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Nightclubs, spas, nuclear plants: 'Macam-macam ada'
Published:  Oct 27, 2010 7:28 AM
Updated: Oct 27, 2010 2:53 AM

your say 'On one hand, BN attacked the opposition for donating RM100 to the elderly, claiming the money is haram. Now you are talking about night clubs and spas?'

ETP to boost nightlife and spa industry

Danny Lazaroo: I'm not sure whether this is a wise investment for the government. As it is, Kuala Lumpur is already quite well-known for its night life amongst the clubbing 'crowd'.

Furthermore, promoting more nightclubs is pretty much akin to promoting the shady business and dealings that nightclubs are known to be involved with - excessive binge drinking, minors sneaking into clubs, drug use (ecstasy comes to mind), and even the more serious ones like prostitution and 'importing' call girls or 'guest relations officers' from China and other countries.

It comes down to values. While some might be okay with these kind of things, I'm somewhat surprised that our pro-Islam government is supporting these types of activities, which are notoriously tied to some of these 'immoral' actions/industries.

It is equally strange that our pro-Islam government supports legalised gambling as well. I'm not a Muslim myself, but I do think that these kind of policies are not in the best interest of Malaysians in the long term.

Call me Jibby: While some Umno assemblymen have criticised the Selangor government for granting licences to nightclubs, massage parlours and other like industries (the truth is, the licences were granted under Selangor MB Mohd Khir Toyo's administration), their president Najib Razak is now encouraging more nightclubs and spas to be opened.

Monsterball: This is Najib's trick to get Chinese votes. Let's see whether Muslim racists and hypocrites will go on the road and protest such a hypocritical two-timing prime minister.

As for Chinese Malaysians thinking why not, why so, why now? no problem - because who cares? Let Najib try his stunts, wheeling and dealing. Chinese are smart voters - accept all the good news and vote Umno's corrupt out.

Najib thinks the Chinese only care about making money and will forgive and forget the billions stolen.

PJ Residence: This Economic Transformation Programme is long overdue and it is definitely good for the country to compete with others for Malaysia to become a high-income country. Bravo, PM Najib, this is what Malaysians want!

Justice Bao: Today they take up religious issues, tomorrow they support night clubs just to suit themselves. The Home Ministry needs campaigning funds from all the ‘taikos' for the 13th general elections as well as the Chinese votes.

Chinese voters are stupid if they want short-term benefits only. They can take advantage of what these ‘no-principle' people give, but they must know who to vote come GE13 for the present and future generations.

Multi Racial: BN needs to be consistent. On one hand, it attacked the opposition for donating RM100 to the elderly, claiming the money is haram . Now you are talking about night clubs and spas? Obviously in night clubs there will be alcoholic drinks and ladies... isn't that haram to Muslims?

I am not against the government being more open-minded. Opening up night life is good for tourism. But there has to be consistency in policy and direction. You just can't have the cake and eat it too.

Temenggong: A positive move, but entertainment zones should be widened to include dead areas like Port Dickson, Pangkor, Ipoh, Taiping, Cameron Highlands and Fraser's Hill, as well as Malacca and Cherating, which are tourist areas. Emulate Phuket.

Award for nuclear plant as early as 2014

Kopi O: Tell me, with the cracked MRR2 highway, the collapse of the Terengganu stadium, Parliament leaking and a list of shoddy mega-projects, can we trust the BN government with our lives? They'll soon get us killed!

Nuckin: The selling point for building the Bakun dam was that it could supply energy for power-thirsty Peninsular Malaysia and East Malaysia. Now that it is riddled with problems and scandals, it has yet to generate a single watt of electricity to anywhere. We are already planning for the next eco-disaster by building nuclear power plants?

Ghkok: Australia has 23 percent of the world's uranium deposits and yet the people there oppose nuclear power plants. They have debated the issue at length - environmental, health, safety, financial - over several decades.

There is as yet no convincing arguments to have a nuclear power plant. Where is the debate in Malaysia? Who gave the government the right to force it down our throats? Who's going to bear the costs?

Matrix: Great. Now we are going to nuke ourselves. I hope Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia won't sue us when the nuclear spill-out blows to our neighbouring countries.

But then again, why worry? We'll be dead by then, thanks to a bunch of incompetent fools running the plants. Najib and gang would have taken a private jet and fly far away at the first sign of trouble.

Wira: I object strongly to this nuclear plant on the ground that, based on past practices, Umno cronies and rent-seekers will endanger the lives of every Malaysian.

Lexicon: "There will be no shortcuts. Security is paramount." That's what they said about Bakun too. Then when they started filling the dam, there was a huge logjam. And now the water levels in the Rejang are low and Kapit people cannot use the river to travel anywhere.

But a mess in a nuclear plant would be even worse. Remember Homer Simpson working in a nuke-lar plant? Doesn't he remind you of Pink Lips? And Marge has big hair too.


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