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You be the judge!
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 18:20:29 +0800
MB today, PM tomorrow
Mariam Mokhtar
| May 10, 2013
Do you honestly think Umno Baru and the Election Commission (EC) will reform
and accommodate the rakyat’s wishes?
COMMENT
GE13 is not about the rakyat and good governance, but is about maintaining the
status quo and one man – Dr Mahathir Mohamad. The rakyat was only a means to
his end.
Now that GE13 is over, Mahathir and Najib Tun Razak, the prime minister
designate of Malaysia’s illegitimate government, can continue the most
important political battle of their lives; Najib must satisfy his addiction to
power and money, whilst Mahathir needs to establish his political dynasty.
Their common enemy is Pakatan and they were willing to stop Pakatan’s progress
by any means, including cheating, bribery and intimidation.
Umno Baru kept the rakyat on tenterhooks, waiting for GE13, then robbed them of
their right to make their vote count. Umno Baru robbed us of our destiny and
our children’s future.
How can Malaysians trust Umno Baru? Najib made several promises to the Chinese
community before GE13 and entertained them with Psy and the Bond girl. A few
days ago, he insulted the Chinese community and questioned their gratitude.
If the economically sound Chinese are treated with disdain, good luck to the
likes of P Waythamoorthy and his rag-tag band of Indian followers whose MoU is
not worth the paper it is written on.
Is there any point in mounting a legal challenge against the alleged fraud in
GE13? Our judiciary was corrupted by Mahathir. Perakians are still fuming over
Najib’s coup d’état. They would probably trust a shaman more than they trust
the Malaysian courts.
Does the wife who has been betrayed by her philandering husband believe his
promise that he will not see other women? Will the person who readily accepts a
RM50 bribe refuse to receive larger sums? Did the cheat who copied other
people’s work and then falsified his degree, ever do an honest day’s study? Do
you honestly think Umno Baru and the Election Commission (EC) will reform and
accommodate the rakyat’s wishes?
Mahathir criticised the Pakatan rally in Kelana Jaya and said that the
opposition could not accept defeat. Malaysians abhor corruption and violence
but Mahathir has difficulty acknowledging this.
The task of this EC is not to facilitate free and fair elections in Malaysia.
Its main objective is to secure a win for Umno Baru at any cost. The election
is also a time for Umno Baru cronies to make money, either by supplying ink or
advertising.
How many millions of ringgits of the taxpayers’ money was spent on the useless
indelible ink? How many millions of ringgits did Najib spend on advertising?
Was the public purse used to fund Umno Baru adverts? Without a doubt!
Before GE13, the EC refused to investigate allegations of phantom voters and
other voting irregularities. The National Registration Department (NRD) and
most other government agencies also appeared to act for Umno Baru.
Azmin is wrong
Project IC is the brainchild of Mahathir and this election has seen a
Bangladesh, Indonesian, Filipino, Pakistani and Burmese tsunami.
When Pakatan gets to Putrajaya, the heads of the EC and the NRD should be
arrested and charged for being accomplices for Mahathir’s acts of treason.
We must act now, whilst the momentum is strong, to demand a re-election. If we
do not, Najib, Mahathir and Umno Baru will feel emboldened.
If we wait for GE14, Umno Baru will have raised the art of vote-rigging to such
a high level, that countries like Zimbabwe will want to learn from us.
Pakatan’s Azmin Ali has distanced himself from the Kelana Jaya rally and he
tweeted: “The rakyat are tired with politics that are over the top. Accept
results. Scrutinise yourself. Admit weaknesses. Move forward. Focus on the
rakyat, not yourselves.”
Azmin is wrong. Accepting flawed results will set a bad precedence. What sort
of example are we teaching our children, if we condoned cheating, corruption
and violence?
After GE13, Wan Saiful Wan Jan, the CEO of the Institute for Democracy and
Economic Affairs (IDEAS) said, “I am too afraid to say if the flaws affected
the results.”
“……….but I personally believe that we should accept the result, it is credible
as of now… partially free and not fair……….If we don’t, where do we go from
here?”
Wan Saiful cannot pussy foot around the issue of electoral rigging. It he says
they are partially free, then it means that GE13 was not a free election.
What sort of values would we be passing to our children if we did as Wan Saiful
suggested and ‘accepted the results’? What does that say about IDEAS, an
organisation which supposedly promotes democratic affairs?
Wan Saiful asked, “Why are we cheating? There must be bigger problems in our
society if we do that……..We cannot find any proof of fraud….. I believe that
the results of GE13 is credible.”
Is Wan Saiful unaware that Najib lives in denial and refuses to deal with the
bigger problems afflicting our society? Wan Saiful is naïve to think that the
EC made their fraudulent tactics glaringly obvious.
The EC employs subtle methods. For instance, the EC separated voters into
separate queues – one for the elderly and one for the young. The old people’s
queue took 15 minutes to move but the ‘young people’s queue averaged 3 – 5
hours before they could cast their votes.
Younger people would probably vote for the Opposition and perhaps, the EC
attempted to wear down their resolve. Many young people walked off before they
had voted.
Ideas for IDEAS
Wan Saiful also said, “I accept the results because I do not see how else we
can move forward. I’m more interested in strengthening the institution, rather
than criticising it.”
One would expect the IDEAS CEO to be more decisive and determined, especially
in a dictatorship like Malaysia.
How does Wan Saiful propose to strengthen the EC which exists only to promote
Umno Baru interests? Allegations that no election since 1969 has been clean are
rife.
Why should the EC and Umno Baru agree to correct the rigged constitutional
boundaries, i.e. gerrymandering? Why would Umno Baru want equitable
representation when they know will lose?
If IDEAS is short of ideas, I have three for him:-
The EC should declare the results invalid and demand a re-election.
Najib should resign as PM and only operate in a caretaker function until the
revised GE13 election.
That overseas Malaysians start petitions to be handed to the leaders of the
countries in which they live and work. (One petition has been started in
Washington DC). Najib thrives on a glowing report in international circles, and
a bad press will dent both his ego and his image.
Inaction by Malaysians will have tragic consequences. Today, Mukhriz Mahathir
is menteri besar; tomorrow, he will be prime minister. You and your parents
suffered under Mahathir, but your children and grandchildren will fare no
better with Mahathir’s son.
We cannot be angry with Mukhriz, who is a pitiful puppet used by his evil
father. It looks as though Mahathir’s legacy is a poor copy of the Kim dynasty
in North Korea.
Mariam Mokhtar is a FMT columnist.
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: 6 May 2013 11:47
Subject: DON'T BE TOO SAD ... THE SHOW HAS JUST BEGUN !
YES... IT IS SAD THAT PR COULD NOT MAKE IT TO PUTRAJAYA. PR DID NOT LOSE. IT
JUST COULD NOT MAKE THE FINISHING LINE - FIRST !
BUT CHEER UP ! THE SEQUEL TO THE PRU 13 HAS JUST BEGUN !
BN MAY FINISH FIRST ... BUT IT DID NOT FINISH FAR AHEAD OF THE SECOND MAN, PR
! BN MAY WIN , BUT NAJIB AND HISHAMUDDIN WILL BE THE MAIN LOSERS !
MAHATHIR'S AGENDA IS IN MOTION ! HIS SON WILL BE MADE MENTRI BESAR OF KEDAH.
... NOT LONG AFTER AT THE NEXT UMNO GENERAL ASSEMBLY, MUKRIZ WILL BE VOTED IN
AS PRESIDENT OF UMNO !
WHEN THAT HAPPENS, NAJIB WILL HAVE TO, LIKE POOR BADAWI, HAND OVER THE
PREMIERSHIP TO MUKRIZ.
TOGETHER WITH NAJIB'S DEPARTURE, WILL BE HIS COUSIN, HISHAMUDDIN. MAHATHIR
CAN'T HAVE HISHAMUDDIN AS THE WORM AGAINST HIS SON !
WHEN MUKRIZ BECOMES PM, MAHATHIR WILL BE APPOINTED "LIFE MENTOR", ... YOU KNOW
.. LIKE LEE KUAN YEW.
SO WHAT ABOUT MUHYIDDIN ? THIS GUY IS OF NO CONSEQUENCE . HE WILL REMAIN DPM.
... MAHATHIR HOLDS ALL THE "DETAILS" ON HIM .. TO BE USED ANYTIME THIS GUY GETS
.. YOU KNOW,. "GATAL"
THIS WILL COMPLETE THE DYNASTY PLAN OF MAHATHIR... OR WILL IT ?
WITHOUT A 2/3RD MAJORITY , MAD MAHATHIR CAN ONLY DO SO MUCH !
NOW THE "FROG" SHOW WILL BEGIN ! HE LOST HIS 2 FROGS IN IBRAHIM ALI AND
ZULKIFLI NORDIN.
MAD MAHATHIR IS NOW CASTING HIS EYES AROUND THE PKR ... DAP ... PAS ... TO SEE
WHO HE CAN " PERSUADE" TO HOP OVER. TO GET A 2/3 MAJORITY, HE NEED AT LEAST 148
PARLIAMENT SEATS,
HE'LL NEED ANOTHER 15 FROGS. ... NOW ... LET'S SEE WHO IS READY TO JUMP ...
BIGGG TIME ! ... BIGGGG BUCKS !
WHEN HE GETS HIS 2/3RD QUOTA ... IT'S THE END OF MALAYSIA ... THE END OF
PARLIAMENT ... THE END OF THE CONSTIUTION ... THE END OF THE MONARCHIES ... AND
...... THE BEGINNING OF THE MAHATHIR DYNASTY !
... WAIT FOR THE SHOW TO BEGIN ....
