Sex Video RCI - doing a 'Princess Diana' on Anwar Ibrahim?

It took years before the BN government would even agree to a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) for the unexplained and mysterious death of Teoh Beng Hock (TBH). TBH perished in a MACC building after he was instructed to report there as a witness for an alleged corruption case involving a DAP ADUN (involving a princely sum of RM2,500).

It required both public and the Teoh family pleas, urgings and implied threats, before Najib would even agree to a watered down RCI, initially without any term of reference to probe into the cause of TBH but only on the MACC procedural process involved in the interrogation of witnesses.

Again, only after perception of political disadvantage posed by an angry bloc of Chinese voters, Najib grudgingly agreed to the terms of reference for the RCI to include a probe into the cause of the victim’s death.

Now contrast the heels-dragging with a serious case as above, a possible murder, with the speedy and ready willingness to have a RCI for a frivolous case of Anwar Ibrahim’s alleged but very private sexual escapade captured by a video tape, where there's no criminality involved by the 'man' in the video.

And all it requires to mature the proposal for a RCI to probe into the identity of the' actor' took nothing more than a wink and a nudge, yes, an UMNO wink and a nudge, essentially in the blinking of an eye.

The aim is ominous for Anwar.

There has been (suspicions of) a similar overseas example for such an over-eagerness by the UMNO-led government to convene a RCI, hardly appropriate and totally unnecessary for nothing more than a smut video. The objective is likely to be black propaganda.

When the British decided to have a second RCI into the cause of Princess Diana’s death, amidst allegations she was murdered in a conspiracy to prevent embarrassment to the British Royal Family, the father of Dodi al Fayat was joyous, thinking he might finally receive some justice for his son’s alleged /suspected murder because of his (again alleged) dalliance with Diana, mother of a future king of England.

But the whole exercise was seen by many as a demon-ization as well as a rehabilitation exercise.

The demon-ization was believed to be aimed at blackening Diana as a sleazy low-class slut who sought Muslim men as her preferred lovers. Her exalted position in British minds must be brought crashing down. During the RCI, for example, his Pakistani doctor lover provided details of their sexual liaison, bringing out salacious details for British public consumption, for example, of how the couple used ‘condoms’. Well, even the British knew those weren't for blowing into balloons for children’s party.

The salacious and totally unnecessary (but desired) sleazy exposure on Diana's sexual liaisons brought Diana down from the high pedestal many Britons had put her on. It helped the demon-ization when her boyfriends were the disliked Muslims. Other unfavourable aspects of Diana were also elicited.

She took a tremendous image battering from which her once-idolised personality could never ever recover from.

Perhaps poor Mr al-Fayat realized too late from the way the RCI went, he was not going to obtain the results he was hoping for. Did he for one silly minute imagine the British was going to find anything bad about their royals?

The rehabilitation component of the ‘black’ exercise was believed by many neutral (and certainly biased) observers to be for the benefit of both Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles, turning them into an acceptable couple.

Charles would then be considered as suitable once again to ascend to the throne after his mum makes room for him, one way or another. At one time there were much talks of skipping him as unsuitable for kingship, and for the royal line of succession to go directly from the Queen to her grandson, William.

As for Camilla, at that time she was probably the most hated woman in Britain, one who was perceived by the British public as the woman who broke up a royal fairy tale, an adulteress who did an unforgiveable injustice to their beloved Diana.

To the majority of the Brits then, Camilla was like the ugly step-sister to a sweet, innocent and very beautiful Cinderella, a nasty witch who wouldn’t have a snowflake’s chance in hell of ever marrying Charles, let alone becoming Queen of England. But post RCI, she is now accepted, she is now qualified and she'll be Queen of England unless Charles f* up behind now and then.

I suspect the clamour by UMNO for a RCI may have a sinister objective, to serve as a demon-ization program against Anwar and by default, a rehabilitation exercise for Najib.