May 3, 2012
Dr. UMNO breaks his overpower upon BERSIH3.0
by Terence Netto@www.malaysiakini.com
COMMENT After a period of quiet a tell-tale sign he's not sure what to make of a play Dr Mahathir Mohamad upon Monday ended his overpower upon BERSIH 3.0 with comments which uncover how low in Josef Goebbels' debt he often is.
The Nazi propaganda apportion was an exponent of a "big lie", a tactic which holds which a more brazen a lie we muster a harder it is for a aim to repudiate it.Just as a humanist is often confused by a counsel will to evil, so have been a honest often confused by a bare-faced hypocrisy of others.
In remarks done at a launch of a Bahasa Malaysia chronicle of his memoirs 'A Doctor in the
House', Mahathir claimed which Bersih was out to foment revolution.
The former Premier has got things a wrong way round. For a effect of hypothesis, a single would have to summation events of 25 years back, inserting BERSIH's existence prior to a main UMNO election of April 1987.
If, say, there was a polls reform advocacy organisation similar to BERSIH well prior to a UMNO election, a party would feasible have prevented thirteen bootleg branches from participating in a inner polls which year, a move which led to a court box which saw a late Justice Harun Hashim declare UMNO illegal.
Historians might well demeanour back upon which sequence of events as carrying led to a series whose main trigger was a dismissal of Salleh Abas in 1988 as a tip judge of a country.
As consequence, a era of a imperial budding apportion as well as of UMNO as hegemon began, a insubordinate reversal from w! hat was a normal prior to a Prime Minister as primus inter pares (first among equals) in Cabinet as well as a same status for UMNO within a ruling BN.
Collateral damage
A horde of debilitating ills stemmed from a imperial premiership as well as UMNO's hegemony: a law was rendered compliant, as well as a civil use as well as military force became adjuncts of a UMNO President as well as Prime Minister of a country.
Collateral damage in a commercial operation globe from these deviant developments saw a military base of a politics-business nexus which has directly led to a plutocracy Malaysia has become.
Talk of a changes to a election process which BERSIH has for a past 5 years been espousing, how most must right away be wishing which BERSIH had existed a prolonged time ago for it feasible would have prevented a series to Malaysia's inherent mores which released from a appearance of thirteen bootleg branches in UMNO's elective exercise of 1987.
That eventuality was a trigger for a cascade of deviant as well as corruptive goods upon Malaysian politics. It would take a series to remove these goods from a physique politic; so deeply have a viruses putrescent a inhabitant political bloodstream which mere transfusions would not sufficient to rejuvenate it.
Consider Mahathir's argument, aired whilst expatiating upon a issue of BERSIH final Monday, which a fact a Election Commission's arch as well as deputy have been members of UMNO do not describe their status as just interlocutors untenable.
Mahathir argues a indicate of their membership's dormancy as invalidating a explain which mere membership had rendered them innately biased.
It is a sort of evidence which would get we laughed out off any democratic saloon.Bu! t a evid ence is to be expected from someone who authorised a most corrosive deviation from legal norms to start upon his watch as Prime Minister.
This was a preference to allow a Chief Judge of Malaya (Hamid Omar) to be upon a panel of a impeachment proceedings against a Lord President (Salleh Abas) when an adverse finding against a latter meant which a former would be towering to take his place in a legal hierarchy. Something similar to which is simply not upon in a canons of natural justice.
A Humpty Dumpty situation
It is said of Mahathir which he never encountered a order he did not like; in a eventuality he did, he simply changed it. When a prototype of a current EC arch (also similar to a benefaction one, a former secretary general of a Home Ministry) suggested to Premier Mahathir which a little manners of a electoral process which favoured incumbents indispensable to be changed to turn more even handed, he was given what was, meaningful Mahathir, a standard reply.
The former EC head was told which just since a order favoured a incumbents was no reason to shift it. Never mind which a showing of which sort is innately autocratic; it is when it claims which a conflicting tendency, which when prolonged disregarded can rise to a protesting proportions which Bersih summoned final Saturday, is called compulsory as well as revolutionary, we have arrived at a Humpty Dumpty situation.
Which is: "A word is anything we say it means." It would take a series to put right a incident similar to that.
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