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Re: How Barisan National Cheats Their Way To Victory

Valerie — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:45:01 -0000

Hey Su Ann, I'm Samantha's friend and the link to your blog from her blog. Read some of your posts and I'm really impressed by the way you write and express yourself. So much insight and maturity! I'm linking you on my blog, hope you dont mind. (: I'll drop by more often!

Re: How Barisan National Cheats Their Way To Victory

MsP — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:36:51 -0000

Please Tun M's blog www.chedet.com ... this particular entry....http://test.chedet.com/che_det/2008/07/the-malaysian-social-contract.html

Re: How Barisan National Cheats Their Way To Victory

Victor — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:39:24 -0000

Hey, ur blog appeared on first page in google when I searched barisan nasional. Great ranking. This says a lot of the readership. Anyway, nice blog. Will check it out more often. Good luck in NY

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David Chew — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:02:18 -0000

Do u really think that is all or is just have more....... :)

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zewt — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:46:26 -0000

one more actually... had a long chat with a former army officer today and i am not sure if i should post up the story... after reading this.... i think i will just do it!

Re: How Barisan National Cheats Their Way To Victory

Bernsy — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:44:06 -0000

whoa, u write like you got constipation, but now that there is victory for the Barisan Alternative, lets hope the service is better for the Rakyat...

Re: How Barisan National Cheats Their Way To Victory

songjun — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:11:46 -0000

john : lol jstor i do use that but i dont search within just jstor, i usually do article search across the board. Which is annoying sometimes cos some other publishers with newer info are not subscribed by my uni.

stuff like mckinseyquarterly, bcg etc etc articles are really good but must sell backside to access -.-

ironically, the Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions (OECD and US law regarding foreign bribery) allows for 'palm greasing' transactions as not an act of bribery but just to speed up process and not affect business outcome.

got some points here and there tot wanna raise but too lazy today HAHA but in general i think we generally agree more or less on some points.

Re: How Barisan National Cheats Their Way To Victory

chee-mai — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:35:14 -0000

bodoh johan. must be malay la lu!

Re: How Barisan National Cheats Their Way To Victory

anonymous — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:55:30 -0000

Actually... it was the army votes (inclusive the PDRM). It was sum up to 230,000 army votes. Initially some of the big seats they lost...they covered up with army votes.

So I don't really think it came from the influence of other things. Meaning they have lost to the public and they just got lucky as they have backup plan to support them.

Re: How Barisan National Cheats Their Way To Victory

johan — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:13:01 -0000

yeah I agree great blog (except for 2 entries above from chee-mai who's obviously an idiot) and...

GREAT RESULTS!!!! The people have truly spoken.

Re: How Barisan National Cheats Their Way To Victory

Jasmin — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:10:29 -0000

Wow!Great blog!finally a blog that has intellectual depth.I love ur arguements su-ann.will be reading ur blog relegiously.keep the controversial post up.yeah!u should contest for parliment!go out there and represent the rakyat-when ur old enough to vote that is.....

Re: How Barisan National Cheats Their Way To Victory

mizour — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:22:19 -0000

i guess some of the points you made about how BN cheats are not true!:P

Re: How Barisan National Cheats Their Way To Victory

abby — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:23:26 -0000

AGAIN,
PINKPAU FOR PRIME MINISTER!

Re: How Barisan National Cheats Their Way To Victory

David — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 08:18:53 -0000

Dear Su Ann,

From Kuching again. FYI, the DAP guy, Chong CJ, that Kenny interviewed won by majority of about 10,000 votes (increased majority of 500%). Cheats & money politics by BN failed to stop people power here!! This hero of ours is the most hated person of the Swak BN governmt....esp. the corrupted chief minister. The CM even instructed police to stop cars from going to the DAP ceramah last nite!! Never stopped us....we all walked there !!

However, the dreaded postal votes caused DAP candidates to lost in 2 seats in Sarawak. They are leading all the way by huge majority & lost only when postal votes were counted. One by mere 100+ votes only. Postal votes have once again been used to silence the rakyat voice. Bast@#$ BN ploy !!

Re: How Barisan National Cheats Their Way To Victory

YJ — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 08:14:12 -0000

Nice writting, all the truth. Get in politics and help Opposition! They need help.

Re: How Barisan National Cheats Their Way To Victory

Anonymous — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 08:05:57 -0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY-ZfuYSJx8

Watch this! =)

Re: How Barisan National Cheats Their Way To Victory

anon — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:54:14 -0000

apparently there's a rumour going around that bn is panicking now. they are getting the military votes to help buck up the losing areas. anddd they are planning to cheat. what the hell!

Re: How Barisan National Cheats Their Way To Victory

nyrac — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 06:54:06 -0000

i honestly say that i am not politically-aware enough to contest or comment on any of the comments above, but i must say this: pinkpau, you're a really remarkable girl. please go and further your studies and come back to be even greater a person and if possible, pinkpau for PM~ =) all the best.

Re: How Barisan National Cheats Their Way To Victory

anon — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 04:22:09 -0000

you know, you could do our country lots of good if you decide to go into politics. there are many who would hear you out. very good write-up. 100% truth about what's going on.

Re: How Barisan National Cheats Their Way To Victory

david — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:33:52 -0000

Hi Su Ann,

Yes, i read kenny's interviews. The BN candidate gave a pre-formulated i-dare-not-piss-my-party/bosses answers & the other one, I heard the voice of the common people.

The BN candidate is the political secretary of the Swak Chief Minister- 1 of the most corrupted souls in Msia and most "protected" thief by Swak BN cronies. How on earth rakyat will vote for this BN candidate who is the right-hand man of the corrupted CM is beyond comprehension.

I went to DAP ceramah last nite - Gathering of 10,000 voices.....& the BN ceramah attracted at most a crowd of 200 (even with chairs, food, drinks & 'angpows' given).

This is Kuching's reaction to BN......& thats why the most dirty tricks have been used by BN in their pitiful effort to bring down the VOICE of ppl in Kuching.

Re: How Barisan National Cheats Their Way To Victory

anon — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:16:06 -0000

i've complete and uttermost respect for you sue ann. ii hope to at least one day reach your level of maturity and capability of such deep insight and inspirational writing....

Re: How Barisan National Cheats Their Way To Victory

myatime — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 23:57:39 -0000

bn, pas, dap, keadilan,etc..... guess what? we still malaysian :) as long malaysia still peace, dont want ends up like iraq :(.. poor ppl.. http://mysiokbah.blogspot.com..
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~peace to pinkpau :)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
verryyyyy comel................... :)..

Re: How Barisan National Cheats Their Way To Victory

johnleemk — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 23:07:29 -0000

songjun:

Yes, I definitely agree with your point about wanton grumblers who think everything is the government's fault. I have lost count of how many times people have lambasted me as a BN pawn and a self-hating racist because I think vernacular schools are bad for national unity. Likewise, it's hard not to cringe when someone blames the government's bad policies for all inflation.

But having said that, I think you're giving the government's economic policies too much credit. The fact is, prices would be lower if Bernas weren't monopolising the rice industry, and if the government didn't busy itself chasing down restaurateurs who respond to increasing prices of necessities and raise their own prices accordingly. The government can't be blamed for rising world prices, but its own policies are bad no matter what the global economic climate is. Inflation is only one part of the picture, though the opposition is emphasising it for the sake of simplicity.

Macroeconomic figures tell the same story - our growth rate of a little over 6% is in the same league as the Philippines - today in my Southeast Asian history class, my prof showed us graphs compiled by the Economist - our economy's growth rate languishes in the bottom half of Southeast Asia; the top rung is dominated by Singapore, Vietnam, and Laos. We are, if I recall correctly, a bit behind the Philippines and a bit ahead of Indonesia.

Bear in mind that we have petroleum, timber, a strategic location on a major waterway crucial to the world economy, a larger land mass than the UK, a tradition of rule of law and capitalism - Vietnam is still recovering from communism, the Philippines has worse problems with corruption than we do (to look at Filipino politics is to despair, I tell you...) - none of these countries have a good reason to be ahead of us. We're fast becoming the sick man of Asia, because the government persists in protecting its GLCs and cronies form competition, domestic or global.

You also have to bear in mind that this tendency of the businessman to collude and cartelise the market is not new. Adam Smith complained about it, and Milton Friedman lamented it. Yet why have other market economies been more successful? Because instead of legitimising it, they do their best to address it, trying to keep markets open to competition, and refusing to grant special favours to certain firms.

Businessmen and investors have trouble in Malaysia because you have to grease palms to get things done, because you have to do business with the government if you want to succeed, because of an unhelpful bureaucracy that moves slowly in approving unnecessary red tape, because of a partial judiciary more concerned about protecting the interests of government cronies than enforcing contracts - the lists go on and on. What impresses me this election about the opposition is that both the DAP and PKR have recognised this, and outline how they will address these things in their manifestos.

P.S. Should use JSTOR for academic articles lah. A lot easier for me to access them that way. :p

Re: How Barisan National Cheats Their Way To Victory

Michelle — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 23:03:48 -0000

Eh, if you are included in my debate team. We sure win. =D

Re: How Barisan National Cheats Their Way To Victory

benson — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 23:02:36 -0000

You're just 19, but your analysis is comparable to that of a pro.
Keep up the good work, and you should also remember who to cast for when you are eligible to vote.