Memorandum for Royal intervention

Waishnavi daughter of P.Waythamoorthy, lead a group of 30 Hindraf supporters at Istana Negara this morning and submitted a memorandum seeking a royal intervention to release Hindraf 5. Palace officer received the memorandum from her.

Malaysian deserved live telecast

New Malaysia Information minister Y.B.Datuk Ahmad Shabery Cheek has projected his self a bit higher transparent and openess then his predecessor, Zainudin Maidin. He deiceded to go on-air during the parliament question & answer session and he was the first cabinet members to recognise the role played by bloggers. ZAM refused to take the Q&A session to live telecast with the reason cost will be very high and Malaysian by general are not ready for the live telecast although people knew ZAM is one of the low performing cabinet members which fail to contribute on developing the "modal insan" concept. Now both reason was sent to recycle bin by his successor.

But what make me wondering is, whether the Malaysian standard is only 30 minutes? Do Malaysian really deserve live telecast for 30 minutes only although the Q&A session is one hour? In fact the previous legislative hall do agreed by principal to increase the Q&A session to 2 hrs. So why do Shabery agreed for 30 minutes only when you can ask your tv to go live telecast on uninformative speech delivered by your flip-flop party president? Malaysian deserved the full legislative live telecast and this is one of the way to monitor the performing and none performing MP's. I want to see my PM's, performance in the hall and definately this is one of the way to disciplined the MP's who behave like beruk in the hall.

U-turn: Osai back to circulations

[updated: 15:45 / 24 April 2008: sms from readers: India samuthayin Oli Vilakku "Makkal Osai" coming on Saturday.]

Home Ministry has made an about-turn, re-issued Tamil newspaper Makkal Osai's publication permit. The daily expected to be back in circulation this Saturday. Well same story as 31 Hindraf boys attempted murder case. At first they was charged with attempted murder but then, the case was drop. The reason was umno want to teach a lesson to Indians. Now it's Makkal Osai turn, close down and then umno said, you can continue the daily.

First Malaysian Indian Speaker

[updated 23:59 / 24 April 2008] First Malaysian Indian, appointed as a speaker for Perak state assembly. Reliable informer said, Y.B.Sivakumar, Tronoh state asemblyman is the candidate for the state speaker. The history will named him as a first Malaysian Indians who has been appointed as a state speaker. This is a history for Indians and Malaysians. State speaker is a second highest position's after the Menteri Besar. This is a good move from "Pakatan Rakyat" since they promised the new Malaysia for all Malaysian and of course this is bad information for Semi Value's party. They are still begging to Pahang MB to appoint MIC man as an EXCO yet MB are not bothered about the appeal. MIC was so loyal to umno yet umno has never give a due respect to this party. With more appointment's from Indian community in Pakatan Rakyat's government, I'm dare to say, the chances for MIC to regain the lost ground is getting slimmer. Valga Makkal Sakthi. [Having some problem with my blog which I couldn't update any news from my mail, otherwise I have updated this news as early as 7:30 am 24 April 2008]

Congratulations to IPF member's

Just want to say congratulations to all IPF members on the appointment of Pandithan's wife, Padmashri Pandithan as an acting president of the party. IPF is another dying Indian based party because president administered the party as though his personnel property. So I believed other then semi value's party, pandithan's party also is on the way to close shop. The only differences, semi value's might be the last serving president of mic and Padmashri Pandithan might be the shortest serving party president in Malaysia Politics. Unfortunatley none of the cwc member's in both parties has "ball" to say "NO" to their president and I think that's the common value's shared by cwc members in both parties.

Rustam A.Sani passed away

[updated: 11:06 / 24 April 2008] Former PRM deputy president and blogger Rustam A.Sani passed away at 3am at age 63. This is really a shocking news and condolence to his family. May GOD bless him.

Don't deny the people's wish

[updated at 23:46 / 22 April 2008] Newly appointed Selangor State Speaker Y.B. Teng Chang Kim said he will take all the necessary actions to speed up the oath taking ceremony for the ISA detainee Y.B. Manoharan in Kamunting ISA detention camp. I hope he will do it as soon as possible and please make sure your first proposal to the State Hall is to condemn the federal government arrogances to deny the people's voice, who wanted and voted for Manoharan to represent them in the state constituency N48 Kota Alam Shah. Don't ever deny the people's wish.

Onn Jaafar re-visited

Johor umno youth has send a suggestion to state administration on re-visiting Onn Jaafar's idea to accept the non-malays as a members. Onn Jaafar the founder and first president of umno suggested to open up the membership in 1950's but then the committee rejected the idea and he decided to resign from the post and party. He then started up the new party known as Parti Negara a multiracial party but couldnt survive due to the thickness of racial sentiments. Umno do accept the non-malays in Sabah if they have a bumiputera status but then refuse to accept the non-malays in peninsular Malaysia. After the 12th GE, as part of re-vitalise the party and to gain back the support from non-malays, Johor umno youth are trying to re-visit the Onn Jaafar's idea. The suggestion to re-visit Onn Jaafar's idea shows umno desperate to win the votes and heart of non-malays. [Tun Hussein Onn, Malaysia 3rd prime minister was born to Onn Jaafar and present eduaction minister, Hisamuddin is the grand son of Onn Jaafar]

We are united

Vasantha Kumar had asked his friend to inform the public that the five Hindraf leaders are still together, quashing rumours that they are disunited. Valga Makkal Sakthi.

Judicial Reformation ?

"A Judicial Appointments Commission will be appointed to nominate, appoint and promote judges in a transparent and representative manner."

Ok it's good to hear that, so the PM has given his policy speech to re-install the judiciary integrity but then AG should not sleep on that policy speech. They must work more faster then before to implement the policy. Yet I'm not that happy since PM still holds the power on judiciary. How? The commission will submit the name to PM and he will submit the suggested name's to Agong for the appointment. Change it too, let the Chief Justice submit the name straight to Agong then we can see the real independency of judiciary.

Theory on Osai shut down

Makkal Osai has submitted their appeal letter to Home Ministry to repeal the decision “not to renew the license”. Some said the main reason for “not to renew” was the wide coverage given by the Osai to Black14 and Anwar Ibrahim. Some even top-up the reason that Uthaya’s photo in front page contribute for the denial. But for me, i believe the two reasons given were more on supplementary and not the major factor. Let me present to you my theory which I believe the main factor for the license denial is SV’s and his long term political strategy. Who will gain if M.Osai denied the license renewal? Palanivel or Samy Velu? From Subra’s perspective he is not a threat to Palani and Palani also not a threat to SV. But Subra is a threat to Samy. So rather than SV removing Palani, it’s better for him to take out Subra from public appearance, in order to remain in power. It’s open secret that M.Osai is associated to ex-deputy president Subra. The paper has played major role on condemning SV. Before the 12th GE, home ministry suspended the paper for one month after the SV’s man lodge complaint on the Jesus caricature. But then the ban was removed after one month. Even during the mic special gathering before the GE, SV’s man was collecting the signature from attendee’s on petition to Home Ministry to close down M.Osai. At that time the home minister didn’t expect indian votes will swing extremely to opposition but then after the GE they realised the reality.

So now they have to hunt back the tools that make the votes swing and one of it was M.Osai. SV accepted the fact, Subra has more supports from indian and non-indian community than he him self and M.Osai has played a major role to highlight Subra to public. After the election SV have to re-position him self to make him relevant to the party and indians but without the government post he can’t do much. The strongest opponents were Subra and SV have to silence him. How? First he re-patch him self with Subra. The moment SV re-patched, immediately M.Osai has stoped condemning SV and they start to talk about the uniting Indians under one umbrella that is mic. Unfortunately no one expects the renewal will be rejected while SV has played his role silently. People also won’t suspect SV’s role since they patch up together. Subra stuck in middle, his supporters is not happy with his decision to re-patch with SV and now he doesn’t have any platforms to voice his mind. In other words, Subra now are trapped with his wrong strategy to re-patch with SV and in-return he have to pay a very high cost, that is lost of the supporters and Makkal Osai. After this, if he still can’t read the SV political strategy, then I don’t have any other words to say other than Good Bye Dato’ Subra. The readers do not need to agree with my theory but think about it whether there is any logic or not.

Goodbye Sam [tamil]

source: sharan437

Goodbye Sam [english]

Mr.Semi Value learn from your mistake.

Dont repeat the same mistake in next year MIC election.

source: comedycourt

Tamil daily Makkal Osai banned

[updated: 00:21 / 18 April 2008] DAP Ipoh Timur MP Lim Kit Siang: Popular Tamil daily, Tamil Makkalosai, has been suspended for a week by none other than the Home Minister, Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar himself for giving too much coverage of Pakatan Rakyat news. With immediate effect, Tamil Makkalosai will not appear in the streets until next week, awaiting the fate of its appeal to the Home Minister. Is this the first sign of repression and crackdown on human rights and the little space opening up in the printed media after the March 8 “political tsunami”? It is clear that the decision to stop the publication of Tamil Makkalosai, which is still awaiting for its KDN this year, has got the “green-light” from the Cabinet meeting this morning. Why did the Ministers, particularly from Umno and other Barisan Nasional component parties, particularly from the MIC, who have promised to end their subsidiary and subservient role in Cabinet , agreed to such a repressive measure as to immediately close down Tamil Makkalosai?

[updated: 16:50 / 17 April 2008] DAP Ipoh Barat MP M Kulasegaran: The ban on Makkal Osai is shocking not only because Home Ministry bureaucrats arrogantly refused to give a reason for the ban, but it comes at a time when the people have clearly indicated through the March 8 polls, that they want a new Malaysia where press freedom is a central pillar.The banning of the paper indicates the Umnoputras who dominate the federal government and bureaucracy have not learnt a lesson from Makkal Shakthi or people’s power shown on March 8. The ban is also unacceptable because it is against fundamental liberties guaranteed under the Federal Constitution. The officials who made this unfair and unjust decision must be made accountable for their action. They must either defend their decision or be sacked. All democracy lovers in Malaysia are shocked by the ban. The newspaper had given fair and free coverage to all political parties – opposition and government in a manner that had won praise from its readers and the Indian community at large. I urge the government to immediately restore the publishing license of Makkal Osai not just because the future of the employees are at stake but also to tell the world that we are a civilized nation and practice freedom of the press. With this ban i feel worse things are waiting to happen like further crackdown by the government? I will vocally raise this matter in Parliament to ensure the paper’Ss license is restored without delay. I will also campaign for the abolition of the need for newspapers to have publishing licenses. The Printing Press and Publication law is undemocratic and against the interest of the people and has been used by the ruling Umno party to instill fear and curb freedom of the press. It must be abolished. Worse for Malaysia this anti-press freedom action comes when Malaysia is at the bottom rank of the World Press Freedom Index. In the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Press Freedom Index 20072007 Malaysia plunged 32 notches, a sad indication of the repressive atmosphere under the administration of Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

[updated 16:44 / 17 April 2008 : MIC CWC member S Murugesan: The Home Ministry must provide reasons for the ban. The ministry must be very careful and weigh things properly before taking such drastic action. They should not curtail freedom of expression unless it infringes the law and threatens national security. In the absence of any valid reasons, the ban should be lifted. I am saddened that a paper has been banned especially since Makkal Osai has a big readership among the Indian community.]

[updated 12.55 / 17 April 2008 : Syed Hamid Albar said, Makkal Osai license not renewed because the Tamil daily contravened some of the Home Ministry's guidelines]

Kuala Lumpur: The Home Ministry has decided not to renew the publication permit of Tamil daily Makkal Osai. The newspaper's general manager S.M. Periasamy said that they were informed of the decision by a telephone call from the Home Ministry Wednesday morning. "When I went to the ministry to check if this was true, they handed me the letter rejecting the renewal of our licence," he said. The letter did not state any reasons for the rejection. It is understood that the newspaper's owner, former MIC deputy president Datuk S. Subramaniam, met with Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar to appeal the decision. The newspaper also had its permit suspended for one month last August for publishing a picture of Jesus Christ holding a cigarette in one hand and a can of beer in the other on its front-page. The photo had a caption quoting Christ as saying: “If a person repents his mistakes, heaven awaits him.” Makkal Osai or “The People’s Voice” was published as a weekly newspaper for 15 years before it became a daily in December 2005. It is an offshoot of Tamil Osai which ceased operations in 1990 following a management dispute. It has a circulation of 52,000 currently and employs about 100 people. Source: The Star

Uthaya's Letter

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