{"id":5467,"date":"2013-08-16T16:28:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T08:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=5467"},"modified":"2013-08-16T16:28:52","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T08:28:52","slug":"nst-lies-about-daps-cec-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/nst-lies-about-daps-cec-re-election\/","title":{"rendered":"NST lies about DAP&#8217;s CEC re-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>By Lim Kit Siang<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/lim-kit-siang.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5469\" style=\"padding-right: 10px;\" title=\"lim-kit-siang\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/lim-kit-siang-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/lim-kit-siang-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/lim-kit-siang-263x175.jpg 263w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/lim-kit-siang.jpg 642w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The New Straits Times (NST) front-page report today on the DAP Central Executive Committee (CEC) re-election is a typical example of the mountain of DDD &#8211; \u201cDemonise\/Destroy DAP\u201d &#8211; lies and falsehoods by Umno\/Barisan Nasional media, culminating in the July appearance of the\u00a0\u00a0booklet of lies by the fictitious \u201cFather Augustus Chen\u201d, in the past seven months.<\/p>\n<p>The lead paragraph of\u00a0\u00a0NST front-page report headlined\u00a0<strong><em>\u201cDAP finally agrees to hold fresh CEC polls\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>by S.K. Thanusha Devi reads:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cKuala Lumpur: DAP yesterday conceded that it must hold fresh polls, after it was found to have disallowed 753 party members from attending its congress-cum-elections as delegates in December\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is not journalism but a downright blatant and bare-faced lie, for two reasons:<\/p>\n<p>(1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0DAP had right from the beginning challenged the spurious claim that 753 delegates, who were absent at the DAP Congress in Penang last December, had not been properly notified of the Congress and therefore denied the right to attend to\u00a0\u00a0vote in the party elections; and<\/p>\n<p>(2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The RoS had never found that DAP had \u201cdisallowed 753 party members from attending\u201d the party congress.<\/p>\n<p>In fact there is no truth or basis whatsoever in the allegation as reported by the NST today that the Registrar of Societies (RoS) had in a letter on April 17, 2013, highlighted \u201c753 DAP members claiming they were denied their right to attend the congress as delegates\u201d, as<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Firstly, there was no such denial of delegate right to attend the congress, as all the delegates were given the requisite notice under the party constitution; and<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Secondly, it is a total fiction that 753 delegates complained to the RoS on this matter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In fact, the party never received a single complaint from any delegate on being denied the right to attend the Congress, which was why the DAP repeatedly\u00a0\u00a0asked the RoS to furnish particulars of the complainants and their complaints but to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>It is outrageous and even surreal that Hitler\u2019s Propaganda Minister Goebbels\u2019 doctrine that if a lie is repeated often enough it\u00a0\u00a0could become a fact\u00a0\u00a0has now\u00a0\u00a0living proof in UMNO\/BN Malaysia with NST and Utusan Malaysia as the main exponents.<\/p>\n<p>The two main allegations of the fictitious \u201cFather Augustus Chen\u201d for the invalidation of the CEC elections, namely \u201c753 absent delegates (mostly Indians)\u201d\u00a0\u00a0and the\u00a0\u00a0\u201c547 phantom delegates (most from Penang)\u201d are downright lies and falsehoods.<\/p>\n<p>The NST front-page report today is proof that the DDD \u201cDemolish-Destroy DAP\u201d campaign through a mountain of lies and falsehoods by Umno\/BN propagandists and cybertroopers in the Umno\/BN media and the cyberspace is not going to let up with the DAP decision for CEC re-election.<\/p>\n<p>On the contrary, the DDD propaganda war and the campaign of lies and falsehoods will be stepped up.<\/p>\n<p>The NST front-page report of lies about DAP CEC re-election signals a new phase of the DDD propaganda war with lies and falsehoods.<\/p>\n<p>DAP leaders and members as well as the Malaysian public must be aware that the DDD propaganda war\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0will escalate and intensify in the coming days and weeks until the DAP CEC re-elections, hoping to achieve the objective to\u00a0\u00a0demonise, demolish and destroy the DAP!<\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Photo credits to ABN News<\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lim Kit Siang The New Straits Times (NST) front-page report today on the DAP Central Executive Committee (CEC) re-election is a typical example of the mountain of DDD &#8211; 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