Don’t try to threaten the Chinese to vote for you. Even if there are zero MCA ministers in the cabinet it will not make an iota of difference to the Chinese community. The Chinese have already given up on any real representation by the voiceless, powerless, rubber-stamping puppets from MCA. so you go on fucking

Suppose Pakatan wins the next general election, who is going to offer MCA leaders ministerial posts in the new government? Chua is presumptuous that BN will win again. Wait for the outcome of the GE before you make such a statement, Chua.

It is time that MCA learned you can’t play the race and religion card without something happening. Then, when the MCA headquarters building in Jalan Ampang is burned to the ground and the MCA leaders are killed in their homes, just like what happened in Indonesia, maybe the MCA people will shut the fuck up and not continue to play the race and religion card.Whether there is a Chinese minister or not, it does not matter for most Chinese who still have to eke out an honest living and save for their children’s education, which will eventually enable them to settle overseas.

Chua, do you know who will miss MCA most? It is the rich businessmen who benefit most from their symbiotic relationship with MCA ministers. The majority of the Chinese hope that MCA disappear into thin air, the sooner the better.

Another idiotic comment from the wife (MCA) who does not want to divorce the abusive husband (Umno). If you, MCA chief Chua Soi Lek, mean what you say then ask all of your ministers who got into government via the back door to resign now.MCA sounds as if they are the guardians of the Chinese community. But this is far from the truth. You evaluate how the Chinese community has lost out during the 53 years when MCA has been holding posts in the government.

The MCA president seems to have forgotten that in the 1969 general election, MCA fared very badly and the then president said the party would opt out from the alliance. And in the 2008 general election it also lost many seats, but the victorious MPs nevertheless took up cabinet posts.

Don’t you think MCA should relinquish all positions now to show that it means what it says? Why don’t your men and women give up their jobs now? Please do not play the same trick which Abdullah Ahmad Badawi tried just before the last election when he said the Chinese would lose representation in the cabinet.

In the recent Sarawak election, the same trick was used to frighten Chinese voters. But voters cannot be threatened or fooled. Penang showed that it could throw out Gerakan wholesale and bring fresh blood in the form of DAP, PKR and PAS.

It seems the Chinese voters in Penang can indeed live without Gerakan.

the problem for UMNO, a party source says, is getting divisional warlords to make way for winnable candidates in races that have become competitive now that the opposition Pakatan Rakyat coalition has become a genuine movement rather than a ragtag group of parties cobbled together by Anwar. These are old hands that refuse to give away to younger, more attractive and educated candidates.

It is a longstanding problem borne out by the fact that Rais Yatim, the Information Minister and an UMNO Supreme Council member, said after the December conclave that those not selected must refrain from sabotaging the party.

It is significant enough that the Mahathir wing of the party is contemplating demanding that party members sign a loyalty oath. A Penang district member, Musa Sheikh Fadzir, proposed the establishment of a General Election Disciplinary Committee to take action against those who go against the party in the upcoming polls.

The other BN component parties are in considerably worse shape than UMNO. The nearly moribund MCA is enmeshed in a scandal over the development of the Port Klang multimodal port facility, which has the potential to cost the country RM13 billion if all loan commitments are to be met.

There is also hand-to-hand combat among leadership factions. In addition Chua Soi Lek, the head of the party, has been repeatedly taken to task by Malay supremacists such as Ibrahim Ali and his NGO PERKASA, which has the tacit backing of Mahathir, further disenchanting ethnic Chinese, who make up 23.7 percent of the population.

They appear to have abandoned the party wholesale for the DAP, which has been termed a Chinese chauvinist party.

Aren’t you tired of hearing all this talk about Islam and Hudud? I don’t know about you but I am. And that’s because that is all it is, all talk. And this seems to be the problem with the Muslim world. It is all talk and no action.

Corruption, abuse of power, no respect for fundamental liberties and human rights, and much more, appears to be a predicament for mostly so-called Muslim countries. They talk and talk but they do the opposite of what they talk.

Now MCA has joined the bandwagon. They want Pakatan Rakyat to state its stand on the Islamic law of Hudud. Why is MCA so kaypoh? What business is it to these bloody kafirs? Islam has nothing to do with these bloody kafirs.

Why don’t the 15 MCA Members of Parliament raise this matter in Parliament? If Malaysia is as democratic as they say it is then raise this matter in Parliament. After all, MCA has 15 members represented in Parliament. Raise this matter in Parliament and ask the Barisan Nasional-controlled government to pass a bill in Parliament to amend the Federal Constitution of Malaysia to remove Islam as the religion of the Federation.

Article 3(1) of the Constitution says that Islam is the religion of the Federation. MCA should ask Parliament to repeal this and remove Article 3(1) of the Constitution that says that Islam is the religion of the Federation. Once Islam is no longer the religion of the Federation then no longer can anyone talk about implementing Islamic laws in Malaysia.

It’s no use for MCA to shout like mad dogs outside Parliament. Go to Parliament and shout. Shout loud and clear. Tell the government that Islam should no longer be the religion of the Federation and that Article 3(1) of the Constitution should be repealed.

Malaysia, since it is a Secular State, should not have Islam as the religion of the Federation. This is a contradiction. And once Article 3(1) has been repealed there will be no more talk about Hudud or any other Islamic laws being implemented.

MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek has issued an ultimatum to his predecessor Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat — “submit to MCA and Barisan Nasional (BN)” to stay in Pandan.

Dr Chua (picture) told The Star in an interview carried today that he has not ruled out the possibility of allowing Ong to re-contest his Pandan seat but said his predecessor and fierce rival would first have to meet BN’s “winnable candidate” criteria.

“I am very open, in the sense that as long as he meets the criteria, he can be a candidate, but must submit to the party and Barisan Nasional,” Dr Chua was quoted as saying.

This meant that Ong would need support from the party, have good ties with NGOs and BN leaders, as well as a good command of Mandarin, Malay and English, he explained.

“As our party is very structured, it is very difficult to ensure that the machinery works and reaches out to the people if the candidate does not enjoy support within the party,” Dr Chua said.

Ong vowed last week to defend his seat in the next general election even if MCA drops him as a candidate.

The former MCA president remains very popular among his constituents, who are said to support him and not the party he represents.

Ong, however, today dismissed rumours that he intends to join DAP on January 20 despite confirming that he had met with opposition leaders recently.

His denial today comes after two MCA grassroots leaders closely linked to him — Penang MCA Youth chief Eng Hiap Boon and Johor MCA’s Taman Desa Skudai Flats deputy chairman James Wu Chee Heng — quit the party.