'Najib has paid the right lip service'

‘As the incumbent administration, he and his government will have to prove their intent with solid action and policies. Let's see what happens after this.’


Will Najib succeed where others have failed?

Private Ryan: As the incumbent administration, Najib Razak and his government will have to prove their intent with solid action and policies.

He has paid the right lip service, let's see what happens after this.

Susah Kes: For any substantive change to happen effectively, the paramount leader must first of all have credibility.

With unresolved issues such as Altantuya, the Perak debacle, the unresolved death of Teoh Beng Hock/A Kugan, and of course, the latest being the nomination of corrupt Isa Samad, I doubt Umno/ BN can seriously reform.

Most of the delegates who went to the Umno assembly all think alike; in the front, they will act as thought they support the president but in reality, they are thinking: ‘Dia pun bikin apa’.

Nothing has changed in Umno.

Soapbox: If there is going to be any reform, you can bet it's going to be within Pakatan Rakyat.

Losing Bagan Pinang badly, and the clarion call by Najib Razak (as empty as it might be) is bound to shake Pakatan into the realisation that they have to reform and work as one.

To also start governing like a government in the states they control and stop pointing fingers at the previous state governments.

Start being inclusive, and stop modelling themselves around the BN model. Anwar Ibrahim, one and a half years after the 2008 ‘tsunami’ has not announced a shadow cabinet.

If they keep on bickering, and PAS keeps on harping on beer licences and flogging women then BN will cruise home with tainted leaders regaining control of the locomotive that nearly broke loose.


Najib speaks with forked tongue

KSS: After the 2008 elections ‘tsunami’, the Umno wolf has decided to don a sheep's clothing.

Now it uses more diplomatic language but none of its apartheid-like policies or the ethnically- cleansed educational and public institutions show any signs of changing, now or in the future.

Najib Razak and his gang think that by replacing words such as 'Malay supremacy' with 'Malay leadership' and constantly repeating the slogan '1Malaysia', they will be able to fool a sufficient number of people into thinking that Umno has changed for the better.

That they (Umno) will not continue with its ethno-religious apartheid policies (a term coined by Forbes to describe Malaysia's system of discrimination against about 40 percent of its citizens).

Notice how even independent foreign observers are accusing Malaysia under BN of practicing apartheid.

True Malaysian: If our PM is serious and sincere about promoting his ‘1Malaysia’ concept and use it as the guiding principle for his future government policies, then this is the first thing he ought to do.

And that is to abolish the bumiputra and non-bumiputra dichotomy that divides Malaysian society so clearly.

A failure to do this will mean that this ‘1Malaysia’ talk by Najib Razak and Umno is nothing but mere political hype and rhetoric out to deceive the less discerning Malaysians, especially those rural and semi-urban voters.

It also proves that our own racial discrimination policy is no different from South Africa's past apartheid policy but camouflaged in a more subtle and less direct form but still discriminatory all the same.

KLeo: We have to be extremely careful though. Race is a touchy subject for both the Malays and non-Malays.

We will never help the process of change (which has already started, by the way) if we stand on the rooftops and scream.

Just look at how much good Zaid Ibrahim has done and how he's done it - by calm reasoning, gentle admonishment, and especially living by example; we non-Malays deserve no respect if we, too, are racially biased.


Gift to health minister's wife: Police urged to probe

Cheep: Hello? Am I the only one that thinks the conduct of DAP's Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng is totally selfish and (of course) politically motivated.

First, he lodged a police report based on an article which was neither written by him nor targeting him. Shouldn't Health Minister Liow Tiong Lai be the one to lodge a report for defamation?

Secondly, isn't it a little too convenient to lodge a police report if he isn't affected? If this is an authentic claim, he might be hailed as the 'hero' who reported it to the police.

And if this is a false claim, then the police can conveniently pin it on Raja Petra Kamarudin and will once again put him behind bars.

So how exactly is he affected and what does he gain?

Justice Seeker: Friends, you know now what will happen. The police will go after a wild goose chase to hunt for whistle-blower.

They will start harassing all those who were involved in the transaction of buying this vehicle. The staffs of the Hire Purchase Department of Public Bank will not be spared either.

They will go into worm holes to find out who was the one who leaked this information to Raja Petra Kamarudin - their sworn enemy but the darling of the literate public who yearn for his exposes on corruption.

Alamak: Why can’t everybody emulate Kelantan MB Nik Aziz Nik Mat? Leading a modest life and not blinded by material wealth?

If those smart leaders wielding powers could emulate him, Malaysia and Malaysians would be much better off.