And so it starts again. There is no turning back in a decent and honourable way for this BN government. It has spawned a cancerous breed of corruption and bloody-mindedness which can only be cleansed by a major surgical procedure. This BN government can only recognise brute force or like approach because that is what it is – it is a brutish ogre that has no place for reason. It has lost all sense of what is right, proper or honourable. It doesn’t care that it isn’t right, proper or honourable. In Zimbabwe the world has to now tackle a single person. Mugabe is the disease which must be lobbed off for the country to begin its recuperation process. In Malaysia, there is no one person (they are all too weak and incapable individually) – it is the BN machinery which has to be removed. The whole coalition, chiefly the sick, rotting and contaminating UMNO, must be removed, as cleanly as possible, before the country can harbour any hopes of convalescence.
Despite my misgivings about Anwar and his latest unsavoury manoeuvrings to assent to power, this latest attempt to derail him would have been sad and pathetic if it isn’t so malicious and contemptuous of all things right and decent. It is despicable for its gutter level approach and this time around, fortunately, it is greeted with the sort of contempt it deserves.
Long have I said this but I will say it again. The current state of matters can only have an ugly outcome. It has pushed a generally well behaved and decent population too far off the edge and there can only be sustained reaction now, until BN is crushed and removed.
Anwar has accused the chief police, Musa Hassan (with the title of Inspector General of Police) and the Attorney General, Gani Patail, as the villains in the latest episode. These may very well be the villains in play at the moment but it is a result of the UMNO ogre which has spawned way beyond its control or understanding. Law enforcement agencies and arms are no different to other machineries of the administration – each go about seeking its own agenda, which often simply means the private interests of the person helming that body.
Musa Hassan and Gani Patail have longed been accused of corruption but have been allowed to continue functioning without even a hint of interruption to their exercising their very vast powers. They are only too happy to help Ministers attain their private and individual goals and agenda because that is in line with their practices of securing their private interests. It is like a thief seeking solace by helping others steal. They have been able to reach this level of impunity because their political masters have been playing the same game for decades. At some stage you’d expect these tools of UMNO to say screw it, I’m going to have a piece of the action myself. That stage is at hand now.
This may or may not have been signed off by UMNO senior figures, but it certainly has designs to also benefit them. Their chief agitator and threat is neutralised and attention is shifted away from their individual problems. Dollah Badawl is spared a few moments where attention is not focused on his inaptitude and Najib Razak is given a respite from the Mongolian heat. Win-win for the Dollah-Najib comic act and the Musa-Gani henchmen.
Or maybe there is a grand design to orchestrate the required background for the rulers to step in and call on the army? Would there be conflict between the police and the armed forces at the horizon? The country is thrown into even deeper turmoil. Who cares for the ordinary folks on the streets? BN has long ceased to care for them and the others have thus far failed to be convincing. Their livelihood continues to suffer and those who can, continue to leave in droves. At a dinner with some friends last night, we were told of yet more families who are planning to make the move here. Sometimes it is not a good feeling to be vindicated. I wish I was wrong, for saying all these years that Malaysia is at point break and only unpleasant ends will usher in changes. I wasn’t. We may well be about to witness some serious argy bargy.
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