Corruption @ MindSay 
politics
Yes, boys and girls it's really really official now.
We are a banana republic!
Top leaders get involved in oil for food scandals, depriving the poor hungry Iraqi women and children of valuable resources which could be used for the purchase of food and medication. But at the same time pretending to be so holy and pious back home. Holy hypocrisy!
Top leaders get involved in sex and murders scandals and shamelessly deny the link, when all the evidence is pointing a particular way. "I don't know who she is..but I only met her in P---s for dinner"....."and she likes to do what I have falsely accused my political opponent of doing". Wink Wink
Normal protests by the general public is put down with unprovoked violence by the police; going for a walk on Sunday morning in a group of more than 5 is illegal in this country. It's an "illegal gathering."
Print and broadcast media is stifled and told to toe the govt line, villifying all opponents of the govt. Bloggers, who due to the inherently free nature of the internet, are able to give the public the truth they crave, are targetted for one silly reason or the other. Read : Sedition charge against our Yang Mulia.
Online newspapers have their offices raided. No news is credible other than that which we get on the internet through the efforts of a few brave individuals. May they prosper and may their numbers grow. My special salute to Malaysiakini at www.malaysiakini.com for their courage in keeping to the noble aims of journalism, i.e. the reporting of the unembellished truth, even in these difficult and dangerous times.
People are more afraid of the law enforces than they are of the thieves because, as they say, they have a licence to plunder and pillage unrestrained, whereas the thieves have to do it under the cover of darkness and with their faces covered. Govt-sponsored armed forces are are being formed, independent of the police or the military, and being armed and given the authority to enter any premise without a warrant. Allegedly to look for illegal foreign workers. Know who I'm talking about? So what's the role of the immigration and the police? Oh, so they're understaffed eh? Well here a hint! Why not employ more police and immigration officers rather than forming what efectively amounts to a paramilitary force? Good!!! As we slide further down the scale of a civiled country ...to Banana Republic status!
The public is put in fear of attending public gatherings by the threat that the army will be brought in to control the "mobs" and patrol the streets. Army patrolling the streets? Are we in Palestine or Zimbabwe or Myanmar? Loss of faith in the police, knowing that even the "underlings of the govt" cannot now stomach the corruption and deception practised by the top leaders.
Poltical opponents are arrested or charged with trumped up charges for a crime which would be an impossibility to commit. A frail five-footer with a spine problem manages to overpower a strapping 23 year-old six-footer, flips him over and gives him the old shebang? Stretching the limits of credibility, init?
People fighting for justice in their homeland are imprisoned under preventive detentions laws, denied medical treatment and just left to die, all because they were of a different clour and they prayed to a different God. And he (you know who) would have died if the new PR govt had not made a big fuss over it. The immense loss of support the Bloody Nasty govt would face if he died sobered them up. A little....
A cry for fair elections is a crime in this banana republic. Again be prepared to face the wrath of the water canons, gleefully bought with our tax money ( with a massive commission thrown in, of course), to be gleefully used against us. Against women, children and old people who ask for nothing more than a right to air their views and grievances. I guess they forgot : WE'RE A BANANA REPUBLIC.
All we need to complete the picture is our dear dear "anak lelaki Sik----r Kutty" going around the country preaching the preservation of the purity of the race. Which race?...has he forgotten that he's a South Asian and only a first generation Malaysian? So which race is it that he's fighting to preserve the purity of ... and which bloody party was so stupid to allow the bloody south asian to lead them thinking he was one of them. Many a time this South Asian Keralite's son must have laughed to himself , thinking how he managed to gain control of a race-based party when he wasn't even a member of that particular race. And now he goes around stirring up racial propaganda all around the country..."no jail time for me, no matter that bloody drunk indian lawyer said". Get the picture?
The Inspector General of Police and the Attorney General having been accused of covering up evidence at a criminal trial. And the police are going to investigate!!! Kind of like asking the fox to count the chickens!!!
First World public transportation system in our country exists in the unilateral wet dream of some govt politician, drooling over the money to made from the award of contracts to their cronies.
Politians treating their development funds as their very own piggy banks. Wonderful!!
Now the top dog says there is no problem, everthing is okay, country is peaceful. But bring on the army, just in case!!!!
The parallels that can be drawn between the two countries defy belief. Rotten and corrupt administration. The same for the electoral process. The demonisation of political opponents, at any cost to the country..so long as those in power get to remain in power!
Anwar's back in trouble, it appears..same old, same old.....the old dogs in power couldn't come up with any new tricks. So I guess the old adage still holds true, eh? No new tricks!!??? Old bloody dogs!!!
An "aide" claims to have been sodomised "several" times on several separate occassions. Why wait for there to be another "occassion"? Why not lodge a police report immediately? Enjoyed it the first couple of times but then "overcome" by guilt and shame? Sure!... Do they really think that the people are that stupid?
These questions beg an answer, more so by virtue of the fact that we live in Malaysia, the land where lies can become the truth and where the truth is held ransom by religious and racists zealots in power, to manipulate and sodomise the truth to the extent that the public does not know what to believe in anymore. It's deja vu for Anwar's family for sure. But I'm sure he's not going to go without a fight. This time around I think he will have more people on his side! People are not that stupid to believe the lies of those in power in Malaysia. Or the lies of their stooges!
The setting in of disillusionment of large parts of the general populace, who are wondering if the country is actually being governed or whether it is running on autopilot while slowly grinding to a halt, is clearly an indication of the toll that the political fighting and infighting is taking on our country and the people.
It's time we told these idiots to bugger off. For good. How? You tell me!
Headlines of death everywhere
Selfish reasons for killing
Why can we think of peaceful earths like Middle Earth& Narnia for movies but not strive to make it our own?
What happened to bravery, loyalty, and chivalry?
Corruption&&Sin<3
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Make me yours forever
Let us rid the world of evil
Eternal life and eternal peace
This is what I want
By John J. Kruzel
American Forces Press Service
April 4, 2008 - Iraqis eager for stable government institutions consider corruption tantamount to terrorism, a U.S. inspector general in Iraq said today. To strengthen the rule of law, each of Iraq's 31 ministries has an independent IG element charged with sniffing out fraud, waste and abuses of power, Marine Col. Shelia Bryant-Tucker said during a conference call today.
"The people here want to see a more stable government, and they look at corruption as being equal to terrorism, and want to see it all end," said Bryant-Tucker, who serves as special advisor to the commander of Multinational Security Transition Command Iraq.
The IG office is charged with developing a network that promotes an efficient and honest Iraqi government while stamping out corruption. In addition, the IG is tasked with an advisory role to external watchdog agencies.
An example of success, she said, occurred while IG members helped create policies and procedures at Iraq's Defense Ministry. In the process, the IG found ministry officials had paid wages to absentee Iraqi army soldiers or to falsified soldiers who didn't exist.
"We're developing systems that will identify and detect that and eliminate that particular weakness," Bryant-Tucker said.
Last year, IG mentored the internal affairs division of Iraq's Interior Ministry as it conducted a sweeping corruption investigation of some 7,000 security forces. As a result, the ministry fired or disciplined almost 1,600 members, including 40 major generals and brigadier generals, and nearly 120 lieutenant colonels.
The role of the IG office was codified by a Coalition Provisional Authority order signed in early 2004. It empowers the IG to ensure "integrity, transparency and efficiency" and provide broad oversight in ministry operations and policies.
"This order establishes an effective program of audit, investigation and performance review to provide increased accountability, integrity and oversight of the ministries and to prevent, deter and indentify waste, fraud, abuse of authority and illegal acts," reads CPA Order Number 57, signed by CPA administrator L. Paul Bremer.
The order may be replaced by an Iraqi order that further clarifies the IG's role, Bryant-Tucker said. She added that the IG office is a member a working group that includes members from the U.S. Department of State.
The colonel said IG reforms in Iraq have been more successful within the military than in the civilian sector and conceded that progress is occurring more slowly than anticipated. But she expressed hope for the future of the oversight efforts.
"The concept that corruption is unacceptable has been embraced by the government of Iraq," she said.
Indicators of Iraqi interest in the clean-up push include an anti-corruption conference in January sponsored by the Iraqi government. The meeting outlined steps on implementing the rule of law and reducing illegal behavior by government workers.
In addition, Iraq recently took the first step toward enacting a United Nations resolution to solidify the country's stance against corruption, and a U.N.-sponsored convention last month was well attended by Iraqi officials, Bryant-Tucker said.
"It's an interesting and challenging opportunity here to work with the Iraqis, especially the workers, who really do want to see change," she said.
It appears that, once upon a time, being suspicious of one's government was a thing which one could undertake with zest, pride, and zeal, with little fear of being called a nutball or a kook. Woe to us, that we cannot hold a candle to our fathers in this regard. Enjoy this clip, then go read the whole thing:
But does any one believe that the brewer throws bags of gold into the party funds without any particular reason? This theory of the secrecy of political money must also be regretfully abandoned; and with it the two other possible excuses as well. This secrecy is one which cannot be justified as a sensational joke nor as a common human freemasonry, nor as an indescribable personal whim. Strangely enough, indeed, it violates all three conditions and classes at once. It is not hidden in order to be revealed: it is hidden in order to be hidden. It is not kept secret because it is a common secret of mankind, but because mankind must not get hold of it. And it is not kept secret because it is too unimportant to be told, but because it is much too important to bear telling. In short, the thing we have is the real and perhaps rare political phenomenon of an occult government. We have an exoteric and an esoteric doctrine. England is really ruled by priestcraft, but not by priests. We have in this country all that has ever been alleged against the evil side of religion; the peculiar class with privileges, the sacred words that are unpronounceable; the important things known only to the few. In fact we lack nothing except the religion.Alas! Where have such men gone?
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