Impatience
Doesn’t it strike you that Anwar is again too eager to be PM? Why is he demanding an emergency parliament session this week when it will be in session again roughly 3 weeks from now? What is he chasing, why the unbridled urgency?
Does he know something we don’t? Could it be that his sodomy case is coming up and there could be some damning evidence? That he needs to be PM immediately so that he can wield more governmental powers when his case really do come up. He used to abuse his government powers when he was DPM by suppressing the investigations by the police when he was first accused of sodomy. Now that he is off government, he feels he desperately need to control the situation. He believes he can control the situation better with powers in his hands.
Or is this another of his attempt to get himself arrested for public disorder, which is his usual modus operandi for public sympathy when all else fails. Get himself arrested, people pity him, hopefully other MPs in Barisan will call foul and crossover.
Whatever his reason only he knows.
What confuses me is that, how can people tolerate this nonsense? Does he really believe that marching to the PM office and asking a meeting is the democratic way of doing things? Does he considers himself a democratically elected leader when all he’s doing is buying vote and MPs?
Win at any cost. That’s what he cares about, even when the Malaysian market is in such uncertainties. His actions are partly to blame for creating imbalances and uncertainties, he should shoulder some responsibilty.
Again, I am questioning, is this the route to becoming a PM? Impatience, selfish, inconsiderate and delusional. No matter what he believes, this is not how a democratically elected PM is made, especially when buying allegiances are involved.
Desperate times for a desperate man.
Hello world!
After years of being a spectator, I finally want to be part of the community that talk about politics. Not biased to only one side, opposition or otherwise, but just telling it as I see it.
For the record, I cannot understand the fascination toward Anwar. Time and time again, he has exploited his position to belittle Malaysia, branding it as a corrupt country, with crooked judiciary and dirty cops, politicians as scums of the earth. Those who used to be his friends are now sworn enemy. Everyone, I mean everyone, is corrupted as long as they are in the government.
That’s the nature of the opposition. Oppose to anything and everything. This tradition comes from the stalwarts of the previous opposition parties, Lim Kit Siang and Karpal Singh, and now carries through to Anwar. Nothing is right in a world where Anwar considers himself a saviour.
Not to me.
I disagree with the fact that you put yourself as the answer to all of Malaysia’s problems when you are part of the problem in the first place. Sure, the government has made many, many mistakes. KJ has to stand up on this occasion to shoulder part of the responsibility to Pak Lah’s downfall. How do you get from being a Mr Nice Guy to a Mr I-am-being-forced-to-step down within 4 in-between-election years? Pak Lah mistakes are those for listening to only people that are close to him. I guess those are the wrong people to listen to, and Pak Lah could have done better than be too stubborn to listen to people who has the country’s best interest at heart. Now, as the Malay saying goes, “Nasi sudah menjadi bubur”. Accept that and move on.
But I digress.
What has Anwar done for the country so far other than push it further into chaos? When he was the Finance Minister under Mahathir, he did a lousy job handling the affairs of the country during the economic crisis. So bad that Mahathir has to sack him and install himself as the Finance Minister, prescribing capital controls as well as currency pegging. And when he is off on his overseas trip (who the hell financed these sometimes yearlong trips?), he has continuously bad-mouthed Malaysia and telling people what a corrupt country it was. He has accused the cops that they had poisoned him with arsenic, to this day left unconfirmed, although everyone knows that arsenic stays in your body even after you die. Has he launched any initiative to help Malaysia instead of helping himself? No. Whatever issues he has been fighting, has been raised by other opposition individuals, so none of it is original.
So what has he contributed so far, other than calling his staff “Saudara”? He contributed far more when he was in the government, with his good charity works. Now, all he wants is to be PM, at whatever costs.
He talks about power sharing and a Malaysia for all. But when he declared himself as the de-facto leader and PM in waiting, I pity all those DAP and PAS folks who have been dreaming of leading the country. Here you have an ex-government lackey under Mahathir, finally released from jail from corruption charges, with a sodomy-cloud still lingering over him, claiming to be Malaysia’s saviour. And PAS and DAP is endorsing him? Where are their principles and sense of duty to their constituents? Amazing that these two parties are being hoodwinked by this person.
And what will happen once Anwar convince the so-called Barisan MPs from East Malaysia to defect? Morally and ethically it is the wrong way for going into government, as it is defective to presume that the people who voted for these traitors voted for the individuals, not the party. Ethically, they should resign their post and hold new elections under their new party, but hey…. Anwar always considers everyone else is wrong and he is above the law. Will DAP or PAS comment on this? These two parties are being bullied because the carrot for power is being dangled by Anwar.
To which party, should the Barisan MPs defect, will they go to? It will be naive for DAP and PAS to think that they will stand under their party’s banner. Of course, they will stand under their defection-sponsor banner i.e. Keadilan. That means, overnight, the Pakatan Rakyat will be more Keadilan-heavy. Immediately, Keadilan will have 30 more seats in Parliament and become the dominant party under Anwar. Decisions will then be a one-party decisions.
PAS and DAP will be nothing more than bit players by then, with DAP holding to Penang and PAS keeping Kelantan. Lackeys… when Anwar even has the cheek to mention that should he become PM, the Deputy post can even be someone from Sabah or Sarawak. Salivate, my dear MPs, salivate!
Could we have chosen a more morally-shallow spin doctor as the future PM of Malaysia? I refuse to be fascinated by someone of such integrity, and I wonder about this path the power-crazy man is taking us.
God save Malaysia. I think we are past the point of no return. So, all I can do is continue to write.
