hi, costa,
Hope you don't mind but I've deleted the link as Expatkl/
mm2h/it's all agency stuff and needs to be on the agency companies board.
Hope the Bonfire Night event is a success, at least the magazines will come in useful.
This site never did get a "right of reply" to the one-sided, self-serving tripe that the magazine put out as it's contribution to mm2h agents fees.
This is from the magazines own website, comments by members :
Stop spinning political lies
Dear Editor,
On page 30 and 31 of your April issue, there is an article about the current Prime Minister which for a moment made me mistake your magazine for the News Straits Times or The Star which are the two mainstream propaganda media of the BN government.
Taking all the nice flowery language and praises the writer endowed on this article, I would like to point out the misinformation and spins, and provide you with facts which you can easily verify from many sources.
First of all, Najib Razak entered politics when he retained the Pekan seat left vacant on the death of his father the then Prime Minister Tun Razak. To say there was no patronage involved is Paddy Bowie’s fantasy as there is no way he would even be chosen as a 23year old fresh graduate to contest the seat if he was not his father’s son.
In the March 2008 general elections, besides losing the two-third majority, the ruling coalition lost 4 states, not 5 as Kelantan was retained by the federal opposition PAS party. In this 2008 elections, the swing was a multi-racial one, not purely a Malay swing. Although they have only a small percentage of Malaysian Malay members, the writer is wrong to call the DAP a secular Chinese Party as the DAP’s membership and elected representatives consists of ethnic Malaysian Chinese and Malaysian Indians. In fact, this election returned the highest number of Malaysian Indians to parliament on the back of the DAP and PKR tickets.
Since the March 2008 general elections, there were 10 by-elections, including the current Hulu Selangor by-election on the 25th of April. Out of these 10, only 3 by-elections were caused by resignations of the incumbent PKR members. The rest were acts of God due to the death of the sitting members. And of these 10 by-elections, 3 of them were the ruling party’s seats. I would like to point out that the opposition PAS party managed to win one of the 3 ruling party’s seat in Kuala Terengganu with an increase of majority.
The opposition did not “fool the outside world” they were gaining strength. The 3 by-elections that were caused by resignations, 2 of them were due to the sitting members receiving death threats and pressures to defect to the ruling party. One of them was Anwar’s wife’s seat. Anwar was prevented to contest this seat in the general election as he was still serving a ban caused by trumped up charges of corruption and sodomy – the charges and the kangaroo trial has been widely condemned by the legal fraternities and international communities.
Najib has indeed provided a wow factor in ascending to the PM post. The writer failed to highlight the case where a beautiful Mongolian translator was murdered in Malaysia by 2 members of his security detail. She was shot in the face and her body blown up by C4 explosives which are only obtainable from the Defense Ministry, controlled by Najib at that time. The translator came to Malaysia to claim her part of the “commission” from her lover who happens to be Najib’s aide. The aide pocketed RM500million worth of commission from a purchase of submarines from France which was completed during Najib’s tenure as Defense minister. The interesting part is, although the murder was committed by Najib’s security officers, his security chief DSP Musa Safri who introduced the officers to the aide was never questioned and the judge, prosecution and defense lawyers made pains to ensure that Najib himself was not implicated in the trial. The aide was acquitted and the 2 officers sentenced to death although the motive for the killing was never established.
Najib’s “1-Malaysia” slogan was also difficult to understand. Parties within his ruling coalition remains race-based, members of his party has condemned non-Malays as “immigrants” and “free-loaders” who should be “grateful” that they were granted citizenship in the first place. A Malay-ultra NGO, Perkasa was registered in great speed and even granted a printing license, all of which are controlled by the ruling party. The Home Minister, a Najib cousin, was also fast to defend ultra-Malay demonstrators who openly insulted Hindus by stomping on a severed cow’s head while he instructed police to arrest peaceful candlelight vigils supporting causes such as detention without trial of a blogger, a journalist and a politician. The trio was arrested for speaking against racist remarks by members of the ruling coalition. Najib also defended his deputy’s statement that he is a Malay first and Malaysian second, further eroding his “1-Malaysia concept”.
“1-Malaysia” also went across racial barriers to differentiate the government and opposition supporters. In Najib’s effort to end corruption, the MACC which reports to him has been slow in going after multi-billion corruption cases involving himself and his ministers such as the submarine scandal and the PKFZ while they were quick to go after opposition members who spent RM2000 to purchase flags for an event. One of the opposition member detained for questioning by the MACC overnight was found dead within the confines of the MACC office. Refusing to set up a commission to investigate the death, the government and the controlled-judiciary has also been dragging their feet on a powerless inquest. Meanwhile, the powerful UMNO warlords such as the ex-Chief Minister of Selangor, Khir Toyo continues to live in his mansion which he could not have afforded and cases of his family plus maid travel-jaunts to Disneyland and Paris with tax-payers money are closed.
Najib indeed down-sized and made his Cabinet leaner when he took over – by just 1 Minister. However, he appointed Idris Jala later making his Cabinet just as fat as the previous one. And to make it even more interesting, Idris Jala was appointed to oversee KPIs, an objective earlier given to the now redundant minister Koh Tsu Koon.
To close it, it is interesting that Paddy Bowie calls the opposition coalition, Pirates. So far, all the disgusting acts to pervert the judiciary, abusing the Police, MACC and Elections Commission were done by the Barisan Nasional. For example, the police and the judiciary were used to engineer a coup-de-tat in Perak state. So, who are the real Pirates? I will not go into details of this but you are free to google for the news so widely reported not only by the alternative Malaysian online media but also the international media.
I think Paddy Bowie and ExpatKL should not treat readers like idiots and insult our intelligence by publishing spins and lies. This is the very reason why the mainstream newspapers have lost their credibility, and their readers!
Andy knows which side of his roti has the Datukship on it.
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September 12, 2007, 06:32:01 PM