Kee Thuan Chye (Mkini)
8:45AM Feb 19, 2012
COMMENT After all which anticipation as good as excitement drummed up by a media, a discuss in in in between Chua Soi Lek as good as Lim Guan Eng incited out to be a disappointment.
It was reduction a discuss as good as some-more a political ceramah in which both sides seized a opportunity to verbalise good of their own celebration as good as expose a shortcomings of a other. Neither of them pronounced anything refreshing. What they pronounced was what you had read in a media large times before.
When it came to subject time, they often fought shy of answering a questions posed as good as instead went off during tangents to contend a things they longed for a open to hear.
In this case, they were positively not thinking of usually a assembly in a Berjaya Times Square hall where a discuss was being hold though additionally a larger assembly watching a live telecast.
Chua, a president of MCA, was a initial to speak. But instead of addressing a pretension of a debate, 'Chinese during a Crossroads: Is a Two-Party System Becoming a Two-Race System?', he came out with guns blazing.
His target was of march Pakatan Rakyat for "lying" which if it came to power, it could rein in PAS as good as forestall it from establishing an Islamic state. He additionally shot down a DAP by calling it a worker of PAS.
The themes of Chua's three-minute spiel were 'Don't opinion for a opposition', 'We contingency reject Islamic leadership as good as a DAP for helping PAS', 'The Chinese cannot be leaders in any state alternative than Penang; even in Perak as good as Kedah, a Pakatan menteris besar were from PAS'. Ho hum.
Race a elephant in a ! room
It sounded similar to a unfortunate call from a personality of a Chinese celebration which knew a presence was in danger. In relation to a topic, Chua had nothing to contend about relocating out of race-based politics. He couldn't have, anyway.
And which was a cross Lim could have nailed him to. To an extent, he did, when he talked about a need for a two-party complement which deliberate a interests of "Malaysians", unlike a BN complement in which Umno took care of a Malays, a MCA a Chinese, a MIC a Indians, as good as promoted a two-race multiplication of "Malays" as good as "non-Malays".
Pakatan personality Anwar Ibrahim, he added, was not for Malays alone; Anwar reputable a rights of all Malaysians. Pakatan was additionally opposite corruption, as good as which was something which transcended race. Again, aged hat.
Lim could have taken it serve as good as asked Chua because a MCA was still practising race-based governing body when it should be not pertinent in today's Malaysia, though he didn't. And maybe he didn't have to.
Chua betrayed himself when he spoke about a Pakatan governments in Penang as good as Selangor not having given land for a office building of Chinese schools, as good as boasted which a BN supervision in Perak had given thousands of acres for this purpose. Harping upon Chinese rsther than than Malaysian issues, he seemed hopelessly outdated as good as irrelevant.
On a whole, it was clear which Lim, a secretary-general of DAP as good as additionally chief apportion of Penang, was some-more thorough in his position as good as outlook.
He spoke, as he contingency have done large times before, of Penang being a initial stat! e in Pen insular Malaysia to have signboards in Malay, Chinese as good as Tamil, as good as even in Jawi. He spoke of a Penang supervision giving land every year for a office building of Chinese, Tamil as good as inhabitant schools.
This being so, Chua couldn't conflict striking a low blow when Lim asked him about a PKFZ (Port Klang Free Zone) scandal as good as because usually MCA leaders had been brought to trial while a Umno ones had been left untouched. Chua dismissed it as a subject which reeked of secular sentiment ("berbau perkauman").
I don't consider Lim meant it to be racial, though machiavellian Chua disfigured it to make it sound so. From Lim's facial expression, a single could see he was winded.
Lim waste during subject time
Lim competence have well known he was receiving upon an opponent who was substantially playing upon home ground. The discuss was co-organised by a Asian Strategic Leadership Institute (Asli) as good as MCA think-tank Insap. It afforded Chua a luxury to play to a art studio of home supporters, which he often did.
When a floor was opened for questions, Lim appeared during a disadvantage. The seating arrangement had many MCA members placed in front while a Pakatan supporters were during a back. This substantially authorised a MCA supporters to sprint to a subject line faster, so many of a questions came from them.
And such was a fervour of a MCA questioners which they came opposite some-more similar to football yobs than civilised assembly members. They harangued Lim, scolded him, yelled during him.
Lim did all right in answering a initial turn of questions, though for a second, he hardly addressed them, thereby gaving Chua a provender to deftly attack him for not doing so.
Lim should have been improved prepared to answer a que! stions b ecause he seemed to lose a little ground after that. Even if a questions were nonsensical or separate to a topic, he should have unprotected them as such.
To be sure, there were a little really ridiculous questions, similar to because Lim hadn't abolished a Sungai Nyior toll in Butterworth. Any sensitive chairman could have answered, similar to Lim did, which tolls have been controlled by a federal government.
But which didn't stop Chua from bringing it up again later by saying, "If Lim can't annul a Sungai Nyior toll, how can you believe which he can annul them during inhabitant level?"
Chua substantially suspicion he was vocalization to fools in a gallery, though a crafty ones in a assembly would have realised where a tangible dope was standing.
Another ridiculous display was a coming out by a single Jessie Ooi, MCA parliamentary coordinator for Selayang, who indicted Lim of ridiculous things. She got a massive bashing from hundreds of netizens thereafter upon her own Facebook page. It has since been removed.
Yet for all these, there were dual or three questions in a second turn which merited attention. At a really least, Lim should have addressed a subject concerning what a DAP would do if Pakatan came to power as good as PAS insisted upon implementing hudud.
He could easily have clarified which PAS would then need to get two-thirds infancy in order to rectify a constitution, as good as which competence be unattainable.
The categorical eventuality Najib vs Anwar
Overall, both Chua as good as Lim showed which they could still do improved as debaters, as good as if they have been to do this again both have agreed for a rematch subsequent month they need to be some-more on-the-ball.
Still, Lim managed a good remark when he said, "Chua says a DAP is a p! uppet of PAS, though to a Malays, Umno says PAS is a puppet of a DAP." And his large boy like grin gave striking contrariety to Chua's critical mien.
Chua was pretty pointy during times, though he intent as well much in bashing a opposition. Of a two, Lim came off improved in putting opposite a little of a policies of Pakatan, whereas Chua hardly promoted BN's plans. He used a word "transformation" once as good as only left it during that.
For what it's worth, a discuss could be a harbinger of others to come. It was positively not a initial as there have been debates before in in in between Anwar Ibrahim as good as Shabery Cheek (right), as good as Lim as good as Koh Tsu Koon (both in 2008), as good as Rafizi Ramli as good as Khairy Jamaluddin (in London final month) though it showed which such debates have been a full of health feature of a democracy, with political enemies shaking hands thereafter similar to civilised beings.
Let's goal this is only a curtain-raiser for a categorical eventuality many of us have been looking brazen to. That would be a a single in in in between Prime Minister Najib Razak as good as Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim.
Last month, Anwar threw down a gauntlet for a discuss upon Pakatan's 100-day reforms which Najib had been lambasting in a media. Anwar wants him to argue it out in public, male to man.
Will Najib be male sufficient to accept a dare? If he does, which would be something to see.
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