Jangan biar Melayu dihina!

Wan Saiful Wan Janialah Ketua Eksekutif Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS) dan juga editorAkademiMerdeka.org, sebuah platform yang mempromosikan idea-idea libertarian.

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6 APRIL — Saya gembira membaca laporan yang dikeluarkan oleh Majlis Penasihat Ekonomi Negara yang menggariskan Model Ekonomi Baru (MEB) buat Malaysia.  Secara umumnya dokumen tersebut membuktikan betapa pemerintah kita mula sedar bahawa satu-satunya cara untuk membawa pembangunan pesat di negara kita ialah dengan memperteguh pengamalan sistem ekonomi liberal.

Bab 2 dokumen tersebut dengan tegas menyatakan bahawa negara kini telah terjatuh dalam perangkap pendapatan pertengahan (middle income trap). Perangkap ini bermaksud bahawa kita sukar untuk bersaing dengan negara-negara yang menawarkan kos operasi lebih rendah tetapi pada waktu yang sama juga tidak dapat menyaingi negara-negara maju yang mempunyai kebolehan teknologi lebih tinggi. Akibatnya kita “terperangkap” di tengah-tengah.

Kelemahan-kelemahan yang dihadapi oleh negara juga dibincangkan dengan terbuka dalam Bab 2 dokumen tersebut. Dalam bab-bab selepas itu pula, terutamanya dalam Bab 6, dinyatakan beberapa cadangan untuk memastikan negara boleh keluar daripada perangkap pendapatan pertengahan dan terus mara ke hadapan. Hampir semua cadangan yang dikemukakan menjadikan sistem ekonomi kapitalisme pasaran bebas sebagai teras.

Contohnya, MEB mengatakan bahawa sektor swasta amat penting untuk memacu ekonomi negara. Untuk membolehkan sektor swasta memainkan peranan dengan efektif, maka dokumen itu mencadangkan agar dihapuskan pelbagai subsidi, kawalan harga dan insentif-insentif yang mengganggu perjalanan sistem pasaran bebas. Penghapusan semua ini akan membawa negara kepada satu sistem ekonomi yang lebih bebas dan berdayasaing.

Saya tidak mengatakan dokumen MEB ini adalah satu cadangan yang sempurna. Masih ada ketempangan di beberapa tempat. Tetapi saya tidak berhajat untuk membicarakan dengan terlalu mendalam mengenai MEB dalam dalam artikel ini. Insha-Allah saya akan cuba menulis lebih lanjut mengenai MEB dalam jangka masa terdekat.

Dalam artikel ini, saya hanya mahu memperakui bahawa dokumen MEB telah menggagaskan satu permulaan yang baik untuk proses transformasi negara. Kelihatannya penggubal dasar negara menerima juga bahawa sistem kapitalisme pasaran bebas sahajalah yang boleh menjamin Malaysia akan menjadi sebuah negara maju. Syukur alhamdulillah.

Dalam kesempatan ini saya sebenarnya mahu mengulas mengenai tindakan pihak-pihak seperti Perkasa dan Datuk Ibrahim Ali yang seolah-olah sengaja mahu menggagalkan usaha Datuk Seri Najib Razak untuk mentransformasi negara.

Saya amat marah dengan mereka ini kerana mereka berselindung dengan nama Melayu untuk menghina dan memperkecil-kecilkan orang Melayu. Dengan bertopengkan nama Melayu, mereka bersuka ria menuduh orang Melayu tidak boleh bersaing dan tidak boleh maju  jika tidak dihulurkan tongkat seumur hidup. Lemah sungguh Melayu di mata mereka!

Tatkala Najib begitu yakin dengan kebolehan bangsa Melayu untuk bersaing di arena global, tiba-tiba ada pihak yang memperlekeh kebolehan orang Melayu untuk berjaya dengan usaha sendiri.

Tatkala Najib mengambil langkah berani untuk mengurangkan kebergantungan orang Melayu terhadap bantuan dan subsidi kerajaan, ada pula orang Melayu yang bersungguh-sungguh mahu menggagalkan usaha-usaha pemimpin parti Melayu sendiri.

Kenapa kita terpengaruh dengan tohmahan bahawa orang Melayu tidak akan berjaya jika tidak dilindungi oleh kerajaan? Kenapa tidak yakin dengan kemampuan bangsa kita sendiri? Orang Melayu tidak diciptakan bodoh atau cacat sehingga perlukan tongkat subsidi dan hak istimewa seumur hidup. Tidak sama sekali!

Hakikatnya walaupun pemuka-pemuka ini berbangsa Melayu, tindakan mereka datangnya daripada satu punca sahaja, iaitu perangai memandang rendah kebolehan bangsa Melayu.

Benarlah kata Tun Mahathir Mohamad bahawa Melayu mudah lupa. Mungkin mereka sudah terlupa bahawa pemerintahan Melayu yang amat berjaya pernah wujud di rantau ini ratusan tahun dahulu.

Hakikatnya bangsa Melayu adalah satu bangsa yang boleh berjaya seperti mana-mana bangsa lain di muka bumi. Meragui kebolehan bangsa Melayu adalah sama seperti menghina dan merendah-rendahkan kebolehan bangsa Melayu.

Banyak tindakan-tindakan Najib yang menunjukkan beliau kini yakin dengan kebolehan orang Melayu untuk bersaing dalam pasaran terbuka. Bukan sahaja bersaing, tetapi Melayu boleh berjaya dalam persaingan itu.

Contohnya, beliau telah meliberalisasikan sebilangan sub-sektor perkhidmatan kepada pasaran bebas, menjemput pemodal asing melabur di negara kita, menurunkan kadar cukai, cuba mereformasi sistem percukaian dan berusaha mengurangkan kebergantungan orang Melayu terhadap subsidi.

Semua ini adalah langkah-langkah baik menuju ke arah sistem ekonomi liberal berteraskan pasaran bebas. Sistem pasaran bebas amat diperlukan untuk menjadikan Malaysia sebuah negara maju yang rakyatnya berpendapatan tinggi.

Lawan kepada sistem ekonomi liberal pasaran bebas ialah sistem ekonomi terkawal. Contoh paling senang sistem ekonomi terkawal ialah sistem komunis atau sosialis. Kita semua tahu bahana kemiskinan yang dibawa oleh sistem komunis dan sosialis. Melayu tidak memerlukan ekonomi terkawal seperti komunisme atau sosialisme.

Sebagai pemimpin yang telah memulakan langkah pendekar untuk mentransformasi nasib rakyat termasuklah bangsa Melayu di tanah air ini, Najib dan para pemimpin negara perlu terus iltizam membangunkan ekonomi negara supaya menjadi lebih terbuka.

Model Ekonomi Baru harus teguh menjadikan sistem pasaran bebas sebagai terasnya, dan berusaha menghilangkan mentaliti subsidi daripada pola pemikiran orang Melayu.

Orang Melayu perlu berhenti menghina dan memperlekeh kebolehan bangsa sendiri. Orang Melayu perlu menolak mana-mana individu atau pertubuhan yang mengatakan bahawa Melayu terus perlukan perlindungan kerajaan. Mereka itu adalah Melayu yang tidak yakin dengan kebolehan bangsa sendiri. Jangan kita percaya jika individu atau pertubuhan itu menyatakan mereka mahu “melindungi” bangsa Melayu. Sikap tidak yakin mereka kepada kebolehan Melayu sebenarnya adalah satu penghinaan kepada orang Melayu.

Melayu boleh bersaing. Melayu boleh berjaya. Jangan biarkan pemuka-pemuka itu terus menghina bangsa Melayu!

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The New Malay Dilemma

Najib’s Dilemma: PERKASA

March 8, 2010

http://www.asiasentinel.com

Written by Our Correspondent

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak needs an economic policy but that unfortunately will offend a major part of his constituency. He apparently has decided that taking the wraps off his long-awaited New Economic Model, as he calls it, is politically too dangerous for now.

According to local media, although Najib who doubles as Malaysia’s  Finance Minister had been scheduled to introduce his new policy at the end of March, it is apparently off till June and he may not even introduce it himself, letting someone else take the heat.

Najib appears to be caught in a trap of his own, with a widening gap between what he would like to do as an economist and what a major chunk of his United Malays National Organization (UMNO) constituency wants.

What they want is not only to not forward but to repeal the limited reforms he has already put in place, and they are increasingly angry about it. That is playing havoc with his so-called 1Malaysia campaign, designed to bring the country’s fractious ethnic groups together and rebuild the flailing national ruling coalition.

One pessimistic aide to a prominent UMNO politician told Asia Sentinel it is even possible that UMNO could be superseded by a growing organization of 80-odd Malay superiority non-governmental organizations cobbled together in recent weeks under the title Malay Consultative Council, which is seeking to push the government to maintain so-called Ketuanan Melayu, or Malays First, a slogan embraced by former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who remains active at age 84 and despite his endorsement of Najib is a growing thorn in the Prime  Minister’s side, as he was with his predecessor, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, whom he helped to drive from power.

Mahathir appears to be shifting to the right to make an alliance with the rightists, according to longtime political observers in Kuala Lumpur.

In order to modernize, Malaysia, a country of 28 million people, needs to do away with a wide variety of subsidies and perks to ethnic Malays that are enshrined in the New Economic Policy, an affirmative action plan for ethnic Malays that was put in place in 1971 in the wake of disastrous 1969 ethnic riots that took the lives of hundreds of people on both side of the racial divide. The NEP supposedly ended in 1991 and a new National Development Policy was put in its place. It was largely the NEP under a different name. The NDP initials never took off. It is still called the NEP.

Among other things, the NEP was designed to give ethnic Malays 30 percent ownership of private companies, which led to what has been called an “Ali Baba” system, in which “Alis” – ethnic Malays, or bumiputeras – became the figurehead owners or chief executives of companies actually run and owned through by “babas” – the nickname for Straits-born Chinese. The Ali Baba title, of course, brings to most people’s minds the title of the tale “Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves.”

Non-Malays are largely shut out of the university system and overseas scholarships. Malays are given ownership of government-linked public company shares and housing. As a result, the NEP is held responsible for creating a rentier system in which some – particularly top officials of UMNO –became rich overnight by skimming the share ownership while the average Malay in the kampung, or rural village, got very little. The education system has suffered because bumiputeras are largely passed through the system with very low standards.

The country has also been afflicted by both a problem with capital flight and a brain drain as reported by Asia Sentinel, with Najib acknowledging that anywhere from 300,000 to 500,000 professionals are working abroad, about 40 percent of them in Singapore, which actively recruits ethnic Chinese students in Malaysia.

Both Mahathir and Badawi talked incessantly about the need to create a high-growth economy built on technology and industrialization, Mahathir by establishing the so-called multimedia super corridor and the national car, the Proton, as well as a long series of other projects, many of which were largely unsuccessful. Badawi sought to attract investment in high-tech industries including pharmaceuticals and medical technology as well as bio-science. But many economists argue that without removing the impediments of the NEP, Najib will be as unsuccessful as his predecessors.

Najib first talked about a new economic plan a year ago, but its introduction has been pushed back several times. Even as late as Feb. 8, during a two-day conference in Kuala Lumpur, Najib told reporters that his administration is open to suggestions for what would go into the policy. Principal elements are expected to be the removal of subsidies and further liberalization of the economy that appear certain to bite into Malay privilege. Many of Najib’s cabinet want nothing to do with the plan, concerned that the voter rebellion that began in disastrous March 2008 elections will grow.

The Malay NGOs are streaming into a perceived political vacuum for Malay ultranationalists, according to a source in Kuala Lumpur. No one really knows at this point how strong they are despite the noise they are making.  There has been no independent polling. They are feeling marginalized by Najib’s centrist politics and would like to take the country back to the days of absolute UMNO rule, the course say. So they remain frustrated and angry.

Any time word gets around that the fundamentals of the NEP are being tampered with, UMNO politicians rush to the microphones to say it isn’t true. Mukhriz Mahathir, the former premier’s son and a Deputy International Trade and Industry Minister in Najib’s government, for instance, was the latest to insist to reporters that the new policy “is in line with previous policies particularly the New Economic Policy.”

Najib has repeatedly said the country is confronted by a new reality, given the stagnating economy, which shrank by 3.3 percent in 2009 and faces relatively anemic 3.7 percent growth in 2010 and 5.0 percent in 2011. Last year, he removed a requirement mandating ethnic Malay participation in 27 economic sub-sectors as well as removing a requirement that 30 percent of shares in IPOs go to ethnic Malays.

That has played a major role in stoking ethnic Malay anger, although some observers say the leaders of the Malay Consultative Council are actually UMNO wheelhorses who fear the loss of their perks instead of the wider community.

One of the leaders of the Malay rights groups is an NGO called PERKASA, which is headed by an independent member of parliament named Ibrahim Ali, a long time Mahathir ally and former UMNO stalwart. It has been holding strident rallies across the country, demanding close adherence to the Malays-first policy.

Some pessimists say PERKASA members are trying to provoke the Chinese into a confrontation with the Malays that will result in the imposition of the country’s draconian Internal Security Act ISA. One Malay businessman told Asia Sentinel that “UMNO leaders who are not particularly sympathetic to its aims are climbing onto the speakers’ platforms to endorse them because they’re afraid not to.”

Others say they aren’t particularly concerned and that the Malay Consultative Council and its member organizations more resemble the Tea Party movement in the United States, which is loud, angry and vocal but which almost certainly will remain a splinter group.

Asked about the concern that the Malay Consultative Council would grow big enough to replace UMNO, and particularly PERKASA, a political analyst said that “PERKASA’s appeal is not broadly based. They may shout the loudest but it will take more than that to replace UMNO. UMNO needs other component parties in Barisan to sell their multiracial appeal. I doubt the component parties in Barisan Nasional can work with PERKASA as closely as UMNO.”

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The future of Najibonomics

John Lee is a third-year student of economics at Dartmouth College in the United States. He has been thinking aloud since 2005 at infernalramblings.com.

 commentary: John Lee is looking in Malaysian Economy from clinical point of view., an ivy league student, what so great about this joker, as i am also an ivy league graduate, i don't go around giving advise to the PM on how to run things....he is a dozen a dime now a days... I mean, it is easier for him to comment from the outside on how Najib's team handling things back home., Najib is handling it the best he could ever be, for that i commanded him, and also, this economy is actually just came out from the stagnant economic policy of Abdullah Badawi...but one thing I couldn't agree more is that Pak Lah is the very reason why our economy has basically gone down the drain., He single handedly chase away most of the potential FDI and undone all the economic policy that Dr. Mahathir had built in 22 years... to me, Pak Lah should be held responsible for all the economic spiral downward during the "dark ages" of his administration....

MARCH 1 — The more I learn about 1 Malaysia and the Najib Razak administration, the more convinced I am that this is all just another giant farce.

I cannot tell where this perception that Najib is more competent or principled than his predecessor is coming from.

1 Malaysia is all propaganda without results, and the actions of our government show it is more concerned with a good show rather than substance.

The latest propaganda triumph of the Najib regime is an impressive 4.5 per cent economic growth rate in the last quarter of 2009.

All well and good, but as Najib himself conceded, the growth was driven by unique conditions: the holiday season drove up consumer spending to a degree we cannot expect for the other three quarters of the year, and the government also ramped up its stimulus spending to boost aggregate demand.

This is not a sustainable economic recipe; it is not real, meaningful economic growth.

The government has been running deficits like mad for years, artificially boosting demand. Now, that is fine if we are doing it to keep pace with increasing aggregate supply.

Aggregate supply hinges on natural resources, technological innovation, and capital —both capital goods, and the more intangible human capital. And Najibonomics is a complete failure on the supply side, I can tell you right now.

In terms of capital, it is no secret that net investments in Malaysia are dropping off a cliff. Until about halfway through the Abdullah Badawi administration, net investment on an annual basis was hovering somewhere near zero—that is to say, foreign investments coming in roughly equaled Malaysian investments going out.

We want a positive level of saving and investment to boost our capital stock — but in the final years of the Badawi government, and now under Prime Minister Najib, we literally have seen investment drop off a cliff.

To put this in more concrete terms, what this means is that foreigners are refusing to invest in Malaysia, and Malaysians insist on investing their money overseas.

A back of the envelope calculation suggests that last year, Malaysians invested almost as much money in the entire Australian property market alone as foreigners invested in the whole of Malaysia.

Investors, both Malaysian and foreign, have completely lost confidence in our country — nobody wants to put money in Malaysia, and so our savings are flowing out of the country, instead of being invested in local enterprise.

Even if you don’t invest directly, you are still probably being screwed. The Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF), eschewing the best practices of most other public pension funds around the world, concentrates its investments solely in Malaysia, ensuring our employees’ pensions are subject to the risk of putting all their eggs in one single basket. Worse still, the Ministry of Finance manipulates the EPF portfolio at will to artificially prop up our stock market.

In other words, our financial markets are a farce built upon the farce of the EPF.

And speaking of economic farces, only about 10 per cent of working age Malaysians, or 1.5 million people, pay taxes. This isn’t because of massive tax evasion —  it’s because only 1 out of every 10 Malaysians even earns enough to qualify for the income tax.

Even if we assume every last one of these Malaysians is a professional, square that with the 500,000 Malaysian professionals overseas. One out of every four Malaysian professionals lives and works abroad —  our human capital stock stands at only 75 per cent of its full potential, and it is falling; last year, the emigration rate nearly doubled.

At home, our schools and universities are not training high-value workers, and our economy is distorted by rent-seekers.

When my father began working as an engineer thirty years ago, his salary was in the RM1,000 to RM2,000 range. That is still the case for a young engineer starting today—despite massive inflation and rising costs of living. Things are so bad that most of these young workers —  who by right should be skilled professionals, commanding high wages —  are not even eligible to pay income tax.

It’s no wonder people are losing faith in Malaysia. We have no plan to fix our fundamentals.

Our school system discourages innovation in favour of accepting orders from above; our economic system stifles entrepreneurship in favour of corrupt rent-seeking.

Our prosperity is pump-primed by petroleum and forestry — when we run out of these resources, without any human capital or meaningful industrial enterprises, our economy will collapse.

Instead of bravely confronting these realities, Prime Minister Najib is content to proclaim our recovery from the global recession — as if all will be nice and dandy now.

He should be announcing an ambitious policy to reverse our capital outflows, reduce our dependence on natural resources, and improve our human capital.

This is a crisis in the making —  with no investment, we cannot build up our industry, and with no human capital, we cannot compete in the knowledge economy; the problem goes beyond a short-term recession.

But these things do not concern Najib’s regime.

After all, this is a regime of propaganda, not results. The government under Najib now brazenly seizes books it doesn’t like from bookstores across the country. It blatantly rewrites history by contradicting Tengku Razaleigh, who helped draw up the original petroleum royalty agreements with the states.

There is no policymaking here—just propaganda.

The Barisan Nasional government is simply a ship of fools, content to lead us to disaster. They have no vision for the country, no idea of the massive challenges we face or any intention to face such challenges to begin with.

All this government does is pat itself on the back for putting on a good show. We deserve a government which lives in reality, not the neverland of 1 Malaysia. Why is this regime of “no action, talk only” supposed to be so much better than the alternatives?

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TIGA PULUH JUTA BERGANTUNG PADA SATU LUBANG

commentary:  Hishamuddin Rais, well know as a student leader, together with Anwar during his University Malaya and also MCKK days... has been on the ISA list as far as i can remember...i am not surprise if he comes out something bias towards the opposition leader...well, his writing is something that you can read like the comic and horoscope section in the newspaper, as it is for entertainment only....

Lucah dan meloyakan terjadi kerana pada ketika ini United Malays National Organisation sedang cuba menarik nafas untuk mendapat talian hayat dengan menghidu rapat kepada  lubang jubur si Saiful. Udara dari sebiji lubang ini diharapkan akan menyambung kembali nyawa United Malays National Organisation.

Hishamuddin Rais 

Akhirnnya perbicaraan Anwar Ibrahim bermula. Ini kes ulang buat. Dalam dunia  filem  ulang buat ini bukan satu yang pelik dan menghairankan. Banyak filem yang diulang buat. Pengulangan ini kerana pembuatan pertama dianggap  berjaya  dari hasil jualan tiket.
King Kong -  pertama kali dibuat pada tahun 1933. Filem ini diulang buat pada tahun 1976 dengan Minah cun Jassica Lange sebagai kekasih King Kong.  Apabila teknoloji komputer berkembang sekali lagi  King Kong  diulang buat pada tahun 2005.
Psycho – klasik seram - dari kerja seni Alfred Hitchcock dibuat hitam puteh pada tahun 1960. Kemudian pengarah Belanda Gus Van Sant mengulang buat pada tahun 1998. Ulang buat dari kerja  Mamat Belanda ini cukup rapi. Dia meniru bingkai demi bingkai kerja seni  Mamat Gemok Alfred Hitchcok. Malah dari filem hitam puteh  - Psycho telah menjadi berwarna berwarni.
Sayangnya kebanyakan  filem diulang buat ini menjadi  kantoi dan gagal.  Psycho  yang diulang buat dilihat sebagai lawak bodoh. Nasib baik pengarah Mamat Belanda itu tidak membunuh diri kerana malu.  Jassica Lange menyesal tetapi ketika itu dia belum ada pilihan. King Kong 2005  juga menjadi lawak yang dipenuhi dengan  kerja komputer dan bukan kerja membuat filem.
Malah,  apabila ada sahaja desas desus sesebuah filem ingin diulang buat akan muncul lawak-lawak mengatakan betapa kurangnya idea dan cerita baru dari Hollywood. Ada  pengarah yang akan menyurokkan muka  ke bawah bantal kerana malu tidak ingin terbabit dalam kes ulang buat ini.
Warga Malaysia kembali belabon,  bersembang  dan berbincang apabila mendengar tuduhan terhadap Anwar. Akhirnya   satu Malaysia ketawa dan tersenyum. Ini juga satu kes  kerja  ulang buat.
Tema sandiwara ulang buat ini  cukup senang untuk difahami:
Anwar Ibrahim wajib dimasukkan kembali ke dalam penjara. Ini kerana Anwar telah berjaya membawa satu politik baru untuk Malaysia. Politik baru ini telah mengikat satu setiakawan diantara Parti Keadilan Rakyat, Demokratic Action Party  dan Parti Islam.
Gabungan setiakawan tiga parti ini dipanggil Pakatan Rakyat. Pakatan Rakyat adalah satu ikatan politik baru yang akan menggantikan United Malays National Organisations dan Barisan Nasional untuk mentabir Malaysia.
Pilihanraya 8hb March 2008 yang lalu telah membuktikan bahawa rakyat Malaysia telah berani dan sanggup menerima satu perubahan budaya politik baru. Dari nisbah  kiraaan undi, terbukti  majoriti rakyat Malaysia  telah memilih Pakatan Rakyat. Ini menjadikan para gerombolan dalam Barisan Nasional terpaksa menahan kentut marah.
Justeru, Pakatan Rakyat wajib ditumpaskan.  Satu konspirasi wajib diwujudkan sekali lagi. Konspirassi ini bertujuan untuk menumpaskan Pakatan Rakyat. Jalan pintas untuk memecahkan Pakatan Rakyat ialah dengan memenjarakan Anwar Ibrahim. Khalas. Period. Finito. The End. Fin.
Jika Pakatan Rakyat tidak ditumpaskan maka segala malaon dan pelesit yang selama berpuluh-puluh tahun ini menghisap darah rakyat akan menghadapi masa depan yang amat gelap. Apabila Pakatan Rakyat mengambil alih pentabiran Malaysia maka segala kerja-kerja jahat mereka - harta-harta rasuah mereka - kes samun dan kes bunuh mereka – semuanya akan diadili oleh rakyat.
Justeru kerana takutkan balasan ini - tidak dapat tidak  -  Anwar Ibrahim wajib dipenjarakan sekali lagi.  Apa sahaja yang wajib dilakukan akan dilakukan untuk memastikan Anwar Ibrahim masuk ke dalam sel sekali lagi. Inilah sebenarnya tema ulang buat sandiwara yang sedang kita lihat sekarang.
Kes ulang buat sama seperti kes dalam  tahun 1998 dahulu. Seorang  protoganis baru  telah ditemui. Lokasi baru telah dikenali. Tetapi ulang buat ini masih menggunakan skrip lama. Apa yang telah diubah hanya dailok/kata bual. Dialok kali ini dilihat agak  gempaq. Banyak  dialok telah diubah suai dan  diperbaiki dari  kelam kelabut pengucapan kata bual seorang supir yang daya fikirnya sama seperti Zulkifli Nordin. Yang baru  datang hanya   si Pereka set, si Tukang lampu dan  para Pak Pacak.
Manakala yang  dibelakang kamera pun masih orang-orang jahat yang lama. Ramai  orang-orang  jahat ini  hampir pencen tetapi mendapat talian hayat untuk membuat  ‘the last bottom show’.  Jika kerja jahat ini gagal  mereka juga akan  turut mati oleh serangan bom kentut berjuta-berjuta   rakyat Malaysia yang pada hari ini sedang menyimpan gas setelah lama memakan petai jeruk dan pengat labu.
Awas – warga Malaysia wajib sedar – dibelakang semua ini ialah Mahafiraun. Mahafiraun amat sedar  jika Anwar tidak dipenjara maka yang akan masuk ke dalam penjara ialah Mahafiraun sendiri. Kes jahat Mahafiraun ini sudah berkepok-kepok.  Kalau hendak dihitung tidak cukup pasir  dan batu di Telok Kemang. Kalau hendak ditulis – dakwat seluas Laut China Selatan akan kering.
Kalau Anwar tidak dipenjara, Mahafiraun sedar dia sendiri   akan tenggelam lemas  dalam air ludah rakyat Malaysia.  Justeru hari ini Mahafiraun akan melakukan apa sahaja termasuk mencari rambut palsu baru untuk bininya. Semua kerja-kerja  jahat Mahafiraun ini bertujuan  untuk memastikan  Pakatan Rakyat tidak akan dapat mentabir  Malaysia.
Apabila Psycho keluar untuk pertama kali pada tahun 1960 dahulu – dunia filem gempar. Berpusu-pusu dan berbaris orang ramai dan  kaki wayang datang untuk mengintai  buah dada Janet Leigh yang basah dan mongel dalam babak mandi sebelum  dia dibunuh oleh Mister Bates  - Anthony Perkins.

Apabila Psycho diulang buat tak ada sesiapa yang percaya lagi tentang keupayaan pengarah barunya. Ianya  dilihat sebagai lawak seram yang tidak menyeramkan. Pekara yang sama sedang berlaku kepada kes Anwar Ibrahim. Apabila kes Anwar diulang sekali lagi di Mahkamah Jalan  Duta kelihatan tidak ada satu babak pun yang akan memeranjatkan warga Malaysia lagi.
Sebenarnya warga Malaysia merasa  hiba dan pilu bukan untuk Anwar Ibrahim tetapi untuk pakar  konspirasi yang dilihat amat bodoh dan bangang. Warga Malaysia terpaksa bersimpati sedih diatas kebodohan pihak yang merancang konpirasi ini.
Bayangkan betapa sedihnya tanah air kita hari ini. Sebuah negara yang penduduknya berjumlah 30 juta  sedang terumbang ambing. Masa depan negara dengan 30 juta warga sedang  bergantung kepada satu  lubung  - lubang jubur si Saifol.
Sedih lagi pilu. Ratap lagi meraung. Lubang sedap Saiful adalah talian hayat untuk Najib Razak. Lubang sedap si  Saiful adalah perancang garis eknomi negara kita. Naik  turunya Bursa Saham Kuala Lumpur sama seirama dengan tekanan taik dalam lubang jubur Saifol. Sistem pertahanan negara kita ini juga bergantung kuat dengan berapa lamanya taik si Saifol dapat berkumpul dalam lubang juburnya.
Dalam sejarah tamadun dunia  pekara ini tidak pernah berlaku. Tiongkok dipertahankan  dari serangan Mongol bukan melalui  lubang jubur tetapi melalui Tembok Besar China. Alhambra dipertahankan dan berkembang sebagai tamadun bukan melalui lubang jubur tetapi melalui ilmu dan falsafah.
Inilah hakikat yang sedang berlaku ke atas  negara kita hari ini.  Tidak ada tangisan yang akan dapat mengalihkan hakikat ini. Memang betul - bunyinya amat lucah dan meloyakan.  Loya lagi meloyakan. Malu lagi memualkan. Porno lagi menjijikan.
Lucah dan meloyakan terjadi  kerana pada ketika ini  United Malays National Organisation sedang cuba menarik nafas untuk mendapat talian hayat  dengan menghidu rapat kepada  lubang jubur  si Saiful. Udara dari sebiji lubang ini diharapkan akan menyambung kembali  nyawa United Malays National Organisation.

Kita tunggu dan lihat apabila lubang jubur si Saifol ini terbarai setelah tidak terberak selama 52 tahun.  Tiga puluh juta warga Malaysia wajib bersedia. Isi-isi dari lubang jubur ini akan bertaburan.  Ketawa salah hendak menangis pun kita tidak berair mata lagi.

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Najib and Anwar: How do you explain to your children?

By Steadyaku47

“We cloak ourselves in cold indifference to the unnecessary suffering of others--even when we cause it.” James Carroll

I want to write today about a friend of mine - Anwar Ibrahim. About what he is going through now. About what personal pain he must be feeling in spite of the brave front that he puts for us all to see. About what he is going through as a father and husband. He is again living the nightmare he went through a decade ago. A nightmare that ended only after years of incarceration when he was pronounced innocent of sodomy. But that did not spare him the pain, the embarrassment and the humiliation of going through that first sodomy trial. Mahathir and Mahathir alone perpetuated that suffering. Mahathir is no longer Prime Minister. However God has not given Mahathir the grace to accept that he is no longer Prime Minister. Why God has not done so is for God to know. So maybe Mahathir really is to be pitied rather then reviled. We do know that God did not make UMNO leaders very bright either but even HE outdid HIMSELF when HE threw Najib Tun Razak into our midst.

In UMNO relentless search for power and great wealth we have been privy to many a scenario. The colossal road show pitting Mahathir against the Sultans. The sacking of Tun Salleh Abbas. The very public confirmation by UMNO’s own President of money politics  - invoking damnation and hell to those who practice it – a classic instance of the pot calling the kettle black! And a lot of good that did to UMNO! Huh!

We had to suffer the embarrassment of Mahathir babbling away teary eyed on stage for all to see because he knew  that it was time for him to go. Even he could no longer do anything about money politics in UMNO – so better to leave then be in the predicament that Najib and UMNO are now facing! Say what you like about Mahathir but in hindsight did he not engineer his exit at precisely the right moment? Give credit where credit is due I say!

And now Najib. I am not going to ask him how he sleeps at night after Altantuya. After pushing out Pak Lah. After Teoh Beng Hock. After Kugan. After PKFZ, after the death of the three innocent schoolgirls over the suspension bridge tragedy, even about his own sordid sexual past…..because in the privacy of your house doctors can give you medications - uppers or downers to manage your mental and physical state and still give you a good night sleep. So he sleeps ok at night. I am not going to ask him how he will face his maker when his time comes because hopefully for him, that is still a long way off and he still thinks that there will be time to wash his sins away.

But this I will ask of him. As a Father to Riza Shahriz,  Nooryana Najwa and Norashman how does he deal with his children’s queries about these things that are happening around them. Najib’s children are adults and educated enough to read, digest and think for themselves what is right and what is wrong. Their education, the best that money can buy, should enable them to make their own conclusion as to what Uncle Razak Baginda has done. If they can condone the Ringgit $500 million as commission for “services rendered” to our Nation that Najib has given to Razak’s – what about Razak’s Baginda’s keeping of Alatantuya as his mistress? What about her murder? What about the SMS that Najib send to Razak? What about the involvement of UTK in the murder? What about Bala’s statutory declaration about Najib’s connection with Altantuya? If anything I would like to believe that their education would give them the ability to conclude for themselves what is right and what is wrong. And I would also like to believe that they are educated enough to understand that the swearing by Najib on the Koran that he is innocent of Altantuya’s murder does not, and I repeat, does not, makes their father innocent of that crime. That, as any educated person understands, is for the court to decide.

So Najib, I ask you – have you sat down with Riza Shahriz,  Nooryana Najwa,  and Norashman to explain your part in the whole matter? Or have your family been conditioned to accept that in politics the ends justifies the means? And that is your excuse to them for hounding Anwar through the courts in the sodomy two trial. Your excuse for this disgraceful and shameful act of bringing another Father to disrepute and embarrassment in front of his children? You  know that Anwar is a father. A father with six children. He too, like you, will have need to explain to his children what is happening around them.

But then Anwar’s children know of their Father's commitment to help others less fortunate then him even before he joined UMNO. They have seen their Father imprisoned under ISA before he became the anointed successor to Mahathir. Then from being Deputy Prime Minister they have seen their Father taken away from them, from the sanctuary of their home by balaclava clad armed men and then hounded through a corrupt Judiciary by Mahathir for sodomy. Jailed and then finally vindicated. They have seen their father bashed black and blue by the Inspector General of Police. They have seen their father in Prison again – for a much longer period this time. And while he was in prison they grew up. They have seen their father come back from prison to become leader of the opposition. They have seen more than what any father would want their children to see of themselves in life and yet there is more.

Now Sodomy two. Najib do you think Anwar has to explain anything to them in as far as sodomy two is concern? Or are Anwar’s children already resolute and firm in their belief in the innocence of their Father and prepared for anything that you and your cohorts will throw at him – at them? And I am not even going to start about Azizah. Don’t anybody doubt Azizah’s ability to shoulder more then her share of bringing up that family and defending Anwar!

So again back to your family Najib. How do you deal with Riza Shahriz,  Nooryana Najwa and Norashman? The ends justifies the means? Huh! As for Rosmah I can only quote Bill Cosby who said “Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge”. Camna? 

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