Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Ketua Kampung di Perak yang bercelaru

Kita selalu ingat salah guna kuasa cuma dilakukan oleh menteri menteri. Tetapi penyakit ini menular
kepada keperingkat bawahan - termasuk ketua ketua kampung.

Ketua ketua kampung ynag macam kerbau dicucuk hidung ini, tidak paham perbezaan antara ketaatan kepada parti dan ketaatan kepada kerajaan. Parti adalah untuk ahli parti, tetapi kerajaan adalah untuk semua rakyat tanpa mengira parti. Hari ini dalam NST muka surat 4, dibawah berita bertajuk "UMNO wants village heads to quit" memeberikan penjelasan kepada beberapa perkara:
1. Jawatan ketua kampung adalah untuk UMNO SAHAJA. so ada unsur salah guna kuasa
2. Gaji barua UMNO ini diambil dari duit rakyat; dari kerajaan negeri dan kerajaan perseketuan.
3. Ketua ketua kampung ini cuma menjalankan agenda UMNO, bukan agenda kerajaan
4. Mereka ini merupakan ajen untuk menyalurkan apa apa hal UMNO kepada rakyat, bukan nya hal rakyat kepada kerajaan.

Itulah sebab nya diPerak, apabila kerajaan bertukar, ketua ketua kampung nak berhenti, kerana pada pendapat (bodoh) mereka, mereka berkhidmat untuk UMNO bukan untuk kerajaan Perak. Kalau gaji mereka dibayar oleh UMNO, tak apa juga, tetapi gaji mereka adalah dari duit kerajaan negeri dan kerajaan perseketuan (BACA: DUIT RAKYAT)

Itulah bila ketua ketua kampung yang bodoh ini; mahu berhenti dari perkhidmatan (bukan dipaksa oleh kerajaan Perak), mereka meminta kerajaan perseketuan terus membyar gaji mereka. Tidak kah nereka tahu duit kerajaan perseketuan adalah duit RAKYAT dan bukannya duit UMNO!! Kalau mereka menuntut UMNO untu membayar gaji mereka menggunakan duit UMNO - teruskan lah.

Itulah yang cuba diajar oleh UMNO dengan papan tanda "Satu lagi Project Kerajaan Barisan Nasional". Maknanya segala duit kerajaan adalah duit UMNO. Patutlah barua barua ini tak paham antara parti dan kerajaan, kerana pemimpin UMNO pun tak paham!!

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Pengalaman mengundi di DUN Belanja & Parlimen Parit

Kisah pengundi dirasuah untuk mengundi parti cap keris memang selalu kedengaran. Selalunya kita dengar di Kelantan. Pengundi disogok kan dengan kain batik, duit, susu dan gula. Dulu "modus operandi" nya ialah pengundi dipujuk dan duit akan diberikan. Tetapi selalunya pengundi dah cerdik. Ambik duit tapi pangkah parti cap bulan juga!

Nampak nya ahli parti cap keris di Perak (Parit), agak lebih cerdik sikit. Semasa berkempen sebelum pilihanraya, pengundi - pengundi "terpilih" akan diberi "cengkeram" dalam RM 200.00. Jika parti cap keris menang, maka bakinya RM 500.00 akan diberi.

Anda tak percaya? Berikut adalah pengalaman saya. Selepas mengundi pada 8th March, aku dan abang aku (walaupun tak alim - tapi kaki bulan juga) bersama bapa makan malam di lumut. Dalam perjalanan, aku bersyarah panjang. Selalunya pasal kebejatan parti cap keris. Malam itu aku bersyarah panjang pasal parti cap keris menabur duit untuk mendapat kan undi. Melayu sekarang ni maruah nya cuma berharga RM 50, RM 100, RM 200 ... Kalau disogokkan dengan kertas cap kepala Agong segalanya tergadai! Aku terus membebel panjang. Bapak cuma mendiamkan diri. Cuma aku dan abang aku saja yang terus berbual panjang.

Pada masa pengumuman keputusan pilihan raya, Aku bersorak kuat setiap kali parti cap bulan dan cap roket diistiharkan menang. Bapak semacam tak berminat dan terus masuk tidur... Beberapa jam kemudian, bapak bangun dan bertanya "Parit macam mane? Sape menang?" Aku kata Parti cap kati menang. Secara sepontan bapak berkata -"hai esok dapat lah aku RM 500.00!"

Aku terkesima. Nak marah; bapak. Cuma yang terkeluar dari mulut - " Tak berkat apak, itu duit rasuah!"

Jadi rasuah parti cap keris ni terjadi kepada keluarga aku. Jadi macam mana parti cap keris nak lawan rasuah sebah cap keris tu melambang kan rasuah!

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Ada juga yang rasional ... I tought I was alone

It is good to know that they are people out there who are still make sense! Let's cross the racial and religious wall that divided us in the past. At least I still have hope for new Malaysia.

An open letter to the DAP on Perak MB's appointment PDF Print E-mail
Posted by labisman
Thursday, 13 March 2008

I am a Malaysian Chinese residing in Petaling Jaya and had voted for your party's candidates in the 12th GE.

I had attended practically all your party's ceramahs in the PJU and nearby areas. In the ceramahs, your speakers had continuously stressed the importance of a multiracial government that takes care of its rakyat regardless of status, race and religion.

It is therefore a great shock and disappointment to hear that the DAP is calling its Perak state assemblymen to boycott the swearing-in ceremony of the new Perak MB tomorrow just because the MB is from PAS. I feel very much let down by this decision.

Firstly, your party calls for the establishment of a Malaysian Malaysia. Isn't PAS part of Malaysian Malaysia. Or are you telling us now that just because they are from PAS, they are not? Then in the first place, you should not have ask the voters, especially your supporters, to vote for the 'Bulan' knowing fully well it is referring to PAS. If you can ask voters, especially your supporters, to vote for PAS, then why can't your party now accept a PAS assemblyman to head the state government. I was led to believe that as long as a person is qualified, he will be supported. As many speakers said in your ceramahs, 'It doesn't matter whether it is a white cat or a black cat, as long as it is able to catch rat, it is a good cat.' Doesn't the same argument holds, whether the MB is from PAS, DAP or PKR, as long as he is able to look after the welfare of the rakyat, then he is a good MB.

Secondly, if a candidate from PAS cannot be accepted by the DAP, then why in the first place you decide to set up a coalition government with them? The argument that you can cooperate with the six PAS assemblymen and yet can't accept a PAS member as the Perak MB does not hold water. Are you trying to fool us just like what the BN government had done over the last 50 years? Don't think that the public is stupid. How can we, the rakyat, trust you now when even before the state government is set up, you are already fighting among yourselves in the so-called 'Barisan Rakyat' coalition.

Thirdly, your party's Perak state chairman Mr Ngeh Koo Ham had repeatedly said that DAP, PKR and PAS will abide by any decision made by the Sultan on the Perak MB. Now that a decision had been reached, you are going back on your words. As I recall from one of the speeches by Mr Gobind Singh Deo in SS2 on March 7 in which he said, "A politician must be responsible for what he said. After making a statement, he cannot then said that he is saying things in a sarcastic manner etc so as to deny his earlier statement." Mr Gobind Singh said this when commenting on Tun Mahathir's statement that when he said Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim was innocent, he was being sarcastic about it. The same standard should then be applied to all DAP party leaders and speakers. You must be responsible and accountable for what you say. When you said that you will accept the decision made by the Sultan, then you must stand by what you had said. Going back on your words now can only show that the BN is right and that your party leaders, especially Mr Lim Kit Siang, is only going after personal glory/power without any regard to the well-being of the rakyat and the party. DAP would then be just a party that is "cakap tak serupa bikin".

Fourthly, your party has not come out with any reason for the rejection of the PAS assemblyman as the Perak MB. I, as a voter that voted for your party, demand to know the reason behind this decision. Your party had always stressed the importance of accountability and transparency in your election manifesto. Now, please 'walk the talk' by also being transparent and explain your decision to the public. Anything less would make you no better than the BN government which 50% of the peninsula rakyat had just rejected. Anything less would also guarantee that the rakyat would make their voices heard again in the next general election, voting against the DAP.

There are many more reasons for my feeling of utter disgust and consternation for this decision made by your party's CEC. However, I will keep them to myself at this moment.

On the morning of March 9, 2008, I truly believe that a new era has dawned on Malaysia as we are finally able to transcend race and religion in our efforts to make Malaysia the truly great country that she should be. A truly Malaysian Malaysia. Sadly, just three days later, that new era does not even have a chance to begin as the group of leaders that are supposed to lead us there are now fighting among themselves for whatever reasons best known to them.

How can we move forward as a nation when we have leaders that are so selfish, egocentric and who don't practice what they preached? Is our country forever going to be mired in mediocrity amidst a culture of intolerance, suspicion, fear, corruption and cronyism?

I sincerely thought that DAP is part of the future and a cure of our country's ills. However, this decision by your CEC had shown that DAP is a party of the past. It is already blinded by its election success and is no longer in touch with the aspirations of the rakyat to build a nation based on trust, integrity, tolerance, responsibility and accountability, regardless of status, race and religion. You had forgotten that the rakyat is the boss that voted for you and put you there to serve us. You had betrayed your voters and had rejected the rakyat's wish to move forward to form a Malaysian Malaysia.

I rest my case.

Teh Seng Hin

LIM KIT SIANG YANG KURANG AJAR

Apabila aku membaca laman malaysiakini semalam, darah aku terus menyirap. Kurang ajar sungguh si Lim Kit Siang. Berani sungguh menyanggah titah Sultan.

Mungkin kemenangan besar membuatkan DAP besar kepala!

Aku ni bukanlah sarjana sains politik yang mempunyai tesis yang panjang berjela-jela. Cuma aku nak mengingatkan bahawa menukar sesuatu yang dah lama jadi kebiasaan dengan terburu buru adalah satu sikap yang bodoh. Lebih kepada sikap ego se-ekor Lim Kit Siang!

Cuba bandingkan perubahan yang berlaku di Soviet Union dengan perubahan yang berlaku di China. Pemimpin Soviet si Gorbachev tu mahu menukar sistem pemerintahan Soviet dalam sekelip mata. Ianya mengundang padah! Runtuh lah Soviet Union yang begitu gah. Tetapi, di China pemimpin nya lebih berhati hati dengan membawa perubahan secara perlahan lahan dan lihat sekarang, China menjadi sekain kuat!

Memang Si kurang ajar Lim Kit Siang tak belajar budaya Melayu. Kalau tidak dia mesti tahu bidalan bahasa: seperti menarik rambut dari tepung, rambut jangan putus, tepung janagn berselerak! Aku pernah dinasihat kan oleh atuk aku dulu; kalau badan panas jangan terus mandi, rehat dulu biar badan sejuk, kalau tak nanti demam! Pengajaran mudah yang aku pelajari ialah, sesuatu perubahan itu mesti dilakukan dengan perlahan dan berhati hati, kalau tidak boleh membinasakan.

Berbalik kepada si LIM KI SIANG (LIM KIT SIANG bukan DAP) ni. Kaum keluarga aku adalah fanatik Melayu/UMNO. Bila sebut DAP, perkara pertama yang terkeluar ialah - parti Cina! Bukan boleh percaya si parti Cina ni! kalau Cina ni berkuasa habis lah orang Melayu!

Aku bersusah payah meyakinkan keluarga aku bahawa orang Cina adalah manusia, seperti melayu ada Cina baik, ada yang tak baik, Cina pun Orang Malaysia juga. Ada yang mendengar, ada yang sinis. Yang penting, aku dah mulakan langkah untuk membantu menukar minda orang Melayu dari melihat semua perkara dari kaca mata bangsa. Malah isteri aku pun tanya, di Subang ni tak ada calon Melayu, nak mengundi juga kah? Aku kata, bangsa tak jadi masaalah, lihat semua menerusi pandangan yang lebih besar - kita nak mengundi nak menjadikan Malaysia keluar dari politik yang berteras kan bangsa. Jadi dia pun keluar mengundi - pangkah DAP! Tetapi hari ini isteriku bertanya - hah nak pangkah DAP lagi ke?

Nasihat aku kepada semua bangsa, Melayu, Cina, India; sekurang kurang nya hormat lah dan taat lah dengan titah baginda. Sultan adalah penyatu bangsa Malaysia. Jadi semua bangsa di Malaysia ni kena akur dengan titah baginda. kalau ditakdir kan Tuanku memilih seorang Cina menjadi MB, aku akan akur dengan berlapang dada.