1. Aku sokong darurat.
2. Tidak sokong bermakna derhaka kepada Raja.
3. Darurat diisytihar oleh Raja.
4. Polis boleh tangkap dan soal.
5. Mungkin tahan dan pakai baju oren.
6. Itu undang-undang.
7. Dan kita patuh kepada undang-undang – rule of law.
8. Raja boleh peturun kuasa kepada siapa sahaja.
9. Siapa-siapa sahaja.
10. Mungkinkah Salleh Bongkok Teloi Kanan?
11. Tak.
12. Mungkin Mahiaddin. Nampak dia lah siapa sahaja.
13. Kuasa tinggi. Boleh buat undang-undang sendiri.
14. Boleh ketepi Perlembagaan
15. Boleh ketepi semua undang-undang
16. Kebal – tak boleh didakwa di mahkamah. Tak boleh di ada Parlimen kerana Parlimen digantung hidup-hidup.
17. Siapa bantah undang-undang buatan satu orang ini. Boleh didenda 5 juta dan jel sepuluh tahun atau kedua-dua.
18. Undang-undang fake news sudah lulus.
19. Apa dia fake news.
20. Yang benar adalah fake boleh tangkap.
21. Yang fake adalah benar tak kena tangkap.
22. Aku sokong darurat.
THE RULE OF LAW
1. We believe in democracy and the rule of law.
2. But by declaring a state of emergency, the rule of the existing laws has been suspended.
3. The declaration itself did not follow the law on the declaration of emergency. The declaration had to be laid before Parliament. This was not done. Therefore the declaration is illegal.
4. It is also noted that at the time the Prime Minister advised the Agong to declare a state of Emergency, his claim to be the Prime Minister of Malaysia was in doubt.
5. But the Government doesn’t care about its status. The Gazette that it issued makes it sound as if the Yang di-Pertuan Agong has taken over the Government and is now its Chief Executive.
6. All action and powers exercised under Emergency (Essential Powers) Ordinance are in the name of the Agong but His Majesty can authorise any person to act for him. The person concerned is not named but all the actions or exercise of power has clearly been carried out by Muhyiddin Yassin as Prime Minister.
7. In fact even when the Yang di-Pertuan Agong expressedly stated that Parliament may sit during the emergency, the Muhyiddin Government effectively rejected it.
8. It is obvious that the Prime Minister is acting based on the provision in the Ordinance that he and his Cabinet continues to exercise the powers under the constitution. But any action or laws that the Government passes which are in conflict or inconsistent with existing laws, the provision of the ordinance shall prevail and supercede.
9. Clearly the provisions of the Ordinance supersede even the Constitution – the supreme law of the country.
10. Thus, when taking temporary possession or in payment of compensation the Ordinance overrides the Federal Constitution. The Federal Government is protected against any action, suit, prosecution or any other proceeding in any court.
11. The immunity of the Prime Minister and his Government against any legal action is further strengthened by the effective suspension of Parliament. Normally a motion of non-confidence in the Prime Minister if passed in Parliament would result in its overthrow.
12. The only means left is a General Election. By not calling for an election even beyond the five-year term, the Government can remain in power.
13. Already several laws have been promulgated by this Government which supercede even existing laws including Constitutional laws. The supreme laws of the country no longer prevail.
14. The country is now ruled by decree. There is no longer any democracy. The voice of the people in a functioning democracy is via Parliament. But it is not open. The only description we can make of this Government is that it is a dictatorship.
15. And so we see wholesale dismissals, or removals of officers in Government institutions or companies in order to install pro-Government politicians in their places. Income taxes being revised allegedly because of wrong submissions before and corruption charges are being made against individuals who seem to have incurred the displeasure of the Government.
16. Business has also been politicised. Some contracts given during the previous Government have been revised and given to pro-Government individuals and parties. Approvals for projects are only for those which belong to Government supporters.
17. Many business people complain of corruption, of being asked for money up front if a project is to be approved.
18. But is the Emergency due to the threat posed by the COVID-19 pandemic? So far nothing has been done that could not be done under the ordinary laws of the country. Malaysians have never disobeyed any decision to deal with the pandemic. They have accepted the heavy fines and jail terms of ten years without demur.
19. Let us be honest. This declaration of a state of emergency is not about fighting COVID-19. Not at all.
20. It is about politics. It is about a weak Government wanting to stay in power. For the people the price to pay is horrendous. They lose their freedom of speech and their right to change the Government. Many live in fear of being called up for questioning, for detention and harassment.
21. In the meantime the economy is shrinking as the Government grapples with the constraints on normal economic activities.
22. The Government is not even functioning properly as in experienced ministers are not able to deal with the political economic, social and health problems.
23. Wither the rule of law.
INDUSTRIALISATION
** This article was originally published in THE EDGE DAILY , April 19, 2021
1. We want to be a developed country. Industry, manufacturing industry will help us achieve this ambition. But we need to adopt a different strategy.
2. When we decided to industrialise, our objective was to give people some income. But we had no knowledge about manufacturing, no capital, no expertise in management and no knowledge of the market. So we decided on foreign direct investment.
3. It worked and we can say we have become an industrialised country. 80% of our exports now are made up of manufactured goods.
4. But we are still not a developed country. If we look at Japan, Korea and China, we will notice a difference. They industrialise through acquisition of technology and producing their own branded products to compete in the international market. And they succeeded. We now see Sony, Hitachi, Toshiba products from Japan. Hyundai, Kia, Samsung and LG from Korea. And now Huawei and all kinds of products from China.
5. We do not have Malaysian branded goods internationally except gloves although we produce sophisticated components for some of the best brands in the world.
6. It is time for us to change our strategy. We should produce not for the domestic market but for the world market. Currently we dominate the world in the production of rubber gloves.
7. We should be able to identify other products for the world market.
8. We are blessed with a lot of raw materials. We have rubber and palm oil of course. But we also have tin, silica sand, rare earth, bauxite and maybe other minerals. We should identify products using these raw materials. But if we do, we should aim for the world market. We should be big in the particular product.
9. There are thousands of products made from rubber. Malaysia should produce all the rubber tyres of the world – airplane tyres, tractor tyres, wheelbarrow and lawn mower tyres etc. Like rubber gloves we should be big in some of these products.
10. Rare earth is much needed for batteries. As we turn to electrification to reduce pollution with CO2, more and more batteries would be needed. Already motorcars can do 400km per charge. With research, the range would increase. And the millions of cars switching to EV would need huge numbers of batteries using Lithium-Ion magnets.
11. Power plants using gas would depend upon many components which we can manufacture. We may not have the raw materials. But we can import them. Already Malaysia can produce solar panels and turbines.
12. We do not really have a glass industry. The demand for glassware can be met by our abundance of silica sand. We produce sheet glass but we export mainly silica sand with no added value. There are also industrial usage for glass which we can manufacture.
13. Our universities should train engineers. The capability of Malaysians is enormous. We had no knowledge about animation before. Now we produce a number of good animated films. There are no films involved. Everything is electronics now. Apart from entertainment, there are demands for animation in many industries.
14. Animation makes teaching easier. We can see how the inside of engines work. The parts can be illustrated individually, assembled through animation, sliced through to show how the parts work. We can see how the parts work with animation.
15. We are already producing composite parts of airplanes. We can do more. Precision engineering can be so precise that the products would perform faultlessly.
16. It is a mistake to limit ourselves to supplying the domestic market. Korea does not need ships as the land is continuous. But Korea decided to build ships for the world market. Today Korea builds most of the big ships in the world. Korea even built a gas liquefaction plant on a floating platform. Petronas has two of them.
17. South Korea builds cars and lithium-ion batteries for the world. And it is one of the two biggest producers of micro-chips for the world.
18. We are world beaters too. We have been the biggest canned pineapple producers, tin and rubber and palm oil producers in the world at one time. Now we are falling behind others in these fields. Yet we can be very big in manufacturing if we aim at the world market. We have the capacity. There should be a new policy to encourage the manufacture of products for the world market.
19. The Government should support big locally owned industries so that we can be fully industrialised. If we can give tax-free incentives to FDI, we should be able to do the same for our big industries to supply the world.
20. Now we are in the information age. This is a new power which lends itself to the invention of other products, to automation and robotics. Everything that we do today can be enhanced by artificial intelligence.
21. We don’t need labour intensive manufacturing i.e., dependence on foreign workers. We need to discourage such industries. We have to replace them with local engineers trained to handle robots and automated machines.
22. Our palm oil and rubber estates need workers. We should reduce acreage for these estates while depending on other kinds of agriculture. Modern agriculture depends more on technology than manual workers.
23. By changing our industries and agriculture to depend less on labour, we will be rid of our foreign workers. It would be painful. Those depending on foreign workers will scream. But the answer is not to increase the quota for foreign workers but to switch to other industries and automation.
MALAYSIAN AGRICULTURE
1. There is something wrong with agriculture in Malaysia. Even after independence we still have locals owning small uneconomic land holdings. The British were granted huge forest land to clear and grow rubber and later oil palm.
2. The great British companies developed huge estates of tens of thousands of acres. They were run by experienced estate managers. The labourers were imported from India. They did very well indeed.
3. Seeing their success the locals began to plant rubber and later oil palm. But their holdings were small, generally about two or three acres. They tended their small farms by themselves, confining themselves to only one crop.
4. Naturally they did not do well. With such small holdings and without professional managers, they could hardly make ends meet.
5. The Government responded with advice and subsidies. But the problems of the small holders remained.
6. What everyone should have noticed was that we needed large estates to do well. Small holdings cannot be efficient or economic. This is obvious. But we make no attempt to correct. Also we did not think of mix farming to mitigate down turns.
7. It is time that we acknowledge these mistakes and correct them. Firstly we need to make the holdings big. How do we do this. The obvious answer is to amalgamate the small holdings so as to have a big enough estate.
8. Landowners will not like it. But models of large estates of, say, a thousand acres should be developed by Mardi or some private enterprise. The thousand acres should be managed by trained farm managers with local labour.
9. Next identify a suitable main crop. e.g. rubber or oil palm. Only one third of the land should be planted with the main crop.
10. The rest of the land should be planted with vegetable, quick fruiting fruit trees such as melons etc, other fruit trees such as pineapple, durian, guava etc. A fish pond for tropical fresh water fish, goats and maybe two dozen heads of cattle.
11. At any one time there should be something to sell. The produce can be sold locally or an exporter can collect from all the farms the products for packaging and export.
12. The landowners should get a share equivalent to the size of their land from the profits made. They can choose to work or just enjoy the profits.
13. The universities should train farm managers. Once we have demonstrated the profitability of large farms and mix farming, the small holders would be more willing to have their small holdings amalgamated to form farms of a thousand acres or more.
14. Ownership of the land should remain with the land owners. They should retain their grants to assure them that they have not been expropriated.
15. There may be other ideas. But this proposal should be given a try. We import RM60 billion of vegetables a year. This project will not only secure our supply of vegetable but would save a lot of foreign exchange.
16. Today rural poverty is a fact of life. It is largely due to the wrong agricultural practice. It is time that we change. I am proposing this change.
** This article was originally published in THE EDGE DAILY , April 12, 2021
DUIT BUTA
1. Apa lebih sedap dari dapat duit buta.
2. Itulah ajaran Cikgu Najib.
3. Tak payah kerja, cuma pangkah saja, dapat duit.
4. Lompat – lagi banyak duit. Rakyat pilih Kerajaan. Penyangak beli wakil pilihan rakyat.
5. More duit buta. Belum jadi wakil rakyat tak ada harga.
6. Oleh itu bertanding dalam PRU. Menang. Parti pun menang. Jadi Kerajaan.
7. Harga wakil rakyat Kerajaan naik melambung.
8. Fikir. Dari seorang yang tak ada seduit pun ditawar lima million Ringgit jika sanggup lompat.
9. Bodohlah kalau tak lompat. Sesungguhnya politik lebih cepat kaya dari berniaga.
10. Boleh jadi sampai Perdana Menteri.
11. Pendapatan naik, peluang rasuah – banyak duit lagi.
12. Apa jadi pada maruah. Itu biar kepada orang lain.
13. Biar mereka bersyarah, biar mereka mengeluh.
14. Datang PRU – mereka pun jual undi. Jadi wakil rakyat jual bangsa, jual negara, jual agama.
15. Politik lebih untung dari berniaga.
16. Tak payah buat apa. Duit buta datang bercurah.
17. Sedap sungguh duit buta.
CASH IS KING
1. Kenapakah Cash (tunai) itu King (Raja). Cash is King. Kerana cash berkuasa.
2. Demikian kalau bagi cash, sanggup bunuh orang pun boleh. Apatah lagi cuma untuk lompat parti.
3. Dinding tinggi pun lepas. Kalau nak bertanding dalam PRU, guna cash tetap menang punya.
4. Tak cukup cash, curi la.
5. Nanti kena tangkap. Tak, hulur cash, tak jadi tangkap.
6. Kalau milik billion-billion tetap menang PRU.
7. Curi depan mata pun tak apa. Menang PRU, selamat dari dicekup, dibicara.
8. Cash boleh selamat – penyangak pun.
9. Apa nak takut, curi depan mata banyak-banyak, sogok banyak-banyak cash – Lepaih, tak kena hukum.
10. Kalau hukum, hukuman tak jalan. Okaylah.
11. Ayuh semua orang, guna cash. Kamu selamat.
12. Kata IGP penjenayah ditolong oleh orang termasuk polis supaya lari. Selamat diri.
13. Kuasa cash la tu! Ada cash semua boleh. Malaysia boleh – Boleh apa? Boleh buat apa sahaja jika ada cash – termasuk menyamun.
14. Tak cukup cash – dengan kuasa yang dikurnia oleh rakyat yang dapat cash, tubuh syarikat, pinjam duit, curi duit cukup untuk selamat diri dan menang PRU.
15. Fikirlah. Tak pernah ada duit tiba-tiba diberi lima million.
16. Bodohlah kalau tak balaih.
17. Hilang negara pun tak apa. Bangsa dipelekeh pun tak apa.
18. Aku sekarang millionaire.
19. Apa kata kalau kita jual negara? How much? Right price – pay in cash, tax free, okay.
20. Jangan dengaq orang itu. Dia pun balaih. Cuma tak ada bukti. Tak akan jadi Perdana Menteri 20 tahun tak balaih. Tentu balaih punya.
21. Pedulikan.
22. Cash is King. Asal Aku Dapat.
PRU 15
1. Kata Perdana Menteri Pilihan Raya akan diadakan apabila darurat ditamatkan kerana masalah wabak COVID-19 sudah selesai.
2. Muhyiddin percaya Perikatan Nasional (PN) akan menang pilihan raya kerana ia sudah buat persediaan. Bendera dan sepanduk sudah ditempah dan agihan kawasan antara Bersatu, PAS dan UMNO sudah dirunding.
3. Bagi Muhyiddin hanya terdapat satu masalah yang belum diselesai. Muhyiddin berharap tidak ada parti lawan yang akan bertanding. Dengan ini Perikatan Nasional akan menang tanpa bertanding.
4. Untuk ini Muhyiddin boleh menentukan supaya parti musuh tidak akan didaftar. Ia bermula dengan Pejuang. Jika Pejuang tidak didaftar maka parti ini tidak akan dapat bertanding sebagai parti Pejuang. Mungkin calon Pejuang terpaksa bertanding sebagai calon bebas. Jika ini dilaku maka calon-calon bebas ini tidak dapat mengguna simbol dan bendera Pejuang. Ini akan kelirukan pengundi.
5. Mungkin Pejuang bertanding dengan nama parti lain seperti Bersatu dalam PRU 14 terpaksa guna symbol dan bendera PKR. Ini juga boleh kelirukan pengundi. Jika dicuba PKR mungkin tidak setuju memberi banyak kawasan kepada Pejuang. Sokongan juga mungkin tidak diberi. Maka akan kalahlah Pejuang.
6. Pada PRU 14 Najib membatal pendaftaran Bersatu dan tidak mendaftar Pakatan Harapan (PH). Maka parti-parti pembangkang terpaksa bertanding atas nama PKR, guna simbol dan bendera PKR. Percubaan Najib ini dapat ditangani oleh parti-parti lawan dengan bertanding sebagai parti PKR.
7. Parti lawan masih dapat sokongan yang cukup untuk menewas BN.
8. Muhyiddin mungkin cuba adakan PRU awal semasa Pejuang dan Muda tidak didaftar. Pejuang pula tidak ikat diri dengan mana-mana parti. Pejuang berharap akan menjadi kuasa ketiga. Harapan Muhyiddin ialah dia tidak dihadapi oleh musuh.
9. Tetapi Bersatu yang sekarang sudah jadi parti berbilang kaum tidak mungkin menang banyak. Dengan itu parti Perikatan Nasional dan BN dan Muafakat akan pilih orang lain sebagai Perdana Menteri. UMNO dan PAS memberi jawatan PM kepada Muhyiddin dahulu kerana mereka hanya boleh jadi gabungan majoriti jika Bersatu keluar dari PH dan menyertai Muafakat.
10. Yang mencukupi bilangan ialah Azmin dengan paksinya dari PKR. Secara tidak langsung Azmin diberi jawatan tertinggi tetapi bukan Timbalan Perdana Menteri.
11. Keadaan politik selepas PRU 15 tidak mungkin berbeza dari sekarang. Tetapi Muhyiddin tidak akan jadi Perdana Menteri.
12. Pejuang tidak mungkin jadi Kerajaan. Tetapi sokongan Pejuang akan tentukan gabungan mana yang akan jadi Kerajaan. Sokongan Pejuang hanya jika syarat Pejuang diterima.
POLITIK NEGARA
1. Darurat masih ada, Perdana Menteri boleh buat apa sahaja.
2. Orang biasa 10 hari, Menteri 3 hari…COVID tentu kenal siapa dia?
3. Lompat menjadi-jadi. Dua, tiga lompat masuk Parti Kerajaan. Belum tentu Muhyiddin dapat majoriti. Lompat keluar tak tahu?
4. Sebab lompat? Heh, Heh, Heh. Kita tahu la. Cash is king.
5. Katanya ada tawaran lagi kepada parti lawan. Bisnes politik lebih untung dari bisnes-bisnes.
6. Berita palsu – ciptaan Dato Seri Najib dibatal oleh Pakatan Harapan (PH).
7. Dibawa balik oleh Muhyiddin. Kenyataan Muhyiddin setaraf kelulusan Parlimen. Sebut sahaja, jadi undang-undang.
8. Apa perlu Parlimen? Apa perlu pilihan raya? Habis masa, habis duit.
9. Beli orang, panggil mereka wakil rakyat, Kerajaan tertubuh – selamat berbillion Ringgit.
10. Tak cukup duit, naik denda.
11. Tak bayar 10,000 pakai baju oren, masuk dalam.
12. Salah satu billion okay. Dapat eskot polis.
13. Boleh jadi ahli Parlimen. Nasihat Kerajaan.
14. Malaysia boleh. Darurat semua boleh. Syabas Malaysia.
BUKIT MALUT
1. Saya ikuti dengan teliti perkembangan berkenaan situasi penempatan di Bukit Malut, Langkawi.
2. Isu ini sudah berlarutan agak lama, juga semasa saya menjadi Perdana Menteri.
3. Penyelesaian isu ini memerlukan tindakan pro-aktif Kerajaan Persekutuan. Ini kerana sebahagian besar masalah yang perlu diselesaikan melibatkan agensi-agensi Kerajaan Persekutuan.
4. Pembangunan penempatan untuk menampung jumlah penduduk yang akan dipindahkan akan melibat peruntukan yang besar.
5. Ini hanya boleh didapati dengan bantuan kewangan Kerajaan Persekutuan.
6. Kerajaan Negeri Kedah tidak mungkin mampu untuk sediakan peruntukan yang sebegitu besar untuk bangunkan penempatan baru, tetapi perlu memain peranan untuk selesaikan perkara-perkara berkaitan yang melibatkan kuasa negeri.
LETAK JAWATAN
1. Tommy Thomas dalam bukunya “My Story – Justice in the Wilderness” berpendapat bahawa peletakan jawatan Perdana Menteri sebagai surrender of power, penyerahan balik kuasa yang sukar difaham.
2. Saya pula tidak faham kenapa peletakan jawatan itu sukar difaham. Parti Pribumi Bersatu yang saya menjadi Pengerusi telah tolak nasihat saya supaya tidak tergesa-gesa keluar dari Pakatan Harapan (PH). Ini bermakna parti saya tidak lagi mempunyai kepercayaan (confidence) kepada saya. Mereka menyokong Muhyiddin dan memutus untuk keluar dari Pakatan Harapan dengan serta merta.
3. Apabila saya tidak lagi memiliki kepercayaan dari parti saya, saya tidak lagi dapat menjadi Pengerusi parti. Saya buat keputusan untuk letak jawatan sebagai Pengerusi Bersatu.
4. Saya dilantik jadi Perdana Menteri (PM) kerana saya Pengerusi Bersatu. Apabila saya tidak lagi jadi Pengerusi Bersatu, saya tidak lagi layak jadi Perdana Menteri. Maka saya pun terpaksa letak jawatan sebagai Perdana Menteri.
5. Walaupun saya minta supaya Bersatu tangguh keputusan keluar dari PH, tetapi pada malam 23 Februari 2020 (Ahad) Bersatu telah ada majlis makan malam bersama PAS dan UMNO, iaitu gabungan parti-parti yang dirancang oleh Muhyiddin untuk menjadi Kerajaan apabila PH jatuh.
6. Saya jatuh bersama dengan kejatuhan PH. Tidak munasabah saya terus jadi Perdana Menteri apabila PH tidak lagi jadi Kerajaan.
7. Kit Siang berpendapat Kerajaan PH jatuh kerana saya letak jawatan. Jika PH masih ada majoriti, ia tidak akan jatuh. PH boleh pilih ahli Dewan Rakyat lain untuk jadi Perdana Menteri.
8. Anwar Ibrahim memang berminat untuk jadi Perdana Menteri. Tetapi kerana PH hilang majoriti di waktu saya letak jawatan, Anwar tidak dapat ganti saya.
9. Kemudian semua 222 wakil rakyat diberi peluang oleh Yang di-Pertuan Agong untuk cadang calon mereka untuk jadi Perdana Menteri.
10. PH yang sepatutnya cadang saya, telah cadang Anwar konon kerana ia mendapat cukup bilang disebabkan sokongan dari Sabah dan Sarawak.
11. Tetapi Anwar hanya dapat 92 pencalonan dari PH sahaja. Sabah dan Sarawak tolak Anwar.
12. Saya dapat 62 pencalonan kerana PH tolak saya.
13. Jika PH calon saya seperti yang saya berhak dapat, saya akan dapat 154 undi. Saya sanggup kembali sebagai Perdana Menteri walaupun Bersatu tolak saya.
14. Setelah pencalonan depan Yang di-Pertuan Agong gagal menentukan PM baru, pemimpin PH termasuk Anwar datang jumpa saya dengan cadangan memilih saya sebagai PM. Saya letak syarat nama Anwar sebagai Timbalan Perdana Menteri tidak disebut. Pada hari esok syarat saya dipersetujui.
15. PH berjaya mendapat 114 wakil rakyat yang menyertai kumpulan baru ini. Tetapi sebelum dapat dikemukakan kepada Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Muhyiddin sudah dipilih oleh Agong.
16. Yang jelas ialah tidak mungkin Muhyiddin mempunyai majoriti kerana 114 dari wakil rakyat tidak bersama dengan beliau. Tetapi apabila dilantik sebagai Perdana Menteri beberapa penyokong kumpulan PH ditawar jadi Menteri, oleh Muhyiddin. Maka ia pun memperoleh majoriti.
17. Kit Siang tentu tidak akan mengaku kejatuhan PH bukan kerana saya letak jawatan. Yang benar-benar menjatuh PH ialah pemilihan Anwar untuk jadi Perdana Menteri semasa membuat pengakuan kepada Agong. Jika PH menamakan saya, segala-gala yang berlaku sekarang tidak akan berlaku.