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PAS Should Be Banned?

Details: Category: Art Harun; Published: Saturday, 13 June 2009 03:08; Posted by Art Harun

June 12, 2009

And so, it needs no further proof that political assemblies could churn out rationalities which could sit anywhere between the state of burlesque and the city of grotesque. Just look at the recently concluded PAS muktamar.

Apparently in Malaysia, no political assembly could be completed — and probably regarded as meaningful — without the usual mega important gimmick or resolution. In Malaysian politics, perhaps the two are even one and the same. Hence the unsheathing of the keris and the subsequent kissing of it during the Umno general assembly. That was the gimmick. That was to be followed by the usual we-are-the-Malays-and-we-have-our-rights-and-don’t-challenge-us-or-else-we-would-run-amok rants. That was the resolution. After that, everybody had tea and curry puffs and went home.

Columnist Art Harun on The RPK case

Details: Category: Art Harun; Published: Wednesday, 10 June 2009 00:12; Posted by Art Harun

http://art-harun.blogspot.com/2009/06/rpk-case-significant-victory.html

The RPK case - A significant Victory

9th June, 2009

Civil societies advocates today gained a significant victory in the Federal Court in the case involving the appeal by the Home Minister against the release of Raja Petra Kamaruddin from his ISA detention.

Briefly, the Federal Court today declared that the last sitting of the Federal Court which heard and dismissed four applications (motions) by RPK was not properly convened. Consequently, the Federal Court today set aside all orders made on the said motions.

In order to appreciate the significance of today's order, allow me to give a chronology of events.

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Lament for the Fall of Saville - an analysis of UMNO’s undoing

Details: Category: Art Harun; Published: Thursday, 05 March 2009 00:38; Posted by Art Harun

http://art-harun.blogspot.com/2009/03/lament-for-fall-of-saville-analysis-of.html

Introduction

I am writing this because I have not forsaken my friends, some of whom are within the inner circle of power in UMNO. I shall not name them. They know who they are. We have known each other before their UMNO days. To me, they are human beings first and politicians second. We are all subjects of a set of higher moral law, which, unlike the man made laws, cannot be changed or altered. Which, unlike the man made laws, reside somewhere within the recesses of our mind and will not go away, no matter how hard we try to ignore them, no matter how many times we have walked away from them. Although to a certain extent we cannot deny that we are what we are because of UMNO, I would prefer to say that I am what I am in spite of UMNO. This post is dedicated to them.

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CPI columnist Art Harun on Missing the Concept

Details: Category: Art Harun; Published: Wednesday, 15 April 2009 06:09; Posted by Art Harun

http://art-harun.blogspot.com/2009/04/missing-concept.html

Missing The Concept

April 14, 2009

In image building, it is good to have a concept. But the trouble with having a concept is that the concept should be followed up with or backed by a blueprinted plan to achieve whatever is set out to be achieved by the concept. It must be borne in mind however, having a concept is one thing, implementing a concept is another and of course, missing a concept, especially in Malaysia, is as easy as getting dead or into a coma in a police lock-up.

So, let us say we have a concept and our concept is "change". We should then have some ideas as to what change we want to achieve. Then we should have a plan on how to achieve that change which we want. After that, we should all go out and do whatever is being planned in order to achieve that change. That is how it works. Well, at least, that is how I think it should work.

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CPI columnist Art Harun on the BN's failure in the art of war

Details: Category: Art Harun; Published: Thursday, 22 January 2009 08:39; Posted by Art Harun

http://art-harun.blogspot.com/2009/01/p036-debacle-bn-tragedy.html

Sun Tzu, the legendary Chinese general, who had also been credited with the authorship of "The Art of War", posits that the art of war is governed by 5 constant factors or elements. They are:

    *
      the moral law
    *
      heaven
    *
      earth
    *
      the Commander
    *
      method and discipline

While the moral law "causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so that they will follow him regardless of their lives", the heaven would signify the natural elements such as day and night, cold and heat, which would have impacted any preparation for a war. The earth meanwhile signifies the distances, the size, the danger and security, the width and the narrowness of passages. The Commander on the other hand, must possess of virtues of wisdom, sincerity, benevolence, courage and strictness. Method and discipline are to be understood as "the marshaling of the army in its proper subdivisions, the graduations of rank among the officers, the maintenance of roads by which supplies may reach the army, and the control of military expenditure."

During the P.036 by-election though, the BN had none of the above!

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