Speakers' Corner

Occasional contributions from readers, which do not necessarily reflect the views of Sarawak Report but may be published at the discretion of the site

A True Democrat

Press reports quote PAS guru Hadi as saying that is is “nonsense” to call for a change of Prime Ministers in the midst of the Covid emergency. One has to wonder what he would say if a PH Prime Minister lost his majority. The same? Pull the other one!  Covid is being used by PN […]

Dictatorship or Democracy?

It is reported that a University lecturer has been forced to resign because he  took a group of his students to visit the DAP headquarters office!  So it has come to this in “democratic” Malaysia: that all contact with opposition political parties is forbidden and that any breach of that “decree” will be severely sanctioned.

Treason. What Is Treason?

PN Minister Annuar Musa is reported as accusing UMNO’s Secretary General of treason for having urged his party’s Assembly members to call for Parliament to debate the current state of emergency. In doing so he described Ahmad Aslan’s action as possibly treasonous! So, for PN, the Assembly is treasonous! Well that is actually correct when

Belittling The Emergency

Was the reported comment of the PDRM CID chief in reference to the alleged behaviour of a brother of “Senior” Minister Azmin Ali. The rights and wrongs of the alleged offence to one side how is it possible for a very senior police officer to utter such a comment? Is it a crime to criticise

Questioning Wisdom

A collection of Malay “supremacists” are reported as saying that the proclaimed intention of Anwar Ibrahim to contest in Court the proclamation of the current state of emergency amounts to questioning “the wisdom of the Agong” who consented to it. What sort of a world are these people living in? Do they think that the

Fifteen Billion Stimulus

That, according to Press reports, is the amount of public money that will be allocated for the latest PN spending spree. Naturally ‘PM8′ failed to detail how the enormous sum will be spent. He really didn’t need to as everyone in Malaysia knows that the bulk of it will end up in PN friendly pockets.

Public Service Corruption

Statistics just released show that corruption among public servants is running at more than one case a day. And the is just what is discovered so the real figure must be much higher. Apart from being a reason for national shame these figures have another significance. They are not an indication of police and MACC

Failed To Uphold

In a perhaps surprising public attack on the PN government, which is keeping him out of jail by delaying the Appeal Court from hearing his appeal against long jail sentences for fraud and theft of public money, mega crook Najib has said that the current government has failed ”to uphold the welfare of the people”.

Defend The Constitution?

Opposition leader Anwar is reported as saying that he would appeal to the Agong to ”defend the Constitution”. Can he really have said that? After all, the Agong appointed as Prime Minister an MLA for whom not even one of his colleagues had voted when polled individually by the Agong himself. That extraordinary choice remains

A Plague of Halls!

Unhappy Malaysia! Stricken by a plague of Covid and now a multiplicity of halls! Seeing the game was up with his one mega million ringgit hall Moo announced that the money was for THREE halls; not just one. He should have asked the PWD who would have told him that he could have ten halls

Whose Contract?

Everyone now knows that the huge sum of RM 35 million has allegedly been allocated to build a “hall” in ‘PM8’s constituency. For whose benefit, apart from the contractor, remains unclear and there is nothing to show that the contract calls for golden roof tiles, marble floors or anything else more suitable for an Agong’s

All Singing And Dancing

Malaysia’s international image got another airing with pictures of convicted criminal Najib Razak celebrating 2021 very publicly. Some Malaysians would like to know where he got the money from to celebrate so lavishly. 1MDB or one of his other scams? Malaysia’s international image as a country where crooks, with top level support, can steal a

She Signed It Didn’t She?

PKR defector Zuraida, faced with the bond she signed when becoming a PH candidate at the last general election, now tries to avoid its consequences by claiming it is “unconstitutional”! Will she stop there? How about claiming that the coup coalition which she made possible by undignified “frogging” is also unconstitutional? Which it certainly is.

Real Help

If Malaysia really needs help in fighting Covid infection it can purchase the needed vaccine from established producers; just as many other countries are doing. If there is money for royal progresses to the Middle East there must be money to buy tested vaccines; a much more sensible use of public funds. Or are all

Escaping The Smell?

The Gulf states are distant from Malaysia but not so distant that the stink of corruption cannot be noted; even at such a distance. Malaysia,through the agency of arch thief Najib and his accomplices, Malaysian and otherwise, now has an international reputation as a failed state managed by a bunch of thieves, In that context

General Election. Now

The main question. The only one of real importance is what do the voters think about the PN coup plotters and the boobies on the PH side who caused this situation? Clearly ‘Moo’ and his fellow plotters have no stomach for an election. Why let the people choose when there are still government funds to

Explanation Needed

Enough time has passed for even the most crowded of Court calendars to find time to hear the appeal lodged by mega criminal Najib against hs conviction. Yet no date has been fixed and announced for those proceedings. Why not? If the calendar of the Court of Appeal is so crowded why is it not

Wants A General Election?

Some politicians have been suggesting that royally appointed PM Moo wants a general election! While there are still public funds to be raised? Having pushed a Budget that will, among other goodies, profit his royal masters? What nonsense! A general election is the last thing he wants as witness his recent racist calls for the

Gone Nuts?

In a public statement royal puppet Muhyiddin has claimed that “divine will” had brought together three main Muslim political parties in Malaysia. That’s good. So Malaysians will no longer have to bother with all that democratic nonsense about elections and how their taxes are spent. Divine oversight will take care of all that; perhaps with

Smash And Grab

A term usually applied to criminals forcibly attacking a high value shop and making off with whatever they can steal on the spot. So it would be somewhat inappropriate to describe the PN “government” in those terms. Steal and conceal might be nearer the mark so it is disappointing to see the Agong praising the

Free Travel

Eminence gris, or Machiavelli if preferred, of the PN coup and, as a result, “Senior Minister”, Azmn Ali finds himself in court for non-payment of bills from the travel agency he has employed to arrange travel. The claim also includes bills for travel, equally unpaid, by his children. People who don’t pay what they owe

Democracy Is Not Just A Word

WHY BOTHER? The blatant abuse of parliamentary procedure by the PN government, supported enthusiastically by the “Speaker”, is said to have “passed” the Budget. In a parliamentary democracy, which Malaysia has ceased to be, such an important measure must receive majority support in a formal vote by the Assembly. This it did not have but

Malaysian Apartheid Politics

Barisan Nasional  Secretary General Annuar Musa is quoted as saying that if UMNO can cut a deal with PAS and Bersatu it can expect to get the lion’s share of seats to contest at the next general election. He qualified that by making it clear that he was referring to seats likely to go to

Snap Election

Press reports indicate that UMNO boss Zahid’s call for the PN government not to delay a motion of confidence in Prime Minister Muyhiddin is intended both to “gain more respect for UMNO” and to force Muyhiddin to call a “snap election” Quite how Moo would do that remained unstated. If he simply resigned his post

No More Frogging?

It is interesting, and most unusual, to find a politician, and a Malaysian one at that, advocating the banning of this practice which has been so profitable for the political class in that country over the years. Very many politicians appear to see selling their allegiance as a right, a pension even, if the need

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