Former budding minister Mahathir Mohamad, held in universal contempt as well as therefore needs no introduction, has characteristically come to Sarawak Chief Minister Taib Mahmud's defence time-and-again in helping to deflect off a incessant attacks opposite a lat! ter for his unexplained as well as miraculous wealth. Taib needs no introduction possibly as well as for viewable reasons.
Simplistic as usual, Mahathir has in new days spoken Taib trusting as otherwise a authorities would have thrown a book during him. He attributes a stepped up attacks opposite Taib to a approaching 13thGeneral Election that seems to regularly around a corner given a final dual years.
Dr M's tip files
The defence of Taib comes after Mahathir spoken that he had never listened of Projek Mahathir in Sabah to place bootleg immigrants upon a electoral rolls in a state with MyKads that may be possibly genuine but a hilt not being entitled to it -- or bogus. In a latter case, a details of a hilt have been not upon jot down with a National Registration Department unlike in a former.
Both group have been protected so far from being incarcera! ted as l aws in Malaysia have been not enacted to be enforced but just in box they need to be enforced. Cases in point have been those, upon paper, opposite sodomy, fellatio as well as alternative carnal acts opposite a sequence of nature. Hence, open persecutors have been "cleverly" disguised as open prosecutors.
In Taib's box in particular, Mahathir laid down a Golden Rule whilst he was in office for twenty-two years as Prime Minister: any investigation fil! e upon a Barisan Nasional (BN) leader had to be sent to him personally for approval. No prizes for guessing that Mahathir sealed divided such files in a drawer until his own personal circumstances forced him to betray a suspect.
This was how Anwar Ibrahim, underneath Mahathir's direction, was mercilessly dragged through a Court upon Sodomy 1 as well as corruption charges. By a time of Sodomy II, Anwar was no longer a BN leader as well as a sycophants among a authorities fell all over themselves in pleasing a powers-that-be.
Abusing a system
Just as Mahathir hijacked a system, Taib has finished further in Sarawak because he has a licence from Putrajaya to be hurtful as long as a state not usually stays within a BN fold but within Malaysia.
So, upon "national security" grounds, a separatist-minded non-Muslim Dayaks had to be kept out of a Chief Minister's chair. Taib, Dayak as a Melanau, was nevertheless fine in a eyes of Putrajaya. He was a fellow Muslim who could be devoted to do a right thing for "bangsa, agama as well as negara".
Both Mahathir as well as Taib, being birds of a feather, have been sealed in a genocide embrace. Their day of reckoning is coming earlier rsther than than later, as well as with good reasons too.
In Taib's case, his fate is linked with a final genocide march of a Sarawak United People's Party (Supp) that began upon Sat 10, Dec 2011. The Chinese as well as a commercial operation village have utterly incited divided from a party. The celebration is no! t going to get an lengthened lease of life, to check a inevitable, by grudgingly as well as eventually electing a Dayak as a Deputy President. This is a celebration that has squatted upon a Dayaks, a Bidayuh in particular, given its inception in 1961.
It will be interesting to see whether Taib can stave off a certainty that Supp will be decimated during GE 13.
Supp has assimilated a ranks of a Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) as well ! as a Sar awak Progressive Party (SPDP), both of that have been unable within a state BN. Wither a power-sharing formula so often preached by BN as well as a coalition's suggestion of give-and-take as well as arriving during decisions by consensus-and-compromise?
One-way travel of take, take as well as take
The Chinese commercial operation village in Sarawak can be approaching to bankroll anyone who can assistance them get absolved of Taib. If they can get absolved of Rahman in 1981, after he was just ten years in power, they can additionally do a same thing to Taib. The latter has learnt a sour lessons from Rahman's rain but assumingly not enough.
It has turn a one-way travel in Sarawak underneath Taib. He takes, as well as takes as well as takes. The others have to give in, give in as well as give in.
It's not surprising that Taib's family has been listed by The Sarawak Report, an NGO, as carrying directorships as well as stakes in nearly 400 companies in Sarawak, as well as conservatively estimated during US$ 5 billion. In short, they have a finger in each cake in Sarawak, a materialisation due to a family members all carrying something upstairs, according to Taib in a media talk recently.
The US$ 5 billion figure is peanuts given Abdul Rahman Yakub, Taib's prototype as well as maternal uncle, once boasted during a open convene in a late 1970s that he (Rahman) was then value US$ 7 billion. He was notice his listeners that he had sufficient money to buy them during a loss in governing body as well as sell them during a profit.
One can usually guess how much a Taib-Rahman family is unequivocally value in ringgit as well as sen.
The tip of Taib's wealth lies in stealing Native as well as state land, getting free shares in companies, as well as putting his hands in a state's coffers underneath a guise of "politics of development". Most of these ill-gotten gains have been energetic out of a state as well as salt! ed divid ed abroad.
Taib himself bragged during a said media talk that many of a family's commercial operation interests read ill-gotten gains -- have been abroad because he "doesn't want to be accused by opponents of using his position t! o feathe r his own nest". The irony of it all!
When pull comes to shove, a same BN tranquil Putrajaya that protects Taib has to embankment him if they have been to have during slightest a fighting chance to cling to upon to power in Parliament. The ruling Malay elite cannot afford to swim or penetrate with Taib.
"Janji janji manis", "janji kosong" or janji Melayu"?
Taib solemnly promised upon inhabitant television during a run-up to a state elections early final year that he would go as well as soon. It looks similar to now that he has reneged upon his oath in public. It will be interesting to see how he will insist his continued participation during a run-up to GE 13. Yet another "janji janji manis", "janji kosong" or janji Melayu"?
In Mahathir's case, it would be kinder not to comment.
Never has as well as never will such a twiste! d charac ter ever travel this land.
It would be elegant probity when his huge crimes opposite a people of Sabah have been eventually revealed for a entire world to see.
Mahathir has additionally been guilty upon a inhabitant scale of hijacking a viscera of state, doing divided with a checks as well as balances inherent in a legislature, senior manager as well as judiciary, dipping his hands into a inhabitant cookie glass container upon behalf of his cronies as well as to fuel his governing body of clientele as well as institutionalizing racism in a country as a inhabitant beliefs of a ruling elite.
The punishment contingency fit a crime. In! Mahathi r's case, as with Taib, there is no punishment as nonetheless devised for a concern of their crimes opposite a state as well as people, even if they were to be re-born multiform t! imes ove r to be punished all over again.
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