Pointing Out The Obvious in Malaysia's Political Ruckus

My commentary this time would just be to point out the obvious. We have in recent weeks, seen events unfold in the most hectic of manners and as a result we have also been treated to the most ridiculous commentaries and actions that this country could produce.

The first one would be the act of Sultan Perak consulting both the BN reps and the PR reps but not consulting the rakyat. I feel, with all due respect, the rakyat should be the utmost priority and therefore it would better to not just look at the letter of the law without looking at those who are affected by it, especially the innocent rakyat who are not privy to the conundrum of these political ill-wills. What’s obvious here is, the Sultan should not have failed the rakyat especially because just two days before, Raja Nizar was saying something like rulers should not be partisan. If the landscape changes again in a couple of months (maybe with court rulings and all) then wouldn’t it create a fresh batch of problem not only for the royals but also the rakyat?

Then there’s also the Pakatan members who are so fond on others jumping to their side but cannot accept the fact that their people could also exercise the same thing. However, as I cannot be neutral (ever!), I do believe that the way one party does it and the way the other party does it is very much different. One party is more ethical than the other (who can argue that it is at all ethical this party hopping thing?) in the sense that, certain events are fishier than others. Also, the fact that PR wasn’t able to finish off any toppling shows that everything was probably tried to be done cleanly whilst the manner in which BN was able to entice and topple is just…no words to describe. What’s obvious here is that, Pakatan people should learn from their own mistakes and not be too biased (I can because I’m no one).

Moving on to Abdullah’s reaction: The fact that he is able to boldly say the PR people should just accept the result of the Perak circus act like BN accepted PRU-12 is just crazy talk. Let’s see how they accepted PRU-12 first shall we? They ordered the jailing of one MP, they ISA’d RPK, the government’s worst nightmare, they canceled all agreements on tourism with opposition held states (let’s see how Azalina revive the agreement with Perak), they held road blocks all over the place to stop people from doing whatever we are supposed to do daily, they canceled big government-backed projects in Penang…hmm accepting the result kindly is it?

That’s just on the surface of ‘accepting’. To ask PR to accept the lost as they ‘accepted’ the result of PRU-12 just do not make any sense because the situation and the facts are totally dissimilar. It’s like comparing oranges with Eurocopter…hmm. PRU-12 is the people’s choice whilst whatever the hell happened in Perak is just ugly politics. PRU-12 is endorsed by the people (at least 49% of the popular vote) whilst I don’t think you can find 50% of the people in Perak agreeing to what had happened. It’s not the same Abdullah, do you even realize what you’re saying? What’s obvious here is that, Abdullah do not think before he talks.

Now Khir Toyo, the master of crap. To accuse Khalid Ibrahim of unlawfully using public money to buy a luxury car is one of the stupidest thing you could ever do. He was a CEO of a big corporation and also a Director to many others. He bought the car way before even being elected as an MP or an assemblyman. Can anyone honestly deny the fact that he is able to purchase that car using his own money? Then Khir’s defence was, I am only doing my job as an opposition. Talking out of your ass without providing any evidence and facts is ‘doing the opposition’s job’? I would be embarrassed to even be mentioned in the same light as him (what more to be on the same party and working under him).

Then he continued by saying something like, watch out or Selangor will face the same consequence as in Perak if they fail to correct any weaknesses. I think he forgot the fact that they failed to retain Selangor because of his own weaknesses. That, by the way, is the act of the people and not some disloyal members of a political party. Khalid has done way more good things to Selangor in 9 months then he ever did in 5 years. The obvious thing here is that, people should not speak out of their asses to show superiority when all you have is a broom and some tempe.

Peace :)