July 28, 2011
Tell-tale signs of gainsay grow in BN
by Terence NettoCOMMENT Its too early to say if these ripples of reprimand will swell in to a chorus of 
dissent. Nevertheless, they have been notable for a justification they yield which things have been not all a uniform Aye, aye from a BN ranks to a Najib Razak governments actions in recent days.
Sure, a doubts expressed by Saifuddin Abdullah, a emissary minister, about a governments heavy-handed greeting to a Bersih issue, as well as a call by S Subramaniam, a full minister, which a PSM 6, or a EO 6, be charged in justice or released have been a long approach from suggesting a growing schism inside of a BN ranks.
Still, UMNO-BN has been such a predictable obelisk when it comes to matters to do with a hang-up of a opposition which even a pipsqueak of protest from inside of a ranks contingency jog a attention.
When we supplement Saifuddins as well as Subramaniams murmurs of protest to Khairy Jamaluddins challenge to a National Security Council to insist how they had come to view a progressive-seeming Islamic reverend as Wahabist, we proceed to infer a wider scale to a reservations about supervision actions from inside of its ranks.
Top which up with a participation of a sizeable number of BN sorts during a launch of Amanah (Angkatan Amanah Merdeka) final week by Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, where ! nostalgi a for a values of a soft pa! st was e asily translated in to criticism of contemptuous stream practices, we get a picture which a waters have been beginning to roil under a aspect of UMNO-BN.
This trend of inner disbelief as well as gainsay is certain to escalate given what tends to happen to topnotch civil servants or open group sorts who offer to insist supervision stances as well as actions during briefings or forums.
They have been customarily embarrassed in to silence, piqued by their audiences withering response to exposed gaps in their reasoning or explanation.
The ultimate casualty is a emissary chair of a Election Commission. Some 3 weeks before it was his boss as well as a emissary executive of a Special Branch who were chagrined by a greeting they encountered while explaining electoral rules as well as police investigations respectively during a briefing for a couple of NGOs.
Double deception
The disaster of frontline troopers for a supervision casts a sceptical light upon a advice of a Regent of Perak in a lecture he gave a other day upon a need for rulers to be told a truth by officers.
Raja Nazrin Shah, once quite prolific in rendering discourses upon open issues, appears to be returning to a open pulpit after a hiatus of dual years following a ordering of a Pakatan Rakyat state supervision in Perak by a BN.
He chose as a theme for his lapse to a purpose as a sort of ombudsman of values which have been under threat in a open locus to underline a importance of officers revelation a truth to rulers so which a latter have been adequately sensitive about open sentiment.
But what about a motives of officers in wanting to discuss it a rulers what they consider they want to hear and, in instances, who affect to discuss it a open what they consider thei! r rulers want them to hear?
There is no insulation against this stand in decepti! upon excep t for a rulers to go incognito between a rank as well as file as well as find out what they feel.
This, of course, used to be used by some unusual rulers in times past though is no longer possibly in these days of pervasive media. Hence rulers reliance upon their shock troops upon a belligerent is de rigueur as well as a latters correct stating of open view is imperative.
Perhaps a theme of Raja Nazrins next discourse could be upon how rulers have been to understanding with troopers who themselves express disbelief about a actions or control of rulers. Would they conflict similar to King Henry VIII who decreed a capital low mark of his chancellor (prime apportion in those days) after he had disagreed with a king? The predestine of Thomas More has resounded through a centuries as dignified parable for a dilemmas inherent in ruler-officer relations.
Riding a back of a tiger
This brings us to a question of a incipient signs of gainsay inside of Umno-BN ranks upon a issues flaring in a national arena. Some 3 weeks after a Bersih march, a divisive issues continuous with it continue to smoulder. This is largely since a supervision chose to ride a back of a tiger upon a matter as well as as all who have done which choice have gone upon to discover, selecting when to dismount is never easy.
The arrest of 10 PKR members wearing yellow T-shirts in a try to hand over a Bersih memorandum to Najib during a open duty yesterday only served to underscore a indicate about a governments Pavlovian automatic towards repression.
Brace, then, for an escalation to a tell-tale signs of inner gainsay shown by a Saifuddins as well as Subramaniams of UMNO-BN.
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