1. In some ways Malaysia is ahead of some developed countries in the appreciation of what is right and what is wrong.
2. In the United States lobbying is permitted and honourable. Many famous figures, especially former members of the Government have firms which offer lobbying services.
3. Foreign countries, including Malaysia find this service very convenient. We lobbied for some favourable policy to be shown for palm oil, tin and rubber imports into the United States for example.
4. Independent think tanks can lobby for their ideas on foreign policy like the New American Century to be made the foreign policy of the United States. They were successful and a million Iraqis died as a result.
5. Before Castro the Cuban Lobby ensured that sugar produced by Cuba would be imported into the United States. Now an anti-Castro Cuban Lobby ensures that Cuban sugar is banned in the United States.
6. All these lobbyings are legitimate. You pay the lobbyists a fee (which need not be revealed) and they will lobby for whatever you want them to lobby.
7. In Malaysia we do not have professional lobbyist. But we also do not have a law against lobbying. Nor do we specify what constitute lobbying; which kind would be permissible and which would not.
8. But now we have apparently decided that lobbying is a crime and those who lobby or who are lobbied are criminals. I say, syabas Kerajaan you have made Malaysia more honourable than the United States.
9. Prime Ministers and Ministers and just about anyone with any influence or authority in Government are continuously approached to back someone or something. They may be asked to write letters in support of something or someone.
10. I should also mention Deputy Prime Ministers. They too are lobbied by a whole lot of people. I did not think they were doing something wrong.
11. But supposing a Deputy Prime Minister writes a letter of recommendation for his sister-in-law to an official or minister of another country who could be expected to take a serious view of the recommendation because the writer is a Deputy Prime Minister of a friendly country and the recommendation is for his sister-in-law, does this constitute lobbying, or corruption or abuse of power. We need to know so that such letters of recommendation would not be written again. We need to know if they were written before, can action be taken against them now since we are now taking action on things which happened in the past. By being very clear about the past, the present and the future Malaysia would become highly regarded as the epitome of righteousness and the practitioners of the rule of law.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 217 of 217Salam Tun,
Karpal Singh sudah melapaui batas. Terbukti dialah musuh utama umat Melayu dan Islam. Umat Melayu mesti bersatu menentang karpal. Insyaallah kita mesti bersama-sama mendedahkan sikap hipokrit pemimpin yang tidak sayang kepada Malaysia ini.
PLEASE DO NOT HURT OUR COUNTRY
Hi, please stop spoilt the country economic, please remeber this is malayisia and not UMNO country. Melayugot the right to become PM, but please remember, do not spoilt this country by a Malay like you.
I do not have good impresssion about you as
during my study time. I am doing well in my spm exam, but i didnt get any place in U. many of my friend from alor setar got place in UK, NZ, Jepun. I really want to kill my self uner you as PM yang memperjuangkan nasib Melayu dan menindas bukan melayu. My whole family jobless and we go to singapore to find a living.
The Star, 24/05/08
Police record statement from Karpal over report against Dr M
By PRISCILLA DIELENBERG
GEORGE TOWN: The police have recorded a statement from national DAP chairman Karpal Singh in connection to his police report lodged against Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad over his remark that certain judges had approached the former Prime Minister to lobby for promotion.
Asst Supt A. Sidambaram took about an hour from 11am to record Karpal Singh’s statement at his legal firm in Green Hall Saturday.
Karpal Singh, who is Bukit Gelugor MP, then held a press conference before proceeding to give another statement to the police in relation to his earlier police report on April 26 against a Johor Baru college student who posted a murder threat against him on a PAS youth website.
Dr Mahathir was reported as saying on May 17 that he was prepared to be charged in court so that he could reveal many things about the judiciary, including lobbying.
He also said he wanted to tell all about judges who had come to him to lobby, adding that if lobbying were wrong, then these judges should be investigated.
Karpal Singh called upon the police to undertake an in-depth investigation into the allegation so that innocent judges could be spared from being dragged into the net of infamy.
He added that it made no difference if some of them had retired as they could still be charged.
On the statement by former UN rapporteur Datuk Param Cumaraswamy that Dr Mahathir should be detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA) for his public speech on May 17 in Johor Baru which bordered on sedition, Karpal Singh said it was misconceived and against the rule of law.
He said the DAP was absolutely opposed to detention without trial, and he advised Param to lodge a police report.
“Param is saying Dr Mahathir should have a dose of his own medicine but I think the ISA should not be invoked under any circumstances, even though I an very angry and bitter about spending more than 15 months detained under the ISA during Dr Mahathir’s time as the Prime Minister. There are other laws that can be applied,” said Karpal Singh.
On his report against the 19-year-old college student, Karpal Singh said he had since made an appeal to the Attorney-General to consider not prosecuting the boy as he had accepted his apology.
“However, the prerogative lies with the A-G and police investigations have to be completed. In the event the boy is charged, I volunteer to appear as a witness in court to say that I have accepted his apology.
"That should be given enough weight to conclude that his sentence is not severe despite the severity of what he posted on the website,” he said.
=Belum ape2 da kelam kabut...lain macam jekkk
ANAK KEDAH JATI NI OTAK OUT SIKIT......susah zaman moden ni ada org jahiliah.....BENDA SENANG JADI SUSAH, TAKDA CERITA JADI CERITA....... BUT TUN you are one of the kind .......... world class.......... humble, soft, keep explaining to this idiots but being idiots.. bit difficult dont you think so but you still trying, keep trying.... caya you, you see what past 4 years causes to some of our malays brain!! heart sickening ..
baru nak tutup....ternampak pulak posting jamal7285...... who are you? asking Tun to explains to you!! one will need brain to asked questions and you dont have one!! Budak Jamal OOOI .... can you do benchmarking before asking questions??? Are you telling only Malaysia have failure in GLC company, every country face same problems BUT Malaysia success rate was very very much higher... Can you do your homework and math... NI mesti case sekolah tak habis, kerajaan bagi duit utk belajar, kau org pegi gajar....inilah contoh kegagalan melayu, pasal tuu jadi macam niii
Tun,
Cakap mudahnya begini... Duit hasil melobi yang masuk poket mereka, mereka kata rezeki. Bila masuk poket orang, mereka kata rasuah.
hello.......
BUkan page utk bangkitkan isu perkauman yer...................nasib sesorang bukan terletak pd tgn TUN....Think logically!!!!!!!!!!!
salam tun,
jika tun tidak keberatan bolehkah tun menceritakn;
1. kenapa tun memilih pak lah sebagai timbalan tun;
2. apakah ciri2 yang terdapat padanya (paklah).
3. adakah tun pernah dikritik oleh tun hussein onn semasa pemerintahan tun dahulu.
Chezai >> apa lu cerita nii, kelakahlah you ni macam chicken running without head
One might want to add what happened to our Petroleum money. Petronas should make all income and expenses public. Maybe good to form a commission for each of the mentioned spending (wastage?)
What happened to Petronas money? Should make public. Form a commission of enquiry for each losses.
Tun
I thought that the judiciary system must be free from politics? If politicians were to choose the judges, wouldn't it make the politicians above the law if prosecuted?
Are you trying to say that those who choose the judges have immunity against the law? How is that fair to the people especially the poorer people?
From my opinion, if Tun were to be guilty of such acts, it would be only right if Tun receives heavy punishment for it as Tun represents the best example to prevent others from lobbying. However, if Tun were to be spared from any punishment, it would clearly increase the doubt that I have towards the current judiciary system and its efficiency. How can that be fair?
In the current situation, if the judge in the courtroom were to be lobbied by Tun himself, how are we to be certain that his judgment will not be biased towards the Tun, the man who in the first place give the judge the power?
From this, it seems that lobbying done by powerful people are not ethical as it gives more reason for powerful people such as Tun to be above the law.
Saya amat bangga bila malaysia bersama dengan Tun tapi kini apa yang tinggal adalah kenangan apabila BN kalah teruk pada pilihanraya lepas. Apa lagi yang tinggal untuk kita sebagai seorang yang berbangsa melayu apabila majoriti dewan rakyat telah dikuasai oleh suara pembangkang yang mana mereka semua adalah dari bangsa lain. Terjaminkah kontrak sosial yang telah kita pertahankan selama ini....... Jangan jadi seumpama tinggal di negara sendiri tetapi dijajah oleh bangsa asing...
Che Det,
Salaams
Dear Zeti Akhtar Aziz
(is our inflation really at 2.6%?)
From
i. Investment Outlook
Bill Gross | June 2008
Hmmmmm?
You can fool some of the people all of the time,
and all of the people some of the time,
but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.
– Abraham Lincoln
...I wasn’t an inflationary Paul Revere or anything, but I joined others in arguing that our CPI numbers were not reflecting reality at the checkout counter....In the 1990s the U.S. CPI was subjected to three additional changes that have not been adopted to the same degree (or at all) by other countries, each of which resulted in downward adjustments to our annual inflation rate. Product substitution and geometric weighting both presumed that more expensive goods and services would be used less and substituted with their less costly alternatives: more hamburger/less filet mignon when beef prices were rising, for example. In turn, hedonic quality adjustments accelerated in the late 1990s paving the way for huge price declines in the cost of computers and other durables. As your new model MAC or PC was going up in price by a hundred bucks or so, it was actually going down according to CPI calculations because it was twice as powerful. Hmmmmm? Bet your wallet didn’t really feel as good as the BLS did...
ii. Secular Outlook
Mohamed El-Erian | May 2008
A Tale of Two Cities
...We started with a rather stark characterization of what economists like to call "the initial conditions." After years of over-relying on the U.S. consumer, financial leverage and untested alchemy, the global system finds itself in a dead end. Imbalances have gotten too large to allow for another bout of debt-financed economic activity, and we have reached a limit in the ability of the system to create another layer of endogenous liquidity and to support yet again poorly-capitalized activities. Instead, the emphasis is on de-leveraging, a process that inevitably involves disruptive overshoots and considerable collateral damage.
In order to regain its composure in a durable fashion, the global system will have to (i) undo some of the recent journey and (ii) pave a new path. To do so requires more than just appropriate actions on the part of both deficit and surplus countries; it also speaks to the capacity of the global system as a whole to accommodate the changes...
Nota:
Sometimes the statements from Bank Negara sounds eerily very much like what the Federal Reserves Bank(of USA) wrote word for word, Tan Sri.
"my dilemma"
i had used the blanket u gave me...
..now i see the blanket has holes which u have made obvious...
...it is but a cloud...how clever!
i am happy to burn this blanket that once cloaked me.
u think it is good to burn ah?
xman
Salam Tun,
Thank you for all the good things that you have done to Malaysia. Most of all I am proud to have you as our Prime Minister.
May Allah bless you always with good health & long life because we still need you Tun.
*to naughty but nice press. twice as nice - I am with u man!
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