Yes, he is angry. Yes, he never agreed to party hopping. Yes, he is against PAS’s Islamic State and Hudud agenda. 

Will The Real Karpal Please Shut Up

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After a defeat in Permatang Pauh and Kuala Terengganu, he needed something strong to show to the UMNO warlords and its members that he is no weak leader. The Prime Minister in-waiting needed to tell his people that, he is strong, capable and not a wimp. And the UMNO warlords are happy that they have someone who can stand up to Anwar’s onslaught and grind his plans to a halt with the saga in Perak. 

This is one man who is both smart and evil in the same time. His rule and grip on the ountry and its institutions would be far reaching and perhaps far worse than Mahathir’s years.

BN is a Four Letter Word

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Fresh polls for the state of Perak will have a huge impact on Najib as he is now the Perak State liaison chairman for BN. He has already suffered from two by-election losses. A loss of a state would only mean that he and BN/UMNO are rejected by the people.

Call In Fresh Polls for Perak

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As an indirect result of the striking of UMNO as an unlawful society and the confrontation between the government and the judiciary, a judicial crisis sparked off later that year. The then Lord President, Tun Salleh Abbas was sacked and several high court judges were transferred to other divisions. This brought a wrath of criticism against Mahathir as it was seen that the judiciary was no longer an independent institution as enshrined in the constitution but became part of the government machinery.
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The extravagant loss for BN was attributed to Abdullah’s weak leadership, his flip-flop, indecisive, and slow reaction attitude towards decision making, scraping of many mega-projects among them the crooked bridge and the double railway tracking project, failure to deliver his promises of reforms and weed out graft and corruption, increased racial sentiments, UMNO becoming more arrogant and racist, the gagging of the media, the involvement of his son and son-in-law in the distribution of wealth and projects to their cronies, increase in petrol prices and the cost of living, mismanagement of the economy, wasteful spending of tax payer’s money and a decrease in business competitiveness. Read the rest of this entry »

Home Minister, Syed Hamid Syed Albar said that Tan was detained because her life was in danger. If so, why was Anwar Ibrahim not detained under the ISA when he sought protection in the Turkish embassy when he claimed that his life was threatened. Why did the police not detain Saiful Bukhari Azlan under the ISA for his life was also threatened when he reported of being sodomized by Anwar. Why was PI Bala not detained under the ISA when he claimed that he and his family was under threat after making a statutory declaration of Najib’s involvement in the Altantuya case? Till today, there is no news of him or his whereabouts.

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