I recall a Peter JOHN Jaban (or was it Jamban, not sure) a man who preferred to call himself Papa Orang Utan who was the voice behind radiofreesarawak.org, a site whom we all know by now is linked to Claire Brown.....blah blah blah.
Now if there are still morons out there willing to believe that Ms.Brown has anything to do with fighting for their freedom, think again. Radiofreesarawak went of the net after May. It is now back again starting October.
Why? Did activism stop simply because Malaysia did not have an election or did activism resume because Malaysia is heading for an election?
This is what RFS posted on their return after a 5 month lay off.
RFS is back!
We kick-started our relaunch with an interview with newly-minted ADUN Baru Bian, PKR Sarawak chief on the encouraging response from the Australian government that has ordered its attorney-general office to look into claims of ill-gotten assets by long-serving chief minister Taib Mahmud there. YB Baru was one of three persons who signed a letter urging the Australian to investigate Taib’s properties and investment down under.
The announcement by the Prime Minister Najib Razak on the eve of the Malaysia Day celebration mid last month to repeal the draconian Internal Security Act was too important an announcement to be missed out by our listerners. Hence, RFS spoke to two NGOs who had long been campaigning for the abolishment of the inhumane law. Like most Malaysians, both Suaram’s Nalini and Gerakan Mansuhkan ISA president Syed Ibrahim Syed Noh remained sceptical of the BN government’s seriousness to fulfil its promise which is widely seen as an election sweetener.
Our new DJ Michael Ngau interviewed film-maker Joachim Leong who tried to find the answer as to why voters affected by the Bengoh Dam didn’t register their protest through the ballot box. Another PKR ADUN YB See Chee How gave an update on the court action by two villagers impacted by the construction of the water supply dam.
Haris Ibrahim of the Malaysian Civil Liberties Movement was again barred from entering Sarawak last Friday when he was meant to speak at the roadshow of the MCLM event called the Rakyat Reform Agenda. He told RFS he will challenge the ban through legal means and vowed to continue to spread the need for reform among Sarawakians.
Now, what RFS did not tell you is that Sarawak has THE RIGHT TO REFUSE ENTRY to anyone based on the 18 point agreement when SARAWAK agreed to join the Federation of Malaya, giving rise to Malaysia.
Here is what one Sarawakian has to say about the rights of Sarawakians:
Luckily we have autonomy on immigration or else it would have opened the floodgates for others from other state to take what is ours, especially in the economic and business aspect.
I like it to remain our status quo and should stay under the state control because that was part of the agreement.
It should be exercised purely to safeguard the interest of the Sarawakian people at large.
How Sarawak does it depends on those administering it. Its just so. If lawyers want to challenge that, I guess it is up to the biased courts to decide, ain't it? Because if they follow the letter of the law, with an agreement intact, then the challenge would surely be thrown out. So if it gets thrown out, its biased!
The DAP has a grand plan to try to change the mindset of rural Dayaks, telling them time and again that they are being raped by the state government, and hence the Federal Government. Why? This gweilo Ms.Brown, has been spilling the beans on the CM and his family.
So the latest antics of the gang to derail Sarawak is to use what they are normally used to, NGO's in the form of Dayak Consultative Council. In comes another John, this time DR.JOHN Brian Anthony.
SDNU for example has operated since the
1950′s and its current growth is stunted by many limitation one of which
is lack of economic activities to generate income to support the
general activities of SDNU. The little fund or grant given by the
Government from time to time is simply not enough. The egeneral support
from the public Dayak is generally cool and slow. How do we move forward
when the general environment is “cool”?
NGO in Sarawak / Malaysia is limited by
the Government in their involvement with foreign country. We do hear of
SDNU bringing Majlis Adat Dayak and dewan Adat Dayak cultural troupe to
Kuching of Gawai Dayak celebration and that is just that. The
relationship is limited to cultural ties and creating understanding
between the two countries with the same race.This is in Dayak Baru, and from the little time I spent there (after reading comments from no less than 265 people), I gather that the message that John is sharing with his 'people' is that Dayak Baru will work with ANY political party that will fight for their cause.
And what cause would that be? for the betterment of Dayaks, I would like to think. But how is it going to help Sarawakians, especially Dayaks, if they continue doen the road with the likes of DAP? or MCLM?
John claims that "The little fund or grant given by the Government from time to time is simply not enough..." and "NGO in Sarawak / Malaysia is limited by the Government in their involvement with foreign country" and by that does his action seem to show that if he worked with DAP that his funding will be better?
How is attending dinners any good for the community? I would not have faulted him if he showed up with 20 letters of rejection from the government and hence he would rather work with DAP cause they would sponsor dinners for him to air his grouse in hope that other Dayaks listen to him and when the time that matters come 'The ELECTIONS', they will vote DAP!
Hoping to achieve just that, DAP state top brass and John, of course had the door slammed against them when practically nobody showed up at a sponsored forum held recently. A call to a Sarawakian friend who is a true blood Dayak simply tells me this : "This Dr.JOHN is a real JOHN! DAP picked up an Iban reject in JOHN Brian. Why? He went from PBDS to MDC to SNAP, then PKR and now DAP....all in a short period."
What else can I say? What do you find in the JOHN*? Sh#t!
* JOHN - Slang in English for Toilet
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