Dari Bangsar Utama: Dolah hilang sokongan lagi, MCA tuntut Teresa Kok dan Raja Petra dibebaskan dari ISA

Belum pun sembuh luka Abdullah Badawi akibat kehilangan Zaid Ibrahim, kini luka baru menusuk dada. Parti komponen kedua terbesar dalam BN, MCA menuntut Raja Petra Kamarudin dan Teresa Kok dibebaskan. Lihat berita dari The Star dibawah:

MCA: Release Kok, RPK from ISA

KUALA LUMPUR: The MCA has called for Seputeh MP Teresa Kok and Malaysia Today editor Raja Petra Kamaruddin to be released from their arrests under the Internal Security Act (ISA).

MCA president Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting said Kok and Raja Petra should be investigated under other laws and be charged in court if there was evidence.

“To prevent possible future abuse of the ISA, the MCA central committee calls for a comprehensive review of the ISA so that it will apply strictly to cases relating to terrorism and subversive elements.

“There should also be a mechanism for checks and balances in the use of the ISA,” he said after chairing a six-hour meeting at Wisma MCA here on Tuesday.

Ong also said that the arrest of Sin Chew Daily reporter Tan Hoon Cheng for 18 hours under the ISA was totally uncalled for and the explanation given for her detention was unacceptable.

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Kapal yang dikemudinya hampir karam.

Dengar kata anak lelaki kesayangan Dollah, Kamaluddin Abdullah telahpun mencairkan kesemua aset-asetnya. Betul ke?

Kalau betul, kemana suami Nori nak lari?

MCA lompat: Dakwaan adalah strategi Anwar

Oleh (Malaysiakini)

"Memang menjadi hasrat Anwar menimbulkan pergeseran antara parti-parti komponen BN dan memisah-misahkannya," kata Fu, yang juga ketua biro penerangan MCA.

Dakwaan Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim bahawa terdapat beberapa ahli patlimen MCA akan menyertai Pakatan Rakyat disifatkan sebagai "tidak masuk akal dan palsu semata-mata".

"Dakwaan Anwar itu tidak boleh diterima akal dan palsu semata-mata.

"Ia tidak lebih daripada kegemparan murahan untuk publisiti dirinya sendiri," kata ahli jawatankuasa pusat MCA Datuk Fu Ah Kiow, mengulas dakwaan penasihat PKR sewaktu berucap di Bayan Baru, Pulau Pinang semalam.

"Memang menjadi hasrat Anwar menimbulkan pergeseran antara parti-parti komponen BN dan memisah-misahkannya," kata Fu, yang juga ketua biro penerangan MCA.

"(Dakwaan) ini merupakan sebahagian daripada strateginya untuk mengejar jawatan perdana menteri."

Menyedari BN pernah berdepan tempoh naik turun sokongan terhadapnya, Fu menggesa parti-parti komponen BN agar terus berpaut utuh bersama-sama.

"Melalui zaman susah dan senang (bersama), kami sentiasa bergandingan antara satu sama lain, dan akan terus berbuat demikian. Kami tidak akan melarikan rakan sendiri dalam keadaan yang susah," kata Fu.

Anwar: MCA MPs will join Pakatan Soon

Athi Veeranggan (Malaysiakini)

Hinting that Abdullah could dissolve Parliament in a sudden move to “save his skin”, he cautioned Pakatan leaders and members to be ready for a snap election.

PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim has dropped the clearest hint yet of impending crossovers to Pakatan Rakyat.

“I can safely say that several MCA MPs will join us soon,” he told journalists yesterday, after opening a service centre in Bayan Baru, Penang.

However, as with previous assertions of the same variety, that was all he was prepared to reveal.

Anwar has been keeping the public on tenterhooks since the general election on March 8, with repeated claims of crossovers by Barisan Nasional (BN) parliamentarians, especially those in Sabah.

He said that discreet meetings have been held in Hong Kong, Manila and Singapore, to avoid scrutiny, and that “even a cabinet minister met me”.

At a night rally held in City Stadium, George Town, the former deputy premier worked up the crowd with similar promises.

“It’s about time that we take over. It’s only a matter of time for us to take over. We are so close to Putrajaya,” he said to roars from some 15,000 people.

“It’s very soon. I will not say how (soon). But it will happen soon.”

He stressed that defecting MPs would have to accept the Pakatan tenets of good governance.

Anwar used the rally to obtain a ‘referendum’ on replacing the federal BN government and taking over as premier from Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

He and other Pakatan speakers exploited the escalating cost of living triggered by the fuel price hike, to bombard the BN government and raise the tempo of a disenchanted crowd.

“I can guarantee you all today that if Pakatan Rakyat were to form the federal government today, we will bring down the oil price tomorrow,” said Anwar.

Salvoes against BN

Penang Chief Minister and DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng, DAP advisor and Ipoh Timor MP Lim Kit Siang and PAS leader Mohamad Sabu also spoke at the rally.

Anwar said the BN government is still in a state of denial over the electoral debacle and that it has remained arrogant.

It has further betrayed the people’s trust with an unreasonable and inhumane fuel price hike, he said, although it has contributed to this through economic and financial mismanagement.

Anwar also wondered aloud as to why BN partners are supporting Umno’s weak political leadership and wrongdoing.

Saying that BN has run out of ideas in overcoming inflation, he said only Pakatan could save the country.

“Let’s join force to topple this irresponsible and arrogant government. If enough numbers support us (in Parliament), we will form the next government. The people of Penang must lead others in backing us for change to a better life,” said Anwar.

Hinting that Abdullah could dissolve Parliament in a sudden move to “save his skin”, he cautioned Pakatan leaders and members to be ready for a snap election.

“We must fight to win till the end,” he said.