The
two statements forming the subject matter of this article are: - (1) Najib
wants bigger support. (2) Mahathir says Najib is the best person to be the PM.
When
Mahathir stands in the way of Pakatan to get to Putarajaya, his age is not
relevant so as to inspire restraint. He is the enemy that must be brushed
aside. This election is much more important to Mahathir than any other previous
ones because he knows BN can lose this time. Daim knows this too. Losing is no
longer a theoretical option. It’s coming to be real. From being scared in
theory and able to laugh at it, it now becomes actually possible, actually
scary and not laughable anymore.
For
people like Mahathir and Daim and for Najib and the corrupt leadership, this
election is not like making embroidery and having a cup of Darjeeling tea at YTL’s
Majestic Hotel.
When
BN loses, it will be chickens coming home to roost for him and his kind and
comeuppance time.
UMNO
is using women, children and old men to defend itself. These people are placed
on the frontlines, the generals and the Roman senators are packing up to leave
for Merry Old England or down south to Ozzieland. The people are first in the firing line and are fodder to UMNO’s
canons.
Why
are the civil servants shouting in irrational jubilation when Najib announces
the government will give them half of their EPF in cash and the other half in
pension instalments? Woi- it’s your money, for God’s sake. You can demand all
in cash at once. You are laughing at someone who announces what he wants to do
with YOUR money? Let me make a more naked comparison. Najib comes to your house
and announces he wants to sleep with your wife and then he will let you have
her back after that.
Can
do?
Please
don’t be like the stupid BN parliamentarians who thumped the table when the
Minister announces that subsides for sugar will be removed only to realise
later, that decision leads to increase in sugar price. The BN fools later rationalised
the subsidy removal as coming from a concern by the government on the unhealthy
sugar intake of the people. We are fools but not Bloody Fools!
This
government (1) bullies us and (2) making fools of us. And you still want them
to lead us?
Why
are the relatively poorer and cash strapped Malays joining in protests and
demonstrations against getting free education? Pakatan offers your children
free education up to university levels and you allow UMNO to fool you and you object
through demonstrations and protests and insist you want to pay? You Malays have money? Yet 90% of the Br1M recipents are Malays.
When
I was ADUN, at year end when schools reopen, people come in droves asking help
from you to buy uniforms, shoes and 1001 other needed items- you don’t have
money. Yet you rise in protest and demonstrate to pay for PTPTN.
Has
UMNO filled fire-water in your heads?
In
the 2004 elections, Pak Lah got the biggest win in UMNO’s history. UMNO’s
spiritual adviser Dr Mahathir, could not get the results Pak Lah got. Pak lah
thought the people liked him and he went on to recite a poem about looking out
for some saints and some spiritual quest. The Pharisees and the Philistines,
the holy and the sinners all clapped at him. He found a Jinn and no one speaks
of Islam Hadhari anymore. How much money did we waste in letting Pak Lah play
out his idiocy?
But
the people gave Pak Lah his biggest victory because they were actually
celebrating the exit of Mahathir. Now that Mahathir has assumed the role of de
facto UMNO president, here is another chance for Malaysians to celebrate his
final exit by kicking out UMNO. Mahathir’s and Daim’s endorsement of Najib are
meaningless as most of the rakyat have already made up their mind. The mistake
Daim made was to say something similar to what Mahathir says. That was a dead
giveaway that he’s not all there about giving Najib the grades.
Malays
need to be mindful that in 2008, UMNO secured only 2.38 million votes. This
figure is smaller than UMNO’s membership. (2) In 2008, there were 5.7 million
Malay voters. Assuming that out of the 2.38 million, 85% were actually Malays,
UMNO got around 2.02 million Malay votes. That means 3.68 million Malay voters
rejected UMNO in 2008.
So who does UMNO speak for? It can’t even claim it is
the spokesman for Malays. So it can’t claim precedence over others over
religion, race and homeland.
By
the way- Tun Oracle said something which I forgot. He told Najib when Najib
enlists Mahathir to spearhead UMNO’s fight; he must be ready to control
Mahathir. Mahathir is one loose cannon says Tun Oracle.
So
do we attach much credence to Mahathir’s endorsement to Najib? If Malays
support Mahathir’s endorsement it will mean Malays will continue to be side-lined
in the country’s prosperity. Remember this- after 55 years of UMNO rule,
8.7million Malays live on a monthly income of RM1500 and below. If the Chinese support
Mahathir’s endorsement, it means you dishonour the memory of your ancestors whom
Mahathir regards as illegal immigrants and of questionable citizenry. Malaysian
Indians can continue to be fooled by Mahathir. A few Malaysian Indian Uncle
Toms created and handpicked by Mahathir, lulled you into believing those in
estates all over the country have got salvation.
So
we can treat Mahathir’s and Daim’s endorsement of Najib as something that has
gone through a cat’s digestive system and exited from the cat's behind; absolutely
revolting.
Tun
Oracle (hehe) just told me, Najib is useless in handling the economy; this
thick skinned Finance minister says; a weakened government will derail his
economic plans? Weakened UMNO/BN means a stronger Pakatan which has the record
of managing better. So what is the problem?
There
is a better future sans UMNO. That’s good news for us. For Najib and his merry
band of plunderers and robbers, who cares?Yet I saw a sea of hands belonging to Achis, Apa, apus, babus, stretching out to get bags of rice thrown from lorries on the instructions of Brahmin Najib.
Public
debt has reached RM504 billion. So where will we get the income to service just
the debt alone? The problem will not go
away by offering the childish statement that Najib in command, everything will
be sorted out. How cleaver can Najib be?
When
Tun Oracle ruled the Finance Ministry, commodity prices were good. But to
reduce public debt, he reduced profligate spending, cut down
salaries. Now genius finance Minister Najib- raises salaries, not mindful of
the reduction in PETRONAS’s revenue and Palm oil revenues, gives out BR1Ms here
and there. In Kelantan for months he has given money- gratis to teachers and civil
servants and villagers. So that is good economics no?
Don’t
worry- we are not going to lecture readers on the dismal science. We are taking
Najib on his answer to ruling efficiently- by giving him overwhelming victory.
Najib is actually a little Mahathir minus the balls. He wants absolute power
but does not have the stomach to secure it. Where does it say, you have to have
absolute power then only you can rule better?
Can you trust a man with this
kind of thinking?Najib is little Mahathir but has one up over the old man. Najib has overweening Rosmah while Mahathir has thoughful Siti Hasmah.