The Real Election Commission

Learn from the exemplary all-powerful EC of India
June 21, 2011

Those of you familiar with Indian politics and have been to Chennai during the April 13 election would have noticed the conspicuous absence of posters, banners, hoardings in the city, even though campaigning was at its peak for in Tamil Nadu.
This is in a stark contrast to its past elections. Tamil Nadu used to be known for its dominating, life-sized cut outs of political personalities dotting the landscape at poll time. The 2011 election campaign has done away with all that, thanks to the tough stand adopted by the Election Commission of India.
The distinguished Shahabuddin Yaqoob Quraishi, the chief election commissioner, without mincing his words, called Tamil Nadu the most challenging of all elections. Even before the polls began to the five state assemblies, he felt that not only “violence” would pose a big challenge in West Bengal and in Tamil Nadu, it would also be money politics.But I was informed by many distinguished members of civil society that the April 13 election was in all aspects an Election Commission’s election, not one of Dravidian parties.
The EC was fiercely independent, accountable, professional and had a dedicated yearning to promote free and fair elections in the world’s largest democracy. They were not pussies pretending to be Tigers or proxies and cronies of incumbents and on the take.Election rulings pertaining even to posters were strictly enforced, what more other fundamental issues to ensure fair and free elections.
The EC seized millions in cash after putting in place ‘flying squads’ to address corruption and abuse whenever a tip-off from the members of the public came in.Well-connected politicians became so rattled by the EC’s tough standthat the chief minister publicly attacking the EC for declaring what he termed as a “mini emergency” in the state.
When Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee was in Chennai to release the Congress party’s manifesto, he skirted around the controversy by saying that he did not want to comment on the functioning of the Election Commission, mandated by the Constitution to conduct free and fair elections.That statement in itself was a powerful message of things that were to come and the change taking place for free and fair elections in the various states of India. An ordinary Inspector of Police stopped the convoy of GK Vasan, senior Congress leader in Dindigul, because there were more than the permitted four cars in the convoy.
The said Inspector who stopped the Congress convoy said he would have to be answerable to the EC if he allowed them more than the allotted number of cars in a convoy. It showed how seriously the State Electoral Officer, Praveen Kumar and his team, were taking to their jobs without fear or favour.The EC’s fearlessness and heroic stories of ordinary officials doing their duty at considerable risk is admirable. Another story was in Tiruchy, where a woman official, a revenue division officer, equivalent to a sub divisional magistrate in the north on her first posting, had received a call in the dead of night, informing her of money being transported in a bus.
She immediately set out with her driver and office boy, picking up a couple of police inspectors on the way, and confiscated Rs 5 crores found in five bags on top of the bus. Voters were encouraged by the fact that the EC had got its act together even before the notification of elections.In Madurai, a stronghold of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Karunanidhi’s son, MK Azhagiri, the EC transferred four collectors and six police officials, among whom was superintendent of police. The new collector did not think twice about entering the house of Azhagiri’s lieutenants and checking on complaints filed against them.
The result – massive landslide victories all over and in Tamil Nadu.

New Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, J Jayalalitha, ascribed her party’s decisive victory in the polls to the people’s anger against the DMK regime and the EC for its fantastic job in ensuring a free and fair polls.
In West Bengal, former Union Rail Minister, the fiery no-nonsense Mamata Banerjee won a landslide as well, and in Kerala another great result.
Kerala’s ousted chief minister was reported to have left on a bicycle refusing to use the official car for the drive home and agreeing to pay for whatever phone bill he had incurred during his tenure, from his pension.
Talk about politics of accountability!
Just imagine what the world of politics would be IF only ECs in different jurisdictions had the religious and mental courage to do the same rather than continuing to betray voters in return for various forms of gratuitous rewards and payments.

Now we know why Bersih 2.0 is so important! Please make an appointment on 9th of July wherever you are.

Sex Slaves..thats right

Don't get me wrong, read this article in on-line [portal that a Kuwaiti women is proposing sex slaves, thats right sex slaves! Enjoy reading.

(Mail Online) - A Kuwaiti woman who once ran for parliament has called for sex slavery to be legalised - and suggested that non-Muslim prisoners from war-torn countries would make suitable concubines.
Salwa al Mutairi argued buying a sex-slave would protect decent, devout and 'virile' Kuwaiti men from adultery because buying an imported sex partner would be tantamount to marriage. And she even had an idea of where to 'purchase' these sex-salves - browsing through female prisoners of war in other countries. Mutairi claimed: 'There was no shame in it and it is not haram' (forbidden) under Islamic Sharia law.' She gave the example of Haroun al-Rashid, an 8th century Muslim leader who ruled over an area covered by modern-day Iran, Iraq and Syria and was rumoured to have 2,000 concubines.
Mutairi recommended that offices could be opened to run the sex trade in the same way that recruitment agencies provide housemaids. She suggested shopping for prisoners of war so as to protect Kuwaiti men from being tempted to commit adultery or being seduced by other women's beauty. 'For example, in the Chechnyan war, surely there are female Russian captives,' she said. 'So go and buy those and sell them here in Kuwait. Better than to have our men engage in forbidden sexual relations.'
Her unbelievable argument for her plan was that ‘captives’ might 'just die of hunger over there'. She insisted, 'I don’t see any problem in this, no problem at all'.
There you go, its allowed in the religion!

Islamization and Lazy Government Servants

The below article appreared in Malaysia Today, interesting yet disturbing!

By Saravanan
This could help Malaysian non Muslims to better understand the body snatching issue. The birth cert attached with this posting is my own Birth cert. It was extracted in December 2010 when I went to the Wilayah Persekutuan Registration office to get my new Birth certificate for purposes of applications overseas. When I received the certificate, I was shocked because of missing and also incorrect information as follows:
1.My religion was not stated
2.My Father´s age was stated as -nil-
3.My father´s religion as stated was not available
4.My Mother´s citizenship was stated as non citizen
5.My Mother´s status of residence stated as Permanent Resident
6.My Mother´s religion - Information is not available was stated

I asked the officer in the department why my religion was not stated. She said it would only be stated as Islam for Malays. When I asked her about my religion, she said normally they would not write it. So I asked her for a letter saying that she would not write my religion in my birth certificate. She hesitated and asked me to wait and called her higher officer.Both refused to change the mistakes in my Birth certificate.Despite my objections, they asked me to go to Putrajaya. There, they asked me to show proof of my faith in a particular religion. Where does this end then? In this technological era, they can't event amend the errors in my birth certificate.
Let us see what is wrong with it. My religion is Hindu. Indians are normally Hindus unless they converted to Islam or Christianity. How stupid they are when they can bravely write that my religion is not available!
When I was born definitely my father would have been of a particular age. It is the duty of the officer to write it clearly. Even if they missed that, they can still amend it now if they want to do so. My father´s religion was also not stated. Do they think we don't have a religion? It appears that it is easy to make changes according to their will.
It is clearly a lie to staye that my mother is not citizen. My father who born in Malaysia in 1940's is a Malaysian citizen but my mother who born in mid 1950s is not regarded as a citizen. What a big joke of Boleh Land! My mother´s status of residence stated she is a permanent residence whereas she has a citizenship earlier. All those lazy guys who work in the registration department should be replaced with hard working staff. My mother´s religion is stated as not available. Why?
This is not a joke but a serious matter. Remember - if important information are not filled in properly, they can manipulate it when i die by stating I was a Muslim. It is possible. If some professional can copy my signature and sign it in the conversion paper, I will be definitely be regarded as a Muslim.
With this, they can snatch my body after my death. It is possible.
Please recheck your birth certificate and identity card for the assurance so that they dont take away your body when you die. The registration department is responsible for my predicament because of their laziness and carelessness when undertaking their duties.
There is only one religion in this country, Islam!

Ringgit Malaysia is losing fast

Recently i visited Thailand and shocked to find out that our currency is lower in value than Thai Baht. We use to get good exchange rate that makes our purchases worthy but now we need to think twice about spending overseas. I did not have any data to back my claims but today an article in Malaysian Insider proved my point. Malaysian currency sucks!Tks to Mahathir,Pak Lah and Najib's leadership.

The Malaysian Insider, an online Malaysian news website, examined the purchasing power of Malaysians in comparison to nationals of other countries. The website cited a 2010 Prices and Wages report by UBS AG, a Swiss banking giant.
Here are the highlights:
The purchasing power of KL residents is 33.8% of New Yorkers; 42% compared to London, 33.7% to Sydney, 32.6% to Los Angeles, and 31.6% to Zurich.
KL workers need to labour 22 minutes for a bread loaf. In comparison, Los Angeles counterparts take 18 minutes. In Sydney, it's 16 minutes. In Tokyo, 15 minutes. In Zurich, 12 minutes.
The Malaysian Insider also compared broadband prices in Malaysia to those in countries. Even after currency conversion, Malaysia comes out on top... in expensiveness. Here's the summary:
Kuala Lumpur - 5Mbps broadband package - RM149
London - 10Mbps broadband package - GBP13.50
Melbourne - 5-8Mbps broadband package - AUD40
New York - 7Mbps broadband package - USD41.95
Here's another tidbit from The Malaysian Insider article:
In KL, a Honda Civic is priced at RM115,000 - 20 times an auditor's average monthly earnings.
In Melbourne & London, the price is respectively AUD25,000 and GBP19,000 - 3 times an auditor's average monthly earnings in those places.
People what else do you need to throw out this BN?

Understanding Islam thorough Sufism

I read this interesting article by MAGICK RIVER which made me understand Islam better compared to what I hear and see in Malaysia.
Many years ago I met a Sufi master whose profound understanding of Islam truly impressed me.But before I continue with this story, let me state that almost all the Muslims with whom I have had close friendships have either been Sufis - or were gravitating towards a mystical interpretation of Islam. The mystical approach is experiential and private; whereas ritualistic religion is regulated by public behavior and therefore tends to be tribalistic in nature.
I find it impossible to have an intelligent conversation with fundamentalists of any persuasion - whether Muslim, Christian or whatever. This is because fundamentalism is antagonistic to intelligence. Wherever violence erupts over religious differences, fundamentalism is invariably the root cause. Brawn and brute force override brain and heart when independent thinking is suppressed.Looking up the word "fundamentalism" in my trusty digital dictionary, I found this concise summary:
"Islamic fundamentalism appeared in the 18th and 19th centuries as a reaction to the disintegration of Islamic political and economic power, asserting that Islam is central to both state and society and advocating strict adherence to the Koran (Qur'an) and to Islamic law (sharia), supported if need be by jihad or holy war."
There you have it. Fundamentalism is basically an outward manifestation of ego insecurity. An entire tribe or nation can suffer from ego insecurity and seek refuge in hardline dogmatism and fanaticism. You could say it's a pathological condition and, as such, can be quite easily cured - once the hidden hand behind the reactionary forces is revealed and surgically amputated.
In every case you will find that the chief puppetmaster isn't even a believer. He cynically exploits the gullibility of the mindless mob and manipulates its collective pain-body through control of the mass media and law enforcement. Coming back to my Sufi friend who enlightened me about the essence of Islam. He pointed out the significance of a triconsonantal syllable in Arabic and Hebrew which expresses peace, harmony and wholeness: the Arabic SaLaM and Hebraic ShaLoM are the commonest embodiments of this key to being truly muSLiM.Sin-Lam-Mim (Arabic: س ل م‎ S-L-M; Hebrew: שלם‎ Š-L-M) is the triconsonantal root of many Semitic words, and many of those words are used as names. The root itself translates as "whole, safe, intact."
Note that this triconsonantal syllable forms the root of the words "Islam" and "Muslim." This places the frequency of peace, harmony and wholeness at the very core of Islam and any sentient being that consciously aspires towards attunement and harmonization with the Whole of Existence is intrinsically Muslim.My learned friend explained that the word, written as Al-Lah means The Great Void - or The Nothingness from which Everything was born. In other words, Source.

To read more: http://magickriver.blogspot.com/2011/04/yay-ive-converted-to-islam-now-can-i-be.html

Go Sami Go

KUALA LUMPUR, April 7: The Malaysian Insider — Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu earns just over RM27,000 per month plus allowances as special envoy for infrastructure to India and South Asia, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) disclosed today. In a written reply to Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng, the PMO said the former works minister is paid RM27,227.20 to help Malaysian construction firms break into the South Asian market.In addition to that, the government gives Samy Vellu “conveniences and other allowances” in line with his status as special envoy, which carries with it a ministerial rank.He also has a staff of six and works from the special envoy’s office in Plaza Sentral, Kuala Lumpur.
wow, what a life for Samy! Way to go Samy, PM ada kerja kosongkah?

Malaysian Indians Worth

I was shocked to hear in the radio of "An evening with the premier and the first lady of Malaysia" and they are saying that free food, goodies, lucky draw,entertainment with a grand prize motorcycle for the lucky winner!wow what a deal for the Indians just throw them free food and entertainment.that's good enough to garner their vote anyway this is what BN is thinking! Don't the Indians have any pride, how low would they stoop to sell their pride, shouldn't they be boycotting such programs which implies that they cheap? Have they forgotten of 2007 incident when thousands of them were treated like animals by the BN government and the many deaths in police custody or the latest interlok issue. The government has always paid lip service to the Indian community and when they throw a piece of bone with little meat they go running to BN. When will they ever change and take some pride in how they could make this country a better place for all of us.Think lah!