Believe it or not, there were precious and clear signs in the press in the FRONT pages on 16th September, 2013 - the auspicious occasion of the young nation.
Malaysia without Singapore is NOT Malaysia.
Malaysia without Sabah is not Malaysia.
Malaysia without Sarawak is not Malaysia.
Malaysia was formed with a MALAYSIA agreement and once Singapore left and no new AGREEMENT was made HENCE no more a nation!!!!
How can we allow the SNAKE swallow the little chicken as once depicted by the cartoonist - kenon and not sensitive at all and that has been the reality of 50 years and more?
Now back to the precise signs on 16th September, 2013.
1. Dr Mahathir stressed UMNO or UMNO Baru is to face DEMISE soon for whatever reasons known to UMNO/BN.
2. Our great or infamous man passed away on the early morning of that day meaning there is HOPE for the true freedom of people of Malaysia. Chin Peng (assumed name) means Peace to the Chin or Chinese people.
3. In Sabah we have a wonderful for some but a destructive factor called TAED meaning SHIT for all when the area is to be locked out for the consumers. So this legacy of TAED or shit is shit for all from the man whose origin is questioned and more is still on the way unless we remove him quickly after the sort of jinx of 9 years. That project if ever allowed in a sensitive area for all reasons could be renamed ECO TAD for more focus than TAED or SHIT. No shit for Sabahans anymore. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
What else do we expect from the CRIMINALS in Governments after rampage after 50 years?
Saturday, September 28, 2013
3. All CRIMINALS must surrender
Governments of ALL CRIMINALS for more than 50 years to dismantle..
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Lina Soo holds up her book Sarawak: The Real Deal in which she documents the state's history.
KUCHING
(Sept 24): A group of Sarawakians mulls suing the British Government
for failing to return sovereignty to the state before the formation of
Malaysia, 50 years ago.
Recent
declassified British colonial documents appear to support the group's
claims that the British colonial office colluded with Malaya leaders to
secretly contrive the sovreignty of British Borneo to Malaya.
“The
British were masterminds and strategists. Despite massive opposition to
the Malaysia Plan, they denied Borneo colonies rights to
self-determination,” said Lina Soo, who compiled all these historical
facts and information into a book.
Entitled of 'Sarawak: The Real Deal',
the 124-paged book containing 10 chapters highlights Sarawak's history,
includes selected colonial documents, anti-Malaysia campaign and other
information on the formation of Malaysia.
The sub-heading of the book reads 'How a Kingdom was betrayed in an intrigue of trickery, coercion an subterfuge'.
The
last few pages in Chapter 10 centres on when Singapore left the
federation of Malaysia in 1965 to become an independent nation. Sarawak
and Sabah were warned by Britain not to try to follow suit.
“The
book is to give Sarawakians an informed account based on both Sarawak
and British official sources of the events leading to the formation of
Malaysia,” Soo told reporters at the book launch today.
Soo,
who has been campaigning for Borneo Agenda in the past few years, said
because of British’s failure to honour the United Nation decolonisation
process, it led to serious consequences for both Sarawak and North
Borneo (now Sabah).
“Sarawak
and Sabah were plundered of their oil and resources for 50 years and
both states became the most impoverished parts of Malaysia,” she said,
adding that a group of people, including a few lawyers, was preparing
the legal documents to file the suit.
She
said the main objective is to determine whether Sarawak voluntarily
join the federation to form Malaysia, and whether Sarawak can federated
with other nation before gaining sovereignty.
In
addition, she said the case would seek compensation from the British
for its violation of human rights and the people’s unalienable right to
independence under international law.
The
54-year-old housewife, who stood in the last general election under
State Reform Party’s (STAR) ticket, is also calling for volunteers and
contributors to come forward. She plans to raise £50,000 (RM256,593) to
prepare researched documentation and to acquire legal opinion.
Registered
supporters who pay a registration fees of RM50 have been promised a
share of the compensation money should they win the case.
Read more: http://fz.com/content/
Monday, September 16, 2013
2. Blast from the past
www.thestar.com.my/Opinion/Columnists/One-Mans-Meat/Profile/Articles/2013/09/16/A-blast-from-Sabahs-past.aspx
How Malaysia came to be makes for some interesting reading as the country celebrates Malaysia Day.
BISUK pun boleh masuk Malaysia! (Even tomorrow we could join Malaysia!),” Tan Sri Abdul Ghani Gilong told reporters in Kota Kinabalu after he returned from Kuala Lumpur in the early 1960s.
According to The Sabahan: The Life and Death of Tun Fuad Stephens written by P.J. Granville-Edge, Gilong was part of a delegation from North Borneo (as Sabah was called then) who were “shown projects and tangible achievements brought about (in Malaya) since Malayan independence”.
Gilong was impressed.
And today I wish all a Happy Malaysia Day! Fifty years ago, North Borneo, Sarawak, Singapore and Malaya formed Malaysia.
During the weekend, I re-read Tun Fuad’s biography to get an understanding of why the man – of whom Tan Sri Khir Johari said “Malaysia, with Sabah, would not have been born, if not for Donald Stephens” – agreed to the Federation of Malay-sia.
There are still people in my home state Sabah who are dead set against our forefathers’ decision.
Tun Fuad (Donald Stephens converted to Islam in 1971) and other leaders in North Borneo and Sarawak had considered an alternative which was the exclusive union of three non-Indonesian states in Borneo – North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei.
“The idea appealed to the British Colonial power who did not want to relinquish influence and commercial interests in the region. But (Indonesian president) Sukarno’s plans for a ‘Greater Indonesia’ put paid to that suggestion,” wrote Granville-Edge.
“For the vulnerability of Sabah’s and Sarawak’s borders with Indonesia’s Kalimantan became the overarching issue. A slightly lesser irritant was the emerging contention of Philippines that Sabah had not been ceded but only leased to the Chartered Company (assigned to administer North Borneo).”
In 1962, Philippine President Diosdado Macapagal pursued his country’s claim on North Borneo, arguing that the title and dominion over the territory were ceded by the Sultan of Sulu to Manila.
This year, those who were not aware of such a claim were reminded that Manila has not given up its claim on Sabah. A group calling themselves “the Royal Sulu Army” was sent by Jamalul Kiram III, one of the many claimants to the throne of the Sultanate of Sulu, to invade Kampung Tanduo in Lahad Datu, Sabah.
1962, with Indonesia and Philippines showing interest in North Borneo, Tun Fuad asked himself: “What did Sabahans themselves want?”
His answer was “coming under the rule of Indonesia or the Philippines did not seem like the best route”.
“The years of mulling over the options for his homeland had helped Donald understand the big picture. The British Colonial legacy was something Sabah and Sarawak shared with Malaya,” wrote Granville-Edge.
“In Donald’s mind’s eye, a purely Borneo consortium did not seem to be the answer, it was obvious that the physical security of the peoples of the three sparsely populated non-Indonesian Borneo states was paramount.”
According to the book, “Donald also understood that the formation of a Federation, that included Singapore and the Borneo states, would allow a more equitable balance of racial interests to emerge: the Malays would be offset by the Chinese in Singapore, and the indigenous racial composition in Sarawak and North Borneo would offset the dominance of the Malays and Chinese predominantly in the western part of the proposed new country”.
In Tun Fuad’s view, according to Granville-Edge, who is his niece, “Sabah would be joining Malaysia as a partner equal in stature to the nucleus, Malaya. This supposition was to be the cause of much friction in the years ahead”.
Tun Fuad had insisted on the “Twenty Points” as he was concerned about Sabah retaining a significant level of state autonomy.
The most important of these safeguards were religion, language, immigration, tariffs and finance, special position of the indigenous people, education and Constitutional safeguards, wrote Granville-Edge.
“Along the way, the ‘Twenty Points’ had been amended, but the spirit within them was essentially retained. Sadly, subsequent to the formation of Malaysia, some of these safeguards were gradually whittled away,” she wrote.
“Ironically, some through Donald’s abang’s high-handedness. Down the road, Donald was to make his dissatisfaction at this very clear, not once, but twice in the years ahead.”
Then came the expulsion of Singapore from the Federation on August 9, 1965. Tun Fuad, according to his biography, was livid Sabah and Sarawak were not consulted.
“Donald felt he and Sabah had been lured into Malaysia along with Singapore. In the white heat of the moment, his thinking at that time was straightforward: since Singapore, Sabah and Sarawak – the 3S – had gone into this ‘marriage’ with Malaya together, they should also be allowed to leave together,” wrote Granville-Edge.
According to Tun Fuad’s friend George Chin, “when news of Singapore’s expulsion was released, Donald reacted very logically. He said: ‘The reason we joined Malaysia was to be with Singapore. If Singapore is out, Sabah’s position with Malaysia should be reviewed. And we must decide about staying or going’.”
Eleven days after Singapore’s expulsion, Tun Fuad tendered his resignation as Sabah Chief Minister to Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman after a round of golf.
The rest, as they say, is history.
The views expressed are entirely the writer’s own.
One Man's Meat
Published:
Monday September 16, 2013 MYT 12:00:00 AM
Updated: Monday September 16, 2013 MYT 9:17:10 AM
Updated: Monday September 16, 2013 MYT 9:17:10 AM
A blast from Sabah's past
BISUK pun boleh masuk Malaysia! (Even tomorrow we could join Malaysia!),” Tan Sri Abdul Ghani Gilong told reporters in Kota Kinabalu after he returned from Kuala Lumpur in the early 1960s.
According to The Sabahan: The Life and Death of Tun Fuad Stephens written by P.J. Granville-Edge, Gilong was part of a delegation from North Borneo (as Sabah was called then) who were “shown projects and tangible achievements brought about (in Malaya) since Malayan independence”.
Gilong was impressed.
And today I wish all a Happy Malaysia Day! Fifty years ago, North Borneo, Sarawak, Singapore and Malaya formed Malaysia.
During the weekend, I re-read Tun Fuad’s biography to get an understanding of why the man – of whom Tan Sri Khir Johari said “Malaysia, with Sabah, would not have been born, if not for Donald Stephens” – agreed to the Federation of Malay-sia.
There are still people in my home state Sabah who are dead set against our forefathers’ decision.
Tun Fuad (Donald Stephens converted to Islam in 1971) and other leaders in North Borneo and Sarawak had considered an alternative which was the exclusive union of three non-Indonesian states in Borneo – North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei.
“The idea appealed to the British Colonial power who did not want to relinquish influence and commercial interests in the region. But (Indonesian president) Sukarno’s plans for a ‘Greater Indonesia’ put paid to that suggestion,” wrote Granville-Edge.
“For the vulnerability of Sabah’s and Sarawak’s borders with Indonesia’s Kalimantan became the overarching issue. A slightly lesser irritant was the emerging contention of Philippines that Sabah had not been ceded but only leased to the Chartered Company (assigned to administer North Borneo).”
In 1962, Philippine President Diosdado Macapagal pursued his country’s claim on North Borneo, arguing that the title and dominion over the territory were ceded by the Sultan of Sulu to Manila.
This year, those who were not aware of such a claim were reminded that Manila has not given up its claim on Sabah. A group calling themselves “the Royal Sulu Army” was sent by Jamalul Kiram III, one of the many claimants to the throne of the Sultanate of Sulu, to invade Kampung Tanduo in Lahad Datu, Sabah.
1962, with Indonesia and Philippines showing interest in North Borneo, Tun Fuad asked himself: “What did Sabahans themselves want?”
His answer was “coming under the rule of Indonesia or the Philippines did not seem like the best route”.
“The years of mulling over the options for his homeland had helped Donald understand the big picture. The British Colonial legacy was something Sabah and Sarawak shared with Malaya,” wrote Granville-Edge.
“In Donald’s mind’s eye, a purely Borneo consortium did not seem to be the answer, it was obvious that the physical security of the peoples of the three sparsely populated non-Indonesian Borneo states was paramount.”
According to the book, “Donald also understood that the formation of a Federation, that included Singapore and the Borneo states, would allow a more equitable balance of racial interests to emerge: the Malays would be offset by the Chinese in Singapore, and the indigenous racial composition in Sarawak and North Borneo would offset the dominance of the Malays and Chinese predominantly in the western part of the proposed new country”.
In Tun Fuad’s view, according to Granville-Edge, who is his niece, “Sabah would be joining Malaysia as a partner equal in stature to the nucleus, Malaya. This supposition was to be the cause of much friction in the years ahead”.
Tun Fuad had insisted on the “Twenty Points” as he was concerned about Sabah retaining a significant level of state autonomy.
The most important of these safeguards were religion, language, immigration, tariffs and finance, special position of the indigenous people, education and Constitutional safeguards, wrote Granville-Edge.
“Along the way, the ‘Twenty Points’ had been amended, but the spirit within them was essentially retained. Sadly, subsequent to the formation of Malaysia, some of these safeguards were gradually whittled away,” she wrote.
“Ironically, some through Donald’s abang’s high-handedness. Down the road, Donald was to make his dissatisfaction at this very clear, not once, but twice in the years ahead.”
Then came the expulsion of Singapore from the Federation on August 9, 1965. Tun Fuad, according to his biography, was livid Sabah and Sarawak were not consulted.
“Donald felt he and Sabah had been lured into Malaysia along with Singapore. In the white heat of the moment, his thinking at that time was straightforward: since Singapore, Sabah and Sarawak – the 3S – had gone into this ‘marriage’ with Malaya together, they should also be allowed to leave together,” wrote Granville-Edge.
According to Tun Fuad’s friend George Chin, “when news of Singapore’s expulsion was released, Donald reacted very logically. He said: ‘The reason we joined Malaysia was to be with Singapore. If Singapore is out, Sabah’s position with Malaysia should be reviewed. And we must decide about staying or going’.”
Eleven days after Singapore’s expulsion, Tun Fuad tendered his resignation as Sabah Chief Minister to Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman after a round of golf.
The rest, as they say, is history.
The views expressed are entirely the writer’s own.
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Joshua Kong22 hours ago
Was Tun Fuad under duress to resign after questioning the status of Malaysia after Singapore was kicked out?
Since Singapore left, there was no Malaysia and why celebrate Malaysia today?
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MatSham21 hours ago
Go figure the intricacies...
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Joshua Kong20 minutes ago
What intricacies?, nothing but lopsidedness...injustice through and through..
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Thursday, September 12, 2013
1. Message for Golden Malaysia
Let this Golden message be here towards a Diamond celebration soon.
Meanwhile the GOLDEN message is pending,
Joshua
also visit http://writingsmalaysia.blogspot.com/
Meanwhile the GOLDEN message is pending,
Joshua
also visit http://writingsmalaysia.blogspot.com/
MESSAGE or
massage for our leaders and people
It is indeed a
great moment to write this message for the Golden anniversary of Malaysia.
Undoubtedly the
nation is going through a very hazardous era in recent years with many
unexplained
And unproven
shootings of people for whatever reasons and now the nation is under the spell
of gangsterism so much so that the Police is going all out suddenly to war
against the gangsters and secret societies under operation code-named Ops
Cantas Khas (Operation against terrorists).
While many were
worried in the formative years of the early 1960s about the regional giants
namely Indonesia and Philippines so much so that Sabah was pushed into the
formation of Malaysia which happened 50 years ago on 16th of September,
1963, the recent few decades of ironic developments by giving citizenships to
1-2 millions unqualified foreigners including illegal aliens entering Sabah
coaxed by the several generations of socalled Sabah leaders and national
leaders is actually handing over the sovereignty and integrity of Sabah as well
as Malaysia into the hands of these foreigners beyond belief.
So for Sabah,
it is neither here nor there as far as sovereignty, security and justice is
concerned as the Federal policies are dicing with sort of unjustified apartheid
and denied ethnic cleansing.
With the
initiated Royal Commission of Inquiry on Illegal Immigrants Sabah (RCIIIS) and
hearings in the High Court at Kota Kinabalu started on 14th of
January, 2013 and soon ending on 20th of September, 2013, much hope
for the TRUTH was dashed when the ex
Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir testified in the Commission’s hearing on 11th
of September, 2013 denied everything about the Project IC and Project
Mahathir. It is indeed a great
disappointment for the GOLDEN jubilee normally a year of change for the
better. Hopefully, the ex Deputy Prime
Minister Anwar Ibrahim would put the record straight on the very important
matter on 19th of September, 2013 when he would appear before the RCIIIS.
The fact that the RCIIIS conducted in the jubilee year is already sort
of blessing for corrective measures in Sabah and Malaysia
for the first official Federal initiated RCI happening in Sabah. Let the Jubilee ‘joy’ be ‘ruined’ or ‘burden’
not be made heavier by sort of distorted minds bent on lies and half truths. Let
the Project IC and Project Mahathir be shined out into the TRUTH now without
any further delay.
Let this
message be to all Malaysians in Sabah, Sarawak, Peninsula Malaysia, Labuan
and beyond.
Malaysia has a whole host of issues without any
solution even after 50 years and such issues are endless with matching endless
possibilities. That is the real
challenge for all Malaysians.
For Sabah in
particular, the problems can be attributable to national policies bias against
Sabah and Sarawak right from the day of 16th
of September, 1963 resulting in lopsidedness in everything you can name. There are many reasons for this malaise in
Sabah, Sarawak and Peninsular Malaysia but one
key reason is that all key leaders must be born locally and not naturalized
citizens according to the Constitution. Would
all living present and past leaders present their birth certificates and also
DNA for public exhibits? Those dead past
leaders should have the birth certificates in the Archive. Like a rotten fish, the head rots first and
such impacts are relevant to Governance.
Economy is
another area to be addressed nationwide but what can anyone deal with a
scenario of near bankruptcy for various past developments as follows:-
- We know who have ‘stolen’ so much money in Malaysia and siphoned off in 23 years of rule when I calculate the figure in excess of RM400billions. This robbery is also continued by the subsequent leaders.
- The confirmed failure of very costly program of New Economic Policy and the distorted results by several billionaires being proxies for the corrupted leaders hence distorted the racial distribution of wealth.
- Our economy has been resources based and excessive lopsided exploitation resulted in irreversible re-structuring of the economy in a competitive world when value of our resources had been artificially low.
- All development plans had been mismanaged with large junks of financial resources diminished by official corruption.
- With so much official corruption albeit denied, there is really no real business that can generate the desired growth to feed the increasing population including massive aliens in Sabah and beyond.
On the wee
hours of the day after polling on 5th May, 2013 being the General
Election 13, Najib asked “what the Chinese want?” The question was met with a ‘firestorm’ from
some quarters. Why did not he ask “What
the Malay want?” when BN/UMNO did not win the majority votes from all races of Malaysia
including the Malays has also forsaken BN/UMNO to a certain degree. Before the dust has really settled in
September, 2013 Najib faced with a daunting task to retain UMNO’s leadership
decided to ‘reward’ the Malays and the Bumiputra another sort of economic ‘bailout’ on the eve of the Golden anniversary
of Malaysia. Is this what the Malays and the Bumiputra
really want? Isn’t this another
extension of the ‘walking stick’ when the last one since 1970 is so easily
forgotten like Dr Mahathir once said “Malays forgets easily”. Are they getting a Golden walking stick or
only some would exploit this new measure again to enrich themselves at the
expense of the poor and desperate when we know such well intended effort would
not reach the target groups in the remote areas?
The world is
going through a very difficult time and Malaysia is no exception. Is there really any solution to the global
malaise? Would ‘humbleness’ alone be an ingredient towards solution soon? Would we like to define ‘humbleness’ if this effort
can bring about some changes especially in the elite factions in Malaysia? Before any ‘humbleness’ can impact society,
the massive ill gotten gains must be returned to the public domain for a
rejuvenation and invigoration of the nation and its society.
No matter what,
let us celebrate the GOLDEN Jubilee of Malaysia and lets pray for a new
beginning in the nation.
Lets break the
chain of the past and the people are set free, and really free to move forward
for a better tomorrow.
VERY HAPPY MALAYSIA DAY
2013.
Joshua Kong
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