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Did The Prime Minister Fall Off A Horse Or Fall From
Grace?
>
> The deputy prime minister, Dato' Seri Abdullah Ahmad
> Badawi, assures us
> all, days after rumours surfaced, the Prime Minister
> is well. He
> dismissed rumours the Prime Minister fell off a
> horse at his 100-hectare
> estancia in Argentina. The Kuala Lumpur Stock
> Exchange yesterday dipped
> on rumours the Prime Minister collapsed in London.
> CNBC reported it as
> one reason for the KLSE's dip, as did the Straits
> Times in Singapore in
> its Internet edition. The Star, in its front page
> report, merely talked
> of rumours. Dato' Seri Abdullah sees all this as
> attempts to
> destabilise the country. He says he should know.
> But he admits he has
> not spoken to him since the man is on holiday and
> needs all the rest he
> can get. Dato' Seri Abdullah misses the point: If
> nothing had happened
> to the Prime Minister, why were officials so cagey,
> insisting that a
> "gentleman" in the party fell off his horse, not the
> Prime Minister.
> Nor did they explain why the Prime Minister
> cancelled his Davos visit,
> insisting that such cancellations are not
> extraordinary. The Star, on
> the other hand, said the "gentleman" turned out to
> be a security guard,
> and the Davos visit cancelled because the Prime
> Minister was in the same
> discussion group as Mr George Soros and the Israeli
> prime minister, Mr
> Ehud Barak. Why did not officials come clean and
> say precisely what
> happened. An idle mind is the devils workshop.
> Rumours take the place
> of hard news in the absence of news. Unfortunately,
> these rumours are
> more credible than official information released to
> douse it.
>
> In times of grave doubt -- as in Malaysia now
> -- people grasp at
> straws to find out what happens. Officials in
> Malaysia gloat at keeping
> news off its people as long as they can, and are
> promptly disbelieved
> even if they speak the truth. The KLSE thrives on
> such rumours, usually
> blamed, as a convenient shorthand, on Singapore.
> But the hangers on to
> the coattails of power spread twisted inside
> information for short term
> gains. So, rumours that the Prime Minister
> collapsed in London affected
> the stock market. It is probable the Prime Minister
> did not. But when
> attempts to get it checked is seen as rumour
> mongering, it would first
> be spread as rumours. Dato' Seri Abdullah's
> impromptu statement to
> Sabah National Front members in Kota Kinabalu
> yesterday can only warrant
> more doubts: he is less than forthcoming on the
> state of the Prime
> Minister's health. There is yet no official
> announcement why he
> cancelled his official visit to Switzerland and to
> Davos. If the Star
> report on this is true, then the Prime Minister sees
> his personal
> preferences on who he should mix with with in global
> forums more
> important than Malaysia's larger role in it. He was
> proud, before he
> left on his holiday, to be among the Muslim heads of
> government in a
> dialogue with their European counterparts to narrow
> their differences.
> It turns out he stays away for a peevish, petty
> reason of being
> sandwiched between two Jews.
>
> But his hold on power is precarious. He would
> have to fight to
> retain the UMNO presidency; the last time this
> happened, in 1987, UMNO
> split. He could not risk being seen in public with
> either Mr Soros or
> Mr Barak, certainly not with both, for local
> political consumption. But
> other dark forces could well be at work. Heads of
> Government have much
> leeway in their actions at the Davos meeting, which
> when you come right
> down to it, is just an elaborate scheme to make
> loads of money for the
> organisers. In any case, the Prime Minister had
> enough time to
> re-arrange his schedule to avoid such embarrassment
> as this. Methinks
> the Malaysian officials involved in arranging his
> presence in Davos
> slipped up badly. A mistake like this should not
> have happened. Unless
> the officials themselves believe that the Prime
> Minister ought to be put
> on a spot. Alternatively, he must have decided for
> himself that he
> would be put on a spot in Davos, and looked for any
> excuse to stay away.
> Whether he likes it or not, the foreign perceptions
> on Malaysia is
> focussed narrowly on how its former deputy prime
> minister is treated.
> The Prime Minister's health could well not withstand
> intrusive
> questioning about Malaysia from foreign
> correspondents.
>
> The official attempt to downplay what happened
> in Argentina, and we
> still do not know what happened there despite the
> explanations given so
> far, has to do with ensuring the Prime Minister is
> all right.
> Politicians falling off horses in Malaysia attracts
> unfortunate
> repercussions. One who fell off his horse fell from
> grace too. He
> resides now in Sungei Buloh prison, convicted of
> corruption and heading
> off a sodomy charge. Whether the Prime Minister did
> or did not fall off
> a horse is not relevant any more. More worrisome to
> his spin feuhrers
> is his inevitable fall from grace in UMNO, Malaysia,
> the world-at-large.
> They should concentrate on reversing that, instead
> of accusing everyone
> else who do not believe their explanations as
> anti-nationals.
>
> M.G.G. Pillai
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