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Anwar Ibrahim september 16

Malaysia - End of UMNO??

Madpoh
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28 Aug `08, 12:20PM

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Anwar has won and sworn into parliament.
Do you think this is the end of UMNO?
I think since he has won, it means that the government will surely sue him and throw him into jail for sodomy.
So that means the end of Anwar instead. If he has not returned back to politics, than the government will not sue him and he will be safe instead.
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28 Aug `08, 12:40PM

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welcome to politics
4sg
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28 Aug `08, 4:37PM

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Originally posted by dumbdumb!:show
welcome to politics
UMNO is not free of the stain in the May 1969 racial riots.History so far has been kind to it.....
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28 Aug `08, 4:41PM

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i just feel this anwar is a sheep in a wolfskin
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28 Aug `08, 4:54PM

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Originally posted by newcomer:show
i just feel this anwar is a sheep in a wolfskin
Malaysia situation is very dangerous now. It is like the open sea - calm on the surface but fast undercurrent beneath.Right from the onstart, Anwar was never a representative of multiracial. He was the UMNO deputy PM. He is seeking revenge for the snob and sideline from UMNO.Anwar is only as strong as his visible enemy - UMNO. But the moment UMNO disappears from the scene, he faces the invincible enemies within his multi-party system - extremists, ultra, reformists, human right group, democratic group, minority-interest group etc.
Edited by 4sg 30 Aug `08, 11:35AM
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28 Aug `08, 4:56PM

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um.... no...
as long as there are people who believe in the supremacy of one race over the other, and as long as people who believe that their race gives them rights over others, that party will still be around..

Anwar's Trojan horse

Anwar Ibrahim wants BN to think the defections before Sept 16 are going to come from Sabah and Sarawak. This explains the focus and frenzy surrounding MPs from East Malaysia. Their movements are being monitored, text messages have been swirling about en bloc defections and some, like Yong Teck Lee and Bernard Giluk Dompok, have been dropping broad hints about wanting to abandon the BN ship.

But the unsuspecting BN leadership is completely unaware of Anwar's actual game plan. Sabah and Sarawak are the great diversions - Anwar's red herrings. Sure, he may eventually end up with some defectors from East Malaysia, but the real trigger that he wants to pull will be right under Umno's nose.

For Anwar, he needs to start with a bang. Something that will cause all other smaller component parties to tremble and quake in their boots leaving them with little choice but to jump en masse.

What Anwar wants to do is to show that he can go for the big scalps. Not your Sapp or Upko small number of MPs, but from the senior Umno front bench.

What better way of triggering a mass exodus from BN than to show that you have top leaders from BN's biggest party crossing over into PKR? This is the big bang that Anwar has been working on.

Two or three front benchers from Umno plus five other second tier leaders will be enough to precipitate chaos and panic within the BN ranks. It will be the catalyst of a free-for-all ship abandonment as though sailors have spotted a plague-infested rat on deck.

So, who has Anwar marked as the real Judas in this most audacious of power grab in the history of Malaysian politics? Its not that difficult to answer. Think of someone most hard done by Abdullah Badawi and Najib Razak's gentleman's agreement to transfer power in 2010.

Someone who had political wind in his sails after the March election only to now see his future in doubt as Umno gets ready to pick younger leaders in its annual congress. Someone who way back when, had the most coziest of cozy relationship with Anwar.

Yes, Anwar is targeting Muhyiddin Yassin to be the Judas. Muhyiddin is said to have lined up at least three other front benchers and a handful more from the back benches.

Many of these MPs are fed up of both Abdullah and Najib, and see the grass being far greener with Anwar. Many of them were also ardent Anwaristas when the opposition leader was climbing up the greasy pole of Umno politics.

These crossovers are said to be mutually beneficial in more ways than one. Anwar knows that the current composition of Pakatan MPs in Parliament is almost half Malay and half non-Malay. If he only manages to woo non-Malay BN MPs to defect, he will effectively head a non-Malay dominated government.

This would be hard for the Malay-majority electorate to accept not to mention institutions like the royalty, military, armed forces and civil service. Anwar, therefore, desperately needs Malay MPs to defect from BN. In order for this to happen, he needs a Malay BN leader with enough seniority to attract others to follow suit. Hence, Muhyiddin.

But that's not all. Anwar has already over-promised his buddies in DAP. He knows that he has to make Lim Kit Siang one of his deputy prime ministers. That's not going to sit well with the Malays, whether they are Umno, PAS or PKR supporters.

Regardless of the muhibbah rhetoric coming out of Pakatan, the heartland and grunt Malays cannot stand Kit Siang. To them he and his party stand for everything that is anti-Malay.

That being the case, Anwar has to counter-balance Kit Siang's appointment as DPM with a heavyweight Malay politician as another deputy. Of course he could appoint Hadi Awang and complete the unholy trinity of Pakatan parties as PM and two DPMs, and he probably would offer Hadi the post anyway.

But he knows that Hadi cannot be trusted. After all, it was Hadi and Nasharuddin Mat Isa that almost tore PAS out of Pakatan with their secret rendezvous with Abdullah. Anwar has neither forgiven nor forgotten this act of betrayal by Hadi.

He also knows that during the Permatang Pauh by-election, it wasn't Hadi that came to pinch hit for him in the last few days to turn Malay opinion around in the light of Saiful Bukhari's religious oath that he was sodomised by Anwar.

Hadi came briefly, gave a 10 minute speech complaining of a cough and hot footed it out of there. Instead it was Nik Aziz Nik Mat who came to Anwar's rescue, persuading the faithful in Permatang Pauh not to believe Saiful's oath.

Anwar's preferred choice as DPM from PAS is not an MP. He is the man that whispers instructions into Nik Aziz's ear and he was the most senior PAS leader present when Anwar was declared winner after all the votes were tallied.

Husam Musa cannot, for now, join a federal government because of state duties in Kelantan, but he is very much the bridge that Anwar wants to cultivate in PAS.

So with the bad blood between Anwar and Hadi, even if Anwar offers Hadi a DPM post it would be out of courtesy to keep Pakatan together. Which means he would need another senior Malay leader to be a third deputy and the de facto most senior deputy with Anwar's full confidence and trust.

He could appoint Azmin Ali, but many would be uncomfortable with that prospect. So who better than Muhyiddin - a senior cabinet minister with experience in government. An Umno warlord who can attract support from Umno Malays and prevent Anwar from looking too dependent on non-Malay support.

And most crucially, someone who Anwar trusts because back in the days of Anwar as DPM, when he said jump, Muhyiddin jumped.

If BN leaders are looking at East Malaysia for potential jumpers, they are looking far away from where the threat really is. Anwar has secured Muhyiddin and its merely a matter of timing. Muhyddin has to deliver Anwar a handsome number of MPs in return for being made DPM under Anwar. That, according to sources, is underway and the count is increasing by the day.

The plan is simple yet clever. Obvious yet deceptive. BN is about to lose the kingdom from right under its nose.

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Sept 16 And The Morality Of Party-hopping

Anwar Ibrahim has been bragging that come Sept 16, thirty lawmakers from the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition will cross over to the new opposition Pakatan Rakyat coalition, giving just enough numbers to make him the new prime minister of Malaysia. The incumbent party in power will then exchange place to become His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition. Some have since questioned the morality of this uneasy scheme of things.

A few ethical issues have been raised. First of all, it’s a betrayal of the voters who elected them in the first place since they elected the lawmakers based on BN platform. Another is that it involves corruption since the party-hopping is also seen as a buy-over, with massive amounts of money changing hands. The third contentious issue is that it is an all out power grab by toppling the government in power, hence it highly unconstitutional.

Semantics is important. The words bandied about in the media are betrayal, corruption, unconstitutional and unethical. But they can be meaningless in our Malaysian context. Not that they are unimportant.

Musa Hitam, the former deputy prime minister and Umno kingpin, has the uncanny ability to simplify things profoundly political. To him the object of politics is to be in power. Period. He who grabs the most numbers, fastest, wins.

Indeed he, together with Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, made an unsuccesful power grab in 1987 that nearly saw the defeat of Dr Mahathir Mohamad as party chief and prime minster. Ironically, it was Anwar who was the beneficiary of this infighting in Umno as Mahathir made him the new DPM in place of Musa.

The infighting continued nonetheless and it was Anwar’s turn to lose power when Mahathir sacked him in favour of Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. To cut the story short, Mahathir was forced out in the ensuing fracas and Abdullah became the new PM supposedly duly annointed by Dr M himself. But now Mahathir wants him removed as Abdullah is now found wanting in the former prime minister’s considered opinion. Not a few concur with that.

So there are now two PMs-in-waiting, Najib Razak the current DPM and Anwar, the former DPM and now Mr Opposition since his phenomenal victory at the recent Permatang Pauh by-election that brough him back to parliament after a forced hiatus of ten years. The moral of the story is… Wait a minute, what morality are we talking about? Bah!

Let’s go back in history a little. When we became an independent nation 51 years ago, it was so blissful to the extent that the Tunku, our first PM and Bapa Malaysia, used to boast that he was the happiest PM in the world. But that was until 1969. In the aftermath of the bloodbath, it was Dr Mahathir who set the power grab in train by demanding the Tunku hand over power. Ironically, it was also Anwar, who was then leader of the Malay Language Society at University of Malaya, who chorussed Mahathir’s line among Malay students. There was a place coup subsequently, and Razak Hussein, Tunku’s deputy took over the reins of power.

It was in 1969 that the ruling coalition lost popular vote in the general elections although it succeeded in holding onto the crucial two-third majority in parliament by a whisker by retaining 95 seats out of the 144.

But it lost Penang state government to the new Chinese-based Gerakan while in Perak and Selangor, it was a hung assembly. The solution was to invite (read crossover or buy-over) one or two of the opposition members to enable it to form the two state governments. In due course, the Gerakan was also “invited” to join the enlarged coalition. PMIP or what is known as PAS, the Muslim party, which was making increasing inroads into the Malay heartland, was similarly extended an “invitation.” PPP, the popular opposition party in Perak founded by the Seenivasagam brothers also accepted the “invitation” to join BN after their founders’ demise.

In Sabah and Sarawak, the situation is more muddied. For instance, PBS under Joseph Pairin Kitigan, crossed over to team up with Tengku Rzaleigh’s Semangat 45 to unseat the ruling coalition in 1990. Both were mauled and later PBS as well as S45 made another crossover and re-joined BN.

Of the 14 component parties in BN, nine are from East Malaysia - PBBB, SUPP, SAPP,PBS,LDP,PBRS, UPKO, SPDP and SPR. Now make a guess which one has not crossed over yet. Anwar is spoilt for choice and undoutedly having a pick of the alphabet soup there to make up his numbers for Sept 16.

So what’s the big deal about party-hopping or crossovers, or power grab and the morality of it all? Bah! (By BOB TEOH/ MySinchew)

Anwar : Sept 16 Still On Target

Source : Malaysiakini

Anwar once again reiterated that his Pakatan Rakyat opposition alliance is poised to sweep power by Sept 16, even though it now only commands 82 seats in parliament compared with the ruling BN’s 140 seats..

The former deputy prime minister has not given details on how he hopes to achieve the result, but political observers believe there may be switchovers from the BN camp if he wins the Permatang Pauh seat and returns to parliament to officially lead the opposition.

Meanwhile, Anwar also accused BN, especially Umno, of resorting to personal attacks against him in the campaign.

He lashed out at Wanita Umno deputy chief Sharizat Abdul Jalil, who earlier declared 'jihad' (holy war) against him.

He claimed that Sharizat was feeling sour because she lost to his daughter Nurul Izzah during the March 8 polls.

"For that she announced a holy war against me and Sharizat should be the last to talk about it herself!" he hit back.

Confident of winning

Regarded as a hero by his supporters for uniting and leading the opposition to its biggest ever haul during the March general election, Anwar expressed confidence about winning in Permatang Pauh against BN candidate Arif Shah Omar Shah but declined to predict by how many votes.

Permatang Pauh, a quiet northern town, has drawn hordes of supporters and is now the focus of national attention. While many believe it is a given that Anwar will win, bookies are doing a roaring business taking odds on the size of his majority.

According to the latest talk in the warungs or coffee shops that dot the semi-urban town, the going bet now is that Anwar will win with a majority in excess of at least 10,000 votes if the voting turnout is more than 70 percent.

The Permatang Pauh seat fell vacant after Anwar's wife PKR president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail vacated it to pave the way for her husband’s return to parliament after a 10-year absence.

A former prime minister in waiting, Anwar was sacked by ex-premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad in 1998 and jailed on sodomy and corruption charges he says were framed by his political enemies.

He was released in 2004, a few months after Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi took over from Mahathir.

While the previous sodomy charge was overturned by the courts, Anwar now faces a fresh sodomy allegation, this time by former aide Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan.

Anwar has pleaded not guilty and claimed that it is a political conspiracy to stop him and his Pakatan alliance from taking power.

Although the sodomy case is being wielded by BN as their main campaign weapon, Anwar said he has never before experienced the kind of support he was now getting from the constituency.

He said feedback from the ground showed that "the people just don't buy it."


DOWN UNDER TO HEAD OFF PAKATAN RAKYAT


By Wan Hamidi Hamid and Shannon Teoh, The Malaysian Insider


Barisan Nasional backbenchers have been told to attend an overseas
retreat, believed to be in Australia, in what is being seen as an
attempt to head off their potential defection to Pakatan Rakyat.


All BN lawmakers were told through a text message sent out yesterday
that attendance for the trip is compulsory.


But the response so far has been lukewarm.


The text message from the BN Backbenchers Club (BNBBC) reads: "BNBBC
has received approval to hold a retreat overseas from Sept 7 to Sept
19. The attendance of all MPs is compulsory."


"This is for all BN backbenchers not just Sabah Sarawak and is
organised by Bung Mokhtar and Tiong, the chairman and deputy," an East
Malaysian MP told The Malaysian Insider, referring to BNBBC chairman
Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing and his deputy Datuk Bung Moktar Radin.


But the East Malaysian MP said he would not be attending the retreat.


"It makes no difference. If people want to cross then they'll cross
but nobody is crossing anyway," he said.


Speculation has been building up in recent days that a number of BN
MPs are planning to defect.


The swirling rumours are a result of Opposition leader Datuk Seri
Anwar Ibrahim's pledge to overthrow the BN government through mass
defections by Sept 16.


There are 140 BN MPs in Parliament but 65 are ministers and deputy
ministers.


The opposition has 82 MPs with one independent.


Anwar needs only 30 MPs to cross over and he will be able to form a
new government.


The Malaysian Insider understands that the planned retreat is being
funded by one BN MP.


But fewer than 30 MPs have responded so far to say they will attend
the retreat.


"This is the most stupid idea I have ever heard of. How can you stop
defections like this? I wonder if they have the approval of the PM,"
said one BN MP from Johor.