Warga emas politik Malaysia, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad telah mencabar pihak berkuasa agar menahannya jika beliau terlibat dengan dakwaan menghasut.
Apa agaknya yang akan dilakukan Menteri Dalam Negeri Datuk Seri Dr Zahid Hamidi dan Ketua Polis Negara Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar?
Menurut laporan Malaysiakini pada 24 Sept, Mahathir berkata beliau tidak akan mengelak sekiranya tangkapan dibuat ke atasnya.
Mahathir mengulas laporan polis yang dibuat Ahli Parlimen Segambut Lim Lip Eng yang mendakwa beliau terlibat di dalam menghasut.
“Saya boleh petik pelbagai kenyataan yang dibuat pelbagai pihak, tetapi tidak mahu berbuat demikian.
Sebagai ahli politik, saya tidak berharap semua orang menjaga hati saya tetapi akan mengkritik...” kata beliau.
Ditanya sekiranya polis sedang menjalankan siasatan, Mahathir berkata: “Saya rakyat biasa. Jika saya berdepan tangkapan, sila lakukan.”
Di dalam laporan polis yang dibuat, Lim mendakwa Mahathir menghasut apabila membuat kenyataan terhadap veteran DAP Lim Kit Siang pada pilihanraya umum yang lalu.
Lim bertanya samada Zahid akan mengarahkan siasatan dalam tempoh 24 jam kerana Mahathir juga tidak boleh terlepas daripada tindakan.
Lim merujuk kenyataan yang dibuat bekas perdana menteri apabila veteran DAP itu (Kit Siang) bertanding di Gelang Patah pada PRU13 yang lalu.
Lim Lip Eng memetik Mahathir sebagai berkata pemimpin DAP itu bertanding bagi kerusi parlimen itu kerana mahu masyarakat Cina di Gelang Patah dan Johor “menolak kerjasama dengan kaum Melayu”, “menyemai kebencian terhadap Melayu” dan mendatangkan “ketegangan kaum”.
Lim menarik perhatian terhadap isu ini berikutan dakwaan Ketua Pembangkang Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim disiasat kerana menghasut ketika menyertai perhimpunan politik tiga tahun lalu.
Dalam laporan Lim Lip Eng, Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak turut dinamakan kerana ucapan yang dibuat beliau pada Perhimpunan Agung Umno 2010, bagi mempertahankan Putrajaya hingga ke titisan darah terakhir.
Malaysiakini turut melaporkan bahawa Mahathir mengaku menggunakan Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri (ISA) ke atas musuh politiknya.
Beliau yang pernah mentadbir Malaysia selama 22 tahun bagaimanapun, mempertahankan tindakannya kerana “tahanan ISA tidak dibunuh”.
“Kami hanya menahan di bawah ISA, tetapi mereka masih hidup. Kami tidak menghukum sesiapa tanpa kehadirannya, atau menjalankan hukuman bunuh ke atas penjenayah.
“Hari ini, mereka (Amerika Syarikat) menghantar pesawat kawalan jauh bagi membunuh manusia. Saya fikir ini lebih teruk daripada tindakan kita menghantar musuh ke penjara.
“Ketika masa saya, saya penjarakan semua. Itu apa yang didakwa pelbagai pihak terhadap saya,” ujarnya sambil berjenaka.
Sambil menafikan pentadbirannya mengamalkan sikap kuku besi, Mahathir berkata beliau “mendapat keistimewaan menjadi diktator” bagi memudahkan pengurusan negara.
“Saya sering meletakkan mereka dalam barisan dan membunuh mereka,” katanya secara berseloroh.
Mahathir memberi pandangan beliau di dalam ucapan tentang krisis pengurusan bertajuk “Forum CEO: Mengharungi krisis kewangan global seterusnya”.
Secara serius, Mahathir berkata tugasnya sebagai doktor memberi persediaan baginya menghadapi krisis di negara ini.
Beliau memberi contoh krisis kewangan 1997.
“Saya hendak menumbuk batang hidung George Soros. Saya mencercanya. Tidak wajar nilai matawang negara membangun diserang,” tegasnya.
Mahathir memang hebat berkata-kata.
Jika segala kenyataan yang dibuat terhadap Barisan Nasional-Umno dilihat menghasut, bagaimana pula dengan kenyataan yang dibuat Mahathir?
Jangan mimpilah kita hendak melihat beliau didakwa Akta Hasutan selagi BN-Umno kekal berkuasa.- Ng Kee Seng,theantdaily
Pengkalan Kubor- UMNO,we came, we saw, we bribe...
BN spent millions. It also prevented almost 2000 Malaysians from crossing over into Rantau Panjang. Also, Kelantanese outside did not return.
Just as they did in Teluk Intan, the BN bribed its way to victory. That is also the Najib method of winning elections.
It’s no big deal then. The victory was achieved partly because there is currently some bad blood within the Pakatan camp.I hope PAS understands the loss.
Let us take on some of the issues raised.
To that, we say only the smallish mind would want to gloat about it. Sadly, the smirking comes from ignorance. What the government programs do is affirm the existence of severe income inequalities in the country and the economic hardships experienced by the poor.
More and more people require assistance because they do. Incomes have fallen behind- the cost of living has gone up and the standard of living for these people has gone down because life is costly.
I hope no rational thinking Malay buys the idea that economic hardships experienced by them are the result of natural turn of events. The truth is, they are the result of mismanagement of the economy, incompetence, corruption, bad governance, wrong policies and even stupidity.
Don’t ever trivialise the hardships as being caused by the natural turn of events. All were man made and caused by the incompetence of the government of the day.
The Malays must break the mental bondage. I have experienced this first hand and shall use an example to illustrate the readily-excusing mentality of the Malays which UMNO takes advantage of.
Raub is a small town with probably around 100, 000 inhabitants. Water shortage is the norm rather than exception. Every other day, there will be water interruptions and stoppage. Some people in certain areas go without water for a week.
The response by Malays and Chinese is revealing. Malays endure being without water for a few days attributing the shortage to that’s how it is. Chinese will go up in arms, calling the ADUns and MP to do something. We do of course short of actually carrying buckets of water.
I see two different thinking operating here. The Malays are ready to endure and accept water shortage as part of the natural order of things. So they are ready to excuse the shortage and endure. The Chinese don’t.
The Malays are not likely to consider that the water shortages may be caused by wrong investments taken in the past, the supply of defective and substandard pipes, bad water distribution management, lack of investments in facilities etc.
While water is indeed a product of nature, its delivery to homes is not. It’s a function of human management and involvement in many forms.
The Malays need to question everything and never take things as they are. Things are never as they are.
Secondly, the government is spending what it takes from the people. Government itself has no money other than what it takes in the form of taxes.
Next year, the government wants to be leech-efficient. It wants to suck whatever can be extracted from people. That is why GST will be carried out- it’s a more efficient method of collecting taxes.
Now, let us get back to the issue of the Malay problem. This issue is played over and over again. The contest in Pengakan Kubor is between 2 Malay parties.
Something must be wrong when 2 Malays contest, the party that gets whacked is the non-Malay. Is the Malay problem caused by non-Malay or by the government that is in power? Who is responsible for the policies, who controls governance, who controls the treasury?
The UMNO Malays must have outsourced everything to their Chinese partners, so now it’s justifiable to lay blame on the Chinese.
The cat is out of the bag- UMNO has been subcontracting the management of this country to the Chinese. But UMNO is the Malay party fighting for the 4 institutions that are sacrosanct to the Malays no? - Dato' Mohd.Ariff Sabri bin Hj. Abdul Aziz@sakmongkol ak47
Bila anjing menyalak tujuannya hanya menarik perhatian tuannya agar diberi ganjaran...
Cannot help thinking that whoever gave her the title of First Lady of Malaysia (FLOM) must have also been quietly laughing to himself/herself thinking that it could also stand for Fat Lady of Malaysia...
cheers.
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