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e year we had one of the most unexpected and significant things to have happened to us as a nation and now at the end of the year we are once again brought down to earth it is impossible to stay as wide eyed and optimistic as we were a few short months ago but we must continue to hope and continue to strive after all that s what we have been doing all this time posted by elanor s assistant at 18 03 no comments sedition act should not be used again brave new world the star 5 december 2018 __________________________________ so the sedition act has reared its little pimply head again this time in relation with the seafield temple riots this is all quite confusing to me because i thought there was a moratorium on the use of this archaic and undemocratic law however news reports suggest the opposite with the men in blue reportedly investigating four cases under the sedition act now i will be the first to admit that i think some of those being investigated are highly unpleasant individuals and yes there is most definitely a frisson of schadenfreude that courses through me when i think that they may be getting their just desserts if the police are investigating people under the sedition act will it not be pointless if there is no prosecution under that law because it is the government s policy not to use it would it not be wiser to simply start investigations using laws that we can guarantee will be enforced a quick perusal of the penal code shows several provisions that could be used against these thuggish fools there is section 298a where uttering words designed to hurt members of a particular religious group can lead to one year jail or section 503 and 504 which is about criminal intimidation and intentional insult with the objective to provoke a breach of the peace these offences if found to have been committed could lead to two years in prison until we come up with a law against hate speech and hate crime it is perhaps best to use the penal code for such things as opposed to the sedition act which can so easily be abused to quell genuine and peaceful dissent let us be frank there are some serious plonkers out there those who are intent to stir up racial problems for their own warped and nefarious reasons i don t like them and i want them to be punished however we have to keep the big picture in mind the values of a nation must not be shaped by the brutal and the stupid it must be shaped by principles of justice this being the case using an unjust law even against the unjust is not acceptable there are other options available use them instead punish those who deserve it but in a way which respects the rule of law and democracy only in this way can we assure that our nation remains pure even if we have the filthy living amongst us posted by elanor s assistant at 16 09 no comments racist views must be countered brave new world the star 21 november 2018 ____________________________________ as i am writing this i am getting ready to go to bernama tv for some programme or other i ve been told that we will be discussing issues such as human rights and judicial independence i ve also been on government run radio stations to talk about the lowering of the voting age and on several private broadcasters to discuss a variety of issues i am not listing all these things to show off but it is just that for all our grouses and complaints this kind of exposure to the media would have been impossible under the old regime the laws that can be used against the media are still in place and therefore until this changes there will always be the danger of them being used but the point is at this moment they are not and there is a palpable sense of having the freedom to express oneself it is very key that those who are hoping for a malaysia that is democratic inclusive plural and progressive make full use of this freedom there has to be a concerted effort at putting forward progressive views in a manner that is understandable and clear it is so important because at the moment the opposition is working on a very dangerous platform indeed left in the lurch by the electorate umno is now desperately seeking relevance and they are doing this by falling back into their comfort zone which is to make everything about race and religion it is their right of course to do so but there has to be a counter narrative i think umno has given up on any idea of getting a broad mandate and support from malaysians of all creeds ethnicity and faiths their recent activities point to them focusing on the malay demographic and raising hot button issues that they believe will get malay people on their side the increasing flirtations with pas is also ominous because there is the constant nagging concern that these two will try to form a super malay coalition let s not forget that in the last general election pas and umno received an estimated 70 of the malay votes if these two were to become political partners then politics in this country will not be about policies and ideas and instead be divided on that crudest of divisions race and seeming religiosity this is not healthy for the country what then can be done i am quite certain that at the end of the day most malaysians regardless of ethnicity are concerned mainly with bread and butter issues it is vital therefore that the government counteracts its opponents by making all our lives better in a practical and meaningful manner in the meantime there also has to be a constant countering of the kinds of racist and supremacist talk being spouted by those desperate enough to do anything to reclaim power we have greater freedom of speech now so let us not allow the bigoted to drive the agenda and instead make sure that a different narrative can be heard there are those who will never back down from their stance but there are many who have only heard one view now is the time to provide an alternative to as wide an audience as possible posted by elanor s assistant at 16 07 no comments lies that keep inequality alive brave new world the star 7 november 2018 some people are relying on false arguments to whip up objection to an international convention on racial discrimination ___________________________________ i was looking forward to enjoying some chapati and muruku but instead i received a whatsapp from an old school friend with a disturbing forwarded message this mate of mine asked me if this message which was about the consequences of malaysia ratifying the inter na tional convention on the elimina tion of all forms of racial discrimi nation icerd was accurate i normally don t read forwarded messages but this one was disturbing because it was so inaccurate that i feel i must respond especially if it is making its rounds let me deal with the issues raised by the writer of this message i won t mention his name because heaven only knows if it is indeed his name point one joining the icerd will mean that the sultans won t be rulers anymore and that islam won t be the official religion of the country this is false the sultans are sultans not because of racial discrimination but because of familial discrimination officially i am malay but i can t be a sultan because i am not from any royal family and the conven tion says nothing about the official religion of the country so i don t know what the writer is on about regarding islam point two with the icerd horrors anyone can be prime minister even shudder non malays well actually the constitution says that already the pm is the person who has the confidence of parliament that s all no mention of race ethnicity or gender gosh has this dude read the constitu tion point three no more 10 discounts for housing for malays actually there should not be 10 discounts in the first place the constitution only allows for affirmative action that is specifically spelt out in the constitution itself there are provisions for quotas in business permits education and civil service jobs but nothing about discounted houses the final point is really about the special position of the malays and natives of sabah and sarawak which is provided for in the consti tution there s a whole list that the writer goes through including education institutions certain military units and of course the famous article 153 of the constitution actually article 1 of the icerd says that affirmative action to advance certain groups due to existing inequalities is not considered racial discrimination article 2 then goes on to say that governments shall take these measures if they are needed in other words affirmative action is actually a requirement the only thing is that it is only acceptable as long as it is necessary this being the case as long as the malays are backward and need help compared to everybody else then i suppose it is necessary what it also means is that affirmative action must have an objective and once that objective is achieved then it ought to stop our constitution is actually in line with that principle article 153 which provides for the special position of the malays and natives of sabah and sarawak states that the king under advice from the government may set quotas for business education and civil service for as long as it is reasonable to do so if parity is achieved then surely it is reasonable to stop this is in line with the icerd unless of course the writer of the message forwarded to me wants the malays and natives of sabah and sarawak to be forever given special help regardless of their standing and position in society if that is the case then why not be honest about it and say that the malays and natives of sabah and sarawak are of a different class of citizenry and everybody else is second class that would at least be honest racist and bigoted sure but at least honest posted by elanor s assistant at 16 05 no comments slippery slopes of pathetic excuses brave new world the star 24 october 2018 __________________________________ one of the advantages of being a university lecturer is that we often get to read very good work from our students jeong chun phuoc is a phd student of mine and according to his work for me and his publications it is clear that the laws regarding hillslope developments are poor and poorly enforced before we go on i mention jeong by name not because i favour him over my other students but i seriously don t want to be accused of plagiarism unlike some professors i won t mention anyway the environmental impact assessment requirements for hillslope developments do not require several key things such as rainfall patterns and geological reports this does not mean however that these things can t be demanded for by the authorities look the country has faced landslides before and more often than not they have been as the result of heavy rain the volume of rainfall has become more intense with some theories laying the blame on climate change and this means greater danger this is nothing new and therefore not to consider such things is negligent the deaths in penang due to the recent landslide have to be subject to a thorough and independent investigation if the work being done was careless and if there were things that could have been done to mitigate such events then this must be exposed it is no good saying that this is the work of god if there were things that could have been done then they should have been done and this is something that can t be blamed on the previous government dap has been leading the penang government since 2008 in 10 years pakatan rakyat and now pakatan harapan have had more than enough opportunities to impose good practices in the manner of how land in the state is being used regardless of the weaknesses of the existing laws and the practices in other states meanwhile the comedy of umno continues the ongoing spate of arrests and investigations by the malaysian anti corruption commi ssion has recently been compared to operation lalang of 1987 it has been alleged that the current government is unfairly quashing dissent and in that way is ensuring a weak opposition and one party rule oh the irony as if the previous government never tried to quell dissent let me just explain a few things firstly operation lalang used the internal security act which means that people were being detained without trial all those now charged with money laundering criminal breach of trust and corruption will face trials in open court secondly those detained under operation lalang were never accused of any specific crime but were instead detained under the flimsy pretext of protecting national security and to use more recent history there were scores who were investigated and charged because they voiced opinions that the previous government did not like those being investigated and charged now are not being oppressed for political beliefs or dissenting views they are being accused of common crime pure and simple there has to be evidence offered to the court and then based on that evidence a conviction occurs or not this could take years and the opportunity for defence is there unlike under the dead and unmissed isa so there is a huge difference between what is happening now and what happened 30 years ago if umno wants to be a strong opposition and it should try perhaps it would be better to stop making pathetic excuses for people who are associated with such gross corruption and find some better leaders instead posted by elanor s assistant at 16 02 no comments think twice before deporting syrian brave new world the star 10 october 2018 __________________________________ hassan al kontar the syrian man who had been living in klia2 since march is currently in police custody i am sure you have heard of this man after all his story is interesting and has parallels with a particularly saccharine movie except there s no catherine zeta jones due to a series of immigration issues al kontar ended up in limbo in klia2 with no valid passport and absolutely no desire to return to syria why does he not want to go home well according to him he originally did not want to go back because he would have been forced to join the army something he did not want to do in the civil war torn country as he did not want to kill his fellow syrians a conscientious objector then now if he does go back he will doubtlessly be punished for his political stand amnesty interna tional reports that there is a high likelihood that not only will he be punished but his life may well be in danger too the deputy home minister has also said that he was offered to be sent to friendly countries to wait out his application to go to canada this it is said by the deputy minister was an offer he rejected i do not know if this is the case as there has been no statements from al kontar being detained as he is let s look at this from the legal perspective from the angle of international law al kontar does appear to fit the description of a refugee he faces the possibility of serious harm if he returns to syria because of his ...