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Your thoughts on YB Karpal Singh

I couldn’t have said it better than Polytikus, re: today’s first session – lol!

I’m curious how the general public views YB Karpal’s recent statements and positions – constructive? not? Leave a comment, have your say :)

ps: the views expressed in the comments section are just that – views of the general public. they do not [...]

Balkis -> Bakti -> ?

It occurred to me, as they dissolve these associations in a super sketch fashion and funnel the money to Bakti, what happens if Pakatan truly takes over the federal government? Who to transfer funds to then? Or will it all be spent en masse these coming months? :P :)

BN Disarray vs Pakatan ‘disarray’

Yes, the whole matter regarding the Dewan Rakyat’s Deputy Speaker could have conceivably gone better. But if you were to read the NST (see here and here), including their frontpages, you would think this was a crisis of epic proportions.

I suppose when one’s house is falling apart, one tries to do everything to divert attention, [...]

Multiple crises indicate BN’s descent into confused, irrational fringe politics?

It appears things are falling apart, as BN resorts to embarassing low brow politics.

The blame game is starting to fly; see Khir/Samy (marking the 2nd time in as many days Khir was called a liar), Shahrir/BN, KengYaik/Gerakan.

The latter of course due to the Lee Kah Choon saga, throughout which Guan Eng appears to have kept [...]

Khir Toyo Admits Police Assisted BN During Elections?

Malaysiakini’s Q/A with Khir Toyo:

So what is the problem? Why is it that the party top leadership did not get the right information? It was impossible for Umno to predict the election outcome. You managed to identify eight hot seats in Selangor and MCA disagreed with you.

Perhaps the reports given to the leadership came [...]

Zaid, Koh: Put your money where you mouth is

theSun:

Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Zaid Ibrahim says he finds the Internal Security Act (ISA), which has been regarded as draconian by the Opposition and the legal fraternity, unacceptable.

“I am against any unjust and harsh law, and ISA and OSA (Official Secrets Act) are unacceptable to me,” the de facto law minister said [...]

Inauspicious beginnings to Parliament?

Updated 1130pm:

It appears that the very thought of Anwar anywhere near Parliament is just too much to take :P

Just some highlights from another Malaysiakini article:

“The arrangement of the questions during the oral question hour should be done accordingly to reflect the ratio between the Barisan Nasional (BN) backbenchers and Pakatan MPs.

“Since Pakatan has 82 [...]

Uthayakumar’s health – dangers for Malaysia

Increasing reports on Uthayakumar’s ill health.

If these reports are true, the government better not be having malicious plans here.

If anything were to happen to Uthayakumar, there will be mass discontent – something that can be used as an excuse to things like impose states of emergency and what not.

I trust Malaysians will stand firm in [...]

Lenggeng Uprising

Briefly on the Lenggeng detention center riots (see latest Malaysiakini article). I’ve personally been to these detention centers and can tell you that living there will drive anyone mad. Compound that with the fact that human beings, with lives, families and dignity of their own, are detained there indefinitely.

What this means is that for all [...]

MIC & Hindraf: Expediency over Principles

I caught this via Maverick:

(MIC Youth Chief calls for the release of the Hindraf five)

He explained that the MIC initially supported action against the Hindraf group. However, he said the Indian community went against the MIC and also the BN.

So MIC had no choice but to do what it must do now to stay relevant [...]

Tracking the numbers of potential crossovers

I may have noted before that I noticed the gradual shift in position where DSAI slowly went from downplaying the possibility of crossovers to openly saying that he had the numbers.

From my reading, this is indicative of how those numbers grew over time.

Now, with Najib himself ‘taking this seriously,’ I’m ever more convinced that those [...]

(Updated) Lim Keng Yaik becoming the next Mahathir

update, 12.15am, 26/4/08:

I had to rush off this morning, so forgot to add this comment – I was trying to imagine what was going through DS Lim’s mind. Could it be that he is so befuddled that he thought any individual beyond Gerakan cronies would actually buy his comments and think: “Yeah hor, Kah Choon [...]

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