Mukhriz Letter: A Time For Honest Reevaluation II

Surat Mukhriz: Sudah Masa Untuk Penilaian Semula Yang Ikhlas II

Mukhriz Menjelaskan Maksud Menimbang "Suara Rakyat" dan Melakukan Sesuatu Yang "Terbaik Dan Berpatutan"

Kenyataan akhbar yang tergendala akibat ancaman keselamatan pada hari Isnin baru-baru ini di Seberang Jaya tidak menghindar Mukhriz untuk menyatakan tuntutan pengunduran Pak Lah dari jawatan Perdana Menteri dan Presiden UMNO.

Majlis kenyataan akhbar yang dijadualkan di Hotel Sunway Seberang Jaya pada pukul 3 petang dikatakan melibatkan sekumpulan Ketua-Ketua Pemuda negeri Kedah, Pulau Pinang dan Perak, kesemua negeri jatuh ke tangan pembangkang. Majlis itu terpaksa ditunda dan alih atas sebab ancaman keselamatan dari kehadiran sekumpulan 100 ahli-ahli gangster Pekida yang disyaki dihantar oleh Khairy Jamaluddin dan datang bersama Pemuda Bahagian Kepala Batas.

Di atas desakan pelbagai pihak termasuk Dato Seri Hishamuddin dan mengambilkira keselamatan mereka yang hadir, Mukhriz hanya mengkiaskan sahaja hasrat kenyataan kumpulan ini dengan meminta pucuk kepimpinan mendengar suara hati rakyat dan melakukan sesuatu yang patut.

Namun, pucuk kepimpinan UMNO masih tidak menghiraukan suara hati rakyat dan ahli-ahli UMNO yang sebahagian besar telah meluahkan protes mereka dengan mengundi pembangkang. Pak Lah masih bersingkap angkuh dan tetap ingin kekal sebagai Perdana Menteri dan enggan berganjak dari pendirian untuk meletakkan Khairy Jamaluddin sebagai Menteri Kabinat yang dikatakan akan dilantik sebagai Menteri Belia dan Sukan.

Pada hari Rabu Mac 12hb, 2008, Mukhriz telah mengeluarkan surat menjelaskan bahawa Pak Lah (dan Khairy) harus bertanggungjawab sebagai penyebab utama dan mengundur diri. Surat itu yang diambil dari laman web MyKMU diterbitkan berikut dan terjemahan ke dalam bahasa Inggeris ada tersiar di laman blog Rocky Bru di sini.

Bagaikan kitaran sejarah berulang kembali, Tun Dr Mahathir pernah mengirim surat kepada Perdana Menteri Tunku Abdul Rahman pada Jun 17hb, 1969 selepas peristiwa Mei 13 1969 yang berlaku selepas kekalahan teruk Peikatan.


Dengan surat ini, Mukhriz yang berperwatakan bersopan dan baik yang sering dikatakan mengikut sifat ibunya, Tun Dr Siti Hasmah Mohd Ali seolah-olah menunjukkan transformasi menjadi ayahnya, Tun Dr Mahathir yang berani dan tegas.

Mukhriz dianggap tidak kuat kedudokkan politiknya di dalam parti dan sering menjadi mangsa permainan politik pengecut dan politik kotor UMNO khususnya dari Khairy Jamaluddin. Adakah tindakan ini akan mengakibatkannya dipecat sebagaimana yang dilakukan oleh Tunku terhadap bapanya pada tahun 1969?

Itu tidak dapat dipastikan tetapi dikatakan Dato Seri Azalina telah menyuarakan sedemikian. Adakah pucuk kepimpinan UMNO berani memecat Mukhriz dengan kedudukkan Barisan Nasional di dalam Parlimen agak goyang? Adakah pucuk kepimpinan UMNO berani melakukan sesuatu terhadap Mukhriz yang menyuarakan keresahan hati rakyat dan ahli-ahli UMNO bawahan?

Dengan keadaan yang sedemikian, bangsa dan negara perlukan pemimpin yang berani dan tegas. Adakah masa Mukhriz telah tiba? Ledakkan tsunami kedua sedang berlaku dan Pak Lah seharusnya menerima kenyataan ini. Dia seharusnya bertindak bijak danbertanggungjawab untuk melakukan sesuatu yang bijak dengan menerima nasihat Mukhriz demi menjaga sisa nama baiknya.

Pak Lah harus belajar dari sejarah. Lakukan sebagaimana Napolean untuk menyerah diri apabila sudah tewas. Kekalahannya tidak menghancurkan Paris. Sejarah masih mengiktirafnya dengan penghormatan. Jangan lakukan seperti Hitler yang sanggup bertahan bermati-matian hingga membunuh diri dan negaranya hancur. Sejarah mengingati Hitler dengan imej yang amat burok. Fikirkan baik-baik, Pak Lah.

Sementara itu, penulis ada menerima sebaran SMS semalam menyatakan Dato Najib, Tan Sri Mahyuddin dan Dato Syed Hamid menentang kemasukkan Khairy Jamaluddin ke dalam kabinet. Kebenaran berita ini masih tidak dapat di tentukan tetapi satu pembaharuan sedang berlaku dalam UMNO. Terima sahaja kenyataan ini demi amar makruf dan nahi mungkar.

Lagi Tsunami Kedua

Sudah terpampang merata Kuala Lumpur banner yang menuntut pengunduran Pak Lah.







Sila lawati laman Jinggo Fotopage di sini untuk gambar-gambar lain.

Ahli UMNO sudah bersuara dan rakyat sudah tunjuk melalui undi, adakah telinganya yang besar mendengar? Masih percaya setiap temberang penasihatnya?

Masih menafi Khairy tidak mempengaruhinya? Masih ingat rakyat percaya penafian budak-budak Tingkat 4 ini bagus? Masih mahu menipu nafi keluarganya Kamaluddin, Nori dan Jeanne tidak terlibat dalam pentadbiran dan kontrak kerajaan?

Masih ingat dirinya alim sebagai Imam Hadhari dengan gambar-gambar yang menunjukkan rendahnya moral Perdana Menteri yang kuat menipu?

Semua Presiden parti komponen yang kalah telah diundurkan rakyat, menawar mengundur, dan dituntut mengundur.

Demi menjaga maruah UMNO, ahli-ahli UMNO harus menuntut pengunduran Presiden yang kurang cerdik ini!

Tsunami Kedua Sudah Bermula

Bahagian Batu Mengemukakan Petisyen Menuntut Pak Lah Meletakkan Jawatan



Terbaru keluar di MyKMU, Bahagian Batu Wilayah Persekutuan telah menuntut Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi berundur secara terhormat. Ini merupakan Bahagian UMNO yang pertama yang menuntut pengunduran Presiden UMNO dari jawatan Perdana Menteri.

Petisyen dari Bahagian Batu tidak dapat di perolehi lagi, namun berdasarkan draf yang telah diterbitkan di MyKMU, petisyen itu mungkin berupa seperti di bawah ini:

PETISYEN:

Keputusan Pilihan raya umum 2008 menyaksikan Barisan Nasional menerima kekalahan teruk. Tidak pernah dalam sejarah BN menerima kekalahan begitu besar iaitu hilang lima buah negeri dan hilang majoriti 2/3 di Parlimen.

Kekalahan ini sungguhpun mempunyai 1001 sebab, namun sebab-sebab utama jelas menjurus kepada kelemahan kepimpinan dan dasar Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

Seperti kata Perdana Menteri Keempat Malaysia, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, “Sekiranya kemenangan besar 2004 diuar-uarkan sebagai kemenangan Abdullah, maka Abdullah juga harus bertanggungjawab dalam kekalahan ini.”

Menurut kaji selidik laman web penyokong UMNO www.mykmu.net, antara punca utama kekalahan Barisan Nasional akibat secara langsung daripada Abdullah. 10 sebab utama ialah:

1. Kegagalan melaksanakan ekonomi secara makro bagi kesejahteraan masyarakat. Tiada hala tuju jelas ekonomi negara kecuali slogan dan Dalam tempoh empat tahun kepimpinan Abdullah telah berlaku:

a) Kenaikan harga petrol yang terlalu tinggi
b) Kenaikan tol yang sangat drastik,
c) Kenaikan kadar faedah asas (BLR),
d) kenaikan kos sara hidup - elektrik, cukai pintu dan air.
e) Kenaikan harga barang

2. Dasar Luar yang mengelirukan dan pro-Singapura seperti:

a) Mengakui Tambak Johor sebagai hak bersama Malaysia-Singapura tanpa kira sempadan, tanpa mendapat keputusan Mahkamah Antarabangsa.
b) Membatalkan pembinaan jambatan bengkok kerana ugutan Singapura
c) Masih gagal menyelesaikan isu harga air mentah ke Singapura
d) Gagal memimpin OIC

3. Promosi Islam Hadhari yang keterlaluan:

a) Membimbangkan masyarakat bukan Islam.
b) Tidak diterima oleh sebahagian besar orang Islam di Malaysia kerana dianggap mengelirukan dan memberi imej tidak baik kepada Islam sebelum munculnya istilah Hadhari ini di Malaysia.

4. Pentadbiran negara yang tunggang langgang:

a) Tindakan menghantar Menteri ke negara China bagi memohon maaf atas isu ketuk ketampi bogel dalam lokap tanpa menyiasat terlebih dahulu identiti wanita terbabit.
b) Membenarkan “media bashing” terhadap pasukan polis, cuba mewujudkan badan pemantau polis (IPCMC) tetapi menarik balik. Moral pasukan polis amat lemah sehingga menyebabkan Polis sudah kurang berkesan dan kadar jenayah kian bertambah tanpa penyelesaian.

c) Keputusan berubah-ubah dalam kes Jambatan Bengkok, Landasan Keretapi Berkembar, Jambatan Pulau Pinang Kedua menyebabkan negara kerugian berbilion ringgit

d) Kenyataan-kenyataan biadap dan tidak bertanggungjawab Abdullah seperti “I dont Know, i’m not involve” dalam kes ECM Libra dan memanggil pengkritik beliau sebagai Iblis.

e) Banyak menubuhkan suruhanjaya tanpa mengambil langkah sewajarnya menyebabkan suruhanjaya sendiri sudah menjadi lawak jenaka.

f) Pertelingkahan dan pertikaian antara Menteri sudah menjadi lumrah sehingga kabinet menjadi bahan jenaka masyarakat umum.

5. Pentadbiran yang kurang ajar dan biadap terhadap Perdana Menteri Keempat Malaysia, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad menyebabkan ramai penyokong UMNO dan rakyat Malaysia berketurunan cina tidak berpuas hati dan melalukan undi protes.

6. Isu korupsi dan kronisme yang melampau dalam kes ECM Libra, Scomi dan Myteam menyebabkan hilang kepercayaan.

7. Memecah-belahkan UMNO

a) Membenarkan mereka yang dipersoal kesetiaan terhadap UMNO dan negara menguasai media yang UMNO mempeunyai kepentingan telah menimbulkan keadaan tidak senang dalam UMNO.

b) Menggugurkan Ketua Bahagian dalam persempadanan semula kawasan pilihan raya lalu memberi isyarat jelas Abdullah tidak menghormati hak demokrasi parti.

c) Keputusan yang berbeza dalam isu politik wang antara Ahmad Zaki Zahid (Pembantu Khas Perdana Menteri) dengan Zaid Ibrahim yang menang tanpa bertanding mencerminkan penyalahgunaan Majlis Disiplin UMNO. Ahmad Zaki hanya diberi amaran kerana terbabit politik wang dalam pertandingan Ketua Pemuda UMNO Bahagian Putrajaya. Manakala Zaid Ibrahim digantung atas dakwaan politik wang sungguhpun tidak terbabit dalam sebarang pertandingan. Zaid menang tanpa bertanding Ketua UMNO Kota Bharu.

d) Tidak mengendahkan persepsi umum bahawa Khairy Jamaluddin begitu berkuasa dalam UMNO dan kerajaan

e) Tidak mengambil sebarang tindakan ke atas penyokong-penyokongnya seperti Datuk Kamarulzaman (TV3) dan Datuk Kalimullah (NSTP) menggunakan media mereka untuk menghentam pemimpin UMNO yang dilihat boleh memberi cabaran kepada Khairy Jamaluddin.

f) Hanya menurunkan peruntukan dan projek kepada kontraktor kelas F setelah menghadapi kritikan keras Tun Dr. Mahathir dan khuatir akan berlaku kritikan keras dalam perhimpunan agung UMNO. Rasuah terangan-terangan dengan mengumumkan peruntukan RM 3 juta setiap bahagian sehingga menjejaskan imej UMNO.

g) Kempen keterlaluan untuk mengalahkan Tun Dr. Mahathir dalam pemilihan perwakilan UMNO Kubang Pasu 2006 menyebabkan ramai ahli UMNO “berjauh hati.”

h) Membiarkan Setiausaha Agung UMNO, Datuk Seri Radzi Sheikh Ahmad yang tidak dipilih secara demokrasi dalam UMNO memporak- perandakan UMNO Perlis menjelang pilihan raya umum 2008.

8. Gagal mengawal isu Hindraf sehingga menjadi begitu besar dan MIC hilang sokongan orang India.

9. Tidak mempunyai strategi yang jelas apabila menerima kekalahan dalam pilihan raya umum 2008. Kata-kata seperti itu “pilihan rakyat”, “rakyat sudah buat keputusan, kita terima” bukanlah cerminan pemimpin yang mampu bangun memimpin BN untuk menang semula.

10. Akhir sekali, wajah kepimpinan Abdullah sudah ditolak oleh kaum Cina dan India serta tidak lagi disenangi oleh sebahagian besar orang Melayu dan UMNO. Isu ini bukan isu perebutan kepimpinan atau pertukaran pemimpin, tetapi ia merupakan isu dasar dan polisi Abdullah yang ditolak rakyat.

Justeru UMNO dan Barisan Nasional memerlukan kepimpinan baru bagi memberi nafas baru menjelang pilihan raya akan datang. Lebih penting, negara Malaysia memerlukan polis dan dasar baru yang lebih segar dan berwibawa bagi menjamin kemakmuran kepada rakyat.

Sehubungan itu, kami sebagai ahli-ahli UMNO dibawah dengan ini memohon agar:

1. Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi meletak jawatan secara sukarela sebagai Perdana Menteri dan Presiden UMNO.

ATAU

2. Sekiranya, Datuk Seri Abdullah dan Ahli Majlis Tertinggi UMNO berpendapat Presiden parti masih mendapat sokongan ahli UMNO, maka sewajarnya, satu Perhimpunan Agung Khas UMNO dipanggil dan satu undi sulit mengenai kedudukan Presiden UMNO diadakan.

Sekian, terima kasih.

Sebelum ini Dato Mukhriz telah mengkiaskan menuntut pengunduran Pak Lah di Parkview Hotel, Seberang Jaya pada Isnin lalu. Kenyataan beliau yang telah dilembutkan bagi tujuan keselamatan hadirin menuntut pihak kepimpinan menimbang "suara rakyat" dan melakukan sesuatu yang "terbaik dan berpatutan".

Tindakan yang terbaik dan berpatutan yang seharusnya dilakukan adalah untuk mengundur diri. Namun, Pak Lah masih mengambil sikap yang angkuh dan enggan meletakkan jawatan bila berkata, “Buat apa saya hendak letak jawatan, parti kita menang, saya tidak takut dan tidak gentar kepada sesiapa kecuali Allah S.W.T.” pada perjumpaan hari Ahad Mac 9hb, 2008 di Putrajaya.

Malah, dari sumber-sumber yang boleh dipercayai, Pak Lah masih menyuarakan di dalam Mesyuarat Majlis Tertinggi UMNO baru-baru ini hasrat untuk melantik Khairy Jamaluddin ke dalam kabinet. Berdasarkan sumber-sumber, sudah ada mereka yang telah ditawarkan jawatan Menteri enggan menerima sekiranya kehadiran Khairy di dalam kabinet Menteri.

Kepopularan Pak lah sudah menjunam. Jelas sekali, undi popular Barisan Nasional di Semenanjung berada di bawah 50% pada 49.8% dan hanya 51.5 % bagi seluruh negara, dibantu oleh undi dari Sabah dan Sarawak.

Pak Lah harus bertanggungjawab kerana dia dan menantunya merupakan antara penyebab utama kekecewaan dan kebencian rakyat terhadap Barisan Nasional. Presiden-presiden parti kmponen parti yang lain seperti Gerakan, MCA, MIC dan PPP telah mengambil tanggungjawab di atas prestasi buruk parti masing-maing di PRU 12.

Beberapa pemimpin seperti bekas Zainuddin Maidin dan Dato Seri Lim Keng Yaik telah mula bersuara dengan pendedahan masing-masing. Zainuddin Maidin mendedahkan kegagalan kumpulan muda untuk menguasai kepimpinan. Manakala, Dato Seri Lim Keng Yaik menegur penasihat-penasihat setahun jagung yang mengelilingi Pak Lah.




Disamping itu, mereka-mereka seperti Professor Shamsul Amri, Tan Sri Mahyuddin dan lain-lain sebelum itu telah mula lantang berkenaan kebimbangan kepada masaalah Pak Lah, Khairy dan penasihat-penasihat muda di dalam temuramah-temuramah di televisyen.

Dalam suasana keyakinan rakyat yang sudah merudum, tindakan mengekalkan Pak Lah di jawatan Presiden dan Perdana Menteri berserta menantunya Khairy Jamaluddin hanya akan merosakkan lagi prestasi UMNO. Pak Lah harus mengundur demi menyelamatkan UMNO. Sudah sampai masanya ahli-ahli UMNo mengutamakan parti dari kepentingan peribadi dan berani menyuarakan kebenaran dan menentang kemungkarab dalam parti.

Apa sekali pun langkah yang ingin diambil seharusnya mengambil cara yang tenang supaya tidak tercetusnya kucar kacir dan ketidak tenteraman. Sudah tersebar khabar penggunaan kongsi-kongsi gelap yang dikaitkan dengan Pak Lah dan Khairy Jamaluddin untuk mengekang mana-mana pihak yang akan bersuara. Pihak keselamatan diharap dapat mengambil perhatin yang wajar.

UMNO: A Time For Honest Reevaluation I

Those who never learned from history are doomed.

This is a time for drastic action and measures. It is a time for honest and sincere opinion. It is time for a no hlods barred reevaluation. For those purposes, I will be writing a series of personal opinion, articles and news cutting relevent for UMNO to reevaluate its situation.

UMNO, specifically the UMNO President cum Prime Minister, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, made a cardinal mistake of refusing to acknowledge information. From very reliable insider sources, Abdullah would get into a state of denial and even tantrum whenever any intelligence or ground report stating Khairy as factor.


Abdullah was too engrossed in building his family dynasty that he refused to acknowledge that early poll is a mistake. He refused advise that the timing is wrong and effort must be done to adress the problems.

Having deceived the UMNO MKT to extend party election for the wimsical reason to focus on implementation of RMK9, he wanted to use an early poll to place in Parliament those allied to him and Khairy. After General Election, his plan is to do a major party purge from ground zero up through the party election and it is widely believed to place Khairy as heir to the "premiership throne".

During the General Election, cah keting was not just confined to Kelantan but happening everywhere, for various reasons - rivalry ranging from within the internal division, and macro party level. That has caused a double effect of backstabbing and money and resourced were saved for the party election, which is to begin after the General Election. UMNO was not "fighting" the Opposition but fighting within itself.

All along, Abdullah could have been mislead to believe that everything is fine and to focus on his chess game. Unfortunately, not only are party members disgruntled with the way UMNO is heading, the economic, security, sovereinty, media, ethnic and religious and many other issues are brewing among the people. this was compunded by the demonstratiosn and handling of the demonstrations.

Lets refer to this news report from Singapore's Straits Times dated March 13th, 2008:

BN 'MADE BIG MISTAKE WITH EARLY POLLS AND MEDIA ATTACKS ON ANWAR'

Both strategies backfired and helped Anwar gain support for opposition: Experts

By Zackaria Abdul Rahim, THE STRAITS TIMES

THE ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition might have been able to prevent its election disaster had it let former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim run, a panel of experts in Singapore said yesterday.

Holding elections early allowed the charismatic opposition leader to roam round the country stumping for the opposition instead of being tied down to campaigning for himself in one constituency, they said.

That 'fundamentally flawed strategy' contributed to the big swing against the BN at the polls, concluded the panel at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at Nanyang Technological University.

After his imprisonment for corruption, Datuk Seri Anwar was barred from holding public office until April 15. Thus he was free to campaign anywhere; he even gave a speech at a financial conference in Singapore last Wednesday, just days before the election.

The visit gave the government more fodder for the anti-Anwar campaign it conducted in the country's pro-government newspapers.

'Perhaps, for the Malay Muslim electorate, a certain sensitivity has been touched because this was a man who had been put in jail, beaten up by the IGP (Inspector-General of Police) of Malaysia,' said Dr Farish Noor, Senior Fellow at RSIS. 'He had been demonised in the media, and then there was this unrelenting attack on Anwar Ibrahim for four days.'

Voters in Kelantan and Terengganu receive only Berita Harian and Utusan newspapers, he noted.

'And the attacks in Utusan and Berita Harian took up half the contents of each paper,' he said.

'When you heap this relentless barrage of abuse on Anwar Ibrahim, without giving him a chance to even reply, the sympathy simply swung in his favour.'

Other members of the panel, chaired by Associate Professor Joseph Liow, RSIS' head of research, were: Professor Shamsul A.B., founding director of the Institute of Ethnic Studies at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia; RSIS' senior fellow, Mr Yang Razali Kassim; and Ms Jacqueline Ann Surin, former Sun journalist and founder of the website malaysiavotes.com..

On the part of Anwar, I would like to differ but would agree that it was over done. Anwar was not a significant factor but the manner the GE was scheduled and overkill towards Anwar has made him a factor.

BN has the necessary tools to end Anwar's popularity but refused to use it. On this aspect, I will be consistent with my position that all along Anwar had an understanding with Abdullah. In fact, I strongly believed that Abdullah had manipulated the judge to release him. But that is another story ... the issue is Abdullah did not handled Anwar factor wisely and made it into a factor.

Another move that contributed to the BN's massive losses, said Dr Farish, was the decision to scrap the use of indelible ink, which had been aimed at curbing people from voting more than once.

'This immediately sent out a very clear message to a lot of the supporters of PAS (Parti Islam SeMalaysia) and the opposition in particular that there is going to be massive vote-rigging, so you better go out and vote,' he said. 'Perhaps, it made the pro-government supporters a bit more lax.'.

I agree with this argument. The cancellation of the use of indelible ink at the 10th hour was bad timing.

Personally, I have heard of BN party workers making statement "ini adalah operasi lah" signifying that it did not go well with party members too, who mostly wanted send a message to Abdullah to spoilt the votes.

It is bad taste to cancel when the Government claimed it met three out four of the demand made by BERSIH demonstrators in November.

The presence of Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi's son-in-law Khairy Jamaluddin on the campaign circuit may have also backfired.

Dr Farish said that Mr Khairy, as the Umno deputy Youth chief, is projected as a role model for young Malaysians, but he really epitomises the gap between 'rich and poor' families.

'(So), some of the PAS leaders were quite happy when Khairy came to Kelantan,' he explained.

Read my earlier posting Khairy ... His Numbered Days.

Thus, the panel yesterday agreed, the combined anger of not just the Chinese and Indians, but also the Malays, hurt the BN.

'It is quite clear it is the Malay backlash that pulled down the BN,' said Prof Shamsul.

He added that while Chinese voters are touchy about language, culture and education, Malay voters are protective of morality and Islam.

In my opinion, Abdullah's poor communicative skill and inability to restrain his cabinet members and handle the situation is the main reason that the language, culture and education including religous issue became a problem to BN. For all likelihood, Abdullah refused to acknowledge there was a problem.

'It is quite interesting that the Malays have decided that the BN is not good morally and it doesn't look after Islam, and that's why we don't want you,' he said.

Dr Farish said that the Malay Muslim electorate has rejected the concept of Islam Hadhari promoted by Datuk Seri Abdullah in 2004.

He said that ordinary Malays see Islam Hadhari as building a 'RM250 million (S$109 million) Islamic theme park', - an allusion to the extravagant Crystal Mosque in Terengganu.

He showed a photo of a poster put up by PAS outside the mosque, which read: 'Never before this has a RM250 million mosque been built only for tourists. This is Islam Hadhari.'

Another poster reminded the electorate that Umno had destroyed mosques in the past.

Dr Farish interpreted the voters' thoughts as: 'Why should we build a mosque just to attract tourists. We want it for us.'

Yet another poster, with the tagline of Islam Hadhari, highlighted the social ills that have plagued Malaysia's Malays: Mat Rempit (biker gang), teenage couples holding hands, gangsterism in school, alcohol consumption and smoking.

Islam Hadhari has been my crying call since 2005.

The root to the problem of Islam Hadhari and other policies of Abdullah is that it is mere propaganda and media spin without anything of substance to substantiate.

The problem of Abdullah has alwasy been about seliing a defective product by purely branding and rebranding other's product as his own.

Khairy ... His Numbered Days

Taken from Malaysia Today

Abdullah's fast rising son-in-law may abandon top party post

KUALA LUMPUR, March 12 – Arrogant. A Racist. A Crony. The epitome of what’s wrong with Malaysian politics. A Malay ultra. The power behind the throne. Too ambitious. Too cocky. Too much in a hurry. Too interfering. Too young. The hidden hand behind the missteps and colossal collapse of Barisan Nasional at the election.

Add all of these together and you still would not complete the list of how Malaysians perceive Khairy Jamaludin, the deputy chief of Umno Youth, MP for Rembau and the son-in-law of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

Thanks to wall-to-wall coverage of him over the past three years in the alternative media and a catalogue of own goals, he has emerged as probably the most disliked person in Malaysia today and the person most likely to have to take the fall for BN’s showing in Election 2008.

The Malaysian Insider understands that Khairy – who until recently was being touted as the next Umno Youth chief and a future minister – could be looking at giving up his position in the youth movement, signaling probably the end of a meaningful political career for the country’s fastest rising star.

In the days after the Opposition took control of five states and denied the ruling coalition its traditional two-thirds majority in Parliament, the knives were being sharpened for the back of the Oxford-educated economist. An Umno division chief, who requested anonymity, said: “The view on the ground among Umno members is that Khairy played a pivotal role in drawing up the list of election candidates. They believe he was trying to be a kingmaker. That is why many candidates were rejected by the divisions and even our own Umno members.

“There is a great deal of anger against him and the PM.

“I think that the feeling of frustration against the PM will only die down if Khairy steps down as Umno Youth deputy chief.’’

If this happens, it will be the end of a career that once seemed destined for the apex of Malaysian politics.

The son of a diplomat, Khairy started becoming noticed after he became special assistant to Abdullah when the latter was the Deputy Prime Minister. He and other aides to Abdullah were instrumental in drawing up the reform agenda that ushered in Abdullah’s term as Prime Minister in November 2003.

They believed that Abdullah had to capture the imagination of a Malaysian public that had become tired of the confrontational politics of the Mahathir era.

The positive results of the March 2004 election bolstered Khairy’s confidence and image, with some politicians already talking about his potential. Even he seemed caught up with his new aura of power and seemed ready to push the envelope with civil servants and party apparatchiks in Abdullah’s office.

By the end of 2004, the word in power circles was that if you wanted to see the PM or influence policy, you had to meet Khairy first.

Most of this was hyperbole but in this country, perception is 99%. With his rising influence came enemies.

The older Umno politicians were unhappy with a young man who spoke so confidently, sometimes out of turn. What they did not realise was he was not a product of Malaysian education, having studied in boarding school and United World College in Singapore before leaving for Oxford.

The Umno operators in the PM’s office felt threatened by his growing influence and labelled him an enemy. By 2005, Khairy left the office, sensing that he had become a burden to Abdullah. He told friends that he could not work effectively as a senior aide to the PM because of all the talk about him being the son-in-law and being the real power behind the PM.

But instead of taking a lower profile, he soon started climbing up the political ladder in Umno, culminating with him being unchallenged for the deputy chief position in the youth wing. In corporate circles, he earned the tag of a fixer, someone who could help obtain approvals for big-ticket projects.

Those who know him from his school days say he seemed to become more of a Malay nationalist as he rose up the ranks in Umno.

In a way, this is what happens to anyone who joins the party – they have to conform to an ethos and value system. The more he took on the persona of an ultra, the more he was viewed as acceptable by the rank and file in the party. In contrast, many non Malays started to have serious misgivings about him.

He spooked many when he defended the action of Umno Youth chief Hishammuddin Hussein to carry a keris at the opening of the party assembly. He also lost more fans when he claimed that the Chinese community in Malaysia would take advantage of the Malays if Umno were weak.

He seemed to have concluded that he needed the support of Umno more than he needed the support of Malaysians.

His supporters argue that he was doing what Mahathir Mohamad, Najib Tun Razak and Anwar Ibrahim had also done – played to the Malay gallery to rise to the top and then moderated their views once they reached their political goal.

But there was one major difference between then and now.

Now there is the Internet, SMS and other alternative media platforms, and any mistake can be amplified to every corner of the country. Bloggers and websites pulverised him and turned him into an ogre. Their views went largely unchallenged and Raja Petra Kamarudin’s Khairy Chronicles – despite its liberal mix of fact and fiction – became the defining profile of the young politician.

From Bukit Kayu Hitam to a speck of a town in Sarawak, people know all about the misadventures of Khairy. They do not know what he actually looks like, have not had any dealings with him but every one of them can yet recall a negative story about him.

The main thrust of their anger is that Khairy is a corrupt, power-hungry politician who was working the PM like a puppet master.

If he was allowed a free run to the top of the political office, it would be disastrous for Malaysia, they agreed.

Umno politicians told The Malaysian Insider that it was a myth that Khairy influenced policy or made decisions on behalf of the PM. For proof, just look to the return of the old brigade – Zainuddin Mydin, Aziz Shamsudin and Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor – which shows that Khairy had limited influence on important issues like the selection of candidates, they point out.

Says an Umno Supreme Council member: “The problem is that Khairy did not discourage the perception that he was all-powerful. It worked in his favour because it earned him the respect of the business community and Umno politicians.

“So now it is too late to say that he has nothing to do with the selection of candidates or the election strategy. Party members want someone to take responsibility for the election. That is the nature of Umno politics. If it is not Khairy, it will have to be Pak Lah.’’

Khairy knows this fact and that is why he will need to step down before the branches and divisions begin their meetings in May. Otherwise, they will hammer his father-in-law, and that is a price the son-in-law is not willing to pay.

- THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER

Blogger Susan Loone Accused Mukhriz Cheating

Mukhriz gentlemenly acknowledging his opponent Idris Ahmad (PAS)

Susan Loone received an e-mail and without much checking and thinking, she tried to create doubt over Mukhriz's election victory in Jerlun. She claimed that an e-mail sent to her highlighted some strange almost perfect turnout of 99.85% published in the newspaper and SPR website.

Although she titled her posting with a questionmark as "Mukriz Mahathir cheated in elections?", she had no quarms to quote the full e-mail with the conclusion "See what a blatant cheater Mukhriz Mahathir is !!." without any qualification

That can be inferred as an intention to accuse and sway her commentator, as evidenced in her posting, into a negative perception of Mukhriz. Her dramatic stunt received attention in Malaysia Today.

One comentator in Rocky Bru demanded she apologise for her wrongful "accusation". She updated her blog but has yet to do so. Lets just see whether she would honourably apologise or she would conjure up excuses and do doublespeak to wiggle her way out of an apology.

Well, Susan Loone has a history of being dramatic in her blogging and was called drama queen by the blogging community. She dramatised the Altantunya case with all sorts of wild unsubstantiated accusation but cease when court proceeding began. This lead some to believe that she couldn't do her spin when fact are presented.

She claimed of being non-partisan but was later revealed by sources inside the Parti Keadilan office that she wanted to stand but was not put forward. Liar liar pants on fire.

She wanted to push her political agenda on All Blog during the Ijok by election. When her request was not met, she attempted to established a breakaway bloggers association. Whatever happened to that association to compete with Rocky and Jeff Ooi's?

Whanever she is caught lying, she will never acknowledge and the possibility of apologizing is remote.

This allegation on Mukhriz is but another typical dramatic stunt of hers - expressing her ill intention by wrongful "accusation" based on spin and half truth. Worse still, she made no attempt to verify the suspicious number.

Despite highlighted by her commentators, she remain recalcitrant from admitting the typographical error. This is another proof of her ill intention. The newspaper sourced the erroneous information from SPR, thus explaining the same numbers in the newspaper and SPR website.

The SPR reported the total registered voter for Jerlun P005 is 45,513. Mukhriz (BN) received 19,424 votes and Idris Ahmad (PAS) is 17,219. Adding the spoilt vote of 599 votes, the turnout is 37,242. The SPR recorded the same turnout of 37,242, thus it tallies.

For the benefit of Susan Loone, the calculation of percentage turnout is derived by dividing the total turnout by total registered voter and multiplied by 100%. Since she lack the Mathematical prowess to spot inconsistencies, I have taken the trouble to derive it for her. The percentage turnout is 81.83% and not the published 99,85%. If she wish to dispute all the numbers that I presented, then I provide below a video of the official announcement:



For the benefit of Susan Loone, who was denied opportunity to experiance an election by Dato Kamarul's office, the SPR cannot make announcement before getting clearance from SPR headquarter in Kuala Lumpur. Opps ... this blogger used to have business discussion at Dato Kamarul's Taman Samudera property development office in Gombak.

Since Susan Loone loves conspiracy, I'll cook one up for her. Now, it's known fact that Mukhriz was sent to Jerlun to get slaughtered after being denied a comfortable place in Pulau Langkawi.

Mukhriz would likely to face sabotage from KJ's Pemuda kaki and the incumbent. It wouldn't be a surprise if KJ had sent some money men and goons to steer away voters to PAS. I would believe some laced tetra-packed soya drink that can hospitalised 60 campaign workers with food poisoning would be just the perfect abruption. After all, a resounding victory would make him look good and KJ bad (his campaigning was not doing well in Rembau).

Assuming KJ had SPR people inside in their pocket, wouldn't they be making Mukhriz lose and not have a better majority? Mukhriz's majority was 2,205 votes compared to the earlier majority of 2,142 votes.

How did I come up with such conspiracy theory? Just like I come up with the information that Dato Kamarul's office rejected Susan Loone as candidate for 1999 general election. Nah, I'm just giving room for Susan Loone to spin an answer.

But Susan Loone, Mukhriz's sister asked, Who's cheating?

Tuntut Pak Lah Letak Jawatan! UNDUR LAH!

Saya menerima SMS di bawah ini:

Asm. wbt. Sdr. Sekelian.

Satu2nya jalan keluar untuk menebuskan nama baik UMNO dan BN ialah untuk Pak Lah meletakkan jawatannya, sebagaimana janjinya dengan Tun M untuk menjadi PM selama sepenggal sahaja, diwaktu beliau dilantik. Pemimpin UMNO disetiap peringkat perlu menyampaikan desakan ini demi agama, bangsa dan tanahair.

Khairy adalah segala punca masaalah, bersama Kalimullah dan Patrick Lim. Dari kenyataan media Khairy nampaknya tidak insaf dan akan berpesta lagi. Tanpa Pak Lah tiadalah Khairy.

Tolong sampaikan mesej ini kepada kawan-kawan. Sampaikan juga kepada Agong kerana besok pagi Pak Lah ke istana mungkin untuk melantik kabinet termasuk Khairy. Bertindaklah sekarang sebelum terlambat.

Tan Sri ...
(Nama tidak disiar kerana belum dipastikan)

Sementara itu, satu posting oleh Rocky Bru "mencadangkan" rakyat Malaysia keluar beramai-ramai menuntut Pak Lah meletakkan turun dengan berkumpul di Istana Negara untuk "Please Go" Protest. Pak Lah dijadual mengadap bertemu DYMM Seri Paduka Baginda Yang Dipertuan Agong hari Isnin ini untuk menubuhkan kerajaan.

Semua rakyat Malaysia harus suarakan dengan terbuka menuntut Pak Lah mengundur dengan menampal di kereta masing-masing kertas bertulis "RAKYAT MALAYSIA MENUNTUT PAK LAH LETAK JAWATAN". Kibarkan bendera, poster, banner atau apa saja untuk menuntut perletakkan jawatan Pak Lah.

Pak Lah, Khairy, Kalimullah, Patrick Lim, Tingkat 4 .... mesti dilucutkan kuasa!