MCA : BLOK PEMBANGKANG KINI ADALAH PAKA'TUN'

Sememangnya tidak ada salah dan silap malahan tepat sekali apabila Datuk Wee Ka Siong Timbalan Presiden MCA menyelar blok pembangkang yang diterajui DAP telah menjadikan pakatan mereka hari ini hanya tinggal sebagai paka'Tun' sahaja.

Daripada Pakatan Rakyat (PR) yang dibawah ketua de facto mereka Anwar Ibrahim kemudian selepas PAS dinyahkan dan Wan Azizah menamakan pakatan baru mereka sebagai Pakatan Harapan (PH), kemudian setelah Tun Mahathir berjinak-jinak dengan mereka dan akhirnya semua di bawah telunjuk beliau.

Maka apa yang dikatakan Datuk Wee bertepatan dengan senario blok pembangkang di mana jangan kata DAP dan PKR, malahan PAS juga turut terkesan apabila diasak Tun M untuk menerima kata-katanya.

Jika dahulu Tun M dan Muhyiddin adalah bahan makian DAP, PKR dan PAN di setiap ceramah politik mereka selama lebih dari 40 tahun, sekarang diterima untuk bersepakat. Jika dahulu segala skandal dan salah guna kuasa Tun M diminta didedahkan, kini mereka sedaya upaya cuba pertahankan. Apa jadi dengan segala gelaran Tun M terhadap Kit Siang yang menggelar beliau rasis dan merbahaya jika DAP menerajui negara?

Begitu juga segala gelaran kepada Tun M sebagai 'MahaFiraun' dan 'MahaZalim' untuknya, apa sudah jadi sekarang?

"Kita mesti ada prinsip. Kalau tiada prinsip jangan berpolitik." kata Datuk Wee. Jika dilihat pakatan pembangkang ini, sememangnya mereka tiada prinsip yang telus yang mampu dijadikan contoh untuk rakyat. Manakan tidak, konon Pakatan Rakyat telah dibubarkan dan diwar-warkan secara besar-besaran tetapi PR masih wujud pula di Selangor.

Kononnya PH tidak bekerjasama lagi dengan PAS tetapi DAP dan PKR masih bekerjasama dengan PAS hanya kerana kerusi PAS melebihi dari PKR dan ada di antara ahli DUN PAS ingin mengekalkan jawatan exco di dalam DUN Selangor.

Permainan pakatan politik rojak pembangkang semakin ketara apabila berlakunya pertandingan di pilihanraya negeri Sarawak di mana kita lihat PAS, PKR dan DAP menentang sesama sendiri. Manakala di  PRK Sg Besar Selangor, PAS bertanding solo dan tidak disokong PKR malahan bergabung dengan DAP untuk calon pilihan mereka PAN.

Sedangkan PH (PAS, PKR dan DAP) bukan saja kekal malahan mentadb Selangor. Bayangkan dalam bermusuh masih ingin kekal mentadbir sebuah negeri dan apa berlaku kepada rakyatnya? Jangan hairan apabila segala masalah rakyat akan ditolak tepi tetapi percakaran politik terpaksa didahulukan kerana masing-masing mempunyai kepentingan sendiri.

Seperti lazimnya pembangkang, segalah pergelutan politik dalaman di kalangan mereka, mereka akan menuding jari kepada Barisan Nasional (BN). Oleh itu, Datuk Wee tidak hairan jika pergelutan yang berterusan dan gagal ditangani ini akan diletakkan kesalahan kepada BN. Masalah yang ditimbulkan mereka sendiri, akhirnya BN yang dituduh menjadi dalangnya.

Oleh kerana gagal meniru kesepakatn di antara parti-parti komponen di dalam Barisan Nasional yang jelas seperti adik-beradik yang mengutamakan persefahaman, hormat menghormati, patuh kepada Presidennya dan sentiasa membawa kepada perbincangan untuk segala permasalahan, pembangkang kini hanya mampu berilusi untuk disatukan di bawah satu logo.

Nampaknya dengan kehadiran Tun M ke blok pembangkang pun, beliau juga telah gagal membawa mereka bersatu. Kewujudan keutuhan Barisan Nasional bukan sesuatu yang baru dan bukan ditiru dari mana-mana ideologi politik di dunia. Ia diwujudkan dari sejak merdeka yang bermula dengan Perikatan dimulakan dengan gabungan 3 parti mewakili setiap bangsa utama di Tanah Melayu.

Samada Pakatan Rakyatke, Pakatan Harapanke atau Paka'Tun'ke, politik pembangkang sememangnya akan mengguna segala taktik kotor untuk menipu rakyat. Hanya di atas dasar saja nampak mereka sepakat tetapi disebaliknya, mereka akan terus bergelumang dengan persengketaan sesama sendiri.

Bertepatanlah apabila Datuk Wee menggelar mereka sebagai Paka'Tun' dan rakyat pula telah melihat mereka sebagai 'Pakatoon' yang menggambarkan betapa caca-marbanya blok pembangkang ini.

STRATEGI BARU DAP MENGHAPUSKAN ISLAM DARI PERLEMBAGAAN

Jika Ketua Penerangan UMNO Tan Sri Annuar Musa lantang mengatakan dari dahulu lagi yang politik Kit Siang dan DAP berasaskan kebencian dan perkauman, sememangnya sukar untuk dinafikan dan ia adalah satu petanda bahaya kepada perpaduan rakyat pelbagai kaum di Malaysia. 

Kit Siang dan DAP bukan sekadar menanam kebencian terhadap bangsa Melayu tetapi lebih jelas, mereka juga menentang ugama Islam yang dianuti bangsa Melayu.

Pada hari ini Kit Siang dan DAP telah menukar strategi serangan mereka terhadap bangsa Melayu dan Islam di mana mereka tidak lagi secara terbuka melontarkan sebarang penentangan samada di pentas-pentas politiknya mahupun kenyataan rasmi mereka. Walau selicik mana pendekatan mereka, namun rakyat Malaysia dapat mengesannya.

Kit Siang dan DAP dikatakan telah menaja beberapa portal berita untuk menghasut rakyat Malaysia terutama di kalangan masyarakat Cina untuk mempersoal segalanya mengenai hal ehwal Melayu dan Islam. Terkini, The Malaysia Insight (TMInsight) adalah suara DAP. 

Ia terbukti apabila Kit Siang secara terbuka meraikan kelahiran The Malaysia Insight yang diterajui editor The Malaysian Insider Jahabar Sadiq, yang telah menutup portal TMI kerana berhadapan dengan pelbagai saman dari pihak kerajaan kerana menyiarkan berita-berita palsu. Justeru, TMI mengalami kerugian besar.

Baru-baru ini, TMInsight sengaja menyiarkan satu artikel bertajuk ‘Governments have no business meddling in Islam, says scholar Kassim’. Artikel ini jelas bertujuan untuk desakan menghapuskan Artikel 3 Perlembagaan Malaysia yang termaktub bahawa Islam sebagai ugama persekutuan. 

Antara lain provokasi yang ditulis dan sengaja diterbitkan TMInsight secara eksklusif adalah;

 “We have to amend the constitution, the federal religion in the constitution must be removed. A government must be just, a country doesn’t have a religion, (only) people have religion.”

 “Religion has nothing to do with government officials… they just have to govern collectively and fairly.”

Walaupun ini adalah pandangan peribadi yang radikal namun apabila TMInsight memberi ruangan yang cukup eksklusif untuk disebarkan, secara langsung ia mampu menghasut orang ramai dan mereka yang kurang arif apatah lagi yang anti-Islam akan mudah terpengaruh. 

Pandangan radikal Kassim ini jelas bertentangan dengan perlembagaan negara yang bakal menjejaskan segala yang berhubung-kait dengan institusi Islam termasuk bidang kuasa mahkamah syariah.

Lebih jelas apabila provokasi sebegini mampu memberi kesan kepada peranan dan kedudukan sultan-sultan Melayu.

Jangan kita leka, apabila  Artikel 3 berjaya dikeluarkan dari perlembagaan negara, ini adalah langkah pertama ke arah menjadikan Malaysia sebuah republik sekular. Bukankah ini adalah matlamat utama DAP untuk merealisasikan Malaysian Malaysia mereka? 

Apakah tidak benar apa yang dilantangkan Datuk Seri Najib Razak dan Tan Sri Annuar Musa yang DAP adalah anti-Melayu dan anti-Islam tidak benar?

Janganlah kita pandang ringan dan leka apabila...

OPPOSITION’S ZERO ‘HOPE’ AFTER 9 YEARS

Starting from GE12, when we saw the political tsunami and it continues until the next five years in GE13, the opposition parties managed to capture and retained power in Penang and Selangor from Barisan Nasional. During which, the people trusted all of their promises to be a better alternative that the Pakatan Rakyat government will be more transparent, without corruption practices, prudent in spending and above all, they are more competent than BN.In making promises throughout the nation, apparently all went up in smoke, that is equivalent to “ZERO”.

The hope and dream offered by the opposition bloc with Pakatan Rakyat and today, the new but the same members of Pakatan Harapan, many have realised that their manifestation for ‘Road to Putrajaya’ to capture the federal government will never materialise but above all, they have failed to keep their promises.

For the past nine years, the oppositions shouted loudly against BN for being corrupted but today, some of their leaders are charged. They seem to be against cronyism practised by BN but they themselves have transactions with favoured individuals from big enterprises and the worst part is when they have all in a family not only in the party but the state’s administration too.

Look no further in Penang, DAP promised the Penangites that they are capable of settling any flood issues within 9 months but after 9 years later, it was never resolved but it is getting even worse. DAP lauded that they are the only party leaders to take care of Penang nature that they will plant a million trees but eventually, they cut down trees more than they have planted.

For the past 2 general elections, DAP claimed that they are the only party who will champion the rakyat’s struggle and their welfares will definitely be taken care and in particular, they promised Penangites to build more affordable homes but instead, Guan Eng built more affordable viewed luxurious condominiums and mansions.

DAP claimed that only in Penang that the government is transparent and imposed the Freedom of Information Act, but today the law seems to have been used for hiding more information and what they fought for freedom of speech are now no more relevant to medias who reports against them even with facts.

The previous campaigns that are written clearly in their manifesto that there will be no hike in water charges but today, within 9 years, Guan has raised 4 times to equate to more than 100 percent to penalise Penangites who have voted him and DAP.

Failing to keep all the previous promises, without shame and guilt, Guan Eng keeps on promising the rakyat and now he suggested to abolish GST. But to confuse his followers, he readdresses it as GST at zero rates. This will be Guan Eng’s biggest achievement as Malaysia will be the most foolish country to set GST at zero percent when there will be zero revenue to bear not only administrative expenses, but there shall be zero development too.

Easy said than done as what PM Najib Razak used to remind the opposition-led states. When they failed to boost their state’s economy, the only solution that they could think of is to either rob the states assets and land while their people are further deceived and point their fingers to the federal government.

Only within 9 years that the oppositions have turned into exactly the same and perhaps worse to those they have been accusing and criticising. Should they be given another 5 years to continue their ‘zero’ accomplished promises and meaningless hopes?

PENANG IS INDISPUTABLE A FAILED STATE

Even after Gerakan Sec-Gen Datuk Liang Teck Meng’s numerous accusations and followed by Datuk Rahman Dahlan’s demands to answer DAP Penang ChiefMinister Lim Guan Eng has once again turned silent as a grave. 

Thus this is his unusual behaviour when he knew he has deceived Penangites and in particular the Chinese on Penang economic performance.Silence is golden but to Guan Eng, he has nothing evident to rebut but to agree with his detractors from Barisan Nasional. The bottom line for him is as long as the Chinese community, especially in Penang, their mindsets are deflected with wild accusations and unfounded statements.

The fact is, these are the troubles brewing Penang’s economy that is heading into a failed state that has been highlighted by Datuk Liang of Gerakan but was totally silenced by Guan Eng’s Penang Institute;

Penang suffered the lowest in history in their GDP growth rate and for the period between 2008-2015, Penang fell in 4th place among all states in Malaysia. Since Guan Eng took over the helm in Penang, the state’s record shows that it has the lowest median wage growth among the 16 states for the period 2010 to 2015 and was bypassed by Johor, Negeri Sembilan and Johor. 

This followed by the growth rate of Penang’s household income has recorded the 4th lowest among all states and territories since 2009 to 2015 and was intercepted by Johor and Melaka.

Neither confirming nor denying, Guan Eng’s Penang Institute is yet to respond but alas, since October last year they have failed to produce even a single piece of the answer to convince Penangites.

Guan Eng’s much-lauded states surplus budget is the latest subject argued by Datuk Liang that since January 2017, it went unchallenged. Since 2008, statesPenang’s surplus budget was actually based on the state’s land sales. 

In fact, pieces of evidence are produced showing Penang sale of assets, including land and shares by the Penang State Government and state-owned companies amounting to several billion, if added on, it will definitely produce a surplus budget. That is how Guan Eng has convoluted his claims to laud his administration performance.In covering up his lies, Guan Eng is at his best to quip others with his usual slurs and accused that Datuk Liang has failed to understand the Auditor General’s Report on Penang. 

Too unfortunate for Guan Eng that subsequently, Datuk Liang has shown to the public a clear and undisputable quote from the Auditor General’s report that Penang’s recorded surplus was due to land and asset sales including their accounting practices to transfer these figures and later recognised them as states revenue and later claimed them as a surplus budget.

Kuala Lumpur has increased their GDP per capita gap with Penang, an increase from RM18,306 in 2008 to RM49,875 more than Penang in 2015. In other words, Penangites are getting poorer when compared to Kuala Lumpur people and it could get even worse in the near future. Before DAP took over Penang from Barisan Nasionalstate’s GDP per capita has always excelled and overtaken Selangor but since 2008, it is already halved to Selangor in 2015.

Worst still when Penang state OPEX had jumped 5 folds from 2008 to 2017 when Penang had lost investments top spot since 2011.

Since Guan Eng and his administration has failed to dispute those claims, Penangites have every right to be alarmed and worry as their economic future is getting gloomy and weakening under Guan Eng and DAP when other states in Malaysia is leveraging on our nation’s booming economy. Should Guan Eng claimed that Malaysia is not doing well, it is Penang that is contributing most and is indisputable a failed state.

EMBITTERED AGAINST PM NAJIB, MAHATHIR DESTROYING HIMSELF

Disparaging and demonising PM Najib Razak’s administration is his prime task, lest we forget that it is his own admission to the rakyat as he is now in the opposition bloc. Either it is baseless or mere wild allegations, they do not matter anymore as long as he could agitate the people. But the question is, who is actually impacted? In his latest writings, Dr Mahathir ventured to raise once again the repeated question on how the world will respect Malaysia when too much damage done by PM Najib Razak’s administration.

Dr Mahathir began with the level of corruption in the country and claimed that Malaysia is in its top ten most corrupt countries in the world. Like a broken record, he assumed that the world disputed our authorities reports on 1MDB and the Saudi-Arabia’s donation to PM Najib. But as usual, Dr Mahathir failed to link his claims with any reputable world corruption index resources but his supposed facts turned out to be repeated lies.

Should Dr Mahathir is too lazy to check the 10 most corrupt countries in the world, the rakyat themselves would correct him that in the latest report by CNBC, Malaysia did not appear in the list except mentioning Somalia, South Sudan, North Korea, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya, Afghanistan, Guinea-Bissau and Venezuela. A similar reporting came from The New York Times and the Independent UK early this year.

Perhaps Dr Mahathir would peep into ranker.com and hopefully, there is little sense of shame for deceiving his readers, when Malaysia is not even in the top 100 as the reporting is based on Transparency International’s report.

As he went on to incite his readers and questioned if there is anything left for the world to respect about Malaysia, Dr Mahathir who is carrying out his duties as a “pariah-class” opposition leader, deliberately missed these out;

a. In 2013, Japan PM Shinzo Abe and Canada PM Steven Harper have visited Malaysia while Malaysia marked its historical first visit welcoming President Xi Jinping of the Republic of China for a three-day official visit. Feel free to question Dr Mahathir why there is not even a single sitting China President has ever visited Malaysia during his 22 years premiership.

b. Malaysia had a hiatus of almost 50 years without a U.S. President visiting Malaysia but in April 2014, President Obama marked his first visit. Later in December 2014, they were both golfing in the United States. In the same year, Malaysia won a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) that from 192 countries, 187 voted for Malaysia.

c. In mid-2015, British Prime Minister David Cameron visited Malaysia and the world witnessed US President Obama’s second visit to Malaysia.

d. 2016 PM Najib fulfilled a special invitation from President Xi of the Republic of China and witnessed inked agreement of RM144 billion loans and investments into Malaysia. Later, he visited Japan and Malaysia was presented with two patrol boats.

e. As the economist predicts that Malaysia economy will expedite to excel thus maintain as the 8th fastest growing GDP growth in the major economy country in the world for 2017, HRH King Salman of Saudi Arabia invested RM31 billion for Pengerang project. Once again we need to be reminded that no Saudi King had ever visited Malaysia during Mahathir’s regime.

f. Within the first quarter of this year, after King Salman’s visits, came along French President Francois Hollande and the latest Japan’s Crown Prince Naruhito makes a five-day official visit to Malaysia. In March this year, PM Najib and his ministerial entourage were in India upon Prime Minister Modi’s invitation that inked historic deals of RM157 billion with RM142 billion of projects to be implemented in Malaysia.

If what Dr Mahathir claimed that the world has no more respect and trust for the country under PM Najib Razak’s leadership, we have more to show off. BAR and Young & Rubicam has recently voted Malaysia as the best country to invest and the same remarks came from Jack Ma of Alibaba.

As rational citizens, judge for ourselves and ask, why are these prominent world leaders willing to come to Malaysia and welcome him to their countries? Why would they believe in PM Najib’s administration to allow investing into our country? Should Dr Mahathir is no longer able to work together to ensure the success of the country and for the people, just because you are embittered with your unfulfilled personal interests, the rakyat’s chances to join in the nation’s growing success is precluded.

In fact, it is you who have position yourself as a liar and it will not be too extreme if the rakyat starts to regard you as a rascal to the state.