TUN MOHAMED ZAHIR

1. Tun Mohamed Zahir menjadi Speaker Dewan Rakyat selama 22 tahun, dari 1982 hingga 2004.

2. Pendapat Tun Zahir ialah Dewan Rakyat mempunyai terlalu ramai ahli. Kesannya ialah dewan terpaksa bersidang amat lama kerana ramai juga ahli mengambil bahagian dalam perbahasan.

3. Kata Tun Zahir, tidak usah tambahlah ahli dewan kerana dewan sudah penuh sesak dan sidang berpanjangan.

4. Sekarang kita dengar Kerajaan bercadang untuk tambah bilangan ahli dewan. Ramai orang ramai yang menolak cadangan ini. Mereka mengikuti perbahasan dan mereka mendapat dari 222 ahli cuma 10 orang sahaja yang mengambil bahagian dalam perbahasan secara berilmiah. Yang lain tidak bersuara atau berhujah dengan bernas.

5. Tambahan ahli tidak akan memperdengar perbahasan yang lebih baik. Negara tidak akan mendapat banyak manfaat.

6. Mendengar rintihan majoriti orang ramai, saya bersetuju dengan pendapat mereka supaya tidak perlu ada tambahan kawasan pilihanraya.

7. Dengan 222 ahli Dewan sudah memadai untuk masalah rakyat di dedah dalam dewan. Sebenarnya jika diambil kira ahli yang aktif, 100 orang sudah cukup.

8. Saya turut mendesak Kerajaan supaya tidak tambah kawasan pilihanraya.

ROME STATUTE

1. International Criminal Court (ICC) telah keluar warrant tangkap Netanyahu, Perdana Menteri Israel.

2. Lebih 120 negara menandatangani statute Rome.

3. Statute of Rome ini atau dikenali sebagai “Rome statute of the International Criminal Court” was adopted on July 17, 1998 di Rome and entered into force in July 1, 2002 serves as the foundational treaty of the International Criminal Court which is an international tribunal established to prosecute individuals for crimes such as genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the crime of aggression”.

4. The statute outlines the obligation of states parties to cooperate with the ICC, including arresting and surrendering suspects and providing evidence.

5. The United States, China and Russia have not ratified the statute.

6. Malaysia too has not ratified the statute.

7. This means that Netanyahu and the other persons named by ICC can seek refuge in Malaysia. We are not obliged to arrest them.


SENTENCING SUSPECTS

1. I am mystified.

2. I believe that wrongdoers should be tried by a court and sentenced to jail, fine or caned.

3. What I notice now is punishment for alleged wrongdoing being meted out by investigators.

4. Investigators now seem to make their own judgment and carrying out punishment.

5. People, organisations have their funds frozen, their businesses closed, their books seized and they or the owners of organisations are detained in lockups.

6. Usually no charges are made in the courts for a long period of time. Or they may be released after detention and no charges made.

7. When businesses premises are seized or closed employees lose their jobs. Are these employees guilty because their employers are presumed guilty? Must they be punished also.

8. They have to live. Now they have no job. Is this justice? Is this the rule of law?

9. I am mystified.


THE DAIM STORY

1. Daim passed away.

2. I lost a friend.

3. Now people are talking and writing about Daim’s contribution to the country.

4. It is sad. He had to die first. Even those he tutored on finance appreciated him not. Die first.

5. He was already rich in 1981, when I became Prime Minister.

6. He lost money making salt.

7. He made money developing Maluri on 160 acres of land.

8. To become minister, you have to stop business.

9. When you stop business, you no longer make money.

10. As Prime Minister in 1981, I was paid RM8000/- p.m.

11. As minister the pay was less. So, Daim as Minister of Finance from 1984 to 1991 must have lost a lot of money.

12. Yet the belief is that he made money as minister.

13. Before being minister he was trying to realise the NEP.

14. To catch up with the rich Malaysians you cannot start by selling tom yam or pisang goreng on the road side.

15. Daim wanted Malays to start from the top.

16. He picked on a number of young Malays.

17. These people had no business experience, no capital, no management skill.

18. To start at the top he gave Government projects, contracts, licences etc.

19. Is this abuse of power?

20. If not Government, who?

21. The private sector!! Will the private rich give contracts to inexperienced, unknown people.

22. No way!

23. So, if the Government did not there would be no Malay big businesses to catch up with those who were already rich.

24. To grow from selling tom yam and pisang goreng to become millionaires and catch up will take years.

25. The NEP would not be achieved. In fact, the disparities would become greater.

26. But why those people which Daim chose. Why not other people? Pick other people, same accusation.

27. Would he then be lauded? No.

28. But many of those he picked, trained and gave opportunities failed.

29. We don’t hear about them. They were not labelled as cronies.

30. So, if you want to avoid being accused of abuse of power, make all that you pick fail.

31. And when they fail, the NEP would fail, the disparities would increase.

32. Actually, this was what Daim’s detractors wanted to see.

33. They love to see the rich become richer and the poor poorer.

34. Yes, the NEP was not a great success.

35. But at least a few Malays did succeed.

36. Otherwise, with none at all, the lop-sided growth would be even more lopsided.

37. Malaysia would not be stable. Would not be what it is today.

38. Yes, Daim’s idea did not work as he expected.

39. But think.

40. What if Daim concentrated only on enriching himself.

41. He would be worth RM50 billion today. But of course, he would be hounded by the same people, the people he helped.

ANTARA IKTIRAF ISRAEL DAN SOKONGAN CADANGAN DUA NEGARA

1. Malaysia tidak pernah iktiraf Israel.

2. Israel memang negara haram.

3. Tetapi jikalau Israel iktiraf Palestin, Palestin akan iktiraf Israel.

4. Arafat bersetuju. Kita juga setuju.

5. Tetapi hingga sekarang, Israel tidak iktiraf Palestin.

6. Hanya iktiraf Palestine Authority (Penguasa Palestin).

7. Sepanjang masa kita iktiraf negara Palestin.

8. Kita terima Duta Palestin.

9. Jangan samakan persetujuan menerima cadangan dua negara dengan pengiktirafan Israel.

10. Israel sebenarnya tidak wujud kerana ditubuh secara haram tanpa plebiscite (pungutan suara) dikalangan penduduk Palestin seperti yang Malaysia adakan di Sarawak, Sabah dan Singapura.

11. Tidak pernah saya “Ia kan” adanya Israel atau haknya untuk kawal keselamatannya.

SHOPPING COMPLEXES

1. Weekends I drive around Kuala Lumpur.

2. Sometime I drop in the shopping complexes.

3. KL’s shopping complexes are great.

4. The new ones are fantastic.

5. They are bigger and better than the shopping complexes in London or Tokyo.

6. The other day I dropped in one of the new ones.

7. Wow. It is great.

8. But suddenly I felt I was in China.

9. Then I realised why.

10. All the signboards are in Chinese with English translations.

11. Nothing in Malay. Not at all.

12. So is this Malaysia.

13. Or have we become a part of China.

14. English I can understand why.

15. Even in Japan signboards have English translations.

16. But big Chinese characters.

17. I was told that some Chinese TV refer to Malaysia as Little China.

18. Why?

19. Because among the Southeast Asian countries Malaysia displays the Chinese characters all over; large and prominent.

20. Must be because we have so many Chinese visitors.

21. But translation in small characters yes.

22. But our national language is Malay.

OBEYING THE LAW

1. I am glad the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) has warned the police looking after the VVIP that they are not above the law. If they do something wrong something illegal, they would face punitive action.

2. I suppose this means that if they are instructed by the VVIP to do something wrong, they should refuse. But can they? Have they been told that they can do this?

3. Can the IGP clarify this matter?

4. I believe that the general tendency is for the police bodyguard to do what they are told.

5. It would not be fair if they are not instructed to disobey orders which are obviously against the law.

6. What if the VVIP assured that he would protect the police bodyguard. What if the VVIP orders that the police bodyguard must not reveal who ordered him.

7. It would be unjust if the police bodyguard is punished for carrying out orders which he is assured that he would be protected.

8. The police (escort) should have the right to whistle blow just like everyone else.

9. It is not so easy.

10. The IGP must make proper rules, as part of the SOP that police security personnel have a right to refuse to obey directives to do wrong (illegal) things.

DAIM

1. Daim meninggal dunia pagi ini.

2. Saya kehilangan sahabat yang bersama saya berjuang untuk bangsa, negara dan agama.

3. Saya sedih tidak terhingga.

4. Sepatutnya dia disanjung kerana sumbangannya kepada perjuangan.

5. Tetapi di akhir hayatnya dia diherdik tanpa sebab.

6. Tanpa sebab! Kerana dendam.

7. Inikah balasan yang menimpa kerana dendam.

8. Ya Allah. Adililah Daim berasas keadilan.

9. Berilah tempat kepadanya di akhirat sebagai pejuang bangsa.

10. Saya hanya mampu berdoa. Akan kita bersama kembali di masa tertentu. Amin, Ya Rabbal Alamin.

DR. MAHATHIR BIN MOHAMAD
13 NOVEMBER 2024

MALAYSIA THE GREAT

1. Malaysia is a great country.

2. It is a democracy.

3. It has a written Constitution.

4. The Constitution is the supreme law of the country.

5. Nothing, no law, that breaches the Constitution can be accepted as legal.

6. But from the word go the Constitution was breached by Malay adat.

7. No one questions this aberration.

8. Since then many of the provisions of the Constitution have been ignored.

9. Its okay.

10. Why okay?

11. Well it is Malay adat-tradition.

12. But some are not even adat.

13. Some are blatant disregard for the law, even the Constitution.

14. But we, well, we should know what is good for us.

15. Better let it be.

16. That is safer.

17. And so this great country with its great constitution consciously close both eyes and see nothing, both ears and hear nothing and a more that smells nothing.

18. Congratulations Malaysia.

19. You are doing fine.

NEGARA YANG GANJIL

1. Al kisah maka terdapatlah sebuah Negara yang ganjil.

2. Negara ini ganjil kerana amalannya terbalik.

3. Dianya terbalik kerana yang baik dikatakan buruk dan yang benar menjadi bohong, yang bohong menjadi benar.

4. Yang kanan dikatakan kiri.

5. Yang kiri jadi kanan. Undang-undang juga demikian.

6. Perlaksanaan undang-undang istimewa kerana yang salah dibebaskan dan yang bersih didakwa, disiasat untuk dihukum.

7. Maka bergelutlah rakyat melaku kesalahan untuk menyelamat diri mereka.

8. Mereka mencuri, menerima sogokan dan menipu.

9. Jumlah mereka begitu ramai dan tidak ada penjara untuk kurung mereka.

10. Tetapi tidak mengapa. Kerana yang salah tidak perlu dipenjara.

11. Yang bersih sahaja yang akan dimasuk ke dalam penjara. Mereka tidak ramai.

12. Maka bergelutlah Jabatan siasatan menyiasat orang yang tidak salah.

13. Masa dan dana dihabiskan.

14. Istimewa sungguhlah Negara bertuah ini dan pemimpinnya pun terpuji dan dipuji tiap hari dalam akhbar dan semua media termasuk media sosial.

15. Syabas Negara terbalik.