“Usually the party leadership will just endorse the recommendation … I hope the 12 will accept with open heart. This is a normal process. I request my colleagues not to complicate this matter,” Anwar said.
“Let us give the 12 a chance. They can still appeal. I personally know some of them and I know their commitment is very strong. But we have to go through this process,” he said” – reported in FreeMalaysiaToday, today.
Really?
What about the recommendation of the disciplinary committee chaired by Syed Husin Ali in late 2008 to suspend Zul Nordin over his actions in disrupting the Bar Council forum in August 2008, and statements he made thereafter?
How did the party leadership deal with that recommendation?
This is what I wrote in my ‘Zaid’s Common Policy Framework vs Zul Nordin’s ISA’ :
“I spoke to a reliable source in PKR today. I wanted to know what had become of the show cause proceedings against Zul that was initiated last year following Zul’s involvement in the riotous disruption of the forum at the Bar Council auditorium.
I was shocked by what I was told.
The PKR Disciplinary Committee, headed by Deputy President Syed Husin Ali, it seems, had recommended that Zul be suspended from the party.
Anwar, my source tells me, had decided not to give effect to that recommendation but to ‘deal with Zul’ “.
Party leadership meets today to decide whether to endorse the recommendation to suspend.
However, given that Anwar’s already urging the 12 to utilise the process of appeal allowed for in he party constitution, does this suggest that the fate of the 12 has already been decided even before the party leadership meet today?
Is this due process in PKR?
If so, Anwar has no moral basis to complain about the treatment that is being meted out to him in our courts.
Parli-Man
August 29, 2010
Haris, Anwar has no moral basis to even be the opposition leader, let alone be a future PM candidate. Since 1982 M’sia has have had to tolerate the sickening Anwar factor. From 1998 till now it’s the sodomy trials etc. When are we M’sians going to be dealing with real issues like spiralling costs, unemployment,racial injustices,lowering FDI’s, closing of factories etc. Are we going to be spending our entire lives just trying to get Anwar Ibrahim get a PM job by closing an eye here and there about this closet racist ? Enough is enough, let us move on . I suggest PR get a new leader like Nizar Jamaludin. Anwar is becoming more and more a liability to PR. Anwar reminds me of the character ‘JOKER’ in Batman.
sabahan first
August 29, 2010
Anwar -PR is fast losing trust and support in east malaysia if he thinks that we are as divided as you west malaysians.For us sabahan/sarawakian come first, not Malay,Bajau,Dayak,Chinese etc…not even religion….DO YOU GET US SO FAR?
Parli-Man
August 29, 2010
I worked in Sabah for 4 years. I just love the place. The people are friendly and so easy going. No racial tensions. It is so common to see a Christian,Muslim,Chinese and Indian sitting in a restaurant together eating their respective food without any fuss. Harmony is written all over their faces. Enter UMNO and they viewed this harmony among races as a threat to their power existence and hence they started installing their much succesful, time and tested methods of divide and conquer. Anwar Ibrahim who is very much an UMNO boy, trained none other than by Mahade himself, knows exactly what he is doing. So I can only suggest to all Sabahans and Sarawakians to teach this closet racist a bitter leason that he will never forget. Throw him out using the ballot, or put pressure on PR to change their leader.
Habib RAK
August 29, 2010
Bro Haris, all very confusing especially with Jeffery K turning up at the press conference and seen with Anwar and Tian Chua. Yang mana satu version betul? Anyway, I am hoping (wishfully) that Anwar had learnt his lesson in the Zul Nordin’s case and thus will not interfere with the DC recommendation. Perhaps (wishfully) Anwar will now onwards respect the need to follow due process. All the same, hope the path forward to find better justice for Malaysia does not get derailed.
On another matter, do you think the Indon issue is stage managed to create anxiety like how USA does to get its citizens to rally around a non popular USA administration? Im wondering this because all the race and religious provocation done is not getting traction. Rakyat are being wiser to dimiss it.
Parli-Man
August 29, 2010
According to Datuk Jeffrey to me, he states that he still stands by his piece earlier and he also understands that the party has it’s rules and procedure to follow, which have to be respected. Hence ‘let us wait for the Mpp to deliberate and decide tomorrow ‘. He vehemently states that he has not compromised !
Parli-Man
August 29, 2010
Uthayakumar always views Anwar with ultra suspicion because he has got his fingers burnt umpteen times by him. According to Uthayakumar, Anwar’s common modus operandi is to call you to share a stage with him to give an appearance to the world that you are in his camp. Subsequently after the ‘photo-shoot’ you will be chucked aside like yesterday’s newspaper, phone calls will go unanswered etc. If you are a green horn politician, Anwar will swallow and spit you out before you can realise it. Anwar is Mr. Slick extraordinaire !
Sam01
August 29, 2010
I would prefer to wait for the SC’s decision today.
This Jeffrey guy cannot be trusted. He is a frog. At the slightest prodding he will jump ship. Just look at his history… in politics.
Paul Warren
August 29, 2010
Anwar operates under one set of rules when it comes to his Muslim buddies…viz. Zul Nordin and another set of rules for this 12 non-Muslims! Anwar got shit on his face from Nordin. I hope the Christians will behave a little better than that. After all Anwar does not seem to be able to wipe away that shit that he got earlier.
Rakyat Sabah
August 29, 2010
Sabahans should kick UMNO and PKR out of Sabah, support and/or form a coalition of Sabah based political parties, with more autonomy to run the state. I would suggest that they continue to be associated with PR, and not BN, for BN-UMNO is already beyond any hope of redemption.
As for Anwar, even as we grow more and more to dislike the way he is currently running the show with, We should still continue to vote for PR. We must continue to support and vote for DAP, PAS, PKR, SAPP(any party genuinely opposing BN for now), anything except BN and independents-frogs.
We must continue to vote and support PR or any other political force, except BN, especially UMNO. I say this not because I like Anwar or any of the opposition leaders in particular, but because after 53 years of political gangsterism, corruption, racism, etc…, I think it’s time Malaysians unite and VOTE FOR CHANGE & VOTE FOR CHECK AND BALANCE.
It’s time to unite and reclaim power, Rakyat’s Power. It’s time to tell them that we the rakyat are their bosses.
My2cen
August 30, 2010
Rakyat Sabah,
That’s the wisest thing to do. Sabah grassroot leaders who are not happy with the divide and conquer way of any Peninsular-based party should either join an existing Sabah independant, PR-friendly group/party, or form a coalition of independents, like what Haris is trying to do with a 3rd Force Barisan Rakyat. Only then will your voice be heard and vote counted, if you’re inside their party, they can always mute you in the guise of ‘following party rules & regulations’.
All of us should not forget that our objective is to oust UMNO, don’t forget that’s our common enemy. Don’t be disheartened by all these political sandiwara. Yes, we want answers, but don’t get too upset, especially when the players are known opportunists (Sometimes I wonder if they are UMNO’s trojan horses), who don’t give a second thought about moving from one party to another, one idealogy to another.
(For me, our one true big lost was when Lee Lam Thye left DAP. I was very young then, so it was a big shock. He was an honorable man, who was sold-out by those closest to him… and he could never lift up his head since… )
Kita anak sabah
August 29, 2010
Most east malaysians dont like west msian parties due to the bastardisation of every issue- it’s time to kick out all west msian parties umno,dap,pas,mic,pkr semua nya, fed-up betul
Toyolbuster
August 29, 2010
I thought the 6 years that he had spent in Cesse Poole would have changed him to be a better person but I was dead wrong. This Sabah episode have just revealed the real devil in him is still as evil as he was since ABIM days. He can just kiss my ass to get my vote. I urge my Barisan Rakyat brethren to move on to Plan C.
RockyMan
August 29, 2010
Latest news. Daniel John, Ahmad Shah and Mozes Iking suspended for a year. Ansari, Tamrin, Ronnie and the rest of the members of Azmin group must be jumping up and down in ecstasy.
Joshua
August 30, 2010
Whatever the present dire circumstance in Sabah’s political future, in the spirit of Merdeka, let us all Malaysians unite in praising God for the bountiful harvest of peace, goodwill, health and prospoerity that He has bestowed on Malaysia despite the turmoils and challenges that we as a nation have to endure and may continue to endure in the years ahead.
Let us all praise God for His goodnes in keeping us sane and loving towards the helpless, the orphans, the widows, the oppressed foreign workers and the less fortunate.
If we praise God for all the good things we can think of about Malaysia on Merdeka day, we shall reap great changes and blessings in this country.
Let us not have a complaining and critical heart but one of boundless gratefullness. We will be pleasantky surprised beyond our wildest dreams.
Joshua
August 30, 2010
In the spirit of Merdeka, let us all also praise God for the bountiful harvest of peace, goodwill, health and prospoerity that He has bestowed on Malaysia despite the turmoils and challenges that we as a nation have to endure and may continue to endure in the years ahead.
Let us all praise God for His goodnes in keeping us sane and loving towards the helpless, the orphans, the widows, the oppressed foreign workers and the less fortunate.
If we praise God for all the good things we can think of about Malaysia on Merdeka day, we shall reap great changes and blessings in this country.
Let us not have a complaining and critical heart but one of boundless gratefullness. We will be pleasantky surprised beyond our wildest dreams.