人民才是老闆 選民登記運動

People are the boss The registration of voters campaign

民主行動黨美里支部主席房保德呼籲美里市民進行選民登記運動：

Miri branch chairman Fong Pau Teck called upon all Miri residents to proceed with the registration of voters campaign:

If you are the big boss, the shareholder, the director or the chairman of a board of directors of an enterprise, your firm’s supervisor or manager told you that, the company made profit completely was his merit, you should feel grateful, if otherwise, the profit will not allot to you, what is your feeling of being the biggest shareholder of the board of directors in this situation?

In the same measure, the people are the owners of the country, the resources of the country are the people’s property, and the people pay the tax, entrust the government to manage and to develop the country. The country pursue on a free election democracy system.

If the ruling party told the people, the development funds of the government are limited, if the people did not know how to show their gratefulness but to express hostile toward the government, the government definitely will not make any development to these areas. The people who act as the bosses of the government, how do you think about that, and what feeling do you have now? The development of the places is originally the government’s responsibility, taking the people’s belonging to intimidate and to bargain back and forth, what the hxll is that all about from the government?

The meaning of the election lies on to select the courageous person who can contribute to the country, and to spurn all incompetently corrupted persons. The frontier party acts like an auditor of a big company, when the national leadership incline to corrupt or are incompetent, to select more courageous representatives from the frontier party to monitor actively the administration of the government is the most urgent movement.

Plato said: “ Not involving in politics will face its punishment, that is you will be ruled by those who are worse than you or by useless .”

At present, the government just know to keep on banning the hawker, small shop sellers, but regarding to the profit-making organisation like: the electricity company, the highway company, the monopolistic chargeable television channels and so on, all sort of situations regarding to adjust higher prices by them, the government turned a blind eye, don’t you fade up with these?

For those who have not registered themselves as a voter, should actively and quickly go to the post office to register. As for those who was already a voter, should encourage enthusiastically those non-registrants to proceed quickly to register, use your holy vote, to select the courageously responsible person to replace for those incapable, incompetent, ineffective, and inefficient yes men followers.

果您是一間企業公司的大老闆、股東、董事或董事長， 貴公司的管理人或經理告訴您，公司賺大錢完全是他的功勞，您必須要感恩， 否則就不把賺到的錢分給您，身為董事股東的大老闆的您將作何感想？

同樣的，人民是國家的主人，國家的資源是人民的財產，人民繳交稅務， 委託政府代為管理和發展國家。 國家奉行的是民主自由選舉制度。 如果執政黨告訴人民，政府發展基金有限，若人民不懂得感恩並仇視政府， 政府肯定不會對該地區作出發展。 那身為政府老闆的人民，您作何感想？ 地方發展本來就是政府的責任，拿著本來就屬於人民的東西來威逼和討價還價，成何體統？

選舉的意義在於選出能對國家做出供獻的代議士，唾棄無能腐敗者。 反對黨有如一間大公司的查賬員，當國家領導層趨向腐敗和無能時， 選出更多的反對黨代議士來有效監督政府的施政是當務之急。

柏拉圖說：“不參於政治必將面對其一懲罰， 就是你會被比你差勁的人所統治。”

由於目前政府只懂得取締小販商家， 對於賺大錢的機構如電力局，大道公司，壟斷市場的收費電視台等， 它們種種提高收費的情況，政府視若無睹，您感到厭煩嗎？ 要改變現狀，唯有通過選票向政府傳達強烈的訊息，政府才有可能聽得到。

未註冊為選民者應積極並迅速地前往郵政局註冊。 對於那些已經是選民者，應積極鼓勵未註冊者前往註冊，用您神聖的一票， 選出盡責的人民代議士來取代那些無作為的應聲蟲！

唯有修改土地法典才能保障人民的土地和產業

Amendment to the Sarawak Land Code can only safeguard people’s lands and properties

According to newspaper report on 6 July 2007, the official of the Land and Survey pointed out that the application for the land lease renewal for the extension period can be 60 years or 99 years. As for the renewal for the agricultural land, the owner must fill all details of the plant species, the quantities and the tree age in the land extension application form. The owner also can take some photos of the plant. According to the official, the authority will examine the application of the land site, if it is not acquired by the government for development purposes, the related application will be approved. The application procedure at least will take 1 to 2 years then only to be able to obtain the official answer from the authority.

In accordance with the press statement made by the official, The DAP Miri branch chairman Fong Pau Teck then issues a press statement that wants the government to make clear explanation to the public. Whether the authority takes such complicated procedure to examine the application of a particular land site of which the land has been acquired by the government for development purpose or not with the result of 1 to 2 years is needed then only can reply the owner in respond with their land application? If yes, is it necessary to review?

On the other hand, need to fill in the details of the plant species and to provide photos, does this indicate that this is one of the conditions which the government considers whether or not to renew the land title deed? If it is so, the government should not send out such misleading opinion saying that if the application of the land site is not acquired by the government for development purposes, the related application will be approved. In other words, does this also indicate that if the agricultural land has no planting, even if it is not acquired by the government but the land lease still cannot be renewed?

In the aspect of the renewal premium of the agricultural land, the cheapest will be the countryside agricultural land; every acre will only need RM200. At present, such kind of land law which bring disadvantages to the landowners if it is not going to be amended even every acre renewal premium is cut down to RM20, the people are still unable to ensure whether the properties which were handed down by their ancestors will be able to keep by successful renewal of the land lease. The people should polish their eyes, not to believe all empty guaranties by the BN politicians.

Fong Pau Teck called upon all populace to get a clear understanding of the difference between ‘law’ and ‘policy’. A safeguard of the people’s properties can only be obtained through the amendment of the existing land regulation. He also pointed out that ‘policy’ can be revised anytime, as long as receiving the instruction from the powerful person of the State government, today is such a policy, the next day can be changed to another as long as the powerful man is happy. Now the reduction of the land renewal premium is the example, no safeguard can be shown toward people’s properties. But ‘law’ is then different. The law can only be changed after the majority have approved by voting through the state assembly men meeting, people’s property can only be protected under the law, if some ministries of the government do not handle the affairs according to the law, and the people have the right to sue the concerned government department to the court.

6/7/07 的一則新聞報導，土地局官員指出，申請土地更新或延長期限分為60年或99年。在更新農業地方面，業主必須在延長土地年限的申請表上填寫土地所種植的植物種類、數量和樹齡。業主亦可拍下所種植的植物。據官員指出，當局會查看申請地段，若沒有被政府徵用作發展用途，有關申請將會獲得批准。而申請程序至少需時1至2 年才會獲得當局的正式答覆。

民主行動黨美里支部主席房保德今針對土地局官員談話發表一文告，要州政府向人民解釋，當局查看申請地段有否被政府徵用發展用途的手續是否繁複，以致需1至2年時間才能答覆地主對土地的申請。如果是，是否有必要檢討？

另一方面，要填寫所種植的植物資料和提供照片， 是否意謂著政府將之作為更不更新地契年限的考量條件之一？ 如果是如此，政府則不應該發出諸如申請地段若沒被政府徵用作發展用途，有關申請將會獲得批准，的誤導性言論。換句話說，是否也意謂着農業地如果沒有種植的話，即使政府沒有要徵用也不能獲得更新地契年限？

農業地的更新費方面，最便宜的是郊區的農業地，每依甲僅需200令吉。目前各種不利於地主的土地法令如不修改，即使每依甲的更新稅降低至20令吉， 人民仍然無法確保祖宗傳下的產業能夠獲得延長地契年限而得以保全。人民應該擦亮雙眼，不要相信政客的空洞保證。

房保德呼籲民眾要認清「法律」和「政策」的不同，人民的產業唯有在現有的土地法令修改之下才能夠得到保障。他也指出「政策」隨時可以被修改，只要受到州政府內有權力人士的指示，今天是這樣的政策，明天只要他高興又可以修改成另一個政策，現在土地更新稅的降價就是一個例子，對人民的產業一點保障都沒有。但「法律」則不同，要修改法律則要經過州議會多數決的通過才可以修改，人民的產業只有在法律之下才會有保障，如果政府某部門不依法行事，人民有權利把那相關政府部門告到法院去。

國陣政府才是通貨膨脹的罪魁禍首

BN government is the arch-criminal of the inflation

In accordance with the Trade and Consumer Department’s daily go around and checking on all main streets and small alleys recently, The DAP Miri branch chairman Fong Pau Teck issues a statement criticized that the BN government is the arch-criminal which caused the inflation today.

The ways that BN government did today is just like to only permit the government authorities to set on fire but not allow the populace to light up the lamps, we may see how BN government utilized their authority to authorize those private companies which have close correlation with the government to rise the prices.

We can still have a vivid memory on the rising of the fuel prices hike on 28th Feb 2006, the government ratified the profit-making highway company to increase the toll fees, the sole chargeable television channel increased high charges too, the state government also allowed Sarawak Sesco, the extremely profit-making electricity company to hike the Traffic on 1 April 2007. The privatized Telekom company too, forced the customers to install the voicebox, when the line cannot get through, it will pass the customers automatically and directly into the message voicebox, caused the customers paid automatically to enhance their aim on their money making goal; the increment of the assessment fees by the local council and so on; till recently the intension to rise the car examined fees and rise further on the deposit and the license fees of the fishing boats, all without exception demonstrated BN government’s hegemonic politics.

All measures above resulted the businessmen suffered from the unceasingly increased in cost, instead, our Trade Department kept silence on the rising in price by all government related companies, only know hitting on the feeble merchants. One of the Mama Stall in West Malaysia, the price of the ice Milo was more expensive than the normal day for 20 to 30 cents and finally was fined twenty two thousand and five hundred ringgit. According to the understanding, the Domestic trade and consumer personnel department also confiscated 750 ringgit food and drink, and tore down the restaurant shop signboard. In accordance with a few cents of the boiled water and 20 to 30 cents increased in the ice Milo and set out a large military-like-force, it is simply a waste of the national resources.

Fong Pau Teck pointed out that our society resulted to be like today, certainly, we should first give a “credit” to the BN government’s “wise”, but get to the heart of the matter we still found out the imbalance of the our politic, politic once found to be unbalanced, it means that it has lost the surveillance function, and caused the entire government department’s operation out of control, embezzlement and corruption grow thickly, a pile of corrupted officials, and caused the society malfunction. It is not that easy to change each kind of random matter happened in today’s society, unless the populace are all in one mind to voice out their will through their votes in the coming parliament election.

針對貿消部近來天天出動，大街小巷走透透的作為，民主行動黨美里支部主席房保德今天發表文告抨擊國陣政府才是通貨膨脹的罪魁禍首。

國陣政府今天的做法就如同只許官家放火不許百姓點燈，我們可以看到國陣政府如何運用他們的權力來批准跟他們有關連的一些獨營公司漲價。

2006年2月28日的燃油起價問題我們都還記憶猶新，政府也批准西馬的大道公司起過路費，獨營的收費電視頻道也調高收費，州政府也允許非常賺錢的砂州電力工司在今年4月1日調漲電費 ，私營化獨家的電話公司也借着強制客戶按裝語音信箱，當電話不通時使客戶直接進入語音留言信箱，使客戶自動扣錢來達到他們提高營收的目的；地方議會調高門牌稅等；到最近要調漲的驗車費和大幅的提高漁船的抵押金和執照費，無一不顯示出國陣的霸權政治。

以上種種的措施都造成商家的成本不斷的提高，反觀我們的貿修部對政府關連公司的起價隻字不提，只懂得一味打壓手無縛雞之力的商家。在西馬一家嘛嘛餐館賣RM1.80的美祿冰比平時貴20至30仙而被罰款2萬2仟500令吉，據了解，國內貿易及消費人事務部還充公了750令吉的食物和飲料，並拆掉餐館的招牌。針對幾毛錢的白開水和貴20至30仙的美祿冰出動大隊人馬，簡直就是浪費國家的資源。

房保德指出我們的社會會有今天的局面，當然首先還是要“歸功”國陣政府的“英明”，但追根究底也是我們的政治失去的平衡，政治一旦失衡，也意謂說失去了監督的功能，導致整個政府部門運作失序，貪污腐敗叢生，一堆的貪官污吏，導致社會功能不彰。要改變我們今天社會的各種亂象並非易事，除非人民萬眾一心在國會選舉到來時用選票來跟國陣政府講話！