The MOA: A Mephistophelian Bargain.

1. The signing of the pugnacious MOA will not stop politicking.

2. Politicians and people will be politicking as they liked despite the MOA.

3. It depends on government policies, actually. If they are bad, people will talk anyway. If they don't or like them, they will agitate.

4. So you think people give two hoots if a Tony Pua says the MOA will stop politicking?

5. So even if there is a ceasefire, armistice, stand down etc some people will still fire their katyushas.

6. The apologists of the MOA, with their cock-and-bull rationales, are just trying to straighten a wet thread.

7. You think a piece of paper signed by the elected pigs can mollify pent-up frustrations of the people?

8. I would not like to become Pollyannaish to think that what the opposition asks will be incorporated into government policies.

9. Ohh.. I am sure there will be some concessions, but not the ones that go to the heart of umnoism.

10. The Anti-Hopping Bill, the 45 billion covid assistance will, perhaps reluctantly, see the light of day.

11. But things like limiting the PMs term to 10 years, interference with the courts and undi 18 will be ignored. The opposition can shout themselves coarse.
These are what make umno survive.

12. It's just implausible to think that Ismail Sabri has the testicular fortitude to send the umno court cluster to jail. Good if he does.

13. Especially red lips, Najib and Wak penorogo Bagan Latoh.
That bold non-interference with the courts would eliminate the entire leadership of umno.

14. So it's not good sense that prevailed, but bad judgement call and excessive optimism that reigns.

15. People are not going to be assuaged hearing unproven promises of opposition's requests being incorporated or affirmation that the opposition is not supporting Ismail Sabri.

16. I am afraid it's not a bite of the sweet cherry with Ismail Sabri but a bite of some inedible jungle fruit even monkeys will stay clear.

17. One needs to understand the psychology of people. Their response is herdish by nature. A failed government is not going to be saved by a few cosmetic changes.

17b. Once the blockage is removed, people will be on the rampage.

18. They will also feel betrayed by the opposition. The DAP in particular, will rue the day it signed the MOA.

19. What has the opposition got itself into? It's stupid of them to believe umno.

20. To lie, obfuscate, back pedal, circumambulate and to renege is second nature to umno.

21. Mamu Anwar especially, has got a lot of cents but no Dollars.

22. DAP and Amanah may be inadvertent participant in Anwar's narcissistic fix. It's indeed a new thing in the anus of Malaysian politics.

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The Infamy Of Signing The MOA.

1. If by year-end the covid situation and our economy has not improved, the signing of the MOA by PH and the government is an exercise in futility.

2. It's just like the charge of the Light Brigade. It's much thunder but little rain.

3. Some apologists are saying that the signing of the MOA does not entail PH losing its maruah. They are just following the command of the King. The MOA has in fact been likened to the Muslim perjanjian hudaibiyyah.

4. First, likening it to a Muslim truce over 1400 years ago, does not make the MOA any more Islamic and that because it's regarded as Islamic, we are supposed to shut the fuck up?

5. We are not going to keep quiet. Like the poet says, 'berikan aku lidah. Aku mau berkata kata. Bagaikan laut yang menghempas pantai yang merdeka'.

6. Where is Mamu Anwar going? He's not going on a pilgrimage. Mat Sabu or Fahmi or Saifuddin aren't. LGE certainly is not.

7. These people will be sucked into the whirlpool of the government's politics, which is just after its self-preservation.

8. The Ismail Sabri government is putting up proven failed people to handle the covid situation and the economy. Hence, PHs involvement through the MOA, only serves to validate a failed government.

9. That puts PH as an accomplice to a plan to deceive people. PH will become complicit in deceiving the people.

10. What PH should have done is to let the government die its natural death. Let it drown in its own shit. The government negotiators are probably saying- suckers.

11. PH can always give constructive criticisms by being not with the government. And if the government ignores them, then it alone is guilty for making partisan and unilateral policies.

12. PH can become guilty by association. The mud from the buffalo gets splattered to the PH cows.

13. Mamu Anwar is no prophet and the other buggers are not his sahabahs. Each party has its own agenda. You may sleep on the same pillow, but you dream different dreams.

14. PH does not send one Othman Affan to negotiate with the PN2 musyriks. Many went. The negotiators thus cannot speak with one voice.

15. Will there be a cessation of politicking? I doubt it. Will there be a political armistice for 10 years? No sir.

16. Is Mamu Anwar going, with the others, on a holy pilgrimage to the city of kleptopia? To look see?

17. Will those who hopped from BN to PH be allowed to return to the dark force? But those who hopped from PH to the dark force need not be taken back? It will be interesting to see whether the private members bill by Laoda will be passed. Hehe.

18. Let's see whether the reforming ideas of PH can expand into the umno mindset. Can the signing elevate PHs prestige?

19. Will the rakyat enjoy a politicking free environment? This government inherited and now exacerbate kleptocracy. I doubt these Intransigences will tame the opposition.

20. Hence, the less than holy cavorting with the devil, the unprophetic personalities, kleptocracy, the failings of the previous government now perpetuated by the Ismail Sabri government, will not make the rakyat winners. No sir.

21. Therefore, I am less enthusiastic about the MOA than my thongzhi/comrade, Tony Pua. The MOA is so chuckable into the dustbin.

22. Likening the MOA to the Perjanjian Hudaibiah does not make the MOA sacrosanct.

23. The comparison is inappropriate. And why do I get the feeling the usage of religious anecdotes is meant to quell contrarian views?

24. And don't use the excuse of signing of the MOA was the result of 'following the king.' I have said in an article, both in English and Bahasa, there are circumstances where to disagree with the King does not amount to derhaka.

25. Don't elevate the importance of the king more that it should be. We lived under a parliamentary monarchy, not an absolute one.

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Kerelevanan UMNO. Bah. 1.

1. Beberapa peristiwa semasa telah menjadikan saya seorang sceptic. Yakni saya curiga terutama bila umno bercakap mengenainya.

2. Peristiwa2 yang saya maksudkan termasuklah sokongan umno terhadap kerjaan PN 02, perlindungan umno keatas kluster mahkamah dan layanan remeh umno kepada nilai2 Islam serta 'kesetiaan' umno terhadap raja.

3. Selalu nya apa yang umno lakukan adalah sebalik dari apa yang ia katakan. Atau bikin tak serupa kata.

4. Seolah olahnya umno tidak menghiraukan suara terbanyak ahlinya dan suara majoriti rakyat.

5. Kalau sikap elitis dan fiudal ini tidak diperbetulkan, umno akan menjadi tidak releven pada orang Melayu dan rakyat.

6. Apa yang terjadi, ialah orang Melayu dan ahli2 umno telah membenarkan pimpinan eltis dan bourgeois menerapkan nilai2 salah keatas orang2 umno.

7. Akibat nya nilai2 seperti rompakan dan korapsi dianggap mulia, jalan pintas diutamakan dari jalan berkesan, mimilih pemimpin ikut baka, pembohongan lebih mulia dari ketelusan dsb nya.

8. Himpunan nilai2 reaksioner inilah menyebabkan orang umno menganggap seorang perompak dan terbukti penjenayah, sebagai seorang amirulmukminin dan digelar bosku, seorang yang mempunyai pertuduhan pecah amanah yang tak terkira banyak nya dianggap pemimpin unggul, perasuah2 dilihat sebagai pemimpin tak ada galang ganti dll.

9. Akibat perasuah2 dimuliakan, kita mendapati keadaan yang terjadi hanya di Malaysia dan di bajai oleh umno.

10. Keharmonian kaum diganti dengan permusuhan kaum yang tidak kunjung padam, nilai universal Islam diganti dengan nilai2 buatan sihaprak, institusi raja berpelembagaan diganti dengan institusi raja mulak dan seterusnya.

11. Jadilah umno itu sinonim dengan rasuah, pembohongan, pembelotan, segala nilai2 dan perilaku yang reaksioner.

12. Koruptor dimuliakan. Najib yang mencuri duit rakyat terus disanjung. Jadi memuliakan nilai2 Islam itu hanya omongan kosong aja.

13. Teringat saya satu lagi sajak WS Rendra.

14. Dalam negeri, kata2 serupa dikeluarkan oleh bukan penyajak tapi pak polis.

15. Sang koruptor yang dirundingi mengenai hal2 ekonomi, membuat lapuran keatas LHDN. Jika begitu semua pembayar cukai buatlah lapuran polis. Cukai itu peras ugut si kerajaan!

16. Apa yang kita maksudkan dengan puak reaksioner? Ia adalah golongan yang menentang perubahan. Golongan ini mahu mengekalkan keadan ex ante. Iaitu sistem beraja dimata, bersultan di hati.

17. Sedangkan kita tahu keujudan yang enggan mengadaptasi, akan hancur. Hukum alam ialah adapt or perish. Tapi cara atau sistem yang lama lah yang disukai oleh puak reaksioner.

18. Sistem pemerintahan fiudal tentu disukai oleh pemimpin elitis dan neo fiudal dalam umno serta pemimpin2 kiriman Tuhan ecclesiastical dictators parti ajaran sesat.

19. Mengapa tidak? Dibawah sistem lama, golongan ini boleh buat apa saja mereka suka tanpa bantahan dan bangkangan.

20. Yang demikian menjadikan rasuah, penipuan dan pembelotan sebagai perkara biasa. Itu semua pakaian basahan umno. Bogel, dan segala pekong terdedah.

21. Ianya terjadi sebab kita belajar menerima kekoro-an dan ke cekai ian serta senang menerima kesakitan dan penindasan.

22. Sedangkan keadaan tak sepatutnya begitu. Kalau kita lihat, pemimpin elitis dan reaksioner umno dan pemimpin anugerah tuhan, mereka tidak lebih 5% dari jumlah ahli.

23. Maka sepatutnya nilai2 yang majoriti lah yang mewarnai keperibadian dan laku perangai se2buah organisasi.

24. Sebaliknya rakyat menerima nilai2 puak reaksioner dari umno atau dari parti ajaran sesat yang minoriti. Bererti kita menerima Tyrany Of The Status Quo seperti tajuk buku F. Hayek.

25. Jadi berentilah! Dari membiarkan diri saudara di ganyang oleh nilai2 reaksioner. Bangkitlah! Saudara2 semua tidak kehilangan apa2, melainkan rantai minda yang membelengui kalian!

26. Dalam bahagian 2 kita akan menghalusi nilai2 reaksioner!

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Shaping The Bamboo.

 

1. We can't always compensate for our deficiencies by insisting on our might, as in might is right.

2. Just because we are Malays, doesn't mean we can ignore, for lack of an appropriate word, stupidity.

3. Therefore, you may think that pronouncing oomno, Malaysia gazatay, dateleener, da- ap or nasushiyon as something you can celebrate you are mistaken.

4. In fact, I think you are lazy, does not have the basic education and are likely to occupy the lower end of jobs.

5. Therefore, when the economy is bad as it is now, who do you think will get retrenched first?

6. I have no doubt Malay lower end workers will get retrenched first. Then perhaps you get jobs with sensation grabbing internet news portals. Which will fizzle out in the long run.

7. But don't rush to turn your retrenchment into a racial issue by saying, "See, more malays are being retrenched"

8. Get the figures from the labour office or official government statistics, we will probably find more Chinese and Indians are retrenched.

9. So it's probably not true that Malays are retrenched in higher proportions than Malaysian Chinese and Indians.

10. What is perhaps true is that Malays doing lower end jobs get retrenched more. More so if the employer were Chinese and want Chinese employees.

11. Certainly, I wouldn't employ an idiot who can't pronounce correctly.

12. One of the solutions is to educate oneself, cultivate oneself, learn new skills and learn new ways to do the same thing.

13. The idea is to make oneself useful and as indispensable as possible, to the firm and to the country.

14. It's the same of the country -make itself useful to the community and the world.

15. One of the advices I would give to our 1.6 m civil servants, is never to stop educating and cultivating yourself. Certainly, never to make an idiot who thinks it's fashionable to keep mispronouncing words and verbs as a role model. Learn never to accept mediocrity.

16. I can't resist this jibe-when the PM consults a convicted felon on how to manage our economy, either mediocrity is the new normal or he himself is mediocre.

17. Might as well consult massacre Muthu of Raub or the heavenly king on how to run our economy.

18. Learn new skills to make oneself useful because in times of economic hardships, collateral damage is part of the attrition.

19. The government can't tell companies not to retrench or trim down. Because that would send wrong economic signals. Companies have to trim down to stay competitive.

20. Only the government is adamant about scaling down or trimming to stay competitive. Thats because our leaders don't understand economics.

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To Shape The Bamboo Must Begin With The Shoot

1. Many times, the dumbing down of the Malaysian public is exacerbated by clownish social media.

2. Sometimes I wonder how on earth did the head of the media entity employ such idiots.

3. These people are a bad influence on the public, especially on the younger generation who go to national type schools.

4. How exasperating when we hear UMNO being pronounced as "oomphno", Malaysia Gazette as "Gezatay", Nasution as "nasushion", DAP as "da-ap", dateline as "date-leener".

5. This bloke is torturing us. He should be permanently locked up and circumcised a second time.

6. I am not an Anglophile and take pains to suffer fools. But if you Google up, it teaches you how to pronounce words. Don't be lazy. Do a bit of research. Raise the public's intelligence.

7. Don't drown the minds of the public with your deliberate mispronunciations because a generation will grow up accepting the mispronunciations as normal.

8. You may think that this mispronouncing thing is trivial and not something to be fussed about, but there are more sinister implications.

9. By and large, the people guilty of mispronouncing are Malay youths. To me that may indicate mental laziness to look up, do research and all sorts of mental inertia. On the other hand, Chinese and Indian youths take the extra mile and try to pronounce nouns and verbs correctly.

10. That may indicate a cerebral gap between the races. The future favours the industrious and smart. Where will that leave most of the Malays?

11. It's also indicative of a failed education system. Teachers failed to correct the deficiencies early.

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Wa'adat Sang Sapurba

1. Satu lagi isiu penting yang saya ingin bangkitkan adalah bagaimana kita bolih ingkar perintah raja atau enggan mendengar perintah nya tapi perlakuan kita itu tidak bolih dianggap sebagai menderhaka.

2. Untuk tujuan tersebut, kenalah saya rujukkan minda pembaca yang budiman, kepada perjanjian dizaman antah berantah, antara Sang Sapurba(SS) dan Demang Lebar Daun. (DLD)

3. Ceritera atau cerita atau hikayat antara dua tokoh tersebut mungkin suatu metos, tapi ia meletakdasarkan satu prinsip terpenting yang akan saya huraikan dalam perenggan2 berikutnya.

4. Cerita mengenai mereka berdua dalam Hikayat Melayu atau Sulalatus Salatin mungkin satu metos sahaja, tapi prinsip sumpah setia atau wa'adat terpahat dalam benak masyarakat Melayu zaman berzaman.

5. Prinsip apa yang saya maksudkan? Ia nya Ialah hak rakyat engkar pada suruhan atau perintah raja jika raja terlebih dahulu engkar atau tidak mengendahkan kemahuan rakyat. Dan keengkaran rakyat itu, tidak boleh dianggap satu penderhakaan.

6. DLD berkata kepada SS. Jika anak cucu hamba melakukan kesalahan pada tuanku hendaklah ia jangan di aibkan dimalukan atau dicaci nista. Kalau salah besar bunuh lah ia kalau itu sesuai dengan syarak.

7. SS bersetuju.

8. Pada bahagian nya, SS menuntut dari DLD. Hendaklah anak cucu tuanhamba sentiasa setia pada raja walaupun dia jahat dan zalim sekalipun.

9. Naam kata DLD tapi jika pihak raja mengubah bahagian janjinya maka rakyat akan engkar.

10. Maka berbai'ahlah kedua mereka dan menyanggupi bahawa sesiapa yang mungkir janji akan mendapat tulah.

11. Hamba melihat dua prinsip yang tidak tergoncang/unshakeable disini.

12. Yang pertama lagi utama ialah rakyatlah yang mempunyai kata akhir. Unggul sungguh rakyat. Keunggulan rakyat bahkan mengatasi keunggulan raja.
Hari ini suara kenggulan rakyat dikemundangkan di parlimen.

13. Maka jika kemuliaan dan kedaulatan parlimen di persia siakan oleh sosok2 penjual ikan, maka keberadaan mereka di parlimen hanya percuma!

14. Prinsip kedua yang tidak boleh dipertikaikan, tapi selalu dilupakan oleh rakyat yang sentiasa dibodohkan, ialah mereka mempunyai hak yang inherrent untuk engkar pada titah raja, jika raja yang dahulu tidak menghiraukan kemahuan rakyat.

15. Maka pada pendapat pacal yang hina ini, apabila Raja memilih Ismail Sabri, baginda telah membelakangi rakyat. Dia telah memungkiri janji Sang Sapurba.

16. Dan apabila kabinet ditubukan dengan dianggotai oleh mereka yang terpalit dengan kerajaan gagal, serta sosok2 penyamun2 umno, nyatalah rakyat telah di berakki.

17. Apabila Raja hilang sengatnya, ceritanya ada persamaan dengan sejarah China kuno.

18. Dalam sejarah China kuno, apabila keadaan gawat demikian berlaku, Sang Raja dikatakan telah hilang mandat dari kayangan.

19. Dalam masyakat kita, bolehlah dikata Raja mungkin hilang mandat dari Yang Maha Esa.

20. Mungkin sebab telah hilangnya mandat itu, kita berdepan dengan malapetaka2 dasyat seperti pandemic covid 19 dan kegawatan ekonomi yang mencengkam. Mungkin.

21. Nasib ada faktor penyelamat. Raja dalam kebijaksanaannya memeritah supaya di adakan undi percaya.

22. Perintah ini seolah olah nya memperakui bahawa mungkin pemilihan Ismail Sabri dan kabinet kemudian nya, adalah satu keputusan yang mungkin salah.

23. Jadi rakyat yang mempunyai kata pemutus dan boleh engkar pada perintah Raja secara sahih, mestilah membuat koreksi di Parlimen.

24. Ahli Parlimen yang menginsafi betapa besarnya suara rakyat dan menjadi juru bicara rakyat mesti membuat perkara yang serupa. Dalam Parlimen.

25. Jika dirasakan pemilihan Ismail Sabri dan kabinetnya adalah satu keputusan yang salah, mereka mesti dikeluarkan.

26. Sebab itu suatu undi percaya mesti disegerakan. Dan ahli2 Parlimen tidak mempunyai pilihan lain kecuali melakukan suatu undi tidak percaya.

27. Saya sedih bercakap sebegini rupa kepada rakan2 yang saya kenali. Saya kenal Ismail Sabri sendiri, Rahman Mohd, Ismail Said Ismail Mutalib dan Noraini Ahmad yang manis. Saya juga mengenali secara peribadi Azmin Ali dan Zuraida Kamarudin dan mungkin ramai lagi. Kepada mereka saya menyusun jari nan sepuluh dan mohon beribu maaf.

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Losing The Mandate From Heaven.

1. The other issue I want to raise is the right to not heed what the King decreed, not amounting to a treasonous deed.

2. For that, I have to refer you to the primordial agreement between Sang Sapurba and Demang Lebar Daun.

3. The story between the two maybe a myth, but it lays down the principle to which I am about to tell you.

4. The 'Sejarah Melayu' maybe a work of myth, however it is embedded in the Malay psyche since ancient times.

5. What principle am I talking about? It is the right of the people to contradict or otherwise stand in opposition to what the King has commanded if the King reneged on his part of the bargain FIRST.

6. Demang Lebar Daun told the King, Sang Sapurba:- If any of his descendants were to run afoul of the King, he must never be shamed or besmirched or have nasty things said to him. If he has committed a grave wrong, he can be put to death. But the sentence must be in accordance to sharia law.

7. To which the King Agreed.

8. On his part, Sang Sapurba as king, told DLB.thus:- that the descendants of DLB stay loyal to the King till the end of time.

9. To which DLD agreed.

10. But he added the caveat. That if the King varies the terms of the waadat or agreement on his part FIRST, then the rakyat is at liberty to rebel.

11. Two things are of importance here. First, the rakyat has always the last say and is supremer than even the King.

12. Two, the rakyat has the inherent right to rebel. Though, rebel does not necessarily mean armed insurrection or of action of violence import. Suffice that it means passive defiance. To ignore would be ok.

13. Hence, raja adil raja disembah, raja zalim raja disanggah.

14. In Chinese history there is a corollary that says that the king has lost the mandate from heaven which invites the right to rebel.

15. Losing the mandate from heaven is evidenced by things like natural calamity(the COVID pandemic, ) political instability(choosing the wrong PM) and economic implosion.

16. When these things happened, the rakyat has a right to rebel in the form of not heeding the command of the King. And that action does not amount to treason.

17. The King has reneged on his part of the waadat FIRST by not heeding to the wishes of the people. The rakyat has the right to not heed his command. That's 0-0 then.

18. The supremacy of the rakyat will be translated in the vote of confidence in parliament. That supremacy cannot be broken asunder. Not by the King nor by some legal trickery.

19. But it is to the credit of the King that he has commanded a vote of confidence be taken in parliament. That command recognises that HRH is mortal and can be wrong. Also, it recognises that the rakyat is supreme. The king is actually below the rakyat.
The decision has to be affirmed in parliament.

20. So if you acknowledged that the rakyat is supreme and that they speak through parliament, don't stand in the way of a vote of confidence.

21. The vote of confidence must be made ASAP.

22. On which side do you stand? On the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressors? That is the question.

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