Another attack on Khalid — physically!

Soon Li Tsin Apr 25, 07 7:20pm[from Malaysiakini.com]

Parti Keadilan Rakyat candidate for the Ijok by-election Khalid Ibrahim escaped unhurt after a group of unidentified men accosted his entourage during campaigning at the constituency today. PKR Klang division chief P Krishnasamy, 46, was assaulted by the group in the incident. According to Krishnasamy, Khalid (left) and a group of his supporters were on a campaign trail at Ladang Coalfield near Ijok, when suddenly a group of about 10 men told them to leave the estate’s housing area. The men then allegedly started raining blows on Khalid’s group. Krishnasamy identified one of the assailants as a person known as Balakrishnan. He is believed to the the MIC Tuan Mee branch chairman. “They punched me, tore my shirt and broke my spectacles,” he said. “I quickly told our group to get Tan Sri (Khalid) out of here,” he added. Krishnasamy, who heads the PKR operations centre at nearby Tuan Mee, and three others were still locked in by Balakrishnan at the estate’s gated area at press time. “We’re still here and we are waiting for someone to get us out so we can lodge a police report,” he told malaysiakini by telephone. However, an hour later it is learnt that the group was able to leave the area and Krishnasamy said that they were in Ijok police station to file a complaint. Not the first time Khalid when contacted for comment, said the harassment started after he visited 20 houses. “These people got upset and said they were going to close the estate gates and told us to get out. “From Krishnasamy’s point of view, he said we should finish visiting the houses first and then leave but then they started to push him around,” he said. When it started to get violent, the PKR group quickly escorted Khalid to safety. This is not the first time intimidation tactics have been used on Khalid during campaigning. Last week about 20 people, including some in Pemuda BN uniform, allegedly tried to intimidate him and two freelance photographers, one of them being blogger Jeff Ooi. Khalid will be contesting against Barisan Nasional’s K Parthiban for the Ijok state seat in this Saturday’s by-election.

Najib belum jelaskan soal Altantuya dan komisyen – Anwar

Penjelasan Najib masih berdalih dan mengelirukan

Oleh Intan Abdullah

Wed | Apr 25, 07 | 06:13:16 PM

KUALA LUMPUR, 25 April (Hrkh) - Jawapan Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Dato’ Seri Najib Tun Razak baru-baru ini bahawa beliau tidak mengenali Altantuya disifatkan sebagai dalih dalam menjawab persoalan sebenar malah menimbulkan lagi kekeliruan berhubung isu yang hangat diperkatakan kini Mantan Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim berkata sehingga kini tindakan Najib yang menyatakan isu Altantuya yang disebutkan ketika ceramah kempen pilihan raya di Ijok adalah isu peribadi untuk mengelak daripada menjawab isu tersebut. “Sedangkan tidak ada sesiapa pun bertanya sama ada dia kenal Altantuya atau tidak,” katanya dalam sidang media di pejabat beliau di Petaling Jaya pagi tadi. “Orang tanya: bila dia tahu pembunuhan itu berlaku, siapa yang maklumkan kepadanya dan apakah dia tahu pegawai-pegawainya terlibat. Hal-hal itu beliau mesti jawab,” katanya lagi. Selain itu, beliau juga menyatakan kehairanan, kenapa bos kepada dua yang tertuduh (pegawai UTK) iaitu Najib tidak disoal dan ini tidak bermakna beliau membuat serangan peribadi kepada Najib. Sementara itu, beliau juga menegaskan bahawa orang kanan Najib dan anak beliau tidak disoal siasat dalam merungkai kes ini. “Dalam keadaan ini, kita masih juga mengatakan tindakan polis ini dianggap profesional dalam menjalankan siasatan,” ujarnya dalam nada mempersoalkan. Selain itu, Anwar turut mengulangi permintaan beliau sebelum ini, yang meminta Najib menjawab persoalan mengenai pemberian komisen sebanyak RM520 juta kepada Abdul Razak Baginda untuk tujuan pembelian kapal selam. Beliau meminta kepada Najib untuk menjelaskan bagaimana seorang pegawai kanannya boleh jadi ejen komisen dan bagaimana nilai komisen boleh menjadi begitu tinggi. Anwar juga menegaskan bahawa kes Altantuya ini berkaitan dengan pembelian kapal selam tersebut, dan menggesa agar Najib segera menjawab persoalan ini daripada terus berlarutan. Menurut beliau, fakta yang nyata dalam kes komisen pembelian kapal selam ini ialah Razak Baginda mendapat komisen sebagai orang kanan kepada Najib, oleh sebab itu Najib perlu menjelaskan hal ini. “Saya akan terkejut, jika ada pihak yang membangkitkan hal ini dengan menyatakan ia persoalan peribadi antara saya dan Najib dan ia adalah tidak tepat, kerana ia seakan suatu cubaan untuk memperkecilkan isu korupsi tersebut,”katanya.

SATU HARI SATU PENDEDAHAN

[Siri 5 dan 6]

capaian: http://shamsuliskandar.wordpress.com 

 

Dr. Khir Toyo sila jawab!

PENDEDAHAN KELIMA

 

Pada April 2001, Khir Toyo telah meluluskan kawasan kayu balak Kompartment 78 Hutan Simpan Hulu Langat kepada Fungsi Mewah Sdn. Bhd, seluas lebih 1200 ekar. Fungsi Mewah dimiliki oleh Pua Kim Seng, adik Pua Kim An, yang rumahnya bersebelahan rumah sewa Khir di Sekinchan dahulu. Pua Kim An juga dikesan mendapat tanah 100 ekar di Shah Alam. Keluarga Pua ini menyumbangkan dana kewangan yang besar kepada Khir semasa kempen pilihan raya 1999 dahulu.

Hari terus berganti, Khir terus membisu …

 

 

PENDEDAHAN KEENAM

Projek membekal dan memasang paip air besi keluli MS 1200mm, dari Semenyih ke Banting sejauh 37.3 km, bernilai RM82,385,182.80. Projek ini terlalu mahal berbanding dari taksiran awal, yang tidak boleh melebihi RM40 juta. Dan jika sumber air diambil dari pekan Dengkil kemungkinan jaraknya dapat dipendekkan menjadi hanya 20 km dan ini lebih menguntungkan. Ahli keluarga terdekat Khir didakwa mendapat imbuhan berpuluh juta daripada kontraktor LBH Engineering.

Macam mana ni Khir? Boleh jawab?

 

Najib dead wrong on Guthrie’s history — Khalid

Tan Sri Dato Abdul Khalid Ibrahim A LETTER IN MALAYSIAKINI.COM Apr 25, 07 4:54pm

In 1981, I was the investment manager of Permodalan Nasional Berhad (PNB), and with Tun Ismail Ali, the chairman of PNB, we briefed the then deputy prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad and then finance minister Tengku Razaleigh on the plan to take Guthrie from British investors. On Sept 7, 1981, several of us led what is now known in history, as the ‘Dawn Raid’ on the London Stock Exchange. In mere hours, Guthrie became a Malaysian company. I am proud to have been associated with the late Tun Ismail Ali, a very fine gentlemen, during this very proud moment in our Malaysian history. So when I was informed that Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak had called me a liar and said that his late father, the prime minister Tun Abdul Razak Hussein was involved, I regret his twisting of facts and rewriting of history. (As reported in Utusan Malaysia and Bernama, April 23, 2007). This is because by 1981, Tun Abdul Razak, who was a great man with great vision, had passed away several years before. It is most regrettable that the deputy prime minister had resorted to such low tactics and even worse, dragged the good name of his late father into an attempt to confuse the public with such incorrect accounts of a historical event, merely to launch a personal attack on me.

Tan Sri Khalid dan Krishnasamy diserang!

25 April 2007: 5.00 petang

Kami baru sahaja mendapat berita bahawa calon KeADILan dalam piliharaya kecil N11 Ijok, Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim, Sdr P Krishnasamy dan beberapa pekerja parti sebentar tadi telah diserang oleh sekumpulan orang di Ladang Tuan Mee di Ijok.

Merka berada di ladang itu dalam rangka kempen untuk pilihanraya kecil itu.

Sdr P. Krishnasamy adalah Ketua, Keadilan Bahagian Kelang dan Naib Pengerusi Keadilan Keadilan Negeri Selangor.

Menuurut berita yang kami terima TS Khalid dapat diselamatkan dan di bawa keluar dari kawasan itu oleh para pekerja parti. Tetapi keadaan Sdr Krishnasamy tidak dapat dipastikan setakat ini, walapun beliau jelas telah menjadi mangsa serangan tersebut.

PESANAN ANWAR IBRAHIM UNTUK KERABAT KEADILAN DI IJOK

Mereka tabur fitnah, kita tabur fakta!

Saya ditanyakan berkenaan benarkah saya meminta bayaran tatkala saya berceramah di Langkawi baru-baru ini. Pelbagai jumlah wang yang dituduh membabitkan saya, dari RM2 billion sewaktu era 1998 dahulu hinggalah RM10 ribu yang terkini. Ini mainan politik jijik Umno. Irama tersebut telah dilaungkan sejak era reformasi 1998. Pun begitu sehingga kini belum terbukti sekelumit pun!

Seandainya jujur dan berprinsip, mengapa tidak berbangkit isu komisyen RM 520 juta dan 400 juta, yang disahkan oleh organisasi PBB sebagai yang tertinggi di dunia? Apa pula pendirian mereka mengenai kekayaan bercambah pimpinan Umno? Di blog Shamsul Iskandar ada dibangkitkan pendedahan rasuah Khir Toyo yang kian kusam disimpan di rak fail BPR. Kenapa tidak dijawab semua itu?

Kononnya saya melempar fitnah, menyerang peribadi. Yang saya bangkitkan cuma pertanyaan. Kalau tidak bersalah, apa perlu digusarkan persoalan tersebut? Saya cabar mereka yang mendakwa saya melempar fitnah untuk mengheret saya ke mahkamah. InsyaAllah lebih banyak akan kita dedahkan nanti.

Saya tegaskan, kita lempar fakta untuk dijawab, bukan fitnah memaki hamun. Rakyat kian bijak, Rakyat kian nampak. Beban menjawab kekal tergalas di bahu pimpinan Umno/BN.

ANWAR IBRAHIM

[dari laman blog Anwar Ibrahim]

BN risau tentang sokongan pengundi Melayu di Ijok

Nash Rahman Apr 24, 07 1:20pm  [dari Malaysiakini.com]

Dalam keghairahan pemimpin Barisan Nasional (BN) menabur projek bernilai puluhan juta ringgit, nampaknya mereka juga tidak dapat menyembunyikan kerisauan tentang sokongan pengundi Melayu terhadap calon BN, K Parthiban dalam pilihanraya kecil Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) Ijok Sabtu ini. Nada ucapan pemimpin tertinggi BN termasuk Timbalan Pengerusinya, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak; Naib Presiden Umno, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin dan Menteri Besar Selangor, Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Khir Toyo, nampaknya seperti masih kurang yakin pengundi Melayu akan menyokong Parthiban dari MIC. Parthiban, 38, seorang anak tempatan, akan berdepan dengan calon Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim, 61. Kerusi Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) Ijok kosong ekoran kematian penyandangnya Datuk K.Sivalingam pada 4 April lalu. Kerisauan itu dipercayai tercetus ekoran desakan Umno bahagian Kuala Selangor supaya BN meletak calon dari parti itu memandangkan majoriti pengundi di Ijok adalah Melayu. Lantaran itu, para pemimpin BN peringkat dan negeri dan nasional tidak putus-putus menegaskan bahawa kepentingan orang Melayu di Ijok tidak akan terabai walaupun mereka mengundi calon BN berketurunan India. Selama ini, Ijok diwakili oleh calon dari MIC atas alasan jumlah pengundi India di kawasan pilihanraya tersebut adalah yang kedua terbesar di Selangor. Menteri Besar Selangor sendiri mengumumkan akan menjadi Ijok sebagai DUN angkatnya dengan membuka pejabat dan melantik wakil tetapnya di situ. Manakala Muhyiddin Yassin pula, dalam kempennya semalam, meminta pengundi Melayu supaya jangan bimbang mengundi calon daripada kaum India dalam pilihanraya kecil Ijok kerana kepentingan mereka tetap terbela. Beliau memberi jaminan kepentingan orang Melayu – sebagai kaum majoriti di Ijok – tetap mendapat perhatian Umno yang menjadi tunjang kerajaan BN serta juga daripada Menteri Besar Selangor. ‘Sokongan bersama’ Oleh itu, Bernama memetik beliau sebagai berkata:”Tidak ada sebab masyarakat Melayu perlu risau atau terkilan kerana diwakili oleh kaum India. Walaupun calon BN, Parthiban, dari MIC, sentimen perkauman tidak timbul kerana sesiapa yang terpilih sebagai wakil, beliau mewakili BN yang mewakili semua kaum. Inilah semangat dan konsep permuafakatan BN.” Muhyiddin berkata, keistimewaan Ijok yang tidak ada di DUN lain di Selangor ialah ia mempunyai wakil Menteri Besar agar masyarakat Melayu dapat menyuarakan terus masalah mereka kepada Menteri Besar. Najib selaku Timbalan Perdana Menteri, juga tidak dapat menyembunyikan kerisauannya mengenai perkara itu. Dalam ceramah semalam, Bernama memetik beliau sebagai meminta pengundi Melayu dan Cina membalas budi masyarakat India yang selama ini menyokong kuat calon BN daripada kaum-kaum tersebut. Lagi pula, katanya, masyarakat India hanya mempunyai tiga daripada 56 kerusi DUN di Selangor, ataupun kira-kira lima peratus dan oleh itu pengundi Melayu dan Cina perlu menyokong calon BN yang mewakili MIC. Berucap di majlis pemimpin bersama rakyat di Taman Pancaran, Batang Berjuntai semalam, Najib berkata, sokongan kuat penyokong parti komponen BN daripada pelbagai kaum telah menjadi amalan BN sepertimana yang terbukti dalam pilihanraya kecil Batu Talam dan Machap yang dimenangi oleh BN hasil sokongan bersama. “Jadi sudah sampai masa bila MIC bertanding orang-orang Melayu dan Umno serta orang Cina membalas budi orang India dengan sokong MIC (calon BN). “Takkanlah kita tak boleh sokong calon BN sebab orang India pun sokong Umno dan BN dengan kuat di tempat-tempat lain,” katanya. Najib juga berkata orang Melayu juga tidak perlu bimbang kerana dengan mengundi calon MIC tidak bermakna mereka akan hilang kuasa kerana Umno masih menjadi tunjang BN dan kekal sebagai tonggak kekuasaan orang Melayu.

The Chinese could play kingmaker role in Ijok

An Analysis by

Kong See Hoh

The Sun: April 24: 2007

The situation in Ijok is touch and go at the moment for Barisan Nasional.

Estimates on the ground put the Malay support for Parti Keadilan Rakyat at more than 50% compared with only 30%-40% for BN. Unable to secure enough sure-votes from the Malay electorate in the face of heavy campaigning by Keadilan, BN is banking on the Chinese votes — which account for 20% of the total — to secure a victory in the weekend by-election.

According to an Oriental Daily News report yesterday, BN needs to garner at least 1,150 Chinese votes in order to retain the Ijok seat.

The support of Chinese voters is thus crucial for the BN candidate, K. Parthiban of the MIC.

The BN candidate is facing Keadilan’s Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim in the by-election following the sudden death of assemblyman Datuk K. Sivalingam in India on April 4.

Thus, the 2,530 Chinese votes will decide the fate of the BN which has to cling on to the “still-stable” and tangible Chinese ballots.

Lessons to be drawn from the Ijok by-election

By Chong Teck Chung

There are observations to share and lessons to be drawn from the Ijok by-election. These lessons can be used for all imminent by-elections.

Lesson 1:
How to make millions without breaking a sweat

Pray that your wakil rakyat kicks the bucket, or if that sounds too sinister, ask him or her to sacrifice his position by stepping down, and call for a by election. Entice to his/her self serving nature by saying that Barisan will pour money and he/she has a chance to benefit financially from the windfall. This ruse will do the trick.

Once that happens, money that was not available in the state coffers will magically appear from thin air. Magic does happen. Please be reminded of Khir Toyo’s miracle transformation; he was once fat and full of hot air, now he’s just thin air.

Your town will suddenly see an influx of development, leaders and hoodlums, at a pace unseen before in your life. Allocations which were not discussed in parliament, or State assemblies, or council budgets, will make its appearance. Due elementary budgetary process applicable in Bangladesh or India is not applicable in Malaysia. The losers, Barisan’s corporate cronies and civil service slaves, will have to fork out magic money at EPF contributor’s expense.

Roads will become clean, smooth and brightly lit. If Barisan’s wakil rakyat for Damansara Utama, Klang Lama, Cheras, Bandar Tun Razak, Taman Melawati, Bandar Klang, Bangi, Serdang, are willing to seek a by election, Malaysians would have less visits to the auto repair shop. Don’t take this lightly as if you think about it and if you request so, Barisan might wave its miracle wand and tolls might magically disappear.

Don’t forget to demand money as your compensation for the hardship of having to contend with constant Barisan propaganda and the same pocket pinching wakil rakyats since merdeka. Don’t be satisfied with RM100 or RM200, ask for RM 20,000 or a million if you’re desperate. Claim that you can get 30 voters i.e. your wife, children and relatives, hence you cost a bit more.

You can also claim your great grandmother, who was born in 1900 is a registered voter and Barisan and the Election Commission will help make the necessary arrangements for voting day. If your great grandmother can’t rise from the grave, claim that your child is a voter.

Don’t believe it’s possible? Go to the election commission website http://daftarj.spr.gov.my/daftar.asp and type IC no 990518610029. 8 year old Ispani Mohd Rejo from Bukit Badong, Ijok, can vote.

Lesson 2:
How to compel, arguably the most powerful man in the country, to do your bidding.

Barisan’s candidate, after several days of campaigning, shake hands and fakes a smile with the people of Ijok. Although the national spotlight is focus on Barisan’s candidate, surprisingly, the candidate makes no official comments, hardly communicates, and avoids debates at all costs. Heck, forget about extolling any plan or vision for Ijok either. All matters is handled by a bloke who happens to be the Deputy Prime Minister, who has since decided to relinquish his designated national role – despite being paid by all Malaysians to handle the affairs of the country and not neglect this crucial role to campaign full time in Ijok – to take on a much more important role as Parthiban’s Public Relations Consultant.

Najib will handle all press matters, in the morning, afternoon and evening. The task is made easier as all media outlets are owned by Barisan anyway, but the DPM is not taking chances. Apart from abusing government properties, TV channels RTM1, RTM2, the DPM and the Barisan cronies use TV3, NTV7, TV8, TV9, and Astro as they are all owned by their cronies too –Media Prima. That’s all the channels available in Malaysia by the way.

As not every Malaysian has TV, Barisan employs Utusan, the Star, NST, Beritan Harian, and the Chinese dailies to reinforce their message. Opposition and independent news are only allowed to inhabit cyberspace.

Not satisfied with the total domination of the airwaves and print media, Barisan cybertroopers bombards propaganda in the internet, particularly to freedom inclined websites. The opposition is reduced to unseen voices that the DPM happens to address in the news. UMNO supporters, meanwhile, demand that independent websites voice UMNO’s weak and fickle arguments against Tan Sri Khalid and the opposition.

Despite the overwhelming mind control in the mainstream media, they curiously believe in a fair playing field in cyberspace, applicable to themselves only. They wanted to put in ‘Parthiban Perkudakan Najib’ as proved above but changed the two names to the opposition personalities instead.

Lesson 3:
How to compel, arguably the most powerful man in the country, state chiefs, ministers, half the country’s leaders, and most important of all, mat rempits to do your bidding.

Very few ministers nowadays are seen hanging around in parliament. Debating is not our culture, and parliament is accepted as a rubber stamp, but it does seem very strange that the country’s most important leaders, Parthiban’s spokesperson, Najib Tun Razak, and his cohorts, Selangor Menteri Besar Khir Toyo, Roads and Works Minister Samy Vellu, Penang State chief Koh Soo Kun have all decided to skip their civil and fiscal duties to descend to a little known rural town.

The power of a by election overcomes all. Its gravitational pull will ensure that all important ministers who run the country will conveniently ignore their day to day national duties and instead stick to ‘more important’ matters of running a tiny DUN in rural Selangor.

Most important of all, get the mat rempits to be on your side by providing cheap trills. Have a carnival-like atmosphere at Barisan’s enclave of rumah Perlis, rumah Kelantan, rumah Negeri Sembilan, rumah Melaka, rumah Pahang, rumah Kedah. Cater food everyday for 1000 people and invite the town to breakfast, lunch, dinner. Abuse and mishandle as much money as possible as all is forgiven during by election.

The Election Commission officers will be somewhere in outerspace and will not notice any election fraud despite all the lavish parties and development gifts. Unethically spend RM36 million for Barisan using government funds and nobody will notice.

Lesson 4:
How to belittle the opposition candidate

Despite being the State Chief, ignore honour and dignity and accuse opposition of all thinkable evils. Belittle the opposition candidate, such as “he was merely a water boy”. Conveniently forget the various UMNOputra sycophants and accuse Tan Sri Khalid of “merely a corporate figure of some company”.

Don’t mention that Tan Sri was ex CEO of PNB, ex CEO of Guthrie, assisted in the formation of ASB and ASN, allocated RM500 million student loans and helped PNB acquire Guthrie from the London Stock Exchange in 1981. Silence the fact that he was one of the few Malay corporate genius and became CEO when he was 33 years old. Ignore all this and create drama by claiming in Utusan Malaysia that you will cut of your little finger if Tan Sri gives any money to the community.

Lesson 5:
How to threaten the opposition

As a battle cry in Ijok, Gempur is a word associated with Pemuda UMNO. According to Kamus Dewan, Gempur means creating havoc, or huru-hara. Notwithstanding Pemuda’s motto, throw accusations instead to the opposition that they are creating a ruckus, by throwing water bottles and sticks. Never mind if the bottles have the Barisan logo on it, just pretend that opposition drink Barisan’s mineral water, even though they weren’t provided with any.

Use mat rempits and gangsters to roam and intimidate opposition. Of special mention is the red scorpion team from pemuda UMNO dressed in menacing black shirts, jeans and sun glasses. They would have looked cool, if not for their faces resembling their red logo. Their leader, the high pitched Hishamuddin and his deputy, jeering Khairy J tried to look menacing but just didn’t come across so. Hisham and KJ’s pretend macho “I’m really really angry” expression could not even match Rosmah’s natural “I’m going to get you” look.

Lesson 6:
How the candidate can become the Prime Minister

Some people swear that come election time, every constituency will see the rise of a familiar face. In Ijok, almost all of the dacing posters resemble the familiar vote-for-me X mark portrait of a man in songkok, wearing baju melayu, with a graying moustache. The last time we looked at the candidate, he didn’t resemble anything like that.

Some Barisan friends, who wanted a Malay candidate, have insisted that Pak Lah is contesting in Ijok and is actually disguised as the local candidate. That’s why Pak Lah’s posters are all over the place. Many people find this hard to believe.

Some others have insisted that this accusation is ridiculous. Pak Lah is not contesting in this by election as he is not one to lose his precious time over this unnecessary circus. Pak Lah is also not one to speak on behalf of the candidate, morning, afternoon and evening, more so he is unfamiliar with the local Javanese dialect.

Others insist that it is in fact not Pak Lah but another personality. This personality’s poster is also prominent all over in Ijok and this personality is familiar with the local community and speaks the same language. They say that Khir Toyo is able to transform his appearance and change his look to resemble the candidate. So is Khir Toyo the candidate? That explains why the candidate hardly says anything – his Javanese accent might give him away.

Finally, remember, despite the relentless evils perpetrated by BN, Barisan’s greedy and self serving members will forever defend BN’s actions with weak and fickle arguments on TV, newspapers and other media outlets. As long as the rakyat refuse to have the courage to stand up to their nonsense.

It is time we wise up and reject unethical promises of money and development for votes. Do the right thing, reject Barisan!