Is Karpal Singh stupid?

by fellow Malaysian blogger Malaysia Waves:

"Karpal still doesn't get it. The time for opposition politics is over. Now, the PR is faced with a mountain of practical issues to overcome and making enemies with:

a. The majority race (malays)
b. The royalty
c. The Islamic faith

is not going to help each and every PR government in carrying out their duties.

Karpal need to wake up and smell the coffee. The time for rhetoric and empty threats is over. The reason why Karpal is not getting resonance from fellow DAP leaders is because they are all in the business of “getting things done”.

And practically, handling issues which is of not in the majority of the public’s interest is not a big priority on their agenda. What’s important now is to deliver what has been promised in the last election.

And I am sure that making enemies with the Palace is one sure way of getting yourself in a hot soup for no major gain.

My point being is that let us tackle issues that’s of public’s interest and not of your own individual political ideology agenda which is most of the time unpopular with the public.

The public wants to see the government deliver. That’s the #1 agenda for all. And the Malaysian public is a very pragmatic type of public, including the Chinese. That explains why the level of support of the Chinese to Dr. Mahathir when he was PM was consistent since 1990.

Despite the fact that Dr. Mahathir is a racist, a bigot, an ardent supporter of National Economic Policies and not to mention Malay Rights, the Chinese electorate came to his rescue in the 1999 elections and gave BN a rousing support in 2004 all because of him.

Karpal and his band of misfits should ask themselves, why is this so? How can a man who’s belief structure is heaven and earth apart from the Chinese can get so much of the Chinese support?

The answer is simple. Dr. Mahathir delivered. During the time of his reign, the Chinese experienced economic uplifting never before experienced under any other Prime Ministers. For that, the Chinese threw their support behind Dr. Mahathir come what may. In fact, the level of support for Dr. M among the Chinese did not wane even after he made his Negara Islam declaration.

DAP should remember this for in 1995, Dr. Mahathir nearly routed DAP from the map of Malaysia. In 1999, if it wouldn’t for the support of the Chinese, the BN government would have fallen with their face down. The Chinese defended the rule of Dr. Mahathir despite Dr. Mahathir being the opposite of the Chinese political beliefs.

Karpal, for one, have not learnt his lesson. Karpal needs to evaluate an issue and differentiate between issues which is “realpolitik” and “elitepolitik” of nature. It seems most of the PR leaders are aware of this except Karpal.

As a result of Karpal’s non-discriminatory actions, the BN has found an opportunity to drive a wedge between the PR leaders. Their insistence to indict Karpal for sedition is an attempt to drive a wedge between the PR leaders (http://www.malaysia-today.net/2008/content/view/7187/1/)

One should ask, why indict Karpal on this issue alone? Why wasn’t there an indiction on his other statements before? The reason is that the parties involved in this issue are members of the PR specifically PAS.

The BN is trying to catch PAS in an awkward situation. Karpal’s statement was in defense of the Perak MB’s action to sack the Director of JAIP. It will be very awkward for the MB of Perak not to defend Karpal. On the other hand, if the MB of Perak or PAS do not come out to defend Karpal, then it will show that there is no solidarity among the PR component parties.

But, the fact that no other DAP leaders coming out to support Karpal shows that Karpal is guilty of becoming a loose cannon. And PR do not need loose cannon, especially with someone like Karpal Singh.

So, my suggestion to PR leaders is to leave Karpal to his own devices and let him sink and swim with his statements. Pretty soon, the public will see that most of Karpal statements do not represent the DAP or PR in any way."

But We UMNO also got sedition mah!

Well.. there are couple of questions they need to ask Pak lah. He seems to be "makan cili tidak tahu pedas"

1. Pelantikan MB Terengganu, Umno has made a lot of sedition remark to Sultan .... remember the "Natang" word ? And pak la himself did said "Unconstitutional" on regard of pelantikan MB ? Why no action has been taken so far ? but action being taken to those are no Umno/BN supporter ?


The above is an example ..... ban example by far menyakit teringga bila mendengar !!

Stephen Sackur is a cunt. Way to go Mahathir!

From my UMNO brother BigDog:

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad said today that PM ‘Flip-Flop’ Dato’ Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi as “Making a political move, a man very unpopular trying to do something ‘right’. He is making use of the system in the worse way”, when reacting to the suggestion of the Prime Minsiter attempting to “make good against the Judiciary”, which was purportedly damaged during the former’s time.

Talking to Stephen Sackur in a BBC “Hardtalk” first aired this afternoon, who described him as “A personified fellow”. The program was taped in London on Friday, 18 April 2008, was his first interview on air in a foreign media since the 12th Malaysia General Elections on 8 March 2008.

He said “Results of the GE shows former supporters of the ruling party (BN), voted Oppositions, not because they like them!”. When asked for the reason, the stern response was “The Government promised to remove corruption but they themselves are corrupt”. He also explained that PM ‘Flip-Flop’ Abdullah must go now because the next leader needed time to revive the party and the support.

On the New Economic Policy, “It was a system placed by his predecessors. The system worked for 50 years and worked very well. it is to correct the imbalance created since the British days”. Sackur asked about the dissatisfaction from different ethic groups in the country and charged Malaysia, especially in Tun Dr. Mahathir’s time practiced racial biased policies and now no longer relevant nor acceptable. His response was “Malaysia is built for all. Everyone is prosperous. All benefited from the Government policies and progressed. Why only now all these are surfacing?”.

Then Sackur charged if people were to voice out aginst him then, they would be arrested. “Hundreds of people were arrested?”. Tun Dr. Mahathir’s instant response, “Who are they?” and contradicting the host with “The first thing I did as the Prime Minister, was to release many political detainees”. He the added that foreign media is fond of making up these stories and end up propagating them as “the truth”.

In the case of Anwar Ibrahim, when asked to comment about having the support of many and even BN MPs ready to defect, and wanted to make changes in the system, including racially based policies “He is welcomed to do that, when he becomes to the PM” and added “The present leadership should be blamed for losing support of the BN MPs”.

On issues raised by Anwar, which is favourable to the minority groups “Opportunism for him, now. He was in Government before. He did not complain”. Then the issue about his arrest and conviction was trumped up and now proposing that the former regretted on that episode “Why should I regret? He was arrested and locked up for abuse of power. This is accordance to the Malaysian law”. Sackur then added that Anwar wanted to do a full and thorough public inquiry for all Tun Dr. Mahathir’s wrong doings in the 22 years in office, he responded with sarcasm, “Lets see him so a fully impartial inquiry. Probably he can get foreigners”.

When responding to Sackur’s list of Western report of unfair trial for Anwar, Tun Dr. Mahathir asked in return “What are the track record of these countries? The are the sort of people who hold people without trial, like Guantamo Bay”. Then the issue was raised about the Internal Security Act, which was a put in place as Emergency Ordinance by the British. “We did it under the law of the country. We need to prevent people from causing racial riot and disharmony”.

On the move by PM ‘Flip-Flop’ Abdullah making ex-gratia payments to dismissed Lord President Tun Mohamed Salleh Abas and five Supreme Court Judges, “A political move by a man very unpopular, trying to do “something right”. He is making use of the system in worse way!”. What he did not say was, none of the members of the bench attended the Bar Council dinner where PM ‘Flip-Flop’ Abdullah made the announcement.

The debate when on towards democracy. “Democracy is good when the leader is good. It was a leader of a democratic country who dropped atomic bombs”.

Sackur then charged him as being ‘Anti Semitic’ and the instant response was “Anti Semitism is something created by the Jews themselves”. He then related to the earlier issue of democracy “There are journalist who were arrested for talking about the Holocaust. Where is the ‘Freedom of Press’ then?”.

The interview was ended when he was asked, whether he will contunue to attack the Leadership and Government, “Why should I be quiet, when they are doing something wrong to my country?”.

The wide ranging 30 minute program, was a really good interview, indeed.

*Updated on 6.20pm

click here to watch the interview

Well done Tun ! you have given Stephen Sackur a very good lesson, dont belittle Malaysians .The mat salleh always think they are the most cleverest race in the world but today he was caught with his pents down(Miss Teen USA South Carolina and Jade Goody anyone?). How come a Malaysian dare to tell him that the whites are the race that colonized,rob,steal and murdered innocent people and this was said in the capital of THE GREAT "Pete Doherty" BRITAIN.Who dares to say such words non other than TUN DR MAHATHIR MOHAMMAD,SYABAS TUN !

Oh and BigDog is really quick man! Makes UMNO proud!

Even Selangor UMNO wants Pak Lah gone too!

Shocker!




THis was taken at the Selangor UMNO meeting held at the Sheraton Subang jaya, located nearby Sri KL and my house at Wangsa Baiduri. I attended the meeting, and more photos will come.

EDIT: Here are more photos of the event (some of them blurry)







PS: That's Mat Tyson in the last two photos. He gave all the cameras Cloverfield-vision. Oh, and thanks Rocky for highlighting me.