The measure of a political party. Part 1. Sontoloyo series no 39

1. Some people still float the idea that UMNO must regain it's dominance for the sake of stability

2. Behind this idea that UMNO must regain dominance, an idea to which people cling on precariously and precipitously I might add is this erroneous belief:-

3. That UMNO is the spring from which all that is good for society flows from .

4. Like I say,it's and erroneous idea. Disputed.

5. People know of this. That's why they gave UMNO a beating in the 15th GE.

6. People, especially malays now know that UMNO inculcates the servile attitude.

7. The catchword is dominance. That's what actually UMNO wants.

8. The idea of dominance comes from the naturally conceited attitude of UMNO. It's hayeks fatal conceit.

8a. What UMNO really seek is Malay hegemony. That even the Malays themselves, object.

9. Free people don't want overly obtrusive interference with their lives.

10. Do you want a tajuddin ramli or a fuad zarkashi in your living room?

11. UMNO is still trapped in a worldview that thinks one power controls and determines the destiny of others.

12. So UMNO hubristically thinks itself at the patron taking care of its bowl in hand wards.

13. Hello tuan, that world is being taken over by a reality world.

14. The realty world is one which there are now multiple centres of influence.

15. These centres together share the responsibility in shaping the world and sharing in the prosperity created .

16. You become great by empowering others. Not by going around with a zero sum mentality.

17. Which is thinking you become great by minusing from others .

18. So instead of MUGA, make UMNO great again, let us all bury UMNO

19. That's because UMNO is an incorrigible entry, set in it's ways , impossible for us to change .

20. Once again, let's bury UMNO. It's driven by predatory instincts.

21. To me it's a question of political culture. Let's discuss this a little .

22. The most practical definition of political culture is the one given the lines of Lucien Pye.

23 . It's a set of beliefs, attitude and sentiments.

24. I want to add, a set of all that plus values and what Germans describe as weltanshauung.

25. It's the set of attitude, beliefs, sentiments, values and weltanshauung that convinces you with those you can secure political power .

26. When Anthony loke from the DAP for instance says that our(DAP) political culture is different, he's saying it not to argue but stating it as a matter of factly

27. Others can live by their political culture. It's no skin off DAPs nose .

28. It irritates many of us, when some people keep on repeating ad nauseam, umdap, umdap .

29. As though they have gone to bed and consummated their marriage of convenience.

30. Well I have news for them. Never the twain will meet.

31. Their political culture is diametrically opposed to one another, that's it's impossible for them to come together under the fictitious umdap.

32. But you can already see the sinister motive behind the fabrication.

33. In GE15, UMNO lost badly because of its own doing. In the next election these ' Firestone ' people are pre-empting the reasons for UMNO losing more badly.

34. This time ,UMNO will lose even worse because of its association with DAP .

35. The prescription is obvious. PH kicks out DAP.

36. Their suggestions as to what UMNO must do internally do not interest me, so I shan't discuss them .

37. The DAP believes in a Malaysian Malaysia. Not a Chinese Malaysia. Not an Indian Malaysia. Not a Malay Malaysia. Many of us increasingly do so too.

38. Malaysia is evolving into a world of shared responsibility and shared prosperity.

39. It's no longer a Malaysia defined and determined by UMNO alone. But by all stakeholders in Malaysia.

40. UMNO which is stucked in it's mental rut will find itself increasingly isolated.

41. Whether you liked or not, DAP is years ahead of anak Cina anak saya, anak India anak saya, anak IBAN anak saya. Anak melayu sememang nya.

42. There's an emerging realization too. We malays, are tired of the lie being perpetrated that UMNO is here to protect malays and defend Malay interests .

43. That's a load of BS. It's here all right, to defend and to protect the interests of the Putera in the bumiPutera.

44. It's not MUGA but let's bury UMNO.

45. Our constitution is the guiding principles and founding principles of our nation.

46. It's implementing arm is parliament. Parliament carries out the will of our constitution.

47. We measure the true character of a political party, by it's unshakeable belief and passion in using parliament in solving major political disputes and making major political changes.

48. Which means that major political disputes or major political changes that we want to make, ought to be debated parliament .

49. We believe in the constitution and it's only means of its will is parliament.

50. We don't take to the streets to effect changes. Doing so is just an act of political bullying and intimidation

51. That's the way of UMNO. Major political disputes and major political changes bypass parliament. Instead they use political bullying and intimidation to force it's will on us .

52. That's another reason why we must reject UMNO. It's inclination to disregard the constitution, institutions and the law if these do not bend to it's will. That's the UMNO way . It's also the way of the dictator.

53. However attractive and convincing the arguments to make UMNO great again and however plaintively promises are given that UMNO and BN will reorganize themselves, we must never be enticed .

54. UMNO is incorrigible and already set in it's ways. 55. Let's throw UMNO into the dustbin of history.

56. Living under UMNO is a horror story. We lived through that for 60 years .

57. Let's retire UMNO. It's prolonging its inevitable end by disingenuously and surreptitiously being part of PH.

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Malay economics and the sharing of a perceived Zero sum pie. Part 1. Sontoloyo series no 38

1. The law as it were, meant to uplift the Malays as a whole, is the set of affirmative laws.

2. Any of the laws giving any preferential treatment and handicaps to malays.

3. I mentioned the word handicap because the word is associated with the great tun Razak. Hailed by many as the chief architect of the NEP.

4. Ethic differences in general socio economic attainments-he likened to a game of golf.

5. The Malays, he says being the poorest among the races in Malaysia must be given handicaps.

6. So that,they could catch up with the other races.

7. One question before we go ón. If the Chinese and indians get ahead of the Malays without the benefit of affirmative laws, why must the Malays operate under affirmative laws?

8. The affirmative laws appear to accept that Malays are inherently inferior than the other races. No?

9. Right from the start, we are moving from the wrong premise. We malays are taught to accept we are inherently inferior.

10. Maybe we are more stupid, less hardworking, given to pleasure seeking more, etc.

11. This inherently inferior quality can't be right.

12. Malay students sent or go overseas to study , operate under a non affirmative environment. They operate under free competition environment. Yet they can succeed.

13. Which can only mean that an affirmative environment is not absolutely needed for malays to succeed.

14. To my mind, what is needed more, is the right mental attitude.

15. The want to mentality, willingness to compete and have a personal motto to excell.

16. Don't let any of the ecclesiastical mother fuckers be telling you that worldly excellence is anti spiritual and therefore not good for the soul.

17. Our motto now is to be rich is glorious.

18. For the Malay Muslims, there's a Hadith saying to work for the material word as though you will live forever.

19. The flip side says to work for the afterlife world as though you are going to die tomorrow.

20. This maybe too philosophical for you. For the Malays , the late sanusi junid had a worldly and practical guide .

21. For the Malays he coined the acronym ABDRS.

22. The A stands for amanah, honest, conscientious etc.

23. Doing an honest and conscientious job means doing what your job requires of you. Don't be stealing bone/ curi tulang .

24. Time spent on coffee breaks , outweighs time spent doing actual work

25. Time spent at Ah Beng 'masat parlour' doing field work is more than time spent on actual productive work.

26. The A also means you be honest personally. Don't steal or take what is not yours.

27. When a Najib or a Ismail sabri or the other UMNO goons stole, they are being UMNO not Malay.

28. The real Malay would be regulated by moral and his religious teachings.

29. When these people steal, they are morally deficient and at that time, God does not exist to them.

30. When Najib and Ismail stole they were morally Nillionaire and godless at that time.

31. 2 wrongs which must be corrected with the harshest of punishments.Such as jail time.

32. Unfortunately somebody in power now dislike jailing.

33. What's this? A bourgeois and genteel sensibilities of justice?

34. The B stands for bravery and courage. Brave to change things, brave to overthrow the status quo, brave to disown UMNO.

35. Bravery or courage says Churchill is the 1st virtue giving birth to other virtues. Cultivate it .

36. The D stands for discipline. Adherence to a set of rules , organized purposefully to achieve certain goals and objectives. Eg. Raising bumiputra income to a certain level

37. Deviation from these rules like tomfoolering around will result in failure in achieving the objectives.

38. R stands for working hard. There is no substitute for working hard to get prosperity .

39. For UMNO it's different. It's definition of hard work is let the rakyat work and they fleeced the prosperity created .

40. The S stands for setia or loyalty. Let's be clear it's not being unconditionally loyal to UMNO.

41. We are loyal to the greater good. The Malay is bigger than UMNO .

42. Know this. UMNO operates on a zero sum thinking. Robbing Paul to pay Peter.

43. No law can make the poor rich. But the same law can make a rich country, poor.

44. You can't legislate prosperity. By operating the affirmative laws, we all in the end, share the ensuing misery.

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The PM and corruption. Sontoloyo series no 37

1. I am not going to place unreasonable demands on pm Anwar.

2. 60 to 70 years of bad rule and misrule cannot be erased overnight.

3. So I will refrain from calling a chamelion protecting some corrupt people. I will refrain accusing him of selective persecution of Corruptors .

4. The PM must have discovered the going is rougher than he has imagined.

5. Shrieking about combating corruption at ceramahs is easier than actually carrying it out.

6. Not as smooth as when you apply Durex lubricant.

7. The crooks with deep pockets will use every trick up their sleeve to prolong the prosecution.

8. Employ a phalanx of shyster lawyers, do their legal argle bargle,legal filibuster and tell a story within a story.

9.prolonging their cases that it takes the judges 20 years to realize the antelope is actually an elephant.

10. So long that some judges and lawyers can die on the job.

11. As WS Rendra says,koruptor akal nya panjang, jaksa dan hakim diajak kompromi.

12. The PM must have also discovered there are so many dishonest people in the civil service. If he were to carry out a blitzkrieg, the government will suffer a trump like shutdown.

13. If the PM moves in too rapidly, the rats will scuttle into their ratholes.

14. The PM have to consider building additional jails to accommodate these hordes.

15. Maybe the PM can consider appointing me as a direct nego contractor to build these jails. In some God forsaken places.

16. Have you noticed that this the first pm to make combating corruption as as overt policy and doing something about it ?

17. Previous PMs and administrations did not make combating corruption as an overt policy or doing something consistently in weeding out corruption.

18. No, I am not giving nana non excuses for appearing to be slow or selective in his actions.

19. But I think we ought to give him leeway in erasing 60 to 80 years of bad rule and misgovernance.

20. At least he has started something for which the people can invigilate him on and call him into account.

21. Have you even heard of UMNO leaders condemning corruption when the embezzler in chief stole from SRC and 1MDB?

22. In fact they are busy agitating for the person's full pardon and his exoneration.

23. Have you ever heard of PAS condemning corruption?

24. In fact they are sanctimoniously asking the minister of MOTAC to step down. He's a non Muslim for god's sake. He can drink and eat pork.

25. Can I for instance, ask the entire leadership of PAS to step down for failing to issue an edict declaring that corruption is Haram?

26. I must say something on the Malay attitude towards corruption. I find it discomforting and unmeritorios of a religious community.

27. Corruption is a crime against society. Society must show absolute abhorrence towards corruption.

28. The PM mustn't be alone in his quest to eliminate corruption.

29. Society's absolute abhorrence towards corruption is the firepower that motivates the pm.

30. Society's support to the PM in fighting corruption must be unflinching.

31. The 1st few steps are indeed the begining of a journey.

32. Corruption is a moral wrong on society. The perpetrator doesn't know what is right and what is wrong. Or he couldn't care less about it's ramifications.

33. The government as keeper of the morals of society must jealously guard against their transgressions.

34. It must punish it's transgessors harshly.

35. Not jailing the corrupt, is not an option.

36. The efforts of the PM must also be seen as attempts to balance the scales of justice which seem to tilt on the side of the elites.

37. Therefore I am not going to rush saying the PM is a chamelion and one who is selective in his choice on who to prosecute.

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DAP sebagai wadah perjuangan. Sontoloyo series no 36

1. Tidak lama dahulu ada seorang kawan saya, seorang peneroka felda bercakap kepada rakan2 nya, juga peneroka

2. Sedari lah semua mereka ini terpelajar. Ada SPM dan STPM. Tapi telah di brainwashed oleh UMNO serta PAS

3. Mereka ada sijil peneroka Malaysia dan sijil tinggi peneroka Malaysia.

4. Kawan saya memberitahu, si A dah masuk DAP.

5. Bila dengar saja DAP macam dengar hantu mak limah.

6. Ramai terbeliak mata dengar DAP dan respon ikut anutan parti politik masing2.

7. Yang pro UMNO kata. Heh, bolehlah melayu masuk DAP?

8. Kan DAP tu anti melayu, anti Islam dan anti raja?

9. Yang pro pas kata, masyaallah ya akhi. Dia dah murtad ke? Nanti DAP ban kawen 4?

10. Kawan saya jawab. Ini politik. Dia pilih satu kenderaan. Untuk memperjuangkan hal2 politik yang dia percaya.

11. Jangan jadi Kabit dan kuno kepala tu

12. Saya tidak perlukan UMNO untuk mensijilkan saya melayu.

13. Begitu juga saya tak perlukan pas untuk mensijilkan saya Islam. Antan dan lesung lagi bertingkah Suami isteri bertikam lidah Saya tukar wadah bukan aqidah Kepada Allah jua Nan ana sembah.

14. The last time I checked, I am still a Malay!

15. I believed in Malaysia. More important I believed in a Malaysian Malaysia.

16. I don't believe in a Malay Malaysia. I don't believe in a Chinese Malaysia. I don't believe in an Indian Malaysia.

17. Wah, macam dailog pembukaan cerita Godfather je.

18. Kali pertama dan kali terakhir saya jumpa TG Nik Aziz, ini berlaku.

19. Jumpa di rumah nya di Pulau Melaka. Sekitar 2014,saya rasa.

20. Dia tak panggil saya DAPig atau anjing ribaan kit Siang .

21. Yang saya tak ingat, samaada rumah dia bersambung dengan masjid atau tidak. Sambung, saya rasa.

22. Satu soalan yang beliau tanya mengejutkan saya. Saya gelabah. Kaget.

23. Dalam loghat Kelantan, beliau tanya:-

24. Gapo demo masuk DAP?

25. Seperti saya kata, menggelupor nak jawab. Mmutaa palo ambo.

26. Nak tak nak, saya beri jawapan yang samdol.

27. Takdir dan jodoh , tuan. Saya kata. Kalu tak silap ketika itu dia DS.

28. Senafas dia jawab. Ini bukan soal jodoh takdir.

29. Mesti DAP ada sesuatu yang bagus menarik minat orang macam kamu masuk .

30. Kalau pas ada macam tu, lebih ramai orang berkualiti masuk pas.

31. Semua ini saya cakap verbatim. Apa dia cakap saya sampaikan. Ambo tokse melawok .

32. Tapi ketika itu, saya tak tahu apa ' sesuatu ' itu atau tak pernah berfikir tentang nya .

33. Saya tak tahu dari mana saya boleh cari jawapan2 kepada soalan2 duniawi ni.

34. Sehinggalah saya pergi berceramah di Pantai Merdeka, Sungai Petani. Di sana, mata hati saya terbuka . Beri aku lidah Aku mahu berkata kata Bagai laut menghempas pantai (yang) Merdeka

35. Pada ceramah tersebut saya berjumpa dengan seorang penceramah bernama Shahril Long. Dari pas. Ketika itu pas se geng dengan DAP.

36. Sekarang tak silap saya, dia ADUN kawasan tersebut. Saya amat kagum kehandalan beliau membaca ayat2 Quran dan mengaplikasikan keatas isiu2 semasa.

37. Setelah ceramah selesai saya tanya beliau, sheikh enta graduate Arab universities ke?

38. No, dia jawab dalam bahasa inggeris, I was a bank officer before.

39. Hobi saya menelaah ayat2 Quran serta apply ayat2 tersebut keatas persoalan2 kontemporari.

40. That's it. Itu satu light bulb moment kepada saya.

41. Yakni saya, orang awam yang bukan agamawan professional boleh berjumpa sesuatu yang DAP ada, daripada ayat2 Quran.

42. Apa ' sesuatu 'itu dalam bahagian ke2 article ini

Bersambung....

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Reformasi, perasuah dan pasung. Sontoloyo series no 35

1. Nyata, persekitaran yang baru tidak semestinya memunculkan watak2 berminda baru.

2. Orang2 yang kita sangka berfikiran baru, rupa2nya musang berbulu ayam.

3. In a celebrated battle cry said by James carville, it's not change but more of the same .

4. Ambil contoh issue korapsi misalnya.

5. Walaupun ada tindàkan dan iltizam dari PM sendiri, korapsi dan abuse of power berlaku sana sini.

6. Yang membimbangkan saya, ialah walaupun ada iltizam untuk membasmi korapsi, kesungguhan tersebut semacam di niutralisasikan oleh 2 kenyataan.

7. 2 kenyataan tersebut datang, peliknya Dari PM.

8. Pertama, kita berminat untuk jel.perasuah , tapi lebih berminat mendapatkan wang yang di sakau.

9. Kedua , bukan kenyataan sebetulnya, tapi kesan dari kenyataan pertama.

10. Iaitu persepsi bahawa jika sebagian saja Wang dikembalikan, perasuah bebas dan tak masuk jel.

11. Saya harap ini tak betul. Ianya satu principle yang well established in law iaitu bukan sebagian, tapi a multiple of the stolen amount be returned.

12. Misalnya jika kebas 43 juta, 43jx3 patut dibayar.

13. Patut tak ada diskaun bumiputra jika perasuah adalah melayu.

14. By the way, tahu kah anda bahawa bumiputra atau bumiputEra adalah istilah yang Kotor sebetulnya?

15. Yakni jika anda bumiputra, anda berhak mendapat as of right, diskaun atau concessions serta keistimewaan?.

16. Kalau kena bayar balik 120 juta serta jel 12 tahun, sebab anda bumi ada diskaun bayar serta diskaun masa jel.

17. Saya harap para Hakim humban semua karut marut ini.

18. Bahkan jika mereka ada rational expectations ( satu istilah ekonomi) dimana mereka boleh anticipate apa badan pengampunan akan buat , kenakan hukuman yang deliberately excessive.

19. Sure nya, pardons board akan beri diskaun, tapi mereka tidak akan beri diskaun excessively liberal takut dimarahi rakyat .

20. Sayang nya tentu para Hakim tak pernah dengar konsep rational expectations.

21. Dan saya harap para hakim tidak menjadikan tidak jel perasuah sebaik legal rule

23. Ia nya satu general political statement, bukan legal principle.

24. Saya harap judiciary sebagai bulwark serta last bastion keadilan remains brave and stout/tegas .

25. Jika yang thabit dengan rasuah tidak dijel, semua hujjahan mengenai sentencing di buang out of the window.

26. Tidak ada soal2 deterrence, incapacitation, rehabilitation blah blah .

27. Biar Hakim guard jealously the rationale for sentencing.

28. Janganlah lacurkan prinsip undang2 demi political expediencies.

29. Dari segi politik, ada beberapa sebab kita tuntut perasuah di jel.

30. Pemasungan perasuah mencerminkan kebencian yang amat sangat dari masyarakat.

31. Rasuah adalah most heinous of crimes kerana ia betray public trust and moral norms.

32. Oleh kerana ianya most heinous crime, ia mesti dibalasi dengan hukuman jel.

33. Hukuman jel menunjukkan kesungguhan pemerintah memelihara public trust serta norma2 moral masyarat yang diterima oleh mereka .

34. Pemerintah mesti menzahirkan kehendak masyarakat. 35. Rasuah adalah jinayah yang paling keras terhadap masyarakat.

36. Ianya jinayah kerana rasuah membelotí kepercayaan masyarakat yang tidak boleh dimaafkan.

37. Sebagai pemelihara public trust, pemerintah mesti hukum perasuah seberat berat nya. Seperti di jel di satu tempat yang ditetapkan oleh pemerintah. Bukan di rumah.

38. Setiap pemerintah mempunyai version keadilan nya sendiri. Pemerintah reformasi mesti merombak sistem yang reaksioner.

39. Agenda puak2 con-servatives seperti UMNO, PAS dan bersatu ialah memelihara status quo.

40. Yakni memelihara keistimewaan keatas kumpulan kecik diatas kesengsaraan ramai .

41. Pemerintah reformasi mesti merombak semua peraturan2 puak neo feudal . Kehendak majority mesti diberi pengzahiran.

42. Motto pemerintah reformasi ialah we are not interested in preserving the status quo but in overthrowing it.

43. The reactionaries are resurfacing in saintly guises. Terang bulan terang di kali, buaya timbul disangka kiyai.

44. Anggaplah sokongan pemerintah reformasi ini untuk mengejel perasuah sebagai usaha untuk restore. the balance of the scales of justice.

45. Iaitu dacing keadilan yang berat sebelah menyokong golongan elit sambil menzalimi golongan miskin lumpenproletariat.

46. Kita tahu perasuah akan menggunakan segala helah, rayuan yang berterusan untuk meloloskan diri.

47. Koruptor akal nya panjang, jaksa dan Hakim di ajak kompromi.

48. Kita tetap: jel semua perasuah.

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To invite or not to invite Trump.that is the question. Sontoloyo series no 34.

1. The question is to invite or not to invite trump.

2. Trump's presence will be discomfiting to many .

3. Trump's presence is reaffirming the notion of one power or bloc dictating the destiny of the global south.

4. It's a notion that the global south benefits the mothership country .

5. Helping trump affirm this notion will only make him more cocky and insensitive to the aspirations of the global south.

6. Let's not be a political accomplice. It's as though we need his validation to be relevant.

7. Notwithstanding Trump's 'unpresence' tell the world that trumps wet-dream world of America and its allies determining the destiny of others is fading .

8. Trump's Dreamworld is being replaced by world where there are multiple centres of strength. They are in the Arab world, Africa, India , ASEAN, china, Japan and Korea.

9. They compete not to seek dominance but to offer shared prosperity and a readiness to shape the destiny of the world together.

10. The old model in which the many benefit the few and one bloc progresses at the expense of others is fading.

11. Trump will bring that kind of zero sum mentality to ASEAN.

12. Listening to Anwar letting of steam and giving concessions, will be regarded as depriving America and it allies, the ability to impose it's will. That will erode it's dominance.

13. No way Jose, says the Donald.

14. Tell the world, not Trump alone how Malaysia and ASEAN think about USA protecting the star of David country.

15. For all you know, USA is abetting israel in committing the genocide in Gaza.

16. Gaza is the present day neo Nazi concentration camp and the present day killing field.

17. Probably orchestrated by fuhrer trump and executed by bibi netanyahu.

18. Under these circumstances, not inviting Trump seems a more sensible option. Or in the language of diplomacy, more strategic.

19. Ignoring rather than engaging Trump is a more sensible option .

20. Talking on behalf of ASEAN despite the absence of Trump, signals a number of things.

21. ASEAN is ready to play it's part , as a member of the global south in shaping the destiny of world.

22. Not leaving the script to be written entirely by USA and its allies.

23. Talking to the world, without trump will say clearly that you don't need his validation and his approval. The destiny of countries is not an American monopoly.

24. You are also saying unequivocally, that ASEAN too no longer accepts the notion that one power determines the pathways of other nations.

25. You don't need to talk to Trump about the evil and atrocities USA supports.

26. Inviting leaders from china, Japan's new pm, president of Korea, pm of India, representative leader of Africa and the Arab world is a more powerful message that you USA can no longer determine what's good or bad for the global south.

27. Not inviting Trump is the sweetest of diplomatic insult.

28. Securing the allegiance of the global south countries is more important than grovelling at the feet of Trump.

29. Anwar doesn't have to play uncle Tom saying, but suh, we think your support to Israel is not right.

30. Trump with a bunker mentality will not budge. Talking to him is fruitless.

31. Talking to the world sans trump at the ASEAN meet would demonstrate to USA that the responsibility to shape the destiny of nations is not the monopoly of America alone. It's a shared responsibility among equals.

32. That responsibility is not a function of economic and military might but of dignity. And dignity is not solely owned by USA but by all.

33. In the language of economics we say, while the inclusion of America is necessary, it's not sufficient. That responsibility must now be shared.

34. Provided of course trump has the smarts. At the moment, he can only understand the language of a SNUB.

35. Right now the patron of MAGA and the Proud Boys understands only about newtons (unspoken) 4th law of motion . Newton has only 3 law of motion, by the way

36. The unspoken 4th law reads:-

37. The angle of the dangle of the balls is equivalent to the thrust of the pole at the hole,provided pressure at the breasts is kept constant.

38. A Robert Mugabe will say that.

39. Anwar must look past beyond desiring the presence of Trump.

40. We are not advocating total exclusion of USA from the responsibility of shaping the destiny of the world .

41. But it must abandon the idea that the responsibility is theirs alone but that it must work equally with others to discharge that responsibility.

42. We want USA included and work with us together.

43. We don't want to be accused as trouble makers with anger management issues and always quarrel with uncle Sam.

44. But for now,ignore trump with his coiffed hair and pouffe. Just to tell USA and the west, the destiny of nations is not theirs alone to shape .

45. For these reasons, I think Anwar should ' disinvite' fuhrer Trump.

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Reformasi and korapsi. The war against corruption. Part 2. Sontoloyo series no 33.

1. The legendary Indonesian poet,WS Rendra;

2. in a few verses of his multiple quatrains, Pantun Korupsi, said:-

3. I read it this way. If you want to eradicate corruption , fight it there and here and everywhere.

4. Corruption is corruption is corruption. Big or small. No distinction, needed.

5. Some people mocked when said, corruption will be eradicated.

6. First the big fish , then the ikan bilis. In 3 years corruption will be eradicated. Contributions of these people, irrelevant.

7. You are fighting the culture of corruption. Distinction into big or small is also irrelevant.

8. The mockings are not appreciated.

9. Have you ever heard UMNO saying, it will fight corruption?

10. Never, right? Because corruption is 2nd nature to UMNO. It's embedded in its DNA.

11. When the Javanese neantherthal says UMNO will field candidates who are clean, no corruption, no personal problems, it's incredible!

12. An UMNO person with no history of these, is as rare as a hen's teeth.

13. Have you ever hear of the party of the ecclesiastical warlords,saying it will eradicate corruption?

14. In fact, some of its leaders are dusting the archives looking for obscene Hadith justifying corruption

15. Hearing it talked about tackling corruption is rare like a unicorn.

16. And have ever hear of cocky bersatu talked about it?

17. I don't ever want to believe any party that doesn't have the eradication of corruption as an element of it's political culture.

18. Now we have a government of the day saying expressly, the eradication of corruption as it's agenda.

19. Sure , it will be a promise full of warts, boils, polyps and even fibroids .

20. But as Carl Jung says we judge you not by what you said you would do but by what you actually do.

21. But now we have something to hold on the PM. And I suspect, once the dragnet is released, even the PM can't protect the warts and boils . Society will have something to invigilate him on

22. And the unique thing about corruption, it's an open ended issue. It will never end as long as there is abuse of power and embezzlement. The PM now will always be called into account .

23. Let's not distinguish between jerung and ikan bilis. Corruption is corruption.

24. We like to talk of corruption by politicians. Because they are visible, loud and are in the limelight.

25. The more insidious corruption is that carried out by civil servants. According to Transparency international, the CPI for Malaysia is 40 to 49%. All that can't be accounted by law makers only .

26. That certainly shatters the unfounded esteem we have on these penjawat awam.

27. How do you fucking explain how ex civil servants can own 6 to 7 million ringgit houses? Unless they do business or inherit wealth, there is a strong presumption they are able to do so because of corruption.

28. How do you explain enforcement officers like police, immigration, customs, bandaraya officers owning fleets of luxury cars?

29. With these shenanigans happening would you rather see this reformasi government doing nothing?

30. This war against corruption, society's bubonic plague or black death needs a champion. Who better than the PM?

31. He now needs an enforcer, a justice Bao and a field general to carry out the war .

32. Let's have a ministry of integrity and integrity compliance.

33. Put the DPM in charge. He has the capacity to elicit compliance.

34. As to the civil service,just so you know I am not being mean to them, not because out of spite or envy, let me ' story' you this:-

35. According to Transparency international, Malaysia and Indonesia occupy the top 2 places as the costliest places to start business .

36. The high cost is the result of bureaucratic requirements of overzealous and officious bureaucrats.

37. As long as the doors of approval, licenses, permissions etc are in the hands of these gatekeepers, corruption is most likely to happen.

38. Why restrict the war against corruption to 3 years. It should be a permanent war .

39. Corruption does not go on leave and neither should war on it does so.

40. I can't resist saying something on Malay attitude on corruption.

41. It's both farcical and hypocritical.

42. In general, Malays are always looking to accord leniency to the corrupt.

43. For instance look at the Najib case. The Malays, especially the UMNO people are preoccupied with exonerating Najib instead of anticipating harsh punishment for the plunder.

44. In the case of Ismail sabri, the Malays appear ready to treat the plunder lightly.

45. In both cases,the Malays appear ready to sacrifice principles with convenience.

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