May 3, 2012
Dr. UMNO breaks his overpower upon BERSIH3.0
by Terence Netto@www.malaysiakini.com
COMMENT After the period of quiet the tell-tale pointer he's not sure what to have of the fool around Dr Mahathir Mohamad upon Monday finished his overpower upon BERSIH 3.0 with comments which show how deep in Josef Goebbels' debt he often is.
The Nazi promotion apportion was an exponent of the "big lie", the tactic which binds which the some-more brazen the distortion you muster the harder it is for the target to deny it.Just as the humanist is often confused by the counsel will to evil, so are the honest often confused by the bare-faced hypocrisy of others.
In remarks made during the launch of the Bahasa Malaysia chronicle of his memoirs 'A Doctor in the
House', Mahathir claimed which Bersih was out to sustain revolution.
The former Premier has got things the wrong approach round. For the sake of hypothesis, the single would have to recap events of twenty-five years back, inserting BERSIH's existence prior to the main UMNO choosing of April 1987.
If, say, there was the polls remodel advocacy group like BERSIH good prior to the UMNO election, the party would feasible have prevented thirteen bootleg branches from participating in its internal polls which year, the pierce which led to the probity case which saw the late Justice Harun Hashim acknowledgement UMNO illegal.
Historians might good demeanour behind upon which sequence of events as carrying led to the series whose main trigger was the removal of Salleh Abas in 1988 as the top decider of the country.
As consequence, the era of the majestic budding apportion as! well as of UMNO as hegemon began, the revolutionary reversion from what was the norm prior to the Prime Minister as primus lay away pares (first among equals) in Cabinet as well as the same status for UMNO within the ruling BN.
Collateral damage
A host of debilitating ills stemmed from the majestic premiership as well as UMNO's hegemony: the law was rendered compliant, as well as the polite service as well as military force became adjuncts of the UMNO President as well as Prime Minister of the country.
Collateral damage in the commercial operation sphere from these deviant developments saw the military base of the politics-business sequence which has without delay led to the plutocracy Malaysia has become.
Talk of the changes to the choosing process which BERSIH has for the past 5 years been espousing, how many contingency right away be wishing which BERSIH had existed the long time ago for it feasible would have prevented the series to Malaysia's constitutional mores which released from the participation of thirteen bootleg branches in UMNO's elective exercise of 1987.
That event was the trigger for the pour out of deviant as well as corruptive goods upon Malaysian politics. It would take the series to mislay these goods from the physique politic; so deeply have the viruses infected the inhabitant political bloodstream which small transfusions would not sufficient to rejuvenate it.
Consider Mahathir's argument, aired whilst expatiating upon the emanate of BERSIH final Monday, which the fact the Election Commission's chief as well as deputy are members of UMNO do not describe their status as impartial interlocutors untenable.
Mahathir argues the point of their membership's dormancy as invalidating the explain wh! ich smal l membership had rendered them innately biased.
It is the arrange of evidence which would get you laughed out off any approved saloon.But the evidence is to be approaching from someone who authorised the many erosive deviation from judicial norms to start upon his watch as Prime Minister.
This was the preference to allow the Chief Judge of Malaya (Hamid Omar) to be upon the panel of the impeachment proceedings conflicting the Lord President (Salleh Abas) when an adverse anticipating conflicting the latter meant which the former would be towering to take his place in the judicial hierarchy. Something like which is simply not upon in the canons of natural justice.
A Humpty Dumpty situation
It is pronounced of Mahathir which he never encountered the order he did not like; in the event he did, he simply changed it. When the prototype of the stream EC chief (also like the benefaction one, the former cabinet member ubiquitous of the Home Ministry) suggested to Premier Mahathir which the little manners of the electoral process which lucky incumbents needed to be changed to turn some-more even handed, he was given what was, meaningful Mahathir, the standard reply.
The former EC conduct was told which just because the order lucky the incumbents was no reason to change it. Never thoughts which the showing of which arrange is innately autocratic; it is when it claims which the conflicting tendency, which when long disregarded can rise to the protesting proportions which Bersih summoned final Saturday, is called dictatorial as well as revolutionary, we have arrived during the Humpty Dumpty situation.
Which is: "A word is anything I say it means." It would take the series to put right the situation like that.
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