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>From: "Munchkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [sangkancil] ANWAR'S HYPOCRISY CONTINUES...
>Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 09:38:30 +0800
>
>The following letter has already appeared in malaysiakini. Here is the
>full, unedited version. To malaysiakini's credit, they did not make many
>changes.
>
>HYPOCRITE, HE IS.
>
>Any one care to profer an opinion or two?
>
>The Munchkin
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>ANWAR�S HYPOCRISY CONTINUES
>
>Sir,
>I read with considerable consternation your report and written interview
>with Anwar Ibrahim, posted on January 26, 2000. Anwar�s continued
>identification with the reform movement by reiterating his commitment
>towards combating corruption, cronyism and nepotism; and towards democracy
>and the rule of law has become unbearably nauseating and revolting to many
>fair-minded Malaysians.
>While no one can deny that Anwar, through his sacking, arrest and
>subsequent
>conviction, became a catalyst for reform and change, he can never be hailed
>as the great martyr that he regards himself as. The launch of his reform
>movement was part of an orchestrated survival strategy that was probably
>germinating in his mind prior to his removal from office, which he must
>have
>regarded, at the time, as imminent. His deliberate tactic to immediately
>claim the moral high ground after his dismissal was fuelled by an almost
>spontaneous reaction by many Malaysians who empathised with a victim of
>Mahathir Mohamed�s high-handed rule. Anwar had long been cognisant of the
>latent discontent towards the Mahathir regime and duly packaged his agenda
>in reformist clothing. Long-standing critics of the government were joined
>by die-hard Anwaristas on the Reformasi bandwagon that ignited a massive
>spark of political consciousness among Malaysians.
>One and a half years later this initially divergent support base has
>undergone a fusion, with long-time, independent critics finding themselves
>increasingly part of the cult of personality that has developed around
>Anwar. This ominous trend is set to continue as his trial for sodomy
>resumes with the foreign and internet press eagerly covering his every
>utterance and entertaining every nod, wink, smile and scribble that he
>graces them with. This deification of Malaysia�s greatest hypocrite must
>stop now lest we lose our historical objectivity about a man who scarcely
>deserves to be at the vanguard of reform in Malaysia.
>His views on corruption et al are not new. As an outspoken critic of the
>government in the 1970s he had begun his concerted attacks on money
>politics
>and the abuse of political power that he perceived as rampant in UMNO.
>Mahathir�s successful recruitment of the then ABIM President was to
>significantly change the way in which Anwar operated. During his meteoric
>sixteen years in UMNO, Anwar succeeded in not only becoming Mahathir�s heir
>apparent, but also part of the nefarious network of �corrupt sycpophants
>and
>cronies� which make his current diatribes against the present regime ring
>hollow.
>In order to finance his rapid rise through the party hierarchy, Anwar
>created a patronage structure that included former aides and family
>members.
>His unabashed financial assistance to the former was most despicable. As
>Finance Minister he dished out shares and contracts to the likes of Ishak
>Ismail (former secretary of Anwar�s Permatang Pauh division), Mohamed Sarit
>Yusoh (former political secretary), Nasaruddin Jalil (also former political
>secretary), Kamaruddin Jaffar and Kamaruddin Mohamad Nor (both Malay
>College
>Kuala Kangsar schoolmates of Anwar, the latter also Anwar�s deputy in
>ABIM),
>and Ahmad Sebi Abu Bakar (contemporary at Universiti Malaya). Anwar was
>equally charitable to his family with directorships and shares dispensed to
>his father Ibrahim Abdul Rahman; brothers, Marzuki, Rosli and the late
>Rani;
>and sister, Fauzan. These appointments did not even conform to the
>excusable criteria of merit-based cronyism; Rosli Ibrahim, for one, lacked
>formal education (and displayed his liability for all to see) and yet was
>appointed as �consultant� to various listed companies. Nor was the
>national
>interest criteria employed: Hanif Kassim, a Singaporean fellow at Anwar
>think-tank, Institut Kajian Dasar, was involved with Kamaruddin Jaffar�s
>KLIA privatisation contract. (FOR A FULL LIST OF ANWAR CRONIES AND WHAT
>THEY WERE INVOLVED IN, PLEASE EMAIL ME AT [EMAIL PROTECTED]).
>Anwar�s formidable crony structure was employed ruthlessly in 1993, when he
>took on Ghafar Baba for the deputy presidency of UMNO. The management
>buy-out of NSTP and TV3 in early 1993 by Anwar acolytes, funded by Quek
>Leng
>Chan�s Hong Leong group (which had acquired MUI bank through Anwar�s
>support), was to pave the way for an all out media blitz against Ghafar.
>(The evident inconsistency between Anwar�s manipulation of the press while
>in power and his recent sermons on press freedom should be of some concern
>to the fiercely independent journalists of malaysiakini). This was
>compounded by countless reports by UMNO analysts that the 1993 elections
>were the dirtiest in the party�s history due, in no small part, to Anwar
>and
>his Wawasan Team�s penchant for the crude, but effective, tactic of buying
>delegates� votes. Anwar�s continued ascendance in UMNO was to continue in
>tandem with his corporate oppos� covetous appropriation of Malaysia�s
>private sector. Many felt that an Anwar premiership would merely transfer
>riches from the Mahthir-Daim nominees to Anwar�s own insatiable cabal.
>Anwar�s avarice knew no limits in his search for political power. In the
>context of history, the standard Anwarista response - that Anwar had to
>�play the game� to succeed - is, frankly, laughable. His predecessors as
>DPM, Musa Hitam and Ghafar, were not known to have played with money on the
>scale that Anwar had. Sure, they never claimed the ultimate political
>prize, but consider the rise of Mahathir � whatever you say about him
>today,
>there is no evidence that he employed money in successfully succeeding
>Hussein Onn. Even if one accepts the suggestion that money is a more
>important factor in today�s politics, Anwar�s record cannot be exonerated.
>The current deputy, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, is as clean as they come and has
>a real chance of succeeding Mahathir. Rather, if it is true that money now
>rules the roost in UMNO electoral politics, it is largely due to the
>precedence that was set by Anwar.
>In this context, we must treat Anwar for what he is: a consummate
>politician
>fighting for his survival by disingenuously appealing to ordinary
>Malaysians
>� sense of honesty, decency and fairness. Let us not be fooled by the
>chameleon that has once again changed his colour. He is, in fact, no
>better
>than the corrupt government leaders whom he routinely lashes out at from
>the
>dock. Claims that he has consistently spoken out against oppression,
>corruption and Malaysia�s �illiberal democracy� - all showcased in the
>ultimate intellectual ejaculation, The Asian Renaissance - are more than
>outweighed by the base and vile reality of his time in government. Anwar
>may have given ordinary Malaysians the historical opportunity to break from
>the climate of fear that Mahathir has perpetuated by generating an emotive
>and passionate following. But this following must now move on. Anwar�s
>hypocrisy knows no boundaries and to continue to equate him with the likes
>of Nelson Mandela, Vaclav Havel and Jose Rizal is to confer on them an
>irremissible insult. Malaysia must never condone the way in which Anwar
>was
>treated � jailed under the draconian Internal Security Act, beaten
>senseless
>and convicted in a Kangaroo court. But we must also accept that Anwar�s
>blatant hypocrisy disqualifies him as a future leader of our country. Anwar
>Ibrahim, the man and the phenomenon, is, as he once described Mahathir,
>obsolete.
>
>Chairil Anuar
>Kuala Lumpur
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