vox populi small thumbnail'If anyone's citizenship has been approved in recent times based on their political affiliation, this constitutes a gross abuse of power on the part of BN.'

'Umno soliciting citizenship to boost vote bank'

Quigonbond: This issue again points to the failure of Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein to act fairly. If anyone's citizenship has been approved in recent times based on their political affiliation, this constitutes a gross abuse of power on the part of BN, and especially the home minister.

The rakyat should file for judicial review, the opposition parties must insist on a royal commission of inquiry to look at this fiasco, not just for Hulu Selangor, but for Sabah and elsewhere in Malaysia.

Nicholas Lim: This is indeed true. Ask some of the Indonesian maids and workers in your neighbourhood and they will tell you they have been approached by "people" to apply for citizenship, i.e. converting their permanent resident status to citizen status.

Of course, most will take up the offer as they want their children to get assistance in education loans and places in local universities. You cannot fault them for that for they only want the best for their families.

The blame lies with the people offering them citizenship through the backdoor. So let's not make it into an Indonesian-bashing session. Focus on the real enemy: not the Indonesians, but our fellow Malaysians.

DNA: Is this not treason? I, as a citizen, demand an explanation from Hishammuddin over this allegation.

As usual, MCA, MIC, Gerakan and PPP will not open their mouths for fear of offending Umno. Umno is willing to sell Malaysia just to stay in power. Umno is a filthy and corrupt party.

NuckinFuts: Why invest billions of ringgit in jet fighters, patrol boats and submarines to 'defend' our country when we already have agents like these abusing their positions selling our country's citizenship openly like pirated DVD sellers?

This is what newspapers should be shouting about in their headlines, not some cooked-up lies by bloggers on the net.

Playfair: Now watch the backtracking from Umno - they will claim that the letter is a forgery by Pakatan Rakyat to tarnish the image of Umno. Case closed. To Zuraida Kamaruddin, well done for the expose. We are 100 percent behind you, and believe that it is indeed an attempt to undermine the election process.

BTN: That was what happened in Sabah many years ago. The mockery of all this is that the majority of the Sabah folk still support BN blindly and thereafter complain that they are being left behind in every area of development.

As long as Umno has its way, it will continue to manipulate every living human being in this country, no matter what pangkat (level) they are at, to achieve their evil goals.

Gandhi: Hulu Selangor MP P Kamalanathan is busier than the proverbial ant, twitting most of time and yet has no time to look into crucial matters like citizenship for Indians.

While Hulu Selangor Umno division chief Mohamed Idris Abu Bakar was able to write to the home minister to get citizenship for Indonesians, what is this hand-kissing MIC leader doing for the Indians?

Rick Teo: Every day, intelligent graduates are leaving the country and in their place, Bangladeshis, Indonesians and Pakistanis are brought in to bolster Umno's chances of remaining in power. They just don't give a damn what happens to this country of ours so long as they can remain in power.

Freemsia: Umno, what a dirty, sinful and unethical party. No wonder PAS will never ever join forces with you.

Loyal Malaysian: This is not new, is it? Apparently that's how the Kadazans are no longer the majority in Sabah anymore. But, yes, when it is detected, Umno must be brought to task. However, they control all levels of power. If the National Registration Department fast-tracks the citizenship approvals, I wonder what recourse Pakatan will have.

2cts Worth: The government has committed a serious crime by giving free access into Malaysia to people without going through proper procedures. They have become so unscrupulous as to contravene the laws blatantly in their actions.

When a government commits a crime, it is the horror of horrors. The country is without redress, but there is only one way out - the people should arise.

RR: There are thousands of Indians deprived of citizenship, though born here, because they do not have birth certificates. Very strict rules were applied on them for the granting of citizenship. The new leadership of MIC managed to get citizenships for some but not all. These people should be given priority.

The government cannot sell the country to recent arrivals just because they are Muslims, Indonesians, or Malay look alikes. This is treason, punishable by death.


Bar Council slams gov't for condoning abuses

Cannon: The survival of democracy in our country is under grave threat. For years and years, Umno - under the leadership of its Machiavellian founders - has disenabled the professionalism, integrity and independence of our state institutions.

They have disconnected our state institutions and dismantled them piece by piece, a little bit at a time, hollowing out the foundations of our parliamentary democracy. The regime have been gradually slicing up our institutions, like slicing salami, until what's left today of our democracy, is about to topple over.

Some are worried about price increases affecting our lives. Well, if these Umno gremlins have their way, after they've finished 'bastardising' our democracy and our economy, we won't have any life to worry about.

Holden: As usual, the PM and home minister have shown their total cowardice by failing to come out unequivocally against the gutter journalism displayed by Utusan Malaysia. If it had been any other media printing equally provocative reports, you can be sure the PM, home minister and their stooges in the police force would have come down hard on them.

1Malaysia? 1WholeLotofRubbish!

Silas Jugdip: Is this part of what Umno's "take back Selangor (and other states) by all means" implies?

Kgen: There are many editors in Utusan who write under pseudonyms like Awang Selamat. In fact, there may be a few writers behind the pseudonym.

Why is it necessary to hide your real name behind a pseudonym? Any writer worth his salt would be proud to see his name in the byline. The reason for hiding behind pseudonyms is to write racist trash that their own mothers would be ashamed to read.

 

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