Police Break Up Anwar Ibrahim's Rally In KL

Anwar's speech was disrupted by PIGS in Kampong Kerinchi, Lembah Pantai KL
Lembah Pantai Constituency was won by Anwar's daughter, Nurul Izzah. Since the seat was won by the opposition's PKR, never once Anwar nor his daughter been allowed to stage a speech in the area. It is a low income area and those Malays that attended were apparently pissed off !!! More and more Malays are witnessing that the police is just a part of UMNO's state apparatus and the recent spate of firebombings could not rouse them into action because they are not the mob that the UMNO could previously counted on. Looks like UMNO's days are numbered...
The day the government servants become non-partisan, will be the day that UMNO falls flat on its fugly face.

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By Anwar Ibrahim

Alhamdulillah acara di Ampang dibanjiri puluhan ribu rakyat tanpa sebarang masalah.

Tetapi program di tanah PKNS, Kampong Kerinchi bersama Menteri Besar Selangor, Tan Sri Khalid dan Nurul Izzah menghadapi masalah permit polis.

Entah mengapa sejak kemenangan kita usai tahun 2008, belum pernah sekali kami dibenarkan berucap di Lembah Pantai. Shahrizat terus berdendam dengan kekalahan dan Raja Nongchik menganggap beliau punyai kuasa mutlak. Dan polis bertindak sebagai alat penguasa Umno.

Dalam pengalaman saya berdepan dengan pegawai polis sebelum ini dalam isu ceramah, saya belum pernah menyaksikan keangkuhan pegawai saperti Wan Bari dari IPD Brickfields. Selalunya pegawai datang – pernah Ketua atau Timbalan Ketua Polis Negeri menyatakan dengan sopan (dari bawah pentas) bahawa saya harus segera menghentikan ucapan. Dalam kes ini beliau terus naik ke pentas pukul 11.33 malam dan minta saya hentikan ucapan. Saya setuju dan meminta hadirin bertenang.

Saya berhenti berucap tetapi beliau arah saya turun pentas segera. Saya minta beliau sopan, kerana saya sudah berhenti dan tidak wajar beliau pamer kuasa secara angkuh.

Alhamdulillah majlis berakhir dengan tenang. Ayuh Selamatkan Malaysia!


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The police arrested those microphones...
They are still in the lock-up, singing karaoke.

Umno is beyond repair !!!

Rakyat kata...





by Syed Zahar, Malaysian Digest

There’s no denying that things has been going downhill for post-Mahathir UMNO. The party's recent form under its previous and present leadership seems to be inherently incapable of providing the right-minded direction it emphatically needs. Its integrity and credibility after 52 years of rule are waning in the eyes of many and indications are there for all to see from the way it is leading the government.

It’s a sad truth that the only honourable grounds UMNO seems to stand for now is in championing the cause of the Malays. One can’t help but ponder at the state of the once dignified party as it is being reduced to using their race card as a trump card. As for their opponents, Anwar’s KeAdilan meanwhile are headstrong in advocating and disseminating their multiracial ideals - yet another brownie points for the Opposition.

The Twilight of Race Politics?

It’s hard to convince people of the validity of 1Malaysia concept when the country is adhering to a race-based political model which UMNO will always uphold. The problem is, more and more people, especially the younger urban population, are beginning to show their willingness to accept the idea of a truly multiracial party henceforth government that champions the cause of all races, of all classes. <!--[endif]-->

Even Nik Aziz is seriously considering to allow non-Malay Muslims to run as MPs for Pas. Perhaps it’s high time we consider meritocracy over ethnicity. Wariness of this multiracial ideals are bound to surface among conservative Malay majority that prefers to not have the privileges they were born into taken away from them. Pakatan Rakyat’s Common Policy Framework (CPF), which it pulled from it’s sleeve during its inaugural convention late last year to counter UMNO / BN’s 1Malaysia, may well pacify these conservatives as the drafted policy says the Malay rights would remains as it is.

Corruption and General Consensus

UMNO’s trouble was already brewing when Abdullah took over its leadership. In February last year, Merdeka Centre for Opinion Research interviewed 1,031 Malaysian adults to ask them about the governing party’s main problems. 35 percent of respondents cite corruption as UMNO’s most serious flaw. Being out of touch is second with 15 percent, followed by having weak leaders with 12 percent, having weak economic managers with 11 per cent, being arrogant also with 11 per cent, and being racist with 10 per cent.

Things were not getting better for the party when Abdullah resigned. Instead, with Najib at helm, UMNO’s leadership now is at its most controversial in the party’s 52 year history. The man is entwined with several allegations involving the murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu and purchase of submarines. Two veteran leaders, Mahathir and Tengku Razaleigh, had urged the new president to come clean on the matter. On top of this, there’s the unfolding predicaments by the likes of the Perak power grab, PKFZ, Teoh Beng Hock’s death inquest, ‘Allah’ usage, church attacks and the stolen jet engines (which took place when Najib was Defence Minister), implementation of GST, price hikes, and the police and MACC‘s involvement in politics. The accumulated strife are weighing down the UMNO leader and it looks like it would take a miracle for Najib to regain trust and reverence from the Umno members, let alone, the rakyat.

The rampancy of money politics has also shattered the public’s hope of national renewal via UMNO. The people definitely want more transparency in the government. This is easier said than done as Umno leaders has been so pampered for so long they’ve become like little tots; Once you take some privileges away they’re bound to make noise. The question is how much and what kind of racket are they going to make.

Challenges That Lie Ahead

Political crisis are inevitable but looking at the way recent issues of national concern are being handled, the government only have themselves to blame for the mounting negative perceptions of the public. Therefore, making positive changes is in their hands. They should see this as their last chance to turn their crisis into an opportunity and their unity and sense of direction.

Can the present backbone of UMNO - Najib, Muhyiddin Yassin, Shahrizat Jalil and Khairy Jamaluddin provide a new impetus for the party’s resurgence?

The party leaders have a lot of work to do to repair their public image and they thought they could achieve this simply by hiring a fancy public relations company APCO Worldwide that costs RM20 million of our money - such a waste looking at the way things had turned out.

Several issues come into play which the new leadership must address quickly. UMNO has grown into a party that manifests itself as arrogant, corrupted, autocratic, feudalistic and even racist by former party president Mahathir himself. One of the biggest challenges for the UMNO now is to prove to that it is ready and capable of governing a multiracial society. An UMNO which caters exclusively for the Malay community may help to extend the lifeline of the party but not the coalition’s. As it is, BN components MCA and MIC themselves are in dire need of rejuvenation.

Change in Approach and Attitude

Najib’s leadership has given us a perception that UMNO is not committed to promote and defend the rule of law, the federal constitution and democracy. We cannot refute that UMNO led BN has done so much for this country but that was the old UMNO. This new one did a lot too but their leaders also profited from it at the same time. They’ve taken things for granted and became haughty and distant from the people.

The interest of this nation should supersede as the main priority over one’s own political dominance. The Malaysian public are smarter now and they don’t like to be taken for a fool anymore.

How can UMNO leaders ever relate to and know the needs of the blue collars and rural folks when you are seen living it up with everything first class all the way? How can they win the heart of the commoners when these folks have seen the way UMNO leaders have been gallivanting into their kampungs come campaign time in their latest RM1million plus Beemer. If they think the rural folks are not worldly enough to give an accurate price estimate on their set of wheels and contemplate where the money comes from they have another thing coming.

When it comes to the manner of carrying oneself in public, it won’t hurt for the present UMNO leaders to take heed from their predecessor Mahathir’s moderate ways. When Mahathir was prime minister, he rode in a modest Proton Perdana (souped-up, nonetheless) and he even had his two heart surgeries in a government hospital. I mean, this type of choices really exemplify how much faith he has in his own products and system instead of going off for a costly medical tour overseas.

To win points in playing the political game, what UMNO really needs to take a different approach and return to the basic. Come down to the field, or turun padang, so to say, and be with the average Joharis. At this stage, it’s more than about meeting the rakyat’s expectation by appearing to do the right thing; It’s about doing the right thing for the right reason. I don’t know, maybe UMNO leaders should seriously consider driving Peroduas or Nazas, admit themselves in local government hospitals, send their kids to government schools, travel economy class and take the LRT. Tough chance…



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By Asrul Hadi Abdullah Sani

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 25 — Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s first public forum in Lembah Pantai, his first since his release in 2004, ended in chaos here last night.

The police interrupted Anwar 30 minutes into his speech at 11.35pm at the PKNS flats in Kampung Kerinchi.

The PKR advisor was telling the public about his upcoming sodomy trial when six uniformed officers led by Brickfields OCPD, ACP Wan Abdul Bari Wan Abdul Talib, walked into the crowded parking lot where the forum was held.

As the police got closer to the stage, the 500-strong crowd became agitated and started insulting the officers.

At that point, Anwar tried to calm the crowd: “Everybody please calm down. Let me deal with this.”

He tried to recite a prayer when Abdul Bari got on the stage.

“Just give me five minutes to recite the prayer,” Anwar asked but the police stopped him without warning and moved to grab the microphone away.

This caused momentary chaos as Anwar’s men rushed to protect him from being apprehended.

Abdul Bari looked visibly worried when the crowd became agitated and began chanting, “Reformasi!”

After 10 minutes of heated arguments with Abdul Bari, the veteran politician was then allowed to be escorted into an apartment in a nearby flat.

The police, including Kuala Lumpur police chief Datuk Mohamad Sabtu Osman, then ordered the crowd to disperse as a small group of FRU personnel began to line up near the parking lot entrance.

The organisers also tried to ease the tension and asked the supporters to leave peacefully.

“Please calm down. They are only doing their jobs. Please leave,” one of the organisers shouted.

Twenty minutes later, Anwar came out smiling from the apartment and walked to his car.

The car drove off while the remaining few remaining shouted, “God is great!”

A distressed-looking Nurul Izzah, Anwar’s daughter, criticised the OCPD for stirring up public emotion.

“I think it is a clear provocation because you certainly do not have to do that. We stress again this is merely supposed to be a briefing.

“This is terrible because it showcases how politics has gotten involved in police dispensing their duty,” she told reporters here.

The Lembah Pantai MP also argued that they were supposed to have been allowed to hold the talk because it was PKNS land.

“We should have been able to use the hall (of the PKNS flats) but it was denied by the Umno leadership here.

“Since we were not given the hall, the OCPD said that it was fine to hold the talk here (in the parking lot) but a permit was not given,” she added.

Abdul Bari later explained that it was Anwar who provoked the police to act.

“We were okay in the beginning but with the presence of Datuk Seri Anwar... his speech was political in nature which was not in line with why they gathered.

“So we were forced to act,” he said.

He also stressed that he had warned Anwar to stop before the police moved in.

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