KENYATAAN MEDIA BERSAMA : YABhg Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamd YABhg Tun Ling Liong Sik YB Tan Sri Dato’ Hj. Muhyiddin Hj Mohd Yassin YB Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal YBM Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah YBhg Tan Sri Ong Tee Keat YBhg Tan Sri Sanusi Junid

Muhyiddin Yassin

KENYATAAN MEDIA BERSAMA

Penahanan peguam Matthias Chang dan sebelum ini anak guamnya Datuk Seri Khairuddin Abu Hassan di bawah Akta Kesalahan Keselamatan (Langkah-Langkah Khas) 2012 atau SOSMA 2012, adalah satu penyalahgunaan kuasa serta tindakan terdesak untuk mendiamkan pengkritik. Penggunaan SOSMA untuk menahan kedua-dua individu ini juga adalah bertentangan dengan semangat dan tujuan Akta ini diluluskan oleh Parlimen.
Amatlah malang bagi rakyat Malaysia apabila tindakan tersebut diambil oleh pihak berkuasa, mesej yang sampai kepada rakyat ialah apabila seseorang melaporkan berlaku kesalahan, orang yang membuat laporan akan ditangkap.

Pada akal yang sihat, tindakan ini juga memperlihatkan apabila ada pihak yang didakwa melakukan kesalahan dan apabila laporan dibuat terhadapnya, apa jua peruntukan undang-undang yang ada akan digunakan untuk menutup kesalahan pihak yang didakwa.
Tidakkah amat memalukan apabila seseorang yang dituduh melakukan kesalahan tidak berusaha membuktikan kebenaran ataupun “his innocence” tetapi sebaliknya orang yang melaporkan kesalahan ditahan.

Oleh kerana tidak ada undang-undang yang dapat digunakan untuk menahan dan menangkap orang yang membuat laporan, maka digunakan satu undang-undang yang digubal untuk tujuan memelihara keselamatan negara dan ketenteraman awam serta memperuntukkan satu hukuman yang berat untuk membuat tahanan dan tangkapan.
SOSMA yang diperbuat menurut Perkara 149 Perlembagaan Persekutuan adalah khusus untuk menghalang sebarang tindakan atau ancaman oleh sekumpulan besar orang di dalam dan di luar Malaysia:

1)untuk menyebabkan keganasan terancang terhadap orang atau harta, atau untuk menyebabkan sebilangan besar warganegara takut akan keganasan itu;

(2)untuk membangkitkan perasaan tidak setia terhadap Yang di-Pertuan Agong;

(3) yang memudaratkan ketenteraman awam di dalam Persekutuan atau mana-mana bahagiannya, atau yang memudaratkan keselamatan Persekutuan atau mana-mana bahagiannya;

atau

(4)untuk mendapatkan perubahan, selain dengan cara yang sah, apa-apa jua yang ditetapkan melalui undang-undang.

Matthias Chang adalah peguam yang mengiringi Datuk Seri Khairuddin Abu Hassan membuat laporan mengenai dakwaan salahlaku 1MDB kepada pihak-pihak berkuasa di dalam dan di luar Malaysia. Tindakan ini tidak bercanggah dengan undang-undang mana-mana negara dan tidak boleh dianggap sebagai suatu ancaman kepada ketenteraman dan keselamatan awam yang dilindungi oleh SOSMA.

Malahan laporan-laporan yang dibuat oleh Datuk Seri Khairuddin Abu Hassan adalah mengikut lunas-lunas demokrasi serta hak yang dijamin oleh mana-mana negara yang mengamalkan sistem demokrasi.

Justeru, kami menegaskan bahawa penahanan Matthias Chang dan Khairuddin Abu Hassan di bawah SOSMA adalah satu bentuk penyalahgunaan proses undang-undang oleh pihak berkuasa yang jelas bercanggah dengan tujuan undang-undang ini diluluskan oleh Parlimen.

Ia menyekat hak dan kebebasan individu untuk mengambil suatu tindakan yang sah dalam sebuah negara yang menjunjung keluhuran Perlembagaan dan kedaulatan undang-undang.
Apatah lagi, YAB Perdana Menteri sendiri ketika membentangkan Rang Undang-Undang SOSMA 2012 di Dewan Rakyat pada 16 April 2012 memberikan jaminan bahawa setiap individu “bebas menyuarakan pendapat, mengkritik, menyokong, berbeza pandangan, bersiasah mahupun menganggotai apa-apa pertubuhan”. Malahan, beliau berjanji “tidak ada sesiapa akan dihukum hanya kerana menjalankan hak-hak yang dijamin oleh Perlembagaan Persekutuan serta undang-undang negara”.

Berdasarkan janji ini, maka kedua-kedua warganegara ini mestilah dibebaskan serta-merta dan pihak berkuasa memberikan jaminan bahawa tiada sesiapa lagi akan ditahan di bawah SOSMA hanya kerana menyatakan pandangan, pendapat dan kritikan serta mengambil apa-apa tindakan yang dibenarkan oleh Perlembagaan Persekutuan dan undang-undang negara.

YABhg Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamd
YABhg Tun Ling Liong Sik
YB Tan Sri Dato’ Hj. Muhyiddin Hj Mohd Yassin
YB Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal
YBM Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah
YBhg Tan Sri Ong Tee Keat
YBhg Tan Sri Sanusi Junid

12 Oktober 2015

Muhyiddin Yassin : Najib watch your back!

Loyalty in UMNO is loyalty given when it serves the purpose of the giver. Like truth, loyalty has no place in UMNO and certainly not in Barisan Nasional.

For Pak Lah, this Muhyiddin Yassin was a friend. Someone he felt comfortable with, a friend to be depended upon. When Pak Lah expected Muhyiddin to stand beside him because he was not strong enough to stand on his own, Muhyiddin moved against him in haste and with malice. I say to Najib now….watch your back.

Muhyiddin has calculatingly entrenched himself with Mahathir and Perkasa to overtly advance Ketuanan Melayu as his cause celebre. He has done so in spite of knowing full well Najib’s commitment to make 1Malaysia the corner stone of his administration. A few days back Najib gave a lecture titled "Coalition of Moderates and Inter-Civilisational Understanding" at the Sheldonian Theatre at Oxford University. With hand on his heart Najib committed himself to a “ a society that is multi-racial, multi–religious and multi-cultural.

Muhyiddin in the same time frame, was in Kangar declaring that “UMNO’s struggle is to bring development to the Muslim community, which is the majority group in the country! We are certainly a Muslim nation. If PAS campaign about wanting a Muslim nation, we already have it. Ever since independence, our main focus was to champion the cause of Islam”

Najib and Muhyiddin are both in the same foxhole. Now who is braver? Who will blink first? It is not good sense to share a foxhole with somebody braver then you! What does UMNO want to look for in their leader? Najib to lead them towards multi-racial, multi–religious and multi-culturalism or Muhyiddin who champions Islam and Ketuanan Melayu?

Muhyiddin has made his choice. What he did to Pak Lah he will now do to Najib – demi kepentingan Bangsa, Ugama dan Negara! 

Let us look at history. UMNO mobilize all its resources after the May 13 Riots to redefine nationalism within Malaysia as being “Malay First”, taking Malaysian away from the multicultural nationalism pursued by Tunku. UMNO successfully galvanized the Malay community in the 1970’s towards policies favouring this “Malay First” sensibilities. Somewhat akin to the “Ketuanan Melayu” rhetoric’s now being touted by Perkasa and Muhyiddin.  

In the 1990’s Mahathir attempted to define the national identity of Malaysia through his Bangsa Malaysia aimed at bringing greater national integration among the various ethnic group within Malaysia. But Mahathir used this Bangsa Malaysia as a means to achieving his own ends: Authoritarian rule at the costs of individual liberty and rights of the people. This saw the explosive birth of the Reformasi movement headed by DSAI, which seek liberal political reform for the nation.

The demand by the people for greater individual liberty and liberal political reforms as against the authoritarian control by UMNO is still the fundamental roots of the problems we have today in Malaysia.

Pakatan Rakyat seeks greater individual liberty and liberal political reform for the masses.

UMNO seeks to maintain its authoritarian control over Malaysia to maintain its hold over Malaysia. To do this UMNO must have two third majorities within parliament. This was lost in the 12^th GE. A simple majority enabled UMNO to form government but its loss of five states and 51% of the people’s vote has meant that its “moral right” to rule has been lost. There is now a credible opposition within Parliament.

All that UMNO has done while in government are now subject to scrutiny: Past, present and certainly for the foreseeable future. The abuses and excesses in the past by UMNO are no longer something that the ISA or the OSA can keep hidden from the public domain. Increasingly corrupt practises; money politics and abuses by those holding high public office are being exposed. This deluge of exposure will surely turn into a torrent if not a tsunami should UMNO lose the 13^th GE.

And so we come to today.

UMNO need to win the 13^th general election. What Najib wants in multi-racial, multi–religious and multi-culturalism is at odds with what UMNO wants.

Munyiddin sees his political advancements towards the Presidency of UMNO and the Prime Ministership as being one with what UMNO wants: i.e. Ketuanan Melayu and having Islam as the official religion of Malaysia – not for its religious connotations but for what Islam could do in advancing UMNO’s cause amongst the Malays.

  

I remember Muhyiddin with his chest all puffed up standing in Najib’s place with the Australian Prime Minister visited Malaysia recently. I see Muhyiddin jumping to Utusan Malaysia’s defence every time that daily slams the Chinese. Racial gutter politics is Muhyiddin forte. Muhyiddin is a Malay first and Malaysian second! And 1Malaysia is not the way to go! Muhyiddin is the Malay champion.

I think the Ketuanan Melayu and Religious issues have now taken on a life of its own. Nazri’s recent free speech for all utterances is to Muhyiddin favour and will open the floodgates for Perkasa and its maniac racial and religious utterances.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 20 — Standing by his decision not to haul up Datuk Ibrahim Ali for threatening a “crusade” on Christians, Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Aziz has pledged the same treatment for all similar transgressions in the future.

“It is not just the opposition politicians but also those in the Barisan Nasional (BN). In fact, anybody at all... bloggers and so on,” he told The Malaysian Insider when contacted.

“The landscape has changed. Sensitive matters are now being discussed in the open.

And I am eagerly waiting for the first Chinese or non-Malay brave enough (read foolish here!) to test the waters.

Najib is committed to his multi-racial, multi–religious and multi-culturalism but to what end? Muhyiddin will play to the Malay gallery but Najib cannot. Muhyiddin will have Perkasa and Mahathir with him, Najib does not. Najib is UMNO’s President for now but that does not mean he will remain one in the run up to the 13^th GE. Najibs high jinks in Mindef will dam him. Rosmah has upset enough wives of Ministers and UMNO’s first tier leaders to not be of any help to Najib. And Altantuya is a demonic sword poised millimeters from his pudgy neck  - waiting to swing downward when it suits UMNO.   

Najib’s political obituary will start thus: 

“Even if it took many years before it became a reality, Altantuya was the nemesis of Najib’s poitical career…….”

AMEN.