Dato’ Tan,
(writer's words in black, and Datuk Tan Chin Meng's article in red)
I respect your courage in speaking what you think, and expressing how you feel. I welcome your continued input in the arena of opinions that makes us Malaysian proud that we are all accepting of pluralistic discourse. Tahniah.
But quite frankly I think that your opinion is at best limp; and at worst … not worth mentioning..
It is truly unreal how naïve and gormless some people get, when they are blinded by their inherited and indoctrinated political ideas that they fail to see their own contradictions. I’m often stuck between pitying and being angered by some of our fellow countrymen and countrywomen, who in this case (and most others) I am specifically referring to BN, MCA members. For the sake of ease, I will explain this whilst replying to Tan Chin Meng’s pitiful article a few days ago.
Pakatan Rakyat Perak state assemblymen are trying to gain votes and pushing the blame away from themselves over the Vale SA iron ore distribution centre and palletising plant project in Teluk Rubiah, Manjung by claiming that the Barisan Nasional state government is not protecting the environment and dismissing the health of the people.
By the way, before I start, a friendly advice from a little nobody like me may go a long way sometimes. VALE is building a PELLETISING plant… not palletising plant. I don’t think Mr Neves would be very happy if your good for nothing government only approved their plans to be a palletising plant…
So are you saying that allowing an iron ore pelletising plant with no publicly aired plans to limit environmental damage, and to neutralising hundreds of thousands of ringgit worth of touristic beautification IS protecting the environment and NOT dismissing the health of the people.
I hate to tell you this Dato’, you really ought to stop shooting yourself in the foot. I’m starting to get sympathy pains on your behalf… Kesian…
However, the facts speak for themselves, and it has been made clear during the state’s legislative assembly sitting that former Perak Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Nizar Jamaluddin had signed a support letter for the project thus revealing Pakatan Rakyat’s lies and attempts to discredit the BN state government.
And if Dato’ Tan and his not quite so honourable chums in MCA, UMNO and BN can differentiate a supporting letter from and invitation-to-trade, from one CEO to another, we won’t be wasting the precious time of Perakians on such a heinous lie spun by Zambry.
Yes indeed, the facts do speak for themselves, and something has been made very clear in the state assembly; Zambry is well versed at peddling half truths and is a blatant liar. The UMNO BN government have little credit to take in the first place, so yours truly here, and Pakatan leaders have little to DIS-credit.
Menteri Besar Dato’ Seri Zambry Kadir has revealed the true face of Pakatan Rakyat by declassifying this confidential document proving that Pakatan Rakyat had attempted to hide the scandal by pushing the blame to BN while they claim to protect the interest of the people of Perak.
So let’s not insult the intelligence of the rakyat here. Lets say Dato’ Tan decides to tell the world that I’m an MCA sympathiser. All he needs to do is just black out everything in this letter apart from the first paragraph, and my signature on the bottom, and publish it in the press.
All he needs is copy of my NRIC, a forged signature, and Hey PRESTO! Howard Lee is the next proud member of MCA.
That’s what Zambry did with this whole saga, isn’t it? I doubt there’ll be many who would beg to differ.
Double standards
When Pakatan Rakyat was in control of the Perak state government, they had issued a letter of support welcoming Brazilian mining giant Vale SA. However, when Barisan Nasional recovered Perak, Pakatan started to discriminate against BN by practising double-standards over many issues and completely forgetting about the people’s welfare simply because they were focusing too much on advancing their own political interests.
Dato’ Tan. I really feel sorry for you. The audacity you employ here is so silly, it’s beginning to resemble a badly written comedy of errors.
Using the phrase ‘recovered Perak’ isn’t going to make an illegal power grab any less legal; any more glamorous; any less disgusting that it actually is; and certainly not going to garner you any more than one measly seat in the state assembly. No one from BN Perak has the right to talk about double standards and discrimination as the very fact that you’re still in the state assembly, let alone your being in the seat of government is the mother of all double standards.
Do I even need to touch on advancing political agendas? Surely on that subject, nothing beats a political coup d’etat that involves physically dragging a speaker of his chair and locking him in a room…
Their way of thinking is completely illogical, constantly changing their stands over the simplest issues. Pakatan can be described as a two-faced, ‘wishful-thinking’ political party as they constantly bring up the subject on how they were not allowed to complete their long-term political plans to solve the troubles faced by the people.
HELLO!!! Earth to Dato’ Tan!!
The Pakatan Rakyat EXCO started off offering Tanjung Hantu. They were never in a position to offer Teluk Rubiah. That’s the prerogative of Harta Makmur Sdn Bhd. As it’s a PRIVATE LAND! Up until now, Pakatan are still maintaining the stance of Tanjung Hantu being the first choice. As to the rest of that paragraph, I really have no idea to what you are referring to and what you’re trying to say.
Please, allow me the honour of inviting you to list your examples of Pakatan Rakyat being so-called two-faced and wishful-thinking. Just let me start this invitation to dialogue with an example of your party’s two faced, flip-flop-u-turning, constant-mind changing stance: MCA on Lynas. Say no more….
I urge Pakatan Rakyat state assemblymen to abandon their old outdated political thinking in this 1Malaysia era where the people come first and the state government is supposed to implement policies which benefit the people.
Outdated eh? Pre-independence: the British split us up to Malay areas, Chinese areas, Indian Areas. We were conquered as we were divided. Geographic segregation bred cultural and racial animosity. Our national founding fathers didn’t like that. That was pre-independence. Today, BN is still segregated by race. Your coalition’s very existence is itself a testament of outdated political and social thinking….. So spare me the strength of my fingers and the calories that my brain metabolises by processing the stupid contradiction you just badly made.
