Son and Father

Late last year I posted Daughters & Fathers, the story of two daughters, Marina Mahathir and Nurul Izzah and their fathers, as I see them. As usual, kaytee was very t'ng kooi or long winded wakakaka.

Today I decided that on gender equality, I have a post  on 'Son and Father'.

But I want to be t'ng kooi again, wakakaka, and so to motivate you to read it, I'll start off with wonderful SEX.

The wonderfully s-exciting thing about Malaysian politics is that there's always X-rated sex in it, wakakaka.

Dr Mahathir once wanted (no, not the topic word, wakakaka) Malaysia to have a population of 70 million, a publicly voiced but informal announcement which set many railing against his proposal, as they have railed against all of his proposals or assertions since he retired, wakakaka.

Anway, regarding his 70 million population proposal, I imagined he must have looked around and saw almost every ASEAN nation has more or less that population size, eg:

Myanmar - 63 million
Thailand - 64 million
Vietnam - 90 million
Philippines - 96 million (hello, been Dahil Sa'yo*-ing too much? wakakaka)

* meaning 'because of you', probably Philippines most popular song

Nat King Cole singing the romantic Dahil Sa'yo

Malaysia with its current 30 million is comparatively puny, but I had suspected (still do) that he wanted a population of 70 million not so much for defence resilience or showing the population biceps only, but rather more for the economic viability and independence that comes with domestic consumption and also the human resource potential to produce/export cheaply like China, Thailand and now emerging Vietnam.

Then, he would have also seen those economic power houses such as France, Britain, Italy (each mid 60 million), Germany (82 million), Spain (47 million) and most remarkable South Korea (50+ million).

apart from heavy technology & construction, Samsung, Korea exports its wonderful k-pop

Thus he must have reckoned 70 million population would be comfy gnam gnam to make his Malaysia economically strong(er).

Known as a rather impatient man who, despite being a medical doctor and should have known the time span required for human gestations and stuff like multiplication and arithmetic progression, or precisely because of that, some have suggested that he must have decided to kick start the process to achieve his 70 million dream with devolved IVF-ing, wakakaka, by having eggs fertilised in neighbouring countries and the results force-fed with tempeh and jamu pasak bumi, and also balut and bayag ng baka (wakakaka) into instant adulthood before receiving them warmly with open arms and a blue IC.

our new and instant citizens

But that's only a temporary (kick start) measure, where he must have expected every Malaysian or rather Malay in the meantime to do his/her (beyond the call of) 'duty' wakakaka to achieve the target 70 million.

Presumably in the name of Malay-Muslim unity, PAS did try to support the bangsa and negara call, more so when the means towards that has been certified halal by agama, by supporting an innovative proposal in 2006, the Islamic misyar marriage, for sexual gratification for divorced women who lacked the Islamic legal means to attain the gratification.

Now, we must be clear that (in 2006) all these were directly driven NOT by Dr Mahathir, but by a PAS politician, Abdul Fatah Harun, the ‘honourable’ (wakakaka) PAS member for Rantau Panjang, who told the Dewan Rakyat in 2006 that “If we see women who don’t have husbands and are divorced not because their husbands are dead, (it must be because) they are ‘gatal sikit’”.

Wow, such a succinct analysis - naturally by a PAS pollie, wakakaka.

And with Prof Mahmud Zuhdi Abdul Majid's brilliant proposal of misyar marriages as a solution to the equally brilliant analysis of divorcees who were 'gatal sikit', none other than Pak Haji Nik Aziz gave his personal stamp of approval for the sexual panacea.

Oh, how sex drives us Malaysians even in our socio-politico-religious decisions.

But then, spoilsports such as Prof Madya Harlina Halizah and Siraj and IKIM director Dr Syed Ali Tawfik Al-Attas put a damper on misyar marriages, misconceived as a Islam-sanctioned path to recreational sex for what a former PAS politician deemed as women who were 'gatal sikit'.

Prof Madya Dr Harlina Halizah Siraj

For more details wakakaka, please see my 2006 posts:

(a) Malaysian sex machines and
(b) Malaysian Sex Machines (2) - Bonking with responsibility.

Actually, in those discussions 7 years ago, we glimpsed the philosophical and political dichotomy of Dr Mahathir's UMNO and Pak Haji Nik Aziz' PAS, where the former saw sex for procreation as a step towards achieving national resilience and power (including that for UMNO via its 'fixed deposit') whilst the other, as sexual gratification especially for 'gatal sikit' divorcees.

Ah, wonderful sex, sex, sex, CUT!

Now, though I do not wish to wander into another area of sexual gratification or recreational sex (implying consensual sex of course, and not rape including the statutory version - hmmm, come to think of it, would it be by any chance that the Tan Sri-ship was awarded for despicable dedicated efforts towards achieving the 70 million target?), I have to force myself to in view of new information.

Those of you who have been visiting my blog for years would be aware that I have not posted anything specifically on what [censored] transpired in Sodomy II and the proceedings of the trials which brought out the [censored], because I have no interest in such sexual stuff, chiefly for 2 reasons:
(a) as someone, an atheist, living in Australia where we have a former leader of the Greens (Senator Bob Brown, now retired) who is a self-declared gay but highly respected, ...

... a High Court judge Michael Kirby who is also a self-declared gay and very very respected and in fact admired and loved, ....

... and several very muscular (wakakaka) high profile sportsmen (Australia's other gods) who self-declared themselves as gay, I am in a society which is fairly tolerant about gay and bisexual relationship (The Malaysian word 'sodomy' is nothing more than the personal consensual activities of gay and bisexual adults), ...

... thus I don't really care whether Anwar who wants to be PM or for that matter anyone is a heterosexual or as alleged by UMNO, a bisexual which he has already denied, and

(b) I'm not really into such topics other than the associated political or criminal (eg. blackmailing) issues.

However, I do have one weakness (among many weaknesses, wakakaka) and that is to take up blogging cause for those I perceive as underdogs. Thus I have posted a few items in support of Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan, who I see as an underdog in a lamentable feral environment which in the days of the Wild West, would have seen Saiful being lynched by the village or suburban vigilante corps.

I have a few posts on this but perhaps, in fairness, let me start off with two which actually defended Anwar though I'd be happy to have them seen as neutral:

(a) Anwar Ibrahim: "Shouldn't Saiful be charged too?"
(b) Sodomy II

The following would be supportive of the underdog I see, Saiful Bukhari Azlan, on grounds of fairness:

(a) Anwar Ibrahim set Saiful to clean the Augean stables
(b) Ustaz - Saiful's dodgy Arabic renders oath dodgy
(b) Cui Bono

But last year, Anwar Ibrahim was cleared by the court of the sodomy charges (though there is an appeal against the dismissal of those charges to be heard in July this year, when he may well be the PM by then) so the matter should have ended.

Yesterday, virtualy on the eve of GE-13, we suddenly have Azlan Mohd Lazim, Saiful's dad, emerging a la Perumal Balasubramaniam and Deepak Jaikishan to attack Najib, wakakaka.

Oh, these marvellous new PKR G-Ds of 'truth'. 

And of course Azlan Lazim was accompanied by a PKR man in the press conference, though this time, thank G-D, there was no Sivarasa Rasiah, wakakaka.

Even though Azlan Lazim made his 'confession', I see no legal benefit for Anwar even in the appeal trials because Azlan Lazim was not a witness in the earlier trials.

Syahredzan Johan, a civil liberties lawyer was reported by Sinar Harian (via The Malaysian Insider) as saying that Azlan Mohd Lazim’s remarks will have no effect in helping Anwar, the defendant, in the appeal trial, and at best could only serve Anwar as political capital, by moving him up to higher moral grounds.

Syahredzan Johan placed an ominous note over Azlan Lazim's head in that the latter's confession could be viewed as contempt of court, and the public prosecutor may even press charges against him for his public revelation.

I believe the political capital for Anwar is the more important requirement, as has been directly or indirectly provided in recent days by P Balasubramnaian, the world's greatest private investigator, and the other G-D of 'truth', Deepak Jaikishan in their attacks on Najib.

Now, strangely, when I went through my notes on Saiful, I notice no reference or mention of his father, Azlan Mohd Lazim at all, zilch, nada, kosong - of course I could be wrong. So his appearance yesterday has been out of the blue.

Instead, I note that Saiful's uncle was mentioned in Malaysiakini's Saiful in hiding, uncle has faith which reported that Saiful has been subjected to horrendous character assassination on the Internet.

Malaysiakini continued with Saiful's uncle saying:

"But I believe in Saiful. He is a good kid and all that he has done, he has done with honesty. I just got back from Perak and we've not been in touch but I know why he lodged the report."

Teary-eyed, the uncle said that his nephew reported the matter as he wanted to expose the PKR leader for what he was. When asked about Saiful's alleged links to Umno politicians, the uncle brushed them off.

"We've got no help or connections with Umno. All he wanted to do is to expose the heinous crime."

I had also seen a video clip of Saiful's brother.

But never of his father. So why has Encik Azlan Mohd Lazim now emerged to make a confession on a matter he didn't, never, have a part in?

And Saiful Bukhari Azlan himself has now come out to repudiate his father. FMT's I stand by my accusation, says Saiful reported that Saiful at a press conference held at his lawyer's office, in a response to his father's so-called repentant 'confession', said:

“In the name of Allah, my race and Malaysia, I will not budge from my allegation, the statements I made in court and the religious oath I took in a mosque years back, till my death,” said Saiful.

Wow, “In the name of Allah ..." is pretty serious stuff.

So, being curious I asked my Uncle what's going on as the father had previously not appeared in the Saiful and Anwar story.

He too being curious went about asking and came up with what he cautiously qualified as only from the grapevine, meaning the info needs further verification - fair enough.

He was told that Saiful and his dad have never been on good terms, though in the news Saiful hasn't attacked his own father other than to repudiate the senior man's 'confession'.

It seems, according to the talk in Malaysia's upmarket kopitiam, the dad abandoned Saiful (and family?) a long time ago.

Now this next bit requires a fair bit of confirmation because it's gobsmack astounding, that Saiful's dad is actually a PKR member and a branch committee member somewhere.

Holy moley! But wait, don't get too excited - check first, check first, check first, CUT, wakakaka.