SILLY QUESTION!

Syed Hamid Albar asked Anwar Ibrahim what he (Anwar) is afraid of by refusing to give his DNA samples to the police.

"Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim should not worry about giving his DNA samples if he were interested to seek the truth behind the sodomy allegations against him, said Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar.

“DNA does not lie. Give your sample and let the expert read it,” Syed Hamid said.

He said the PKR adviser could have given the sample at the hospital in the presence of his own doctor if he was afraid of fabrication." (NST - today - 17.7.2008)

Well my friend, Malaysiakini.com also today reported that despite being arrested by 10 masked men, bundled up into a highly tinted vehicle, questioned for 5 hours, detained overnight where he was made to sleep with common criminals on the cement floor despite knowing of his back condition, Anwar Ibrahim is still not given a copy of or even shown the police report made against him by the boy whose anus was famously alleged to have been poked by Anwar. Khairy Jamaluddin seems to know a thing or two about that particular report as he seems to know beforehand that the police wanted to have Anwar's DNA samples. But neither Anwar, the accused, nor any of his family member nor his legal team know anything about it.

May I ask why? Is there such a report in the first place? Or was it a report with blank spots for the police to fill in as the "very professional investigations" are carried out?

Syed Hamid Albar. You have caused the city dwellers to suffer with traffic jam this week. You have caused some students to miss their CLP examinations this week. All because you have intelligence report that there was going to be a demonstration in KL which intelligence report turned out to be several SMS which the police had read. And now you are asking Anwar what he is afraid of? May I ask you, in relation to the police report:

Am I a moron? Or are you?

a letter to the NST editor

Dear Editor,

I note in the past that your newspaper has been absolute in its support of the Prime Minister’s call for the acceptance and practice of Islam Hadhari as a way of life. Indeed your newspaper has been a staunch propagator of Islam Hadhari as it consists of principles “that have been devised to empower Muslims to face the global challenges of today” (to cite the Prime Minister’s Office website).

Among others, the concept of Islam Hadhari, aims to achieve the followings:

· Faith and piety in Allah
· A free and independent People
· Mastery of knowledge
· A good quality of life
· Cultural and moral integrity

Your efforts in propagating Islam Hadhari must indeed be lauded. The Prime Minister has been wise to advocate this concept and I have no doubt that a civil society, progressive in its thoughts and ways of life, would be within our reach if Islam Hadhari is fully practiced. The above elements are the pillars of a good society. And I am glad that you have taken it upon yourself to promote and propagate the concept of Islam Hadhari for the betterment of all of us, Malaysians.

Thus it came as a great disappointment when I read your report titled “Illegal gathering causes traffic chaos in city” appearing in your edition on 11.11.2007.

Your report started with a thoroughly incomplete statement that “a crowd of about 4000” gathered for an illegal march close to Dataran Merdeka. It ended with a rather innocuous sounding statement that “many of the protesters, who wore yellow T-shirts and bandannas, later gathered outside Istana Negara and some opposition leaders handed over a memorandum to palace officials.”

If you maintain that the said report is accurate, I would accuse you of not being diligent! A cursory look at various websites on the internet and viewing visual reports by Aljazeera and the BBC reveal an obvious flaw in your reporting, which borders on deceit and misrepresentation of facts, in your said report. There were, as reported by alternative and foreign medias, between 30000-40000 people who took part in the so called illegal march. Photographs depicting the true number of people participating in this illegal gathering are splashed on the internet and could be seen by the whole world. I am just shocked at the lack of journalistic etiquette displayed by you concerning the report.

If the purpose of your report was to belittle the resolve of those who took part in the gathering by downplaying the size of the gathering and in the same breath hoodwinking the Malaysian public through your misrepresentation of facts and clever (not so clever, actually) painting of events, then I must say your practice as such runs absolutely repugnant to the concept of Islam Hadhari which you had, to this date, so readily embraced and propagated. I urge you to read your report again and ask yourself:

· Where is the faith and piety in Allah?
· Is your report as such conducive for the establishment of a free and independent people?
· Can knowledge be mastered by the people if you continue with such practice in the future?
· Is good quality of life attainable without a truthful and responsible mass media?
· What cultural and moral integrity are you talking about or have you redefined
”integrity”?

In fact, your action in shaping the thoughts and perceptions of the masses through your great spinning machines is an obvious attempt to create a one dimensional society as opposed to a progressive and lively society aimed by the concept of Islam Hadhari. It has come to a stage where the mainstream views, such as yours, are the only views that matter and which are correct. Opposite views are non-mainstream and are therefore not correct and are to be disbelieved and ignored, if not despised and banished. Was it not Marcuse, in his work “One Dimensional Man”, who so correctly lamented that under the conditions of a mass society, “the multi-dimensional dynamic by which the individual attained and maintained his own balance between autonomy and heteronomy, freedom and repression, pleasure and pain, has given way to a one-dimensional static identification of the individual with the others and with the administered reality principle”? Tell me, are you trying to do that which Marcuse had foreseen? Are you propagating a just and progressive society or a society where every member of that society must identify himself with the views of others and with the administered reality?
The world is now borderless. And it is watching your folly!

Yours sincerely,
Navel Gazer

a festive wish from art.

We have:

a Pm who struggles to keep awake at work; who just got married and seems to be honeymooning all the bloody time; who shouts Islam Hadhari at every occassion and everywhere as if Malaysia is a the best-est most Islamic country in the whole nebula; who sits all the time on a moral highground ("we must be fair, we will be fair, we must this and that fair"); who, when confronted with an issue would say "I don't know" or "I need a report on that" or "I am establishing a 367-member committee to look into that matter"; who, after the whatever committee has finished their report and make recommendation, will refuse to follow the recommendation; who watches helplessly a damning evidence of our judiciary being desecrated without doing the right thing; a former PM who is still alive and will, hopefully live for another 100 years to see the destruction of every single fabric of our society; a Chief Justice who is so thick that he can't understand what the Common Law is so much so that he wants it to be replaced with Syariah Law; who denies that any of his judges has delayed in writing judgement when a MP shows that his fellow judge has not written judgment in 36 cases right under his (the CJ's) nose; who had to go to the scandinavian countries just to get an idea on how to buy and install some pentium 3 computers in Courts; who says it is sinful not to speak BM in courts; who doesn't even know how to deny a very serious allegation against him in public; a de-facto law minister who is so arrogant and full of shit so mush so that he made an offer of immunity to witnesses under a law which does not exist and blamed his press secretary for his mistake; bloodshed on the roads every festive season; buses and lorries plunging into ravines killing hundreds every now and then and the PM is still waiting for reports; landslide in the most modern city called Putrajaya; police force which do not have any credibility and lacking in any kind of respect from the public at large; a child being kidnapped and abused and tortured and murdered; parents who are so irresponsible and who do not appear to have an inkling on how to take care of their kids and are oblivious to the fact that they are trustees of their kids and have a duty for their safety and well beings; prices of whatever going up and up; public utilities company who announce profits in the billions but then apply to increase the price of whatever utility they are supplying; having to pay taxes while at the same time paying for whatever ameneties which are supposed to be provided by the government by virtue of the very taxes which we are paying; a society which is so obsessed with celebrities weddings and the likes, with Datukship and Tan Sri ship and Tunship; a national football teams which is run by clowns and play like clowns on crack!; a "bolehnaut" who is blasted to te space at a price of 30million USD which is equivalent to about 105 million RM which could buy about 35000 computers for the schools at 3000 RM apiece or 1310 dialysis machines at 80000 apiece or whatever; a government who is cheated to pay 30 million bucks a year for a huge ferris wheel; race and religion inter-relation which is getting worse and worse and which is threatening the very basic foundation of our multi cultural society with the government having not a clue on how to solve it; mega projects worth billions just to show that we could and have the money to buy in tonees of bricks and steel and assemble them into burlesque monuments of nothingness without having the foresight, nor the intelligence to realise that it is our values which stay stagnant and is in dire need of improvement as opposed to the physical appearance of our nation and at the end of the day a country's success is evaluated and dependent upon the ascension of its people to intellectual empowerment, freedom and emancipation; a transport system which is not working; haze all year round without any kind of effective measures taken; children as young as 12 year old running away from homes with the government and parents having absolutely no clue as to the reason let alone as to finding the proper solution; schools full of nutty teachers; universities whose election is filled with government proxies fighting against opposition proxies; people in Mercedes cars jumping ques, throwing rubbish on the roads and hogging the road; stupid malay singers who can't sing for nuts singing in public; useless and senseless reality tv shows; graduates who can;t speak English let alone having the ability to communicate properly; Islamic authorities who gate crash parties and other people's homes and rooms; so called RELA members harassing foreigners including diplomat's wife!; high profile murder cases which are investigated by idiots, prosecuted by idiots, adjudged by idiots, defended by idiots, of course reported by idiots and read by idiots!; discriminatory laws and policies which actually amount to legalised apartheids eschewing egalitarianism and so on and so forth.... in other words friends, we have no hope left!

the only bright spark in an otherwise wholly stupid year is the success of the double heart transplants of that really lovely bright and strong willed chinese girl, Tee Hui Yi by a team of malay specialists (led by a dear friend of mine, Ezani), utilising at first, a heart donated by a malay boy which almost brought some tears to my eyes. God bless you Hui Yi. May you grow up well learnt and live happily.

erm... by the way, SELAMAT HARI RAYA AIDIL FITRI, MAAF ZAHIR DAN BATIN AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO EVERYONE.


CHEERS.

talkin buat M

tanah ini kontang pecah merekah
alir air dari hulu sejuk menusuk
segala rasa memakan segala bisa
kini hanya membawa dosa durja
hampas nafsu kuasa yang terleka
lekat bagai nanah kering di bawah
hangat mentari

dirampok dikoyak tanah ini rabak
anakanak bangsa berbagai rasa
dalam kancah tidak menentu
nun dipuncak menara berdiri segak
tergelak berpeluk tubuh bagai berhala suasa
mata buta dalam fikiran buntu
membawa sesat

ibu,
terbaring bagai murahan
dikatil perawan rakus diterkam
diramas ganas mata terpejam
tak mampu kau menerjang
jalang yang menyerang

siapa Tuhanmu
kuasa ketuaku
siapa penghulumu
ketamakan panduanku
apa kitabmu
hati kujunjung

semadi lah kau
nesan hitam
kusiram