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UMNO SEMAKIN HILANG PUNCA, SAAT TERBAIK TAWAN PUTRAJAYA

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 01:16 PM PDT

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UMNO kini terumbang-ambing untuk mencari isu baru yang boleh digunakan bagi memburukkan imej PR. Setakat ini kesemua isu yang dibawa oleh Umno gagal samasekali dan kebanyakannya memakan diri sendiri. PRU ke 13 nanti, satu-satunya PRU yang paling selesa untuk PR menguburkan Umno/Bn dan kita hanya perlu bekerja lebih kuat lagi agar segala maklumat dan tipu daya mereka disampaikan kepada seluruh rakyat.

Umno cuba bermain dengan isu JAIS memasuki gereja kononnya untuk menggambarkan Kerajaan PR Selangor di bawah PKR gagal tangani isu murtad. Apabila Kerajaan Negeri Selangor bertindak pantas dengan menyerahkan siasatan kes ini kepada JAIS dan tidak melatah dengan mainan politik Umno, maka gagal lagi helah parti sekular ini. Kerajaan Negeri Selangor merujuk isu ini kepada Sultan Selangor selaku Ketua Agama, dan dibentuk pula Majlis Syura yang melibatkan Mufti Selangor, maka bertambah kecewa Umno untuk terus bermain dengan isu yang dianggap kontroversi ini.

Tindakan bijak PAS yang tidak terperangkap dengan helah Umno untuk memecahbelahkan hubungan di antara Exco Agama Dr Hassan Ali dengan pimpinan PAS serta Kerajaan Negeri Selangor tentunya mengecewakan Umno. Akhirnya isu ini menjadi basi dan tidak lagi sehangat awalnya. Apa yang timbul, Umno dipersalahkan kerana lebih 50 tahun mereka memerintah negara ini namun parti ini tidak pernah serius dengan gejala murtad. Tidak kurang dari dua atau tiga kali PAS pernah usulkan di Parlimen agar Undang-Undang Murtad ini dipinda, namun Umno tidak pernah peka dan sensitif. Sekarang, Umno cuba untuk menjadi hero membela Islam kononnya.

Timbul pula isu melarang penggunaan pembesar suara sewaktu membaca Al-Quran diwaktu Subuh di P.Pinang. Umno terus menonjolkan diri untuk menjadi juara membela Islam di P.Pinang pula. Zahid Hamidi secara tiba-tiba bersuara di dalam hal ini dengan menggunakan akalnya yang cetek di dalam membicarakan soal hukum agama. Beliau mahu menunjukkan kehebatannya dalam aspek hukum mengatasi Majlis Fatwa P.Pinang. Perangkap tidak menjadi, rupa-rupanya larangan tersebut telah lama dikuatkuasakan di Perlis sebuah negeri di bawah Umno. Gagal lagi Umno di dalam isu ini.

Jelas, Umno semakin terdesak tambahan pula apa yang mereka cuba rahsiakan selama ini terbongkar. Skandal SPR dan JPN ternyata meresahkan Umno kerana kesemua bukti yang didedahkan oleh PR tentang salah laku dan ketidak kecekapan badan ini amat sukar ditangkis lagi. Najib akhirnya terpaksa akut untuk menubuhkan Jawatankuasa Khas di Parlimen untuk menangani isu yang sudah terbongkar ini. Namun, putar belit Najib terserlah apabila menyebut PRU akan diadakan tanpa mengira apa jua yang dilakukan oleh Jawatankuasa Khas ini nanti. Ertinya, Jawatankuasa Khas yang ingin ditubuhkan tersebut hanya topeng semata-mata untuk meredakan tekanan yang dihadapi oleh SPR dan JPN.

Harus kita ingat, tiada apa lagi yang boleh kita percaya dari mulut Najib. Kita harus fokus untuk terus bekerja kuat meyakini rakyat bahawa negara ini lebih selamat jika Umno/Bn dapat disingkirkan dari Putrajaya. Inilah saat paling baik buat PR, dan jangan lepaskan peluang ini. Jangan benarkan Umno bernafas walaupun sesaat./wfauzdin.blogspot.com

WAJAH SEBENAR `HERO KAMPONG ORI' PENCACAI UMPORNO YANG SUDAH KANTOI.....

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 09:11 AM PDT

Wajah sebenar Hero Kampong Ori, Pencacai Umporno di dalam Face Book....ensem tak?

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KALI ini aku nak promote sikit seorang jejaka tampan yang menggunakan nama di dalam Face Book sebagai `Hero Kampong Ori'. Budak tidak cukup akal ini sering masuk ke dalam FB dan kerjanya tidak lain dan tidak bukan menghentam Pembangkang terutamanya PAS.

Dia pernah minta masuk jadi member kat FB aku kununnya mahu berhujah, aku pun terima je la dia masuk sebab aku memang suka berhujah dengan puak-puak Umporno ni apatah lagi dengan budak tidak cukup akal macam dia ni. Bila dia masuk FB aku dia bukan nak berhujah tetapi dia nak cemarkan FB aku dengan gambar-gambar lucah yang dia tagg kat Wall aku. Aku pun remove dia dari jadi member. Rupa-rupanya dia sempat curi foto aku, kemudian dia guna foto aku pada profile dia. Mana-mana dia masuk FB, dia akan menjadi pencacai atau pelacur Umporno dengan menggunakan foto aku.
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Mengapa dia tidak berani tunjukkan wajahnya yang sebenar? Mengapa dia guna foto orang lain. Rupa-rupanya dia pemalu orangnya takut dia dikenali dan akan ramai peminat pasal dia ni hensem orangnya. Aku rasa bertanggungjawab untuk perkenalkan wajah sebenar budak yang terencat akal ini.

Setelah ramai yang mula mengenali wajah sebenar beliau, maka beliau menjadi glamour sekarang. Lihat saja komen-komen dari rakan-rakan di FB di sini ---> http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=208908865829151&set=a.155628577823847.50220.100001301176721&type=1&theater

SAIFUL BERBOHONG - ANWAR

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 02:09 AM PDT

Anwar Kemuka Bukti Dakwaan Saiful Palsu, Jalin Hubungan Dengan Umno

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Ketua Pembangkang, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim mengemukakan bukti bahawa tuduhan pengadu Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan terhadapnya, adalah palsu dan berniat jahat.

Anwar berkata Saiful merupakan seorang lelaki berusia awal 20-an dengan berketinggian "enam kaki" dan mantap secara fizikal, mempunyai hubungan dengan ahli-ahli politik dan pegawai kanan polis.

Malah katanya, Saiful juga bekas pelajar yang mempunyai hubungan dengan Umno dan menyertai pelbagai latihan kendalian Biro Tata Negara, agensi di bawah Jabatan Perdana Menteri.

"Dan di sini, saya seorang lelaki berusia 60 tahun dengan ada sejarah sakit belakang, yang telah menjalani pembedahan besar dan tidak memiliki sebarang kuasa.

"Jika saya telah menggunakan sebarang bentuk pengaruh atau tekanan mental ke atas dia, ini boleh dengan mudah dineutralkan dengan membuat satu panggilan segera kepada pihak-pihak yang ada hubungannya," kata Anwar ketika memberi keterangan dari saksi tertuduh di Mahkamah Tinggi Kuala Lumpur.

Anwar juga berkata, mengikut keterangan pengadu dia tiba di Kondominium Desa Damansara pada pukul 2.45 petang, 28 Julai 2008 untuk membincangkan perkara berkaitan kerja.

Beliau menambah, pada peringkat itu, Saiful sepatutnya telah melarikan diri, namun tidak berbuat demikian atas alasan takut.

"Dia tidak berbuat demikian. Keterangan lain berhubung perkara ini dengan jelas menunjukkan bahawa pengadu mempunyai segala peluang untuk keluar (dari kondominimum), tetapi dia tidak melakukannya," kata beliau lagi.

Menurut Anwar alasan Saiful bahawa dia diselubungi ketakutan adalah bercanggah dengan fakta kes tersebut,

Anwar seterusnya berkata ketika disoal balas, Saiful mengakui bahawa dia telah membeli bahan pelincir dan secara sukarela telah mengenakannya serta mendakwa hubungan seks telah berlaku dan ia "sesuatu yang menyakitkan."

"Bagaimanapun, sangat jelas tiada bukti perubatan wujudnya kesan penembusan atau koyakan. Selepas hubungan (seks) yang didakwa berlaku, dia minum dan berbual mesra dengan saya.

"Pengadu tidak cuba mendapatkan pemeriksaan perubatan dengan segera. Sebaliknya, dia menghadiri satu majlis PKR pada keesokan hari," kata Anwar.

"Pada sebelah petang, dia mengambil bahagian dalam satu mesyuarat Kelab Anwar Ibrahim di rumah saya tanpa menunjukkan sebarang tanda emosi atau ketidakselesaan fizikal, malah trauma," kata Anwar lagi.

"Sikapnya seara total tidak konsisten dengan dakwaan bahawa dia telah dikasari," tambah beliau.

Anwar juga berkata, Saiful tidak terus membuat laporan polis dan membuat laporan perubatan dengan segera, sebaliknya mengadakan pertemuan dengan Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak dan isterinya Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor.

Selain itu, Saiful juga dengan Tan Sri Musa Hassan, Ketua Polis Negara ketika itu dan mengadakan pertemuan dengan Datuk Mohd Rodhwan Mohd Yusof, bekas ketua polis Melaka, di sebuah hotel dua hari sebelum kejadian didakwa berlaku.

Najib merupakan timbalan perdana menteri ketika itu.

"Oleh itu adalah jelas daripada bukti itu bahawa pengadu telah berbohong meskipun Yang Arif (Hakim) memutuskan bahawa dia seorang saksi yang benar," katanya.

Cursing Malay : Terus Terang

Cursing Malay : Terus Terang


Cerpen 14 : Kasih Bapa

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 06:12 PM PDT

"ABAH JAHAT! TAK SUKA SAMA ABAH!"

Meor mula panik melihat anaknya, Shahrul Anwar atau nama manjanya Shai mengamuk-ngamuk. Isteri Meor,Anissa mula menjeling suaminya.

"Abang ni...apa la salahnya belikan aje barang permainan tu dekat dia...bukannya mahal sangat pun.." Anissa mengomel.Meor hanya mampu buat muka bersalah. "Gila ke apa permainan robot Transformers buruk macam tu pun RM70? Daripada saya spend RM70 baik saya bawak awak dengan Shai gi makan KFC. Dua tiga kali tau kita boleh makan.."

Anissa mencangkung lalu mengelap tangisan di mata anaknya."Dah..dah...tak mau nangis lagi...Shai kuat kan?Shai hensem kan?"

Shai mula senyum dipujuk ibunya lalu tangan dihulur untuk didukung ibunya. Meor pun pergi ke tepi Anissa lalu menghulurkan tangannya untuk mendukung Shai.

Bibir Shai mencebik.

"Tak adil la Shai buat abah camni.." pujuk Meor kepada anaknya. "Dah..dah..nanti mama belikan...takmau nangis lagi dah ye?Ramai orang ni..." Anissa senyum memandang anaknya. Meor hanya mampu sengih-sengih memandang isterinya.

Mereka sekeluarga keluar daripada kompleks beli belah itu lalu terus menuju ke bazar Ramadhan yang berdekatan. Shai mula girang apabila sedar mereka menuju ke sana.

"Shai sayang abah tak ni?Ni abah nak bawak Shai gi beli ayam percik yang Shai suka tu?" Meor memandang ke kerusi belakang,melihat imbasan anaknya di cermin pandang belakang kereta.Shai hanya diam,masih merajuk agaknya.Anissa sedar perkara itu lalu dia menoleh ke belakang,"Shai..Shai..nak abah belikan ayam percik untuk Shai tak?"

Bibir Shai terjuih."Tak nak..nak mama belikan!" Tegas nadanya.Meor hanya mampu tersengih lagi.Mereka pun turun dari kereta lalu mula meneroka bazar Ramadhan yang agak panjang keluasannya.Orang pada ketika itu sudah mulai bertambah ramai dan nasib mereka baik, cuaca pada hari itu cerah.

" Mak..nak bunga api,boleh?" tanya Shai apabila melihat ada orang menjual bunga api.Anissa menggelengkan kepala."Tak boleh sayang...bahaya main dengan api ni..terbakar rumah karang..."

"Tapi kawan-kawan Shai kat Tadika semua dah main bunga api..Shai sorang aje tak pernah main bunga api lagi..." Shai mula memujuk rayu. Anissa merenung anaknya,"Mama tak suka Shai main bunga api...nanti terbakar jari macam mana?Mama dengan abah tak nak tengok Shai terbakar nanti..."

Shai mencebik kembali selepas itu.

"Abang,saya gi beli kuih dekat sana kejap.Abang tengokkan Shai ye?" tanya Anissa.Meor angguk,"ye la..gi la tinggalkan kitorang kat sini.." gurau Meor.

"..tapi Shai nak ikut mama.." kata Shai sambil memegang tangan ibunya,pantas. Meor betul-betul buntu. Macam mana dia nak buat anak dia sukakan dia? Dia melangkah melintasi beberapa gerai dan kembali terpacak di depan penjual mercun dan bunga api tadi.

"Bang..bagi yang ni 2..bagi yang ni tiga..." Meor cepat-cepat membayar lalu disimpan plastik berisi bunga api ke dalam beg plastik lain lalu kembali semula ke tempat asal dia menunggu.Beberapa detik kemudian..Anissa dan Shai muncul sambil Shai sedang menghirup Air Batu Campur dari cawan plastik lutsinar.Meor teguk air liur apabila melihat betapa enaknya ABC anaknya.

"Apa la Shai ni..tak puasa.." tegur Meor.Shai tidak menghiraukan abahnya lalu terus memeluk kaki Anissa.

"Abang ni..toksah la sakat-sakat dia.." pinta Anissa.

....................

Malam itu,selepas berbuka puasa, Meor pun duduk mengadap TV untuk seketika.Berita dirasakan bosan kerana terlalu banyak propaganda untuk menaikkan imej sesetengah pemimpin.Dilihatnya Shai sedang duduk di meja makan sambil melukis-lukis sesuatu di atas kertas.

"Shai lukis apa tu?" tanyanya dengan suara buat-buat. Shai hanya diam dan terus melukis."Shai..Shai..." panggil Meor. Anaknya tidak menghiraukannya.

"Shai..Shai...abah ada beli bunga api untuk Shai.." bisik Meor. Shai memandang abahnya,"Ye ke abah..jom main..jom main!"

"Jom!" Meor pun menjawab.Lega hati Meor apabila anaknya mahu bercakap dengannya kembali.

"Ye ye!Ye ye!"Jerit Shai sambil memusingkan bunga api.Tiba-tiba muncul Anissa di pintu."Abang..ni bila masa abang beli ni?" tanya Anissa dengan nada geram."Tadi,masa tunggu awak tu.." jawab Meor.

"Bahaya tau bang!" Anissa melenting.

"Alah...bunga api dengan mercun roket aje..." jawab Meor.Anissa malas nak berperang mulut kembali menutup pintu. Meor sengih panjang."Kali ni abah menang pulak!Hihihi!"

"Abah..abah..ni apa ni?" tanya Shai sambil memegang sebatang mercun roket."Ni nama dia mercun roket!" kata Meor."Yang ni,biar abah buatkan.." Meor lalu mengambil sebiji botol lalu meletakkan mercun roket itu ke dalam botol.

Sumbu dinyalakan dan zuuuuussssss...mercun roket itu terbang pergi..

....ke arah rumah jirannya.
Tepat mengena ke ampaian baju yang penuh dengan pakaian disidai.

"BOOM!" Mercun itu meletup.

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Keesokannya...Meor terpaksa keluar duit lagi untuk menggantikan sehelai baju jirannya yang rosak terkena mercun roket. Kopak RM60. "Kalau aku tau...baik aku beli Transformers tu..." fikir Meor apabila pulang ke rumah selepas puas memohon maaf kepada jirannya. Sampai saja,Anissa sudah menunggu di muka pintu.

"Sori yang...." kata Meor sambil tersengih. Shai sedang duduk leka di depan TV dengan permainan Transformers yang baru dibeli mamanya hanya memandang abahnya dengan perasaan tidak berminat.

WARTAWAN RASMI LAMAN REFORMASI

WARTAWAN RASMI LAMAN REFORMASI


Fitnah Liwat II : Najib dan Isteri Disepina

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 06:26 PM PDT



KUALA LUMPUR 22 OGOS : Pasukan peguambela perbicaraan kes fitnah liwat II terhadap Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim mengambil keputusan mengemukakan notis sepina kepada tujuh orang saksi termasuk Perdana Menteri Najib Razak dan isterinya, Rosmah Mansor.

Antara lain termasuk bekas Ketua Polis Negara, Tan Sri Musa Hassan dan bekas Ketua Polis Melaka, Mohd Rodhwan Mohd Yusof.

Peguambela Karpal Singh memaklumkan kepada media bahawa perintah mahkamah itu telah dikeluarkan Jumaat lalu.

Katanya pihaknya turut memohon sepina dikeluarkan kepada doktor Hospital Pusrawi, Dr Mohamad Osman Abdul Hamid, jururawat Yazihan Jusoh dan seorang pembantu rumah dari Indonesia yang dikenali sebagai 'Suliati'.

Najib dan Rosmah sebelum ini hadir ke Mahkamah Tinggi Kuala Lumpur untuk ditemuramah pasukan pegumabela.

Pada sesi tersebut mereka menyatakan keengganan untuk memberi keterangan sebagai saksi dan perkara yang sama dilakukan oleh Musa dan Mohd Rodwan.

Karpal yakin kesemua mereka akan hadir ke mahkamah dan sekiranya enggan waran tangkap akan dikeluarkan terhadap mereka.

Sementara itu, Anwar menyatakan keputusannya untuk memberi keterangan dari kandang tertuduh adalah disebabkan ketidakyakinan beliau terhadap proses undang- undang akan berlangsung secara adil.

Katanya, integriti perbicaraan yang kini masuk ke peringkat membela diri masih dipertikaikan termasuk keputusan hakim Datuk Zabidin Mohd Diah yang sering dilihat mengabaikan prosiding mahkamah.
"Saya harap hakim mempertimbangkan kerana ianya kenyataan utama. Saya melihat tidak ada sebab untuk berserah kepada sistem melainkan dikeluarkan secara paksa.

"Pandangan saya pada prosiding mahkamah, konspirasi oleh Perdana Menteri dan isteri, bukti yang diubahsuai dan penaklukan media. Jadi ianya jelas merupakan kelemahan warganegara terhadap kuasa pemerintah," ujar beliau kepada media.

Pada tahun 1998, peguam Anwar pernah membuat cubaan untuk membawa Tun Mahathir Mohamed yang memegang jawatan sebagai perdana menteri pada ketika itu ke mahkamah untuk memberi keterangan.

Walau bagaimanapun permintaan tersebut diketepikan oleh hakim sendiri dengan alasan bahawa Mahathir bukan seorang saksi yang penting.

Dalam pada itu, Pakar forensik dan ahli patologi, Dr David Wells dan pakar DNA, Dr Brian Mc Donald akan mengambil tempat di kandang saksi esok, memberi keterangan diikuti dengan doktor Hospital Pusrawi, Mohd Osman Abdul Hamid.

Mahkamah bersambung jam 9 pagi ini.


Chegubard : Tidak Sedia Jadi Calon, Khairy Pengecut

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 01:28 AM PDT




SHAH ALAM 22 OGOS : Tindakan Ketua Pergerakan Pemuda Umno Khairy Jamaluddin menyatakan kesedianya menerima keputusan kepimpinan untuk tidak meletakkannya sebagai calon pada pilihan raya umum akan datang jika bukan dianggap calon boleh menang disifatkan sebagai tidak wajar.

Ketua Cabang PKR Rembau, Badrul Hisham Shaharin berkata, ini kerana apa yang dilakukan Khairy adalah amalan lazim dalam parti Umno yang tidak memahami demokrasi dan kehendak rakyat sebenar.

"Sebenarnya mereka tidak memahami demokrasi dan kehendak rakyat, seharusnya selaku ketua Pemuda Umno dan bertaraf Naib Presiden Umno, Khairy sepatutnya menunjukkan sikap bahawa Umno itu menghormati demokrasi akar umbi"katanya memberitahu Tv Selangor.

Menurut Badrul atau lebih dikenali sebagai Chegubard, Khairy sepatutunya yakin dengan kuasa akar umbi dalam menentukan dirinya kekal bertanding di kerusi Rembau dan bukannya membuat kenyataan akur dengan segala keputusan pucuk pimpinan sekaligus menafikan amalan demokrasi akar umbi.

"Dia (Khairy)tidak seharusnya menunjukkan sikap akur dengan teruja pada kedudukan presiden Umno dengan keadaan sedemikian rupa, sebaliknya dia harus memberi kenyataan bahawa dia yakin dengan jentera akar umbi di peringkat Rembau yang mahukan dia bertanding dengan khidmat yang dilakukan selama ini,"ujarnya.

Semalam, Ketua Pergerakan Pemuda Umno Khairy Jamaluddin berkata beliau sanggup menerima keputusan kepimpinan untuk tidak meletakkannya sebagai calon pada pilihan raya umum akan datang jika bukan dianggap calon boleh menang.

Beliau berkata keputusan mengenai calon terletak di tangan Presiden Umno merangkap Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak yang mempunyai kata putus berhubung siapa calon yang membolehkan Umno dan Barisan Nasional (BN) menang.

"Jika Presiden Umno memutuskan saya bukanlah calon yang boleh menang, saya terima keputusan itu," katanya kepada pemberita pada satu majlis di Kota Bharu malam tadi, lapor Bernama Online.

Mengulas lanjut perkara tersebut, Chegubard menjelaskan kenyataan seumpama itu adalah amalan lazim calon Umno dalam memastikan kedudukan mereka terus kekal walaupun menafikan hak akar umbi dalam sistem demokrasi yang sihat.

"Ini hanyalah pengulangan episod-episod lama yang mana kisahnya terpulang kepada presiden, "putih bagi presiden, putihlah kepada kami", hitam bagi presiden, hitamlah bagi kami", tetapi kepada rakyat apa jadi, kepada orang bawahan Umno apa jadi? Apa yang jelas pihak tertinggi tidak akan dengar dan peduli dengan suara mereka," jelasnya.

"Inilah yang pada akhirnya apabila selepas pilihanraya semua perkara adalah betul dan tidak boleh ditegur oleh akar umbi, saya lebih saya lebih suka menarik perhatian rakyat kearah itu daripada menyetuh isu polimik dalam Umno yang tidak pernah sudah da semakin meruncing sejak multakhir ini." tambahnya.

PR Adakan Mesyuarat Tergempar Bincang Ketidakikhlasan Najib

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 01:22 AM PDT



SHAH ALAM 22 OGOS : Satu perbincangan mengenai ketidakikhlasan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Razak dan Umno-Barisan Nasional (BN) melakukan reformasi sistem pilihanraya sebelum pilihan raya umum ke-13 akan diadakan pada Rabu ini.

Pakatan Rakyat membuat keputusan tersebut ekoran kenyataan perdana menteri bahawa pilihan raya umum boleh diadakan pada bila-bila masa dan ia tidak perlu menunggu keputusan jawatankuasa khas parlimen mengenai reformasi pilihan raya.

Ketua penerangan PAS, Datuk Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man berkata, PAS juga akan mengadakan mesyuarat khas bagi menimbang penyertaan dalam Jawatankuasa Khas Parlimen (PSC).

Katanya, ini kerana beliau berpendapat, ianya tidak membawa sebarang makna setelah perdana menteri membuat kenyataan sedemikian sambil menyuarakan kekesalan PAS.

"Kenyataan tersebut membuktikan sikap sebenar kerajaan terhadap tuntutan rakyat agar sistem pilihanraya yang bersih dan adil dapat diwujudkan, sebelum PRU akan datang.

"Tujuan utama Jawatankuasa Khas ini ialah merumus satu sistem pilihanraya yang adil dan bersih, setelah pelbagai kelemahan dibongkar.

"Apa guna dibentuk jawatankuasa Khas, sekiranya kerajaan sudah memberikan bayangan jelas bahawa pilihanraya umum akan diadakan sebelum jawatankuasa itu menyiapkan laporan dan sekaligus memberikan petanda yang jelas bahawa sememangnya kerajaan BN tidak bersedia untuk menerima dan memperbaiki kelemahan yang ada," katanya dalam satu kenyataan semalam.

Menurut Tuan Ibrahim, adalah mustahak bagi rakyat bahawa inisiatif mengatasi kelemahan dan hilangnya keyakinan mereka terhadap sistem pilihanraya yang ada kini diperbetulkan terlebih dahulu supaya satu perjalanan sistem pilihanraya yang bersih dan adil di Malaysia dapat dijalankan.

"Sekiranya tidak, apa gunanya rakyat mengundi sekiranya keputusan pilihanraya bukan keputusan yang membayangkan hasrat mereka sebenar di akar umbi, tetapi hasrat pengundi hantu dan warga asing yang berlambak untuk memenangkan calon parti tertentu," tambahnya.

Tegasnya, kerajaan harus menyedari kemarahan rakyat dan tuntutan dalam perhimpunan aman BERSIH 2.0 baru- baru ini.

"Sikap kerajaan yang menolak diadakan pilihanraya sebelum sistem diperbaiki sudah tentu akan mengundang kemarahan rakyat dan tahap kebolehpercayaan terhadap Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya (SPR) akan terus merosot.

"Keadaan ini sangat tidak baik bagi negara, dan terutamanya kerajaan memerintah dan tidak mustahil parti- parti dalam Pakatan Rakyat akan menarik diri ekoran kenyataan Perdana Menteri.

"Ketidakikhlasan kerajaan Barisan Nasional ini juga dijangka akan mempercepatkan bantahan rakyat, justeru menyemarakkan semangat untuk himpunan BERSIH 3.0 diadakan," tambahnya.

Ujarnya lagi, PAS menegaskan bahawa kerajaan tidak patut dan sememangnya "ia amat tidak bertanggungjawab untuk membubarkan Parlimen dalam keadaan mereka sedar bahawa sistem pilihanraya negara kita sememangnya tempang berhadapan dengan kelemahan dan kepincangan yang pelbagai.

"Sila perbaiki dahulu beberapa kelemahan yang utama, barulah diadakan pilihanraya ke 13, demi rakyat, untuk rakyat dan kerana rakyat," katanya.

Isu Gereja : Saya Tidak Akan Minta Maaf, Kata Mustafa

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 01:21 AM PDT


KUALA LUMPUR 22 OGOS : Setiausaha Agung PAS Datuk Mustafa Ali hari ini menegaskan beliau akan tetap dengan pendirianya bahawa Umno terlibat dalam pemeriksaan Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor (Jais) ke atas Gereja Methodist Damansara Utama, Petaling Jaya awal bulan ini.

Malah, beliau bersedia untuk bertemu parti Melayu terbesar itu di mahkamah.

Menurut Mustafa, beliau juga tidak akan memohon maaf atau menarik balik dakwaan dilemparkan terhadap Umno sebelum ini.

Sebaliknya, beliau tetap bertegas untuk mempertahankan dakwaannya itu.

"Kita jumpa di mahkamah, kalau nak saman itu hak dia (Umno Selangor), saya tidak akan minta maaf dan saya kekal dengan pendirian saya sebelum ini, kita jumpa di mahkamah," katanya dipetik The Malaysian Insider.

Tegasnya lagi, beliau akan mengemukakan bukti itu ke mahkamah.

"Saya akan kemukakan bukti ke mahkamah jika dibawa ke mahkamah," ujarnya.

Hari ini, Umno Selangor berkata pihaknya akan memfailkan saman RM10 juta terhadap Mustafa berhubung dakwaan kononnya parti itu memainkan peranan dalam tindakan Jais ke atas pemeriksaan di Gereja Methodist Damansara Utama pada 3 Ogos lalu.

Menurut Setiausaha Umno Selangor Datuk Seri Ir Mohd Zin Mohamed, selain Mustafa, pihaknya juga akan mempertimbangkan pihak-pihak lain dalam saman yang akan difailkan selepas Aidilfitri.

Awal minggu lalu, Mustafa dalam satu sidang media di Kuala Terengganu mendakwa Umno berperanan dalam pemeriksaan yang dilakukan oleh Jais ke atas Gereja Methodist Damansara Utama.

Beliau juga mengatakan Umno memainkan peranan dalam mempolitikkan isu itu ekoran tindakan Jais yang sehingga kini belum mendedahkan hasil siasatan mereka ke atas gereja itu.

Tambah Mustafa, beliau sedia mendedahkan maklumat campur tangan Umno kepada Pengarah Jais Marzuki Hussin pada satu pertemuan yang dijadual untuk diadakan minggu lalu.

Tetapi ia ditangguhkan buat sementara waktu sehingga siasatan Jais selesai.

Gereja Methodist Damansara Utama menjadi tumpuan sejak beberapa minggu lalu selepas Jais melakukan pemeriksaan ke atas satu majlis makan malam muhibah anjuran Harapan Komuniti di premis itu.

Jais berkata tindakan mereka hanya bersifat pemeriksaan tetapi pengurusan gereja mendakwa agensi itu melakukan serbuan.

Kes liwat kedua konspirasi Najib, kata Anwar

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 01:20 AM PDT

Kes liwat kedua konspirasi Najib, kata Anwar

August 22, 2011

KUALA LUMPUR, 22 Ogos — Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim memberi keterangan dari kandang tertuduh dengan mendakwa Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak mengikut langkah Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad untuk menamatkan kerjaya politiknya agar Barisan Nasional (BN) dapat terus berkuasa.

Bekas timbalan perdana menteri ini menegaskan demikian dalam keterangan yang dibuat dari kandang tertuduh pagi tadi.

Anwar, kini Ketua Pembangkang, merupakan saksi utama pada prosiding peringkat pembela yang bermula hari ini.

Katanya, beliau memilih untuk memberi keterangan dari kandang tertuduh sebab tiada keyakinan akan diberi perbicaraan yang adil.

Kata Anwar, keseluruhan proses mahkamah tidak lain tidak bukan satu konspirasi Najib untuk menghantar beliau semula ke penjara dan mengakhiri kerjaya politik.

"Sebagaimana saya telah saya katakan, ini bukan perbicaraan jenayah. Ia diatur oleh kuasa-kuasa yang mahu saya tidak lagi dapat bergerak, agar mereka boleh kekal berkuasa," katanya dengan berkata Dr Mahathir, bekas perdana menteri, telah mengambil tindakan yang sama pada akhir 1990an.

Dr Mahathir memecatnya pada September 1998 dan kemudian berhadapan dengan tuduhan salah guna kuasa dan kes liwat.

PRU-13 Tidak Boleh Diadakan Sebelum PSC Laksana Tugas - Dr Abu Hassan

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 01:10 AM PDT


KUALA LUMPUR 22 OGOS : Pilihan raya umum ke- 13 tidak boleh diadakan selagi Jawatankuasa Khas Parlimen (PSC) belum selesai melakukan reformasi terhadap sistem pilihan raya negara ini, menurut Pensyarah di Jabatan Pengajian Media Universiti Malaya, Prof. Madya Dr. Abu Hassan Hasbullah.

Dr. Abu Hassan berpandangan Perdana Menteri Najib Razak harus menyelesaikan segala tuntutan rakyat dan apa sahaja isu berbangkit termasuk mencapai matlamat penubuhan PSC terlebih dahulu, sebelum mengadakan pilihan raya.

"Proses pilihan raya tidak boleh berlaku setelah penyelesaian-penyelesaian dan kritikan pilihan raya di negara ini diselesaikan terlebih dahulu oleh jawatankuasa khas parlimen (PSC) ini kerana itu adalah matlamat yang sebenarnya.

"Kita harus melihat proses transformasi politik dan juga melihat pihak kerajaan mengatakan setiap perkara harus melakukan transformasi sama juga dengan suruhanjaya pilihan raya (SPR) setiap perkara harus mempunyai transformasinya," katanya ketika dihubungi TV Selangor tadi.

Beliau berkata demikian ketika mengulas pendirian Najib bahawa pilihan raya umum boleh diadakan bila- bila masa dan tidak akan bergantung pada kata sepakat yang akan dicapai dalam prosiding PSC, bersabit sistem pilihan raya negara.

Jawatankuasa seliaan Parlimen itu yang akan dibentuk Oktober depan sudahpun menerima pelbagai kritikan setelah Najib dilihat seolah- olah tidak serius dalam menambahbaik ketempangan sistem pilihan raya.

Ketidakseriusan Najib terhadap penubuhan jawatankuasa itu dikuatkan lagi dengan kenyataanya bahawa PSC akan terbubar dengan sendirinya jika berlakunya pembubaran Parlimen.

Ini bermakna, jika Parlimen dibubarkan sebelum jawatankuasa PSC melakukan sebarang perubahan, segala cadangan penambahbaikan itu akan terkubur begitu sahaja.

"Jawatankuasa khas parlimen (PSC) ini harus dihormati, dan proses penambahbaikan pada sistem pilihan raya di negara ini melalui perbincangan PSC hendaklah dilakukan secara akademik.

"Saya berpendapat sebaik-baiknya proses pilihan raya ini berlaku selepas PSC ini berjaya menyelesaikan beberapa krisis dan desakan yang sangat penting ini," katanya.

Dalam pada itu, Dr. Abu Hassan turut menggesa ahli panel yang menyertai jawatankuasa ini agar meletakkan aspek kematangan berpolitik sebagai asas dan tidak berat sebelah dalam mencari penyelesaian kearah memperbaiki sistem pilihan raya.

"Kedua-dua pihak harus jujur, harus budiman untuk duduk membicangkan permasalahan ini dan kemungkinan diketuai oleh ketua akademiknya, tokoh-tokoh dan pihak-pihak tertentu kalau sekiranya mempunyai masalah untuk melantik ahli politik sebagai pengerusi kepada jawatankuasa ini.

"Maka secara akademiknya ialah kita mahu lihat kematangan demokrasi kedua-dua pihak, pihak memerintah (BN) dan pihak alternative (PR), kerana apa yang penting sekarang ialah untuk menghasilkan dan mewujudkan peradaban demokrasi yang jauhari lagi budiman iaitu yang mempunyai ruang kepada semua orang."

Kopitiam Bang Nan

Kopitiam Bang Nan


Huh...!!

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 08:55 PM PDT

Royal link in iron ore plant
Teoh El Sen | August 22, 2011

There is a royal link in the controversial project to build an iron ore plant in Teluk Rubiah, Manjung, and one prominent critic alleges that this, coupled with the Perak palace's cosy relationship with the Barisan Nasional state government, has everything to do with why public interest has been sacrificed to profit a select few.

"BN would always go ahead with something when there's something in it for them," said former menteri besar Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin.

"Despite the hue and cry from the community, they don't give a damn."
Documents made available to FMT show that the Sultan of Perak owns one of the companies that sold off the piece of land that Brazilian mining giant Vale International is now developing for the multi-billion-ringgit project.
In 2009, KYM Holdings Bhd, through Harta Makmur Sdn Bhd, sold 488 hectares (1,205 acres) of leasehold land in Teluk Rubiah to Vale International and Vale Malaysia Manfuacturing Sdn Bhd for RM196 million.

Vale will use only 450 acres for the plant. The rest of the land, mostly forested, will be a buffer zone.

Checks with the Companies Commission of Malaysia showed that Harta Makmur is 60% owned by Tegas Consolidated Sdn Bhd and 40% owned by RAS Sdn Bhd.
The majority shareholder for RAS is Sultan Azlan Shah. His consort, Tuanku Bainun Mohd Ali, and his son, Raja Ashman Shah, are minority shareholders. Raja Ashman and his siblings are all directors of the company.

Vale's project has many opponents, including environmental groups and Teluk Rubiah residents and businesses. They fear that it would damage the environment, ruin the local tourism industry and impair the livelihood and health of local residents.

Not a viable option

Nizar said Vale representatives met with him twice in 2008 over proposals for the project.

"I told them that the area should be preserved as a sanctuary. We had virgin jungles, with one of the best species of logs there. I could not afford to lose those."
He said he proposed another state land in the swampy area of Tanjung Hantu, offering it almost free of charge.

"I was thinking we're giving you a place with virtually no inhabitants. But before Vale could complete their analysis of the pros and cons of Tanjung Hantu, the government was grabbed, and the deal at Teluk Rubiah went through."

Nizar headed the Pakatan Rakyat-led government until early 2009, when four defectors helped BN to take over, allowing Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir to replace him.

Nizar alleged that KYM had owed the state government RM20 million in accumulated unpaid charges over the piece of land.

"In order to settle debts to the bank and to the state government, they dumped everything on the Brazilians," Nizar said. "Somebody's interest is being taken care of.

"Obviously, Vale was given additional incentives when it decided to choose Teluk Rubiah.

"But I want to put on record that we did not condone using Teluk Rubiah as there were strong objections and it was not a viable option.

"Zambry decided to allow Teluk Rubiah because, one, he gets a good name in the eyes of the palace, and two, KYM gets to settle its debts."

Nizar questioned whether the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report for the project was tailored to allow the project to go ahead.

"Were there amendments to the EIA? We don't know, but it could be manipulated."

Nizar, who is the Pasir Panjang state assemblyman, said he hoped Vale would honour its promise not to pollute the area.

He admitted that it was "a bit too late" to ask for Vale to stop building the factory.

"They've already signed all the documents and they will go ahead as they've made all the commitments to the Brazilian company.

"There's nothing much we can do now, however much the environment might suffer."

Perak Consumer Association president Rahman Said Alli said pollution was a major concern.

"We respect royalty, but we are concerned that some people may be misusing the Sultan's name," he said. "They should not bandy his name around to obtain certain approvals from government authorities."

Last January, Zambry said he was aware of objections to the project but added that his government was allowing it to go ahead.

He said the Perak government had no equity participation in the plant itself, but would participate in the port and logistics operations.

Vale, the world's largest producer of iron ore, started construction on the factory in July. It is expected to start operations by June 2014. The plant will have a dedicated jetty that will be the destination point for Vale ships of 400,000-deadweight tonnes carrying iron ore from Brazil.

Blended iron ore and pellets will be distributed to customers in Malaysia, China, Japan, Australia and other parts of the Asia-Pacific region.

Teluk Rubiah was once a traditional Malay fishing village and was a Malay reserve land.

The exploitation of the village and a portion of the Teluk Muroh forest reserve started in 1983, when the state government proposed that the area be developed for tourism.

The government de-gazetted a 478-hectare portion of Teluk Muroh forest reserve in September 1988, and 247 hectares were alienated to the Perak Development Corporation while 213 hectares remained state land.

A 350-hectare area was turned into the Teluk Rubiah golf course and beach resort.
The original size of Teluk Muroh forest reserve was 917.93 hectares. At one point, it was classified as a virgin jungle reserve.

In July 1989, the government de-gazetted another 163 hectares of Malay reserve land, displacing the villagers. About 10,000 of them had no choice but to move out, but they received some compensation.

In 2001, several environmental groups protested against logging in the de-gazetted parts of Teluk Muroh, pointing out that the area remained under the Sensitive Environment Area classification.

The government responded by re-gazetting a mere 89.83 hectares as forest reserve. However, without any public announcement, it again de-gazetted 121.16 hectares in January 2010.

Sodomy II: The inside story...

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 12:17 AM PDT

Kenyataan Penuh DS Anwar Ibrahim Di Mahkamah Tinggi Dalam Kes Tuduhan Liwat II


Diakhir hujah pembelaan DSAI mengingatkan hakim dengan ingatan Allah SWT dari Surah An-Nisa'-58 yang bermaksud : Sesungguhnya Allah menyuruh kamu supaya menyerahkan segala jenis amanah kepada ahlinya (yang berhak menerimanya), dan apabila kamu menjalankan hukum di antara manusia, (Allah menyuruh) kamu menghukum dengan adil. Sesungguhnya Allah dengan (suruhanNya) itu memberi pengajaran yang sebaik-baiknya kepada kamu. Sesungguhnya Allah sentiasa Mendengar, lagi sentiasa Melihat.


DALAM MAHKAMAH TINGGI DI KUALA LUMPUR

DALAM WILAYAH PERSEKUTUAN

PERBICARAAN JENAYAH NO: 45-9-2009


PENDAKWA RAYA


LAWAN


DATO' SERI ANWAR BIN IBRAHIM


STATEMENT FROM THE DOCK

My name is Anwar bin Ibrahim. I am the leader of the Opposition in Parliament. In the 1990s, I was the Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister until September 1998 when then Prime Minister Dato' Seri Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad sacked me after I had refused to resign. He had told me to resign or face dire consequences including criminal prosecution for alleged sexual and corruption offences. I refused and all hell broke loose. My unceremonious and grossly unjust dismissal simultaneously orchestrated with a trial by media under Mahathir's complete control triggered mass and widespread demonstrations throughout the country and launched the movement for change and reform known in our history as the Reformasi era.

After a series of show trials during which every rule in the book on evidence and criminal procedure was violated with impunity at the hands of the prosecution and the courts, I was convicted and sentenced to a total of 15 years.

THE CHARGE AGAINST ME

First and foremost, I categorically deny the charge against me. I want to state in no uncertain terms that I have never had any sexual relations with the complainant Mohamed Saiful. His allegation is a blatant and vicious lie and will be proved to be so.

This is a vile and despicable attempt at character assassination. In this regard, let me reiterate that they can do all they want to assassinate my character and sully my reputation and threaten me with another 20 years of imprisonment but mark my words, they won't be able to cow me into submission. On the contrary, it only serves to fortify my conviction that the truth will eventually prevail. Come what come may, I shall never surrender. With apologies to Jean Racine in Phaedra:

"You know how well your tyranny favours my temperament and strengthens me to guard the honour of my reputation."

Yes indeed, I will guard it with my life if I have to. And if I may bring the message closer to home, let me quote the words of Nelson Mandela in his speech made from the dock in the famous Rivonia show trial of 1963 under the Apartheid regime:

"I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."

Back in 1998, blindfolded and handcuffed, I was beaten senseless by the Inspector General of Police and left to die in the lock up at the Federal Police headquarters. However, it was by the grace of God that a few of the rank and file of the police took pity on me and nursed me to recover from the near lethal blows. There was then a cover up by Gani Patail (now the Attorney-General) and Musa Hassan (the IGP at the time that I was charged in this new episode) with the full knowledge and connivance of Dato' Yusuf, the current chief prosecutor in this trial. All these personalities were linked in one way or the other with the 1998 show trial and more insidiously with the suppression of evidence in respect of the black eye scandal and attempts to pervert the course of justice. These are the same personalities who are now actively involved in the current prosecution against me. Res ipsa loquitur, as they say, but in this regard I'm not talking about negligence but rather proof of criminality in this heinous plot betraying indeed "the deep damnation" of the conspiracy.

The circumstances are compelling that I elect to make a statement from the dock. And in this statement I shall attempt my utmost to place the truth ahead of the web of lies and deceit that has been spun thus far. To quote Shakespeare:

"And let us once again assail your ears,
That are so fortified against our story…"

Which has set me from the outset of the trial to have been deprived of a level playing field and subjected to inequality of arms vis-a-vis the prosecution.

The Prosecution's Failure to Discharge its Duties Professionally

1) Even though these matters are done as a matter of routine in criminal proceedings, the Prosecution has consistently refused to disclose material critical to my defence, including: (a) prosecution witness list;

(b) primary hospital examination notes written by the medical examiners of the complainant at HBKL; (c) witness statements (including that of complainant); and (d) forensic samples and exhibits for independent examination and verification. All this has caused considerable prejudice to my defence and occasioned grave injustice. The only conclusion that one can reasonably draw from the prosecution's persistence in this act of perversity is that unseen hands are at work and it is certainly not the hand of God.

2) Your failure to respond during the course of the trial to several attempts by persons hostile to me to discredit me by commenting on aspects of the trial. These included whether I should provide samples of his DNA; blaming the defence for the delay of the proceedings; and reporting on matters that were the subject of a suppression order. These public comments were made either in defiance of your orders that they not be made. They were made by UMNO officials and politicians, including Dato' Seri Najib orchestrated through the controlled electronic and print media, such as Utusan Malaysia, Berita Harian, the New Straits Times and TV3. The constant comments by the Prime Minister and UMNO officials in the media and adverse comments on the progress of the trial were clearly calculated to influence you and illustrates the political motive behind the charge.

3) The latest act of blatant disregard occurred just last Tuesday and Wednesday over TV3 which broadcasted a pre-recorded interview with the complainant saying things which are clearly in contempt of the proceedings in respect of the trial. In particular, the audacious portrayal of himself as the victim who is a pious and God fearing Muslim who has sworn on the Quran that he is a witness of truth.

4) But the truth is that even as the trial was in progress, the complainant who was engaged to someone else was shamelessly having an affair with a member of the prosecution team. Quite apart from the consequences of such an affair on the conduct of the prosecution, the complainant's facade of moral rectitude is shattered by this scandalous affair with the lady prosecutor who herself was also engaged with another man.

5) In spite of all this, the complainant, assisted by the full force of the UMNO propaganda machine, via their media, has gone to town to vilify me. The point is that all comments were calculated to discredit me, adversely influence the course of the proceedings and to intimidate the witnesses at the trial. In spite of all these blatant transgressions, you have persistently refused to respond to any of these acts of contemptuous behaviour.

The solemn duty of a judge is not to sit mute when the law provides for a court of its own motion to issue show-cause notices against those who interfere in the administration of justice. I am reminded of the maxim Judex Habere Debet Duos Sales, Salem Sapicutiae, Ne Sit Insipidus, Et Salem Conscientiea, Ne Sit Diabolous, the English translation of which is,

'A judge should have two salts, the salt of wisdom, lest he be insipid; and the salt of conscience, lest he be devilish'.

The office of a judge is one of the most honourable in the country; he is the voice of the legislator and the organ for dispensing justice; he holds the balance between the executive and the subject.

Even more significantly, in the discharge of his duties, the judge should be mindful of Allah's command:

"…and let not hatred of others

Swerve you into error

And depart from justice.

Be just, that is nearer to piety

Fear Allah, For Allah is

well acquainted with all that you do"

Surah al-maidah: 8

In the middle of the Second World War in 1942, Lord Atkin, in Liversidge v Anderson, had occasion to say in the House of Lords,

'It has long been one of the pillars of freedom…that the judges are no respecters of persons and stand between the subject and any attempted encroachment on his liberty by the executive, alert to see that any coercive action is justified by law'

In my case, Y.A., presiding in an adversarial trial, had the residual power and the jurisdiction to have invoked Y.A.'s powers relating to contempt of court. Y.A. chose not to do so for reasons best known to Y.A.. What has happened is not in the best traditions of the Judiciary. In the ongoing Banting murder trial, the learned trial judge in that case, Y.A. Datuk Akhtar Tahir, took it upon himself to summon a local television producer over a clip it aired during its prime news slot relating to the defence in the murder trial of Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya and three others. A newspaper clipping of that report is annexed herewith. Y.A. Datuk Akhtar Tahir has courageously demonstrated judicial activism in the name of human rights and the essential requirement of a fair trial.

To compound the position to incredulity, the open scandal relating to DPP Farah Azlina Latiff having an affair with PW1 did not concern Y.A. This invidious relationship should have alerted Y.A. in that I was been denied a fair trial for the simple reason that Farah Azlina Latiff would have had access to the investigation papers being a member of the prosecution's team and, therefore, PW1 would, through this relationship, would have had knowledge of the statements given by witnesses, including my alibi witnesses in the course of the investigation.

Y.A. did not even chastise Farah Azlina Latiff for the illicit affair with SP1. All that was done was that Farah Azlina Latiff was taken off the prosecution team at the behest of the prosecution which was an open confirmation of the existence of that illicit affair. Farah Azlina Latiff did not deny the allegations against her. Neither was PW1 recalled by the prosecution to deny the existence of this unsavoury affair.

The Attorney-General had publicly stated the reasons would be given later to account for the sordid affair. That has yet to eventuate.

Yet, in the face of this, Y.A., at the close of the prosecution case, made a finding that PW1 was a truthful witness from this passage in the judgment as follows,

'Nothing came out from the lengthy cross-examination of PW1 or from the evidence of other prosecution's witnesses that could suggest what PW1 had told in his evidence was something which was not probable. I find PW1's evidence remains intact. He had truthfully and without embellishment or exaggeration in his evidence narrated in minute detail how he was sodomised by the accused on the date and at the place stated in the charge. I find him to be truthful witness and his evidence is reliable and if accepted would establish all the facts required to prove the charge against the accused.'

My lawyers had clearly made the submission that Y.A. had made a prejudgment when Y.A. ought to have only made findings as to who was telling the truth at the conclusion of the defence, in which event, I would have given evidence under oath. My lawyers did not, at any time, advert to the passage above in isolation. They zeroed in on the obvious, namely, whether a witness was truthful or not had to be decided at the close of the defence case. The provisions of section 182A(1) of the Criminal Procedure Code provided the judge with that guidance but to no avail. That section bears repeating. It states:

'At the conclusion of the trial, the court shall consider all the evidence adduced before it and shall decide whether the prosecution has proved its case beyond reasonable doubt.'


Pursuant to what I have stated above, I have been denied the benefit of putting up my defence under oath. That amounts to deprivation of a fair trial and the existence of a level playing field.

The Court of Appeal going out of line

My appeal to the Court of Appeal over the recusal of Y.A. on account of prejudgment, following which would have resulted in biasness was heard on 6th July, 2011. A copy of the order is annexed herewith. No written judgment was handed down by the Court of Appeal on 6th July. The appeal was dismissed summarily on the preliminary objection taken by the prosecution that the order appealed against was not a final order. Those were the reasons given in open court. Nothing more, nothing less. The Court of Appeal took no more than five minutes to dispose of the appeal.

Unbeknownst to me or my lawyers, there was at the same time a 40-page judgment under the hand of Y.A. Datuk Haji Abdul Malik Bin Haji Ishak also dated 6th July, 2011. A copy of that judgment is annexed herewith.

Why did the Court of Appeal not read out the 91 paragraphed grounds of judgment dated 6th July on 6th July itself? Obviously, this judgment was at hand on 6th July but had surreptitiously been concealed from my knowledge and the knowledge of the public. The letter dated 11th August, 2011 supplying a copy of this judgment to my lawyers is annexed herewith. As is usual, Y.A. must have had the benefit of reading this judgment which will further exacerbate your bias against me. The judgment is an open and flagrant attack on me to which I will advert in due course. Suffice to say at this juncture that here is a judgment of the Court of Appeal written after 6th July, 2011 which contains harsh criticism against me without my being given the opportunity to reply.

But that begs the question: the appeal had been dismissed in limine on the ground that the order appealed against was not a final order. That should have been the end of the matter because it followed that the court had no jurisdiction to entertain the appeal. [Y.A. Datuk Haji Abdul Malik Bin Haji Ishak sat mute during the course of submissions on the preliminary objection]. The matter did not go beyond into the merits. That is what the Court of Appeal announced on 6th July without going an inch further. The preliminary objection is adverted to, not as the main part of the judgment. The major part of the judgment goes beyond. It is a frolic of his own used for the purpose of hitting out at me.

If that was so, why did Datuk Haji Abdul Malik Bin Haji Ishak embark upon a relentless attack on me in the rest of the judgment? In fact, he had no jurisdiction to do so. This is a blatant abuse of judicial power, perhaps in a surreptitious attempt to curry favours of the political masters? Otherwise, how else can one explain as to why he embarked upon such a scurrilous attack on me by stating in the following paragraphs as numbered:

'[5] This case will fall in history. It will be chronicled as the only known case in our country or for that matter within the Commonwealth enclave where the appellant as an accused person persistently and consistently filed one application after another in an attempt to recuse the learned trial judge from hearing and continuing to hear the sodomy trial which is ongoing.


[6] It seems that the appellant here is trying his level best to scuttle his sodomy trial for reasons best known to him, much to the chagrin of the prosecution and the exasperation of the members of the public at large.


[15] It was certainly an uncalled for criticism [against the learned judge] bent to deceive and confuse the uninitiated. It is easy to criticise but it is always difficult to justify it.

[18] It is also difficult for us to accept that the Notice of Motion was filed out of a genuine belief that the learned trial judge had been biased against the appellant.


[49] The charge graphically described what the appellant did to Mohd Saiful Bukhari Bin Azlan [PW1.] [It is elementary that it is the evidence, not the charge, which proves an offence].

[50] The trial was unduly prolonged. It received wide media coverage.


[56] After such a fine display of judicial impropriety, Y.A. Datuk Haji Abdul Malik Bin Haji Ishak now has audacity to patronize us about a sound judicial system by stating, in what sounds like a broken symbol, as follows:

'The perquisites of a sound judicial system are independence and impartiality. For an effective and a strong judicial system, the impartiality of its judges are of paramount importance. But it cannot be denied that the public's confidence in the judicial system is shaped and moulded more by appearances.


Y.A. Datuk Haji Abdul Malik Bin Haji Ishak rather ungraciously, and without jurisdiction, took a swipe at the judgment of his brother judges of the Court of Appeal including Richard Malanjum, now Chief Judge (Sabah and Sarawak), with the obvious purpose of humiliating them when stating:

'[72] Rowstead did not consider the "real danger of bias" test in determining whether the learned JC should have recused himself notwithstanding the Federal Court had earlier on applied the said test in:


(a) Majlis Perbandaran Pulau Pinang v Syarikat Bekerjasama-sama Serbaguna Sungai Gelugor dengan Tanggungan [1999] 3 MLJ 1, FC; and


(b) Mohamed Ezam bin Mohd Nor & Ors v Ketua Polis Negara [2002] 1 MLJ 321, FC

[73] Consequently, Rowstead's suggestion that the request for recusal to be heard

by another judge is quite radical. We categorically say that the recusal request, like the present matter, was rightly heard at the first instance by the learned trial judge and followed by this court.


[74] Rowstead did not consider nor ventilate on section 3 of the CJA read with section 50(1)(a) of the CJA and the Explanatory Statement thereto.


[75] The recusal application housed in the Notice of Motion concerned a long protracted trial that saw the legal manoeuvrings activated by the appellant at every nook and corner in an attempt to scuttle the criminal trial of the appellant for an offence of sodomising PW1. It is the mother of all trials in Malaysia.'

[I had every right to exhaust all legal remedies open to me. No attempt has been made by anyone, or any quarter, to prevent me from doing so by seeking an order to declare me a vexatious litigant].

As alluded to earlier in this statement, Y.A. would have had the advantage of reading this judgment after it was distributed by letter dated 11th August, 2011. This, in effect, amounts to placing, by Y.A. Datuk Haji Abdul Malik Bin Haji Ishak, alleged bad character evidence on my behalf.

In view of this, how can I get a fair trial or even the semblance of one before the trial judge now who has been further put in a position to compound biasness against me?

How can I possibly give evidence under oath when the DPP has, in his possession, the same judgment which could be used against me in cross-examination? Y.A. cannot be disabused of what has been fed to Y.A. by Y.A. Datuk Haji Abdul Malik Bin Haji Ishak when delivering a judgment dated 6th July, 2011 which obviously, having regard to the length thereof, must have been prepared well before 6th July, 2011.

This is scandalous.

Then again, why wasn't the judgment which, even if written after midnight on 5th July, 2011 read out in open court so that I could counter and demolish all the allegations made against me by Y.A. Datuk Haji Abdul Malik Bin Haji Ishak?

It is elementary no one should be condemned, unheard. This is axiomatic. As far back as 12th August, 1999 the Federal Court, the highest court in the land, in Insas Bhd and Anor v Ayer Molek Rubber Company Bhd and others had occasion, after adverting to the authorities on the position to rule,

'The offensive remarks made by the Court of Appeal against the High Court, the applicants and their counsel ought to be expunged from the judgment of the Court of Appeal, as it had a tendency to bring the whole administration of law and order into disrepute. Judicial pronouncements should be judicial in nature and should not depart from sobriety, moderation, and reserve. It also should not display emotion and intemperance, as displayed in the judgment of the Court of Appeal.'

Adverting to an Indian Supreme Court case of State of Uttar Pradesh v Mohd Naim, the Federal Court had occasion to adopt what was said there as follows;

'If there is one principle of cardinal importance in the administration of justice, it is this: the proper freedom and independence of judges and magistrates must be maintained and they must be allowed to perform their functions freely and fearlessly and without undue interference by anybody, even by this court. At the same time it is equally necessary that in expressing their opinions, judges and magistrates must be guided by considerations of justice, fair play and restraint. It is not infrequent that sweeping generalizations defeat the very purpose for which they are made. It has been judicially recognized that in the matter of making disparaging remarks against persons or authorities whose conduct comes into consideration before courts of law in cases to be decided by them, it is relevant to consider: (a) whether the party whose conduct is in question is before the court or has an opportunity of explaining or defending himself; (b) whether there is evidence on record bearing on that conduct justifying the remarks; and (c) whether it is necessary for the decision of the case, as an integral part thereof, to animadvert on conduct. It has also been recognized that judicial pronouncements must be judicial in nature, and should not normally depart from sobriety, moderation and reserve.'


In Insas, the Federal Court adopted what was said in AM Mathur v Pramod Kumar Gupta & Ors when dismissing an apparently unsustainable review petition which had certain derogatory remarks against Mr AM Mathur, a senior advocate and also the ex-Advocate General of the State. The Court had occasion to hold,
'Judicial restraint and discipline are as necessary to the orderly administration of justice as they are to the effectiveness of the army. The duty of restraint, this humility of function should be a constant theme of our judges. This quality in decision-making is as much necessary for judges to command respect as to protect the independence of the judiciary. Judicial restraint in this regard might be better called judicial respect, that is, respect by the judiciary. Respect to those who come before the court as well as to other co-ordinate branches of the State, the executive and the legislature. There must be mutual respect. When these qualities fail or when litigants and public believe that the judge has failed in these qualities, it will be neither good for the judge nor for the judicial process. The Judge's Bench is a seat of power. Not only do judges have power to make binding decisions, their decisions legitimate the use of power by other officials. The judges have the absolute and unchallengeable control of the court domain. But they cannot misuse their authority by intemperate comments, undignified banter of scathing criticism of counsel, parties or witnesses. We concede that the court had the inherent power to act freely upon its own conviction on any matter coming before it for adjudication, but it is a general principle of the highest importance to the proper administration of justice that derogatory remarks ought not to be made against persons or authorities whose conduct comes into consideration unless it is absolutely necessary for the decision of the case to animadvert on their conduct.'

Chief Justice of India, Bhagwati, in State of Madya Pradesh & Ors v Nandlal & Ors, in expressing his strong disapproval of the strictures made by the judge, stated:

'We may observe in conclusion that judges should not use strong and carping language while criticizing the conduct of parties or their witnesses. They must act with sobriety, moderation and restraint. They must have the humility to recognize that they are not infallible and any harsh and disparaging strictures passed by them against any party may be mistaken and unjustified and if so, they may do considerable harm and mischief and result in injustice. Here, in the present case, the observations made and strictures passed by BM Lal J were totally unjustified and unwarranted and they ought not to have been made.'


How could I under these circumstances give evidence under oath?

Y.A., when making the order for the witnesses offered to the defence for interview in court, gave a lifeline to the witnesses in stating in open court that they could refuse to be interviewed. Y.A. did not in doing so evenly handle the scales of justice. Y.A. created and perpetuated an imbalance unbecoming anyone holding the mantle of justice. In fact, the Prime Minister, Dato' Seri Najib Tun Razak, and his wife, Datin Seri Rosmah binti Mansor, former Inspector General of Police, Tan Sri Musa Hassan, and SAC Dato' Rodhwan bin Ismail who featured prominently in the evidence of PW1 came to the interview room echoing similar protests namely, "We are not prepared to be interviewed" with the Prime Minister saying Y.A. suggested this could be done. These were material witnesses compelling the defence now to resort to causing subpoenas to be issued for their presence.

Y.A. has created a position under which I cannot give evidence under oath. I say, with all the force at my command, that I would have been prepared and willing to give evidence under oath but for the handicaps foisted on me, in the manner Y.A. has conducted the trial and in the manner in which the Court of Appeal judgment dated 6th July, 2011 would have come to the notice of Y.A. with regard to what I have stated herein before.

My trial is an adversarial one and Y.A. ought not to have descended into the arena by suggesting witnesses offered to the defence could deny to be interviewed. It did not come within the province of Y.A. to do so.

My alibi witnesses made known to the prosecution were in fact included in the prosecution list of witnesses which was not supplied to my lawyers. They were defence alibi witnesses. I am informed this is the first time this has been done.

In fact, the owner of the unit 11-5-2, Haji Hasanuddin bin Abd Hamid, had been harassed by the police for a total of thirty hours in the recording of his statements which were all video recorded. This was obvious when he was interviewed by the defence lawyers in my presence. The police investigation has scuttled my defence.

To make a mockery of the situation, the prosecution offered at the close of their case an alibi witness named, Fitria binti Dipan, who by their own admission cannot be traced.

THE COMPLAINANT'S ALLEGATIONS ARE PURE FABRICATION

As I have said at the outset, I categorically deny the allegations made against me by the complainant.

The complainant stated in evidence on 26th June, 2008 he arrived at Kondominium Desa Damansara at 2.45 p.m. to discuss work matters and hand-over documents given to him by one Ibrahim Yaakob [my Chief of Staff] to myself. He says he stopped his van at the security post and mentioned the code name 'Mokhtar' to the guards at the condominium before being allowed in. He parked his vehicle and took the lift to Unit 11-5-1 where I was allegedly seated at a dining table in the living room. He says he sat down at the same table and started the discussion. He told the court of the crude manner in which I had allegedly asked for sex.

The following appears in his evidence thereafter (as attached)

When questioned, he answered that he was angry and scared and that he was not prepared to do it but purportedly because I had appeared angry, he eventually obliged. It has to be observed at this stage the complainant could have, on his own admission in examination-in-chief, left the room as there is no evidence of any attempt by me to latch the door from inside.

He had further alleged that he was ordered into the bedroom and that he did enter out of fear. Even at this stage, the complainant had the opportunity to leave the living room. He did not do so. The rest of the evidence in this regard clearly showed that the complainant had every opportunity on every occasion to flee but he did not do so. His reason was that he was petrified by fear. But such a reason flies against the facts. Here is a man in his early twenties, a six-footer, physically fit and robust and with powerful connections in the top police brass as well as the political elite with access to the very inner sanctum of power. Additionally, he has also been a key UMNO student operative, having undergone the rigorous training conducted by the Biro Tats Negara of the Prime Minister's Department. And here I was a 60-year-old man with a history of back injury who had undergone a major back surgery holding no position of power. If indeed I could have exercised any kind of undue influence or mental pressure on him, this could have been easily neutralized by a quick phone call to his connections. As regards the fear of physical harm, it would take a great stretch of the imagination to suggest that I could pose any physical harm to him.

Under cross-examination, the following significant evidence was elicited from the complainant. He admitted that he had brought along lubricant and had himself voluntarily and without hesitation applied it. He claimed that carnal intercourse took place and that it was painful and coarse. However, this was clearly not borne out in the medical evidence in the prosecution case suggesting fissures or tears. After the alleged act, he testified that he had a drink and engaged in a friendly conversation with me. Startlingly, no attempt was made by the complainant to seek immediate medical attention. Instead, he attended a PKR function the following day. In the evening, he joined a meeting of the Anwar Ibrahim Club at my house without showing any sign of either emotional or physical discomfort let alone trauma. On the contrary, he was going about matters in a calm and confident manner. His conduct therefore is totally inconsistent with having been violated. In any event, he neither made a police report nor sought medical attention, notwithstanding that two days prior to the alleged act, he had met with Najib and Rosmah as well having talked on the phone with Musa Hassan and met with Rodhwan at a hotel.

It is obvious, from the evidence above, that the complainant was lying through his teeth although Y.A., despite the compelling evidence to the contrary, found him a truthful witness at the close of the prosecution case. This defies logic, let alone the law.

Then again, the expert evidence with regard to DNA led in the course of prosecution case through PW4, Dr. Seah Lay Hong and PW5, Nor Aidora bt Saedon was highly questionable in that crucial information pertaining to the DNA analysis of both the said witnesses which they were obliged to furnish to the court was suspiciously withheld despite them confirming the existence of such information. The real possibility that the samples analyzed were contaminated and even planted were completely disregarded despite such possibilities coming clearly within guidelines set by the international forensic community which were completely ignored, if not, blatantly disregarded by PW4 and PW5 to fit the prosecution's case. It is obvious had the said possibilities been explored, the conclusions reached would have been very different in that the complainant's own semen was found in his own anus, there was ample evidence of contributors other than Male Y around the complainant's perianal, lower and higher rectal region and there was clear evidence of the samples having been tampered with before they were sent for analysis. In such circumstances, the integrity of the said samples was surely compromised. Furthermore, the impartiality of PW4 was highly questionable having regard to the way in which she completely dismissed the very high possibility that the samples sent to her would have degraded to a certain degree by the time they reached her which such degradation was completely absent from all samples in this case. This clearly points to the obvious reality that the samples sent for analysis could not have been what were extracted from the complainant's person.

Trial within a Trial

The Gestapo-like manner in which I was arrested and the subsequent detention and interrogation by the police all betrayed the hands of the political masters at work. What was the need to send in balaclava clad commandos to effect the arrest if not to attempt to flex political muscle and to display pure vindictiveness? These startling facts were completely ignored by Y.A.

Y.A. had made an earlier ruling to exclude the recovery of certain items including water bottle, Good Morning towel, tooth paste from the lock-up at IPK, Kuala Lumpur where I had been detained overnight from 16.7.08 to 17.7.08. However, you reversed this ruling subsequently which is something most shocking and unprecedented.

Although in the Trial Within a Trial, I had adverted to the role of Taufik and Supt. Jude Pereira, the prosecution elected only to call Taufik in rebuttal in the Trial Within a Trial. Taufik attempted to produce a photostat copy of the warrant of arrest which was only marked as an ID and, therefore, could not be considered as evidence in the Trial Within a Trial. A photostat copy of a document is not admissible as evidence in a court of law. It was in the Trial Within a Trial that primary evidence of the document ought to have been given if the original record had been lost or destroyed.


The prosecution could not, by producing the original warrant of arrest in the main trial, cure the infirmity. It is in evidence that 3 copies of the warrant of arrest were in the possession of Supt. Jude Pereira. The evidence of the warrant of arrest was available during the Trial Within a Trial.

Even Supt. Jude Periera, whose role was adverted to by me during the Trial Within a Trial, chose not to take the stand despite having had the opportunity to have produced the original copy of the warrant of arrest in the Trial Within a Trial.

It was during the Trial Within a Trial that Supt.Jude Periera should have testified. It was clearly unlawful for the court to accept Supt. Jude Periera's evidence in the general trial for the purpose of rebutting my evidence in the Trial Within a Trial that the DNA profiling from the Good Morning towel, toothbrush and mineral water bottle had been obtained by unfair methods and unfair means and my arrest, therefore, had been procured unlawfully.

In fact, Supt. Jude Periera's evidence in the general trial confirms that there had been non-compliance with Rule 20 of the Lock-up Rules, 1953 in that I, after my arrest on 16.7.08, had not been placed in the lock-up from 6pm to 6am the following day. The provisions of Rule 20 are mandatory.

If this was the position in our case, which it was, then, clearly, my being taken to the HKL in breach of Rule 20 reflected unfair means and unfair methods being employed by the police to obtain the DNA profiling from the items set out hereinbefore. The position is further compounded by the evidence of Supt. Jude Periera in the general trial that he did not direct police personnel in charge of the lock-up not to touch the said items despite the police personnel in the general trial before the Trial Within a Trial, clearly, saying that Supt. Jude Periera had done so.

So the position comes to this, Supt. Jude Periera, in his evidence on oath in the main trial, supports the defence case that unfair methods and unfair means had been used by the police to obtain DNA profiling from the items set out hereinbefore.

From the ruling made by the court to exclude the items, it is clear it was based on unfair means and unfair methods employed by the police meaning it was by trick and deception that the police attempted to introduce the DNA evidence.

In any event, from the evidence of DSP Taufik given in the Trial Within a Trial and the general trial, the grounds of arrest could not have been given by him to me in Segambut as this is, clearly, contradicted by the evidence of S.N. Nair and myself.

The question of challenging evidence given in the main trial by DSP Taufik and Supt. Jude Periera does not arise. It was the assertions made under oath by me that my arrest was unlawful and unfair methods and unfair means had been used to obtain his DNA profiling in the Trial Within a Trial stood unchallenged by the prosecution by leading lawful evidence in rebuttal of those assertions. In fact, Y.A. should have drawn an adverse inference against the prosecution for not having done so.

FORENSIC EVIDENCE

The prosecution case rests on the evidence of the DNA and so called "findings of seminal fluid" or "sperm" as they claim. As a matter of fact, this is the only forensic evidence upon which the foundation of the prosecution's so-called proof rests. Yet, this foundation is erected on shaky grounds though this has not prevented them working in hand in glove with the powers that be to mount an insidious and relentless campaign to vilify me.

The fact is that there is not an iota of evidence, DNA or otherwise, that has ever been found in the premises of the alleged act, not in the wash room, bed room, carpets or anywhere else where such evidence ought to have been found.

Supt. Pereira, despite being instructed to keep the HKL samples (marked B1 to B10) in a freezer, deliberately defied the instruction of Dr Siew Sheue Fong (HKL Forensic Doctor) and also admitted that he was in serious breach of the IGSO, (he even stated he took full and personal responsibility for breaking of the IGSO), when he deliberately kept the HKL samples in his office cabinet for about 43 hrs before delivering them to the Chemist. One must not forget that the alleged act was supposed to have occurred two days prior to the said samples having been extracted. Coupled with this 43-hour delay in delivery to the Chemist, it would mean that the samples were already at least 90 hours old by the time they were examined by the Chemist. Undoubtedly, the samples would have totally degraded. Yet evidence by the prosecution claimed that no degradation of any consequence had occurred.

In any event, even the 43-hour delay alone would have seriously compromised the integrity of the samples in terms of its deterioration due to bacterial action. Also, by not storing the samples in the police exhibit store (which will accord access only to him), his deliberate omission of such strict rules of the IGSO has by his very act, presented an opportunity and possibility of tampering of the samples as access to others was made easier. This was disregarded.

There are also no cogent or compelling reasons both in law and practice for Supt Jude Pereira to cut open P27 (the big tamperproof bag containing all the HKL samples which was sealed and handed over to him), ostensibly to remark them (B1 to B10). It is clear that this act was just a convenient excuse to get access to the individual samples which by themselves were clearly not tamperproof as they were deliberately "sealed" with ordinary and easily removable tapes and easily removable HKL paper seals.

Dr Siew Sheue Fong , as evident in court, was most reluctant to refer to his medical notes during cross examination despite being unable to remember details. During the break he was caught surreptitiously taking a sneak peek of his notes. This dishonest act of a professional doctor who ought to have conducted himself in a fair and independent manner was blatantly ignored. Many a time Dr. Siew and Dr Mohd Razali Ibrahim deliberately chose not to answer pertinent questions put to them by my counsel. Instead Dr Siew and Dr Razali's evidence was accepted without reservation.

Dr Seah Lay Hong (the Chemist) gave evidence that when she received the 12 HKL samples there were 2 samples that were marked as taken on very different dates, she testified she did nothing to seek clarification from Dr Siew . She further testified that she "gave the benefit of doubt" to Dr Siew. My lawyers submitted strenuously that such acts and/or omissions amount to a serious breach of the cardinal rules of international lab protocols and those of the Jabatan Kimia Malaysia. Despite such blatant exposures and abject failures of non observance of strict rules, Dr Seah's evidence was well received and in totality when it ought to have been jettisoned in totality for reasons of incompetence and gross negligence.

The defence evidence will show that the prosecution claim to have proof of the presence of "seminal fluid" or "sperm" is completely unfounded. In fact, this purported proof is nothing but pure fabrication, a fact which is not that unusual considering the past history of the prosecution in this regard. If they had had any such forensic evidence, they would have guarded it for dear life rather than let it being handled in such a sloppy manner.

SUMMATION

Your Lordship has failed to ensure a fair trial as demonstrated, inter alia, by the following instances:

1. Your refusal during the course of the trial to order disclosure of material critical to my defence, most of which you thought was sufficiently relevant and which fairness required that you should order it to be disclosed before the trial. Your failure to fairly and properly exercise his judicial discretion to order disclosure was not only contrary to Malaysian laws but violated the international standards expected of a modern state which purports to practice the rule of law.

2. Your refusal to act accordingly either to take cognizance or to hold to account those responsible for the flagrant acts of leaking and publishing in the media of prosecution submissions before the matter was heard in court; your utter indifference to my protestations about these transgressions has wittingly or unwittingly facilitated the conspiracy to vilify me in the court of public opinion even as the trial is in progress.

3. Your failure to order that witnesses critical to my defence attend the trial to testify, in circumstances where their involvement was patently material to the issues at trial and recorded under oath in the complainant's testimony and admitted by statements made by these witnesses to the media. These witnesses relate to the circumstances in which the complainant came to make his early complaints against me. Nothing could be more material to the credit of the complainant.

4. Your finding the complainant to be "a truthful witness" at the close of the prosecution case clearly amounted to prejudgment demonstrating in the process a clear bias against me. Consequently, you have deprived me of my constitutionally guaranteed right to a fair hearing the effect of which is to entitle me to an unconditional release with the charges leveled against me falling to the ground. Notwithstanding this, you have not only failed to order my release but have adamantly refused to recuse yourself from further presiding at the trial.

5. Your arriving at the conclusion that the complainant was a witness of truth without first hearing the evidence of the defence would render the continuation of this trial an exercise in futility. What use would there be for me to adduce evidence to show that the complainant is in fact a liar if you have already found "him to be a truthful witness" and that his evidence is reliable and conclusive and by virtue of that irrefutable? It is untenable and the law does not allow you to do what you have done.

6. Your finding that the complainant has corroborated himself by complaining to the medical doctors of sexual assault was a glaring error of law apart from it being in gross disregard of a finding of fact, that is, that the clinical finding had indicated no evidence of penetration. Additionally, your failure to question why the prosecution has for no apparent reason refused to call in the first medical officer who had examined the complainant to testify. Did it not cross your mind that this failure was prompted by the need to suppress evidence that might be unfavourable to the prosecution?

7. Your accepting without hesitation the forensic evidence as corroborative of the complainant's account in circumstances where there were obvious concerns about how those samples were obtained, labelled, stored and analyzed.

CONCLUSION

This entire process is nothing but a conspiracy by Prime Minister Dato' Seri Najib Razak to send me into political oblivion by attempting once again to put me behind bars. I therefore declare that I have no faith whatsoever that justice will prevail in these proceedings notwithstanding the valiant efforts made by my defence team. As I have said at the outset, this is not a criminal trial. It is a charade staged by the powers that be to put me out of action in order that they remain in power.

In 1998, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad did just that and by his Machiavellian use of all the organs of power of the State, succeeded in getting me convicted for fifteen years for offences that I had never committed. Such was the tyranny and injustice done to me then. And such is the tyranny and injustice being perpetuated today.

Najib Razak is doing the same thing as his mentor did, which is to employ all means within his power through the media, the police, the Attorney General and the judiciary in order to subvert the course of justice and to take me out of the political equation.

This relentless conviction to send me back to prison became all the more imperative because of the major victories gained by the opposition Pakatan Rakyat in the March 2008 elections. Their worst fears were confirmed when it became clear that once my legal disqualification was over I would be contesting for a parliamentary seat and if I won, would be elected leader of the opposition.

It was therefore no coincidence that this new conspiracy surfaced three months after the March 2008 victories and the formal charge against me was made just one month prior to my contesting the Permatang Pauh parliamentary seat. The sequence of events that unfolded prior to the formal charge appeared to be lifted from the plot of 1998 minus, in this latest episode, the black eye affair and the purported victims being led into court as partners in crime. In this second episode, the conspirators have tweaked the plot to make the complainant take on the role of a helpless victim, having realized that the 1998 method of employing Stalin-like confessions and the portrayal of the alleged victims as remorseful and repentant sexual deviants were just too much for the public to believe.

Hence, during the entire examination of the complainant, the prosecution left no stone unturned in their attempt at painting the picture of a helpless, naive and innocent young man who is a witness of truth and whose testimony should be believed regardless of any evidence to the contrary. The fact is that in the entire scheme of things, the complainant, who was just a university drop out working part time helping out my chief of staff, is essentially a pawn being employed by the shady plotters to achieve their devious ends in the conspiracy. And yet it was the decision of the court after the close of the prosecution case that he indeed is a truthful witness.

The preparation entailed in this conspiracy was most elaborate and went all the way to the Prime Minister himself and his wife Rosmah Mansor both of whom by the complainant's own admission had met him in their residence where he purportedly complained of being sexually assaulted. The initial statement by Najib that he had met with the complainant merely to discuss about a scholarship was a blatant lie only to be retracted later after various exposes were made via the social media and the internet blogs. It was obvious that neither Najib nor Rosmah would not want to be seen to be part of the conspiracy being themselves embroiled in a series of other scandals the details of which have been raised in Parliament which to date have never been categorically refuted. But the stakes in this conspiracy are so high that nothing can be left to pure chance for indeed the prospect of the UMNO led Barisan Nasional losing power to Pakatan Rakyat is becoming more real by the day.

The main thrust of the conspiracy was to fabricate this sodomy charge in order to inflict maximum damage to my character in the run-up campaign to the by-elections. Towards this end, an intense and virulent media blitz was launched concurrently with the staging of rallies and ceramahs where the focus of the debate was not on any social, economic or even political issues but purely on my person and my morality. The plotters for reasons known only to themselves became privy to information which would be used subsequently by the prosecution and went to town in an orgy of character assassination calculated no doubt to ensure a humiliating defeat for me in the polls. But Allah is Great and instead of losing, I won the Permatang Pauh seat with a thumping majority of 15,000 votes.

But the zeal to consign me to political oblivion continues unabated. Najib seems to think that by destroying my political future, it would also destroy the prospects of Pakatan Rakyat ever coming to power.

Hence, nothing is spared to ensure that I will be convicted in order that the UMNO led Barisan government continues to rule.

Having regard to all the above, I now wish to state that this trial is for all intents and purposes a show trial. I say this not to mock your Lordship nor with animosity towards anyone personally but I sit before you in the dock only to speak what I know and what I believe with conviction to be the truth. And this conviction is borne by having been in public service for more than forty years a quarter of which was spent within the walls of incarceration in Kamunting and in Sungai Buloh. The fact remains that I was condemned to imprisonment not because of any crime that I had committed but for my political beliefs and convictions and more significantly because back in 1998 I had posed a clear and present threat to the more than two decades of autocratic rule of Mahathir.

I say it because as I've stated earlier, the court's integrity has been completely compromised and bears all the classic symptoms of a show trial where the script has been effectively written and the outcome a foregone conclusion. I say it because as a presiding judge you have demonstrated beyond the shadow of a doubt your complete lack of impartiality. I say it because you have consistently refused to recuse yourself even in the face of mounting evidence of your bias against me. I say it too because you have persistently turned a blind eye to the gross violations of protocol and procedure committed by the prosecution while at the same remaining impervious to my protestations about these blatant irregularities that would have without more alerted any impartial judge as to the malice and bad faith of the prosecution.

In the matter of the duty of a judge, the Holy Qur'an commands:

"And when you judge between mankind

Then you judge justly"

Surah An-Nisaa:58

ANWAR IBRAHIM