Nik Aziz swears by the Quran, Bala swears upon his Bhagavad Gita.
I
want to write something on the briefing session given out by P Bala. He has
given an oath upon a book he regards as his spiritual guide. I hope the UMNO foot
soldiers would not make light Bala swearing upon his Bhagavad Gita, which Bala treats
as his spiritual guidance. The Bhagavad
Gita's call for selfless action inspired many leaders of the Indian
independence movement including Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who referred to the
Gita as his "spiritual dictionary". So we have reason to believe that
P Bala is as pious as the UMNO foot soldier who swears by his own spiritual
guidance, whatever that might be. A few years ago it was Islam Hadhari- today
its wasathiyah.Ibrahim Ali on the other hand, leader of Perkasa, swears on the name of Rohaya.
On
his part, by making the sacrifices he is making and braving whatever possible
risks, Bala has acted selflessly.
But
allow me to comment on something UMNO does that is opposite of selfless action.
UMNO and BN are treating recipients of BR1M like chickens and cattle. Come feeding
time, people will come and UMNO leaders scramble and trip over each other to be
the ones giving out the money. The money is not theirs in the first place and
the giving out should be handled by district offices and government officers. But
UMNO wants people to think that it’s they who are giving out money and the act of
giving gives UMNO leaders, especially Najib some amount of pleasure.
But
the number of people receiving the money is a source of pride to Najib? 90% of
the recipients are Malays- that gives najib as much pleasure as when his
handlers were throwing bags of rice into an ocean of outreaching hands in
Semenyih? It’s not a source of pride we
must inform him.
On
the other hand, it’s a badge of shame. It serves to confirm that the Malays and
other deprived beings in Malaysia have been marginalised. Yet Najib can speak eloquently
about lets marginalize extremism. Yes
let’s do- by kicking out UMNO which has marginalized the Malays and other poor
from benefiting from the economic achievements of this country.
8.7
million Malays lived with a monthly income less that RM1500 grouping them under
the sub-poor. Even to qualify as recipient of BR1M , requires a monthly income
of RM3000. Imagine if the qualification is set at RM1500. How many millions and
millions of the downtrodden would come at feeding time, thus giving Najib some
sort of psychotic pleasure? Is he a deprived person or what? Maybe Bala would like to present a copy of
the Kamasutra to Najib.
There
is a word describing such people who get high at the awareness of other people’s
suffering. It’s known as schadenfreude
which simply means deriving pleasure at the misfortune of others.
If
not, how do you explain the great fanfare UMNO leaders get when giving out the
money and making a spectacle about this. It’s not UMNO’s money. It probably increases
the debt of the government. Remember that Najib is the most irresponsible
finance minister that we have ever had- when he took over from Pak Lah , the cumulative
public debt was RM250 billion, now its RM504billion.
Bala’s
briefing.
I
went to Bala’s briefing session organized by SAMM. The talk was titled Siapa
Arah bunuh Altantuya? We can only know
when there is retrial, bringing back Razak Baginda from his decadent sojourn in
England. We can only know when Azhar and Sirul are once again put on the stand
at a retrial. Then we must have a special trial to judge the actions and
possible malfeasance of the trial judge and the prosecution team from possible subversion of justice.
When
Bala took the stage at The Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall in Kg Atap, he looked
fatigued to me. He has lost a lot of sleep since the last two days, structuring
his briefing he says.
Admittedly
I stayed for half of the session avoiding the account on SD1 and SD2 which are quite
technical. It’s the narrative on the adventures of Altantuya, Shirul and Azhar and
RB that interests me.
The
most interesting part to me was the exchanges that took place at a meeting between Razak Baginda(RB) and Bala
when the former wanted to pay Bala for his security and surveillance services. That
was after Altantuya was taken into custody by Azhar and Sirul and Bala’s services in tailing Altantuya were regarded completed.
RB
asked Bala, does Bala know where Altantuya is now? Being an ex-policeman (SB)
Bala could only reply that females are held at Brickfilelds, Travers or at a special
lockup facilities of the SB. RB did not give any answer by smile satisfactorily.
My problems are over, RB said. Bala thought nothing more of the eerie smile RB
gave.
To
me that is quite significant. It appears to suggest that RB knew where
Altantuya was- in police custody. Razak Baginda thought his problems were over,
until the world knows that the Mongolian beauty was blown to pieces. Something must
have happened between the time RB thought his problems were over, during
Altantuya’s confinement and eventual murder. A string of events and actions by
some other people took place that took out RB’s involvement in the murder. Someone
gave the orders to murder Alatntuya. Razak wasn’t the one who did that-
somebody more powerful than he and one who is familiar with police work did. That is why
we must have a retrial.
RB
must have thought that once the police took over, his problems were over. It wasn’t
to be a simple case of offer and acceptance. Having posted the letter and getting
receipt acknowledgment of the letter, did not free Razak after all.
How
did the whole murderous affair implicate Najib? Now, on a personal basis, I would
be pretty sure Najib had nothing to do with the actual murder of Altantuya. But
he may be an accessory to the whole thing by providing the setting and
opportunity that led to the murder of the Mongolian beauty whom UMNO people
described as a world class prostitute. That world class prostitute may have
been shared between RB and NR.
When
Bala asked RB why the importance of Altantuya? RB replied that he has been tasked
to look after Altantuya on behalf of a VVIP. The identity wasn’t known yet.
Only
when Bala was asked to join RB at a lawyer’s office at the 32nd Floor
at Bangunan UOA, did the identity of the VVIP become known. By that time, the
police were already on the trail of possible suspects in the murder of
Altantuya. Bala was already called in to assist in identifying Sirul and Azhar.
It wasn’t long before all other suspects were to be taken in.
As
RB was insisting that there are no reasons why he should be made to account for
the disappearance of Altantuya, he stated that he is waiting for a response
from the said VVIP. He told Bala and the lawyer, that he has sent a text message
to this VVIP two days earlier but hasn’t got a response yet.
As
he was finishing off his story as to why he should not be called in to account
for the disappearance of his Altantuya, a sms text came through. After looking at the text, he showed the sms
message to both Bala and the lawyer. The text said- be cool, I am meeting the IGP at 11 this morning. Something like
that.
The
identity of the VVIP? Najib Razak, who was the DPM then. Now, why should NR, being DPM busies himself
with a personal problem faced by Razak Baginda? Altantuya has already declared
RB who works at Bangunan Getah Asli, Ampang is her husband.
