Perkauman: Guan Eng akan ambil tindakan mahkamah

Saya tidak akan memberi komen mengenai fitnah Pemuda Umno Pulau Pinang yang berulang-ulang tetapi akan mengambil tindakan mahkamah untuk mencegah Umno, Utusan Malaysia dan akhbar-akhbar lain daripada mengapi-apikan sentimen perkauman dan agama untuk melemahkan Kerajaan Negeri PR Pulau Pinang.
 
Saya telah cuba untuk sabar apabila Umno menggunakan retorik perkauman dan agama untuk melemahkan kepimpinan saya dan juga Kerajaan Negeri PR. Tetapi, permainan yang bahaya ini sudah melintasi had dengan fitnah oleh Ketua Pemuda Umno Pulau Pinang, Shaik Hussein Mydin bahawa saya telah menjual tanah masjid.

Utusan Malaysia telah menyiarkan kata-kata tidak beradab yang menyerang saya dengan fitnah bahawa saya telah menggadai tanah masjid. Ini bukan kali pertama Umno membuat dakwaan fitnah terhadap saya.

Sebelum ini, Shaik Hussein dengan pemimpin-pemimpin Umno lain telah menyerang saya dengan fitnah bahawa saya tidak menjual tanah 102.6 ekar Bayan Mutiara melalui tender terbuka. Beliau terus memfitnah demikian walaupun Kerajaan Negeri Pulau Pinang dan pihak pemaju sudah mengemukakan bukti bahawa tanah tersebut telah dijual melalui tender terbuka.

Shaik telah meneruskan fitnahnya dengan menuduh bahawa saya menyatakan tidak perlu sokongan kaum India. Apabila fitnahnya dibuktikan salah, Shaik bukan sahaja enggan memohon maaf seperti yang dijanjikan tetapi beralih kepada fitnah lain bahawa saya telah melenyapkan tanah masjid.

Fitnah kali ini sangat bahaya kerana ia menyentuh sentimen agama dan bertujuan untuk menimbulkan kebencian orang Islam terhadap saya sebagai seorang pemimpin bukan Islam.


Apabila tanah 102.6 ekar Bayan Mutiara telah dijual melalui tender terbuka, geran tanah tidak dipecah sempadan tetapi dijual secara menyeluruh. Pihak pemaju hanya akan memecah sempadan geran selepas pelan baru diserahkan kepada MPPP untuk kelulusan.

Apabila pelan baru dan pemecahan sempadan geran belum lagi dibuat, bagaimana Umno boleh mendakwa bahawa tanah masjid atau sekolah telah dijual atau dilenyapkan? Umno mesti ingat bahawa syarat-syarat biasa untuk sekolah dan tempat-tempat beribadat seperti surau atau masjid yang diwajibkan oleh pihak berkuasa tempatan semestinya akan termasuk dalam apa-apa projek pembangunan.

Umno hanya boleh mengatakan bahawa tanah masjid atau sekolah telah dijual atau dilenyapkan jika pelan baru oleh pemaju telah diluluskan oleh MPPP tanpa ada tanah masjid atau sekolah. Sebagai kerajaan berjiwa rakyat, PR Pulau Pinang selalu memegang kepada prinsip asas untuk TIDAK membenarkan tanah yang diperuntukkan untuk sekolah, tempat-tempat beribadat, masjid, surau, gereja, kuil Cina, Hindu atau Buddhist untuk hilang begitu sahaja.

Dengan mengulangi fitnah dan mengapi-apikan ketegangan kaum dan agama, Umno ingin menimbulkan kebencian perkauman dan agama terhadap saya sebagai Ketua Menteri dan juga Kerajaan Negeri PR.

Fitnah yang berasaskan kepalsuan ini terhadap seorang bukan Melayu dan bukan Islam menunjukkan bahawa 1Malaysia adalah slogan kosong yang bertujuan untuk menipu rakyat untuk mengundi parti-parti perkauman ekstrim BN dalam Pilihan Raya Umum yang akan datang.

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MP wants debate on palm oil deal with Israel

KUALA LUMPUR: A DAP MP has demanded an emergency debate over Malaysia’s alleged palm oil export to Israel.

Bakri MP Er Teck Hwa filed the emergency motion to do so in Dewan Rakyat Speaker Pandikar Amin Mulia’s chambers this morning.

Er based his request on a claim which he made in the House on March 21 where he accused Felda of the Israel export.

“My speech (on that day)…was an extension of what I raised in Parliament on Oct 17.
“…several Customs documents have shown that there have been export trade transactions with companies based in Israel,” he wrote in his letter to the Speaker.

Er said that it was confusing that Malaysia would have trade relations with Israel, especially since it was helping the Palestinian cause at the same time.

He said that since Malaysia did not have any diplomatic relations with Israel, trading with the state was in violation of the Customs Prohibition of Imports/Export Order 2008.

Last Wednesday, Er accused Felda of exporting palm oil to Israel. This claim was vehemently denied by Barisan Nasional MPs.

(In Er’s letter to the Speaker this morning, the DAP MP did not expressly mention Felda.)
Pasir Salak MP (Umno) Tajuddin Abdul Rahman was especially angry with Er’s implication that Felcra – of which Tajuddin is also chairman of – as being part of the Israel-palm oil deal.

Later on, Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department denied that Malaysia was supplying palm oil to Israel.

Radiasi di Bukit Merah: DAP bentang usul tergempar

Satu usul tergempar akan dibentangkan di Dewan Rakyat bagi membincangkan dakwaan tahap radiasi yang berlebihan di sekitar kilang penapisan Asia Rare Earth di Bukit Merah, dan tapak pelupusan sisanya di Bukit Kledang.

Memetik bacaan daripada kumpulan anti-Lynas Selamatkan Malaysia Hentikan Lynas (SMSL), Fong Po Kuan (DAP-Batu Gajah) berkata bacaan yang dibekalkan oleh Lembaga Perlesenan Tenaga Atom (AELB) menunjukkan angka yang bercanggahan.

Kata Fong, usulnya itu bersifat khusus, mempunyai kepentingan awam dan perlu digerakan kerana ia melibatkan kehidupan sekurang-kurangnya 10,000 penduduk.

Semalam, SMSL yang berjuang menentang loji pemprosesan nadir bumi milik Lynas di Gebeng, Kuantan, berkata bahawa kesan radiasi di kilang yang telah ditutup 18 tahun lalu, masih pada tahap berbahaya.

Ia berikutan lawatan kumpulan itu yang diketuai pengerusi SMSL Tan Bun Teet dengan ahlinya  yang lengkap dengan alat peranti bacaan radiasi.

Dakwa beliau, bacaan berhampiran tapak kilang adalah sekitar 0.19 microsievert setiap jam manakala bacaan berhampiran tapak pelupusan sisa pula berjumlah kira-kira 0.2 microsievert bagi setiap jam.

Kedua-dua bacaan, jika dihitungkan kepada bacaan asas tahunan, adalah di luar tahap selamat iaitu pada 1 milisievert setiap tahun seperti yang dinasihatkan oleh Lembaga Pelesenan Tenaga Atom (AELB), kata Tan.

DAP: PSC on Lynas ‘a sham’

GEORGE TOWN: The DAP has rejected the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) on controversial Lynas rare earth processing plant as a sham committee to hoodwink the people.

DAP secretary-general and MP for Bagan Lim Guan Eng said that the party would not be part of the “sham PSC.”

He said the DAP would propose to the Pakatan Rakyat leadership not to allow BN to use the presence of opposition MPs in the PSC to legitimatise the Lynas plant.

He said Pakatan will not be part of any environmental disaster that can happen in the future.

“The committee was merely to serve to deliver a fait accompli by endorsing the Lynas plant.

“The PSC is to force a public acceptance towards Lynas without due regards for safety, environmental and health concerns,” said the Penang Chief Minister in his blog here today.

Lim said Putrajaya had confirmed that the PSC was a disguise by BN to legitimatise what is essentially wrong and against public interest.

He quoted Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak who said the PSC would not decide on the fate of Lynas, it is merely an engagement process so that the project can be carried out and would not be opposed by the people or create public fear.

Lim noted that the premier has reportedly expressed hopes that the PSC could raise awareness on the project so that “we can achieve comfort in terms of better public acceptance.”

Lim said the whole PSC exercise was merely to help the project gain acceptance and to help the BN government convince Malaysians that there is no threat from the Lynas plant and its potentially hazardous radioactive waste.

‘Malaysians will not be so easily fooled’
If the PSC cannot decide on the fate of the project, he said it was a complete waste of time for DAP or Pakatan to participate as the PSC was nothing more than a fait accompli to rubberstamp approval of the plant.

He criticised the BN government for valuing profits above all in awarding Lynas a 12-year tax holiday at the expense of public health, especially in Kuantan.

“Malaysians will not be so easily fooled by BN. We demand an answer to the real issue at hand,” said Lim, adding that until today, there was uncertainty over where the radioactive waste will be stored.

Initially, he said the Atomic Energy Licensing Board or AELB has claimed that Lynas Corporation would be required to return any radioactive waste to Australia if it fails to set-up a suitable permanent disposable facility here.

But the proposal has been rejected by Australia. The AELB then said that the radioactive waste may be stored in abandoned tin mines in Sungai Lembing.

“This clearly reinforces the fact that the wastes would be disposed in Malaysian soil.

He said his Penang government would reject any Lynas plant or nuclear reactors in Penang and would not compromise on public health and safety.

“DAP will suggest for Pakatan not to participate in the PSC as we should not be used as tools in the BN’s bid to fool the people and to justify the setting up of the Lynas rare earth plant,” he said.