Barisan Nasional and the cowards in quandary

Barisan Nasional has 13 components. Umno is the biggest and seemingly the most powerful. The other 12 parties just makeup the numbers.

The Umno president is the leader of BN and sits as the Prime Minister by virtue of his party position and the collective support of the twelve others.

As their leader is the believer of the Cash is King maxim, the twelve others just follow him without raising any objection. Over the years the twelve others, including those from Sarawak and Sabah, have almost completely lost their voice of reason.

How could the twelve others keep mum over the now world famous 1MDB scandal in which the Prime Minister and Umno president is directly involved and implicated? I don’t think they are deaf, dumb and blind at the same time.

Many among the twelve others just don’t want to talk about 1MDB and the mind blowing scandals while some just brush it of as Umno’s internal problem. They say its an internal power struggle in Umno.

Some friends from Sarawak think it is a ‘Semenanjung problem’ while one state leader recently said its Najib’s personal problem.

Are the twelve others, including those from Sarawak and Sabah, truly ignorant or are they playing dumb due to the overwhelming influence and pressure from Cash… the King?

1MDB is a financial scandal where Najib and his friends have siphoned out billions of ringgit into their personal bank accounts. It is nothing but an elaborate scheme to scam Malaysia.

The Prime Minister of Malaysia having had unexplained billions of ringgit in his personal account is a criminal offence to begin with.

The whole wide world knows this and many other nations are involved in the ongoing probe but the twelve others are either oblivious to these facts or are taking Malaysians who vote for them as complete idiots.

Citizen's Declaration 

Last Friday's inking of the Citizen's Declaration (CD) reinforces the fact that what we are facing is not merely Umno's internal problem or a seasonal power struggle within the party. Its beyond that. 

Its is not only a fallacy but outright idiocracy to believe that Najib's scandal is Umno's internal problem. It has in actual fact snowballed into a national disaster. 

The CD is beyond partisan politics. Its about the well being of the nation and her people. It is about the need and ability to remove a rogue leader without having to topple the entire elected government.

Barisan Nasional component members have no where to hide now as the blanket they were hiding under has been removed.

Umno is in the hands of a small bunch of hijackers. What happened to the other 12?

Why aren't any of the 'other 12' in BN standing up for the people whom they claim to be representing?

Have BN component members reduced themselves to be errant boys of Najib's Umno?

The issue at hand is not about supporting Tun Dr Mahathir, Lim Kit Siang, Anwar Ibrahim, Ambiga, Maria Chin or even activist Hishammuddin Rais.

It is also not about importing 1.5 million foreign workers or about Malaysia taking part in a proxy-war in the Middle East. These, foreign workers and proxy-war,  are also very serious issues but Najib's financial scandals and abuse of power is much more serious than that and have devastating lost lasting effect on all of us. 

What we have before us now is the issue of a rogue leader who is embroiled in an international financial scandal, criminal breach of trust, treason and abuse of power. 

It is not about partisan politics or whether Lim Kit Siang and Dr Mahathir want to switch parties and ideologies. This is about standing up for what is right, in the best interest of our Malaysia.

The line is crystal clear now. BN components, especially those Peninsula based parties and their barely heard leaders, cannot hide from their responsibility. 

MCA, Gerakan, PPP and MIC can close shop and kiss each other goodbye if they continue to protect a known criminal. 

You can choose to demonise Dr Mahathir but that doesn't alter the fact that you're defending a criminal. 

Malaysians cannot possibly trust or forgive those BN leaders who hide behind the invisible non-interference clause when the nation is being raped and plundered.

You can continue to issue Umno prepared statements to defend Najib and think your duty is done. Your duty and responsibility is to the people and do take note that your window to do the right thing is getting narrower by the hour.

If you don't stand with the people to save Malaysia, you don't deserve any Malaysian's vote. Cash the King will run out in no time.

In the current carrot and stick political culture expectations are mountain high that those no nonsense BN components from Sarawak would prove sceptics wrong that they too have been cowed into submission. 

I don't think the good people of Sarawak would agree for their leaders to be subservient followers of a scandalous politician just because he throws money at them.

The BN leaders in Sarawak, many of whom I know personally, are not a lot of senseless worshippers of Cash the King but I'm truly perplexed with them keeping mum over Najib's world famous scandal.  

The Official Secrets Act - OSA - classification of the final audit report on 1MDB must have sent some sense into even the strongest sceptic. If you still can't differentiate right from wrong, may God help you.

With the Sarawak state election looming in the background leaders of PBB, SUPP, PRS, SPDP and their offshoots must accept the fact that their continued association with Najib could cause them votes and the gradual erosion of public confidence.

Agreeing to disagree is yet another fallacy when its about theft, treason and crime against the state.

p/s 

CD is not a political pact to fight BN. CD is a citizen's movement, over and above partisan politics, to remove the scandalous Mohd Najib Tun Razak as the Prime Minister of Malaysia. Umno could continue to keep him as their president but Malaysians must rise to kick out the criminal. 

I would like to advice BN politicians, especially those reluctant defenders of Najib Razak, to at least read the CD first before shooting their mouth or putting their signature on the prepared statements bearing their names. 

Its truly amusing, having to witness cowards in a quandary.   

p/s 2 - Video -if you're seeking guidance to do what is       

            right.

Agreeing to disagree 

Absolutely powerful Umno-Pas talks

An Umno – Pas unity talk could dominate national political debate soon. All arrows are pointing towards embattled Pas President Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang and his Umno counterpart Datuk Seri Najib Razak. Something seems to be brewing.

The recent passing of Tuan Guru Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz is widely speculated to have expedited ongoing talks between leaders from both sides. It’s unclear how this marriage of convenience is being proposed.

A bigger mess looms in Barisan Nasional for none of the other component members seems to be in the know of this latest ‘unity’ stunt. Pakatan Rakyat on the other hand have no choice but to admit the leftovers who are against any such cooperation with Umno or BN.

Pakatan Rakyat’s internal spat has worsened since the infamous Kajang Move and the subsequent Selangor Mentri Besar saga. With Anwar Ibrahim lurking in Sungai Buloh and an Azmin-Wan Azizah power struggle looming in the horizon, PKR could better concentrate on their survival. Pas leaving the Pakatan pact would no longer raise too many eyebrows. DAP has been standing on its own. 

In Umno the president is so strong that we may not see even a single Umno branch or division, let alone state, leadership standing up to voice the views of the grassroots. It’s a one-way street.

Whether we like it or not, Najib is one of the strongest president Umno has had in terms of total subservience of the Umno leadership structure. It would not be far fetched to say that Najib’s position as Umno president is unassailable.

The deputy president and three vice-presidents appear ‘not ready’ for greater responsibility, or at least that is how they have been portrayed either intentionally or otherwise.

With absolute power Najib and by extension those close to him are allowed to do whatever they want. A unity talk without prior consultation or deliberations within BN could be the least of Najib’s worries at this moment. In fact such a merger with Pas could be used to help boost Najib’s waning popularity, atlas among the divided Malays.

Unity is good but trust is paramount. Would an open pact between Umno and Pas lead towards betterment of the community and society at large or would it wedge a greater divide between the races? 

What could be the reaction of the dozen other members of BN who represent almost all the other races and ethnic groups in the country? Najib may not care because even his position as the BN chairman appears unassailable. (Najib is even personally micro-managing the power struggle in MIC at the moment)

Hypothetically could a Umno-Pas pact, if it materialises, not trigger similar political pacts between MCA, Gerakan, DAP, SUPP, UPP, SAPP and other Chinese dominated political parties? Who would call whom a traitor then?

It's a precarious situation. If not handled carefully, a move in the wrong direction could possibility mark the beginning of BN's end. 

With absolute power, political expediency could override norms and convention. Whether such an expediency is sustainable is another matter altogether.  

Mystery and mysterious wheelings and dealings have become daily diet in our political scene nowadays. Let’s just wait till the clouds clear. A new political equation could very well be in the making.    

p/s Don't worry. Whatever happens, Najib Razak will remain as Umno president, BN chairman and Prime Minister as nobody has been allowed to appear good enough to replace him at the moment. Thats the picture.