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Thursday, March 12, 2015

Blacklist White House site, BN lawmaker tells MCMC



A Barisan Nasional backbencher today suggested that regulator Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) blacklist the White House website where the Free Anwar petition was posted, claiming that it is an avenue for foreign powers to "create chaos" in Malaysia.
Liang Teck Meng (BN-Simpang Renggam) (pic) said the White House has lost its credibility by allowing the petition, which urged the Obama administration to free jailed opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, to be on the site.
"I am very disappointed. I am very sad that Malaysians are being used and fooled by the White House for its own political agenda," he said while debating on the Yang di-Pertuan Agong speech.
"I can't believe the number (of signatures) can go up by 30,000 in just a few hours," he said.
The petition titled “Make the Release of Malaysian Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim from Prison a Top Priority for US Policy Toward Malaysia”, was started by former US ambassador to Malaysia John R. Malott, who submitted it to the site soon after the Federal Court on February 10 found Anwar guilty of sodomy and sentenced him to five years in prison.
As of today, the Free Anwar petition has received over 113,000 signatures, more than the 100,000 required for it to qualify for a response from the Obama administration.
However, the White House mistakenly took down the Free Anwar petition due to multiple petitions on the issue, but has since reinstated it.
It said standard fraud checks indicated a high number of anomalous signatures on a counter petition related to Anwar's imprisonment.
"There were multiple petitions related to this issue, and after follow-up assessment, The White House determined that the petition removed was not the one that contained fraudulent signatures," the US embassy in Malaysia posted on its Facebook page.
"To account for the error, the White House has since re-enabled the petition titled 'Make the Release of Malaysian Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim from Prison a Top Priority for US Policy Toward Malaysia', and is extending the deadline to account for the time lost while the petition was disabled. No signatures were removed."
It said the White House later determined that the fraudulent signatures existed in the petition 'Respecting the Sovereign Nation of Malaysia', and had temporarily disabled it from the website.
“Respecting the Sovereign Nation of Malaysia” is a counter-petition that states Malaysians are “outraged” by the White House's statement expressing its disappointment with Anwar's sodomy conviction. The petition urges the US to "stop interfering in Malaysia's judiciary and rule of law".
The counter-petition has since been restored to the website, after the removal of more than 60,000 signatures it had detected originated from disposal email services.
From more than 70,000 signatures initially, the petition that took issue with the US's stand on Anwar's sodomy conviction was reinstated online with around 12,000 signatures.
- TMI

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