For Isa, if treats don’t work, threats might help

Felda chief: Vote BN, because I’ll snub anyone else who wins

Clever Voter: Felda chairperson Mohd Isa Abdul Samad is a self-serving ex-politician who has benefitted much more than he could chew from his political career.

Felda settlers should know the truth. There is a big difference between a landowner and a shareholder. Settlers are not peasants and neither should they be subject to intimidation and threats.

Ozzie Jo: Well, if treats don’t work, threats might. How can they even get away with outright bribery, vote-buying, threats and intimidation?

Election Commission (EC), what are you little toothless tiger cubs doing about it? Shame on you.

Appum: Actually, why do we need to have an election? Indeed, why are we holding one? Can this former menteri besar, who was found guilty of corruption, answer this simple question?

Rakyat Kingfisher: Sarawak, can you see how federal government is controlling your state through Felda? When the coffers in Putrajaya are empty, your state will be used to cover the losses.

Anonymous_4031c: Isa doesn’t own Felda. Under him, Felda shares have allegedly lost their value and the company as a whole has not performed well. So he doesn’t need to blow his own trumpet when talking about performance.

Mushiro: Isa wants to help the many oil palm smallholders in the area to improve their yield. But why didn’t Isa help these smallholders earlier, even before the elections? Isa must think the Sarawakians are naive.

Speaking Sense: Blatant extortion, bribery, threats, lies, cheating – is there no honour and sense of shame in this Umno-BN campaign?

This is a disease that runs all the way down from PM, DPM, ministers, chief ministers, cronies – it is part of the Umno-BN gene.

So the only way to be rid of this disease is to kill the source, Umno-BN. And it must begin now, with Sarawak on May 7.

Kuasa Rakyat: So says the man who was found guilty of corruption. And that by his own party, Umno.

Bersih accuses PM, DPM of vote buying, drubs EC over inaction

Kim Quek: The appointment of Hashim Abdullah as the new EC chairperson exemplifies the rapid deterioration of the calibre and integrity of PM Najib Razak’s new appointees to key positions of government, including ministers, attorney-general, EC chief, etc.

Little wonder that values like ‘integrity’, ‘morality’, ‘justice’ have allegedly become almost extinct in public service.

Nevertheless, despite our law-enforcing institutions’ (EC, police, Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, AG) impotence or refusal to act against BN’s alleged breaches of election laws, the opposition must promptly lodge reports to these bodies to put pressure on them and to awaken the public conscience, besides reserving their rights of legal remedies after elections.

In the final analysis, it is the people who must uphold law and public integrity by casting their votes wisely in an election.

Hang Tuah PJ: Yes, it is the rakyat who need to be educated to do the right thing. These politicians can throw all the money they want but it will not work if the rakyat were principled. It takes two to tango.

Some people are short-sighted. They don’t realise what kind of lives their children and grandchildren will lead in this land.

Jaycee: Tell us something that we don’t already know. This is what they do best – “You help me and I will help you.”

The thing is that they spent so much money in the last election and still did not get the popular vote.

Justice: I hope Bersih will collect evidence of BN candidates using helicopters to fly to the longhouses and check their election returns, whether they are accounted for, and also who paid for all those helicopter charges.

How Siow: Notice the Bugis warrior is only campaigning in the interiors. He knows urban people cannot be fooled by him.

Anonymous_40f4: The new EC chief says he knows better if there were anything faulty with the election system. He says there is no need for Bersih to tell him the flaws in the electoral system.

He claims he is like a car mechanic; it is he who knows better what’s wrong with the car. But when one takes one’s car to a mechanic, the first question that the mechanic asks is, “Apa hal dengan kereta you?”

Then I tell the mechanic the problems with my car and he attends to them. It’s not the other way round, as the EC claims.

Jesse: These leaders are above the law. If they can get away with all those crooked acts relating to 1MDB and associated events, this is chicken feed.

No one can touch them and voters are treated as suckers. They probably are since they are so easily seduced by the crumbs falling off the tables.

Ipoh Pp: At the end of the day, it’s the people themselves who are to be blamed for allowing this. Five sen for you now, but RM100 for me later.

As long as the EC is not going to do anything, nothing will happen.

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