Who's the boss?

WHO is the boss in Parliament? That is the question on many people's mind now.

No one seems to know who ordered the ban on media access to the Parliament lobby on Tuesday, which prompted print, TV and online media to immediately unite and boycott lobby news coverage.

The ban not only caught journalists off guard but also Speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia and Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Nazri Abd Aziz, who is in charge of parliament affairs.

Both said they were in the dark about the ban.

Read the entire article here.

This took place last - in fact, it was one of the many incidents which prompted me to start this blog.

It is ridiculous! Reporters being banned from the Parliament lobby!!! Last week, it was allege that the reporters were apparently a threat to the security! What the...???

Now, no one wants to take the responsibility. There was a ban but no one is owning up to it. It is clear that on hindsight, it was a stupid decision. On top of that, it also caused embarrassment to the ruling party when its own members started bickering - very publicly, mind you - over it! The Minister-in-Charge of Parliament Affairs is having a war of words with the Barisan Nasional Backbenchers Club (BBC) chairman (read about it here).

Besides wondering whose brilliant idea it was to impose the ban, one wonders what prompted it in the first place. Is it because the press have not been too favourable in its reporting? It surely cannot be because they have been smuggling in weapons and bombs into the Parliament lobby.

As stated by Nanyang Siang Pau group chief editor Chong Tien Siong, “This restriction does not show respect for the work of journalists, especially in Parliament” (see here).

Malaysia boleh!

Here we go again!

Police in Malaysia say they are investigating renewed sodomy allegations against the opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim.

A 23-year-old aide to Mr Anwar is said to have filed the complaint.

Mr Anwar has denied the claim, saying it is designed to block his political resurgence after success at the polls.

The ex-deputy PM was jailed in 1998 on sodomy and corruption charges he has said were politically motivated. The sodomy conviction was later overturned.

You can read the entire report here.

The BBC News Online reported it first before the local paper, The Star did.

Well, we do not know if the new allegations are true or not - but you have to admit that the timing of it is just way too convenient... for certain people!

Malaysia boleh!

Racist politicians

Yes, this will definitely be a recurring theme on this blog. You'll see a lot of our politicians are racists. But most if not all are from one race - this is because if you say anything against them, you'll could be jailed. But if they say anything against other races, they are champions of their race.

Wait, was my statement racist? Is it still racist if it is true?

Anyway, here's what took place at the Perak State Assembly yesterday:-

One by Hamidah Osman (BN-Sungai Rapat) particularly earned the wrath of the Pakatan Rakyat assemblymen when she asked whether Sivakumar “agreed to disagree” with the well-known fable of whether a snake or a man from a certain racial community should be killed first.

Nga Kor Ming (DAP-Pantai Remis) and other Pakatan assemblymen demanded Hamidah retract her words but she maintained she was merely asking if Sivakumar “agreed to disagree” with it.

Sivakumar (The Speaker) let her off with a warning and told her not to bring up anything sensitive.

Barisan whip Datuk Seri Mohamad Tajol Rosli Ghazali (BN-Pengkalan Hulu) then asked her to retract her words, and she did.

Taken from here.

YB Hamidah
(Pic taken from Perak Legislative Assembly website)

Malaysia boleh!

I want your body

"The Islamic authorities in Malaysia are in dispute with the Hindu family of a man who committed suicide - with both sides claiming the body for burial.

The 34-year-old man, Elangesvaran, hanged himself on Sunday.

His Hindu family have been prevented from collecting his body from the hospital.

They say the Islamic religious department informed them that Mr Elangesvaran had converted to Islam without their knowledge and therefore must now be given a Muslim burial.

But the family says the conversion certificate is just a letter with some scribbling on it that is allegedly by Mr Elangesvaran but could be anything because there is no signature or thumbprint and no witnesses."

Read the entire report here.

So again, in Bolehland, the religious authorities don't give two hoots about you when you are alive but when you are dead and your soul no longer is around, they fight over your body!

It's bad enough that Elanesvaran's family members have to deal with his death. It's bad enough that they have to come to terms that he took his own life. At this time of grief and sorrow, the religious authorities come and add to their woes.

Malaysia boleh!