Aku dan Kongres Nasional PKR 2010

Buat pertama kalinya, aku menghadiri dalam Kongres Nasional Parti Keadilan Rakyat. Aku bukan anggota Keadilan. Aku juga bukan anak era Reformasi. Aku masih di bangku sekolah pada tahun 1998. Waktu sama ketika Anwar Ibrahim dizalimi oleh Mahathir. Aku baca buku karangan Anwar Ibrahim, The Asian Renaissance di Perpustakaan Sultanah Bahiyah, Universiti Utara Malaysia sebelum bangkit melawan kepimpinan Tan Sri Dr Nordin Kardi pada awal tahun 2009. Ingatkan cerdik orang tua itu, rupa-rupanya masih tidak tahu bezakan minyak dan gas dengan Penjana Tenaga Bebas (IPP). Malu aku mengaku mahasiswa UUM. Apa hendak aku jawab pada orang luar?

Tiga hari aku di sana, aku menumpukan perhatian sepenuhnya dalam sesi ucapan dasar Presiden dan perbahasan para peserta. Banyak sekali ungkapan-ungkapan indah dikatakan oleh pembahas-pembahas baik memuji ketokohan Anwar Ibrahim mahupun mengangkat nilai-nilai reformasi agar kekal segar dalam perjuangan arus perdana parti. Melawan Barisan Nasional habis-habisan juga turut ditekankan.

Banyak juga aku dengar cadangan-cadangan memantapkan parti dan tidak kurang juga yang berucap memperingatkan sesetengah pemimpin parti yang mudah lupa. Ada juga pembahas-pembahas Sarawak yang kelihatannya bersungguh-sungguh menyuarakan rintihan dan kesukaran jentera parti sebagai persediaan dalam pilihanraya negeri yang bakal berlangsung pada tahun hadapan.

Aku adalah anak muda yang berjiwa besar. Yang punya iltizam tinggi melakukan perubahan. Aku mungkin tidak hadir di jalanan pada tahun 1998 bersama-sama dengan teman reformis, tetapi dengan semangat kental dan tidak putus asa aku, aku berjuang akal dengan terus mengenengahkan idea-idea bernas agar Malaysia, pada suatu hari kelak diperintah oleh barisan Pakatan Rakyat yang punya ketetapan kerajaan bertanggungjawab, yang faham akan demokrasi, yang faham akan kebebasan individu dan ekonomi dan yang tidak akan mengulangi kesilapan lampau.

Bagi aku, Anwar Ibrahim adalah pemimpin Pencerahan Asia. Bukan senang hendak aku carikan seorang sosok politik yang suka berfalsafah dan teguh keyakinannya seperti beliau di Malaysia. Kenal Anwar Ibrahim, aku mula berkenalan dengan Pak Khalid dan konco-konconya. Aku sangka aku keseorangan, akhirnya tidak lagi. Teman sesama aliran fikiran bercambah banyaknya di Kuala Lumpur.

Kelebihan Anwar Ibrahim, walau diancam, diserang kiri dan kanan, Anwar Ibrahim tetap Anwar Ibrahim. Tidak ada media Keadilan segagah BN dapat tumpaskan dakyah jahat itu, Anwar Ibrahim belum lagi berkubur. Ada kesempatan, Anwar Ibrahim harus menjadi Perdana Menteri Rakyat Malaysia. Aku puji Keadilan kerana tetap teguh di atas kebenaran, bukan kepalsuan. Utusan Malaysia menyerang tiap-tiap hari. Tugas aku tiap-tiap hari baca Utusan Malaysia dan membuat rumusan. Tetapi, aku tidak bimbang kerana propaganda ini tidak akan meranapkan keyakinan umum terhadap slogan Keadilan Untuk Semua.

Peace Requires Strength

Here is the situation. I decided to write this notes simply because I urge North Korea to be punished for its action against South Korea in recent attacks. I do not know how many are killed, and how many civilians are wounded. We must respond the escalating tensions accordingly that there is no way else for North Korea to stop threatening the region by their nuclear weapon unless the United States of America and allies acknowledges military strike options on the table this time. I shall say a must. North Korea is the axis of evil. They are representing great danger of modern world. They are constantly posing belligerent behavior towards their neighbors. And all these must be addressed with the commitment of disarming completely North Korea from weapons of mass destruction.

Iraq once upon a time ruled by a tyrant and he is no longer here. He is gone. Iraq now, in the transition of a nascent democratic nation and emerges to be respected in the region. I must say that former President Bush has done a costly decision combating terrorism in order to achieve stability and security within quite some time. Is President Obama willing to make tough decision this time around? What choices left then? Sit down in White House watching North Korea dark vision provocation the entire region? Of course, Obama is relatively weak compare to Republican neoconservatives. Robert Gates is losing his key neocon person in planning to combat rogue states like Iran and Burma. America, the declining role of your superiority is the choices, not permanently.

Talks, is absolutely delusion because the more time given to them, the more aggressive they are to conquer our dream as a free nation. I don’t prefer negotiations after negotiations and party talks to persuade North Korea to jettison the nuclear state ambition. It is just a tactical approach to build up more weapon of mass destruction. I actually oppose when you consuming plenty of time to build talks, and they are build up more sophisticated tools for destruction. War is the healthy of North Korea. And it is the responsibility of the United States of America and allies to continue their objectives as the only blessed and powerful nation on earth to protect international community.

Supportive regimes in China, Iran, even Burma toward North Korea which pose risk to erupt a second Korean War is overwhelming. It is frightening and inevitably as I see the intractable political interest. They are subsidizing North Korea with political interest, feeding them with aids under the guise of humanitarian and do whatever it takes to conceals North Korea regimes nukes intention in United Nation (UN) talks. Change Iran, change Burma, and change North Korea.

Malaysia and rest of the world have not strongly condemning North Korea. Disappointing, ironically Malaysia and rest of the world had series of condemnation towards Israel including United States of America particularly President Obama. The struggle of Israel existence on their own sovereign land has caused so much pain and sacrifices among Jewish against intruders. Anti Israel campaigns continues everywhere; campuses, streets and political orations. Life under Hamas is hell, life under Israel is benign. I will not abandon Israel at whatever cost. Abandoning Israel, it is also means you abandoning the frontline of civilization. We shall not disregard the facts that to acquire peace require strength!

I Give You, Ron Paul

Congressman Ron Paul is the leading advocate for freedom in our nation’s capital. As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Dr. Paul tirelessly works for limited, constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, and a return to sound monetary policies. He is known among his congressional colleagues and his constituents for his consistent voting record. Dr. Paul never votes for legislation unless the proposed measure is expressly authorized by the Constitution. In the words of former Treasury Secretary William Simon, Dr. Paul is the “one exception to the Gang of 535″ on Capitol Hill.

Ron Paul was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Gettysburg College and the Duke University School of Medicine, before proudly serving as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force during the 1960s. He and his wife Carol moved to Texas in 1968, where he began his medical practice in Brazoria County. As a specialist in obstetrics/gynecology, Dr. Paul has delivered more than 4,000 babies. He and Carol, who reside in Lake Jackson, Texas, are the proud parents of five children and have 17 grandchildren. While serving in Congress during the late 1970s and early 1980s, Dr. Paul’s limited-government ideals were not popular in Washington. In 1976, he was one of only four Republican congressmen to endorse Ronald Reagan for president. During that time, Congressman Paul served on the House Banking committee, where he was a strong advocate for sound monetary policy and an outspoken critic of the Federal Reserve’s inflationary measures. He was an unwavering advocate of pro-life and pro-family values. Dr. Paul consistently voted to lower or abolish federal taxes, spending and regulation, and used his House seat to actively promote the return of government to its proper constitutional levels. In 1984, he voluntarily relinquished his House seat and returned to his medical practice. Dr. Paul returned to Congress in 1997 to represent the 14th congressional district of Texas. He presently serves on the House Committee on Financial Services and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. He continues to advocate a dramatic reduction in the size of the federal government and a return to constitutional principles. Congressman Paul’s consistent voting record prompted one of his congressional colleagues to say, “Ron Paul personifies the Founding Fathers’ ideal of the citizen-statesman. He makes it clear that his principles will never be compromised, and they never are.” Another colleague observed, “There are few people in public life who, through thick and thin, rain or shine, stick to their principles. Ron Paul is one of those few.”

Brief Overview of Congressman Paul’s Record:

§ He has never voted to raise taxes.

§ He has never voted for an unbalanced budget.

§ He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.

§ He has never voted to raise congressional pay.

§ He has never taken a government-paid junket.

§ He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.

§ He voted against the Patriot Act.

§ He voted against regulating the Internet.

§ He voted against the Iraq war.

§ He does not participate in the lucrative congressional pension program.

§ He returns a portion of his annual congressional office budget to the U.S. treasury every year.

Myself And Compulsion

He has confirmed to walk away from the party due to differences after months in PKR. Clashes of personality, or perhaps a distinction between what I want and what do you want. I tell you, if you are new member of the party, do not ever wish to go against so called superior or leadership. Here, we recognized 'subservient' as a norm.

They know best. I, myself is nothing than just a freshmen who need to be taught about obedience and respect the only man in the party. Yes, follow me then you will be secured. Dislike. Myself for the instance, I like to do what I want. I don’t care what they said about me. As I strongly believe, I rather become inefficient and I deserve meet the failure. That’s the only way to progress and become more resilient in the future. Why they need to spread abhorrence in order to epitomizing popularity?

Well, I lose my sense of individualist, what I can do given my best knowledge and what does collectively decide for the greater good. Collective thinking is absolutely violating my desire to create, foresee and emotionally which distorted by majority. Those who advocates ‘togetherness’ and common benefits, I had been in that situation previously, somewhere. It was a moral transgression and absurd!

You don’t agree, you are ‘told’ to quit although no one ask you to do so. In the case of Zaid Ibrahim, I don’t have many things to speak about him but if he thinks that he feels better with quitting the party, let him be. At the other side, who apparently happy with the news, should look forward and rectifying all claims and complaints for a better party. Democracy is fine and hard to exercise. One man, one vote providing us means to convince the people that PKR is a democratic party. What about each of them? Are they democratically elected? Are these means corrupted conscience and individual sense in the party?

A Marxist scholar, don't remember the name but it is likely, obviously the state of alliance between the leadership and intellectual or scholars in nineteenth century House of Hohenzollern at Berlin. As a result, they become venerable and invulnerable institutions. Do they (PKR or PR) emulate this? So? Who afraid now? You or me? They or me alone? Who feels insecure?

One man appears so threatens to the strength of party and leadership just because of freedom and individual liberty. I am not part of reformist age. I wasn’t there on the street screaming for justice and corrupted government to be wiped off. But I have a conviction to say and implement it if they (politicians) have in their mind as mine.

Someone reiterates me since day one; the history of the party must not be forgotten by, especially new members. If you are the member or part of the struggle whether during reformist age, then you are considered experienced and respected. Yes, this is the perception I always deal with.

My conviction and belief is relevant and I think if Zaid’s new party of himself endorses it, I will not hesitate to walk the talk with them. You don’t like him and there is goes saying a technical excuse such as “PKR is very disappointing with him as a result using BN’s media to launch attack against the party”. They use ‘we’ now. What if I say no? What is my platform to say no? Can ‘we’ fulfill my needs and expectation then? Oh, majority takes all! Is the decision irrevocable?

My hope is Zaid Ibrahim willing to embrace our determination of liberal matured democracy. It requires small government, market driven economy, and more vibrant individual liberty. My proposal to him, establish a movement which call more principles rather than political gimmick. Why not? The time has come to let new movement sparking their Enlightening and Reason to shine our beloved nation.