Soon-to-Be Decimated Election Gimmicks - An Analysis

Yesterday afternoon, I wrote a post on Neither Here Nor There? on the PM's and DPM's contrasting speeches. The following are comments from Walla in four parts and the fifth one is from Patches. My response and Walla's fifth response are in the original post HERE.


Walla's Politicall Analysia Part 1

The news was an election gimmick done because Umno is desperate. Self-deceiving signals aside, it knows it is going to be decimated at GE13. 

The voting rakyat where it counts are extremely angry and don't trust Umno. And the trust needed cannot be regained in the time available to GE13. Time is the limiting factor which cannot be extended. Money the rakyat already know has all along been theirs in the first place so they will take but vote for the Opposition to salve their conscience.

Knowing this, the Umno leadership neurons have already snapped; that’s why the Umno organ has been making shambolic and conflicting statements and moves all these past months.

Najib gave the game away in his speech. Immediately after making his statement of apology and a promise to make amends, he lambasted the Opposition for making empty promises, thereby exposing what was really in his mind all along - just to win GE13. 

Which also explains why he has not made any promise to the voting rakyat that Umno will play clean at GE13.

Thereby exposing at the same time the tilt of the Election Commission machinery.

If Azmi Khalid of the PAC could foot-drag on the NPC query, why can't the EC-NRD-KDN foot-drag on cleaning up the voters database, for instance Hulu Selangor (again), people have asked?

Meanwhile we all know that someone who is really contrite and apologetic would have engaged his audience by summing up which mistakes have been made which would soon be corrected so that people receiving the promise can tick against each past mistake to see if corrections are actually being taken and past mistakes are not repeated instead. 

The present PM did no such thing to show any sincerity of words. Instead he diverted attention to the Opposition and away from the glossing being made over Umno's own excesses. Mahathir's tactic, copied by someone who's afraid of even his own deputy in the same office block so that for one who has talked about transformation and benchmarks, hardly reassuring.

In fact, his sidekick's equally immediate reaction in another place was to say there was no need to list out Umno's past mistakes and weaknesses.

There you have it, two mutually contradicting statements reinforcing your conclusion it was all another quicksilver political plastic lizard slithering.


Walla's Political Analysis Part 2

Not only that, Muhyiddin's statement that it was not necessary to bring up BN's past mistakes was actually a declaration that all the corruption and siphoning of rakyat money committed by BN, especially the Umnoputra's and Umnoputeri's are - because he says so - to be forgotten. 

It was a statement by the present DPM of 1Malay infamy that all the past, present and future scheming and crimes against the rakyat and their money are to be erased and the perps are to gain tacit, implicit and instant amnesty. Meaning, Umno power-holders can do any damn thing they like with complete impunity and immunity in this country.

It is like a free-license to act above a set of laws to which only the mass voters are subjected but from which selected lawmakers are exempted. 

For instance, would you, for that matter the people of Kuala Ketil who had attended as "20,000 attendees" in Najib's meet-the-rakyat function, like to ask Muhyiddin what was his role as Agri Minister in the meeting that had advanced easy payment to Umno Wanita President Shahrizat's family for the NPC project? 

Or for that matter, why his three senior government representatives omitted to check on the bank statements which would have revealed interest income and withdrawals? 

The same laconic approach to rakyat funds as shown by management of a MAS now in the beetroot red for having to write off a big sum on obsolete parts accumulated without foresight. Or Proton for...... you know the rest of the (dentist's) drill.

In saying the past should not be dwelt upon because Umno has now said sorry, it is like the robber going into the kampung's of Kuala Ketil, stealing everything that has been hard-earned by simple folks, and then saying sorry, forget what has been done, let's move on - but i get to keep the spoils in the interest of our race. Can you take that?

Next. Did any of those "20,000 attendees" ask Najib why only now, just months away from GE13, has he said Umno apologizes to the rakyat and will make amends? 

Umno has been holding the federal seats since the last general elections. Therefore, it would have known very much earlier what mistakes it has been doing all along. So why no apology earlier? And why is it only now just as GE13 is on the horizon that a promise to make amends is made?

Given all this, the rakyat should be worried whether the promise to make amends carries any weight. After all, spins are weightless.

Are Najib and Muhyiddin afraid that if Umno admits to a list of past mistakes, the rural folks in the Malay heartland will jump and move for a nation-wide lynching of the party, perhaps raising the Malaysian version of the Arab Spring?

Walla's Political Analysis Part 2

There are already so many issues of the past caused by Umno that those of the present and upcoming will have to jostle for attention:

Pro-Umno thugs using their helmets on innocents with nothing while plainsclothed looked on during and foot-dragged after. 

The rush-through of Lynas when the memory of Bukit Merah still lingers.

The push-forward of Felda SGV when the same management that blew over a billion ringgit in the US are still around, now comically led by one ejected for money politics but returned with a spanking big office for his size and worth on Felda's account.

The use of your EPF to shore up the share prices of failing GLCs one of whose past CEOs has quietly cut a secret deal to write-off half a billion ringgit in claims so as to protect the one whose sons are enjoying contracts with Petronas and Lynas.

The silence over Pek Moh's holdings, the half a trillion ringgit federal debt, the privatisation corruptions, the commission-inflated prices of the new highways in Umno-run states of Johor, Perak and Terengganu.

Additonally, the same problem with Johor Baru's EDL will be faced with the MRT using your grand-childrens' savings.

Umno commissions to build so that it can make commissions to itself; next and only after the final bill is presented will the toll to be collected be rationalized. Because of the skimming, it will be therefore be too much for the rakyat to bear. How to pay then? Take the rakyat money from elsewhere. Post-skimming silo-solutioning. A certain Adam still holding on may provide illustrative examples for your next malaysian-style management module.

Note that these are present issues. So why bother to apologize for past mistakes and what chance of real future corrections? 

It’s all about your money. That’s all that Umno wants.

Next. Tarring Pakatan. 

Umno should be very happy if the rakyat vote for PKR. 

After all, that's how it can persuade some of their MPs to turn into pro-Umno independents, gaining a full state made of Pakatan voters. 

Next, how does Umno want the rakyat to compare itself with PAS? By using Hassan Ali as broker? For one presumably championing Him, this one sues too fast for any good measure of humility and non-worldliness. One wonders if the Datuk T Bangkok production house is helping to put any finishing touches to the videos still awaited from him.

And how will Umno's Najib persuade the voters of DAP to cross-over to BN? 

Thai's are called bumiputra's while Chinese citizens whose ancestors had died defending and building the country are only accorded exalted status as crutch-funding tax-payers and nettlesome urban voters to be courted today, cheated again tomorrow.

After putting Thai's to equal Malays but above Chinese, Indians, Sikhs etc, next will be Umno members themselves now that Indonesians and Indian Muslims are also but even more instantly bumiputras. So much for 1Malaysia!

Ask his cousin to ask Dr Mahathir and his coterie for a ‘correction’ now that Megat Junid is not around?


Walla's Political Analysis Part 4 - Tarring Pakatan

Next Saturday 10 pm turn on your tv2. 

The second episode of Lord Of The Rings may come on (if Rais allows after reading this).

*My comment - Walla, my blog is a mish-mesh of everything and anything so I doubt he or his staff etc read it. :-)

Watch the flip-flopping schizo creature Gollum in action. One minute sweet-talking, next minute venomous and scheming. Gollum (aka Preciousss) only wants the Ring. Because the Ring confers power to protect the Evil One.

As Umno president, Najib has been flipflopping from day one. His party has no winnable candidates. 

That will explain all the forthcoming cheating at the polls of GE13. It will also explain all past moves and present maneuverings. If a party has to monopolize the mainstream media to obfuscate the rakyat and make use of a psych-op warfare unit to try and turn voters, you already know it is finished. 

The Ring is to make sure Umno is returned to power so that we can get more cheap meat for the next five years? 

Or for Felda settlers to sign off their fields, hearing sweet promises that those fields will never be taken away? After all, how can one move a fixed place? 

But never tell them that the ownership of the fixed place will change hands - for once in the market, who will own what will always be fleeting. That’s what markets are supposed to do.

Last but not least. Voters must stay focused from now on. Remember only one thing. Everything dispensed to you is but a small fraction of the bigger amount skimmed off for a few. 

Shahrizat and Toyo are small fries useful as door-stoppers, respectively to lead Umno Wanita and Umno Selangor. The big ones are elsewhere. So too the bigger sums of the rakyats’ money siphoned. It’s all about corruption of rakyat money using federal organizations by a combination of proxy process and coerced suppress.

If Umno tells you the Opposition only makes empty promises, hold Umno to it. Tell Umno to distribute more federal funds to Pakatan-run states so that the voters can see if those state governments will be doing any less than Umno-held state governments for the rakyat. Then come talk.

In fact, the Umno general members should vote for the Opposition wherever they be so that Umno can be put to sit in the opposition bench for one term in order to finalise the list of mistakes it should be apologizing for. 

With what it has been showing all this while, it is only pretending to be sincere, or worse, it doesn't seem to know.

How else can one explain why the MOE is asking for feedback from the rakyat after half a century spending gruesome amounts of their money to create an education system only best for attracting toxic waste foreign investments and producing BTN-zombies who having been given british-best seats over others more deserving are now only good at badmouthing non-Malays behind their backs?


Patches' Response


Time and again, PM Najib has fooled us with his eloquent words but they have proved to be empty words. We all know that he is very desperate to win in GE13 - he has rallied behind him a massive force in Rela swell and also in the Police force. Do not forget the words he said to Rela members - do not forget Mahathir said Malaysians have short memories. If he is sincere, he should apologize for the anti-Lynas fracas in Penang and all this racial slurs being thrown at the Chinese, Cina Babi etc. Not only that, there is so much violence over the slightest issue that most do not think these are safe times. 
If the people vote for BN, I think it is too late to save Malaysia already. 
Article 2 on what the DPM says carries more truth and reflects UMNO as it stands today - they know their mistakes and they can promise to amend but do you trust them to?? Their arrogance speaks too loudly and once bitten twice shy should be the rule here.

Why must Najib wait to win 2/3rds before giving MACC more power?? what sort of power?? Remember he promised to amend ISA and what did he introduce as replacement laws?? 

Please, citizens of Malaysia, think through the events that have happened and read the serious alternate media blogs and vote wisely. Otherwise, you truly deserve the Government you voted for! Do you really want Mahathir to come back into power, even if for another term?? THINK and CHOOSE WISELY.

Read the original post HERE.

- masterwordsmith