The Saifuddin comedy show and other issues. Contrarian essays no 4.

1. The easily moved among us shed tears when Saifuddin said he fears PKR will lose Rafizi.

2. Nobody believed him then and now. It's part of the drama concealing many things.

3. It's an admission of guilt. He knew of the inevitable outcome. He knew of the PKR revisionists ganging up to kill off Rafizi.

4. So, as a loyal foot soldier, he faked expressing grief to mollify rafizis people .

5. When he said he fears losing Rafizi, he's saying the literal truth. Rafizi will eventually leave PKR and leave it to its devices

6. The relationship between revolutionary reformasi and watered down reformasi is untenable. Sooner or later, Rafizi has to decouple himself from a revisionist PKR.

7. When he says that he will speak out of anwars duty to the party, that was just a show .

8. Would anyone believe that a person who owes much of his political fortunes to Anwar would bite the hands of a person who feeds him? Come man, credit us with some intelligence.

9. The drama which Saifuddin puts up is part of a bigger drama to diffuse the anger of Rafizis people.

10. I hope Rafizi is perceptive enough to recognize the sham. He knows these people better.

11. An astute observer will notice much of Rafizis body language at the PKR congress .

12. When Rafizi shook the hands of Anwar limply and walked past the latter nonchalantly, Anwar was only able to respond with a wry smile and bemused look .

13. At that time saudara Rafizi already knew of the inevitable outcome of the contest. More importantly, he knew Anwar orchestrated the whole thing.

14. But don't see Anwar as a bad person. He's using all the deception and underhanded tactics and use of the dark arts of subterfuge to win. He's acting Machiavellian.

15. For the moment, Anwar wins but don't count out Rafizi yet. It ain't over until the fat lady sings.