Mahathir leaves UMNO- a short comment.

A friend who attended a meeting with Dr Mahathir called me.  He said to watch out for a statement from Dr Mahathir. At that time Dr Mahathir was making a press conference. He announced he is leaving UMNO. 
He has left UMNO. He was its president for 22 years. 

The man responsible for the action of DR Mahathir is Najib Razak. Many UMNO members will blame Najib for this.

FONs- friends of Najib however, will be dismissive of the announcement. They will come out and denounce the old man. There will be copious vitriolic. 
Chief Nazri Aziz will play a dominant role. I once told him that the reason why Najib keeps him around is because he is a useful attack dog. I am using the term dog in the same spirit as he used the term on Muhyidin. 
Salleh Said Keruak said Dr M made the right decision. He is saying old Dr Mahathir is not significant. His other colleague, the newly minted UMNO information chief sees it differently. He acknowledges the significance of Mahathir when he accuses Mahathir of willing to kill UMNO because of Najib. If Mahathir is not significant, his exit will not kill UMNO, will it? 
If Najib is the cause of this, then the UMNO supreme council must suspend its president. 

As to the attacks expected towards Mahathir, I hope they will do that with extreme vehemence. Because that will alienate the Malays more. You see, what they failed to realise is Dr Mahathir ‘owns’ the reservoir of Malay support. If you ask 10 people whether they support Najib or Mahathir, 11 people will say they support Mahathir.

They, the FONs, have overestimated their own importance. That is expected of people who share the same narcissistic traits like the Commandeer-in-Chief. That is the man who can never answer the 1MDB issue, the RM42 million SRC money that mysteriously got into his personal account. Then there is the RM2.6 million donation issue. It was donated to UMNO and so Najib cannot unilaterally decide to return it.  Najib has denied UMNO of RM2 billion.

The buffoon hiding out somewhere in the UK will be recounting the 1001 sins of DR Mahathir.  I hope he will say it again that he is ashamed to call himself a Malay. The Malay idiom suitable for him is, masuk tak menambah, keluar tak mengurang.

Dr Mahathir can now become the eminence grise behind a move to unseat Najib and then undo the unjust structures that have imprisoned us all.  He has said it. He will not lead. 
And I hope this action by Dr Mahathir will awaken a particular someone who lives a hermit way of life somewhere in the leafy suburbs of KL. 

Nota Bene. My next article will appear on the 8th of March. I am now writing once a week. It will be a series of articles appearing weekly about the crooked leader and his corrupt and reactionary government.

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Balasungkawa atau Pengiktirafan?

Di TV kita disajikan dengan penceritaan dan pengkisahan mengenai Najib. Ia tontonan yang menarik. Ramai orang akan mengkagumi penceritaan yang dilakukan ketika penerimaan Najib oleh masyarakat berada pada tahap yang paling rendah.

Adakah pengkisahan Najib ini akan menggerhanai skendel 1MDB dan derma/sedekah RM2.6 billion? Siapa yang beri kuasa kepada Najib mengembalikan derma untuk UMNO?

Tapi macam orang Inggeris kata- I am getting ahead of myself. Kita akan bahas isiu itu kemudian. Sekarang, kita komen mengenai balasungkawa atau orbituary politik Najib.

Ya- pengkisahan mengenai Najib seperti suatu balasungkawa. Jika ia dilakukan pada tahun 2009 bila Najib ambil alih dari Pak Lah, mungkin penceritaan nya, disifatkan keraian. Tapi sekarang? Setelah 7 tahun jadi PM? Ia seolah olah balasungkawa atau political obituary.

Mungkin Najib akan diingati sebagai orang yang memusnahkan UMNO. Dia tidak memberi kepimpinan kepada UMNO. Apatah lagi memberi kepimpinan kepada Malaysia.

Dia jadi MP ketika berumur 23 tahun. Siapa yang akan percaya pada usia yang begitu muda, telah timbul kesedaran politik dan social? Maka, apabila Najib berkata , sudah ada kesedaran demikian, sukar untuk dipercayai. Ia nya rationalisasi pasca fakta. After the fact rationalisation.

Tapi mengapa mahu meraikan 40 tahun berpolitik? Tengku Razaleigh lebih lama berpolitik dan masih ada dalam parlimen. Lim Kit Siang sudah 50 tahun berpolitik. Tapi tidak ada keraiaan.

Kerana mereka tidak menguasai kompleks industry media. Najib yang kuasai. Maka bolehlah dia melakukan nya. Dan hari ini, kita telah lihat Malaysian Insider di sekat penyiaran nya. alasan nya ialah ia menyiarakan kritikan terhadap Najib.
maka banyaklah siaran dan laman web yang diletakkan dikerusi letrik sekatan oleh kerajaan. Inilah kerajaan yang dipimpin oleh seorang ketua yang semakin hari takutkan rakyat nya.

Kembali kepada pengkisahan 40 tahun Najib berpolitik. Selalu nya, perbuatan ini menyusuli pemimpin apabila mereka bersara. Mungkin Najib akan di bersarakan dalam masa terdekat. Setalah bersara, orang akan tahu bahawa Najib hanya memulakan non-standards yang akan dilupakan.

Saya bukanlah mahu mencuri halilintar cerita Najib. Kebetulan saya berasal dari Pekan; suka lah saya ingatkan orang ramai bahawa Najib mendapat jawatan MP Pekan bukan berkat usaha- tapi dia mewarisi nya. Kepada saya, dari sebermula, Najib telah menjiwai rent seeking mindset.

Perlakuan atau behaviour seorang rent seeker ialah  dia mendapat pulangan bukan hasil dari menghasilkan atau mengusahakan pengeluaran  sesuatu, tapi mendapat pulangan akibat mempunyai hak milik keatas sesuatu.

Najib mendapat hak milik keatas kerusi MP Pekan.

Kedua, pemilihan Najib adalah akibat mengaitkan nya dengan Tun Razak. Tun Razak seorang pemimpin agung, maka , hujjah lazim, ialah tentulah si-anak mewarisi bakat kepimpinan. Dia dipilih , sebab fakta nya, dia anak Tun Razak.

Dalam istilah sosioloji, ini disebut sebagai ascriptive behaviour. Yakni mencirikan Najib dengan sifat2 kepimpinan disebabkan status nya sebagai anak Tun Razak. Ini berbeza dengan achievement kriteria- yakni memilih sesorang sebagai pemimpin bersandarkan apa yang dia sudah capai dan akan capai. Atau dalam bahasa yang mudah, memilih kerana kebolehan dan potensi.Kita pilih seorang sebagai pemimpin bukan sebab bapak nya, bukan sebab dia anak PM, anak penghulu, anak tok empat.

Ketika Najib menjadi MP Pekan, dia unknown quantity. Kepada anak2 muda Pekan yang revolusioner ketika itu, pada usia 23 tahun, Najib mempunyai reputasi sebagai penyemai bijirin liar.

Sekarang setalah 40 tahun berpolitik, akhir nya, ayam kembali ke kepok atau the chickens have come home to roost. Perbuatan nya yang mengejari nya, sudah menangkap nya. His deeds have finally caught up with him.

Pada keraian 40 tahun, Najib lebih dikenali sebagai arkitek 1MDB dan derma RM2.6 billion. Skendel2 ini akan menjatuhkan nya.

Bila Najib cakap dia akan selamatkan UMNO- saya tahu kita dalam bahaya. Ini ialah kerana yang mesti diselamatkan ialah Malaysia. Dan ia akan selamat jika kerajaan yang dipimpin Najib diganti dengan kerajaan nasional yang baru.

Apa pun pertahanan dan pembelaan yang dikemukakan oleh para juak UMNO dan penulis upahan mereka, hari2 akhir untuk mereka sudah tiba.

Kita belajar dari sejarah. Diserata dunia, penghujung kerajaan yang diktator ialah seperti apa yang berlaku hari ini. Rakyat kian marah dan menderita- pemimpin dan kerajaan mengguna segala alatan penindasan sahih seperti polis dan pegawai perundangan untuk menakut dan ugut rakyat. Dan menggubal pelbagai  rang undang2 menyekat demokrasi.

Pemimpin bercakap mengenai merendah diri tapi mereka hidup dengan angkuh dan gaya hidup bermaharaja. Semua ini berlaku pada  penghujung pemerintahan pemimpin2 gagah seperti Suharto di Indonesia, Marcos di Filipina, Pinochet, Fujimori, Hugo Chavez dan banyak negara dalam dunia ini.

Penghujung pemerintahan mereka, perkara2 sepertiini berlaku;

·        Rakyat marah dan menderita

·        Undang2 kuku besi bertambah2

·        Gaya hidup pemimpin menjelekkan.

Najib kata dia punya kesabaran. Saya yakin jika dalam PAU- ada lah orang UMNO yang akan menyamakan kesabaran Najib dengan kesabaran Nabi Ayub. Tapi rakyat yang telah lama bersabar dengan karenah kepimpinan kerajaan Najib bagaimana?

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It aint over til the Fat Lady Sings

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Many people became angry, when we say the RM2.6 billon donation issue is not finished. How can we be so presumptuous, these people shot back, when the highest legal officer of the government, our AG has said case closed?

It appears there is a simple reason why no one believes the 1MDB and the RM2.6 billion ‘najibah’ issues are resolved. In the case of the RM2.6 billion issue, the reason is no one believes what the AG said.

In the case of the 1MDB fiasco, many questions remained un-answered. Why is no one punished for the fraud, embezzlement and other indeterminate wrongdoings?

The fraudulent transfer of more than USD 1 billion into the account of Mr Jho Low for instance, remains a fraud. It is so even after the embezzled money is made good. A fraudulent act remains a fraud even after recompense.

Suppose the invalid person who stole coins from a car, returned the money and made good the damage he did to the car, would he be absolved? Would he have escaped imprisonment? The crime of breaking in, causing damage to property and theft remain even after the invalid person does all we say above.

The same, it seems would apply to 1MDB.

If what the AG declared, applies against the whole world, then investigations in other countries would have all stopped. Instead they have gained momentum.

The Malaysian public has instinctively chosen to not believe the case of the RM2.6 donation is over.  They don’t have to be given 1001 lies. I am afraid, there is no one else left to lie.

From the government side, its responses were that of haughty belligerence. Everyone from the government insists that everyone else must believe the AG. You can’t force the rakyat to believe you can you? What can you do if people prefer to believe a news making institution that has been around for 130 years than the conflicting stories coming from Saudi Arabia? The people who write for WSJ stand by what they write. They are prepared to be proven wrong in court.

This is what the government and in particular, the PM must do. Take legal action against WSJ in the place where a plaintiff’s actions are more sympathised. The latest being the interview with Ken brown, in Australia.

Ministers like Rahman Dahalan and Saleh Said keruak relying on the mere assurance of the AG, accused everyone else of lying. The AWSJ declared Rahman Dahalan, has been proven wrong yet again. When was it proven wrong previously?

The much ballyhooed threat to take legal action previously has petered out and drowned out by legal dig hole-fill-hole responses. Yes we would rather believe a paper with a 130 year history of reporting with substance than anyone else.

Salleh Said keruak declared AWSJ of making baseless accusations. Azalina Said alluded to a ghostly spectre of external forces ganging up to destroy Najib. 1MDB berated WSJ as serving the agenda of an ati -Najib group. 

‘Najibah’ has entered into the lexicon of Islamic financial terms. You have terms such as ajr, mudarabah, akad, murabaha, takafful, Al-Ghurm bil Ghunm (earning commissions or payments) and now Najibah.

Najibah is the unique contribution of Malaysia to the Islamic world. It refers to a financial transaction where one receives a certain sum of money- termed loosely as donation. When part of the donation is returned to the donor, that act is called Najibah. But the sum returned must be greater. If the sum retained is larger than the returned, then the conduct is called Najibahan.

Then there are many technicalities eating into the credibility of the returned money story. How was it done? Did Najib order the private jet belonging to the government but used by Najib, to ferry the money? This is because no authorities have come out to tell yes, they transmitted the money by wire.

That story line would offer us scenes of vehicles carrying one ton bags containing US Dollars unloading their cargo onto the plane. Then there will be records by the airport authorities that such activities took place.

If the money had been transferred by local banks, then BNM ought to know. Why don’t we ask the outgoing BNM governor or an officer in charge of monitoring out flows of money, whether they have cited and have in their possession, documentation from the remitting bank or banks?

If it has, they would be wise to make several copies and don’t hand over the only copy to the police or MACC or other authorities for safe keeping. Not that we don’t trust our men in blue, but we must take precautions against the place of safekeeping catching fire and getting burnt down. The wirings may be faulty and all that. Rats may have gnawed at the wires. Who knows?

If the money was transferred out from Singapore Banks, then the Singapore MAS will have to corroborate the story telling by our AG with the same evidence. Otherwise, Singapore will be viewed as a haven to park and then remit illicit money.

And as soon as our AG announced, the case is closed, authorities in at least six countries launched their own investigations into the transactions involving 1MDB. These authorities cannot be stopped by the Malaysian government nor will their AG can unilaterally decide there is no case to answer.

Worse, the Swiss AG declared that as much as RM4 billion (not RM2.6) billion is missing from 1MDB. Unless 1MDB can prove where the money went, then people will continue to thump their noses at the AG and the government.

The whole saga does not end until the fat lady sings. I hope people understand the concept of this colloquialism.

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