Anwar between needs and wants.

1. Anwar WANTS to become PM for another term because :- 

2. He wants to carry out wide ranging reforms. 

3. He wants to make good the promises he made 

4. He wants to clean up the government. Good governance is his slogan 

5. He wants to weed out corruption 

6. He wants to prosper the country 

7. He wants political stability. 

8. And other things expected from a good government 

9. First thing first. He must retain and restore the faith of people in him that he is indeed a reformer 

10. That faith has been shattered somewhat 

11. Because of his vacillation, his to-ing and fro-ing, his plasticity as it were. 

12. With your indulgence, a little digression if you may 13. Anwar has always struck me as hollow and just a liberal bourgeoisie 

14. When he was at UM, he was president of PMUM and PBMUM 

15. He was able to attract like minded liberal bourgeoisie too to his cause. 

16. He was a gifted orator then and still is 

17. As I have said, birds would perch on his palms to eat and girls would strip in front of him 

18. In the 1970s late, during my time, when he came to campus, these things happened 

19. His off campus supporters who came and students who gawked at his legend, kowtowed to him 

20. Tudung clad girls would swoon over him and imagined him to be their bf . 

21. He was and is a crowd puller. That I give to him and respected him for that. Salute! 

22. But despite these arsenal and the smarmy compliments given to him by his minions on the internet, I never held him in an exalted position 

23. His cause at that time was Islam, race and any miseries imagined suffered by the Malays 

24 . That exalted estimation, I gave another person, komrad Kassim Ahmad. 

25. An unassuming and a personable fellow, the quintessential socialist 

26. Not belittling Anwar, he has all my respects save exalted estimation. 

27. It was more of historical sentimentalism for me 

28. In 1974, when I was in lower 6, I traveled from my hometown Kuantan to Kemaman 

29. In that year, Kassim was competing in a by election against Mustapha Ali. 

30. Kassim arrived at the premises of the rapat umum in a beat up VW. 

31. In those days, it was called a rapat umum not as now, a ceramah 

32. Kassim wasn't a fiery speaker . The fiery one who accompanied him was Hasnul Hadi. 

33. His low key and muted pull factors were more valuable to me, an incorrigible lefty, than the pompous pull factors 

34 . In assessing Anwar's wants we must look at them in perspective 

35. Kassim Ahmad said figuratively, that Anwar should be hanged 

36. Karpal Singh said Anwar has done enough damage to the country 

37. So, we mustn't look at Anwar's wants with rose tainted lenses.

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Reforming UMNO.

1. A famous poet once said. 'Give me a tongue. I want to speak freely. Like the pounding waves. On the independent shore. For so long we die in loyalty. It's time we live in rebellion. Things must be questioned one by one. Lest we be blind followers'.

2. These words were spoken by the late Kassim Ahmad. They were contained in a book consisting of an anthology of poems and short stories. The book is 'kemarau dilembah'. I read it in 1975. The younger generation should read it

3. That reversal of thinking should be our true north to avoid being blind followers. Every assumption and narratives by discrepit UMNO leaders must be re-examined.

4. We are actually caught in between the terrible clash of democracy and autocracy. Democracy is shared truths while autocracy entails shared lies. Unfortunately now autocracy is on the ascendency.

5. For over 60 years while UMNO was in power, we were constantly fed with lies. They left a permanent imprint in our minds. Lies about fake selective persecution when they are deserved, lies about corruption being just a perception when they are true and cancerous to the lies about xenophobic nationalism masking systemic racism. When are we going to end these lies?

6. The lies are repeated over and over again in Goebells like fashion that they are accepted as true. They are accepted as that by servile Malay minds. It's a crying shame.

7. The purveyors of these lies are the defunct UMNO leaders such as Tajuddin, Nazri Aziz, Ahmad Maslan, the fake Tengku, 'empty vessel' Bung et al. And of course the liars in chiefs Najib and Zahid.

8. While this abberation of an UMNO leadership is embraced by the UMNO rank and file, sane, rational and colllected leaders such as Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, Noraini Ahmad and Shamsul Nasrah and others are sidelined and ignored.

9. That lunacy is the consequence of indoctrination by crooked UMNO leaders.

10. The objective then is to be free from the doctrinaire dictatorship of the defunct leadership.

11. Know that these leaders are not indispensable. If any of them were to be expelled the sun will surely rise tomorrow.

12. Let us now debunk some of these false narratives one by one. Stripped of their lies they are nothing but extensions of their author's bigotry and hate ideology.

13. Take for example the oft repeated lies about selective persecution. What's so selective when the crime justifies the prosecution? We are diverted astray by the adjective 'selective' to ignore the crime commited. Don't fall for the verbal sleight of hand.

14. Was the prosecution against Najib selective when he stole from SRC? He was the sole perpetrator. There was a crime. Would it not be selective if we were to prosecute Jinjang Joe instead of Najib? That would be stupid of us wouldn't it if we were to do that.

15. Was it selective of us to prosecute Teuku Adnan when it was he who committed corruption?

16. The lies about selective prosecution were all balderdash and sour-grapish of the perpetrators and their lackeys. When you don't know how to dance you complain that the floor is not level.

17. Another lie often bandied around is that corruption is just a perception. Its real and actual. Malaysia has even dropped further the corruption scale! So perception my foot!

18. Not only corruption is no longer just a perception and mere suspicion, it appears to be unbridled during the COVID-19 pandemic. It's like scooping in muddy waters. We learnt that Iris Corporation just got RM1.16billion contract.

19. I am sure there is more than meets the eye at this miraculous success of Iris Corp.

20. Just a few days ago we heard 'bully boy' Tajuddin lamenting about Non-Malay cartel of the meat industry. For good measure why not extend it to the vegetable cartel and business in general?

21. Who enabled the Non Malays to form the cartel? Why won't the Malays do the business themselves? Making such an accusation is just part of systemic racism so loved by Tajuddin and his ilk.

22. What would people like Tajuddin would have us do? Throw all the Chinese in the ocean? Create our own Hitlerian final solution? Have our own pogrom.

23. The hypocrisy of beating the racist drum should be obvious to us. We are asked to hate the Chinese while people like Tajuddin have Chinese business partners and bed partners.

24. So reject the sham politics of these tricksters. Didn't the Quran tell us that God created the different races, males and females so that we could befriend each other? Hating each other is man made, so it can be unmade.

25. UMNO members are told to care more about what's happening to najib, zahid, adnan mansor and so on. Hey these people are rich beyond imagination. You are poor. To hell with them!

26. Not many people are talking about reforming UMNO to save UMNO. Bring the good people like Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah and others to the fore. We have no time to lose.

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