UMNO – 62 Tahun

Pada 11hb Mei 2008, UMNO mencecah usia
62 tahun. Ditubuhkan sebagai parti yang demokratik UMNO telah mencapai
kejayaan demi kejayaan.

UMNO dibawah pimpinan Dato Onn Jaafar telah menewas rancangan Malayan Union, British.

UMNO di bawah pimpinan Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra telah berjaya merebut kemerdekaan daripada British.

UMNO
dibawah tiga Perdana Menteri yang berikut telah berjaya menstabilkan
negara dan membangunkannya sehingga menjadi negara contoh kepada
negara=negara membangun yang lain.

Kepimpinan parti campuran
(Perikatan dan Barisan Nasional) oleh UMNO memperolehi kemenangan
dua-pertiga tiap pilihanraya Parlimen melainkan pada 1969. Kerajaan
Malaysia yang didirikan semuanya kuat dan dihormati di dalam dan di
luar negeri.

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Kegagalan Barisan Nasional

1. Dato Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi,
Presiden UMNO, Pengerusi Barisan Nasional dan Perdana Menteri telah
menyalahkan semua orang kecuali dirinya sebagai penyebab prestasi
Barisan Nasional yang buruk pada Pilihanraya Umum ke-12.

2. Dia
menyalahkan pengundi kerana kononnya tidak mahukan dia menang
dua-pertiga majoriti; ahli Barisan Nasional kerana sabotaj, ahli UMNO
di Kedah dan Perak juga kerana sabotaj, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah kerana
kekalahan Barisan Nasional di Kelantan dan saya sendiri kerana lantang
mengkritik dirinya dan Kerajaan pimpinannya.

3. Apa yang
dikatakan olehnya bukanlah semuanya salah. Ada banyak kebenaran di
dalam apa yang dikatakan. Saya tahu ramai ahli UMNO yang mengundi
pembangkang. Saya akui apa yang saya katakan mungkin pengaruhi
sesetengah daripada mereka untuk lakukan apa yang tidak pernah terfikir
oleh mereka.


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The Ex-Gratia Payment

The Malaysian Government of Dato Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi recently decided to pay certain judges ex-Gratia Payments.

Clearly
the Government felt contrite over what had happened to these judges
many years ago, and felt a need to make amends, but not quite enough to
apologise as was suggested by the de facto Minister of Justice, Dato
Zaid Ibrahim.

In fact if newspaper reports are to be believed
the Cabinet rejected the proposal by the new Law Minister. Nothing was
decided about the ex-Gratia payment.

But a dinner was held by
the Bar Council which rumours say was paid for by the Government during
which the Prime Minister announced two things which must gladden the
hearts of members of the Bar.

(Edisi Bahasa Melayu di bawah)

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Kerajaan yang lemah tidak baik bagi negara berbilang kaum seperti Malaysia

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Tetapi
sebagai menyahut permintaan pembaca, saya telah mengalih bahasa
penulisan yang sebelumnya untuk paparan kali ini, sementara saya
sediakan artikel yang baru.

Saya akan cuba menulis sekerap
mungkin. Dua artikel pertama sebelum ini telah ditulis di dalam bahasa
Inggeris. Saya akan tulis di dalam kedua-dua bahasa, Malaysia dan
Inggeris, mengikut kesesuaian.

Saya mengalu-alukan maklumbalas pembaca sebagai cara untuk mengetahui pendapat yang berlainan daripada pendapat saya sendiri.

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A Weak Government is not good for Multi-racial Malaysia

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chedet.com. for their kind words and for welcoming me to the
blogosphere. To be honest, I was indeed surprised by the overwhelming
response to my weblog.

To my critics and detractors I welcome
your comments, but I would appreciate that responses be focussed on the
issue that I blog. This is to allow a healthy debate and to gauge
points of view which differ from my own.

I apologise that due to
the overwhelming traffic, I may not be able to respond to all comments
and queries as much as I would like to. I will be selective and respond
to points repeatedly raised by commentators in relation to what I’ve
posted.

I shall also not respond, unless
absolutely necessary, to issues that have been raised and answered by
me in other forums, especially those pertaining to unsubstantiated
allegations.

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The Appointment of Judges

The Prime Minister has announced that judges would be chosen by a Commission specially set up for this purpose.

2. No details have been made public as to the way the Commission would work.

3. Would the Commission actually appoint the judges or would it only recommend the names for the PM to approve or would the Commission recommend directly to the Agong for him to exercise his prerogative? Or
would the Agong require the approval of the Rulers Conference? Or would the Conference of Rulers be merely consulted as is done now? Or would they be able to reject the candidate, and ask for new candidates or name new candidates of their choice?

4. It would be interesting to know the full details of the procedures, above all with regard to the role of the PM.

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