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July 6, 2012
Dear Tun,
I might disagree with your governing body as well as your take upon Malaysian politics. But afterwards this is democracy, flawed as it might be in a country. we do not think Lim Kit Siang hates you. That is as well strong. Like many of us, he disagrees with you.
I wish we a really happy 87th birthday as well as continued good health. we have usually a single bewail as well as which is, we have missed a great event to be a politician for a country; in stead we have selected for reasons of your own to be back in a thick of a increasingly divisive domestic politics.--Din Merican
by Jonathan Yong@www.malaysiakini.com
Former strongman Dr Mahathir Mohamed has discharged a existence of 'Mahathirism', as well as warned veteran antithesis personality Lim Kit Siang which steady attacks upon him would usually backfire.
"There is no such thing as 'Mahathirism'. we served a country, that's all. As a adult of Malaysia, we have a right to support my nation as well as make certain it does well," Mahathir told Malaysiakini yesterday.
He was responding to comments made by Lim who claimed Mahathir is personally injecting his code of divisive secular governing body in to a 13th ubiquitous elections to safeguard feat for BN.
Lim has also accused! Mahathir of sowing secular fears between a Malays by highlighting in a recent blog posting which Chinese electorate are "kingmakers" in a upcoming election.
"I don't know because he hates me so much," decried a former premier.Mahathir combined which a attacks from DAP would usually accelerate BN, claiming which former Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was deserted by electorate for mistreating him.
"Last time when Abdullah wasn't good to me, a people did not support BN. So some people still have some sympathy for me," he contended.
'I've no carry out over Najib'
Mahathir additionally refuted claims he has influence over Prime Minister Najib Razak, stressing which he has no goal of returning to power. "If we am in carry out of Najib, afterwards things will be quite different," he said, denying which he is operative during a back of a stage in a lead-up to a crucial ubiquitous election..
When asked if BN would have lost its two-thirds infancy in Parliament during a 2008 ubiquitous choosing if he was in charge, Mahathir said he was not sure.
"I was in carry out for twenty-two years, so we have some-more experience. Maybe things would have been different.
"However, a error lies with Abdullah. He broken all a institutions we built, broken a party as well as a component parties," he seethed. He additionally blamed his selected successor for eroding a certainty of supervision servants in BN.
Mahathir was speaking shortly after a grand opening of a ninth 'The Loaf' outlet during! a code brand new Paradigm Mall in Kelana Jaya.
'The Loaf' is a Japanese-style bakery as well as bistro of which Mahathir has a stake in since its launch in 2006, 3 years after he step down as premier.
"Running a commercial operation is quite different from being Prime Minister.
"As Prime Minister, we get paid each month as well as a supervision takes caring of my transport expenses," he quipped during his short residence during a opening of a ultimate outlet.
He additionally cut an early birthday cake, presented by commercial operation partner Jiro Suzuki. Mahathir's 87th birthday is upon July 10.
July 5, 2012
by Azmi Sharom (06-28-12) @www.thestar.com.my
Azmi Sharom asks: Can someone be charged for an corruption when during a element time there was no offence?
Din Merican replies: Only those goons in JAWI can since they have conferred upon themselves special powers; a Najib Government allows them to do as they please. It is all politics.
NIK Raina Nik Abdul Aziz is accused of committing a crime, a "crime" being a distribution of a book which a Federal Territory Islamic Religious Department (JAWI) does not like. If a sentence upon top of sounds a bit odd, which is since it is.
Nik Raina is a physical education instructor in a bookstore. She is not an owners of a bookstore, she is an employee.Therefore, she does not have any contend with regard to what book is being sold. She just manages a shop, as her job pretension entails.
Now she is being charged in a Syariah Court for distributing a criminialized book. But it is a book, it contingency be pronounced here, which during a time of a ostensible corruption was not essentially banned.Therefore, it was not bootleg to sell a book during a time.
Jawi raided a emporium she was working in upon May 23. Copies of a book were confiscated during a raid. The book was effectively deemed bootleg upon Jun 14.
So, upon what drift was Jawi confiscating a books? It is not formed upon a law, which is for sure, since no law was passed banning it until 22 days after a raid.
The usually reason which can exist is which JAWI disapproved of this book as well as took it upon itself to take movement even though there was no legal belligerent upon which it could do so. In alternative words, they didn't like a book so they motionless to raid a emporium as well as take a book.
Does this receptive to advice odd to you? Does it receptive to advice like a movement of a tyrannical state? It does to me. How can a chairman be charged for an corruption when during a time of a ostensible wrongful act, there was no offence? You can't possibly do which to a person.
There have been inherent provisions opposite such things. It is well known as insurance from retrospective legislation.
In alternative words, if you confirm to make it bootleg to wear yellow today, you can't assign someone for wearing yellow yesterday. To do so would lead to an implausible misapplication as well as a complete breakdown of a rule of law.
Now, since JAWI is an Islamic body, there have been some who hold they have been upon top of criticism. you desire to differ; it is since they have been a eremite entity which they contingency be open to criticism, especially if they handle in a way which is unjust.
This is since as a eremite group they have an even larger responsibility to not taint their actions with acts of cruelty, mean action as well as vindictiveness. For by you do so they debase a really conviction which they have been ostensible to be upholding.
But which is by a by. Any agency, be it eremite or secular, has no right to treat people in this way. They have no right to seize in isolation skill upon their whim, as well as they have no right to assign someone for a crime which does not exist.
!That is a bottom line. If you concede anyone to do so, you have been simply throwing divided our democracy as well as a insurance which a rule of law provides us.
Read More @ SourceJuly 5, 2012
by A. Lin Neumann(06-29-12)@www.asiasentinel.com
When the republic begins to confront the legacy of corruption, the discuss invariably passes through what might be called the Who is Untouchable? phase. It is often assumed in most countries which certain people have been only as good tall up upon the domestic food sequence to be ensnared in crime charges.
But what happens when which no longer proves to be the case? What if higher-ups have been not all which high-up after all? Across Asia, the procession of leaders has left to jail upon charges which might look political, though in actuality have been usually associated to crime in tall office.
The experience of the number of Asia's democratic countries seems to prove which the republic can survive as good as prosper after fixing even the highest officials of the land after they have been out of office, in all speaking suspects in various kinds of criminal impropriety whilst in office. There have been countless examples as good as ones which should show some western countries the full of health respect for stony lonesome is the good idea.
In 1996, South Korea convicted the last authoritarian leader, ex-President Chun Doo-hwan (left), as good as his successor, Roh Tae-woo, both former generals, of charges associated to crime as good as abuse of power. The legal movement was initiated by the elected municipal supervision as the way to come to grips with the country's prolonged history of troops rule as good as the low divisions associated to the 1979 manoeuvre as good as the 1980 massacre of municipal protesters in the city of Gwangju.
Chun was condemned to death as ! good as Roh was given the 22-year jail sentence. When long-time domestic restrained Kim Dae-jung was elected boss in 1997, he pardoned both group in the move which was widely seen as an act of national reconciliation.
Since then, countless tip Korean commercial operation management team also have found themselves in justice notwithstanding the huge energy conglomerates swing in the country. In 2008, Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee was convicted in the massive bribery scandal. He was pardoned after giving millions of dollars to charity as good as apologizing to the nation. Corruption crusaders were miffed, though the justice movement underscored the idea which no the single in South Korea is all safe from prosecution.
In Taiwan, Chen Shui-bian (right), who had been President for eight years, was forbidden from withdrawal the island an hour after he stepped down upon May 20, 2008, as good as was after tried as good as convicted of rascal involving the make use of of the presidential fund to pursue unfamiliar diplomacy. He was condemned to 17-1/2 years in jail as good as ordered to compensate the fine of NT$ 154 million. His wife, Wu Shu-jen, was convicted as well, though was considered as good sick to go to prison. She remains in residence arrest* as good as he remains in jail notwithstanding the prolonged string of appeals. Both the Kuomintang as good as the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) pronounced which they respected the court's decision.
Closer to home, the Philippines failed to take to justice former President Ferdinand Marcos after he was deposed in 1986. Former President Joseph Estrada did not fare so well. After he was ousted from bureau by the virtual manoeuvre i! n 2001, he faced countless crime charges. His successor, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, gave him comparison manager clemency as good as he was expelled after seven years of detention. Now Macapagal-Arroyo (left) herself is underneath apprehension following her arrest in November 2011 upon charges of electoral fraud.
In Bangladesh in 2007, the caretaker supervision corroborated by the troops arrested as good as jailed the country's two most prominent politicians, the sour domestic rivals Sheikh Hasina Wajed as good as Begum Khaleda Zia, upon charges of crime as good as anti-state activities, as good as kept them there for more than the year. Eventually they were freed as good as Sheikh Hasina's Awami League went upon to lapse to domestic power.
Finally, in Thailand the justice convicted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra of crime in 2008, following his ouster in the 2006 troops coup. He fled the republic as good as remains in exile, although with his sister currently in energy it seems he might eventually be pardoned.
What is engaging about these cases is which the prosecutions occurred in functioning democracies as good as the domestic sequence did not come to an end. There was no troops involvement or cessation of democratic processes as the result of the justice actions. It could easily be argued which the countries involved with the exception of Thailand, where the domestic divide is sour as good as Thaksin remains the deeply polarizing figure survived the charge of their former leaders with their democracies enhanced.
That these prosecutions of depressed Presidents as good as Prime Ministers have been politically motivated in most cases is the given, though there is the deeper definition in the ability of Asia's young democracies to move even the most comparison of politicians or their associates to the dock. No the single is or should be untouchable.
It was deeply disappointing to most Filipinos which Marcos was never prosecuted in the Philippine court, though the lady who led the electioneer which booted him into exile, President Corazon Aquino, felt which bringing him home would be destabilizing. It's engaging which her son, the current President Benigno Aquino III, believes the conflicting which prosecuting Arroyo as good as others in her circle, like former Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona (above right), will assist the country's battle against corruption.
The Corona impeachment "was the routine which strengthened our democracy," Aquino pronounced later. It is the indicate value noting.
* Corrected 1 Jul 2012. We originally pronounced Wu was in prison.