OPEN message to ?PM on new order

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An OPEN message to the nation as the Prime Minister visit Sabah on 7th April, 2008.
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4th Memo to the Government from Consumers' Association of Sabah & Labuan (CASH) -5 April 2008
NEW ORDER for Malaysia and SABAH
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This is the fourth MEMORANDUM to the Prime Minister since January 2007 as the first one - MEMORANDUM in support of corrective measures to tide over price hikes in Sabah January 2007 the second one - Memorandum to Prime Minister for serious actions in Sabah December 2007, the third one - Strong Malaysia loves Sabah January 2008
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1. Introduction
1.1 Consumers Association of Sabah & Labuan FT (CASH) would demand a NEW ORDER for the nation especially in Sabah after 51/45 years of independence. We have been asking the caring and genuine Governments - Federal and State in prompt addressing of the gaps and disparities in all areas of the nation vis-a-vis Sabah. Such gaps and disparities had been there since 1963 and Malaysia deemed to be peaceful, secure and prosperous by some Malaysians in the recent Barisan Nasional's manifesto needs a NEW ORDER to achieve that. The recent outcome of the General Elections 2008 speaks for itself with a loud message which some people have dubbed it a political tsunami - a setback for many but a watershed for a NEW ORDER that can only be sustained with a new system and new leaders.
1.2 We are awakened by several wake up calls - globally, regionally and locally in recent years even after Malaysia has considered herself with high flying slogan like Glory, Distinction and Excellence. Such slogan must be matched by things that are basic as we have found ourselves running away from the many calls to "go back to basic" in society. The devastating tsunami of Aceh touching Malaysia in December 2004 was soon after Malaysia had a landslide victory for the Barisan Nasional is not easy to be forgotten. What have we done when many voices on "back to basic" had not been heeded by the leaders? Without a NEW ORDER, all those slogans would remain elusive and deceptive. This NEW ORDER would need to embrace a range of changes in basic living spiritually, politically, socially, and mutually. The other major wake up calls after the 911 attack on the Twin Towers presented us with physical and economic terrorism in the likely struggle for a NEW ORDER in the world for which Malaysia is a very small unit. We now experience the worrying impact of the rising price of crude oil in the world market which itself is allowed to be dictated by some seen and unseen forces. Unless we address all the basic issues confronting Malaysia especially in Sabah, we cannot even dream of those slogans to be a successful nation in the context of globalisation.
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2. NEW ORDER for Malaysia and SABAH
2.1 In this NEW ORDER for Malaysia and SABAH, we know our strengths and weaknesses of the nation and the State as we have dealt with most of them in our earlier three memorandums namely LAND & WORLD HERITAGE SITES, AGRICULTURE & FOODS SECURITY, CITY & MAJOR TOWNS DEVELOPMENTS, BASIC ITEMS ARE MISSING ITEMS, PRICE HIKES MEAN MORE POVERTY, FINANCES ALLOCATIONS ON PAPER STILL INADEQUATE.
2.2 THINGS BEYOND MATERIALISTIC ITEMS
NEW ORDER for Malaysia and SABAH is basically nothing new when we have been blest abundantly in the past but we have without dispute mismanaged our orders of things so much so a God loving nation is falling apart. We cannot deceive ourselves any longer that we can go on as we had been doing for 51/45 years without a power paradigm shift in the way we conduct ourselves - spiritually, emotionally, physically, mentally and socially. It is quite clear now that this NEW ORDER for Malaysia and SABAH is a great move towards basic and basic things of life as the vivid message of General Elections 2008 as determined by the people who loves Malaysia. The desire of the voters was for a change even in rigged electoral process and like the tsunami of the Aceh, only a small part of Peninsula Malaysia was affected and yet the Government did try to address some of the damage control in case of future event of nature or God wanting to give us a divine message. Some corrective measures like the expensive Tsunami Alert System now installed and the replanting of mangrove areas is ongoing. There are still many environmental issues yet to be addressed properly and floods are a factor of environmental damage not easily avoided.
2.3 ESSENTIAL NON MATERIALISTIC THINGS
Some people may think that money can buy every thing include life thereafter as some people would have luxurious 'homes' below the surface of the earth. When Malaysians and the Government adopted an attitude to amend certain things post Tsunami of Aceh on 26th December 2004 as when some people sneeze loudly others are been disturbed or alerted, what should we now do for Malaysia and the world after our own political tsunami on 8th March 2008? NEW ORDER for Malaysia and SABAH is an interesting direction for the world as we are being watched by others daily as we pursue our livelihood in Malaysia -truly Asia. Malaysia is not alone in this essential re-order of things non materialistic as we know what God has for us in Asia where more than half of the world's people of God on earth are residing. Of course there have been massive movements of changes in Asia - mostly thrust upon us - in recent decades of the modern world. The first and second world wars were global waves that had changed the lives of people in Asia. It was the deep conflict of the World War 2 in global discord that ended with the first ever mid air explosions of the two atomic bombs the worst unfortunate global event very hard to be erased from our generations. Had that incident change the orders of things in Asia and the world? Soon after that World War, China was taken over by the Communist Party with a reign till now after Japan failed in its earlier conquest of China. Who would imagine that Peking of China today is given the chance to host the massive popular World Premier sporting event - the Olympic - in the sixtieth year since 1949 while some quarters want to disrupt it? So the nations are still undergoing changes we do not really understand and ultimately it is under the order of God, our Creator.
2.4 NEW WORLD ORDER since World War 2
Incredible it may sound, it was after the World War 2, that many new nations on earth emerged and Malaysia is one of the hundred new nations. Would that be a reality if that war was not ended in the way it did in 1945? What would have happened to the world if Japan and her allies in Europe were in control of the world? Whether that new world order had brought good new things for the people of God, we are not that sure yet when what we see so many incredible developments globally and domestically. God is still speaking to us in many ways but few would hear them because of the consequences in the worldly pursuits once only for the millionaire wealth syndrome but now touching the billionaire realms (good for some but bad for most people). Malaysia may have enough for the needs of the people but not enough for the greed of some. Malaysia has recently boasted of the Trillion Ringgit trades deals with the world. We cannot dispute the fact that there is a reality that the world suffer in disparities and gaps of wealth, social responsibilities, and accountabilities resulting in abject poverty, oppression and under-privilege as very much prevalent today in several continents and Asia is not excepted.
2.5 MALAYSIA at the threshold of change
Malaysia got onto the wave of change (not political Tsunami for colonial powers) in the emergence of independent nations after the Second World War and Sabah is now in history as Sabah and Sarawak on the Borneo island separated by the South China sea decided possibly prematurely to form Malaysia with Singapore and Malaya when Brunei stayed her own. It was a great change with the vision of the best Malaysia for the world to see as the myth of Malaysia holding on for so long for 45 years is itself a record of sort.
In the wider perspective of time and change as inevitable, we are always on the move be it the mid air explosions or the tsunami, the signs of time cannot be treated lightly and the power of change would likely assume any direction like a river changes its course before we know it.
What kind of changes are likely in Malaysia and the fact that the Federal Government is at a simple majority aided by rigging must be the focus of any leaders to deal with this expected change spoken out by the voters at large fearing of what is next if no change was forthcoming.
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2.5.1        Spirituality and Religions
        There have been calls for changes in this global outlook in various diverse ways but people are largely still confused since the beginning of times at the Garden of Eden.  Like everything else, spirituality and  religions are inseparable but definitely a new definition of the defining nature of these items need to be given new enlightenment in a world many are groping in the dark.   In Malaysia, we have been waking up daily to hear of some heart rending cases on spirituality and religions in conflicts in the courts, in the news, in the homes and on the ways to the last rites.  On this very sensitive issues sort of related to politics as well, we do not really know how we would walk this journey of faith in God when it is acknowledged that there is only one God.  Are we not torn apart in many ways in our short journeys on earth till we see our Creator?  If we want to consider religions as the food for our spirits, then we are likely very wrong as our spirits in each one of us must be fed by the real spiritual food from God.  Physical foods also from God are good for our well beings and his spiritual food are more essential in sustaining the spirit in us.  While we have the choices to make in the physical items of foods, do we really have the choice to make in the nature of spiritual food which God says is His Word?  We know our shortcoming in this respect in Malaysia where the Federal Constitution has its stipulation but Federal Constitution is not God in spiritual things, can it be so?  Should not we hear this voice of change in NEW ORDER for Malaysia and SABAH now?






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3.        NEW ORDER for Malaysia and SABAH is fundamental
        How do we judge our own performance in the context of the reality of the order of things?  We do blame others and ourselves for the results.  When we think we do very well in certain areas, it is still a comparative dimension in the global context and when we do a proper analysis we find ourselves no where near the best.  It may be the ultimate thing to go to the space as a superior frontier as only three nations can boast of that with the space technology.  Malaysia is indeed fortunate to be allowed to participate in the space programme of others but nothing much to boast about when the political party with the rocket symbol made it to the State Government after 43 years.  Another irony of the mentality of some people is that when the nation is faring badly on certain counts, the leaders would point to the worst in the world as a comparison to find fleeting comfort.  Without NEW ORDER for Malaysia and SABAH, we may restrict ourselves to our own world of insignificance when our natural resources have fast depleted.  We may know what hit us but we are unable to act or deliberate ignore such scenarios for some hidden agenda and then plea ignorance.
3.1        How smart are we?
        Malaysia may have a string of SMART items like the SMART tunnel, SMART consumers, SMART technology and SMART people to deal with some of our challenges, but how smart are we really?  We may be smart but there are plenty of smarter people out there.  It is indeed good to promote such programmes but how smart we can be we cannot be smarter than some and God is obvious the smartest as we believe our destiny lies in God.
3.2        How smart must we be?
        We know some of us are very smart when we negotiated the deals in the formation of Malaysia when it was first proposed amongst five parties in the region - Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak, Sabah and Brunei.  Then what happened in 1962, 1963 and 1965 were special events that cannot be denied were smart moves of some people, by some people and  for some people.  It was a success nonetheless according to the wishes of the people then.  NEW ORDER for Malaysia and SABAH would mean that we need to address the Malaysia Agreement and then we can consider ourselves really smart as we must be smart enough now after going through waves of reality in this independence challenge before us now.
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4.        NEW ORDER for Malaysia and SABAH versus Malaysia Agreement
        It is never too late to do such noble thing but it is too little we have done over the 45 years to ensue justice for Sabah and Sabahans be done  in accordance to the sacred Malaysia Agreement which we believe is simply defined as the Malaysia Act in the Federal Constitution article 159A.  We are not legal minds and therefore we need to have a proper review of the MA via various approaches mainly by a Royal Commission of Inquiry to bring back the sanity and sanctity of minds of the founders of Malaysia.  In all sincerity, we walk this journey in Malaysia once and we have seen how the sacred Federal Constitution had been amended up to 700 times (someone to confirm this).  It is quite incredible that such a sacred and noble instrument can be amended to be distorted with some gaining and other losing out in the deal of 1963.  Would a heavily modified vehicle be really superior in all its applications when such modified vehicle would most likely be a killer on the roads?
4.1        Smart to be beneficial for all not in exploitation
        We need to be smart and even smarter in most situations to be successful and even be relevant but it is futile to exploit others intentionally or otherwise as history has plenty of such scenarios.  Why we may ask but God has the answer.   We do not know how much violations have occurred with the Federal Constitution despite repeated denials to keep others smarter than others.
It is also a known perception that Sabah people are not smart and today we are sharing a land of bountiful once but now already largely ruined with outsiders who are not even citizens of Malaysia when Peninsula Malaysians and Sarawakians complained that they need to use passports to come to Sabah.  Some of these regulations have been removed for Sarawakians to come to Sabah but we believe Sarawak has yet to do likewise for Sabahans going to Sarawak.  So Sabah people must be smart now or to be doomed forever when illegal people are prominent in Government sectors and in development areas.  Coming back to the violations of the Federal Constitution, we definitely need to have a Royal Commission to handle that whilst the obvious ones are the natural inhibitions or artificial restrictions on human nature, human desires and human views on the most important thing on spirituality as misguided by religions.  There are simple distortions when the Federal constitution only provides for a Prime Minister and a Cabinet but we have a Deputy Prime Minister.  The Federal Constitution is simply ignored when millions of illegal people are given genuine identity cards with the full knowledge of the socalled patriotic leaders of the nation. Slavery in Sabah is edging towards a reality in conflict with the Article 6 of the Federal Constitution but again overlooked by the authorities.  Many things are also implemented outside the Federal Constitution.  The nation is going to pay for this official blunder and the wake up call is likely found in the latest General Election 2008's verdict.
4.2        Referendum and Royal Commissions of Inquiry
        CASH has been calling for several Royal Commissions of Inquiry on major challenges and issues facing Sabah and yet none had been instituted.  With a Prime Minister (now another term) who has declared he has big ear to hear all calls, has he not heard enough only now that he may hear with the verdict on 8th March 2008.  Let this verdict largely still denied and ignored by some people, be the strength of the Prime Minister and nation to deal with all the issues now.  Even the seven annual reports of Human Rights Commission of Malaysia or (Suhakam) had yet to be debated in the strong Parliament of 50 years.   We wonder whether we need to call for referendum every thing we demand for Royal Commission of Inquiry on issues of crisis dimension?  We believe the verdict of 8th March  2008 should be deemed to be a move for change in the way we do national duties rather than "no further action" syndrome.   Some may say the BN is still in power at the Federal levels but the BN has definitely lost the jewels of the nations in the hands of People Alliance when the performance of the Federal Government is a sum of all the activities of the people of all the states more so in key states like Selangor, Penang and Federal Territory Kuala Lumpur where the bulk of all activities occur.  There is yet another problem brewing when the UMNO liaison head of Terengganu is in the hands of the former Menteri Besar as the Wang Ehsan of billions of Ringgit are channeled to UMNO rather than to the State Government.  CASH expresses the desire that Royal Commissions of Inquiry be held in Sabah in various crucial matters such as Malaysia Agreement vis-a-vis Federal Constitution, the Project IC /Project Mahathir, Land, Electoral matters and others without the need of referendum.  The dominance of BN in Sabah since 1994 is another issue to be addressed by itself.
4.3        International requests for assistance on crimes against humanity
        In crimes against humanity, Joshua Y. C. Kong had submitted two detailed briefs of almost one thousand pages to the International Criminal Court at the Hague in August 2005 and September 2006 listing amongst other things the grievances we have in the Federation when lopsidedness in every thing is observed between the Peninsula and the Borneon States especially Sabah.   CASH has also submitted a letter to the Secretary General of the Commonwealth of nations in London urging intervention on the implementation of the Malaysia Agreement.  
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5.        CONCLUSION
NEW ORDER for Malaysia and SABAH is no doubt an effort not easy to be achieved immediately even if it is going back to basic  but we must start now lest we become irrelevant in the world.  No doubt, the oil producing countries at this point in time may be reaping huge profit at the expense of the consumers in strife.  Malaysia is amongst the nations blest with oil but when oil can produce that kind of powerful fire and such fires are not easily doused - energy needs are good- the voters with the firepower and fear within them had this verdict for the foresight lest it is too late when the latest wake up for the nation come in the form of the very high price for the crude oil causing costs of living rising like a domino scenario.  The oil has its blessing in its powerful fire and sometimes unlikely curses as well in the way we use the oil wealth.  Many people are very worried as to how the world would be without oil for fuel and instead have turned to alternative source of fossil fuel in biofuel resulting in the spiraling of the costs of essential food items as climate change is a factor for the agriculture produces and products all depending on energy for production and distribution.  Definitely, the desire for change of the voters as spoken out is not a flash in the pan, as we are fully aware of the reality in Malaysia in the wild chasing of the millionaire and billionaire syndrome by any means within the power that come with the voting trend in the past now broken once again since 1969.  


        The political scenario in Sabah is known since 1994 and the political fundamentals can be changed as developments in Peninsula Malaysia can be a beckon of change in Sabah.
        Any changes in NEW ORDER for Malaysia and SABAH must be not cosmetic to be meaningful so that this new inspiration of the people for the nation would not be perspiration for many as the world is watching closely on this region.  Lets show the world Malaysia can do it in ways others can only dream of and that how sharing, caring and loving in this society of mutuality in common divine destiny as two oceans - Indian and Pacific - wash the shores of very small Malaysia as how many other nations on earth has that privilege of two oceans?
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4th Memorandum from Consumers' Association of Sabah & Labuan (CASH)
NEW ORDER for Malaysia and SABAH
Prepared for CASH by Joshua Y. C. Kong    5th April, 2008
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An OPEN message to the nation as the Prime Minister visit Sabah on 7th April, 2008.
We have to address the following:-
1) The five development corridors with the Trillion Ringgit syndrome benefitting outsiders against the worsening prices hike to cause more poverty in domestic economy.
2) The proposed ministry for Sabah and Sarawak to address the disparities and gaps in the national scenario with a review on the fundamental grounds for the disparities namely the Malaysia Agreement.
3) NEW ORDER for Malaysia and SABAH needs to address the fundamental of human beings in accordance with God.
Joshua Kong

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JK's Digest No. 8 of April 2008 (281-287 of 2008) Give Joshua Kong a chance to save Malaysia
I have a mission for the nation....join me
1.        Why Suhakam is crying over spilt milk?
2.        Food in Borneo
3.        PKR's adviser seems to avoid the Federal constitution issue.
4.        I have an old issue with Sabah Friendship League.
5.        CASH is very poor and owes me more than RM19,000 for expenses.
6.        Claim on Sabah is ridiculous - MP Kota Kinabalu says otherwise.
7.        Security papers and their usage.
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1.        Why Suhakam is crying over spilt milk?
Extract from Daily Express 4th April 2008 on Suhakam
"Sipaun said the Government tends to view Suhakam  as siding with the opposition, especially when Suhakam issues statements it does not welcome.  On the other hand the opposition regards Suhakam as nothing more than a window dressing and a public relations exercise of the Government.  Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) describe Suhakam such a 'toothless tiger' and 'retirement home', he said."
In reality, he said, Suhakam is not pro-government, not pro-opposition, not pro-NGOs, not pro-anybody but just pro-human rights."
Joshua Kong says "actually Suhakam is empowered by the Statute to act as far as to the Courts according to the provision in the  Act as
Procedure where infringement is not disclosed or is disclosed
13. (1) Where an inquiry conducted by the Commission under section 12 does not disclose the infringement of human rights, the Commission shall record that finding and shall record that finding and shall forthwith inform the person making the complaint.
(2) Where an inquiry conducted by the Commission under section 12 discloses the infringement of human rights, the Commission shall have the power to refer the matter, where appropriate, to the relevant authority or person with the necessary recommendations."  
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2.        Food in Borneo
        I wrote an article which I know was published in the local papers on the food needs and gaps of Sabah in late 2000 but nothing was done to improve the situation and now we are going to suffer worst when the 'silent' famine sweeps globe as per story below.
'Silent' famine sweeps globe
Rice, fertilizer shortages, food costs, higher energy prices equal world crisis
WASHINGTON