‘Either you speak up (without fear or favour) or leave BN and stay independent. You can then support any side that works fairly for all Malaysians. Please do not behave like a mouse.'
On MCA chief must heed survey, cut ties with Umno
Kaisim: The message is clear enough for MCA to move out of BN in order to save itself from extinction.
The Chinese community have had enough of the so-called cooperation and power-sharing in the BN government.
Being the second-largest component in BN, MCA can only whisper into the ears of the Umno leaders. They cannot speak their minds as leaders as they will be sacked.
I remember the incident when Lee Kim Sai spoke up for the community - he had to face the Umno music to the extent that his ‘datukship' was taken away.
There are some MCA opportunists who wish to remain in Umno's good books, waiting for a reward for keeping quiet. Some members go into MCA to make big bucks.
Look at our politicians, many of them retire rich.. The ordinary folks work a lifetime while the politicians work for only ten years and retire in comfort.
The Chinese are not going to tolerate this nonsense anymore. Either you speak up (without fear or favour) or leave BN and stay independent.
You can then support any side that works fairly for all Malaysians. Please do not behave like a mouse and let the community suffer.
Ong: If MCA severs its ties with Umno and leaves BN, it has only one option, which is to be on its own.
Obviously MCA cannot be accepted into Pakatan Rakyat because it is a race-based party.
On its own and without support from Umno supporters' votes I won't be surprised if at the next GE it ends up with zero seats with most of it's candidates losing their deposits.
As Karpal Singh has said, and to which I agree, the MCA leadership is only interested in hanging on to their ministerial and other senior government posts, including back-door posts given to their defeated and rejected leaders.
Even if their own survey shows that 90% of respondents want MCA to pull out of BN, I do not believe MCA will do so.
The PKFZ saga shows clearly that holding top government posts means easy access to easy money by the billions.
Do they want to press the self-destruct button and lose such money-making opportunities?
On Unity gov't: PAS standing on quicksand
Putra Rakyat: When DAP joined the Pakatan alliance, in which PAS is a component party, I recall several BN component parties, especially the MCA condemning the DAP for ‘sleeping with the devi'l.
Now that the ‘devil' is seeking a unity government with Umno, neither MCA, Gerakan nor MIC has the guts to speak out against Umno or PAS for wanting to talk to Umno.
The question is why such double standards when PAS is apparently trying to kneel before their political foes and seek a unity government?
Is the MCA or other BN component parties afraid to pull out of BNl, despite the poll results on the MCA president's blog that show that a majority of MCA members want precisely that?
PAS should realise by now that had they not joined the Pakatan, they would be confined only to Kelantan. Now, with Pakatan, they have captured four other states, but lost one.
In the Perak saga, it is clear to the rakyat who is the bigger devil.
As a matter of fact, I would vote for someone like Nizar even though he may belong to PAS, rather than Zambry because he belongs to Umno.
This is the sentiment of the people after observing what happened in Perak. Until today, BN has no courage to face a fresh elections in Perak.
The people of Malaysia are known for their patience. Three more years of waiting is no big deal, especially after 51 years of political dominance and 22 years of dictatorship.
On Conditional talks yes, but no unity gov't
Ganga Gangath: Here we go again, PAS taking steps to talk to Umno. What is PAS' stand actually? Can PAS ever be trusted?
Recently, the PAS government in Kelantan implemented a dress code for public parks including for non-Muslims too.
Non-Muslims have their own right to wear what we want.
PAS should not dictate to us like the Taliban of Afghanistan on what to wear and what not to wear. Respect others first.
On Manohara case is not a 'private matter'
Intan Zanariah: Now I'm living in Indonesia and I've seen the pictures of what is believed to be 'the evidence' against the prince.
I'm no expert, but shouldn't someone who was angry (in this case, the prince) inflict more serious wounds on the victim? (in this case Manohara)?
People nowadays can do anything for money and I'll not buy the lies that Manohara and her mother have been spouting all along.
Li Kheng: I watched this video and she does not seem happy. She seems like a young child enjoying fun 'water and sun' activities.
Every time the prince/her husband touches her, she is trying to politely move away from him.
I can only guess that she had been persuaded and that she should count herself lucky for being married to royalty.
I believe I am not the only one who thinks that this is the case. Therefore, it is very ironic that the video has been labeled ‘her happy days'.
It angers me to think that there are all these older men who are trying to control this child's life; and to abuse her.
The man who took this video seems to be very fascinated with her. Is he taking it to fulfil his own sexual fantasies of her, or is he taking it upon instruction from the prince?
The film smacks of voyeurism/obsession with Manohara.
On 'I'm a nobody, why would LKY meet me?'
Adcin: Singapoe's senior minister Lee Kuan Yew made a curious request to meet Rosmah, our PM's wife on his recent visit.
It is certainly unconventional and our PM made a big fanfare out of it as if arranging an audience with a royalty.
It has been widely rumoured that it is Rosmah that wears the pants in the house and perhaps Lee would like to assess first hand the truth of these stories.
Najib should not have agreed to this request in the first place. After all, on the surface of it, Rosmah is only a PM's wife, not a politician and Lee has really no reason to be talking to her, except in passing when he meets Najib.
By agreeing to the meet, Najib indirectly confirmed Rosmah's influence in his decision-making and even a weakness in his reading of the situation.
Lee, although retired from active politics, still has a strong influence in Singapore's policies and his visit to Malaysia is not only for the melancholic trip down memory lane.
He has made the effort to see influential politicians of both sides, but has not even bothered with Mahathir, because I suspect he knows what to expect from him and he definitely would not be welcomed with such open arms.
Hopefully for us, the state of our politics is such that most of Lee's findings from his recent CT scan of Malaysia will be made academic soon.
