The Reformasist, the Revisionist and the Reactionary. Part 2. Contrarian essays no 15

1. I think it was in an interview with Charlie Rose, the great lee kuan yew said 2 things determine the political longevity of the leader .

2. It depends on whether the people have faith in you and whether you keep the promises you made .

3. To the 2 factors I would add 2 more. The team to carry out your agenda remains whole. And the bind that ties your political allies remain strong .

4. I would assess the performance of Anwar Ibrahim a long these lines.

5. As to his morals I am not equipped to it. Others who think themselves as moral paragons can do that .

6. In one parliamentary session, tengku Abdul Rahman said. 'let those who have not sinned, cast the first stone. '

7. No one stood up except Mr opposition, tan chee koon. I, am no tan chee koon.

8. In my mind, Anwars ability to keep faith in the people has taken a beating.

9. He is no longer seen as the shrieking change agent, the man who is supposed to change the ways of the status quo.

10. Perhaps that exuberance is constrained actually by his UMNO DNA.

11. His father was an UMNO MP and his mother , a wanita UMNO.

12. He had a bourgeois upbringing. He rebelled as far as permitted and allowed by UMNO.

13. He really was just a smoked salmon socialist and a limousine liberal.

14. A gauche caviar or a Gucci communist. Somebody who champions the downtrodden, but enjoys the lifestyle of the upper and privileged class. Just an act

15. In his younger days, his rebellious 'excursions' were given religious sanctions , by abim a religious organization peopled by middle class young people with religious consciousness amidst crass worldly pursuits

16. Today,the PKR people must work tirelessly and in earnest to turn the one time bourgeois excursions into real passion .

17. Otherwise, PKR and Anwar are seen as fake act. Not only PKR retains the status quo and business as usual ways, PKR people become the people they initially despised and loathed .

18. I have mentioned many times what Frantz fanon warned us. The oppressed becomes the oppressor.

19. The PKR people are impatient to become the novue rich, business grabbers, rentier and rent seekers, abusers of positions, downright corrupt operators .

20. The captives become the captors, the slaves become the masters, the disposed becomes the aquisitor.

21. It's a vulgarised political Stockholm syndrome. The kidnapped develop sympathy for the kidnappers. The PKR people secretly want to become UMNO crooks .

22. As for Anwar, instead of becoming the itenerant reformist in the sense of dismantling the old ways one after another, he has become an apologist for them.

23. He has given 1001 reasons to give the tortoise treatment to reformasi. Perhaps he's waiting for the stars to align in a particular way or for the feng hsui master to give the greenlight.

24. We will be discussing anwars vacillations under several headings. Economics, politics , judiciary and the pathetic eradication of corruption. That will be discussed in the next part of my article.

25. I won't pull any punches in criticizing Anwar. Like I said , I don't want Anwar to be a one trick pony.

26. The PKR people better not take the need to keep Anwar within the guard rails of reformasi, lightly.

27. If Anwar falls, many of you will bite the dust. Some of you will even go to prison. Please be mindful of that.

28. I will continue to be a devil's advocate to point out PKR's and Anwar of the errors of their ways. I am not a PKR member and am not a threat to anyone in PKR. Nor can I be expelled for being a bitch. Unlike a Mr Loh Pee Jee.