I just love this country (with Mandarin translation)
Datuk Nasarudin’s ex-comrades and ‘friends’ from Umno have been to see him to persuade him to re-crossover to Umno. “Altantuya is dead,” they remind him. “Bala is missing. We don’t want anything happening to you as well.”
NO HOLDS BARRED
Raja Petra Kamarudin
Item 1
The Selangor police have warned those attending the funeral of A. Kugan, who died whilst in police custody, not to participate in any illegal gathering or carry banners and posters. The funeral is scheduled on Wednesday.
Selangor police chief Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar said the funeral should not be politicised or turned into an illegal demonstration as it would disrupt public order and lead to chaos. He believed that plans were underway by certain groups to turn the occasion into an illegal gathering to protest against alleged police brutality.
Khalid said the police learnt the funeral procession would be organised in such a manner that it would involve certain parts of the city before arriving at an undisclosed burial ground in Selangor.
"Cards and banners are also expected to be carried by members of the procession," he said in a statement here Monday.
The police chief advised the public not participate in the illegal gathering as the force was not against a normal funeral procession and respected the grieving family. (Bernama 26 Jan 2009)
Item 2
Two deputy ministers are likely to face action if they are found to have broken the law in the incident where a crowd raided the mortuary of Serdang Hospital in Selangor on Tuesday, said Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar.
Datuk K. Devamany and Senator T. Murugiah, both deputy ministers in the Prime Minister's Department, were present at the mortuary when the crowd entered the premises to examine the body of suspected car thief A. Kugan who had died while in police custody.
"No minister or member of the administration is above the law and if you have committed an offence then you have to face the consequences," Syed Hamid told reporters before attending a public forum on the Internal Security Act (ISA) here last night.
He also said that the 11 policemen being investigated for allegedly causing hurt to Kugan would not be spared action if they were found to have abused their powers.
Kugan, 22, who was detained on Jan 15 at the Taipan police station in Subang Jaya on suspicion of being involved in the theft of luxury cars in Sungai Chua, Kajang, died while being questioned on Tuesday.
Selangor police chief Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar had said a post-mortem found that Kugan had died due to fluid in his lungs but Kugan's family sought a second post-mortem, insisting that Kugan had died of injuries.
Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail said later that Kugan's death had been classified as murder. (Bernama 26 Jan 2009)
Item 3
The MIC will defend the two deputy ministers if the authorities find them to have broken the law in the incident where a crowd raided the mortuary of Serdang Hospital last Tuesday.
"We will hire as many lawyers to defend them if they are charged in court," MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said in a statement issued here today.
He was commenting on Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar's statement yesterday that Datuk K. Devamany and Senator T. Murugiah, both deputy ministers in the Prime Minister's Department, might likely face action if they were present at the mortuary when the crowd barged into the mortuary to examine the body of suspected car thief A. Kugan who had died while in police custody.
The MIC president said it did not matter from which party the two deputy ministers hailed from as long as they were Indians "because the MIC represents the Indian community in Malaysia".
While Devamany is a MIC member, Murugiah is from the People's Progressive Party (PPP).
Devamany was among nine people quizzed by the police yesterday over the incident. It was also reported that 11 policemen being investigated for allegedly causing hurt to Kugan would not be spared action if they were found to have abused their powers.
Kugan, 22, who was detained on Jan 15 at the Taipan police station in Subang Jaya on suspicion of being involved in the theft of luxury cars in Sungai Chua, Kajang, died while being questioned on Tuesday.
Selangor police chief Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar had said a post-mortem found that Kugan had died due to fluid in his lungs, but Kugan's family sought a second post-mortem, insisting that Kugan had died of injuries.
Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail said later that Kugan's death had been classified as murder.
Samy Vellu also urged Syed Hamid to ensure that the police probe into Kugan's death was transparent.
"The MIC will be monitoring the case but we are confident that the police will leave no stones unturned in their investigation," he said. (Bernama 26 Jan 2009)
Item 4
Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has described Bota assemblyman Datuk Nasarudin Hashim’s decision to join Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) as “not surprising”.
“I am not surprised … but he might have his own reasons (to defect) and we should know the reasons,” he said yesterday.
Ahmad Zahid who was met by reporters after the closing of the Islamic Economic Development Festival 2009 (I-Fest 09) here, said the Barisan Nasional needed to look not only into Nasarudin’s reasons for making the decision, but also that of other assemblymen and MPs who intended to do the same, especially in the opposition-ruled states.
“Perhaps the problem is about allocations, where we (federal government) can help. Maybe they find it difficult to fund activities, which they often do as the people’s representatives.
“So, assistance should be extended to them so that personal pressure does not become political pressure for these elected representatives,” added Ahmad Zahid, who is an Umno Supreme Council member.
Yesterday, Nasarudin announced his decision to join Parti Keadilan Rakyat which he said was made after due consideration. (Bernama 26 Jan 2009)
Item 5
The Terengganu state government will investigate if there were any misdeeds by chairmen of village security and development committees (JKKK) in distribution of aid.
Terengganu Menteri Besar, Datuk Ahmad Said, said detailed investigation had to be done as perhaps the allegations were just that. He however admitted that there were cases where JKKK chairmen had given aid to their own family members.
"There have been cases when if someone challenged the JKKK chairman, he (the chairman) would not provide aid…he would give it to his family members," Ahmad told reporters at the MCA Terengganu Chinese New Year celebration at Dewan Tunku Abdul Rahman here today.
Ahmad said the appointment of the JKKK chairman and members was done twice a year by the district office after names were suggested by the local representatives.
"We will study the performance of the JKKKs…how many times they meet a year, what activities they have to benefit the people. All this will be considered before new appointments are made," he said. (Bernama 26 Jan 2006)
Yes, that was what Bernama reported yesterday, the first day of the Year of the Ox. And, going by the Bernama reports, it is going to be an extremely turbulent year for Barisan Nasional and Umno.
Incidentally, someone told me that the Year of the Ox is also dangerous for those born in the Year of the Tiger. The Year of the Ox, I was told, is full of pitfalls for those born in the Year of the Tiger. And I was born in the Year of the Tiger — 1950 to be exact. So I expect this spells bad news for me considering the many court cases and trials that I will be faced with the next 12 months.
But then I was born a few minutes after midnight — on 27 September 1950 — and those born around midnight are supposed to be ‘Midnight Tigers’ because tigers come out late at night to search for food. Well, that is what my late Chinese mother-in-law told me. “Midnight Tigers are very fierce,” she told me. “They will ‘eat’ their parents. Both your parents face the risk of dying young because of you.”
I never did believe these old wives’ tales — Malay, Chinese or Indian — and I never took a second take on the matter. But then both my parents died in their mid-40s and it set me wondering if old wives’ tales could have some element of truth in them after all. Did I ‘eat’ my parents, as my mother-in-law said would happen?
Anyway, Barisan Nasional’s and Umno’s problems are bigger than mine, so it appears from the Bernama reports. MIC is in crisis. MCA is in crisis. Umno is in crisis.
Tomorrow, at 2.00pm, Kugan’s funeral procession will commence from the University Hospital mortuary and will end up at the 14th-mile Puchong cemetery. Will members of MIC also join the funeral? If they do not then it will be seen as if MIC has abandoned the Indians. But if they do join then they would be seen as ‘anti-government’.
Damned if you do join the funeral and damned if you don’t. And if the Malays and Chinese join the funeral, as I have been told will happen, then MIC is double-damned if they don’t also participate. And they will also be double-damned if they do participate considering PAS, DAP and PKR leaders will also be in the funeral procession.
Hah! I hate to be in MIC’s shoes tomorrow.
Meanwhile, Umno is pretending that Datuk Nasarudin Hashim’s crossover to PKR is a non-issue. Well, why then did Najib call all the Barisan Nasional Perak Wakil Rakyats for a meeting and force them to swear to God that they will not also crossover? And why were eight Barisan Nasional Perak Wakil Rakyats absent from the meeting? Is it maybe true after all what the Perak Menteri Besar said that two more Barisan Nasional Perak Wakil Rakyats would also soon join Pakatan Rakyat?
Umno has ‘counter-offered’ Datuk Nasarudin a tasty carrot. If Barisan Nasional forms the Perak State Government then he would be made Menteri Besar if he leaves Pakatan Rakyat and rejoins Umno. Datuk Nasarudin had a good laugh at the offer.
Tasty carrot, maybe, but no thanks, he replied. He said he has his principles and once he spits he never drops to the ground to lick it up again. Yeap, not all pray to money. Some do treat money as their servant and not instead become a servant to their money, even some in Umno — Datuk Zaid Ibrahim being another case in point.
Other than tasty carrots, Datuk Nasarudin is also being given the stick. Datuk Nasarudin’s ex-comrades and ‘friends’ from Umno have been to see him to persuade him to re-crossover to Umno. “Altantuya is dead,” they remind him. “Bala is missing. We don’t want anything happening to you as well.”
Hmm…is this ‘friendly advice’ or a veiled threat? Take it how you like but Datuk Nasarudin is not succumbing to whatever it may be, advice or threat. And even the six cars parked in front of his house are not making him change his mind, although he does admit it is making him a bit worried.
Finally, on the JKKK issue. All the JKKK officials are Umno branch and division committee members. You can’t be in the JKKK otherwise. And they get tons of money, which is supposed to be dished out to the kampong people — but only to the Umno kampong people, not the opposition people. This is how they buy support and ensure that the kampong people remain with Umno.
No one accounts for the money. As long as Umno wins the elections no questions are asked even though everyone knows hundreds of millions are siphoned out through this ‘scheme’. But now that Umno lost the Kuala Terengganu by-election they want to start ‘auditing’ how the money was spent and find out what happened to all those millions of Ringgit.
Malaysia sure is funny is it not? The government can tolerate mismanagement of public funds as long as Umno wins all the elections. But the instant they begin losing then they want to audit the expenditure. And while Umno leaves no stone unturned in its effort to buy over Pakatan Rakyat Wakil Rakyats, what happens instead is Barisan Nasional Wakil Rakyats cross over to the opposition.
I just love this country.
《毫不留情》我爱死了这个国家
拿督Nasarudin的巫统前同志和‘朋友’来游说他重新加入巫统。“阿坦杜雅死了，”他们提醒他。“巴拉也不见了。我们不想你有什么事情发生。”
第一则
雪州警方警告那些参加A. Kugan葬礼的人，不准参加任何非法聚会或携带布条海报。A. Kugan在警方扣留时爆毙，他的葬礼在星期三举行。
雪州总警长Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar说，有关葬礼不应该被政治化或转变成一场非法示威，因为这样会骚扰公共秩序，带来动乱。他相信有心集团已经暗地里计划要把这场活动变成非法聚会，以抗议被指称是警察残暴的行为。
Khalid说警方得知有关葬礼游行将经过城市里的几个地区后，才抵达雪州一个还未公布的坟场。
"我们预期在游行中有人会携带卡片和布条。"他在星期一的一项声明中如此指出。
这位警察总长劝告公众人士不要参加非法聚会，因为警方不会反对普通的葬礼游行，也尊敬哀悼死者的家庭。(马新社26-1-2009)
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第二则
若两名副部长被发现在星期二，群众冲入雪州沙登医院停尸所事件上违法，他们将面对提控, 内政部长拿督斯里赛哈密这么说道。
拿督K. Devamany与上议员T. Murugiah两人都是首相署副部长。当群众进入建筑物内检查被警方扣留时爆毙的偷车嫌疑犯A. Kugan的尸体时，他们两人也在现场。
"没有任何部长或官员可以超越法律。若你犯了法，就要面对后果," 赛哈密昨晚在出席一项讨论内安法令的公众座谈会之前，这么对记者表示。
他也说被指称致伤Kugan而受到调查的11名警察，若他们被发觉滥用权力，他们也不许逍遥法外。
22岁的Kugan因为被怀疑涉嫌在Sungai Chua和加影一带的名贵房车失窃案，而在一月十五日被扣留在梳邦再也的Taipan警察局。他在星期二的问讯时死去。
雪州总警长Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar说根据验尸报告，Kugan是死于肺部积水。但是Kugan的家人要求第二次验尸，坚持Kugan是死于受伤。
总检察长丹斯里Abdul Gani Patail说，Kugan的死亡已经被列为谋杀。 (马新社26-1-2009)
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第三则
若有关当局认为两名副部长在上星期二，群众冲入雪州沙登医院停尸房的事件上违法，国大党将会为他们辩护。
"若他们被控上法庭，我们会尽量招聘律师来为他们辩护。"国大党主席拿督斯里S. Samy Vellu在今天的一项声明中这么说。
他是对昨天内务部长拿督斯里Syed Hamid Albar发表的声明中，提及拿督K. Devamany和上议员T. Murugiah两名首相署副部长，因为当群众冲入停尸间，检查被警方扣留时爆毙的偷车嫌疑犯A. Kugan的尸体时，若他们两人也在现场的话，也许会面对指控而发表意见。
这位国大党主席说，不管他们是来自哪一个政党，只要他们是印度人的话， "因为国大党就是代表了马来西亚的印度人社群。"
目前，Devamany是国大党成员，而Murugiah是来自人民进步党。
Devamany在昨天随着其他九个人被警方询问有关这件事情。也有报导指出11名警察被指称导致Kugan受伤而接受调查。若他们被发觉滥用权力，将难逃法网。
22岁的Kugan因为被怀疑涉嫌Sungai Chua和加影一带的名贵房车失窃案，而在一月十五日被扣留在梳邦再也的Taipan警察局。他在星期二的问讯时死去。
雪州总警长Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar说根据验尸报告，Kugan是死于肺部积水。但是Kugan的家人要求第二次验尸，坚持Kugan是死于受伤。
总检察长丹斯里Abdul Gani Patail说，Kugan的死亡已经被列为谋杀。
Samy Vellu也呼吁Syed Hamid确保警察在调查Kugan的死亡时保持透明化。
"国大党将会监督案件的进行，不过我们有信心警方将会不遗余力的调查。"他说道。 (马新社26-1-2009)
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第四则
首相署部长拿督斯里Ahmad Zahid Hamidi形容Bota区州议员拿督Nasarudin Hashim加入公正党的决定是“不足为奇”的。
“我没有感到惊奇…但他也许有他自己的理由(跳槽)，我们也应该找出这些理由。”他昨天这么说道。
Ahmad Zahid是在2009年度的回教经济发展庆典闭幕之后遇到记者时这么表示。他说国阵不止需要探讨Nasarudin做出如此决定的理由，也要知道其他有意做出同样决定的国州议员，特别是在反对党执政的州属。
“也许这是有关拨款的问题，这是我们 (联邦政府)能帮忙的地方。也许他们觉得难以支付活动款项，这都是他们身为人民代表常做的事情。
“所以，援助应该给与他们，好让个人压力不会变成这些人民代表的政治压力。” 也是巫统最高理事会成员之一的Ahmad Zahid补充说。
昨天，Nasarudin宣布了他加入公正党的决定。他说他是在深思熟虑下做出决定的。(马新社26-1-2009)
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第五则
丁州政府将会做出调查，乡村安全和发展委员会主席在分配援助款项上是否有做出不当的行为。
丁州州务大臣拿督Ahmad Said说即使只是指称，也要进行详细的调查。他承认确有委员会主席把款项给了自己的家人的事情发生。
"有事件指出，当某人挑战委员会主席，他就不会提供援助…他会把援助给与自己的家人。"Ahmad今天在丁州马华在Tunku Abdul Rahman礼堂的华人新年庆祝会上这么告诉记者。
Ahmad说委员会的主席和成员的委任是每年两次由地方长官在当地代表提呈名字后做出。
"我们会研究委员会的表现…他们一年见面多少次，做了什么对人民有益的活动。在做出新的委任之前，这些全部都会加以考虑。"他说道。(马新社26-1-2006)
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是的，那就是马新社在昨天，牛年的第一天，报导的新闻。从马新社的报导看来，今年将会是国阵和巫统波涛汹涌的一年。
顺便提一下，有人告诉我，对虎年出世的人来说，牛年是危险的一年。我被告知说，对那些在虎年出世的人来说，牛年是充满陷阱的一年。而我就是虎年出世的 – 正确来说是1950年。所以我想这是一个坏消息，尤其未来的十二个月里，我有很多官司缠身。
但我是在午夜后几分钟出世的 – 在1950年9月27日。那些在午夜出世的是‘午夜老虎’，因为老虎都是在午夜出来找食物的。这是我那已过世的华人岳母告诉我的。“午夜老虎是很凶的,”她告诉我。“他们会‘吃掉’他们的父母。因为你，你的父母会早死。”
我从来都不相信这些妇人之言 – 马来人，华人，或印度人的都好 – 我从不在意这件事。但是我的父母都在40多岁时去世，这让我猜疑这些妇人之言是不是有一定的可信度。是不是如我岳母所说，我‘吃掉’了我的父母呢?
无论如何，从马新社的报导中看来，国阵和巫统的麻烦比我的还要大。国大党有危机，马华有危机，巫统有危机。
明天下午二时，Kugan的葬礼游行将从马大医院停尸间开始，直到浦种十四里的坟场。国大党的成员会参加葬礼吗? 若他们不的话，那他们就被当成是遗弃了印度人。不过若他们参加的话，那他们就被当成是‘反政府’。
参加葬礼就不对，不参加也错，真是糟透了。就如我所得到的消息，若马来人和华人也参加葬礼，而国大党不参加的话，那国大党就加倍糟糕了。若他们参加的话，那也是同样加倍糟糕，因为回教党，行动党和公正党的领袖也会在游行中。
哈!我明天难以从国大党的立场来想像了。
与此同时，巫统假装不把拿督Nasarudin Hashim的跳槽当作是一回事。那么，纳吉又何必召集所有霹雳国阵人民代表开会，强逼他们对上天发誓他们不会跳槽呢? 为何其中八名霹雳国阵人民代表没有出席该项会议呢? 霹雳州务大臣说还有两名霹雳国阵人民代表要跳槽的事情是不是真的呢?
巫统也向拿督Nasarudin开出‘反条件’。若他退出民联，重新加入国阵的话，若国阵成立霹雳州政府，那他就能成为州务大臣。拿督Nasarudin对这样的条件大笑不已。
胡萝卜看来吸引人，但，谢了，他说。他说他有他自己的原则，覆水难收也。是啊，不是所有人都爱钱。有些人把钱当成是奴才，而不是当钱的奴才，即使一些在巫统的如 – 拿督Zaid Ibrahim就是其中一例。
除了胡萝卜，拿督Nasarudin也收到大棒。拿督Nasarudin的巫统前同志和‘朋友’来游说他重新加入巫统。“阿坦杜雅死了，”他们提醒他。“巴拉也不见了。我们不想你有什么事情发生。”
唔…这些是‘友善的劝告’，还是隐匿的威胁呢? 你要怎么想都行，不过拿督Nasarudin不会向任何可能屈服，不管是劝告还是威胁。即使是六辆车停在他家门前，他也不会改变他的主意，虽然他承认这令他感到有点担心。
最后，关于这个乡村安全和发展委员会课题。所有委员会长官都是巫统支部和区部委员会成员。不然是不可能的。他们拿到许多许多的钱，这些本来都是要给乡村人民的 – 但只有巫统的乡村人民，不是反对党的人民。这是他们如何买到支持和确保乡村人民继续支持巫统。
没有人需要对这些钱负责，也不会有人过问，只要巫统能够在选举中胜出。每个人都知道，千百万的钱都是以这种‘方式’给吸干的。不过现在巫统在瓜丁补选中输了。他们现在就要开始‘查账’看看这些钱是如何花费，看看这些千百万的钱到底去了那。
马来西亚肯定是有趣的。政府可以容忍公款的不当管理，只要巫统胜了选举。但是若他们开始输了，就要开始查账。正当巫统不遗余力地尝试收买民联人民代表的时候，却发生了国阵人民代表跳槽去反对党。
我爱死了这个国家。
Translated by ecs283 http://cblog.cari.com.my/html/09/61909.html
Edited by Pratamad https://airkosong.com/_/
