AGEN AMERIKA : AMK BIDAS KENYATAAN BIADAP RAIS YATIM
Kenyataan Media
Angkatan Muda Keadilan Malaysia
20 September 2008
Angkatan Muda Keadilan Malaysia (AMK) menyelar kenyataan biadap dan dangkal yang dikeluarkan oleh Menteri Luar Negeri, Dr. Rais Yatim hari ini yang cuba menimbulkan spekulasi mengenai hubungkait Amerika Syarikat dengan Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
Dipetik melalui laporan muka depan Utusan Malaysia hari ini, Rais dipetik sebagai berkata Wisma Putra memperoleh maklumat bahawa ada pihak tertentu dari Amerika Syarikat Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim untuk memperkotak-katikkan dan menghuru-harakan Malaysia.
Kenyataan biadap ini dipercayai adalah satu usaha terdesak Umno-BN melalui propaganda murah Utusan Malaysia yang kelihatan mahu mengucar-kacirkan sokongan rakyat di sebalik kemelut kepimpinan negara yang dihadapi oleh Umno khususnya.
Propaganda murahan mengenai ‘Anwar Agen Amerika’ ini telah disebarluas sebegitu lama, paling hangat sewaktu kempen Pilihanraya Kecil Parlimen Permatang Pauh pada bulan Ogos lepas.
Tanpa mereka sedari, di bawah kerajaan Umno-BN jugalah Perjanjian Dagangan Bebas (FTA) antara Malaysia-Amerika Syarikat begitu hebat digerakkan dalam keadaan FTA ini ditentang oleh kebanyakan ahli ekonomi dan rakyat peringkat pertengahan.
Kebergantungan ekonomi Malaysia ke atas Amerika Syarikat juga memperlihatkan ia menyumbang hampir 53.2 peratus jumlah eksport Malaysia sehingga Jun 2008. Ini pastinya berlaku di bawah pentadbiran Umno-BN tanpa sebarang campur tangan Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
Malah, Umno sendiri pada tahun 2002 sanggup menggadai sebanyak RM4.6 juta wang rakyat hanya semata-mata mahu mengupah pelobi Yahudi, Jack A. Abramoff untuk mengatur pertemuan antara Mahathir Mohamad dengan Presiden George Bush.
AMK yakin dan percaya propaganda murah sebegini begitu terdesak direncanakan memandangkan mereka gagal menyekat kemaraan Pakatan Rakyat untuk menguasai Putrajaya dalam tempoh terdekat.
AMK mendesak agar Rais Yatim memberikan justifikasi jelas mengenai tuduhan palsu beliau dengan kadar segera. AMK juga tidak teragak-agak untuk menyaman Utusan Malaysia kerana bertindak mengapi-apikan sentimen rakyat dengan nilai pemberitaan yang rendah dan jumud sekiranya mereka gagal menarik balik berita tersebut dalam tempoh 24 jam.
Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin
Ketua
Angkatan Muda Keadilan Malaysia
Media Statement by Tony Pua in Petaling Jaya on Tuesday, 24th June 2008:
Regret that a member of a political party replaced a Petaling Jaya residents’ association president under the Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) quota in Majilis Bandar Petaling Jaya (MBPJ)
In MBPJ, it was announced that there will be a total of 24 new councilors of which four of them are from PAS, seven from PKR and six from DAP, with the remaining seven councilorship to be appointed from non-partisan nominees, i.e. NGOs and RAs in Petaling Jaya.
It is an important change, when compared to the previous Barisan Nasional Government, that NGO members are appointed to the local council to ensure increased transparency and good governance, and to ensure special and needy interest groups are taken into account, such as the appointment of Anthony Thanasayan, president of the Animal Assisted Therapy for the Disabled and Elderly Association.
However, I have been informed that a member of a political party replaced a non-partisan local Petaling Jaya residents’ association president under the NGO quota in MBPJ. In addition, I’ve been made to understand that this was done at the very last minute to avoid possible objections to the move.
I’d like to express my regret and disappointment that such action has blemished an otherwise excellent step taken by the Selangor state government to include NGO participation while waiting for the local government to be democratically elected in the near future.
I’d like to call upon the Selangor state government to review its decision, to ensure that all party members are placed strictly within the party quotas i.e., 7 from PKR, 6 from DAP and 4 from PAS and only genuine and reputable NGO members as well as leaders of local residents’ associations are given strict priority.
* Tony Pua, MP for Petaling Jaya Utara
