Jed Yoong

UMNO has announced that it will punish saboteurs.

I think this goes against democratic principles as party members should be free to act. Sabotage is a just a bad word for protest.

For example, if I don’t like a leader ‘cos he says different things to different audiences, I may decide not to help out putting up party flags, if I am a party member. As a member of any political party, am I obliged to follow orders from anyone?

Let’s say I am a PKR member. Am I obliged to help out during elections? No, not really. There is no requirement in the constitution that says over the election I must be present at some location for at least X number of hours. In the spirit of democracy, if my particular branch or division leader is not particularly appealing, I don’t really have to support him.

But can I campaign on the other side to bring down the party? Will this be disloyal? It really depends how you see it. Some members may feel that by not campaigning or helping the opposition they are saving the party from such personalities. Why should they be punished? It’s a democratic freedom even within the party.

I am aware, please correct me if I’m wrong, that UMNO has a rule, fairly new, that says those who have campaigned for other parties cannot join or rejoin UMNO. Why not? People change their minds as they have more information, mature, etc. Why should being part of a party demand such extreme loyalty? Anyway, people cross parties all the time. Look at Kelantan, Ibrahim Ali was from UMNO and contested under PAS this time.

I feel it’s ridiculous to punish saboteurs. If the leadership can’t hold the party together, they should resign. Your members are telling you they rather WATCH TV than help your candidates.

OOooPpppPPPPPppPPPPS. Forgot about this Chinese-ed majority party — the MCA.

Ong Ka Chuan reportedly said that party members cannot co-operate with a non-BN government.

WOW, that’s gonna endear voters to the party. More will just say kolot. Are the Ong brothers bringing the party down?

Then there was that statement from Ka Chuan a few days back fudging the fact that many new village residents still don’t have land titles.Some of them have lived there, well, since they relocated them to combat the communist insurgency after Merdeka.

The ghetto political party doesn’t seem to be coping with the new reality. At least UMNO pandai berpolitik and leaders have made all sorts of grunts about “akar umbi”, “rakyat”, “reformasi”, “demokrasi”, etc. But MCA is acting like sore losers by directing party members not to serve as councilors in the PR state governments. Or maybe I can’t understand them ‘cos the news is reported in the Chinese press?

Anyway, MCA doesn’t really represent many people these days…..Soooo, we can ignore them.

Some joker told me that “they” said I’m from your party. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. They obviously don’t read my blog. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha. It keeps getting better and better. What other dongeng? Please if I am from MCA, please produce my membership number. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. MCA, are you reading this? Isn’t blogosphere sometimes full of nutters? Ha ha ha ha ha ha…ROTFL

I deleted your comment by accident. Pls repost, if you wish. Ha ha ha ha.

More “goodies”…Old habits die hard? Ke ke ke ke

From the All-Malaysian Bloggers Project (Star) Editor:
Soar with the Kite Runner
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Well, just a round-up.

KTemoc Konsiders - Bloggers’ Representative - An Oxymoron!:

Anyway, someone saw an opportunity to resurrect the proposed bloggers’ organization, which I believe had been rendered moribund and in a state of severe comatose due to lack of support, and certainly not helped by suspicions of its motive.

He suggested the new Minister see a certain blogger, as if this blogger represents the interests or views of Malaysian bloggers. Maybe he did it out of loyalty to a compatriot. Well whatever, let me say this in no uncertain term, and it’s not personal, I don’t want to have that person or so-called organization represent me or my interests.

Minister, if you are reading this, believe me, many of us bloggers don’t support nor have faith in the so-called blogging association.

Susan Loone - Come On, Kiss My Blogger A.S.S.:

Of course, some blogger(s) is (are) already jerking off, hearing all this. One has even recommended the minister go and meet his buddy - thinking that he is the taiko of all bloggers. Puhleez lah.

Little do they know, no one can and should represent all bloggers. Bloggers like me, and many others, don’t want to meet up with any minister, especially one who comes from UMNO/BN. In fact, I don’t even want to meet with those Opposition-government officials.

I blog with my own name, and what I want to say, I’ve said it all in this blog.

Truth is, I dont think I want recognition from a corrupt government system. That will be quite an insult actually. Having tea with these ministers means nothing. That’s so mainstream. And a bloody waste of time.

Siber Parti of Malaysia - Cheeky Indeed:

Jeff Ooi misrepresents the people he tries to represent. And it seems to me that Jeff Ooi has only joined the Democratic “Eksyen” Party.

I wrote in May 2007 about how All-Blogs was already misrepresenting bloggers. And at that time the committee promised to come out with a constitution for all of us to decide on whether All-Blogs could be relevant to the Malaysia blogosphere.

Almost one year down the road, All-Blogs has already failed to complete the most important foundation of any society and the most basic: the society’s Constitution and of course, to have members.

Suddenly Jeff Ooi’s track record on organisation does not look so good and I fear for Penang as Jeff Ooi is the new Chief of Staff for Lim Guan Eng.

Earthinc - Of it is STFU, not ALL BLOGS!:

The few reasons why bloggers are hard to deal with is the anarchic nature of the whole business. Every blogger is an independent individual with no queen of the hive acting as central command. So, when Jeff said if the Information Minister wants to speak to the blogging community, the Minister should first talk to Rocky Bru, I would like to say, I did not elect Rocky Bru or ALL BLOGS for that matter, as my representative.

Nazi Organisation of Bloggers.

Check Earthinc’s post:

I would like to say, I did not elect Rocky Bru or ALL BLOGS for that matter, as my representative.

How many people are in NO BLOGS, which is unregistered and has no registered members?

1. Nazi Rocky

2. Nazi Nuraina

3. Katak Jeff (Gerakan >> DAP)

Erm, erm…Oh yeah.

4. Nazi Big Dog

5. Nazi A Voice

6. Nazi Shahrir

7. Traitor to the Chinese Tony Yew

8. Traitor to the Chinese Soon Li Tsin

Who else?

Anyone from UMNO = NAZI

Anyone who supports ALL BLOGS, supports UMNO.

ALL CHINESE WHO SUPPORT ALL BLOGS, SUPPORT UMNO. AND ARE TRAITORS TO THE CHINESE.

Related: ALL BLOGS a.k.a. NO BLOGS ‘handled’ by Najib’s man

Who is Rusdi Mustapha? He is Najib’s man. NAJIB IS UMNO. All Blogs = UMNO. SAY NO to UMNO!

I read with trepidation the following statement by newly elected MP Jeff Ooi:

I am not trying to be cheeky, but if Shabery Cheek wants to meet the blogging community, the first person he should call is Rocky Bru, the president of ALL BLOGS (National Alliance of Bloggers).

Not trying to be a pain but how many members does ALL BLOGS have to claim to represent Malaysian bloggers?

Read Susan Loone’s take in May last year.

An excerpt:

But while, Rocky is doing this, All-Blogs must speed up with its Constitution now, and the least they can do is list down their potential members, so that we know, and the potential members know, that they are being represented by All-Blogs.

All-blogs cannot and must not speak for all bloggers, this much I am clear.

Erm, what’s the update on the Constitution and membership list? Not very efficient and transparent to me.

For sure, ALL BLOGS does not represent me.

This post by Product of The System is simply TOO FUNNY. I feel the same.

An excerpt:

Well, Anwar Ibrahim will indeed make a great opposition leader. Just one problem though, like his wife, he too is not interested to be opposition leader. He wants to be Prime Minister, which is why he is currently obsessed luring disgruntled BN MPs to cross over to Keadilan, at no cost apparently. This brings me to my next provoking thought. Isn’t vote-buying and party-hopping more of an UMNO/BN culture?

Read more @ unwantedcitizen.blogspot.com

Best expressed by another funky poster by Mob’s Crib:

Mike Tyson a.k.a. Muhd Taib, who is also UMNO information chief, shot to global notoriety when he was caught with two suitcases stuffed with RM2.4million of cash in Australia. Then he pleaded that his poor English-language proficiency caused his ignorance of the country’s laws. Hence he was not convicted!!! More recently, when he lodged a police report against Malaysia Today last year, he had to get a reporter’s help to gather evidence from the Internet as our NEW Rural and Regional Development Minister didn’t know how!

Around the blogs:
Rocky’s Bru
Susan Loone
Kadir Jasin (Am waiting for Kadir Jasin’s comment, he just posted the line-up.)

To sign the petition to call for Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi’s a.k.a. Sleepy/Dopey resignation, click here.

An editor from a local English-language tabloid specialising in classifieds and advertisements wrote today that the “denial syndrome has to stop” in the MSM.

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And it was published in the Asian Wall Street Journal. For a guy who can barely string sentences together when speaking to the media, this opinion piece is truly a ground-shattering achievement in good writing. Unfortunately, it is still more wishy washy mythos.

Malaysia will heal her divisions

By DATUK SERI ABDULLAH AHMAD BADAWI

WHILE I am honoured to have been re-elected as Prime Minister of Malaysia and to have received a 63% majority of the 222 seats in Parliament in our just-completed general election, I am also disappointed that we fell a few seats short of the two-thirds majority we were hoping for.

JY: I believe with just barely half of the popular vote.

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Malaysiakini reported:

When contacted for an immediate reaction, Nizar said: “We believe that as a coalition government, all decisions will be collective.”

“We would not respond to comments being made outside the new coalition government,” he added.

JY: That’s the way-lah. Government-lah. Not Opposition…I wonder if DAP leaders will still speak to me after this. Am supposed to try to catch the swearing-in of the state exco in Dewan Sri Pinang tomorrow….Ha ha ha ha ha

Malaysiakini reported that Ong Ka Ting said: “And to ensure that the Chinese representation is continued in the new government, I will be making recommendations to the prime minister soon.”

Yo, bro. Your party dun represent many people these days. The Chinese have rejected you. So you are now whose representatives? Appointed by UMNO means? UMNO-lah.

MCA - The Voice of UMNO