80- Tell others - ZERO votes to BN/UMNO

IMPORTANT :  GIVE BN/UMNO zero votes GE13

Dear Malaysians especially genuine Sabahans,
There are many non genuine Sabahans in Sabah.
This is the message for the nation at the time of GE13.
It is meaningless for Sabah and Malaysia to have this GE13 when the electoral rolls are loaded with illegal people given genuine identity cards.  You call this a ‘Malaysian’ nation.
How many political parties in Malaysia are legal when many foreigners given genuine identity cards to become members especially UMNO in Sabah?
Why waste so much resources of up to RM100billions including campaigning by many people and many people disturbed in their businesses to conduct a false General Election and this is not the first time General Election is not a farce.
What we want is a true, free and fair General Election?  Cheating by Election Commissions has been the normal business even getting the law changed to ‘no challenge to the Electoral Rolls once gazetted.”  How can we protect thieves by such a law?  Isn’t it BN/UMNO wanted that because of fraudulent Electoral Rolls?
How to conduct a true, fair and free General Election when there are so many aspects of no level playing field and everyone knows that?
We must stop the BN/UMNO for another term especially BN/UMNO in Sabah since grabbing power in 1994 after recruiting the ‘terrorists’ for ‘citizenships’ from across the Sulu sea.  I have used the term ‘terrorist’ as it was used for the “Tanduoa Invasion” after the Home minister earlier said “ not militant, not terrorists”  but later switched to terrorists after the security forces were killed including head chopped off and bodies/eyes mutilated. 
According to Hassnar Ebrahim who told us that NRD’s Sani Abdullah  told him that people from Southern Philippines if given citizenship would one day come back to bite us.  Now we have witnessed so soon as that in Lahad Datu, Semporna etc.
BN/UMNO in 50 very long years had never resolved the Sabah Claim and yet Najib claimed BN/UMNO had delivered to the people.
At one time it was considered that the presence of illegal people is the mother of all woes in Sabah.
Then I consider the Sabah Claim by Sulu/Manila/others yet to be resolved is the grandmother of all woes in Sabah.
Now it is UMNO in Malaysia and Sabah as the great grandmother of all woes in the nation especially in Sabah.
If we want solution, then we should know what to do at GE13.  We as voters who love Malaysia and Sabah should know what to do – give ZERO votes to BN/UMNO.  Lets only dubious citizens vote BN/UMNO whose socalled leaders are traitors fit to be done with in that fashion with total rejection.

Now we come to Sabah’s special scenario for an UBAH.  I think Putrajaya already decided by Malaya alone for UBAH.
It is sad to see the line up in the candidates in most seats giving the voters some headache to decide.  If all voters give ZERO votes to BN/UMNO, then it is a friendly contest amongst the opposition parties (Malaya-based, Sabah/Sarawak-based).  Then we have an UBAH in Sabah’s state Government – congratulations for the 50 years or golden jubilee in 2013 for a truly independence

Why give BN/UMNO zero votes at GE13?

1.       Ask Musa Aman and his task force on the 400,000 genuine identity cards given to Tausug, Suluk etc in 1990s and many of the Project IC holders are voters in Sungai Sibuga.  Is this not a terrorism or treasonous act by Musa Aman in an agenda of trojan horses?  With this concept, how can Musa want/can resolve the Sabah Claim and Project IC?

2.       BN/UMNO leaders did expect the Royal Commission of Inquiry on Illegal Immigrants in Sabah to be completed and implemented prior to GE13.  But this is a great disappointment because those who wanted to leave BN are still there cheating the voters with fraudulent electoral rolls.  With the dubious citizens in the Rolls, BN/UMNO imagine sure to win GE13 as aided by Election Commission as done previously.

3.       The dubious citizens are likely bumiputra and so the incoming ILLEGAL Government would only bring benefits to them marginalizing the  local and others as had been done for decades and so why let them be in power again.

Based on 1, 2 and 3, BN/UMNO should not deserve any votes from genuine voters – Sabahans and Malaysians alike.  Let them lost their deposits this time as a good sign of CHANGE or UBAH.

In my campaign for N13 Likas byelection 2001, I hung banner “UMNO to go home”.  Lajim, Musa and many others saw that in All Saints’ School, Likas.

The results for the Sabah state of General Election 13 could be better still if SAPP and STAR (both not Malaya based) compromise on 30 seats with a single candidate now and declare it to the voter.

So both parties sacrifice 15 candidates each so that SAPP and STAR can form a coalition Government in Sabah with other independent candidates as CHANGE or UBAH.

If SAPP, sacrifice 15, there are still 26 and STAR still have 34 both enough number to win at least 35 seats together.

SAPP and STAR, please act FAST now.

Joshua Y. C. Kong   30 April, 2013

PM of IGGG Malaysia; author of 12 books.

The following blogs need visiting urgently:-

http://mforum.cari.com.my/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=238768&extra=&page=1
  terrorists at work in Malaysia & Sabah and security failed to keep Sabah in crime-free or less crimes
http://writingsmalaysia.blogspot.com/
Writings on the Walls Malaysia

http://malaysiange13.blogspot.com/
GE13

http://rciiis.blogspot.com/ rci on illegal immigrants in Sabah

very urgent for GE13
http://tanduaoinvasion.blogspot.com/
Sulu terrorists in Lahad Datu.

http://fresh-air-in-iggg.blogspot.com/
Interim Good Governance Government Malaysia

  http://treason-migs-sabah.blogspot.com/
where the present leaders are involved and yet they are in or seeking for elected offices.

79. Musa Hassan joins Pakatan advisory council

Musa Hassan joins Pakatan advisory council

4:19PM Apr 29, 2013    http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/228441

Ex-police chief Musa Hassan has joined the Pakatan Rakyat security advisory council as an adviser, in light of recent incidents of political violence.

In a joint statement with Musa, former army chief General (Rtd) Hashim Hussein (left), who is the PKR candidate for the Johor Bahru parliamentary seat, said he had personally approached Musa to take up the position.

"As people who have spent a great part of our lives protecting and serving Malaysians to ensure peace and safety in our country, we wish to categorically state that political violence has no place in our democratic process," the statement reads.

The council is to assist with a peaceful transition of power, should Pakatan form the federal government in the 13th general election, as well as to ensure an orderly campaign.

"We are alarmed that the home affairs minister publicly stated that these happenings would worsen more than a month ago," the statement further reads.

The council will also advise Pakatan Rakyat on national security matters in the future.

The statement said that both Hashim and Musa have discussed about Pakatan's aims to increase police salaries, along with improving the armed and police forces in the country as well.

Musa's decision to join Pakatan could fuel more speculation about his political inclination.

Since retirement, Musa has been a vocal critic of Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein (right), pointing out the latter's interference in police matters.

He is also the patron for Malaysian Crime Watch Task Force (MyWatch), whose adviser S Gobi Krishnan is a PKR member.

78. Weird news but possible and take care..

 This is possible because there many ten of thousands Sabahans working in Malaya and many thousands of west Malaysians doing business in Sabah - all going home to vote but who pay for the passages etc ?    Joshua

EC head in disbelief over 'outside voters' claim

Koh Jun Lin 10:21AM Apr 30, 2013

http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/228500

Election Commission (EC) chairperson Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof has questioned the claim that secret flights have been chartered to ferry “outside voters” into Selangor ahead of the 13th general election on Sunday.

“Huh? How can? I don’t believe it at all, that one could book flights and fly Sabahans or Sarawakians (to Peninsular Malaysia), or (peninsula) Malaysians to Sabah and Sarawak (like that)!” he exclaimed.

“But there are people who have transferred their address from one place to another because they have moved their house, and this is legal under the law.”

He pointed out that the process also entails a two-week objection period where a list of the voters being transferred is publically displayed, before the changes are gazetted.

“You cannot just simply bring people by car, or by bus, or by plane just like that, unless they go for a holiday. I don't know," he said.

He was asked to respond to a claim by Pakatan Rakyat Selangor that Umno is flying in “outside voters”, including those from the military even though they already have access to postal voting.

Malaysiakini has contacted several top BN leaders to comment on the allegation, but has yet to receive any response.

Abdul Aziz was at the Police Training Centre in Kuala Lumpur this morning to observe the advance voting process by police personnel.



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INI KALI LAH......
UBAH, UBAH, UBAH.....
ABU,ABU,ABU.......
GOMEN PAID FOR  SCREW DRIVERS AT A COST OF OVER RM200.00 EACH.
TO SCREW YOU ALL RAKYAT........
ONE PACKET OF MAGGI MEE COSTS RM8.00
DO YOU STILL WANT TO VOTE FOR THIS GOMEN???????

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We need as much HELP as you can muster... spread the word.

Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 16:57:34 +0000

A MAS staff leaked this info out to warn us. Hope PR can do something. Please share the info. MAS got the project to fly 60,000 Sabahans to Selangor during 1-4 May, to vote. AirAsia to fly some to Johore, for they know BN might lose Johore. 

Apparently Putra Jaya issued an order that wef from Monday, all staff not allowed OT and only authorized staff are allowed into PM's department !!!! They saw the dissent at the Putra Jaya ceramah...

Clearly PM's office is cleaning up before handover. 

A good sign of BN preparing for defeat!

This is an urgent appeal for support. Pakatan Rakyat needs everybody to bring the messages of truth down to grassroots. There are many people who have not received the messages from Pakatan Rakyat. Many have not been able to attend the Pakatan Ceremahs.

Please help to send all message that you receive to at least 10 persons. The more people we can reach out to the whole country the better. We need to reach out to the 7th level. We need to reach out to 1 million people very fast. 

Time is of the essence... It is NOW OR NEVER... Thank you.

77. Fear not and bring down BN/UMNO now

 from an email by Prithi Pal ----

"INSIDER NEWS" from PUTRAJAYA...

Got a call just now from my dear friend in Putrajaya where there's an OPERATIONS ROOM running...
He INFORMED me that in PENANG...
The BN Government representatives have spread the WORD out to "UNDERGROUND TRIADS" in Penang, that "IF" they HELP the BN Government in the upcoming Elections...hen whatever "LICENSES" hat they may want including "GAMING" licences for "Gambling" or even any of their "UNDERGROUND" gaming licenses that they operate... they are WILLING to "GIVE" to them if they HELP BN to win the PENANG State Government and "ASSIST" in this 13th General Elections and that they would go "LENIENT" on them if they are able to maintain the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT...

But "IF" they do NOT help and IF Penang 'maintains' under DAP Pakatan and BN still REMAINS the Federal Government. Then they would tell the Royal Malaysian Police Force (PDRM) to come down "HARD" on them, their associates and any of their operations.

2nd, He informed me that the Federal Government is already sending out WARNINGS to so call TAKE ACTION and be 'strict' upon GOVERNMENT STAFF who elect and support the opposition/Pakatan Rakyat trying to SCARE them from voting for opposition or from voting ALL TOGETHER!

But as this friend with a LEGAL background had informed me that in the OLD DAYS, it was POSSIBLE to "TRACK" the voters and identify these voters and their "preferrence" as in the OLD DAYS, the Ballot SHEETS used to have "SERIAL NUMBERS"...

But today, during the ELECTIONS... thanks to BERSIH's pressures, BALLOTING PAPERS "NO LONGER" have/contain "SERIAL NUMBERS" thus the EC or the Government can NO LONGER track WHO the voters ARE or WHOM they voted for... thus GOVERNMENT STAFF need NOT to worry anymore if they CHOOSE to vote for CHANGE during this 13th GENERAL ELECTIONS as they can no longer be TRACED as the Ballot "PAPER" itself no longer has a serial number like before!

P.S. I DO find it 'despicable' that our current RULING Government could actually "THINK" of striking or trying to WORK OUT a "DEAL" with Underground CRIMINALS... but of course this current Government "IS" a "KLEPTOCRACY" Government whom are "CRIMINALS" themselves!

Sincerely
w.i.w.c

76. Is it DEMON-cracy not democracy for GE13?

Sandakan.com

Malaysian Cops concerned over violence All Over Malaysia

PETALING JAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - The rivalry between supporters of political parties has escalated in the run-up to the May 5 election, in what police described as "alarming".
Cases of violent acts and attacks on political party buildings are being reported throughout the country, the police say.
So far, 906 police reports have been lodged on elections-related incidents since nomination day on April 20, including explosions at rally sites, arson at party operations centres and physical attacks and threats made against party workers.
The police have expressed concern over the violence, and urged party supporters to refrain from getting involved in provocative acts.
Inspector-General of Police secretariat assistant head Asst Comm Ramli Mohamed Yoosuf said 25 people had been arrested since nomination day.
"On Wednesday alone, 247 police reports were lodged, mostly involving violent incidents.
"It is very alarming. We call on party supporters not to resort to violence to settle their differences," he said on Thursday.
On Tuesday night, a 57-year-old party supporter in Dungun suffered head and body injuries after he was attacked by a group of nearly 30 rival party supporters in a dispute over party flags being brought down by enforcement teams.
A party supporter in Besut was threatened with a machete and warned by villagers not to come and campaign in their area.
In Tapah, a man was beaten and scolded over a misunderstanding about a political party, while in Klang, a man was choked and received death threats over an argument about rival political parties.
In Kota Baru, part-time RTM cameraman Mohammad Yaakob, 61, died of a suspected heart attack after he was involved in an alleged scuffle with a PAS supporter on Monday night.
In Penang, a 53-year-old hawker was beaten up for removing flags put up outside his house last week.
In Buntong, Perak, a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a Barisan Nasional operations centre on Thursday.
On Wednesday, a petrol bomb was thrown at a Barisan operations centre in Sungai Besar, Selangor, while a Barisan operations centre in Malacca was broken into.
In Parit 9, Sungai Leman, Sekinchan, Selangor, a bottle of gasoline was hurled at a Barisan operations centre, causing a small fire and damaging a party flag and an Election Commission (EC) banner.
The worst case so far was when a Barisan campaign worker was injured by an improvised explosive device which exploded next to a Barisan rally tent on Tuesday.

75. Msia sure heading to bankruptcy for profligacy

Sandakan.com

Malaysian populist windfall fuels debt fears

Najib has given out $19 billion in public funds — $1,400 per voter — for “political spending”

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"Poor Malaysian & Sabahans being fooled by Promises of Prime Minister Najib"

  — It has never been more lucrative to be a voter in Malaysia, where political rivals are showering the public with cash in a desperate electoral battle, stoking concerns over rising national debt. With May 5 elections expected to be Malaysia’s closest ever, the long-ruling coalition has given billions of dollars in new cash, pay rises and other handouts to civil servants, the poor, elderly, farmers and students.
The opposition, which holds four of 13 states, has likewise made a range of state-level payouts, and promises still more perks if it wins federal power for the first time in Malaysia’s 56 years of independence.
The bidding war began shortly after the opposition stung the Barisan Nasional (National Front) coalition in 2008 elections, but has spiralled of late.
“It’s been a windfall for Malaysians these past five years,” said Francis Loh, president of Malaysian democratic rights group Aliran.
The bonanza has seemed farcical at times.
Barisan recently denounced opposition campaign pledges as a blueprint for insolvency.
But Prime Minister Najib Razak promptly upped the ante with billions in new promises of his own — sparking opposition outrage that he copied their ideas.
The unprecedented giveaways attest to the high stakes of an election in which a ruling elite is desperate to retain power and its rich perks, while the opposition fights to make the most of its best shot yet at governing.
But warnings are emerging that Malaysia — which already has Southeast Asia’s highest debt-to-GDP ratio, after Singapore — is at best endangering a goal to become a “developed nation” by 2020 and at worst courting disaster.
“Today’s politicians are bent on planting the seeds of an economic crisis for our children to inherit,” said Wan Saiful Wan Jan, who runs the IDEAS think-tank.
If Malaysia meets financial catastrophe in the future, “economic historians may well trace back the root cause to this general election,” he added.
Few analysts see an immediate threat of disaster, noting the situation can be managed if some hard post-election political choices are made.
But some say much-needed development spending could shrink further if increasingly hard-fought politics continue to trump economic planning in a country where populist subsidies have come to be expected by many voters.
Such spending fell from 28 percent of the 2010 budget to 20 percent this year.
“There is a concern if populist spending were to get in the way of infrastructure spending which will have longer-term repercussions on the economy,” said Gundy Cahyadi, a Singapore-based economist with OCBC bank.
Under Barisan, resource-rich Malaysia developed into a regional economic success, enjoying decades of growth, foreign investment inflows, and rising living standards.
But lower-cost rivals China, Indonesia and others have forced a re-focusing on high-tech manufacturing and services even as critics say Malaysia’s education system is failing to prepare graduates for a move up the value chain.
Economic growth was a solid 5.6 percent last year, but much of that is credited to election-minded deficit spending. Debt has doubled since 2007 to 53.7 percent of GDP.
In emailed comments to AFP, Najib said “our debt will never exceed 55 percent of GDP,” but critics note “hidden” public debt such as state-guaranteed loans may have doubled since he took power in 2009.
Malaysia politics analyst Bridget Welsh estimates that since taking office Najib has given out $19 billion in public funds — $1,400 per voter — for “political spending” that benefits Barisan.
That is “the most ever in the lead-up to Malaysian polls” said Welsh, of Singapore Management University.
In campaign stops, Najib regularly references the largesse, telling voters to pay back it at the ballot box.
“If he wins, it will become a crutch politicians rely on, an extension of money politics,” she said.
Moves by the opposition Pakatan Rakyat (People’s Pact) alliance include a water subsidy in a key state won in 2008 that has drained 20 percent from the state’s operating budget. Cash payments in Pakatan states also have grown.
If it wins federal power, it promises to make university education free, scrap various taxes and fees, and raise subsidies, moves it says will cost $15 billion per year.
Barisan counters that they will cost $65 billion, or 80 percent of today’s federal budget.

74. Thousands of Tausug voting in Sabah on 5-5-13

 Meanwhile, during the wedding yesterday, Kiram instructed the royal army, which reportedly numbers 1,500, not to disrupt the May 5 elections in Malaysia so that the people in Sabah who are mostly Tausugs can exercise their right to vote.  (see last paragraph)

 http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2013/04/29/936168/sultans-daughter-weds-army-major

Sultan’s daughter weds Army major

By Roel Pareño (The Philippine Star) | Updated April 29, 2013 - 12:00am

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ZAMBOANGA CITY , Philippines   – Amid the crisis that surrounds the family, Jacel Kiram, daughter of Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III, tied the knot yesterday with her long-time boyfriend, a junior officer of the Philippine Army, in a simple and private wedding.
Jacel, 35, the eldest daughter of Kiram and his wife, Fatima Cellah, is the go-to person in the Kiram household, ready to protect the welfare of their people on behalf of her father.
Jacel is so low-key that she even begged off from disclosing the name of her betrothed hours before the wedding.
“Let’s just say he’s a Tausug, a fighter from Sulu,” Jacel told The STAR.
Sources, however, identified the groom as Army Maj. Mohammad Yusop Hassan.
“This wedding is a sacrifice for both of us because this will happen only once in our lives,” Jacel said.

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Only a few people who are very close to the couple witnessed the ceremony at the Garden Orchid Hotel here.
Those who stood as sponsors were Pastor Boy Saycon (Mutahmeen), Sulu Gov. Yusoph Jikiri and Sitti Khrisna, wife of Sulu sultanate spokesman Abraham Idjirani.
Jacel said their family decided to make the affair private because of the ongoing standoff between members of the sultanate of Sulu and Malaysian forces over their claim on Sabah.
“We are aware that the families of our fallen royal army and sultanate members and other civilians from Sulu continue to mourn the unfortunate incidents,” Jacel said.
“But we have been preparing for our wedding even before the standoff happened and we decided to push through with it because our elders say it is not good to forgo the original wedding date,” she said, adding that they did not even send out invitations.
In a text message to The STAR, Idjirani said tradition dictates that a dowry for the princess of Sulu is one island, “but the Sultan decided to forgo the tradition.”
“It’s up to the groom to decide what will be his dowry for the princess,” Idjirani said.
He said the wedding of Jacel and Hassan was supposed to be grandiose but they decided otherwise.
Meanwhile, during the wedding yesterday, Kiram instructed the royal army, which reportedly numbers 1,500, not to disrupt the May 5 elections in Malaysia so that the people in Sabah who are mostly Tausugs can exercise their right to vote. - With Perseus Echeminada

73. What a struggle for Hindraf by U?

Warrant of arrest issued against Hindraf's Uthaya

Koh Jun Lin 11:34AM Apr 29, 2013

http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/228386

A warrant of arrest has been issued against Hindraf de facto leader P Uthayakumar this morning for failing to attend a court hearing on the sedition charges against him.

He said this was despite the fact that his bailor had produced a medical certificate at the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court at the 9am hearing today, saying that he is “not fit to attend court” from April 2 to May 17.

“Despite that, the deputy public prosecutor protested and said that I am attending ceramahs and campaigning. So she asked for a warrant of arrest and the judge (Ahmad Zamzani Mohd Zain) allowed the warrant of arrest,” he told Malaysiakini when contacted.

However, Uthayakumar, who is contesting in Kota Raja and Seri Andalas, said his work was largely limited to his campaign operations room due to pain from his medical condition.

This consists of prolapsed discs and small tumours on his spinal cord, for which he has obtained medical leave from University Kebangsaan Malaysia Hospital (HUKM) consultant neurosurgeon Dr Shanmugaraja Paramasvaran.

“There is a hotel room above our operations room. Every couple of hours, I would have to lie down. Either that or in the car, then the pain is released.

“The pain is in my backbone, then it (the prickling pain) radiates down to my lower legs. My last two or three toes get numb,” he said, adding that he was on painkillers.

'Campaigns in the operations room'

He stressed he campaigns mainly by holding briefings with his supporters in the operations room, who then fan out to canvass votes. He claims to have never held any public speeches outdoors.

The exceptions were when he was invited to meet about 20 supporters at their home and attended a temple function yesterday, he said.

Uthayakumar, who is expecting to be arrested at “any time”, claims the move is a backlash from his attack on his brother P Waythamoorthy, who has openly pledged support for BN.

He said 54 court cases against Hindraf supporters for participating in a rally against the controversial book ‘Interlok’ have been withdrawn in stages over the past two weeks, but in contrast, he said that the authorities are “coming down hard” on him.

Uthayakumar has been facing the charge since 2007 for allegedly writing a seditious letter addressed to then British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

He has been issued an arrest warrant for failing to attend court before in August 2012, because at the time he was at the High Court trying to get the date for a stay application for his case.

72. Kick out BN in all matters at GE13

Why would we want to vote for Uthayakumar?

Nan Ee 4:07PM Apr 27, 2013    http://www.malaysiakini.com/letters/228234

This is a general election unlike any other, I am sure everybody should know that. Unlike in the past, there is a very good chance for a change in government after five years. It’s an awfully long time for any party to hold on to power, no matter how one looks at it. 

Which is why the question of Independent candidates and Hindraf is more pertinent than ever. It makes me laugh to read about some saying how the huge number of Independents is a good or healthy sign of democracy.
Perhaps yes, in another time, another place. A place where clean and fair elections rule and where public institutions adhere to the principles of good governance, free from political interference. 

But at a time when the country is teetering on the edge of ruin at the hands of a despotic government, I hardly call it a healthy sign of democracy. 

It begs the question what an Independent hopes to do as a solo voice in a Parliament dominated by the ruling party. In the past, we have seen that even with over one-third majority in parliament, Pakatan MPs can do nothing as bill after bill is rammed home by BN and rubber stamped by the Senate, regardless of their merits. Having one more voice in there as the opposition will not make any difference.  

An Independent as the voice of his community/constituency? That’s at best naïve. Without a party’s backing, and without the generous allocations that only BN reps get, what can an Independent do for his constituents under the present system? I would say, hardly anything significant. Change policy? Dream on. Raise issues? Yes, but to what end? The BN government will still do what they like.  

At the risk of sounding cynical, an Independent’s most valuable asset -at least in this GE - is to lend numbers to whichever party can court him or her best, as can be seen by the turncoat Independents. Their only use was to add to BN’s numbers, in Perak’s case, to steal the state. 

Which brings me to HRP’s Kota Raja candidate P Uthayakumar. I feel sad for him. He started admirably in raising the issues of the Indian community, and got them to vote out large numbers of BN reps. 

But what have we now? BN is again the clever manipulator, and as Uthaya says himself, has skilfully destroyed the movement with all its tricks. 

Yet the man refuses to lend his voice to the overwhelming rakyat’s sentiment to push for a change in government. His goal now, to make himself an MP to be the voice of the Indians, is romantic, but naïve. 

As said, in a fair system, I would consider voting for him. Even if Pakatan rules, Independent MPs would help provide checks and balances.  

But with the present scenario, it would only squander away one more seat to keep BN in power. Is that worth it? I think the obvious answer is that it not. Sure, as they reason, we can wait another five years. But remember in that time, how many hundreds of billions more we would have lost from our coffers.    
By running as an Independent and shying away from the opposition, Uthaya has shown his movement is not a team player. His position is only slightly more elegant in expressing this, than his brother, who now blatantly announced that he doesn’t care who rules, as long as Hindraf gets what it wants. I would give Waytha points for honesty for the first time in his career. 

Uthaya, however, is another story. I am not sure if he is sincere (and therefore foolish) or if something is behind the mask. After all, the tale of Hindraf has been one big rollercoaster of political twists and turns. 

The justification for staying away from Bersih, from Himpunan Hijau, all people's movements, just does not convince me that Uthaya is interested in human rights or in helping the rakyat. At least not any more.

His reasons always centre around the central theme "what’s in it for the Indians"? I wonder if it is not, ''what’s in it for me''? Hello, do you see Bukit Koman residents demanding for a seat to support Pakatan? Do you think the immediate health risk they face is not any more urgent than the Indian problem and needs immediate solutions?  

Contrast that with PSM’s clear stand that regardless, they stand with the opposition, even if they want to fight for their own political survival. I can buy that, and I can respect PSM and trust them. I would vote for PSM, even with their own clenched fist logo.  

Learn from them, Uthaya, if you are sincere about the Indians and human rights. Otherwise, don’t blame some of us for doubting your motives. If you win, who knows, you’ll be another BN friendly MP just for some promises or sweets. Or you will auction your loyalty to the highest bidder.  

If you lose, you can take part of the credit for having helped split the votes to allow BN to beat Pakatan, and if that costs the people a change in government, well, you can reason all you want, but don’t expect the people in general to buy it. 

My personal stand is I want change for the Indians as much as for the other communities, and I even agree their issues should be addressed immediately. But that can only be achieved by kicking out BN.   

Meanwhile, you say you want change but only for the Indians first. So why would I vote for you, Uthaya?

71. Did Altantuya and Misuri die in vain?

Altantuya billboard removed as 'she is not contesting'

Kow Gah Chie 7:01PM Apr 28, 2013

http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/228353

SARAWAK BN chairperson Najib Abdul Razak could have been looking at the smiling face of murdered Mongolian translator Altantuya Shaariibuu - if such billboards hadn't been removed before his arrival in Kuching to campaign for BN candidates.

The billboards, erected by DAP near the airport and several locations in Kuching, were meant to welcome Najib, said Chong Chieng Jen, Sarawak DAP secretary.

Najib went to Sarawak on Friday on his campaign drive to drum up support for BN candidates and came back yesterday.

Chong said the Election Commission and the Kuching South City Hall sent their officers to take down the billboards with Altantuya's smiling face that had been put up at Pending, Pandungan, Stutong and Chong Lin Park.

An officer from city council explained that DAP could not put up such billboards since Altantuya was not in the election.

This is despite the fact that there are faces of children appearing in other election campaign billboards that have been put up.

Not happy with the explanation, Chong said the party would hold a demonstration outside the Kuching South City Hall.

Najib visited a number of constituencies, including Saratok, Lubok Antu, Kuching and Sibu, yesterday in his drive to boost support for BN candidates in the state.

Sarawak DAP has uploaded a video clip of a billboard being removed, which has seen 4,400 shares within 24 hours.

"Why is the Election Commission so afraid of Altantuya when Najib is in Kuching? The billboard was removed without the 24 hours' notice given, as stated under its by-laws," Sarawak DAP said in a statement.

"Do you know why EC is removing this Altantuya billboard in such a hurry? Because Najib is going to pass by this road later," it said.

70. EC officials found recording postal ballot serial numbers

EC officials found recording postal ballot serial numbers

Kuek Ser Kuang Keng 3:05PM Apr 26, 2013     http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/228109

DAP campaigners have found that the Election Commission (EC) officials in charge of the Pulai parliamentary constituency have recorded the serial numbers of postal ballots before posting them to the voters, raising fears that those ballots can be traced easily.

According to DAP Pengkalan Rinting state seat candidate Cheo Yee How (left) and his candidate’s representative Tah Moon Hui, they saw the incident yesterday during their visit to the EC operations centre in Johor Bahru to examine the postal ballots before they were posted.

They furnished Malaysiakini with a photograph taken discreetly at the operation centre, showing the six-digit serial numbers of both the parliamentary and state ballots of each postal voter, jotted down next to the voter’s name on the postal voter list.

Malaysiakini has also confirmed with several journalists who have applied as postal voters that each of their ballots is printed with a six-digit serial number.

“I suspect these serial numbers jotted down by the EC can be used to trace the ballots cast. This is against the principle that every vote should be kept secret,” said Cheo when contacted by Malaysiakini today.
In the Tanjong Piai parliamentary constituency, DAP candidate Mahdzir Ibrahim also received a similar complaint from a low-ranking EC officer who had applied to become a postal voter.
He said the six-digit number also printed on the envelope, which will be used to post the ballot back to the EC, and the EC has the record of which ballot is posted to which voter.
"The voter told me his ballot will be traced, hence he will cast a spoilt vote," Mahdzir told Malaysiakini.

"We know that the envelope will be separated from the ballot during the counting process, and the ballot boxes will be kept for six months after the election. But if the EC officials open the ballot boxes, they would be able to trace the voters. Now the issue is the integrity of the EC."
Cheo and his campaign team also detected the name of another postal voter  appearing in both the list of the ‘EC officers’ and list of ‘media practitioners’.

“Both entries have the same name and MyKad number but appear in different polling districts. I’m worried that this may lead to electoral irregularities,” said the 29-year-old candidate.

EC staff and journalists unable to vote on polling day are allowed to do so via post in this general election.

Cheo immediately complained to an EC official upon discovering the problem to be told that they will send out only one of the two ballots to that voter.

He urged all candidates to scrutinise the list of postal voters in their constituencies.

‘It could be a technical mistake’

According to Sin Chew Daily, Johor EC director Rokiah Hanum Ibrahim said the EC computer system shows that the name only appears in the list of ‘EC officers’.

The system also showed that the name is of a female voter, not a male voter as alleged by Cheo, she said.

Rokiah added that it could be a technical mistake to have the same name in two different lists.

“This mistake is not done intentionally. We will investigate to find out what is the real problem,” she was quoted as saying.

However, the Chinese daily did not report whether Rokiah has explained the issue of jotting down the serial number of postal ballots.

69. New Ballot Boxes hijacked in transit

New Ballot Boxes hijacked in transit

[see it there    http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4727864967614561154#editor/target=post;postID=3547579590089130651;onPublishedMenu=overview;onClosedMenu=overview;postNum=3;src=postname                                 ]

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How to win any General Elections in Malaysia if the outgoing/caretaker Government always want to win by rigging since there is never any level playing field.

 

We have seen how the cheating has been increasing and more aggressive since the dissolution of the Parliament for the GE 13 nationwide on 3^rd April, 2013 except the state seats of Sarawak.  How could the opposition counter such challenges with their limited energy in manpower and resources especially campaign funds.  I can imagine the BN/UMNO must have spent anything up to RM20billions (official and unofficial or illegal) in their effort to stay in power to do more harm .

The last day of the GE13 and that is the polling day is most important and critical in cheating to win.

 

For the opposition with limited manpower and uneven playing field, no matter how they want to check the cheating it is indeed quite impossible especially the ROS, Police and the MACC and Election Commission (then the Election Court) are under the thumb of BN/UMNO for reasons best known to them.  Then it is likely the Governors or the Sultan also pro BN/UMNO at the time the final results albeit unchecked properly had been declared at around midnight.

 

So we need the Almighty God to make a total CHANGE in Malaysia and especially in Sabah.  God helps us as you are in control.

 

The other obvious cheating is the manipulation of ballot boxes by either stashing some extra pre-marked same colour ballot papers in extra/standby ballot boxes.  Most election workers especially the opposition sides are tired on polling day at the late hours.  The ballot boxes could be switched between the polling centres when transported to the tallying centres by vehicles as anything can happen.  Then the ballot boxes from the tallying centres to the counting centres some miles away and some by helicopters, boats, vehicles.  [Ask those helicopter pilots that some ballot boxes had been discarded mid-air in the jungle even in Berjaya time]. Depending on the weather conditions, delays are unavoidable.  There would be plenty opportunities to cheat.  The cheating could be ongoing during the polling times especially in remote areas.  How reliable are those election agents who also can be ignorant of the cheating modus operandi.

One way to reduce the cheating avenue is to stop all presiding officers no access to the communication equipment like a handphone or fixed line and away from the public.

If we really want to stop rigging with relation to the ballot boxes, we should have control of the ballot boxes and the ballot paper printing right from the start.

(some people advocate that voters demand random ballot papers and that would slow down the voting process where there are many voters queuing up and that would result in many wasted available ballot papers must coincide with the number of voters in the rolls with no extra ones to spare).  EC does print a small number of different colour ballot paper for difficult voters and such votes are deemed spoilt.  Who would check those unused/unissued ballot papers issued to each polling centre?

You may ask how come extra ballot papers are printed in the same colour to allow stashing pre-marked ballot papers.  In this incidence, please forward your questions to the EC and the Government Printer who printed those ballot papers.

I have known a Government Printer who died soon after retirement.  Coincidence?

Some may say the opposition parties participating in GE13 would ensue no fixing of pre-marked ballot papers and extra-replacement ballot boxes.  This can be done in major towns but what about the semi urban and rural areas?  What about postal votes ?  What about late arrival of some ballot boxes at the counting centres?  What about the power cut in the counting centre when pre-marked ballot papers can be replaced or introduced?  There can be many ballot boxes in the counting centre and how do we check everyone of them carefully when we are already quite tired after a long day?    Even if you find some problematic boxes, would the bias officials listen to the complaint except tell you to go to Election Courts without the evidence given to you and how can anyone win in the Courts?

This time there are many candidates in many seats in Sabah and the ballot papers would be much bigger and so many more ballot boxes would be in standby at the polling centre and how the opposition be given the chance that such extra ballot boxes not to be utilized to cheat ?  So who can really do a good job if the Police and the EC officials normally civil servants to please their masters are bias?  What happen to football matches if referees are bias and you know the consequences as such games are in the open.  For General Elections a lot of processes are beyond the control of opposition candidates.  So God have mercy on them – the doers and the victims.

 

After writing so much above and including a book on GE 2004 –Victory by landslide or rigslide, cheating would go on especially in those marginal seats.

 

In 1994, the PBS candidate in Kawang was cheated by EC and NRD after inserting a few hundred of illegal as voters and the BN candidate won by less than 200 votes.

In 2008, before the counting was commenced, it was announced in the national TV channel at about 6pm that BN won in Papar parliament seat.  There was a heavy downfall throughout halfday on the polling day and yet the final figure of voters was about 75% meaning ballot boxes were manipulated.  This was reported in the newspaper.

So I wish we can find a good polling day without substantial rigging with the EC as the referees doing a good and fair job throughout the election and polling processes without loaded project IC voters.

Actually the counting on the polling should be verified by appointed auditors and the results only official declared the next day especially for close results in first countings.

Some would tell me that the election agent would do their job well at the polling centre but do you really check those figure of actual voters to the final portion as a follow up.  Even if the election agents want to raise any issue, do you think their status would carry much weight in the Election Court?

 

I want to tell you my experience in N13 Likas by election 2001 when I met the incumbent candidate at 3pm in the kampong polling centre.  We both agree that the rate of voters at 3pm was about 30% and with another 2 hours to go and the final rate was 55% - a very impressive performance in two hours when in 7 hours from 8am, it was only 30%.  I met someone I knew seated around the polling centre and asked why there are some people hanging around and his response was just laugh.  I left before 4pm as my friend who gave me a lift there wanted to go.  So it is my imagination that ‘phantom voters’ getting paid to vote just before closing at 5pm.  Who can stop that?

 

In 1985, I was the independent candidate for Api-Api and when I went to see the Returning Officer, he was in a long telephone conversation with the BN candidate, laughing at times.

 

Why I am writing this long article is because there is a report that new ballot boxes in transit by lorries were hijacked to an unknown address rather than the Election office.  One thing is known EC had ordered so many ballot boxes since GE2008 in surplus for immediate use and you can draw your own conclusion, my concerned citizens who want not only fair and free elections but TRUE elections.

So how much poorer for Malaysia especially Sabah that costly General Elections are meaningless in nation progress when massive rigging bring in  illegal Governments whose main interest is to be corrupted to re-coup the money used in cheating.  This is a clear indication that Malaysia and Sabah would be nearer to bankruptcy arising from corruption and illegal profligacy.

I have proposed a Ballot Box Brigade [BBB] to monitor Ballot Boxes and Ballot papers.

Over to my fellow citizens for prayers.

Pass this one for goodness sake.  Please also translate this into Chinese and BM. Thank you.

Joshua Y. C. Kong

Election Candidate for insight experience in 1986 and 2001.

Author of 12 books.

68. So Huguan siou is gone soon

Slaying the Huguan Siou in Kadazandusun heartland

Aidila Razak 2:08PM Apr 25, 2013      http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/227994

SABAH It's seven in the evening, and already pitch dark at the edge of Kampung Baginda, a short drive from Keningau town. The loudest sounds are emitted by crickets.Villagers walk down a tiny lane, barely wide enough to fit a car. A group of women in sarong stops by a barefooted old man.

"I've snapped my slipper," he says to them. In his hand he holds the slipper for his left foot, which he says came apart when he stepped into a puddle some 10 metres away, as he stumbled through in the dark.

This, however, would not stop him from reaching his destination.

Soon enough, music blares into the quiet of night and the old man takes a seat in the front row, on the front porch of the home of villagers Roslin and Mary.

Some 100 seats were set up here in Kampung Baginda last night: Jeffrey Kitingan (speaking at front) is coming around, to meet with the people and talk to them.

Jeffrey, who leads the party Star, is facing off against his brother Joseph Pairin Kitingan for the Sabah parliamentary seat of Keningau.

The brothers had faced off in 2008 as well. At that time, Jeffrey was in a wheelchair, after an auto accident several months before the election in March that year. This time, he has been spotted dancing on the campaign trail.

But Pairin, who beat his baby brother by over 4,000 votes in 2008, has more than the entire PBS machinery at his beck and call.
He is also the Huguan Siou of the Kadazandusun Murut community, who make up 70 percent of the 43,710 Keningau voters.

Hours before, in Keningau town, an urban area not much different from certain parts of Kota Kinabalu, Pairin's position as the paramount leader was part of the BN campaign fodder. This time taken advantage of by none other than BN chief Najib Abdul Razak.

"If even I, a non-Kadazan, can respect the Huguan Siou, what more the Kadazan," Najib said, speaking from a large stage under a fancy tent at the Keningau sports complex, across the street from the best hotel in town.

Should we respect the Huguan Siou?

Back in Kampung Baginda, the crowd builds up as the Huguan Siou gets a lashing.

"We glorify the Huguan Siou too much, but we are not free people because of him. We supported him to be chief minister once, and in return we were maligned.

"They now say that Dusun people will even vote for a dog if it contests under the PBS banner.

"But Pairin was witness to the petroleum agreement (which paved the way for Sabah to get only five percent of the oil produced off its shores). Should we still respect him?" one Cikgu Willie (right) asked to murmurs from the crowd.

Star, which has 370,000 members statewide, is popular with teachers. One, mathematics teacher Johnny Molibin, also spoke last night and his speech was met with nods of agreement from the women chewing betel leaves.

Ideas shared at this locals-only event sits on the far end of the spectrum, in terms of discussions related to Sabah's future in Malaysia.

Although Jeffrey does not advocate secession, he tells the audience that Sabah should be an equal partner with 'Malaya'.

Sabah, he said, is a country in a federation, like how Ireland is part of the United Kingdom. A vote for Star, therefore, would put an end to "Malayan colonisation".

"How can Sabah be equal to Perlis? If you put Perlis, Malacca and Penang into Keningau, you would still not be able to cover the whole of Keningau.

"We are a country, not a state... Malaya told us to join with them, or else the communists, Indonesians and the Filipinos would eat us up (nanti 'ngap'). So we were scared. But look at Brunei. They are smaller than us and were they eaten up? No. It was we who were eaten up (kena 'ngap')," Jeffrey said.

Blue tanks and big ideas

Moving closer and closer to the audience, Jeffrey speaks of big ideas but does not dumb them down for the people. "Do you understand me?" he asks. "My job is to teach the people what they don't know."

He asked those who attended the Najib event earlier to raise their hands, nobody does. Asked what Najib gave them during his visit, some answer, "tangki biru" (blue water tanks) to the laughter of the crowd.

These tanks, distributed in the interiors during every election, have become a joke.

Located 140km from the state capital, after an uphill climb through the Crocker Range, Keningau has suffered water supply issues for years, and this problem is expected to be resolved by 2015 when the RM235 million water treatment centre is ready.

"Last year Najib came, bringing us debts. The federal government takes our money, and then gives it back to us as loans," Jeffrey said, referring to the cost of the water treatment plant, built with a loan from the federal government and which must be paid back by the Sabah government.

According to Star campaigners, their leader has made much more inroads into Keningau, compared with his efforts during the 2008 election.

In 2008, they said, Jeffrey could not even enter Kampung Bunga Raya in the state constituency of Bingkor, which he is also contesting this time.

Having meticulously researched the voting patterns, Star's election director Tony Minggir said Jeffrey lost out on votes from this area at both parliamentary and state levels. Today, Star flags flutter in the air in these areas.

Wearing BN T-shirts for RM30

"We go house-to-house and they tell us they support Star. They're not just being polite because when we give them a flag and they put it up, there and then. We've even run out of flags," Tony (right) said.

On nomination day, he said, BN's flag-bearers wore Star T-shirts under their ‘Tatap BN' T-shirts.

"They told us they were doing it (wearing the BN T-shirts) for the RM30 payment, but underneath, they were with Star," Tony added.

Next door to Kampung Baginda, a dilapidated wooden community hall bears a huge picture of Pairin, a remnant from an event he had there earlier this month.

A woman, sitting in a lone hut selling roast chicken across the street, watches youths in BN shirts put up BN flags throughout the village.

Although PKR is also contesting Keningau and the state seats of Tambunan, Bingkor and Liawan, the party's flags are few and far between.

"BN is strong here," the woman said echoing the 5,000 in BN T-shirts who cheered and chanted Najib, Pairin and Sabah BN chief Musa Aman earlier yesterday.

However, Tony remains insistent that this would be the election where Jeffrey would topple Pairin.

"It will be very embarrassing if the Huguan Siou loses... but it is part of putting things right."

67. Who are MACC fooling on vettng of Candidates?

http://elections.thestar.com.my/story.aspx?file=/2013/4/4/nation/12925055&utm_source=also_see&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=GE13_AS_Widget#.UXjG-lK8hcA

GE13: All candidates vetted, says MACC

Thursday April 4, 2013
PUTRAJAYA: The vetting of potential candidates from all political parties for the 13th general election by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has long been completed.
MACC deputy chief commissioner (prevention) Datuk Sutinah Sutan said reports on the status of the potential candidates had been handed to the respective parties.
“We checked whether the individuals had any corruption-related cases. We then informed the parties what their status was and the final decision (on the individual candidature) is with the respective parties.
“The MACC only provides the vetting service,” she said after the signing of a Corporate Integrity Pledge (CIP) by Risda here yesterday.
Rural and Regional Development Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal, who witnessed the signing, confirmed that Barisan Nasional's potential candidates had been vetted for their status and it was a normal practice in the coalition.
Mohd Shafie, who is also Umno vice-president, said this was among the reasons why Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak held numerous meetings before finalising the list of candidates.

66. Watch out for Suluk into Sabah

http://elections.thestar.com.my/story.aspx?file=/2013/4/25/nation/20130425125248#.UXjD4FK8hcB

GE13: 35 Sulu militants killed trying to enter Sabah to cause problems during polls

Published: Thursday April 25, 2013 MYT 12:50:00 PM
Updated: Thursday April 25, 2013 MYT 1:00:22 PM
By CHRISTINA CHIN

GEORGE TOWN: Thirty-five armed Sulu militants attempting to enter Sabah were shot dead by the Philippines navy and coast guard on Wednesday, Defence Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said.
He said they were shot before they could enter Malaysian waters after refusing to turn back.
He added that according to intelligence reports, the group was attempting to enter Sabah to cause problems during the general election.
"If they had entered our waters, we would have taken them out. We will defend our country," he said at a press conference here Thursday.