Sent: Tue, December 28, 2010 11:03:35 PM
Subject: William Leong, PKR Treasurer- preparing for the next GE

Message from William Leong, PKR Treasurer
Dear ALL,

Fellow country-men/women & all,

Pls pass this important message to all your relatives, friends and contacts (who are still Malaysians). Those living overseas pls help to fwd this e-mail.

This message below is directed to All Malaysians. If you are not a Malaysian, then take it for information sake.
Politics itself is not dirty, but it’s people who make it dirty….so it depends on which side of the fence you are in. Thanks to W.F. Cheah for sharing this article by William Leong. William Leong is the treasurer of PKR and younger brother of ex minister, Paul Leong. Practicing in law for 20 odd years before going into politics.

PLEASE READ IF YOU CARE ENOUGH FOR YOUR KIDS’ FUTURE

All Malaysians are duty bound to help each other to achieve a better life in our country. With the performance of the UMNO/BN for the last 52 years, especially the last 28 years, the country has been raped by politicians and their cronies. You know how arrogant they are, let us have a good look at:

1. They are extending the APs to 2015 ! They are giving themselves free money. This is daylight robbery. We are talking big bucks, billions/year from the rakyat (including common Malays).

2. The taxes and duties on cars continue to be high to protect Proton but we the public pay through our nose. If the PR government comes into power we can expect prices to drop by at least 50% for imported cars. Why are we paying these cronies our hard earned money so that they can drive around in their new and latest Ferraris, BMWs etc.

3. Have you noticed that they appoint themselves to high paying jobs and positions where they can also earn additional side incomes? Again, these side incomes run into billions.

4. The Accountant General reported that RM 28B was wasted by you know who and for who. These figures probably do not involve the highly secretive arms contracts which run into another many billions.

5. Look at the way they snatched the Perak State government.

6. Look at the way they treated Teoh Beng Hock.

7. Look at the way they are trying to get Anwar.

8. Look at the Lingam case. No action taken even after Royal Commission had confirmed his wrong doing.

9. Look at the PKFZ delaying tactics, get one report after another, and then another and if necessary another and then only the small fish get caught and hauled to Court. What a way to fool us? Either they are stupid or we are stupid. The abuse and cheating has been going on for far too long. Only you and I, and together with all Malaysians who care, can stop them. Between now and the next General Elections, we have to campaign now as if the GE is just 6 months from now. Not only do we campaign, we must get our friends to get others and others to do the same. Let us not be fooled again and again.

Please start now, if 10 of us can each get 10 we will have 100 and if each of the hundred gets 10 we will have 1000. If we keep going, we will reach more than 10 million Malaysian voters to force a change. This is a legacy we must give our children/grandchildren ! T

Look at Indonesia, Japan, S. Korea and Taiwan, all their old and corrupt parties have been replaced, Malaysia should be the next.

What Independence? On this August 31st, we shall celebrate the 52nd anniversary of the British leaving our country. I did not say we are celebrating the 52nd anniversary of our independence. This is because
our people have not enjoyed real liberty, democracy or justice. Without liberty, democracy or justice there is no independence. In these 52 years the oppressive rule of a foreign colonial master has been replaced by the oppressive rule of a local master… with an iron fist.

They use the same instruments of oppression as the British did. They use the ISA, the Sedition Act, the Printing Press & Publications Act and detention without trial. The freedom of assembly, the freedom of expression and the freedom to live a life of dignity free from fear and oppression are illusions. In these 52 years the yoke of a foreign colonial master has been replaced by the yoke of a local master. They use the same policy of “divide and rule”. They survive by feeding off racialism. They survive by fostering divisiveness. They survive by preaching religious intolerance.

What Teoh Beng Hock died for?
Malaysians will not know real independence, will not be free and will not enjoy democracy unless this oppressive regime is thrown out. They must be thrown out and pay for what they have done to Teoh Beng Hock. We must not forget what he stood for. More importantly, we must not forget what he died for. He lived to help Malaysians in the struggle against corruption and oppression. He died so that our struggle can live. He died fighting for justice.

What Justice? Without justice we cannot say we have liberty or democracy or equal rights. We cannot say we have liberty or freedom when Tamil schools have no tables and chairs. When in Sabah and Sarawak, schools have no electricity. A child that is illiterate is not free. We cannot say we have democracy or equal rights for women, when a Chinese girl with 9A1s cannot enter a university.. A girl without a job has no rights. We cannot say we have freedom of choice when a man cannot feed his family.

A starving man has no choice. Liberty, democracy and freedom are meaningless words when there is no justice. Justice is political liberty. Justice is economic independence. Justice is equality. There is no political liberty when you vote out of fear. There is no economic independence when you give your support out of fear your son’s scholarship will be withdrawn or your license will be withdrawn.

There is no freedom of choice when you elect a party out of fear for your contract or your business. This is what has been happening in these 52 years and this will continue if we do not act. There will be many more Teoh Beng Hocks and many more Port Klang Free Zones if we do not stop them.

What One Malaysia? Najib says he wants One Malaysia. Teoh Beng Hock’s death has shocked us back to reality. We cannot just listen to rhetoric. We must look at the deeds. When we look, we see what has been done, is a far cry from what has been said. The Perak government has been stolen from its people. Najib has now declared his intention to grab the Selangor government.

The MACC is a tool. It is used to de-stabilize the Pakatan Rakyat government. Teoh Beng Hock was interrogated throughout the night. He was grilled for buying RM2,400 worth of Malaysian flags. No one has been grilled when PKFZ loss RM12.6 billion.

The MACC officers are raiding the Pakatan Exco members’ office so often they are becoming fixtures. Cars and cows and Malaysian flags have become a fixation of the MACC.

MACC has not shown the same enthusiasm when it comes to BN assemblymen who used up their annual allocation of RM500,000 in 2 months before the general elections. The MACC has also not shown any interest in the trips by the former chief minister and his family to study the river system in Disney Land. There is no investigation into how the former chief minister can afford to purchase a multi-million ringgit mansion that is beyond the means of a chief minister’s salary. Barisan Nasional machinery is now on the move.

Books attacking Anwar Ibrahim and Khalid Ibrahim are being distributed.
The authors of these books are sowing the seeds of hatred and contempt. They desecrate the Hindu’s sacred cow in a protest filled with bigotry. They protest against a Hindu temple built 150 years ago when the area was a plantation that today, just like its devotees, the estate workers, had been left behind by development.

They have forgotten Muslims were invited to practice their religion amongst the people of Yathrib. They are beating the drums of race and religion and the tone is becoming harsher with each beat.

The people must now decide. There cannot be any fence sitters. There is no middle ground.

When Teoh Beng Hock was thrown out of the window on 14th Floor, the people of Malaysia was thrown together with him into the sea of political troubles.

Whether Malaysia will sink or swim is now up to the people. The people must decide once and for all what is right and what is wrong. There cannot be a neutral ground.

Dante said: “The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.”

Today in Malaysia there is no place for neutrality. Malaysians must make their choice now. If we want to know what is evil and what is right, we must use our moral compass. It is only when we know the direction where justice lies can we know where we must stand. Do we want to choose liberty and justice which are always right or do we want to choose corruption, hatred, arrogance and oppression which are always wrong?

The choice is clear.
Every Malaysian must make his stand.

When you stand for liberty we stand with you. I want to tell you that when you stand for liberty, we will stand with you. When you defend democracy, we will be your shield.

When you fight for justice, we will be your sword.
We will always be with you.

They assaulted *Anwar Ibrahim. *They threw him in jail for 6 long years. They call him a traitor and worse. But Anwar will always be here to fight for you. They hounded and harassed *Lim Kit Siang. *They detained him in Kamunting. But Lim Kit Siang will always be here to stand by you. They attacked *Tok Guru Nik Aziz *and tried to humiliate him. But Tok Guru Nik Aziz will always be here to protect you.

We have been tested. They have thrown everything they have at us but we are still standing and we are still here.

We were here in November 2007 when a sea of yellow marched for a free and fair election. This was *BERSIH*. We were here in December when thousands in orange marched for equality. This was *Makal Sakthi*.This was the ripple that started the tsunami.

Barisan Nasional was swept out of 5 states. Since then Barisan Nasional has become more extreme in their policies. They have become more brutal with the people. When we Hope So on 1st August, the lovers of justice and liberty marched again. Again Barisan Nasional responded with violence and brutality. 638 people including women and children were arrested. Despite the police shutting down the city, despite the many road blocks and barricades, despite the arrest of those wearing black, the number who succeeded in gathering far exceeded my expectations.

But the size of the gathering cannot be bigger than my hope for Malaysia.

My hope is for every one that braved the tear gas and water cannons there will be many thousands more.

We want hundreds of thousands to march with us. We will march from under the shadow of fear into the light of justice. My hope is that the flame burning in each who gathered that day will kindle the hearts and minds of many thousands more.

Malaysians will find the courage to standup for principles and convictions.

We must stand up for what is right.

This is my hope and this is the hope of all Malaysians.

Truth, love and justice will prevail over the forces of hate and oppression. This will only happen when the silent majority refuses to remain silent anymore. This will only happen when the voice of the majority is finally heard.

We must be confident that oppression and corruption cannot endure. We must take comfort that truth and justice will always prevail. But this can only be achieved if we fight for it.

We must fight today for a better tomorrow.

Do not let our children look back and say that these are dark days. Let them say that these are great days. These are the most glorious days that our country ever had. These days will be remembered as the days when we were called, we answered. We stood up! We stood together shoulder to shoulder irrespective of race or religion. We fought and we prevailed. Each of us played our part according to our strengths.

Our children and their children will look back on these days and celebrate it as the days we became *ONE NATION*.

These days will be etched in our Nation’s history as the days we won over injustice and oppression. These will be the days we celebrate *THE TRUE MERDEKA*.

Thank you, Xie xie, vanakam …

Have a blessed day.
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TO MALAYSIANS OF ALL RACES, IT’S TIME TO STAND UP AGAINST CORRUPTION! IT’S TIME TO STAND UP FOR JUSTICE AND TRUTHS! IT’S TIME TO FIGHT FOR OUR TRUE MERDEKA!

PLEASE CIRCULATE…
THANKS!

In America, there are many races-Chinese; different kinds of Asians, Indians, Blacks, whites, Hispanics, etc etc, gays, lesbians and etc etc and other species of race- and we live under ONE COUNTRY CALLED UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND ALL OF US FOLLOW THE SAME RULES OF LAW. NO law is favored towards one race and no one is above the law.

In 1Malaysia, they expect all races to live together in harmony but the problem is the Malays aka the Bumiputras have special rules for them which are in their favor!!! they have their own interest free loans which they don’t have to pay back, their own special land rights–bumiputra land, Bumiputra housings, open door policy in loans, education and free for all—whatever business they can get..for free.
How about other races? They are being screwed deep each freaking day!!

SO HOW CAN THIS 1malaysia work??
This 1Malaysia concept is so freaking piece of bogus propaganda lie!!!

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Selangor bans 1M’sia logo on billboard ads

KLANG: Selangor has banned advertisements on billboards that feature the 1Malaysia logo.

The 1Malaysia logo is a political logo, said state Housing and Local Government Committee chairman Ronnie Liu, adding that this contravenes local by-laws.

“You don’t see any billboard in Selangor carrying the PKR, PAS or DAP logo,” he told The Star, adding that the prohibition was not a new development.

“Local government by-laws in Selangor clearly state that political symbols cannot be used on billboard advertisements,” said Liu.

He said the 1Malaysia advertisements were a political message of the Barisan Nasional.

“It is clear that Barisan is pushing hard for the 1Malaysia concept and to send out its message to the people,” he said, adding that it was nothing but a political agenda and not allowed in the state.

He said it was only at certain times, such as a general election, that such advertisements would be allowed.

“Not on normal days,” he said.

“There are no DAP, PAS or PKR advertisements on the streets. It should be the same for Barisan,” added Liu.

He said the state government sent out circulars to all local and district councils in Selangor recently to reiterate the prohibition because certain quarters had wanted to include the 1Malaysia logo in their billboard advertisements.

“There was enthusiasm to add the logo in advertisements by certain quarters.

“So we had to remind the councils to be firm in prohibiting it,” he said.

Asked if Selangor was the only opposition state to ban 1Malaysia billboard advertisements, Liu said he was unsure of it.

Meanwhile, workers from the Kuala Langat district council tore down an advertisement bearing the 1Malaysia logo from a convenience store, sparking protest from about 50 people who included Umno and MIC members.

Store owner K. Thiagarajan, 26, said he and his two partners were shocked that they were not allowed to place a 1Malaysia poster in front of their shop.

“I obtained permission from the district council in September to put up the poster and was taken aback when I was summoned last Thursday to remove the advertisement,” he told reporters before submitting a complaint to council president Abdul Razak Jaafar.

“It is unfair to ask us to remove the poster, especially after we were given permission to put it up,” added Thiagarajan, who was accompanied by his lawyer.

All Malaysians that have left Malaysia and working abroad are so much better off-financially as well as the quality of life!!!
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Forced to take their skills abroad

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/10/17/nation/7244614&sec=nation

DR GEORGE LEE, 41, urologist who was trained in Oxford and Cambridge, Kuala Lumpur

“I returned home in 2007 from London after more than 20 years. Malaysia is an adventure for me.
Dr Lee: Happy to be back even though he now earns one-tenth of what he used to.

I came home to find myself. I first left home at the age of 16. My dad wanted me to have a good education and sent me to northern Ireland as it was the cheapest place he could find as a war was going on.

I lived on a farm and would milk 500 cows a day for £20 to earn money to help pay my rent. I didn’t get to come home for a visit until five years later at the age of 21.

When I was in the UK, I wanted to throw off my Chinese past and adopt Western ways. I later realised success is not how people view you but how you view yourself.

I came home for myself, my family, to preserve my culture, my tradition for my two children. Just the other day, I was teaching my son how to fold the Chinese hell currency which we burn for our ancestors.

When you live abroad, nobody cares about you or comes to visit, unless they have nowhere to stay. I went back to London in 2009 and visited the place where I used to stay. The coffee vendor by the street was still there. He saw me and asked,“your regular expresso?” He didn’t even notice I had been gone for two years!

I am happy to be back even though I earn one-tenth of what I used to. I am grateful for what I have, my family.”

AZLINDA ARIFFIN-BOROMAND, corporate counsel, international law firm Fasken Mertineau, London

“My work covers cross-border mergers and acquisitions, capital market work, fundraising and listing on AIM Market of London Stock Exchange, with a focus on Asia-Pacific businesses.

I left six years ago after 10 years of practising as a lawyer in Malaysia to get more international exposure. London is a financial hub of the world and I know to be an international corporate lawyer, I need to be there to gain experience.

In order to be a developed nation by 2020, Malaysia has to speed up on our skills and intellectual property. A lot of good progress has been made so far and I think this will continue.

However, we don’t have much time, so we need to be more receptive and adaptable. The education system needs to be beefed up so that we have the necessary skills to compete in the global arena.

Meritocracy is important and we need to get this right.

My years of working in London has opened my eyes to a lot of things. I had to start from scratch in my profession as everything is judged on merit here.

I think it is good as it has helped me to be so much better as a lawyer as well as a person. No doubt, I would like to bring this back home someday.”

IGNATIUS RASIAH, 52, (pic) materials scientist, Ireland

“I feel so sad that what I do, developing new technology, is not for my country.

I would love to come back because Malaysia is home and there is no place like home. We did try to come back in 1995 but we could not get any jobs despite trying for 10 months. In the end, we went to Singapore and I got a job within a month.

Malaysia has missed out on several waves of new technology; we didn’t build on what we have (Intel set up its first plant outside of the US in Penang).

For me to come back, I would like to see a meritocracy-based system, total transparency in economic, political, academic, technological and administration management and equal enforcement of law for all.

DR MALINI OLIVO, 49, medical scientist, Ireland

“To conduct research that leads to new discoveries for the advancement of medical science which can help the world, we need funding and I don’t know whether Malaysia has the resources to commit to that.

As a principal investigator of the National Cancer Centre of Singapore, I held S$5mil (RM12mil) funding at any given time for my research.

Malaysians do well anywhere they go, not only because they are smart but because they are very hard-working. Their attitude is ‘work hard and do what you have to do but don’t expect anything in return’.”
Happy abroad: Nor Eleeza and husband Mohd Fadzillah Razali prefer the quality of life in Bahrain.

NOR ELEEZA ABU BAKAR, 38, architect, Bahrain.

“Although Bahrain is not as well developed as Malaysia, we find the country adequate, less hectic and are able to have more quality time for ourselves.”

A female Malay academic working in London.

“I don’t know if there are any changes that would influence my return or otherwise, because my reason for leaving was strategic rather than really being upset with anything.

There are some changes I want to see in Malaysia, but I am realistic enough to believe these changes may not happen in my lifetime. Perhaps when my commitments have been fulfilled, I can return to help make those changes. But it would be nice to return to less traffic jams and a more efficient public transport system.

I think there is a case to be made for the Government to recognise talent we already have at home – unpolished gems lost in the back offices of MNCs, GLCs or the private sector. They may not be able to move without support due to financial constraints or other issues.

There needs to be a mechanism to support local-based talents with potential to secure employment in areas where they could flourish and contribute. Needless to say, they should also be rewarded with a salary that commensurates with their achievements and abilities.

Driven to greener pastures

What drives a person to uproot from a peaceful, modern country like Malaysia, known to the world for its easy-going charm, divine food and friendly people? The reasons are more varied than just earning better wages to have a higher standard of living.

MENTION the names Ignatius Rasiah and Dr Malini Catherine Olivo and few Malaysians would have heard of them.

These are two outstanding individuals, unacknowledged at home, who have contributed much to the advancement of science and technology in the world.

The couple is among 784,900 Malaysians working overseas, many of them highly educated or skilled. In foreign countries, these professionals claim to have found fertile ground to grow and develop their talents, through opportunities and facilities provided by both the government and private sectors which recognised their potential.

Ignatius and his wife Dr Malini left the country in the mid-1990s but not by choice. They were unable to get jobs after their post-graduate studies despite applying to several major local universities.

Today, Ignatius is a well-known materials scientist while Dr Malini is a pioneering medical scientist in the field of biophotonics – the use of lasers and light for the early detection and treatment of cancer.
On the winning end: Countries which play host to Malaysian talents have benefited greatly from their skills. – AP

Each time someone turns on a computer or snaps a photo with a mobile phone camera, he or she is using an electronic component developed by Ignatius and his fellow scientists.

“I touch someone every day of their lives each time they turn on the computer or take a digital picture,” Ignatius, currently based in Ireland, said in an e-mail interview.

Ignatius, 52, was previously the Global Technology Manager at the giant US firm Honeywell where he was in charge of research teams in Asia and the US which developed and launched thermal solution for microprocessors that continue to be used by top microprocessor companies today. He is now head of research and development with Western Automation Research and Development Ltd, an Irish company.

Dr Malini, who has won several international awards for her work, is currently Stokes Chair Professor of Biophotonics, National University Galway, Ireland and also a visiting Professor of Harvard Medical School.

These are the same people whom Malaysia needs to catapult the country into a high-income economy by 2020 and whom the Government is now trying to woo home.

In his Budget speech on Friday, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak announced that a Talent Corporation (Talent Corp) will be established under the Prime Minister’s Office in early 2011 to increase the number of talented and quality workforce in the domestic market.

Talent Corp will formulate a National Talent Blueprint and develop an expert workforce database to help the Government attract, motivate and retain talented human capital from within the country and abroad.

Former Human Resources Minister Tan Sri Dr Fong Chan Onn is all for bringing our talents home, noting that the country has suffered as a result of the loss of highly qualified and skilled Malaysians.

“More than half of the medical specialists in Singapore’s Mount Elizabeth Hospital (one of the country’s top hospitals) are Malaysians,” said Dr Fong. “There are also many Malaysians working in Silicon Valley, working as IT experts.”

Countries which play host to Malaysian talents have benefited greatly from their skills. From Silicon Valley in the US to China’s booming city of Shanghai, Malaysians are part of the dynamics which innovate and invent to bring new technology to the market.

They are also bankers and lawyers, handling multi-million dollar acquisition and mergers which create jobs for thousands of people.

Some have claimed that the lack of meritocracy and openness has left them without jobs or miniscule prospects of promotion to develop their skills, forcing them to leave the country to seek employment in foreign countries.

Others left the country over low wages which became insufficient to live off after they got married and had children. The high crime rate, congested traffic and lack of good public transport system were also cited as factors which led to the decision to leave.

But before one gets judgmental and labels these Malaysians as unpatriotic, it has to be pointed out that some had in fact returned earlier to serve the country but found themselves stone-walled, unable to find employment and ultimately ended up leaving.

Take the case of Ignatius and Dr Malini who were completing their post-doctorate studies in Canada when they heard Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad calling for Malaysian scientists to return home to help develop the country.

Well-meaning and idealistic, the couple returned to Kuala Lumpur in 1995 and applied to major universities and two government departments for work. For 10 months, they waited and hoped for a job offer but none was forthcoming.

“Each time I called up a university, I was told my application was being processed,” Dr Malini recalled.

The couple survived on Ignatius’ private consulting jobs. But as the months went by with no permanent job in sight, Dr Malini applied to Singapore and was offered a job as a research scientist at the Singapore General Hospital.

The couple moved to Singapore together and Ignatius landed his job with Honeywell within a month of arriving.

“We wish so much to contribute to our country what we are contributing to the world,” said Dr Malini.

“I would still love to come back but only if there is the facility and infrastructure to conduct research in biophotonics.”

“The work I do is on the cutting edge of science and for such research, we need to work together with talents from all over the world. The country will need to open up to allow foreign talents in. We also need adequate funding for such research.”

Kenneth Teh, 52, works in one of the largest US science research laboratories as a data acquisition physicist where he develops data acquisition systems for nuclear physics experiments.

A major consideration for returning, he shared, is his son’s education.

“If I do not return, it is for a myriad of reasons,” said Teh.

“Is the Malaysian education system positioned to train my son to compete effectively in this century in what will most likely be the Chinese century?

“Is the society progressive and forward-looking, with a blurring of racial lines and heading towards a common Malaysian identity,” he asked?

Nor Eleeza Abu Bakar, 38, and her husband left Malaysia in 2007 to work in Bahrain as architects for higher salaries and a better quality of life which gave them more time with their children.

Eleeza would love to come home if the salaries here were better and security in the country improved as she is a mother of five.

“If we can earn the same amount of income and enjoy a good quality of life, we would love to come home,” said Eleeza.

“The working culture in Malaysia has become unhealthy where the employers demand more and more from the employee, and yet pay inadequate wages. We are also concerned over the crime rate in Malaysia, the gory news that we read in the newspapers every day.”

The Government and the private sector could do well to listen to the concerns of these overseas Malaysians – they represent some of our finest talents – talents that are of global standing and crucial human capital critical to the next phase of Malaysia’s development.

The country cannot lose any more talents who ultimately end up advancing the competitiveness of foreign countries to our own detriment.