Khalid Ibrahim backstabbing DAP?

Is Khalid Ibrahim now turning around to bite DAP, an ally which together with PAS have supported him against an Azmin Ali power siege in Selangor?

In the last couple of weeks Azmin Ali, supported by his frontmanwoman Zuraida what's-her-name(?), was seen to be laying claims to the Selangor MB position, perhaps in a fantasized wet-dreaming belief that the Selangor politico-CEO position belongs solely to PKR, and for the party to award to one of its state ADUN's, presumably himself, wakakaka.

Azmin had even alluded sneeringly (insultingly) to Khalid as a lame duck pollie not worthy of leading Selangor state.

Post the recent state elections, PKR has 14 ADUNs compared to PAS' 15 and DAP's 15. On the numerical basis of ADUNs that PAS and DAP each has, either party has the rights to claim the MB position though both have been gracious in supporting Khalid to continue in the State's political CEO position.

It must be admitted in practical terms, DAP might not qualify, purportedly because the state constitution and probably HRH's preference would require the MB to be a Malay, though we shall soon read of a constitutional legal expert disagreeing with the former, the constitutional issue, which has probably been a politically perpetuated 'myth'.

Mind, it is still HRH's prerogative to have the final say.

Hmmm, I wonder whether any "Malay" version would do, meaning does it have to be a Malay Malay to be the MB? Or will a Mamak Malay or Kong Kali Kong Malay like Ann Wan Seng or Ridhuan Tee do?

Ann Wan Seng, the King Kong Know-Nothing

For more on Kong Kali Kong Malays, wakakaka, please see my earlier post 3 Revelations on 'Keling'.

Mind you, on the issue of the mandatory need for a Malay MB, in 2008 after Pakatan won majority rule in Selangor, it was alleged that Muhammad Munir Bani, HRH’s private secretary, had advised Khalid Ibrahim about the palace's ‘preference’ for a Malay (and, alas, not a Malaysian) deputy MB.

However, when further queried Muhammad Munir belakang pusing-ed like Speedy Gonzalez and denied reports that HRH wanted ‘a deputy from a particular race’ (meaning 'Malay'), and instead added (meaning he started to spin) the sultan was the religious head for Islam and Malay culture, and thus the MB has the task of assisting in these duties, which in his absence would also have to handled by his deputy.

Thus, in that most unbelievable zigzagging explanation, Muhammad Munir, after denying HRH wanted a Malay deputy MB, in the same breath averred that it was only proper a Malay (not a Malaysian) be the deputy MB.

It was obvious that what he uttered in the first instance had nothing to do with HRH but was of his own interpretation, based on his personal prejudice.

Mind you, he hasn't been the only one who misused (and still misuses) HRH's name in order to get what he/she personally wants or is personally biased towards. I am sure you have read what one particular PKR (female) pygmy claimed in HRH's name recently about the required racial make-up for the state exco.

After the 2008 Speedy Gonzalez zigzagged away to safety, Malaysiakini reported in Expert: No legal need for Malay deputy MB that Prof Abdul Aziz Bari, a constitutional expert who had then lectured law at the International Islamic University Malaysia, was consulted on the matter.

Dr Bari

Prof Abdul Aziz dismissed Muhammad Munir’s claims that the deputy MB should ideally be a Malay to assist the MB in Islamic and cultural duties.

The Prof said: “The Sultan of Selangor does not need the menteri besar or the deputy menteri besar in matters pertaining to religion and Malay custom.”

According to the Prof, the sultan, as the head of Islamic matters and the Malay adat, was (still is) in fact THE PERSON in charge of such matters in the state, and not the MB or his deputy.

He said: “Matters cited by the palace are entirely within the sultan's jurisdiction. As the sultan may act on his own discretion on these matters, the constitution provides that a council may be appointed to assist him. This is what is commonly known as religious councils or majlis agama, which looks after the religious department or the jabatan agama. In the other four states and federal territories, the Agong will have the same establishment.”

Prof Aziz also commented that a prolonged delay in the appointment of a deputy MB was unnecessary and might even be unconstitutional.

But when asked whether the appointment of a Deputy MB had been postponed or scrapped altogether, Khalid Ibrahim side-stepped the issue by stating the need to explain the matter (what?) properly to the people (who?), and that he would do this after the executive councillors had been sworn-in (why?).

And had he ever done that?

That had been one of Khalid Ibrahim's greatest shames. Whether he was under pressure from his party or acting in his own interests remains unanswered till today.

Nonetheless, out of respect for HRH, regardless of whether the allegations attributed to him were true or otherwise (we know some PKR pygmies have had a bad habit of dropping big names including HRH's for their own agenda), the triple-C (Chabor, Christian and Chinese) Teresa Kok was not appointed as deputy MB in the previous DUN session.

[Note: recent talks have it that it was not Teresa Kok proposed for Deputy MB but rather Teng Chang Khim, but this seems unlikely as Teng was appointed as the Speaker of the Selangor DUN in the last term]

Yes, indeed recently we know of some in PKR who have been fond of “dropping” HRH’s name to assert a certain position, such as HRH wanting more Malay faces in the exco etc. I personally doubt that HRH would have said that and those wet-dreaming wannabes in PKR have been misusing HRH's name.

Now, on reading The Malaysian Insider's After PKR’s MB kerfuffle, Selangor DAP now disputes exco list you would appreciate why I asked in this post's opening sentence: Is Khalid Ibrahim now turning around to bite DAP which together with PAS have supported him against an Azmin Ali power siege in Selangor?

Selangor DAP deputy chair Tony Pua said that Khalid Ibrahim and Selangor Pakatan Rakyat ― represented by state DAP leaders Teresa Kok and Datuk Teng Chang Khim, as well as state PAS leaders Khalid Samad and Dr Rani Osman ― had agreed in a meeting last Thursday that the DAP would get four spots in the state exco, while PAS would get three.

But Khalid in a tweet last night (in the usual PKR manner, that is, announcing Pakatan policies unilaterally a la a Pearl Harbour attack without informing its Pakatan allies) reduced the DAP’s exco share to only 3.

Tony Pua lamented: “Last night, we found out a different set of names. We want to know why; there was no problem on Thursday. It was a quick half-an-hour meet.”

“We’re surprised by Tan Sri (Khalid). What’s the point of the meeting then?”

Indeed, what’s the point of having an agreement and then reneging on it WITHOUT first going back to the parties that arrived at the agreement to re-negotiate and re-agree.

Khalid has already acquired a wee notoriety of running away from sensitive issues or hard decisions, especially when it affected his own political hide. Apart from his lack of spine in the 2008 deputy MB position, he was also seen to be indecisive in coming out to defend Eli Wong when the latter was the victim of a horrid abusive invasion of her privacy - for more, see my UMNO's Nazri supports Elizabeth Wong, PKR's Khalid Ibrahim equivocates.

I hope Khalid Ibrahim is not going to misuse HRH’s name to inform everyone HRH wants more Melayu faces as the reason for his reneging the agreement with DAP and PAS.

Khalid, don’t betray your allies by showing through your political DNA you are no different to your PKR pygmies. Don't prove to us that PKR is a party of political pygmies.

In fact you're already pissing me off.

Selangor Exco, where UMNO DNA may still run

Malaysiakini - Teng and Ean Yong are DAP picks for S'gor exco, for now

Teng has been an exceptional speaker in the last DUN session but wishes now to join the state exco, and he has got his wish okayed by DAP HQ.

The MKINI report also mentioned a new speaker in the person of Dr Abdul Aziz Bari who, alas, was unsuccessful in his election bid to be the new MP for Hulu Selangor. But I'm sure he will be a great speaker as he's an expert on constitutional and Islamic law.

Incidentally I have been under the incorrect belief that only an elected representative (DUN) can be speaker but apparently not for state DUN as I saw in the last Perak DUN.

But I still believe in the federal (not state) parliament, the speaker must be one elected to the Dewan Rakyat - well, on second thoughts, I shouldn't be surprised if this is not so. After all, we have zillions of amendments atrociously perpetuated on the federal Constitution that I would not be at all surprised if I see Dr Mahathir in federal parliament as the speaker, yelling 'Lu diam. Duduk lah' to those ungrateful Chinese DAP MPs, wakakaka.

It's rumoured that PKR will kick out poor sweetie Eli Wong who did well in her Environmental portfolio and Xavier Jeyakumar, two nons in the last Selangor state exco, because the political pygmy wants a spot together with two of his inner coterie who of course are Malays.

I have deliberately raised the issue of PKR's nons and Malay ADUNs because of the political pygmy's alleged DNA, wakakaka.

On 19 April Haris Ibrahim of People's Parliament wrote in a post titled Dear Azmin about an SMS from PSM Sec-Gen, Arutchelvan, which went as follows:

“Up till yesterday we were told by Tian Chua that the problem will be resolved. However, at 11 pm last night, he told us that PKR vice-president Azmin Ali did not want to give way for PSM because he prefers a Malay candidate to contest the Semenyih seat. We are very unhappy that they’ve used racial reasons to deny us the seat."

Bro Haris was so incensed by the allegations, that of the political pygmy's DNA-ed proclivity, that he wrote the following message to Azmin:

Brother Haris Ibrahim, Bapa Anak Malaysia

Is this true?

I am not the only one who wishes to know if this true.

About 30,000 non-Malay voters who are expected to cast their vote in Gombak would like to know too.

Is this true?

Pity the message didn't get down to those Gombak voters. So it's hardly surprising to now hear the unofficial information that he and his inner (Malay) coterie will replace PKR's only Indian and Chinese (and a female as well) in the state exco - such is the sad fate of Indians in PKR.

The Pygmy

Meanwhile DAP has been said to possibly put up Bukit Gasing ADUN R Rajiv (or Kota Alam Shah ADUN V Ganabatirao) and Subang Jaya ADUN sweetie Hannah Yeoh to fill up the other two exco seats allocated to the DAP.

If true, then thank goodness, and thanks to DAP, there'll be at least an Indian and a female rep in the exco.

However, the appointment of sweetie Hannah Yeo as a state exco may possibly send Miss sweetie Muffet up the wall, wakakaka.

Gratitude - an UMNO anarchronism in a democracy

It's BN reps who should be 'grateful' to voters

K Temoc 3:35PM May 17, 2013

Sometimes I wonder whether democracy is the best political system for Malaysia. Indeed sometimes I wonder whether we Malaysians deserve the privilege to use (or more likely, misuse) the label of democracy to describe our political system. 

No doubt democracy has never been perfect where even in its birthplace, the Athenians denied their womenfolk the facilities of democracy and even kept slaves. But notwithstanding its imperfections, modern democracy has provided everyone with a voice in the society he or she lives in. But in Malaysia, seemingly, poor democracy has gotten the raw end of the deal as we Malaysians continue to blaspheme its hallowed premise.

We have our newly-minted home affairs minister telling the federal opposition to migrate elsewhere if they are not happy with the outcome of the 13th general election, forgetting that it is their democratic rights to voice their dissatisfaction. But obviously, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi didn’t think so.

But worse than the minister, we have a former judge, Mohd Noor Abdullah, a so-called learned man of law, hurling very seditious rants at the Chinese, warning them to prepare for a backlash from the Malays for their alleged “betrayal” against the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) in GE13.

It was not so much his racist hate speech against the Chinese that flabbergasted me; it was not so much his seditious threats against the Chinese that filled me with great dismay; it was his use of the term “betrayal against Barisan Nasional (BN)” which he accused the Chinese of, that shocked me.

This person did not and probably still does not understand what is democracy, and that the Malaysian political system is based, or so it claims, on the principles of democracy? And frighteningly, we discovered he was a former judge in the Court of Appeals and now sits on the complaints committee of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).

As we are aware, the word ‘betrayal’ means to deliver to an enemy by treachery or disloyalty, or to be unfaithful in guarding, maintaining, or fulfilling.

So we need to ask Mohd Noor Abdullah who was the “enemy”, and what was the allegiance of the Chinese voters to BN, such that by voting Pakatan Rakyat they became “unfaithful” or “disloyal”?

How could Chinese ‘betray’ the BN?

Thus, unless the learned former judge advised us of the inconvenient details, just how in world could he justify the Chinese “betraying” the BN?

There were other words used by Umno people that were akin to the above outlandish accusation, namely, “ungrateful”. None other than our dear Dr Mahathir Mohamad, the so-called Bapa Bangsa Malaysia, blamed the BN’s poor showing in the general elections on the “ungrateful” Chinese, whereas he reserved a special word, “greedy”, for Malays who voted Pakatan Rakyat.

Are there degrees of difference in his two condemnations? Perhaps to Dr Mahathir, “greedy” is involuntary, a state brought about through evil seductions and decadent temptations (presumably by Pakatan), and hopefully of a momentary nature, whereas “ungrateful” implies a knowing treacherous state of mind, one which lends itself to acts of, yes, “betrayal”.

And he made the ridiculous accusation “Most of the Chinese had rejected the Malays’ hands of friendship” which he may have difficulty proving why those “ungrateful” Chinese voted for Mohd Nizar Jamaluddin, Rafizi Ramli, Zairil Khir Johari, Khalid Samad, Ariff Sabri Abdul Aziz and more.

Perhaps Mahathir ought to read what Goh Cheng Teik (not sure whether he’s the former MCA Member of Parliament from Nibong Tebal, 1978) wrote in a letter to Malaysiakini, where he stated:

“It is clear that the Chinese voters in GE13 strongly voted on one hand for DAP and to a lesser extent, Keadilan in the urban areas and on the other hand, voted for Umno in the rural areas.

“Negri Sembilan Menteri Besar Mohamad Hassan made a good statement in The Malay Mail on May 15 to assuage the Chinese voters. He disagreed with former Malacca chief minister Mohd Ali Rustam that the Chinese voters were ‘ungrateful’ and ‘racist’.

“He told Ali that he lost Bukit Katil (99,581 voters, Malays: 52.8 percent Chinese: 40.8 percent, Indians: 5.7 percent) but Umno did not lose all its parliamentary seats.

“So, he should not generalise and label the Chinese ungrateful and racist.

“Mohamad further said that the support of Chinese voters had helped him defend his Rantau seat (18,232 voters, Malays: 51.8 percent, Chinese: 20.3 percent, Indians 27.5 percent) and assisted the BN to retain control of the state.”

It appears again to be a case of “ingratitude” which persuaded Terengganu Menteri Besar Ahmad Said to allegedly withdraw facilities provided to four parliamentary constituencies which have been won by Pakatan in the recent general elections.

But what is this “gratitude” and its lack of, that the Chinese voters have been accused of?

The word ‘gratitude’ means the quality or feeling of being grateful or thankful, or experiencing appreciation. The adjectival form is ‘grateful’ which the dictionary defines as warmly or deeply appreciative of kindness or benefits received, as in “I am grateful to you for your help.”

But in Malaysia, while the Malay dictionary provides basically the same meaning as for the English word, apparently ‘gratitude’ has a totally different meaning to Umno people like Mahathir, Ali Rustam and those of their ilk.

I mulled over this lexical strangeness for a while before I decided to look up ‘feudalism’, where I obtained:

A system of obligations that bound lords and their subjects in Europe during much of the Middle Ages. In theory, the king owned all or most of the land and gave it to his leading nobles in return for their loyalty and military service. The nobles in turn held land that peasants, including serfs, were allowed to farm in return for the peasants’ labour and a portion of their produce. Under feudalism, people were born with a permanent position in society.

Feudal concept

I believe Umno leaders like Mahathir could have this concept of feudalism in mind when he spoke of the lack of ‘gratitude’ by the Chinese, that is, the Umno PM owns all or most of the land and gives it to his supporters in return for their loyalty, and that under Malaysian feudalism, which he and some Umno people believe we live in, people were born with a permanent position in society, where voters should be “grateful” to the Umno-led government for their very existence.

In fact, on March 31, 2012 while in Kota Kinabalu, then-information minister Rais Yatim instructed taxi and bus drivers to highlight the positives of the PM’s 1Malaysia concept, telling them they should not keep silent when carrying fares but must help explain the concept to passengers who “are critical and accuse the government of all sorts”. He informed that they must act as “government ambassadors” in this respect.

There and then he has the brazen cheek to state “It must be done as a sign of gratitude and thanks for the government’s efforts to continuously safeguard their welfare, like Bantuan Rakyat 1 Malaysia and the specific government aid to taxi drivers.”

Obviously, despite his ministerial portfolio and like the so-called learned former judge, he did not have a clue as to what would be democracy and the concept of people’s representatives in a Westminster parliamentary system and their expected service to the rakyat. He must have somehow convinced himself that he like his cabinet colleagues became ministers by the Mandate of Heaven, and demanded that the public be grateful to the government.

But sadly as we have witnessed, he was not alone in this belief. Many public servants believe they are the PM’s hulubalang (or the civilian version), forgetting the ‘servant’ of the ‘public’ that they in fact are, being employed and paid by taxpayers.

Indeed, there is still a prevalent belief in our political system and public service of the medieval concept, that the Ruler or its modern day equivalent, the PM, owns all or most of the national assets (like the public coffers) and gives from it to his supporters in return for their loyalty.

‘Sehelai kain pelekat dan RM100'

Unscrupulously exploiting the belief of a feudal society where people are either rulers or subjects, the ensuing outcome of such a vertical relationship is sometimes laughingly referred to as ‘sehelai kain pelekat dan RM100’, or its Sinicized version, ‘Gua tolong lu, lu tolong gua’, where the recipients of political campaign pork barrelling should be grateful to their liege lord and expected to vote for him and his party candidates.

There is no doubt that quite a number of Malaysians, especially those of the earlier generations, are not concerned about corruption or corrupt politicians, or such stuff as accountability and transparency so long as they get some benefits, namely the ‘sehelai kain pelekat dan RM100', allowing of course for inflation.

Can we now see how 600 Janome sewing machines and even the arrogant public boast by a former minister of how he squeezed 10 years of public works into one month won the day for BN in the Ijok by-election in 2007? 

The Ijok voters who elected the BN candidate didn’t question the former minister’s boast as admitting he had neglected public works in their district for years until the by-election. Presumably we may conclude they were appropriately ‘grateful’ enough to vote for the BN candidate.

This has been why BN and in particular Umno have been getting away with blatant corrupt practices for the past 50 years or so, and undoubtedly will for more years to come.

It may also explain the total lack of discretion or shameless arrogance in politicians and their family members building for themselves overtly obscene ostentatious Bali-type palatial mansions or driving around in vehicles of values beyond the reach of their ministerial wages.

But eventually it dawned on some of us to punish Jurassic specimens like Ali Rustam in the recent election to let them know we the voters represent the Mandate of Heaven and they, the people’s representatives, have to be our servants, and would be dismissed or voted out if they did not perform to our expectation.

The gratitude should come from them if we voted for them.

Naturally the ‘unbelievable’ act by voters who chose Pakatan and disdainfully rejected the so-called feudal ‘liege lords’ despite unbridled degrees of pork barrelling, has shocked people like Mahathir, Ali Rustam and Ibrahim Ali.

The answer to their angry puzzlement has been out there all along, that those in the urban areas with independent and alternative information to the propaganda peddled by BN’s media mouthpieces, would no longer accept the outdated feudal system, one which demonstrated no respect to the democratic rights of citizens, each of whom has an equal voice to be heard and which must be heard.

By blaming the Chinese, Umno’s favourite punching bag, and emphasising on their so-called 'ingratitude', the Umno leaders hope to mask from the voters of their traditional base, the conservative Malay heartland, that urban Malays now possess an independent mindset and understand their democratic rights, and that the BN politicians are no more than mere representatives of the rakyat and who should not only show ‘gratitude’ to the voters but must perform in their political functions to the voters’ satisfaction.

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Above is my letter to Malaysiakini today titled It's BN reps who should be 'grateful' to voters

The fantasy of Anwar Ibrahim?

It's the usual kaytee 'methinks'.

I appreciate Anwar Ibrahim must be downright disappointed by Pakatan Rakyat not winning majority rule in the recent general elections, more so when he had vowed to retire if his side didn't win majority rule. And it's a vow he has recently backtracked from, citing he still has mucho "unfinished work" to be done.

For nearly 15 years, this man has waited for his moment, to fulfil what he believes to be his destiny, to become PM of Malaysia.

But alas, time and time again, fate (and elections) failed him. Did he make the vow to retire in an optimistic belief that surely this time, fate couldn't be that cruel again and he would triumph?

He is obviously and totally dismayed and demoralized by the outcome of GE-13, and his defiant stand finds sympathies nationwide what with the public lack of trust in the EC's integrity and impartiality ...

... aggravated by the Commission's lack of professionalism, for example, in the so-called indelible ink affair, with the Chairman and his deputy not only making implausible excuses but constantly changing them - eg. from the initial 'staff didn't shake the bottle properly' to 'deliberate dilution of the ink's indelible properties to meet Islamic ablution requirements' (if so, then why bother with the indelible ink when by its dilution the EC has deliberately make it not indelible?) to the most idiotic of all, that 'the erase-ability of the so-called indelible ink didn't matter as the voters won't be able to vote the following day', etc - and that's only one of EC's numerous problems with its lack of professionalism.

this would have been more indelible

Nonetheless, I do have concerns with Anwar's rolling series of Perhimpunan Blackout 505.

The first at Kelana Jaya was a success and I believe the message or point to be made on Pakatan's disagreement, dissatisfaction and disgust with the conduct of the polls has been made in a very powerful and inescapable notice.

But like all good things, overdo it and the powerful message will lose its impact. Along the way, earlier sympathies gained will gradually or even swiftly leached away, leaving behind growing irritation at the rallies. 

PAS has indirectly shown its disenchantment with Anwar's style of protests in Harakah's Blackout 505: PAS serah kepada negeri where its top leadership has diplomatically left participation to the discretion of the party's state leaders, meaning PAS central leadership doesn't support it. It's obvious Pak Haji is distancing himself from Anwar's continuing protest rallies.

how Anwar thrives on attention in "hero-activities"

Methinks' time:

Kaytee personally believes that even in a hypothetical situation of Pakatan Rakyat winning majority rule with Anwar Ibrahim made the Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim will still be holding protest rallies.

But of or about what, you may ask?

About anything, because I reckon Anwar thrives on such activities. Maybe he will muster a protest rally against eco-Nazies for protesting against modern developments and neo-Luddites for industrializations  or ... well, almost anything?

Anwar has been involved with protest rallies since his university days (which are best forgotten) and in Baling for the farmers when he was in ABIM, which Wikipedia posted as:

In 1974, Anwar was arrested during student protests against rural poverty and hunger. This came as a report surfaced stating that a family died from starvation in a village in Baling, in the state of Kedah, despite the fact that it never happened.

... despite the fact that it never happened, wakakaka, but that's Anwar who thrives on protest rallies.

I suspect, apart from the political motives, his enthusiasm for protests rallies may be a form of hero-fantasy cum narcissism.

His most notorious one was being accused of hijacking Bersih 3, on which Dina Zaman wrote in The Malaysian Insider’s The Bersih that wasn’t as follows:

Bersih 3

But now I see videos of protestors breaking down the barriers and committing acts of violence. And yes, while the police showed more restraint this time they were behind some of these as well. Al-Jazeera journalists reported via Skype that their equipment was smashed by policemen to prevent them recording some of these acts of violence.

Despite suffering from the teargas effects I myself have not the spirit to summon the moral indignation I would like to have, because although they should have done so lawfully I cannot blame the police for taking action against violent protestors.

What can we Malaysians expect post April 28 2012? With a video circulating showing that Anwar Ibrahim and Azmin Ali had ordered the Dataran breach, this does not bode well for Pakatan and the rakyat. This is a massive public relations disaster. The average Malaysian like me can only tear her hair out.

And now we are told that the duo were signalling to the police. What is this — Tonto and the Lone Ranger?

As I said on Twitter all this resembled a Hindustani film. Throw in a tree and a pair of sarees and we'll have a great sandiwara.

Methinks Anwar Ibrahim suffers from more than a wish to become PM through normal election (democratic) process, though of course there is definitely that.

I hypothesized he entertains a fantasy, one where he leads a rousing cheering adoring crowd of hundreds of thousands who will storm Putrajaya with him, garlanded of course and lifted onto their adulating shoulders, to become the head of the nation.

Did I mention hero-fantasy and narcissism?

Narcissus

As he confesses to be an avid reader of Shakespeare I would even imagine him "refusing" thrice their appeals for him to be head, and only relenting finally (but of course, wakakaka) to accept the post.

You all did see that on the Lupercal

I thrice presented him a kingly crown,

Which he did thrice refuse: was this

ambition?

- Mark Anthony in 'The Tragedy of Julius Caesar’, Act II, Scene 3


Whoa man, have just read FMT's BN will be toppled this year, which undoubtedly must be music to Anwars' ears, wakakaka, though I have to say I'm a wee shocked by Brother Haris' declaration.


UPDATE:
Please read this also - FMT Haris: I’m not propagating violence

Haris Ibrahim, a true Malaysian

Cause of disunity

(Booniama) - The result of the 13th general election which has triggered the issue of national integration has given rise to calls for ethnic cuisine to be changed to a national cuisine based on Malay cuisine to strengthen national unity.

The calls were made by academicians who were of the opinion that the problems of racial unity in the country were caused by an unacceptable diverse range of cuisine, with the issue compounded by the existence of more than one form of ethnic cuisine.

Food Unik Cuisine Kreativiti Universiti (FUCK U) pro-chancellor Dr Abdullah Ramana Aisha said multi-ethnic food developed at a faster pace and that only 10 percent of non-Malays partake of national cuisine. He stressed: "You are what you eat."

When asked for examples of national type cuisine, he said: "Nasi lemak".

"Dr ... Dr, don't Chinese eat rice too? and Indian cuisine can be quite lemak. There is an Indian rice dish called nasi minyak which could be mistaken for nasi lemak".

"Nasi Briyani then."

"Isn't that Pakistani cuisine?"

"Well they are bumi as well but I see what you mean. Er ... Nasi goreng!"

"But that's Chinese cuisine, their way of converting uneaten rice into something delicious before it turned stale."

"Nasi kosong?"

"Worse, Chinese are already eating that everyday with bah kut teh and the Indians with curry."

"OK, I was just playing around with you reporters. As a matter of fact, FUCK U has just developed an 100% national food called nasi kang kang!"

"Now, can anyone tell me that's not uniquely a national dish?"

p/s next week we'll do mee noodles, followed by roti and then ice kacang.

Anwar & his hissy drama queen

The Malaysian Insider - The Selangor consensus

MAY 11 – There seems to be a lack of understanding what consensus means in Selangor.

Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim appeared today to have backed his confidant Azmin Ali in calling for a consultation process for the Selangor mentri besar post after the latter claimed Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim’s candidacy had bypassed the democratic process.

I want ... I want ... I want ...
OK .. OK.. OK .. just give me some time lah

The PKR advisor also appeared to have suggested that the party were considering removing Abdul Khalid when he told Sinar Harian that the consultation should include discussions on other possible candidates for the job.

“I have no problem with Tan Sri Khalid. But the problem is... there is no problem but there should be consultation. Are there other names? New faces? Do we continue?” Sinar Harian quoted him as saying.

How about this – have these two PKR leaders considered what their partners DAP and PAS have decided by consensus.

Both parties have endorsed Khalid. No question about it. No other names. No new faces.

So why is Anwar and Azmin being recalcitrant about the choice endorsed by DAP, PAS and a majority of PKR in Selangor?

Unless they think that is not democratic enough? Unless they think the top job in Selangor is being robbed from them just like GE13 was apparently stolen from them?

Perhaps these two men need a lesson in democracy, that a choice has been made. By Selangor voters happy with Khalid that they gave Pakatan Rakyat more seats this time.

Grow up. If this is how indecisive and petty you are about the Selangor mentri besar post, imagine your drama in Putrajaya.

Khalid appears to have the support of the Pakatan Rakyat coalition and Selangor people, so stop the drama and run the state well.

Or lose the state in the next polls because of your drama queen hissy fit.

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Obviously Anwar Ibrahim can't change, that whatever, whichever, whoever, whenever, however Azmin Ali wants, he ensures Azmin Ali gets! Even if he has to go against his own wife, own daughter, own family and whoever.

As I mentioned many times before, Azmin Ali will destroy both PKR and Anwar Ibrahim from within.

Related: People's Parliament's:

(1) Yes, Pakatan, hear all views before you nominate the MB of Selangor

(2) Dear Azmin

GE-13 is over

It's nearly a week after the election, and I believe both BN and Pakatan ought to get off their bloody backsides, shut up about the issues of Chinese, Bangladeshi or Zulu tsunami, and get back to work.

One week is enough time for elated indulgences, wallowing in self pity and scapegoat-ing.

Anwar Ibrahim also ought to cease having rallies as these aren't the correct process to address his complaints and grievances about polling irregularities.

I believe Anwar most of all did himself a disfavour when he twittered "PR has won. We urge UMNO and the EC to not attempt to hijack the results" at around 1900 hours on Election Day evening when there wasn't even any result yet for a single federal parliamentary seat.

In this he lost much credibility in the same preposterous manner as he did back in 2008 when he claimed Pakatan had a mandate to form the government with 82 federal parliamentary seats against PM AAB's 140.

The obscenity of his 916 nonsense was his unconscionable attempt to suppress the choice of the voters for his own glorification. 

Hearkening back to 2008, in Malaysiakini's Takeover a 'political lie', says Pak Lah AAB was right smack on when he described Anwar’s stunt as:

"... It is mere dreams. If at all it is true, (Anwar) would have announced it by now. The whole world would have known."

"Do you think he would ask for a meeting with me to discuss a transition? He would storm into my room with hundreds behind him, shouting victory. This is Anwar's style."

Indeed, the international press would have been summoned to learn of the crossover and his backdoor-acquired mandate to rule.

AAB sneered at Anwar, adding “… but the people will continue to be fascinated by him. This is a waste of our time. It is a game of political lies by Anwar Ibrahim and the people are choosing to believe him”, obviously a swipe at Anwar’s adoring followers.


AAB revealed that even the letter he received from Anwar had NOT even mentioned anything about the so-called 'peaceful handover' of power, but just general topics ...

... so what purpose for a meeting with AAB other than to continue his bluff.

And remember those pre 916 rumours that Muhyiddin Yassin was about to defect to PKR?

In Malaysiakini's Muhyiddin: Anwar uses my name to woo MPs Muhyiddin described that rumour as a cheap stunt by Anwar which was both immoral and senseless, informing reporters:

"This is a ploy (by Anwar) ... by (putting) my name on top the list (of BN defectors), hoping to garner support from other BN MPs. This is a desperate attempt by Anwar. Anwar is power crazy.”

So ... please lah PKR, just report any polling irregularities in accordance with the law, and stop agitating the people continuously in what will be a senseless destructive series of protest rallies.

And I hope what RPK said about more plotting a la 916 may be in store, if true, won't be supported by DAP and PAS. Enough lah of such nonsense!

Once, Anwar's most supportive journalist Terence Netto penned The link between Anwar and Dickens for Malaysiakini, in which he drew absurd parallel between Charles Dickens and Anwar Ibrahim.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked
about bad men not looking you in the face.
Don't trust that conventional idea.
Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance
any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Netto claimed Dickens to be the supreme artist of democracy and Anwar Ibrahim as the Pied Piper in the modern age of government by consent of the governed ... and the latter was a man who had resorted to the 916 bull?

While I had agreed with Netto that Anwar is certainly a Malaysian Pied Piper, my impression of the Pied Piper is not the version Netto has in mind. My Pied Piper is the original one in Hamelin, whom the Germans call Rattenfänger von Hameln.

The original story of Rattenfänger von Hameln was one of horror, but the tale was subsequently converted into one which had rats and whatnot. In the original tale, the Pied Piper hypnotized and led many many children to their deaths.

No, I don’t suppose Netto had this impression of Anwar in mind.

Fast forwarding to now, I have to admit I had my concerns about the Kelana Jaya rally but I am glad nothing untoward happened. But we cannot push our luck too far. Besides, it's not healthy for our society.

The Penang Hokkien term 'mm kaam muan' means a resentful dissatisfaction, one usually likely to lead to vengeful acts. The story of Rattenfänger von Hameln was about his sense of 'mmm kaam muan'.

I urge Pakatan people, especially those in the DAP, not to follow the seductive sinister siren tune of the resentful Pied Piper.

Get back to looking after and managing well the public roles you have been entrusted with, as well as your party affairs [eg. Selangor!].

Apa lagi UMNO mahu?

Below is my article in Malaysiakini

'Apa lagi Umno mahu?'

K Temoc 9:07AM May 10, 2013

COMMENT There has been a lot of ironies surrounding and emanating from the response of Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak when queried by reporters on Lim Kit Siang's solid victory in Gelang Patah as well as BN's loss of other parliamentary seats to the Pakatan Rakyat coalition. Najib had identified the cause as that of a 'Chinese tsunami', perhaps shooting that answer from his hips - at least I would like to think so.

That was all it took for former PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad to run away with it in a lamentable direction so as to wreck his fury at Umno's favourite punching bag, the Chinese. Needless to say, many likeUtusan Malaysia jumped on the bandwagon to echo his regrettable spewing of unnecessary poison.But political analysts including even those from Umno's side have dismissed the no doubt deliberately (mis)identification of the swing against BN as Chinese in character. One wonders how 25 percent of the Malaysian population could have provided Pakatan with 51 percent of the popular vote in Malaysia's 13th general election?

First irony - hasn't it been ironical that the first person to challenge the PM's claim of a Chinese tsunami was A Kadir Jasin, a pro-Umno blogger, former group editor-in-chief of New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd and at times also a Berita Harian columnist?

Pak Kadir stated it had been a Malaysian and not Chinese tsunami. Since then, other political analysts have concurred with Pak Kadir's correction of Najib's so-called Chinese tsunami.

Dr Shamsul Amri Baharuddin of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia's Institute of Ethnic Studies (KITA) identified the swing towards Pakatan as from the Malay middle-class in urban areas, especially disgruntled Malay young voters. He dismissed the swing of voters as being due solely to racial polarisation, and pointed out two other factors in play, namely, the effects of class, both socially (rich, poor, middle class) and regionally (urban, rural).

Second irony - hasn't it been ironical that Mahathir, the man who first mooted the noble idea of Bangsa Malaysia in 1991 in his Wawasan 2020 (Vision 2020), is now angry at these same Bangsa Malaysia, the young multi-ethnic and mainly urbanites for voting against BN in the recent elections?

In his ‘Malaysian ideal' encompassed in his Wawasan 2020, he outlined nine strategic challenges that Malaysia must overcome, ironically with Challenge No 1 being "Establishing a united Malaysian nation made up of one Bangsa Malaysia".

The further irony in this is that Mahathir has, whether he likes it or not, achieved Challenge No 1, at least with respect to young Malaysians as the recent polls, which showed those who voted against BN were not only Chinese but a new multi-ethnic generation of Bangsa Malaysia.

Perhaps it must have mortified Mahathir to hear his Bangsa Malaysia voicing their dissatisfaction with the way Umno has been going about the business of governing Malaysia.

Mind you, probably and again ironically those who oppose his Challenge No 1 of Wawasan 2020 have been himself and his own faction of Umno, including its auxiliaries like Perkasa. But others in Umno don't support his regrettable stand like, for example, former PM Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and son-in-law Khairy Jamaluddin, as well as Saifuddin Abdullah.

What then about Najib defending Utusan on its racially inflammatory front-page headline ‘Apa lagi Cina mahu?' (What else do Chinese want?) which attempted to portray the general election results as a Malay-versus-Chinese issue?

Najib under extreme pressure

Most Malaysians know Najib has been and probably still is under pressure from the right-wing elements in his party and seen to be tap-dancing around the more extreme public statements made by his alleged mentor-scrutiniser, Mahathir.

Zaid Ibrahim, former Umno law minister who resigned from his ministerial position in protest over the draconian detention of Teresa Kok (Pakatan MP), Raja Petra Kamarudin Petra (Malaysia's most famous blogger and political activist) and Tan Hoon Cheng (a journalist in Sin Chew Daily) in 2008 under the Internal Security Act (ISA), said of Najib:

"As a former colleague, I know him to frown on combative politics. He was always more interested in placating and pleasing, but this will not do when dealing with Umno extremists. He tried hard to please them by putting Ibrahim Ali and Zulkifli Noordin up as election candidates.

"Sometimes his speeches to an Umno audience bear the same uncompromising trademarks that peppered former Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad and Ibrahim's speeches - even Najib's oratory style has been modulated to sound fiery. But I for one still think he has real concern for national unity. Let's see what he will do in the next few weeks."

Third irony - it may be worthwhile reminding us that Challenge No 2 of Mahathir's Wawasan 2020 is "Creating a psychologically liberated, secure and developed Malaysian society."

And what did we witness in the last couple of years in Umno's pre-election campaigning but our so-called Bapa Bangsa Malaysia repetitively punishing and twisting the Malay minds to be psychologically besieged and insecure, let alone developed.

I believe that should be enough, and I need not go further into how Mahathir ironically went against the other challenges of his own Wawasan 2020.

Fourth irony - Mahathir is particularly known for his saying of ‘Melayu mudah lupa' (Malays forget easily), implying they forget their debts to their benefactors all too easily. He has also admitted that without Chinese support for him and BN in the 1999 general election, he would have lost.

Last year, he stated "So the government must show that even though they look after the welfare of Malays, they do not forget the welfare of others."

"Towards the end of my time as prime minister, I got a lot of support from non-Malays and they were the ones who determined that we had a strong government despite the loss of faith among the Malays."

Pray tell me, who is now the Melayu yang mudah lupa? I wonder whether Mahathir would be able to recognise the sad irony of his earlier pontifications?

MCA deafeningly silent

Fifth irony - on May 7, 2013 Edy Noor Reduan from the NGO Solidariti Anak Muda Malaysia (SAMM) released a press statement 'MCA merajuk, beri laluan isu perkauman dibakar' (MCA sulks - allows racist issue to blaze) which is self-explanatory.

While MCA has been sulking in petulance at its election loss and remained deafeningly silent as right-wing elements in Umno and its mouthpieces Utusan and sister publication Kosmo! deliberately conflagrated the inflammatory accusation against the Chinese, it took two MIC members and Umno leaders mentioned earlier to speak up against the racist demonisation of Chinese.

MIC deputy president Dr S Subramaniam said the Chinese should not be considered racist or against the Malays when they have merely transferred their political support from Umno Malay candidates to Pakatan Malay candidates in PKR and PAS, stating "We have to accept reality. It was their right to choose. And it is not right to blame them for voting the opposition."He was echoed by another MIC leader, Vell Paari, the son of former MIC president S Samy Vellu. Vell Paari gave his opinion that "... the Chinese supported the opposition because no action had been taken against Perkasa and Ibrahim Ali (left) for their comments. Putting Perkasa members as BN-friendly candidates had also driven away Chinese and Indian votes in Selangor."

Sixth irony - a big part of the problem leading to the current issue has been the pressure on PM Najib to win more than his predecessor former PM Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's 140 parliamentary seats in the 2008 general election.

The mental pressure suffered by him could be likened to the fabled Old Man of The Sea (from the tales of Sinbad the Sailor) sitting on his shoulders.

You may say The Old Man of The Sea was and maybe still is Mahathir.

I was informed that Mahathir had once stated (prior to some kind of election, perhaps the one between him and Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah for the Umno presidency) that even if he won by one vote, he was still a legitimate winner and would accept the post. So, hasn't it been double standards to expect Najib to meet the requirement when a political party could form a government with 112 parliamentary seats?

Yes, the so-called benchmark of a minimum two-thirds majority (148 seats) has been a myth, nay, a nonsense which admittedly would be nice to have in order to make all sorts of constitutional amendments at will, but not something necessary to form a reasonably stable government.

Where is it stated that a government elected under a Westminster democracy or any other democracy must achieve a two-thirds majority to be entitled to call itself a stable government?

Indeed, given Umno's frightened realisation of the increasing electoral swing against it in the last few years, explaining why Mahathir and his Perkasa were hysterically pounding some of his own Wawasan 2020 ‘Challenges' to smithereens, no BN leader, not even Mahathir himself, would have been able to achieve that impossibility of a win with the preposterous two-thirds majority in the recent general election.

What Najib has really achieved

So let us instead look at the final and seventh irony and examine what Najib as BN leader had achieved in the Malaysian 13th general election for BN.

Now, I know there are still questions to be answered on the conduct of the polls and the Election Commission itself, but let us leave that aside at least for now.

Many Pakatan supporters of course would not agree to this but I am attempting to see it from an Umno member's point of view. The reality, no matter how unpleasant it may be to a Pakatan person is that to Umno, Najib has been a HERO for winning GE13 and saving the party from political doom as well as undoubtedly saving many BN politicians from legal prosecutions for alleged corruption and abuse of authority.

Well-known political activist Haris Ibrahim had earlier made known his wish to serve a Pakatan government as its chief prosecutor on the more notorious cases of corruption involving very senior ministers. Well, they have been spared a Haris Inquisition by Najib.

I have capitalised the word HERO because that has been the magnitude of Najib's achievements for BN in the face of the expected tsunami against BN nationwide.

No doubt about it, during the election campaign and long before that, Najib has been, take your choice, sincerely or cunningly friendly, earnestly or sneakily warm, truly or insincerely charming, genuinely or craftily generous, and everything he senses he has to be. He can be ruthless, calculative, scheming and probably liberal with his promises, but all of which makes him a successful politician.

There is no doubt he has worked indefatigably during the election campaign for BN and particularly Umno.

His biggest mistake was to inexplicably stand a non-Umno Zulkifli Noordin as the BN candidate in Shah Alam. That move had not only lost for BN the seat but probably caused an anti-BN domino effect in Selangor state which enabled PAS to double its state seats to 15 in the Selangor Malay heartland, a traditional stronghold of Umno.

Many said it was a decision to appease someone powerful in the Umno right-wing elements, more so when Zulkifli Noordin and Ibrahim Ali were from Perkasa and not Umno.

Be that as it was, while Pakatan was making inroads in BN strongholds like Johor and Negri Sembilan, Najib and his team were quietly taking the back lanes and by-roads into Pakatan territory to successfully seize seven seats from PAS in Titiwangsa, Kuala Selangor, Pendang, Padang Terap, Jerai, Sik and Baling and eight from PKR in Balik Pulau, Bagan Serai, Kulim-Bandar Baru, Merbok, Machang, Ketereh, Tanah Merah and Hulu Selangor (won by PKR in 2008 though held by BN in a by-election).

Umno's significant 15-seat harvest

It was a significant 15-seat harvest for Umno because it mitigated against the loss of 22 other seats to Pakatan.

Just imagine if he didn't succeed in the above, the final election would have been only 118 seats for BN versus 104 seats for Pakatan, a mere 14-seat difference or only an eight-seat majority to rule. Okay, perhaps let us not proceed any further as to what possibilities this would have offered the other side.

Najib also ripped back Kedah for BN, which surely would and should have earned the undying gratitude of Daddy Mahathir, while holding BN's position in Perak, Perlis and Terengganu. In wrestling back Kedah and holding off Pakatan in Perlis and Terengganu, he has basically destroyed the putative ‘Northern Green Crescent' and isolated PAS to only Kelantan.For Umno alone, he increases its 79 parliamentary seats in 2008 to 88, and in Peninsular Malaysia, BN collectively won 100 seats compared to 99 in 2008, a gain of one parliamentary seat. He also increased the state seats from 239 in 2008 to 244 [figures obtained from Malaysia-Today blog].

And that has been why I capitalised his HERO status for Umno, including Mahathir, to see and think about. They and not the Malaysian voters should be ‘grateful' to Najib.

So we come back to Utusan's ‘Apa lagi Cina mahu?'

Given Najib's considerable Houdini-style achievements, warts and all, for Umno to escape being ousted from rule in ignominy, shall I end with an ironical ‘Apa lagi Umno mahu?'