The constitution guarantees the right of assembly

Any legistation that disallows these rights, violate the constitution.

The police must issue the permit if the assembly or gathering is
peaceful, and the police cannot make a presumption that any assembly
is not peaceful because it will be against the right of assembly.

The police can only have the right not to issue a permit, if the
intention is clearly not peaceful. If the intention is peaceful, and
the police refuses to give any permit, the police has violated the
constitution.

I've got the feeling that the police acted on people who gather in
large numbers although they are peaceful. By acting violently against
peaceful demonstrators, it made an appearance of force and violence,
to the point of hurting children and women. How can children and women
be violent? They don't have the strength to be violent.

Videos must be taken of all these processions and taken to court in
order to challenge the actions of the police. Malaysian civil servants
had little respect for the law and this is very disturbing. And they
are allowed to break the laws at will because they were not challenged
in courts, and courts took too long to make decisions, as long as 10
years.

Ir. Hj. Othman bin Hj. Ahmad
Sabah is heaven. Beautiful shark-free beaches and mountains,
next to civilizations with no natural or man-made disasters,
except Malaysia. But how long will it last?
Disclaimer: I only speak for myself.
Homepage: http://othmanA.tripod.com
Blog: http://othmanahmad.blogspot.com

Supporting ineffective leaders is committing 2 sins

If you know a leader represents an organisation that is not effective
in developing ourselves, and yet you still support them, it should be
clear that you are committing a sin that will haunt you forever.

But what is not clear is that, the reason usually put forward to
support such leaders is that the alternatives are even worse. Which I
tend to support and therefore had been silent all these while.

But it this were the case, you are committing another sin of
condemning someone before he has committed any crime. I know that all
politicians are bad. But how can we be sure that the opposition
politicians will be even worse, without even giving them a chance to
prove themselves. Even if you are right in the end, you still do not
have the right to condemn them without giving them any chance to
succeed.

It is unlikely that any opposition will ever be in a worse position
than BN is. Our laws are the most oppressive ever, and still is. It is
correct that Malaysia is still in a state of emergency. Election fraud
is rampant now. We are now in a position of no turning back.

In fact one reasons why people support BN is because of the certainly
of winning due to the election frauds. In Malaysia, if you don't
support the winning party, it will mean the end of your business and
businessmen are still the most important component of any party. All
need money to fund their campaigns.

This in itself is an evil thing to do, and yet perfectly acceptable to
Malaysians. Intimidation is part and parcel of living. Short term
gains is much better than long term gains. Soon we will end up like
North Korea, where we shall be thankful for even the provision of the
very basic necessities, to the point of worshipping the leaders for
giving us medical support that can only be provided by foreigners, as
shown by one documentary, of an eye surgeon.

Will the opposition leaders succumb to the same evils? Maybe. PAS may
impose even worse laws such as the forbidding of alcohol, the wearing
of microskirts by Air Asia flight attendants that allow them to show
their genitals especially when they use G-string underwear. All these
are just hearsay. We cannot condemn them for something that they
haven't done yet.

Even I am so suspicious that we will end up becoming the Taliban
Afghanistan if PAS won. The point is, we cannot condemn them for
something that they had not done. For Muslims it is a sin that we will
be penalised in the hereafter.

Sarawak's resources stolen because it is not economical for Sarawak to use?

Click the picture above in order to see a larger picture.

Borneo Post today: (11 Nov 2007)

Although it is recognised by Sarawak's Chief Minister that Sarawak is still backward, he accepts that resources from Sarawak be used to develop the already developed Malaya more than Sarawak that is in dire needs for development in all aspects, just because it is not economical to spend per population in Sarawak because of Sarawak's remoteness.

In order for Sarawakian to survive, it has to cut more of its trees and open up more plantations, destroying its environments, because its resources are used up to develop Malaya that is already in a much more advanced state of development.

In fact these expenditures of resources that had made Malaya cheaper to develop further than Sarawak. It is much cheaper to develop what is already developed than one that has never been developed. It was not cheap when the British developed Malaya and Sarawak initially. It is now much cheaper to develop Malaya per population because the basic infrastructures are already there. It is the expenditures of resources that had made it more economical to develop Malaya compard to Sarawak, and if more resources were used, it will make it cheaper to develop Sarawak. Sarawak was at a stage of development that Malaya was earlier.

When the British first built the Malayan railways, there was virtually nobody building homes along the railway tracks. It must have been extremely uneconomical in those days, and yet the British had persisted for the sake of long term benefits.

Once the railways were built up, more people will inhabit the towns along the tracks making it more economical to build more roads.

The same thing should happen to Sarawak and Sabah. You first spend money at a less economic rate, in order to develop roads linking major population centres that will allow the areas around the roads to be developed cheaply and economically, increasing productivity.

Actually this is just an excuse to steal the resources of Sarawak and Sabah. In Sabah, there is no attempt to build roads to Tambisan, which is just a few miles from Felda Sahabat Plantations build around the town of Sabahat, and yet, no attempt was ever made to build such road.

It is certainly very economical for everybody because it will allow the fish and small holders in Tambisan to sell their goods to the major population centres. Whereas virtually nobody with little economic prospect areas in Malaya, in the mountainous areass, were developed with billions of ringgit, so the criteria for economic viability per population is never followed.

The reasons why the Paitan and Sapulut roads were build had nothing to do with helping Sabah, but only to help the Malayan planters in the areas to prosper and no expenditure was ever considered for the economic well being of the surrounding very poor people in these areas by extending these roads to their villages, unlike in Malaya where even the tiniest villages with only a few houses are connected to sealed roads.

This is worse than colonisation. This is blatant theft and it can only be bad for Sabah and Sarawak in the long run. The destruction of our natural resources will be even faster. Malaysia is indeed a disaster for Sabah and Sarawak.

The excuse that Malaya will make a good market for Sarawak's renewable resources is just another theft. Out of 12 billion RM, only 4 billion is spent on developing the resources. 8 billion is spent on the transmission to the cruel imperialist Malaya, and the cost is to be take up by Sarawak, along with the destruction of hundreds of acres of prime land and forests, as well as the bio-diversity of Borneo. And worse, these renewable resources are not for sale to Sabah and Sarawak, let alone Indonesian Kalimatan which is nearer and much more economical to sell. Sarawak and Sabah has to settle for more environment destruction such as the huge coal plant at Silam, the site of the Eco-Challenge, and still, Sabah is suffering from lack of electricity and prices much higher than in Malay.

No, this is not colonisation, like the British Colonisation, this is blatant imperialistic theft of resources of Borneo, which is wrong and very destructive to the world. The rich environment of Borneo must be preserved and protected as long as necessary, not to be wasted in order to appease the appetite for the Malayans for cheap resources.

Sabah is better off with Indonesia

2004 figures of poverty:
Indonesia:
http://www.nscb.gov.ph/poverty/conference/papers/2_Indonesia.pdf

Malaysia:
http://www.undp.org.my/uploads/files/SabahHumanDevp.pdf

With Sabah's figure of 23% poverty level, it is the poorest in Borneo, and poorer than Indonesian average, only slightly better than with Papua and West Irian and Acheh.

And this is the figure for 2004 before each state is allowed 20% of its petroleum revenue.

By this time, Banjarmasin is far advanced compared to Kucing and Kota Kinabalu with flyovers everywhere, whereas I'm stuck with traffic jams from town to Petagas which shares the same road with our International Airport.

Of particular interest is the rate at which the poverty improves. From 1990 to 2004, SAbah's figure was from 30 to 23 percent. Which is indeed extremely slow, compared to the rapid drop for Indonesia recently. So by now the gap should be even larger.

If you think that recently, there should be major changes in poverty, just study the 9th Malaysian Plan budget, which again discriminates against Sabah, although it is supposed to be better than previously. With a population of 13%, given only 8% budget, it is certainly unfair and will not help reduce any poverty that much compared to the rest of the world.

Sarawak is also similarly discriminated but it still maintains a lot of revenue, compared to Sabah that had surrendered all sources of revenue to the Federal Government: Electricity, Vehicle Licensing, and Customs.

Revenue sharing with Federal Government is maximum of 10% with no minimum, i.e. it does not give anything, promised 5%, but delivering 150 million ringgit for the past 30 years. How much is that? Less than 1%.

I feel alright, but burdened with debts although I don't jolly around, i.e. go to night clubs, drink alcohol, play golf or any expensive sports.

But most of my inlaws, are suffering worse with Salaries of one tenth of mine, for those working with the government, and one twentieth for those working in factories. The starting salary for factory workers is RM150, but with time, they can get overtime and increments so their net will be RM300 more or less, and this is true even for government sponsored factories such as Sinora, but even this is not satisfactory to the government. It retrenched them and replaced them with contract workers.

Poverty level should be about RM600 if you follow the rules, i.e. pay rent, electricity and water, transport and medical and food at normal rates. That is why my daughter who works part time, I discouraged because I had to subsidise a lot of things.

Sukarno was right. Malaysia was another colonisation, but the bad thing is that it is worse than the British.

Is Indonesia better? Initially it was bad, under Sukarno and Suharto with their centralised planning, but now it is much better. Salaries have increased by 300% in just 3 years. Standard of living is still lower than Malaysia but it is rapidly overtaking Sabah, the poorest state in Malaysia.

Sabahans had to earn their living overseas in Malaya and Singapore, and many suffer from slavery and other social ills. Soon, after the finish of the 9th Malaysia Plan, and Indonesia maintains its momentum, many Sabahan s will be illegal immigrants in Indonesia. Banjarmasin is developing rapidly especially with the rapid increase in the price of petroleum.

The Javanese may still be in control and taking up most of top posts, but it is similar to Sabah. At least poverty level is much lower in Kalimantan compared to Sabah. It shows that the heavy expenditure manages to trickle down to the poor.

I don't mind Javanese bosses or even their corruption, as long as their money is spent in Sabah. It is only slightly worse then these Malayan officers, and hopefully, Indonesia will reduce corruption with the rise in Salaries.

This is all wishful thinking, but I must be prepared to a life of basic necessities, and charity, in supporting the many poor in Sabah. Just last week, I had been approached by many people on the streets asking for food, and they are not immigrants and they are muslims, and they don't beg on the streets. I must also be prepared to give loans to relatives who will never repay the loans.

Budget Allocation Discrimination against Sabah

http://www.undp.org.my/uploads/files/SabahHumanDevp.pdf
http://www.theedgedaily.com/cms/content.jsp?id=com.tms.cms.article.Article_4a18e46e-cb73c03a-18e80a60-f2d6a7b1

"

To reduce regional imbalances, emphasis would be given to develop states below the national average - the eastern region of Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak.

To speed up development in the northern region, RM23.8 billion or 11.9% of 9MP would be allocated. The projects include the Trans-Eastern Kedah Hinterland Highway in Kedah.

It said the central region would get RM56.2 billion or 28.1% of 9MP. The projects included building several federal roads and the Banting-Taiping Coastal Highway.

States in the eastern part of Peninsular Malaysia would receive a total of RM22.3 billion or 11.2% of 9MP (8MP: RM14.3 billion) for the Simpang Pulai-Gua Musang-Kuala Terengganu Road.

Sarawak would receive RM13.4 billion (6.7% of 9MP) for projects including upgrading the Oya-Mukha-Balingan road and the coastal Sibu-Bawang-Assan-Seredeng Road.

Sabah would be allocated RM15.7 billion (7.8% of 9MP) to complete the Sepulut-Kalabakan Roas and the Sipitang-Tenom Road."

Please note the population of Sabah is more than 10%. Only Sabah, Sarawak and Trengganu contributes to Petroleum revenue, but Sabah is the largest producer of Oil Palm. Its area is more than 20% of Malaysia(not just Malaya).

Sabah is also the poorest in Malaysia and among the poorest in the world.

Lying about Sabah's Independence

1. In the document tittled in Malay: Dokumen Pemasyoran Malaysia, signed by the Prime Minister of Malaysia on the 16th September, 1963 it was stated that:

".. as from the establishment of Malaysia the States of Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore shall cease to be colonies of Her Majesty the Queen ..."


"mulai daripad penubuhan Malaysia maka Negeri Sabah, Negeri Sarawak dan Negeri Singapura hendak-lah tamat daripada menjadi jajahan taalok Duli Yang Maha Mulia Baginda Queen"


(source: picture of document published in Sabah History in pictures(1881-1981) by Johan M. Padahan.)

2. Pictures of the last governor of North Borneo: Sir William Goode saluting the for the last time at midnight 15 September 1963.

How can Sabah be independent on the 31st of August, 1963?

Statehood can be a colonisation

http://hawaii-nation.org/

Refer to this article which argues that the Statehood for Hawaii within U.S.A. is a form of colonisation because during the granting of Statehood, the choice given was to be a colony or a state withing U.S.A.

Looking back, Germany was a federal republic enforced by Bismark with the force of iron which led Germany to such greatness but it certainly impoverished Sabah, which is rich in Petroleum, Timber and Oil palm, and yet is still the poorest in Malaysia and appears to be poorer than even Rwanda in Africa, within the forced so called federation of Malaysia.

Sabahans told that Sabah was independent in 1957

Today, on Friday, the 7th of September, 2007, muslim Sabahans attending Friday prayers at mosques around Kota Kinabalu were told that Sabah was independent 50 years ago, i.e. in 1957.

It is sad day when this misinformation is spread by a major Islamic institution in Sabah.

In 1957, Sabah was still a British colony.

Sabah's Unilateral Declaration of Independence

http://thestar.com.my/columnists/story.asp?file=/columnists/2007/4/8/pointofview/17377422&sec=Point%20Of%20View

No wonder it is not recorded as historical fact. Any unilateral declaration is usually considered as not valid.

There are many nations who make those declarations but it resulted in wars and are meaningless.

To be independent, you must have full control of your resources. Apparently, Sabah didn't have such luxury under British Colony.

You may argue that the level of control is the same as now, because Sabah does not have control over most of its resources, in much similar conditions as under British Colonial system, making the unilateral declaration as valid.

If it were the same, the only logical conclusion is that Sabah has never achieved independence from anybody.

Maybe it were true, given verbally by the impatient Sabahan leaders, but it was never recorded in writing. Probably the Sabahan leaders were worried of being arrested by British authorities.

Just as any Sabahan group will not dare to make public any unilateral declaration of independence from Malaya these days. They will be arrested under the ISA.

Did Sabah get its independence in 1957? 49 years ago

Hari Kemerdekaan means Independence day.

It is modelled after the Independence day of USA.

Whereas in USA, only the 4th of July is mentioned, the exact year of Independence is mentioned.

For USA states that were not part of the original colonial states, such as Texas and Hawaii, I wonder how they celebrate their independence day. Is it also on the 4th of July?

It is alright to celebrate the Independence day on any day, provided it is clear what it is for.

Certainly claiming something that is not correct is certainly stupid but this is the state of affairs for Sabah at the moment.

The signboard is perfectly alright in West Malaysia but it certainly is historically wrong when placed in Kota Kinabalu. It also reflects the colonised state of mind of Sabahans when very few complained about this or at least suggest some corrections.

Story of Barded Wire at Padang Merdeka

Padang Merdeka is the prime field for Kota Kinabalu and Sabah.

Padang Merdeka means Independence Field.

In order to keep maintainance cost down, they had to keep outsiders from using the field without any authorisation.

Despite these barbed wire, my children fly remote control x-wing plane there because we need the sheltered and open space there.

This is in contrast to the olden days, when many people will play at fields all over Sabah when afternoon comes. It is now very expensive in order to pay at fields. They are kept vacant although people cannot afford to use these fields.

Fields such as this Padang Merdeka is not built from expensive astro turf. Just look at the quality of grass there. It is not of the highest quality. In fact the barded wire and maintenance cost of keeping these wires will be more expensive than letting people use these fields whenever there are no functions like the days before, especially when Sabah was Colonised by Britain.

Sabahans will laugh at the suggestion but results speak louder than any argument. The state government is so bad financially that it cannot afford to maintain fields for the public free of charge. They are under the siege mentality.

Our economy is so bad that people cannot afford to pay high rates. The economy is bad not because Sabah does not have any resources. We have land filled with oil palm, sea filled with oil but these resources do not go to the people of Sabah.

These bleeding out of fund is far worse than corruption. Corruption, where the money remains in the state, will generate our economy. At least people will enjoy business as people spend their money inside Sabah. Any outflow of fund will not generate any business opportunity and therefore will increase the number of unemployments.

Our relatives and children have to work outside Sabah while we work at much lower pay. Cost of living will be low but this is not a good indicator of economic well being.

We cannot blame our politicians for being corrupt. Partly because there is little money to go around and too many voters to service at such large areas.

We must blame the federal government for not allocating Sabah, what is due to it, as guaranteed by the Malaysian constitution, and failing to honour the promise for even one Free Trade Zone.

There are many violations of the Malaysian constitution, such as the under allocation of Parliamentary and State seats that do not commensurate with the cost of servicing voters, as guaranteed by the constitution. It is up to the voters to demand these instead of believing in the lies brought out that it is due to the incompetent politicians.

Politicians are hard working people but they must survive in order to be respected.

The murder of Sabah's Ministers

Among the victims was my step uncle who died at the age of 34 something. That certainly shaped my future.

There was an official inquest but I never read its conclusions. There were representatives from the plane manufacturers, Norman Islander, a short take-off plane.

Based on my current knowledge of aircraft, I'm almost convinced that they were murdered.

Their bodies were unrecognisable when they were buried.

Direct witnesses, heard explosions in the air.

Traffic controllers stopped them from landing at KK airport immediately.

Short take off planes, can glide to earth and land safely or at least does not lead to a total destruction of bodies.

Gliding to earth is easy when you're over the sea as was the case with Tun Fuad's Norman Islander, even when it is over weight.

There are rumours that people tried to stop some ministers from joining Tun Fuad. Harris Salleh listened and survived.


The Malaysian police have the bomb expertise as was shown by the murder of the Mongolian model, and some are willing to kill.

Who actually killed them?

Certainly someone who is greedy in getting Sabah's oil resources.

Tun Fuad will never sign away its oil resources for such a small amount of less than 10% in perpetuity, and getting less than 5% in written agreements, and actually getting less than 1%.

Actually these signing away of rights does not allow Sabah to be robbed of its resources because the constitution guarantees that more than 20% of total Federal revenue must be returned to Sabah but this is never done, let alone be audited.

Jefry Kitingan, on behalf of the Christain natives of Sabah mentioned this is his book, but I already pointed it out many many years before but I doubt Jefry is sincere in fighting for Sabah.

Based on his record and current activities, he is more interested in fighting for his wealth and that of his kind, i.e. the Christian natives.

In many Sabahan web sites, we can read the grumbling of Chinese and Christian Sabahans of being discriminated but I say that all these are nonsense. My brother died as a result of the cruel and inhuman treatment by Jippanus. I'm sure, if there ever were any racial riot, he is the first one that I shall look to kill. And surprisingly, I heard from someone's own mouth that I'm not the only one.

Why Sabah is colonised?

Sabah has never been considered as part of Malaysia by West Malaysians, who call themselves Malaysians and Sabahans as non-Malaysians.

There is no secret about it. The only problem is that these Malaysians are so proud of themselves as true Malaysians, minus Sabah, of course, that they never apologise or even bother to update themselves with current affairs.

This is true to all West Malaysians that I've met and even in quiz shows, 100% got it wrong, and 100% people interviewed on the street also got it wrong, as pointed out by the quiz and TV hosts. They always consider Malaya as Malaysia and they confuse the dates and names all the time.

This has been going on since I came into contact with West Malaysians in 1976 and still exist in 2007. The media has never corrected this situation and in fact, make it even worse.

Now even bill-boards proudly present this misrepresentation of Malaysia.

The misprepresentation that Malaya is Malaysia. Malaya is only the western part of Malaysia, according to official documents and agreements but this is not what the Malaysians know as fact.

They always consider Sabah as joining Malaysia, and is still joining it until it has proven itself to be truly Malaysia but history does not allow this to happen.


All current offical documents and publicity consider the formation of Malaysia as 31 Ogos 1957, i.e. 49 years ago. They call it the Independence day, or, Hari Merdeka. It is so important to them that they tried to convince Malaysians that Sabahans and Sarawakians also got its independence on the 31 August as well. Even Jefry Kitingan in his latest book, agree to this as well.

If this were true, the joint signatories, Singapore and Brunei should also consider 31 August as their independence day.

It was clarified in the newspaper publication after the 31 August, 1963 that it was not full independence because Sabah was not allowed to make a unilateral decision. The administrators must sign the Malaysian agreement as instructed by the British government.

The newspaper reported that some people are considering full independence at that day, i.e. no necessity to join(??) Malaya in order to be granted full independence.

With such blatant disregard for history and facts, there is nothing much Sabahans can do. Surprisingly, the more intelligent students, manage to piece facts together but just accept their fate as it is.

After all, we all have to survive and there should listen to the powers that be, but certainly in their minds, the motives are very clearly not in the path of truth and justice.

Our future is certainly not bright with such situations.

What makes it worse is that our oppositions never even raise this point at all. It is deemed as not important.

What is important for them is to steal power just as the current political parties are.

Are they too corrupt or just plain stupid? Corruption comes in many kinds. I consider this as a kind of corruption.

The non-existence in their desire to defend truth and justice, shows how corrupted they are. This is true to all Sabahans. It is not the lack of knowledge. They all know about this but just don't bother because they consider these aspects as less important than getting entertained and be happy.

This is a side effect of being in heaven, but how long do you think it will last?

I'm really getting worried based on what I learn from the history of other nations. I shall discuss this further.

Sabah is already the poorest in the world and even our National plans clearly plan Sabah to be the poorest, more than 5 years ago.

Now I'm beginning to consider our natural resources as our burden instead of something that helps us. I envy places without any natural resources such as Singapore that is among the most advanced and developed in the world.

Sabah is actually colonised

At first glance, it may be controversial but it is an open secret. Every Sabahan knows about it but don't really be bothered about it because they had been colonised before by the benevolent British before.

However this Malaysian Colonisation is far from benevolent. Even with its resources, statistics already shows that Sabah is the poorest in Malaysia, behind even Kelantan, an opposition state.

And based on comments by UN diplomats, Sabahan statistics is worse than many African nations.

I was really devastated by this and suddenly started comparing Sabah with the worst nations on earth and finding it in similar states.

My most important worry is that it will get worse.

The undersea electricity cable to West Malaysia and the coal powered powerplant at Silam, the site of the Eco Challenge, will be the the catalyst for the destruction of the heaven in Sabah.