This is the victory of the people who made an informed decision against long-standing corruption and tyranny in this nation. We needed a figurehead like Anwar Ibrahim to unite the parties, but it was the people who made that smart choice – a quantum leap of sorts – to vote for change. The BN’s shocking defeat is a big slap on the face for Badawi and his present tenure is shaky to say the least. Unseen forces within UMNO are bound to play it out in the next few months to unseat him from the reins of power.
If Pak Lah resign, Najib will step up and it will then be back to old-style cronyism and nepotism; and worse, Mahathir;s dictatorial era will be back again to haunt us. Najib is very much worse and is a cold blooded person…Tunku Razaleigh once said Najib is neither friend of Malay, nor Chinese or Indian Not even the faraway Mongols either. Altantuuya had proven that to us in broken bits and pieces.
Remember, if Badawi is forced out, Najib will take over. This is Mahathir’s agenda, and it is the agenda of old Umno guards who irreparably corrupted this nation in the first place. And we all know what Najib stands for…Altantuuya, multimillion (whopping $500m to be exact) defense contract fees and what not and getting away with murder for all that.
Mahathir purposely held a Press Conference to push his own selfish agenda (he thinks and acts like he is still the Prime Minister in charge!), and by proxy, to pave the ground for Mukhriz’s ascension to power. Standing next in line to Najib. But foremost, he would want Najib to take over from Badawi. When he does, we can forget about Altantuuya and the RCI into the heinous VK Lingam tape scandal. And it will be a return to strong-arm rule all over again for Bolehland citizens. We are not supposed to allow that to happen. That’s why we voted in the BR to change all that.
People, do not forget that during Mahathir’s reign, every scandal that dogs this godforsaken land were kept tightly under wraps in absolute secrecy and there were no lack of convenient bogeymen to take the flak. That’s Mahathir in action.
It wasn’t Mahathir who stomped the country for change. It was Anwar.
To pre empt Mahathir making a comeback the back-door way, we need to install Anwar back into Parliament. To do that, Badawi must show magnanimity to his arch-foe of yore. He must befriend his old enemy to beat off a bigger threat from Mahathir and Najib. The tide has changed somewhat and it’s going to be tougher than it seems on the surface.
Many will see this election’s results as a vindication for the BR, but other disgruntled Umno members like hidden-agenda Mahathir, watch-and-wait Najib (and impatient Khairy) will see this as an opportunity to grab power and the booty that comes along. The next few months will see Mahathir staging a "hidden-dragon" coup to oust Badawi from the hotseat. Najib will bide his time before his next move, meanwhile, smiling behind our backs like the "crouching tiger." Just watch and see.
Pak Lah, to redeem himself from the GE12 debacle, now only needs to do two things foremost.
The first thing Abdullah Badawi needs to do is to clean up the mess of a corrupt judiciary and the sycophantic media of the old guard dating back to the 80s.
Corruption will always exist, but the judiciary and the media in any democracy acts as the first and last line of defence watchdog. Instead, we have had lapdogs barking against the voices of the people for too long. The shocking mediocrity of the mainstream media is pathetic. The corruption of the judiciary is endemic. Both already rotten to the core and beyond repair. A complete overhaul of the rot and decay is not out of place. They still have not come to grips with the new political landscape yet.
It is important that members of the old guard from Mahathir’s era are not allowed to worm back in. We should start from a clean slate. Such a move per se will checkmate any of Mahathir’s hidden agenda plans, post-GE12. It is in the national interest that Badawi do just that.
He will save the people of this country the heartache and pain they went through under Mahathir’s wretched rule.
Bring back the RULE OF LAW (the JUDICIARY) and FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION (abrogate and repeal the archaic and repressive press laws). A win-win to himself and to us, the ordinary citizens. A saving grace in his political swan-song. God Blesshim. God Bless us all. Amen.
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