Horses' Mouths - October 27

Who's afraid of human rights? If I subscribe to this religion, then I would question why I cannot be a royalty, what more if it concerns the status of the bumiputera? Abdul Rahim Mohd Noor, former Inspector General of Police, warning on human rights "wave" threatening principles on which the country was founded  Budget 2012 Persistent fiscal deficits! That’s the best description of the Federal Government’s fiscal position which had been governed by Barisan Nasional (BN) over past few decades except a brief period of federal budget surplus from 1993 to 1997 when Anwar Ibrahim was the Finance Minister. William Leong Jee Keen, Selayang MP Penang’s debt Penang has sliced RM600 million or 95 per cent of the state’s debt since the Pakatan Rakyat took over the state in March 2008. Lim Guan Eng, Penang CM Clean before 13 We’ve started a campaign called ‘Clean Before 13’. What is crying out for reform is the cleaning up of the electoral roll. My own view is we can’t go to the polls with the electoral roll in the state that it is. Ambiga Sreevenasan, Bersih 2.0 chief Auditor General’s report The Auditor-General’s Report 2010 has exposed and proved the failure of the prime minister’s transformation policy. Anwar Ibrahim MACC's overspending The excessive spending does not mean MACC breached any Treasure rules or any other financial management procedure but actually was approved by the government as it actually a bonus payment approved by the government. Malaysia Anti Corruption Commission, on overspending its allocations by 0.73 per cent as highlighted in Auditor-General’s Report 2010