Treachery, treachery & treachery

In RPK's most recent post The principle behind the stand: the lesser of the evils he mused over Malaysian politics being far more complex than the simplistic low-brow Bush-ism of choosing between black or white, which alas, many Pakatan, especially PKR people are obdurately promoting.

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I see their current but muddled concept of 'the end justifying the means and thus the lesser of the two evils' as nothing more than an argumentative salvage operation, and then, only after years of blinkered fanatical belief in a non-existent reformasi.


That reformasi fallacy has finally given way to reluctant and grudging acknowledgement that (blast and double blast!) Anwar and his PKR inner coterie may not be so sweet smelling after all.


Yes, it has been a salvage operation, but not unlike its earlier blinkered fanatical belief in, and without remorse about, the now semi-abandoned fallacy of reformasi, it has taken a new life on its own as a nouvelle mantra, ABU, which, with deepest apologies and respect to Brother Haris Ibrahim, as a campaign in the hands of mindless, moronic and muddled-headed fanatics is alas, equally mindless, moronic and muddled-headed.

But that as it may, let's examine one of RPK's hypotheses in his post, where he postulated a not implausible scenario post GE-13, as follows:

Say Barisan Nasional wins 110 Parliament seats in total. The balance 112 Parliament seats are shared between PKR, DAP and PAS. Say DAP wins 40 seats, PKR 37 seats and PAS 35 seats. Who will get to form the government?

Barisan Nasional, a legally registered party, has the most number of seats, 110, compared to DAP, PKR and PAS who all won less than 110 seats each. You may argue that DAP, PKR and PAS can always combine their seats, which means the total would be 112 and hence more than Barisan Nasional’s 110.

Are you sure? What if they can’t? What if His Majesty the Agong wants to see a Memorandum of Understanding signed by all three parties that spells out very clearly and specifically the terms of the ‘Unity Government’ that DAP, PKR and PAS are going to form?

And what if DAP insists that one of the terms of the MoU must be that Malaysia retains its Secular State status while PAS insists that the implementation of Hudud be one of the terms of the MoU?

And because of this conflict, DAP, PKR and PAS end up in a deadlock and cannot sign the MoU and hence the Agong swears in the new Barisan Nasional government.

If you think RPK is pulling a fast one on the MoU, please recall the situation in Selangor post 08 March 2008 when HRH required a form of unwritten MoU along the lines which RPK has hinted at. HRH had then thoroughly interviewed PKR's Khalid Ibrahim and his allies in PAS and DAP?

Obviously, one of several reasons persuading HRH to resort to that was undoubtedly his concerns that the new Pakatan majority alliance might not quite come together to form a viable state government. HRH's concern wasn't far off track if we can be brave enough to admit that intra Pakatan socio-cultural-religious differences and attitudes had led to, without mincing our word/thoughts, Teresa Kok being denied her due rights to be deputy MB (as leader of second largest component party in Pakatan) because of illiberal prejudice against her 3C's, namely, Chinese, Christian and a Chabor (woman).

But either blissfully or deliberately oblivious of reality like an ostrich overfed, overdosed and over-addicted with anwarista-ism wakakaka, one of RPK's visitors (also mine, though he's noticeably less rude and less abusive with his comments at Malaysia-Today, wakakaka) wrote:

actually the above is the best case scenario possible.

Barisan can no longer ramrod through any piece of legislation they like. They in fact have to take in to account Pakatan's wishes for every single piece of law they want to pass.

And if DAP, PAS and PKR so desires, they can carry a no confidence vote through anytime. They have the numbers mah.

We will then see a much more compliant UMNO PM then. 

Wakakaka. The following will be a more realistic and far more likely scenario ensuing from RPK's GE-13 outcome of 'Barisan Nasional win[ning] 110 Parliament seats in total. The balance 112 Parliament seats are shared between PKR, DAP and PAS. Say DAP wins 40 seats, PKR 37 seats and PAS 35 seats.

In a scenario regarding 'Hudud vs Secular State', if we add on to it the situation of UMNO (and cronies) losing power and dominance, we may safely assume that UMNO will persuade PAS and its 35 MP to join them to form a new 'Islamic Coalition', thus with a clear mandate to rule, though just 3 MPs short of 2/3 majority.

Yes, we may also assume that if MCA, MIC, Gerakan and other lesser creatures form part of BN's 110, these serfs will go along with Tai-Koe's embrace of hudud as the new legislative system. After all, WTF do you think they have been doing in the last 30 years?

Besides, won't Tai-Koe say exactly the same thing to its MCA, MIC, Gerakan, etc cronies that PKR is now saying, which would be "Let's get into power first, and sort out the religious issue later" wakakaka.

Now, does anyone for one instant still stubbornly believe this new 'Islamic Coalition' cannot 'recruit' another 3 MPs to have a 2/3 majority in federal parliament to bring into effect hudud?

Do you imagine that the PKR's 'inner coterie' will stay aloof? Au contraire, it'll be a bloody miracle if they don't crush PAS underfoot in their stampede to their Mothership, wakakaka.

Believe me, it's not an implausible scenario where PAS will rationalise their treachery to Pakatan as the overriding imperative of a higher calling to do Allah's will. And right alongside PAS, or more probably ahead of PAS wakakaka, PKR's inner coterie will similarly argue that they have to respect the overriding imperative of 'Malay Unity'.

Of course, while PAS may well be sincerely earnest in their Islamic obligation no matter how insincerely treacherous their allegiance to secular partnership, PKR's bottom line will not be unlike UMNO's, where a truism common to both is that it's always better to be on the familiar old gravy train than off it, wakakaka.

Yo matey, then you'll all be back to Square One wakakaka. The most fertile scenario for such an eventuality will be a hung parliament. You won't only lose what you have been hoping and dreaming of, but you will be traumatically broken-hearted.

Now, slightly shifting to a side track but probably a related issue, the above heart breaking scenario is so probably and plausible that I want to be a wee tng k'ooi (ch'ong hei) and ponder over why Free Malaysia Today (FMT), a news media I suspect of favouring PKR (but not friendly to DAP if you ask sweetie Teresa Kok, wakakaka), has recently published articles and letters quite unfavourable to the Great Man himself. Just bloody unusual.

In its article Whose tune is Anwar dancing to? FMT reported:

Unfortunately, that zeal by Anwar, who is PKR “adviser”, to take the country out of the rut of vested agendas was short-lived, lacking the much-needed stamina to fight off the “powers-that-be”.

What started off as a revolution soon turned into political rhetoric, beginning with the Sept 16, 2008 promise by Anwar of conquering Putrajaya; nothing happened and the Barisan Nasional government continues to lord over the nation, having had a hearty laugh at the “all talk no show” promise made by Anwar.

Now, it is becoming obvious that the 64-year-old Anwar has little interest in championing the people’s cause, having veered off to fulfil an agenda of his own. So much for being the voice of democracy!

The irregularities as far as Anwar’s principles vis-à-vis the revolution disguised as reformation are clear. For instance, earlier on, in an interview with British Broadcasting Corporation, he had said that the laws on homosexuality in Malaysia were considered “archaic” and “not relevant”.

But on July 18, during a High Court hearing of his defamation suit against Umno-owned Utusan Malaysia, Anwar adopted a different tune concerning his views on the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community.

(Anwar had filed the RM50 million suit in January following Utusan’s front-page report published on Jan 15. The report referred to a BBC interview with Anwar and alleged that he had said that the laws on homosexuality in Malaysia were considered “archaic” and “not relevant”).

The “impressive” image post-the 1998 reformation Anwar resurrected to hoodwink his supporters both domestically and abroad is fast crumbling. […]

Now, how will Anwar explain the decline in respect for all living beings – coming from someone who once claimed to respect the fundamental rights of one and all and now a homophobic overnight? What is Anwar up to?

Too clever by half as I have always viewed him, Anwar fell into a trap of his own making. In his suit against Utusan, he had willingly uttered in court words which completely demolished his global credentials as a leader in political reforms and human rights, mind you, a credential that was questionable in the first place.

Josh Hong, one of Malaysiakini's columnists, said of Anwar and his words, which flabbergasted and broke the hearts of a big chunk of the Great Man's support base, in an article appropriately titled Anwar changing, again wakakaka. What Josh wrote almost mirrored my opinion of Anwar Ibrahim:

I had always been sceptical of Anwar’s chameleon character, but decided to put aside my differences with him because I then regarded the autocratic regime of Mahathir as a far greater threat to Malaysia’s future. My position has remained unchanged over the years: if you have an issue with your opponent, fight him/her in a fair manner and on an equal footing, and safeguard the dignity of his/her family.

Most important, spare the people the ordeal of skullduggery.

Still, one would have hoped that six years of political and judicial persecution might change Anwar, but it now appears that the man is stepping deeper into the morass of unprincipled politics as he gets closer to the corridors of power.

No doubt Anwar was then and there under enormous pressure to look after his own skin, but as Josh said:

... He could have made clear by saying “I disagree with homosexuals personally for religious reasons, but I am more opposed to discrimination against them”. Instead, he went a step further by endorsing those who are constantly on a lookout to portray homosexuality as a root cause of social ills!

But Anwar has never done well under pressure, as he once demonstrated clownishly, making a complete fool of himself, when he scurried for cover at the Turkish Embassy, all adorned in flak jacket, with pompous claims he was about to be assassinated - a stupendously stupid and spurious self-serving piece of bullsh*t.

Sure, once he was punched in the eye by a former IGP but then, being legally & physically restrained he didn't have any choice, did he?

However, when not under any form of restraint but under pressure, Anwar Ibrahim, icon-ized as Malaysia's Greatest Leader Ever, would botch up, twice already as sadly witnessed.

FMT wrote: ... it is a shame, too, that Anwar claims to have great knowledge on subjects like democracy, freedom, governance, Islam and democracy and the need for accountability, for when the push came to shove, it did not take long for this MP for Permatang Pauh to reveal his true nature.

Okay, tell me, has it been Anwar becoming recently a liability rather than the asset he was once seen as, that FMT, perceived as usually favourable to PKR, has taken to chastising him with articles such as Whose tune is Anwar dancing to? and Anwar trying to ‘buy’ over Putrajaya where in the latter we read (extracts):

Anwar has no desire in building PKR in Sabah and Sarawak and his game plan is to woo the current crop of MPs from BN to jump ship and join PKR.

In other words, Anwar does not plan to win the elections in Sabah and Sarawak. He wants to ‘steal’ the BN wakil rakyat after the next general election and form the government via crossovers. […]

Anwar was also in negotiations with Sarawak MPs from SPDP and PRS as well as those in Chief Minister Taib Mahmud’s PBB. And this has infuriated the Sarawak chief minister who suspects that Anwar is trying to do a dirty on him.

Taib’s other concern is that this may end up as Umno’s backdoor entry into Sarawak, something he has been resisting for a long time but may now be possible if Anwar has another deal with Umno up his sleeve.

Of course, if Anwar can pull this off, this is going to be the greatest political coup in Malaysian history. But it is an extremely dangerous game that can backfire and blow up in Anwar’s face.

And for this to work Anwar has to sacrifice the opposition in Sabah and Sarawak, in particular PKR. But the end result would be Pakatan would get to form the next federal government with Anwar as prime minister.”

... and indeed, also letters uncomplimentary to him such as Who and what Anwar is, is still a mystery and Who and what Anwar is, is still a mystery (Part 2).

So, are all these less than the usual flattering articles about Anwar, Asia's Renaissance Man, a result of him been seen recently as a liability rather than the asset he was once, or is it more than that?

More than two weeks ago, in a previous post Rafizi - too little too late in Talam I quoted RPK's post The weak link is getting weaker.


RPK's article had suggested there is an ongoing internecine war within PKR, where Azmin Ali & gang have not only been waging civil war against Dr Wan Azizah's group (Nurul, Khalid Ibrahim, Faekah Husin, etc), but may also be, unbelievably treacherous as it may sound but standard fare in the vicious villainous vipers' pit that is PKR, planning to get rid of Anwar Ibrahim.

That will be truly Kafkaesque for Anwar (one of his fave words, wakakaka) and ironically a déjà vu of his 1998 attempt to remove Dr Mahathir.

Now, after reading FMT's articles and readers' letters which have been so unusually critical of Anwar Ibrahim, I wonder whether the vipers' nest is now writhing with poisonous, treacherous and self-serving interests as the picture of Putrajaya looms bigger in someone's wet dreams, wakakaka.