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Activism, the bus trip to Taiping, and stepping out as the Third Force in solidarity with Guan Eng

August 7, 2020

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Come next month, If I include my years of activism through the courts as a legal practitioner, starting from year 2000 until 2010, that accounts for 22 years of my life. What’s it been like? I have always used taking a bus ride to Taiping to describe that journey. You buy a bus ticket to […]

Asalkan Bukan Mahathir

June 10, 2020

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In the wake of the Sheraton Move, the collapse of the PH government after Dr M’s bizarre moves, first, resigning as PM, and then seeking to resurrect himself as head of a unity government, and finally Muhyiddin being formally appointed as the 8th PM, I had the opportunity to ask of a senior leader of […]

How many does it take to make a 3rd Force?

May 17, 2020

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With modifications, I am re-hashing something I wrote 4 years ago. First, lets get definitions out of the way. The freedictionary explains the phrase “THIRD FORCE” to mean, amongst others, “one or more nations, political parties, or other organizations occupying an intermediate position between two other opposed forces”. Could we expand this to allow for individuals? Or just 1? Seriously, I’ve never needed numbers behind me to do what I believed to be right. One […]

Crime does not pay? It does, lah!

May 14, 2020

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If you’re set on crime as your vocation, though, remember. Big time. If you’re going to steal, steal big time. Going to wash money ( launder, lah ), wash big time. Dont be jaguh kampung! Take kow kow! If its big enough, and you get caught, can work it out, one. Return half, and go […]

Why are the oppressive laws still on our statute books?

October 9, 2019

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Later this morning, my appeal, and that of the prosecution, in relation to my conviction and fine under the Sedition Act, 1948, comes up before the Court of Appeal for hearing. In a post in August, last year, I suggested that the sum total of promises in the PH election manifesto can be conveniently summarised […]

PD voters, on our behalf, please ask Anwar this. Then vote, on our behalf, too

October 8, 2018

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I wrote publicly to Anwar in this blog on 26th September, 2018. Amongst other things, this is what I said. “Please understand that post 9th May, 2018, we, the rakyat, are no longer the people so long suppressed by BN. We fully understand and have experienced the sheer power in our hands when we come […]

Salam, pengundi-pengundi Bentong

May 1, 2018

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Masa untuk rakyat buang undi untuk menentukan masa depan negara dan anak-anak kita sudahpun sampai. Pada 29hb April, 2018, saya telah berpeluang untuk berceramah dan bermesra dengan pengundi di kawasan Parlimen Segambut. Malam semalam pula, saya telah berceramah di kawasan Parlimen Kelang. Saya telah bertanya soalan yang sama kepada pengundi-pengundi Segambut dan Kelang, di mana […]

Change gomen first. Then we, the rakyat, reform our country

April 11, 2018

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In May, 2013, I invested RM5,000.00 In April, 2016, I added another RM5,000.00 to that earlier investment. RM5k invested for 3 years and then RM10k for another 2 years. On Monday, 9th April, I cashed in on my investment. I got my RM10k back. The return on my investment? What did I invest in? My […]

A New Year, A New PLI for the Nation?

January 20, 2018

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By Jayanath Appudurai In June 2017 a government Report on Sustainable Development Goals stated: “Malaysia has successfully reduced absolute poverty, based on the national poverty line, from 49.3 per cent in 1970 to 0.6 per cent in 2014- a remarkable achievement made in just four decades. The national poverty line is estimated at US$2.02 per […]

The only voices of sanity coming out from Pakatan

January 9, 2018

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On the announcement on 7th January by Pakatan Harapan that Dr M is their choice of PM, this is what Sangeet Kaur Deo, daughter of the late Karpal Singh, had to say, as reported in Free Malaysia Today http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2018/01/08/karpals-daughter-has-reservations-about-dr-m-being-pm/ “He will be PM all over again, introducing the rebirth of Mahathirism”. She referred to Dr […]