Posted in Politics & government on February 4th, 2009 6 Comments »
Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim accuses BN of trying to form government in Perak ‘by hook or by crook’. “We are pushing for a dissolution of the state assembly and fresh elections in the state. We must go back to the people and get a fresh mandate,” he tells AFP. “BN is trying to form the [...]
Posted in Politics & government on February 4th, 2009 2 Comments »
Rumor has it that 2 more Pakatan Rakyat representatives in Perak from DAP are defecting, bringing a total Pakatan’s loss to 5 representatives. p/s – more rumor. Dr. Zamri Abdul Kadir, representative for Pangkor, might be the next Menteri Besar.
Posted in Politics & government on January 16th, 2009 5 Comments »
There are so many words to be penned and typed yet, time ticked too fast. I am drained and wished nothing else at the moment except for placing my head on my trusted pillow on my bed and read the books which I should have finished last year, that would have been banned if our [...]
Posted in Politics & government on November 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Let us face it. Anwar Ibrahim got his bluff called. Rather than facing the fact and wait for elections for it, he continues to offer false hope and put the blame of the non-event of September 16 — or delay as he calls it — on the refusal of Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to [...]
Posted in Politics & government on September 20th, 2008 3 Comments »
Far too many people are debating the morality of the political defection as advocated by the Pakatan Rakyat. Relentless debates have made the matter clear. The question of who is standing on which side is also easily answerable. The less talked about however is the process that entails the political defection. How exactly power would [...]
Posted in Liberty, Politics & government on September 17th, 2008 10 Comments »
Without doubt, there are individuals and groups which oppose Pakatan Rakyat’s idea of forming the federal government via defection. These groups rationalize their opposition by stating the voters elected the current government into power and not the current opposition. That rationale could be deconstructed further: voters’ main factor in voting a candidate into office is [...]
Posted in Liberty on September 13th, 2008 3 Comments »
Let me find my courage in that little box of mine, somewhere. Have you found yours yet?
Posted in Politics & government on September 8th, 2008 3 Comments »
A person from UMNO Youth, Abdul Rahman Dahlan threatens to take it to the streets if there is a change of government. “If Sept 16 does occur, it will not be a surprise if Barisan supporters go to the streets to challenge the legitimacy of a government formed through undemocratic means. And all this is [...]
Posted in Economics, Politics & government on September 4th, 2008 3 Comments »
With (x,y), x is the payoff to the incumbent while y is the payoff to the challenger. Numbers are cardinal. The challenger plays the first round. The incumbent plays the last round. By martial law, I mean to indicate incumbent’s refusal to let go of power, eventually involving some kind of conflict greater than mere [...]
Posted in Politics & government, Society on September 2nd, 2008 1 Comment »
One late morning in early November 2004, the sun was well up but with an overcast sky, it was a dark day. At the lobby of a library in Ann Arbor, the United States, the television finally broke the news that John F. Kerry had lost to George W. Bush in the US presidential race; [...]
The name is Hafiz Noor Shams. I am a libertarian, a fellow at the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs and a columnist at The Malaysian Insider. For more about me, go here.