{"id":5171,"date":"2013-07-04T15:49:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T07:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=5171"},"modified":"2013-07-04T15:49:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T07:49:38","slug":"shahidans-red-bean-army-farce-continues-in-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/shahidans-red-bean-army-farce-continues-in-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Shahidan’s “Red Bean Army” farce continues in Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Lim Kit Siang<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The whole rigmarole about DAP funding a \u201cRed Bean Army\u201d of 3,000 cybertroopers with a budget ranging from RM100 million to RM1 billion in the past six years to demonise and character-assassinate has completely gone berserk with Barisan Nasional Ministers and Members of Parliament quoting lies as gospel truths in Parliament and outside.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yesterday, at least two Barisan Nasional MPs spoke about the \u201cRed Bean Army\u201d in Parliament, but their credibility is no higher than\u00a0\u00a0that of\u00a0\u00a0the Gerakan MP for Simpang Renggam, Liang Teck Meng who made history by turning himself into an instant parliamentary disgrace yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Teck Meng purportedly quoted from WiliLeaks to allege that Parliamentary Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim \u201cowns 30 foreign bank accounts\u201d worth RM332 million in four countries, including Israel, when such information is not available on WikiLeaks but only concocted on blogs by UMNO cybertroopers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Like the \u201cRed Bean Army\u201d canard, this is another example of UMNO\/BN cybertroopers finally succeeding in misleading their own leaders!<\/span><\/p>\n

Is Teck Meng prepared to admit that he had told lies in Parliament yesterday and to surrender himself to the Parliamentary Privileges Committee for the proper punishment that should be meted out to an MP who could tell such reckless lies in Parliament?<\/span><\/p>\n

What is shocking is that there are Ministers who are prepared to believes such lies, like the falsehoods by Teck Meng and the canards about the \u00a0<\/span>DAP funding the \u201cRed Bean Army\u201d of 3,000 cybertroopers with a budget of RM100 million to RM1 billion in the past six years, to the extent that the Minister in the Prime Minister\u2019s Department, Datuk Shahidan Kassim is officially preparing a paper for the Cabinet on Friday in response to a memorandum by 130 Malay-Muslim NGOs for a royal commission of inquiry (RCI) on the \u201cRed Bean Army\u201d of cybertroopers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Will Shahidan propose in Cabinet the\u00a0\u00a0establishment of RCI on Utusan Malaysia\u2019s racist, inflammatory and seditious provocations in the past four years if 1,000 or 2,000 Malaysians or more sign a memorandum for this purpose?<\/span><\/p>\n

I can guarantee that the memorandum for a RCI on Utusan Malaysia will be backed up with facts and not lies and falsehoods, like the memorandum on \u201cRed Bean Army\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

If Shahidan can give an assurance that such a memorandum of facts by thousands or even tens of thousands of Malaysians calling for a RCI on Utusan Malaysia will be raised at the Cabinet, I am prepared to start work on such a memorandum.<\/span><\/p>\n

Those who want RM350 million to fund Umno\/BN cybertroopers for the next five years should come out in the open to present their case for such an expenditure, instead of relying on lies and falsehoods about the DAP\u2019s funding of the fictitious \u201cRed Bean Army\u201d to bolster their demand.<\/span><\/p>\n

Those who concoct the \u201cRed Bean Army\u201d tall tale even go to the extent as to allege that this mythical army operate from various centres throughout the country, specifically naming two places \u2013 Komtar in Penang and Hotel Concorde in Kuala Lumpur.<\/span><\/p>\n

DAP MPs will visit Hotel Concorde on 3rd of July 2013 to locate where is the\u00a0\u00a0\u201ccommand centre\u201d of this mythical\u00a0\u00a0\u201cRed Bean Army\u201d. – The Rocket<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Lim Kit Siang The whole rigmarole about DAP funding a \u201cRed Bean Army\u201d of 3,000 cybertroopers with a budget ranging from RM100 million to RM1 billion in the past six years to demonise and character-assassinate has completely gone berserk with Barisan Nasional Ministers and Members of Parliament quoting lies as gospel truths in Parliament […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5171"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5175,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5171\/revisions\/5175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}