July 9, 2012
The Penang Chief Minister responds to The Star's Smear Campaign as well as Joceline Tan: "We have Nothing to Hide"
by Lim Guan Eng
The Star has declared open fight with a Penang PR state supervision with another front-page story as well as four inside pages, together with a paper page upon a "crying hills" today. This is a desperate try to whitewash a past sins of a prior BN supervision in commendatory mountain projects upon top of 250 feet.
By becoming different a prior title title of a "dying hills" to a "crying hills", this already an acknowledgment by a Star which a Star indulged in hyperbolic excesses not supported by facts.
The timing of this ultimate conflict by a Star is suspicious. Coming during a time when The Star's domestic masters, MCA, is confronting open enmity for conducting a cowardly allegation campaign swelling lies about passionate contravention as well as even assault by me as well as my wife. Clearly this is an try to confuse attention from MCA's unsuccessful allegation campaign, MCA President Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek's past passionate escapades as well as excuse a prior supervision from blame so as to assistance BN win behind Penang.
Whether a Star will succeed in a domestic bulletin to taint a immature 
credentials of a PR state supervision as well as transparent a path of a lapse of a BN state supervision which caused a problems in a first place, will ulitmately rely upon a voters.
Whilst PR is peaceful to confess to mistakes made, you exclude to bear ! a sins a s well as compensate a cost for a process decisions finished by a prior supervision in commendatory mountain projects upon top of 250 feet. Instead of beating up a present PR state supervision for a crime it did not commit, since has a Star consistently unsuccessful to chase a prior state supervision for giving 37 such approvals before 2008?
The Star's claims of forthrightness as well as which it is not singling out PR for criticism is as diverting as PERKASA's claims which they have been not racists. If a Star is just in criticising a prior administration department approvals of mountain projects, since did a Star kept wordless 37 times when a prior BN state supervision gave 37 approvals to mountain projects upon top of 250 feet before 2008. Did a Star print an paper 37 times as well as gave a 5 page coverage together with front-page before 2008 opposite these 37 approvals?
Neither did a Star apologise when their columnist Joceline Tan was held fibbing which a Yang di Pertua Majlis Perbandaran Pulau Pinang (MPPP) Patahiyah binti Ismail had contradicted me, when Patahiyah had obviously said which a 19 approvals since after 2008 were special projects approved by a prior BN state government!
Further, since did a Star not highlight those mountain projects in BN-controlled states as well as pick usually upon Penang. Unlike a Federal government's EPU discipline of defining a mountain as surpassing 500 feet, a Penang discipline have fixed a building line during 250 feet. Unfortunately a prior BN supervision disregarded these discipline by not usually commendatory 37 projects before 2008 though also gave capitulation for those upon top of 250 feet as special projects.
Neither did a Star give front page diagnosis criticising a prior BN state supervision for commendatory speci! al proje cts, where such mountain projects upon top of 250 feet so classified cannot be deserted only since they have been upon top of 250 feet.
Patahiyah had explained which a 19 approvals by MPPP for heights upon top of 250 feet after 2008 fell under a special projects category as well as had to be processed according to normal geo-technical guidelines. MPPP cannot reject them upon a basis which they were upon top of 250 feet.
As a PR state supervision cannot cancel these mountain projects, to lessen a situation, a state supervision has resorted to commanding a many stringent discipline in a country which were drawn up by a hillslope geo-technical committee headed by Oxford-trained operative Dr Gue See Saw. These geo-technical discipline were imposed retrospectively most to a melancholy of developers, some who threatened legal action.
Whilst a state supervision sympathised with a melancholy of those mountain projects as well as a problems of those residents influenced by a ongoing development, there is nothing a state supervision can do unless a drastic step of cancelling a project is taken. To do so entails remuneration of hundreds of millions or even billions of ringgit which would bankrupt a state.
The Penang PR state supervision will not lead Penang towards bankruptcy. Perhaps a BN Federal supervision should come brazen as well as bear these remuneration losses for cancelling a mountain projects since BN were obliged for commendatory them in a first place. Would a Star be peaceful to fool around a front-page story dire direct of remuneration from a BN Federal government?
Or would a Star direct which a developers stop a mountain projects? Isn't this sheer hypocrisy of a Star to be so chummy with developers of these mountain projects during their Star Property Fair in Penang as well as yet brave not criticise a developers in name for carrying mountain projects.
Finally, it is not The Star though a electorate of Penang who will confirm either a 
PR state supervision have finished a part to strengthen a hills by not commendatory any mountain projects upon top of 250 feet. The PR state supervision is peaceful to be punished for not commendatory any mountain projects upon top of 250 feet as well as would respect a voters' preference if they confirm to certitude BN again despite BN giving all these approvals.
We appreciate those Star reporters as well as arch editors who have been from Penang as well as care about a state. Penang welcomes you behind as well as you will work tough to make Penang a immature state, an international heritage city with a vibrant art culture. But these so-called concerns receptive to advice vale when a Star distorts a truth as well as practises double-standards.
The PR state supervision will continue to directly rivet with NGOs as well as even Star's Datuk Seri Wong Chun Wai upon a background, a standing as well as any associated issues. Since Wong is talking about a rape of a dear hills, you would like to know who is you do a raping as well as what steps MPPP is taking.
As you have nothing to hide, we have asked Yang di Pertua MPPP Patahiyah binti Ismail to rivet with NGOs as well as influenced parties. That is since a state supervision had educated MPPP to declassify all a mins about approvals for mountain projects upon top of 250 feet. we am extending an open call in to Wong Chun Wai to an open dialogue with me as well as my MPPP officials upon this mountain issue. we await his response.
* Lim Guan Eng is a Chief Minister of Penang. This letter was sent to The Star in reply to their reports.www.themalaysianinsider
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