Elizabeth Wong must resign!

There's no two-way about it. Elizabeth Wong, the Parti KeADILAN Rakyat State Assemblywoman for Bukit Lanjan must resign. She is a public figure. It may be legally right for her to be naked around her house, but it is definitely morally wrong.

Her pictures are now available for public viewing. It can be viewed by Malaysians of all ages, people of different cultural and religious backgrounds. It may be acceptable to some, but to most it is not.

Her boyfriend, purportedly a Muslim, took the pictures. This only goes to show that she had consciously, or unconsciously allowed him access to take pictures of her in the nude.

The fact that her boyfriend has been spending time with her alone in her home is an offence under the Syariah Law. Although being a non-Muslim, Wong cannot be charged under Syariah, I am sure she knows that her boyfriend was committing close proximity, a serious offence. However, she allowed it to happen.

She is an elected representative of all races. She has to respect the laws which governs the Muslims. By committing close proximity with her Muslim boyfriend, she had blatantly shown disrespect for Muslims and the Syariah law which they uphold.

How can an elected representative behave in such a manner? Can she be a role model to our young?

Imagine if the situation was reversed. If pictures of a Barisan Nasional Assemblyman or Assemblywoman in a compromising situation were made available to the public, I am sure Wong will be quick to join the chorus of Opposition asking him or her to resign.

PKR should not try and skirt the issue by saying that the entire episode is politically motivated. Such an argument is unacceptable. This is an all-in-the-family affair, almost incestuos, as it involved a PKR party member and PKR Assemblywoman.

PKR should accept the blame.

I call upon Wong to resign as both Exco member and State Assemblywoman of Bukit Lanjan with immediate effect.

Pakatan Rakyat goyah!

Pakatan Rakyat nampak begitu goyah sekali selepas Barisan Nasional merampas kembali pentadbiran negeri Perak baru-baru ini. Banyak masalah dalam parti-parti yang menganggotai PR iaitu Pas, KeADILan dan DAP kini timbul. Jelas PR ialah hasil dari "marriage of convenience". Dalam ertikata lain bukan cinta dan kata sepakat untuk hidup-semati yang melahirkan PR. PR terhasil kerana nafsu serakah pemimpin-pemimpinnya yang gila jawatan. Ianya cuma untuk mengaburi mata rakyat bahawa parti-parti pembangkang pun boleh bekerjasama seperti BN. Tetapi hakikatnya tidak.

Pemimpin-pemimpin DAP sebagai contoh, sudah tidak sehaluan. Pengerusinya Karpal Singh, seorang ahli politik dan peguam veteran, telah mengkritik Lim Kit Siang dan anaknya, Lim Guan Eng secara terbuka. Karpal berkata Kit Siang dan Guan Eng langsung tidak menyokongnya apabila beliau mendesak Ketua Pembangkang Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim meletakkan jawatan sebagai Ketua PR, setelah Perak jatuh ke tangan BN. Sebaliknya, Kit Siang dan Guan Eng telah menyatakan pendirian mereka untuk terus menyokong Anwar. Masalah dalaman DAP kini jelas.

Begitu juga dengan PKR. Wakil rakyatnya sudah mula meninggalkan parti untuk menyokong BN, seperti dua ADUNnya di Perak baru-baru ini. Kini mereka sedar, PKR adalah Anwar dan Anwar adalah PKR. PKR tidak ada halatuju. Ianya ditubuhkan untuk satu tujuan saja - supaya Anwar dapat melempiaskan nafsunya untuk menjadi Perdana Menteri.

Masalah dalam Pas juga kini jelas kelihatan. Walaupun Murshidul Am Pas, Datuk Nik Aziz Nik Mat telah menasihatkan bekas Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin supaya tidak mencabar keputusan Sultan Perak DYMM Sultan Azlan Shah yang telah melantik Datuk Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir sebagai Menteri Besar yang baru, Nizar masih enggan meletakkan jawatan. Ini menunjukkan bawah Nizar langsung tidak menghormati Nik Aziz, seorang tokoh yang amat disegani bukan saja dikalangan ahli-ahli Pas tetapi juga oleh penyokong-penyokong BN.

Sekarang ini Nizar dan "Exco"nya menjadi bahan ketawa. Seperti gila talak. Ini mengingatkan saya tentang kisah Maharaja India dulu. Apabila India menjadi sebuah republik, Maharaja-Maharaja dan ahli-ahli keluarga mereka enggan keluar dari istana mereka. Saya diberitahu sehingga ke hari ini ada dikalangan mereka yang masih duduk distesyen-stesyen keretapi dengan berpakaian diRaja serba lengkap dan berlagak seperti masih mempunyai pengaruh.

Mungkinkah Nizar dan "Exco"nya akan berpindah ke stesyen keretapi Ipoh?

Dalam isu yang berkaitan, Guan Eng berkata mantan Perdana Menteri Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad patut dipersalahkan diatas kes saman Karpal Singh terhadap DYMM Sultan Azlan Shah. Tuduhan ini langsung tidak masuk akal. Ia hanya menunjukkan bahawa Guan Eng cuba lari dari isu sebenarnya iaitu perpecahan dalam parti DAP.

Memang benar Parlimen dan Dewan-dewan Undangan Negeri, semasa zaman Dr Mahathir sebagai Perdana Menteri, telah mengurangkan hak raja-raja dari segi tingkahlaku mereka sebagai individu diluar tugas rasmi. Tetapi dalam menjalankan tugas rasmi, mereka masih mempunyai immuniti. Dalam membuat keputusan bahawa BN kini berkuasa kembali di Perak, DYMM Sultan Azlan Shah sekadar menjalankan tugas rasmi mengikut Undang-Undang Tubuh Negeri Perak. DYMM Sultan Azlan masih dilindungi undang-undang.

Saya tidak syak lagi bahawa keputusan DYMM Sultan Azlan Shah adalah keputusan yang tepat dibawah-bawah undang-undang yang sedia-ada.

DYMM Sultan Azlan Shah ialah bekas Ketua Hakim Negara yang amat disegani. Sehingga hari ini, keputusan-keputusan yang dibuatnya semasa menjadi hakim dahulu digunapakai sebagai "authority" bukan saja dimahkamah-mahkamah di Malaysia, tetapi juga di negara-negara Komanwel yang lain, terutamanya Britain.

BN takes back Perak? Anwar embarrassed...

The Barisan Nasional now has majority seats in the Perak State Assembly after two Parti keADILan Rakyat Assemblymen Jamaluddin Mohd Radzi (PKR-Behrang), Osman Jailu (PKR-Changkat Jering) and a Deputy Speaker of the State Assembly Hee Yit Foong (DAP-Jelapang)decided to leave their parties and be BN-friendly. The State Assmblyman for Bota Datuk Nasarudin Hashim is returning to BN.

It is only a matter of time that the DYMM Sultan of Perak Sultan Azlan Shah will announce his decision on whether he should take the advice of the Menteri Besar and dissolve the State Assembly or give his consent to the Barisan Nasional to form the Government.

If the DYMM Sultan decides that the BN should form the Government, which is highly likely by virtue of BN being the majority, it will be a big embarassment for Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

Anwar had been telling the world that Pakatan Rakyat would form the Government on September 16 last year because by then he would get many BN parliamentarians to cross over to PR. September 16 happened only in Anwar's dreams.

While he is going around telling the world that BN MPs are going to cross over to his party, the Opposite is happening right under his nose. Anwar is now in no position to say that party-hopping is unethical.

What's real is that BN is about to wrest Perak and the people in Perak especially and in Malaysia generally are losing faith in PR. That will be the biggest slap in the face for Anwar.