more than once?
I will answer that in court later.
Is this the first time you have been sodomised?
Yes, first time.
Were [...]
Najib’s High-Speed Cronyism
Good stuff in Rocky’s Bru on some high speed broadband shite.
The Pahang connection is obvious.
So those rooting for Najib to become Prime Minister should expect more of the same sort of multi-billion ringgit cronyism shit you got from Mahathir and Pak Lah.
It’s clear Umno cannot reform itself because even when they kena kau-kau at the [...]
Rooting For The Guys In Green
I’m joining PAS.
Why?
Because they have reasonable, level-headed dudes of note like this in the party:
The Bar Council forum on Saturday should have been allowed to proceed, said the PAS Research Centre.
“A small group of us met to discuss the forum and we were unanimous that it should have been allowed to proceed. There are valid [...]
