I can still remember a few years back, to counter Anwar's visit to UK, Nottingham University was used to encourage Malaysian students from all over UK to gather there for games. Just imagine the costs of providing coaches and other expenses involved there. If not for study commitments, who would not be tempted for such free travelling to visit places with everything provided? So Khairy's statement about public funds not misused rings hollow:
REMBAU, 30 MAY, 2011: Public funds were not misused for the 2011 One Million Youth Assembly held last weekend, Barisan Nasional (BN) Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin Abu Bakar said today.
He said the assembly was a government program and did not involve any political party.
"I believe the one million youth came voluntarily to take part in all events held during the three-day program. The opposition is making this an issue because they were worried of the great response from youths," he said.
He said the assembly was a government program and did not involve any political party.
"I believe the one million youth came voluntarily to take part in all events held during the three-day program. The opposition is making this an issue because they were worried of the great response from youths," he said.
If there were actually one million youths present, we can imagine the costs involved in this BN image and support building initiative: Rm10 each would have costed Rm10 million; Rm100 each, Rm100 million; your guess is as good as mine.
The following view by Kim Quek is more credible:
No political party is entitled to defend Putrajaya
Excerpt:
"There is something disturbing in Premier Najib Razak’s repeated and frantic calls to defend Putrajaya. The latest, when he was addressing youth at the World Youth day gathering in Putrajaya on May 28.
After asking the youth “Will you defend Putrajaya with me?”, and getting a positive answer, he then shouted: “Defend Putrajaya! Defend Putrajaya! Defend Putrajaya!”
His equally paranoid call on an earlier occasion was during the recent 61st Umno general assembly when he shrieked: “Even if our bodies are crushed and our lives lost, brothers and sisters, whatever happens, we must defend Putrajaya”.
Any novice to this country must have imagined that Malaysia must be facing an imminent foreign invasion, otherwise, why should its prime minister be exhorting so earnestly for the defence of its administrative capital?
But we Malaysians know that this is not a case of foreign invasion, but a reflection of the sick mentality of the incumbent political power which has ruled this country without interruption for more than half a century.
Umno has held on to its hegemony for so long that it cannot differentiate between what belongs to the party and what belongs to the people."
After asking the youth “Will you defend Putrajaya with me?”, and getting a positive answer, he then shouted: “Defend Putrajaya! Defend Putrajaya! Defend Putrajaya!”
His equally paranoid call on an earlier occasion was during the recent 61st Umno general assembly when he shrieked: “Even if our bodies are crushed and our lives lost, brothers and sisters, whatever happens, we must defend Putrajaya”.
Any novice to this country must have imagined that Malaysia must be facing an imminent foreign invasion, otherwise, why should its prime minister be exhorting so earnestly for the defence of its administrative capital?
But we Malaysians know that this is not a case of foreign invasion, but a reflection of the sick mentality of the incumbent political power which has ruled this country without interruption for more than half a century.
Umno has held on to its hegemony for so long that it cannot differentiate between what belongs to the party and what belongs to the people."
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