Kenapa anwaribrahimblog.com tidak menyiarkan komen Jurublog?

Kadangkala Jurublog melayari laman sesawang (website) anwaribrahimblog.com. Tujuan Jurublog adalah untuk mengetahui rhetorik-rhetorik baru beliau mengenai isu semasa.

Sebagai seorang yang selalu tidak bersependapat dengan tindakan dan rhetorik Anwar, kadangkala Jurublog cuba untuk membuat komen melalui website tersebut.

Komen Jurublog selalunya menjurus kepada apa yang Jurublog fikir kerosakan yang telah Anwar lakukan terhadap masa depan orang Melayu dan Malaysia pada amnya.

Mungkin Anwar tidak pernah membaca komen-komen Jurublog. Dia hanya membiarkan balaci-balaci yang mengendalikan website tersebut untuk membuat penapisan.

Beliau tidak seperti Mahathir yang ”hands-on” dan membaca/ meluluskan komen-komen yang dihantar oleh pembaca chedet.com, walau pun kadangkala pendapat-pendapat tersebut bercanggah dengan pendapat Mahathir sendiri.

Anwar hanya pandai bercakap tetapi tidak pandai mengendali.

Balaci-balaci Anwar hanya menyiarkan komen-komen yang memuji Anwar. Komen-komen yang tidak bersependapat dengan Anwar samada tidak disiarkan, atau mendapat kutukan-kutukan bodoh daripada balaci-balaci Anwar yang sering mengunjungi website tersebut.

Begitulah kebebasan bersuara yang diterajui oleh Anwar. Akhirnya Anwar akan jadi seperti Pak Lah yang sentiasa ingin mendengar pendapat yang menyanjung beliau, dan tidak menghiraukan pandangan dari pihak yang lain. Seperti mana Pak Lah mengendalikan hal ehwal negara dengan tidak berkesan, begitulah Anwar mengendalikan pembangkang. Hancurlah negara jika pembangkang mengambilalih tampuk pemerintahan negara.

Perkara yang sama telah berlaku kepada Jurublog apabila Jurublog cuba menjadi ahli Malaysia Todayyang sepatutnya akan membolehkan Jurublog membuat komen di dalam website tersebut. Sepertimana kebebasan bersuara Jurublog disekat oleh anwaribrahimblog.com, begitulah juga amalan yang diguna pakai oleh Malaysia Today. Mereka menolak permohonan Jurublog untuk mengulas di website Malaysia Today. Sebab itulah hanya komen-komen yang mengutuk kerajaan sahaja yang tersiar di laman-laman pembangkang. Pembangkang di Malaysia tidak dapat bertolak ansur dengan ”voice of dissent” yang tidak memihak kepada mereka. Sebab itulah mereka cuba menuntut sekatan penyiaran berita di akhbar yang tidak memihak kepada mereka, dengan tindakan mahkamah dan saman. Mengata orang, pembangkang lagi lebih kacau bilau mereka!

(Sebagai makluman, Anwar dalam blognya telah memberitahu tentang rancangan beliau untuk mendebatkan di Parlimen mengenai pengeluaran besar FDI ke luar negara. Saya telah membuat komen bahawa salah satu punca besar pengeluaran FDI tersebut adalah kerana dakyah Anwar sendiri kepada pelabur-pelabur asing di dalam beberapa sidang yang disertai Anwar di luar negara. Anwar sering mengomongkan akan menjatuhkan kerajaan Malaysia yang telah sedia terpilih dengan proses pilihanraya, dengan cara mengusahakan penyokong kerajaan supaya melompat parti. Ini menyebabkan iklim ketidak stabilan politik, yang merisaukan pelabur asing, yang akhirnya menyebabkan pelabur asing tersebut mengeluarkan pelaburan mereka dari Malaysia. Sebelum bulan September 2008, Anwar dengan bangganya telah memberitahu akan mendapat kemasukan pelaburan asing yang banyak jika Pakatan dapat memerintah Malaysia. Akhirnya, dengan kegawatan ekonomi global, rancangan Anwar untuk mengambil alih kerajaan tidak berjaya, kerana pelabur yang dijanjikan itu juga mengalami kegawatan yang ketara, dan tidak akan dapat mengotakan janji mereka untuk melabur di Malaysia).

Censorship ala Malaysia Today

I will not get a chance to post commentaries to Malaysia Today. They rejected my application as member, which would have enabled me to post commentaries.

I guess that they only want selected readers to give commentaries. And they will select only their supporters. That’s why you will see only high praises to Petra every time he posted his articles.

I would like to remain anonymous and not give my proper name to them. And based on that “technicality”, they rejected my application. May be they thought that I am a government stooge that will do them great damage.

I am not a government stooge. I am still a newbie in the blogsphere. I am just a minnow and not affiliated to any political party nor any NGO.

Appended below is my email thread to Malaysia Today for all to see:


From labisman
To Juru Blog

Date Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:21 PM
Subject Re: Malaysia Today - Membership Registration
mailed-by yahoo.com
signed-by yahoo.com

hide details 10:21 PM (34 minutes ago) Reply


Coward? hahhaa.. Dont even dare too use your proper name..
You are calling others coward. Excellent.
Let us be coward.. We know what you guys are capable of..

Oh!! yeah.. this is not Petra... Petra got better things to do.
Even i have quality things to do, other than debating with people like you .
So, this is my last reply..You can email what ever you want again & again. Wont Reply/read.

Cheers,
MT Admin - http://mtadmin.livejournal.com/
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----- Original Message ----
From: Juru Blog

- Hide quoted text -
To: labisman
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 2:03:17 PM
Subject: Re: Malaysia Today - Membership Registration


Petra,

I do not want to bother giving my proper name to people like you.

Is this how you screen your membership: only to those who would support your articles? Why are you so afraid to allow non-supporters like me?

Forever, you will be disillusioned with the level of support from the netizens who reads your articles.

Don't remain as a coward.


On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 1:49 AM, labisman wrote:

After reading your beautifull blog and comments regarding Malaysia Today in your Blog
here: http://jurublog.blogspot.com/2008/08/shafees-dare-riles-petras-supporters.html

I was wondering, why you want to be a member of malaysia today. try your experiments else where.
I liked your last sentence of your this article.. Keep It Up..

Since when is your proper name "jurublog"? Any problem in reading/understanding English?


Cheers,
MT Admin - http://mtadmin.livejournal.com/
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Malaysia Today - Your Source Of Independent News
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----- Original Message ----
From: Juru Blog
To: labisman@yahoo.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 4:53:30 PM
Subject: Malaysia Today - Membership Registration


Name: jurublog
Desired username: jurublog
Password: labisman
Email address: jurublog@gmail.com

Introduction: I am actually a newbie in the blogsphere. My blog is jurublog.blogspot.com. I neither like the current leadership nor I like the opposition. I like to browse the internet and read the news and views in the blogs, including Malaysia Today. I seldom participate in commentaries. But Malaysia Today seems to be the most difficult blog to obtain permission to post commentaries. I do not want to reveal my details because I prefer to remain anonymous. Believe me, I am neither UMNO nor PKR member.

Censorship ala Pakatan Rakyat

I do not fancy reading Anwar’s blog simply because I do not write his writing style.

Sample words:
enteng, kerencatan, meluncurkan, nusa, persekongkolan, wacana

Sample phrases:
muslihat kalangan tertentu, sensiviti mauduk,

Sample sentences:
Saya menyinggung isu ini beberapa hari sebelum majlis berlansung.
Propaganda dan plot yang direncana oleh elit pemerintah terutamanya di kalangan yang dekat dengan Perdana Menteri sememangnya tidak bertanggungjawab.
Kerakusan serta ketamakan mereka kepada kuasa, membuatkan mereka sanggup untuk menodai institusi-institusi kenegaraan dan demokrasi di negara ini.
Dunia sedang menyaksikan komedi gelap bagaimana aparat-aparat rakus kuasa sanggup memalsukan bukti demi memastikan segelintir terus memerintah.

My Bahasa Malaysia teacher (or Bahasa Melayu as introduced by Anwar when he was the Education Minister) would surely fail him. If those were part of his speech, an average Malay maybe impressed, but not understand whatever he is trying to say.

As a newbie in the blogsphere, I tried to post commentaries in some of the blogs that I visited. Most of the time, I succeeded. Except for two blogs.

I am still waiting approval from labisman to get myself included as a member of Malaysia Today, to enable me to participate in the commentaries.

On the other hand, I had twice tried to post commentaries at Anwar Ibrahim’s blog.

My posting was: Saya percaya bahawa DSAI tidak akan berani bersumpah.
The result: nothing got posted.

Is this the sign of things to come should Pakatan Rakyat form the government?

Shafee's dare riles Petra's supporters

I used to frequent Malaysia Today website to read the antics written by Raja Petra Kamaruddin. He is indeed a good storyteller, combining known and unknown facts with half-truths.

After the March 2008 Malaysian General Election, Malaysia Today has somehow becoming almost a mere postal website i.e. they just cut and paste news and articles from various sources, often without permission from the owner of the articles. And Petra’s own writing has been scarce.

I somehow lost respect towards Petra when he signed the Statutory Declaration alleging Rosmah’s involvement in Altantuya’s murder, purely based on heresay evidence. How can someone alleged something so serious against someone else based something that somebody said to him?

I pity BigDog for being duped into posting the statutory declaration. In fact, Malaysia Today linked their source of the statutory declaration to bigdogdotcom.wordpress.com/, even though it originated from Malaysia Today’s blog owner himself!

Petra’s latest “victim” is lawyer Shafee Abdullah. And Shafee would not take the insults lying down. In fact, Shafee looked so furious during the press conference, and purposely called Petra with various names.

His aim: to get Petra so sue him in court so that both of them can have their sparring time in court.

When Malaysia Today posted Shafee’s press release, it was angrily commented by more than 100 of Petra’s ardent fans. But Petra himself has not personally responded to Shafee’s dare.

I am still waiting for Petra’s response to Shafee’s insults. I am also interested to see what sort of responses I will get from Malaysia Today’s readers should I make any comments in support of Shafee.

Populist approach

The Prime Minister spoke today. He effectively blamed Anwar Ibrahim for spooking the Malaysian economy.

And I realised that it was Monday. The Prime Minister seldom worked during the weekends. You will not see him making headlines in Sunday or Monday newspapers because he almost refrained from working during the weekends. He thought that he was always too busy during the working days that he would require a good rest and recharge for the week ahead.

Back to the Prime Minister’s remarks on Anwar. The PM should realise that Anwar dared to act as such because he knew that the government leadership is weak. And we cannot afford a weak government in a multi-racial Malaysia.

With Anwar, a Malay, acting as such and being very vocal against a Malay-dominated government, the non-Malays have increased their attacks on almost everything Malay.

You will not be able to speak on Malay rights as you will be instantly bombarded as being racist. You cannot speak on the need to maintain Malay unity as you will be stamped as racist. You cannot voice against the open forum on conversion to Islam as you are curbing freedom of speech.

If you post a comment on Malaysia Today to defend the Malay rights you will be instantly bombarded with nasty remarks from the other readers. Other alternative media such as Malaysian Insider and Malaysiakini, dominated by non-Malay journalists, have also been attacking government affirmative actions, whilst defending attacks on Malays.

Such were the effect of Anwar’s populist approach. I think that it is a dangerous approach, and may lead to dangerous consequences.