'It was 'closed doors' because you know what Umno is trying to sell but the Americans ain't buying. Well, John Kerry is still going to be on Umno's back. And so are we, the 'rakyat'.'
Gov't DC charm offensive goes behind closed doors
SusahKes: It's a flop, ain't it? All the hoopla about us ‘explaining' our ‘laws' to the Americans. Sheesh, how much of taxpayers' money went into this? Can any MP ask this in Parliament? And what was the outcome despite the fact that it was ‘closed doors'? Doors were closed so that ambassador Jamaludin Jarjis can twiddle around with his Blackberry.
Who are this bunch of Umno leaders trying to kid? They're talking to a crowd that have no qualms about roasting their presidents - think Nixon or Clinton. And Nazri thinks he can mouth off a ‘1Malaysia' cosmetic show and convince the Americans? Should I tell these ‘Three Amigos' to please get a life?
It was ‘closed doors' because you know what Umno is trying to sell but the Americans ain't buying. I got news for you, Umno. John Kerry is still going to be on your back. And so are we, the ‘rakyat'.
Lim Kuan Keat: It doesn't matter if the session was closed or ‘off the record'. If blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin's post of the event is accurate (which seems to be the case judging by the similarity in event proceedings and confirmation that Minister Nazri Abdul Aziz was the only speaker), then the event proved to be of little substance that only retraced the old ground of propaganda that the government has been spewing all along.
Worse, Jamaluddin's reported conduct of Blackberry texting and reading the newspaper during Nazri's speech shows his blatant disrespect for a speaker and the non- importance of the event. What an embarrassment of an ambassador to not even know common courtesy and manners.
Louis: Since attorney-general Abdul Gani Patail and MACC advisory panel chairperson Abdul Hamid Mohamad went absent without leave, they should foot the bill. They were sent to work and failed to do so. They are using our money to fly there. What a shame.
Most probably, these two knew full well that they could never defend our government's governance and lack of transparency and more importantly, they cannot convince the Americans that our judiciary is fair. The country is in such mess that nobody can defend Malaysia.
Victor Johan: Ian Fleming's ‘Die Another Day' James Bond movie is no match for the ongoing serial of Najib Abdul Razak's ‘Lie, Lie Everyday'.
Suhakam: Raja Azman injuries self-inflicted
Pemerhati: Let us look at this report in a realistic manner. The boy knows very well that after Suhakam commissioner N Siva Subramainiam and his entourage leave, he will be at the mercy of the prison authorities and so he most probably told Siva what the prison authorities told him to say.
If he had not done that, he knew that the prison authorities would get very angry and continue to punish him as before and no one would be able to help him. It seems the boy is being tortured because the authorities want to get at his father, Raja Petra Kamarudin, because the latter has been revealing too much embarrassing information about Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, the inspector-general of police and other top figures.
Rayfire: We would like to hear it from the horse's mouth, so can we get Raja Azman to speak out? For some obvious reasons, we don't trust any of these Suhakam commissioners.
Disgusted: Suhakam members are appointed by BN and are beholden to BN. For this Raja Azman case, why not appoint a few from the opposition. Are they not Malaysians too? No one trusts Suhakam. Even when there is so much ill-treatment of foreigners and refugees by the authorities, they pronounced ‘semuanya okay'.
Spare the rod, spoil the country?
Sarajun Hoda: What happened to the males who were with these girls? Why were they not arrested, jailed and whipped too?
Allah says in the Quran, if the sinners of adultery seriously repent, as Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein claims they have, then they should not have been punished at all as Allah asks to forgive them.
The Quran (4:15) also says (24:4), if you cannot get four witnesses to the crime, then the accusers, the prosecutor and the judge should be whipped 80 times.
30% increase in non-Malay students 'a positive move'
Ong: This is another example of very poor and misleading Bernama reporting. It mentioned a 30% increase without at the same time stating the actual number of students, thus rendering the report useless as an information piece.
A good and fair report would have also stated the total number of student intake, both this year and last year. As it is, a 30% increase could well mean an increase from three students to four students, in which case such an increase is meaningless in the context of the ‘1Malaysia' concept. In fact, we could also have a outwardly impressive 200% increase.
However, this 200% increase will not be anywhere near impressive if it is from say, one student to three students out of a total intake, of say, 200 students. I therefore cannot understand why those former RMC (Royal Military College) students are so impressed with this vague 30% 'increase' in non-Malay student intake.
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