A Few Minutes Guide to Dealing with Elegant Silence.

hope this is not Najib's SUA

Anonymous said...

abih, nak jawab macam mana lagi. if you are that smart, tell me how? "if you read the exchanges carefully there is no abuse of power implied in them". that's the best answer la kan?

16 October 2008 10:45

Sakmongkol wrote an article titled elegant silence, a death wish? One of the comments sakmongkol received was the above.

If sakmongkol were mean, he would say such an answer would be a typical one expected from Najib’s press secretary. Just like- abih, nak jawab macam mana? You know the officious but grey matter lacking answer type.

Before we continue. A typical answer from Najib’s SUA would reflect the typical training he received from the government. This quality immediately makes sakmongkol reflect on the story of Men in Black- where a group of hopefuls plus the character played by Will Smith ( agent J) were interviewed as prospective agents. After going through the aptitude tests and other tests on intelligence, the head of the interview program, Chief Zed said to the government jocks- thank you gentlemen. You are what we expected after years of government training.

The job as the other man in black of course went to the character played by Smith.

For Dato NAJIB’s sake, we hope he does not have an SUA of this calibre. Mampus!.

On the other hand, Sakmongkol will stand by his demand, that Dato Najib, if he has such a SUA( setua usaha akhbar) he should consider sacking him/them.

Sakmongkol will now attempt to respond to the other part of his snootish and derisive comment- if you are smart, tell me how.

Sakmongkol has read the transcripts of the smses reproduced by several bloggers. Assuming those were true, and Najib appears to confirm that those smses were true, then our reasoning will be as follows:-

Taken as a whole, the conversations appeared to be a genuine concern on the plight of a friend. Yes, sakmongkol is pissed of with the Razak baginda types; the hangers on who got into the good books of Najib and thereafter benefited from many good deals. Sakmongkol is even angrier knowing that this joker who wormed his way into Najib’s affections travels in his BMW X-5 while Sakmongkol travels around in his pick up truck. Damn him.

After all is said and done, he is Najib’s friend. Sakmongkol cannot decide who Najib wants to have as his friend. Just as we cant nail Anwar for selecting Nala as a tennis companion. Even if he is one who went to ordinary London Polytech and masqueraded as a serious intellectual. Yes, among the village people who saw Razak Baginda as an intellectual of course include the pliant Jocelyn Tan plus others in Utusan Malaysia. But, the fact is, he is Najib’s friend.

Now what does a friend do when you are in serious trouble and serious trouble is an understatement in the case of this Baginda joker? You will try to find ways to ameliorate his pains, find ways how you can assist him, so long as what you do are not UNlawful.

What you have at the moment, are the un-pious wishes of many people, especially from the opposition, who wish to impute some guilt and wrongdoings on Najib’s part. Sakmongkol finds it strange finding himself having to defend Najib who has been the object of his ballistics for some time. Alas, he has to do this because of the bald stupidity and mental stupor of his paid but castrated attack dogs.

So, Najib’s conversation with the lawyer who is an ex 4^th Collegian at University Malaya who has since become a formidable trial lawyer, can also be looked as an attempt by a friend to help another friend in dire need. That should be a better answer, than just abih, nak jawab macam mana? Dolt! Stupido!

Thus, the conversations revealed the principle of friendship there. Loyalty to a friend. Sakmongkol would certainly want that kind of loyalty to be around if he finds himself in trouble.

Further illustration to be taken as object lesson by anonymous:-.

Sometime ago, sakmongkol wrote an article on Dato Fauzi Abdul rahman. He was an ex deputy minister, and UMNO man, came from a family of UMNOans. He is also Anwar’s friend from his MCKK days. He has since joined PKR.

Why didn’t he desert Anwar even after an encounter with Tun Mahathir? Because he remains loyal to a friend. And loyalty is a principle worth defending. It is a rare commodity in values- bereft UMNO.

Now, if the principle of loyalty is forthcoming from a person like Dato Fauzi Rahman, can’t we also expect the same from a person like Najib? Even sakmongkol has to admit, Najib must have some redeemable quality however much Sakmongkol wants to deny.

Surely then, if Anwar who was the beneficiary of Fauzi’s loyalty, surely he too can also now appreciate and understand the same principle being capable of coming even from an arch nemesis like Najib. Eh, Pak Sheikh? Cant he or he doesn’t want to?

So Najib, instead of giving a one liner answer must, in all seriousness, educate Anwar on the principle of loyalty and friendship. That would certainly show the calibre of the incoming PM and destroy the myth that all virtuous values are the monopoly of Anwar and his ilk?

So, anonymous rather than ranting like a mad man behind the close circuit TV in one of the rooms in the tower block of Parliament, please use the material between your two ears. And Sakmongkol is not referring to your bulbous nose. Capiche?