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Friday, January 13, 2012

Najib and Badawi should join Anwar against Dr M and the Umno hawks


Najib and Badawi should join Anwar against Dr M and the Umno hawks
History has repeated itself in less than a decade! First former Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi risked the wrath of his predecessor Mahathir Mohamad, regarded as the leader of the hardliners in Umno, and ostensibly decided that something was not quite right when Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim was incarcerated on sodomy charges stage-managed by the latter.
The real reason was that Mahathir was trying to lead the Badawi administration by the nostrils while plotting his downfall. Badawi decided to hit back by “freeing” Anwar, so to speak, through the Court and turn around to claim that the Judiciary was independent under his administration. No one of course bought it.
Badawi was also responsible for allowing, through inaction and self-inflicted injuries, the political tsunami of the March 8, 2008 elections when five states and Kuala Lumpur fell to the opposition alliance.
The rest is history. Badawi paid a heavy price for his seemingly defiant stand against Mahathir’s continued attempts to interfere with his administration.
Free again
Enter Najib and history has repeated itself on Mon 9 Jan, 2012.
Anwar is free once again and this time without being incarcerated and made to run the gauntlet through the appeal process - or not yet, so far, that is. The miracle is that the Judge, in calling for Anwar’s defence, had outraged the legal fraternity and indeed the entire world by declaring that the accuser had proven himself a credible witness. To add insult to injury, the Judge refused to recuse himself after demonstrating his bias and prejudice.
Najib, like Badawi, has decided that Mahathir and his hawks are a greater danger to him, if not the nation, than Anwar could ever be. So Anwar, by default, becomes their unlikely 'indirect' ally, being the mortal enemy of Mahathir. A house falls from within, not without. A house divided against itself cannot stand and must surely fall.
Dr M wants to keep the political status quo
Anwar is the only man who stands between Mahathir and his dream of creating a political dynasty of hawks which would, among others, preside over the continued deviations and distortions of Articles 153 and 3 of the Federal Constitution and the New Economic Policy (NEP) at the expense of the nation.
Mahathir also has no respect for the checks-and-balances inherent in the Doctrine of Separation of Powers. He does not see the need for democracy, public accountability, transparency, respect for human rights and the right of the minority to be heard to balance the right of the majority – as in first past the post -- to rule.
Mahathir has been responsible for padding the electoral rolls in Sabah with illegal immigrants and ignoring, like his predecessors, the 1963 Malaysia Agreement.
Not that Najib and Badawi have suddenly become great democrats unlike Mahathir but that’s a different story. Let’s not go there for the moment.
Suffice to say that Najib, Badawi and Anwar have been thrown together by Sodomy I and Sodomy II as unlikely allies, united by their utter contempt for Mahathir, if not the hawks.
Cabinet reshuffle
Among the questions that remain now, in the wake of Jan 9, is whether Najib will re-shuffle the Federal Cabinet and purge it of known Mahathir loyalists and hawks which include his son, Mukhriz, and Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin.
That would be enough to make Mahathir and the Umno Supreme Council, all in the former’s pocket through his Big Black Book of Everyone’s Sins, run amok.
Najib should also distance himself from Perkasa and Pekida, Mahathir’s lapdogs and poodles, who claim to be the outsource outfits for Umno’s politics of race and religion.
Najib needs to do something about Mahathir if he’s going to preserve his family’s legacy in the politics of Malaysia. He must remember that it was Mahathir who first tried to undermine him by publicly pointing out that the Prime Minister had yet to clear his name in the Altantuya killing carried out by special forces commandos, according to the Court, and alleged (not by the Court) to be linked to his aides.
True that Najib carried out Mahathir’s bidding on Sodomy II. However, it should be duly noted that the former “redeemed” himself somewhat as evident from Jan 9. Equally true is the observation that Najib would like to get rid of Anwar, if he could, along with Mahathir & Co. But that would be a case of the Prime Minister biting off more than what he can chew.
Don't let Dr M and his hawks blackmail the nation anymore
Jan 9 has presented a historical opportunity for those aligned against Mahathir and kind to come together and purge the nation of the hawks in Umno who have been holding the people and the government to ransom for so long.
The sheer blackmail of the hawks, led by Mahathir, should be brought to a halt once and for all.
Meanwhile, it would not hurt to keep in mind that Anwar’s troubles are far from over. The Prosecution can, may and probably would appeal against the Jan 9 verdict in favour of Anwar. Najib can allow it to take some of the heat off him and maintain the fiction that the Judiciary was independent.
The Appeal process would help continue to maintain the Najib administration’s pressure on Anwar and prevent the hawks in Umno from finishing off the Prime Minister, at least for the moment.
Again, there’s no doubt that Najib would like to get rid of Anwar if given half-a-chance. But that’s a big risk that the Prime Minister would have to take as he walks the tightrope between his many foes, their numbers being bolstered all the time, and increasingly fewer friends.
Malaysia Chronicle

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