Raub: The MCA's Chosen One

Let me introduce you to the MCA candidate for parliament Raub.  He is going to be my opponent. He was at one time, Pahang MCA chief. The state chief is now Liow Tiong Lai. 

I can’t tell you about him directly. It’s impossible to know what is inside a person’s heart. But I can tell you of his deeds so that the Chinese in Raub can judge him.

Under his watch, MCA made notorious history for losing the Tanah Rata state seat in Cameron Highlands to an independent.  The cause for the loss was inglorious enough. His chosen candidate was said to collect money from TOL land owners. The man was running a protection racket of sorts- pay up and the tenure of your land holding shall be extended. And who knows, if the payment is sufficiently high, the TOL land can even be converted into a permanent title. The state MCA chief then was the MB’s rep in land matters for Cameron Highlands.

The incumbent assemblyman for Tanah Rata before the 2008 elections was a person name Choong. A personable fellow, hardworking but aligned to the wrong MCA camp. It was unfortunate for him to have gotten into an automobile accident which left him hospitalised for a few months. He managed to recover and was able to continue offering his services to the people of Tanah Rata.

Unknown to him, the MCA state chief then, arranged to have medical reports certifying that the MCA incumbent state assemblymen wasn’t physically fit to hold office. The state chief, none other than the incoming MCA candidate for Raub Parliament, wanted to put up his own man to replace the incumbent.

The man chosen failed to deliver and he lost to an independent candidate. How can an MCA candidate lose to an independent? That could only be explained by the deeds of the state MCA chief and his proxy.

The operators of TOL land in Cameron Highlands were up in arms. The state MCA boss was the MB’s representative in land matters in Cameron Highlands. His proxy was entrusted with the task of collecting money from TOL land owners. As a result, his errand boy, incurred the wrath of TOL land holders who were forced to pay money to the state chief’s rep, the man slotted to replace the MCA incumbent then.

This is the man coming to Raub now.

But that is not all about the incoming MCA candidate. He is part of the axis of evil said to be masterminded by a former MCA leader who is charged in the PKFZ scandal.

What is that? That’s the RM12 billion port klang free trade zone which is a gigantic corruption scandal. Chong Kong Choy is pulling the strings to become the god father of MCA. His two partners in Pahang are the MCA candidate for Raub parliament and the Raub MCA division chief, one Dato Sri, despised by many in Raub. These 3 fellows form an axis of evil within the MCA to finally execute the inevitable ouster of the MCA’s porn actor and have him replaced by a totally powerless Liow Tiong Lay.

The objective of the axis of evil is to install Liow as the next puppet MCA leader while Chong Kong Choy plays the puppet master. Kong Choy needs a pliant and possibly dependent MCA president who will give protection over his involvement in the PKFZ financial scam. The MCA candidate for Raub is his instrument. He and the Dato Sri.

Mix them up together what do you have? You are having the choice to elect a person who operates along the lines of a secret society and the politics of the triads. We can’t have a person subscribing to these values as leader of the Chinese community. The Chinese community is not a triad society.

It was this style of politics that pitted the then MCA state chief against the crusading mission of a local Raub MCA leader. The local Raub MCA leader who went on to become state assemblyman for another part in Pahang battled against plans to structure the struggles of the MCA along the lines of a triad society.

Despite having won victories for MCA, the Raub native was finally dropped as candidate in 2008. Though he remains a MCA division chief, he is ostracised by the axis of evil. He was promised an exco position on many occasions, but the then state MCA chief and Chong Kong Choy reneged on the agreement and ditched the poor fellow.

The Chinese in Raub must now decide. Will they allow Chinese politics be dishonoured by structuring the struggles of the Chinese community along the lines of a triad society? Will they elect an instrument in the scheme of things planned by a puppet master trying to save himself from his involvement in the biggest financial scandal that has rocked this nation? Will they want to fall prey to a protection racket paying for extended tenures of their TOL Lands?

Posted by sakmongkol AK47