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Xenophon loses his 'microphone' Posted: 17 Feb 2013 10:37 PM PST READ THIS!   Not everyone Down Under likes what Xenophon did in Malaysia on the weekend. At least, some Australians are more mature and wise in weighing the circumstances. As Anwar's walking stick, he forgets that his support for Pakatan Rakyat also carries his recognition for Pas, a party deemed as 'extreme' by many. ONE  of Australia's senior commentators has taken maverick independent senator Nick Xenophon to task for his 'foolish or cynically self-promoting' episode in Malaysia at the weekend. The Australian newspaper's foreign editor Greg Sheridan said Xenophon's call for the Australian government to monitor the forthcoming Malaysian elections was "stupid and impractial". Sheridan also accused Xenophon of "campaigning for just one side of Malaysian politics -- the opposition".  Sheridan said Foreign Minister Bob Carr was right to make his response to Xenophon's deportation as low key as possible and to agree with his Malaysian counterpart that the issue would not affect relations between the two countries. "Carr should take no further action on the matter, nor is he likely to," he said. "He (Xenophon) might reflect on the fact the side he supports contains as perhaps its strongest element the most extreme Islamist party in mainstream Southeast Asian politics." "Xenophon wants the Australian government to send electoral monitors to the forthcoming Malaysian elections. This idea is stupid and impractical," Sheridan said.  Citing electoral problems in Vietnam and Cambodia, Sheridan said Malaysia "on any measure is one of the most democratic and freewheeling nations in Southeast Asia.  "Its elections are certainly not perfect, but they are better than in most parts of the world.  "Indeed, its very openness allows people such as Xenophon to grandstand there." -- BERNAMA Whether the detention and deportation order on him was done accordingly or not, I think we Malaysians can manage our own soil without such any foreign intervention. If they don't like us to intervene in their domestic affairs, why should we provide them rooms to interfere with ours? Yes, what is so clean about politics but at least we have proven our fairness to others, the opposition, outsiders and those big mouth of the West that in some aspects, we are much better than them. So, people like Xenophon should stop criticising others when his own domestic affairs are still very much in disarray!

The hidden hands behind Sulu infiltration... Posted: 17 Feb 2013 10:43 AM PST Some people may ask, whose turf is it? I mean, managing the infiltration of about 300 followers of Philippine's Sultan Jamalul Kiram III (pic) in Lahad Datu, Sabah. Is it our police or the armed forces? I think its the police business which comes directly under Home Minister Hishammuddin Tun Hussein. However, too many people took to the stage in giving statements and making comments. In the end, it looks really ugly and disorganised! Ooppsss... sorry, no heart feeling. The issue here is a question only a few people could answer - are Malaysians involved in 'bringing in' the Pinoys? Its very, very intriguing indeed. Why must it happen now and not few years ago or later (after the general election)? The whole drama seems to have been scripted by someone from both sides. Who could it be? There are Malaysian politicians having good connection with them, especially someone who is close to Nur Misuari, a person who has been showing a great deal of sympathy and support for their cause. I believe the public knows who he is, the great ally of former Philippine president Joseph Estrada. Even the timing of the infiltration came he was bestowed the highest award of Sabah's Kadazandusun tribe, a week after that! What's the motive anyway? The infamous 'Hose Rizal' of Malaysia - after rebutting Tun Dr Mahathir's allegation that he was involved in the 'IC project' for Filipinos in Sabah during the mid 1990s - needs support, more than the peoples of Sabah could afford. However, he is giving away that piece of land in Sabah for them to settle and stay, for free. Have he and Sultan Kiram met before? Read what the Sultan Sulu said: MANILA (AFP) - Followers of a Philippine sultan who crossed to the Malaysian state of Sabah this month will not leave and are reclaiming the area as their ancestral territory, the sultan said on Sunday amid a tense stand-off. Sultan Jamalul Kiram said his followers - some 400 people, including 20 gunmen - were resolute in staying despite being cornered by security forces, with the Kuala Lumpur government insisting the group return to the Philippines. "Why should we leave our own home? In fact, they (the Malaysians) are paying rent (to us)," he told reporters in Manila. "Our followers will stay in (the Sabah town of) Lahad Datu. Nobody will be sent to the Philippines. Sabah is our home," he said. Let's hear to what Sabahans got to say about it. Will they opt for the opposition in the next general election? Manila still has claims over Sabah. Is this part of the massive 'Sabah for the Philippines' plan?

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