Have they been bought?

In short, it is okay to be a loose cannon if you are from Barisan Nasional. In fact, many people like Barisan Nasional loose cannons. They think that Barisan Nasional loose cannons are cute creatures. But they do not like the Pakatan Rakyat loose cannons. Pakatan Rakyat loose cannons are not cute creatures. They are traitors, turncoats, Trojan horses, etc.

NO HOLDS BARRED

Raja Petra Kamarudin

Kinabatangan MP Datuk Bung Mokhtar Radin is raising hell regarding the National Feedlot Centre (NFC) quarter billion Ringgit scandal. He, plus some other Barisan Nasional leaders, have asked for the resignation of Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil.

Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz, in turn, has said that overseas Malaysians should be allowed to exercise their right to vote. This is in contradiction to what other Barisan Nasional Ministers have said about the same matter.

Well, Bung Mokhtar and Nazri Aziz are not called loose cannons for nothing. They are amongst the most vocal of the Barisan Nasional Members of Parliament who have in the past triggered uproars in Parliament (go see the videos on Youtube). They would not hesitate to scream at their opponents, in a most un-parliamentary manner may I add, and show a clenched fist in a gesture of challenging their opponents to a fistfight.

To put in mildly, these are two of the more outrageous personalities from Barisan Nasional and are probably disliked by both sides of the political divide. I know for a fact that ex-Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad would like to put Nazri Aziz against a wall and shoot him. And the feeling is mutual.

Nevertheless, they are both loose cannons in the true sense of the word. And loose cannons are called loose cannons because they tend to shoot their own side as much as the other side. And that is why loose cannons are called loose cannons. They roll all over the ship’s deck in a storm and shoot anything that moves, never mind what uniform they are wearing.

I, too, am called a loose cannon. Of course, it is the Pakatan Rakyat leaders who call me a loose cannon (the Barisan Nasional leaders call me a liar). That is because I, too, tend to shoot both sides of the political divide.

But when I do that they will scream that I have been bought, have sold out, am now in Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak’s pocket, and so on.

In short, it is okay to be a loose cannon if you are from Barisan Nasional. In fact, many people like Barisan Nasional loose cannons. They think that Barisan Nasional loose cannons are cute creatures. But they do not like the Pakatan Rakyat loose cannons. Pakatan Rakyat loose cannons are not cute creatures. They are traitors, turncoats, Trojan horses, etc.

Anyway, just to digress a bit, have a look at this, which I picked up from WikiSabah:

Sabah Population Breakdown by Race 2010

(http://wikisabah.blogspot.com/2011/11/sabah-population-breakdown-by-race-2010.html)

Now, as I have said many times, the key to Putrajaya is in the hands of Sabah and Sarawak. And, going by the above, plus by the results of the recent Sarawak state elections, do you think Pakatan Rakyat has any chance of forming the next federal government?

Barisan Nasional does not call Sabah and Sarawak their ‘fixed deposit’ for nothing. Let’s face it, unless Pakatan Rakyat hammers out a formula on how to cooperate, as opposed to compete, with the parties from Sabah and Sarawak, then they can kiss Putrajaya goodbye.

I have said this before and I will say it again. PKR, DAP and PAS have a better chance of forming the next federal government if they work with the parties from Sabah and Sarawak rather than compete with them.

Okay, I know, they are now going to argue that Pakatan Rakyat (meaning PKR, DAP and PAS) need to contest the seats in Sabah and Sarawak because the politicians from Sabah and Sarawak can’t be trusted. If they were allowed to contest the seats and if they win they might sell out and jump over to Barisan Nasional.

I take it the people from West Malaysia are saying that everyone from East Malaysia are prostitutes who will sell their own mothers, wives and daughters for the right price. That is why Pakatan Rakyat cannot work with East Malaysian politicians and will instead have to contest the seats themselves.

Well, in that case I have nothing more to argue. If that is true then we might as well agree now that Pakatan Rakyat is never going to form the next federal government and that Barisan Nasional is going to rule forever. Maybe this is just what Malaysians deserve. And I have no sympathy for a society that will sell the future of the country for monetary gains.

Yes, maybe we need to see Barisan Nasional in power for a while longer. Then, once Malaysia joins the long list of countries that are facing bankruptcy, maybe Malaysians will wake up and do the right thing. Of course, by then it will be too late because, once a country is bankrupt, changing the government can no longer save the country. But at least I will have the pleasure of screaming, “I told you so”, assuming I am still around by then.