Chua Soi Lek needed to go because he has lost the high ground while holding an office of very high public trust. The scorn he heaped as he left office only shows how little regard he had for his exalted office.


On Chua's downfall: Who's the 'black hand'?

MS: Chua Soi Lek needed to go because he has lost the high ground while holding an office of very high public trust. The scorn he heaped as he left office only shows how little regard he had for his exalted office.

It is reflective of the prevalent and decadent culture engendered in this country that even his own party had to accept his departure with regret. And that the police are investigating the producers of the clip of a private act (because he is high and mighty?) when there is so many more issues of public interest for the police to probe including rampant, everyday crimes on the streets.

Chua even had the temerity to say he didn’t know if the video is recent or old thus implying he is possibly still at it. True, we have many others but Chua’s going is just good riddance.


On PM: Up to MCA to choose replacement

Meng: The MCA president suggested that the health minister’s position be left vacant until after the next general election and that he, Ong Ka Ting, fill in as acting health minister. Preposterous.

But then again, our very capable prime minister is also the finance minister and internal security minister. With a portfolio like that it is no wonder the PM of Malaysia is often found nodding off at public functions. He probably sleeps very little and works into the wee hours of the morning. Only someone of his calibre and experience in public office can oversee a cabinet of 27 ministries and manage another five ministers in the Prime Minister’s Department.

Perhaps he can now also include the Health Ministry portfolio which has been left vacant. Perhaps now we know why issues of major proportions are left hanging without government intervention and allowed to balloon into unmanageable proportions.


On For BN and PM, MIC to mobilise thousands

YSM: MIC organising a rally for BN and PM? So is it okay now for Indians of BN’s MIC to rally to show support? Will they be met with water-cannons and tear gas as what happened at the Hindraf rally? What makes MIC’s Indians different from Hindraf’s Indians apart from their political affiliation?

Will the MIC be given a permit to gather? If the police do grant one, it sends a clear and resounding voice to all of Malaysia that the police are tools of the BN political parties. They are not serving the rakyat but BN.

According to our very educated ministers, 15,000 Hindraf Indians is hardly a majority and do not represent the voice of the majority of Indians. Assuming that 10% of Malaysians are Indians, we should see at least a million Indians to show that more than 50% of Indian Malaysians support the MIC. This public relations show is only a spin.


On No polls boycott, say opposition

Siva: I went to the Election Commission’s Selangor office at Kompleks PKNS, Shah Alam on Dec 27 to register as a voter. I wanted to make the deadline for inclusion in the 2007 fourth quarter electoral roll. To my surprise, I was greeted by a notice signed by the Selangor state election officer Jailani Abdul Majid that only applications received by Dec 24 would be included in the fourth quarter electoral roll.

The excuse given was the lack of manpower over the festive seasons. Applications received between Dec 26 to 31 will only be included in 2008's first quarter electoral roll. I cannot help but wonder if these last minute, flimsy regulation changes and difficulties to register as voters are attempts by the EC to disenfranchise Malaysians from voting in the next general election.

I am sure that they realise many are scrambling to register as they have been motivated by recent events in our political landscape and are more likely to be sympathetic to the opposition. I would like to know if the EC’rule is legal.


On Don't muddy the waters over Allah

Banjaran: Lest Fatimah Idris forget, Arabs, both Christian and Muslim in the Middle East, are not confused over the usage of ‘Allah’, so why should she feel confused?

Furthermore, what Christians in Sabah and Sarawak choose to call God is really none of her concern. And just a thought - Christian Arabs have been using the word ‘Allah’ long before the advent of Islam so the real question therefore is should Muslims use the word ‘Allah’ and not whether Christians should use the word ‘Allah’.


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