May 11, 2012
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A Well-Meaning though Naive Senator
by Azmi Anshar | mishar@nst.com.my 0 comments
STOPPING THE GULLIBILITY: Tunku Aziz learns quick which DAP's 'free speech' is doublespeak
SENATOR Tunku Aziz Tunku Ibrahim, once a DAP's much-hyped "towering Malaysian", is scrupulously principled, in a cover of a right-thinking English lady guided by a spiritual laws of cricket.
Until April twenty-six which is, when he disavowed BERSIH 3.0s unavoidable mob violence, right away a default mode of operation for destiny domestic strategies of a opposition to require a supervision to action emphatically hard.
Tunku Aziz saw BERSIH3.0 as "not cricket", which is to be honest about a bad situation: instead of being thanked for his constructive criticism, he has been ungentlemanly bashed, his forthrightness costly.
Now, Tunku Aziz, to a DAP's hierarchy, is an unrepentant pariah, an "embarrassment" to a party as well as someone who must be sacked. The DAP acted fast to not magnify his senatorship for an additional 3 years though his Vice-Chairman position, which of a elaborate DAP Malay leader, stays tenuous.
Still, a aged king stays steadfast which a street demonstration which BERSIH stubbornly propagated goes opposite his criterion though what is he unequivocally now? In all which idealism as well as soulful conscience, he is a domestic naivet. Even during 78.
Tunku Aziz might have usually realised it late though he foolishly unloaded all which goodness onto a party which disdains such punctiliousness, generally when it formula in an inner backlash.
For Tunku Aziz, it ! was dome stic paradise during first when he joined a DAP in 2008 though now, it's ruin in costume as well as for that, he should be arraigned for a simple crime of gullibility.
Let's get a little perspective. Prior to his incursion in DAP, Tunku Aziz set up a Malaysian section of Transparency International in 1998 as well as went upon to make use of which pass in front of to fight crime as well as foster great governance in assorted general bodies.
Tunku Aziz was bold as well as capable in his critique opposite a Malaysian government; his
flitting of difficult visualisation upon issues of crime accepted in great faith.
But ask this: rather than continue with his great work, because would he, with his exquisite background, invest his value in a domestic party known some-more for a street-brawling strategies than civility?
In a hoopla surrounding his initial assignation with a DAP after a 2008 general election, together with heaps of praise as a soaring Malaysian as well as a large catch for a DAP, nobody questioned which his uncompromising criticisms as a Transparency International executive was essentially a trailer to his large pierce to DAP.
In a nutshell, Tunku Aziz's years in Transparency International were an unwitting preamplifier of DAP's roughshod strategy opposite their enemy, Barisan Nasional. If a Tunku had been circumspect about his reputation, he would sooner say his neutrality than become a partisan player. That Tunku Aziz gambled with his credentials was someway overlooked.
At a press discussion announcing his newly-minted DAP membership, Tunku Aziz spoken which he had been "monitoring a party's swell without their knowledge" for 20 years. His monitoring, upon hindsight, was extraneous during most appropriate as well as blind during worse.
Had he been thorough, Tun! ku Aziz would have been horrified during a risks, knowing which a DAP:
MANIPULATES a dubious "democratic principles" to ruthlessly say a father-son dynasty;
REVERTS unpremeditatedly to a elemental ethnic shape to win await notwithstanding showing off forever about a shape-shifting Malaysian Malaysia credo;
LAMBASTS a sitting Deputy Prime Minister for sexual incorrectness though then defends him legally as well as politically opposite a supervision after realising they could magnitude outrageous points with a electorate;
SPEAKS feverishly of free speech though is childishly irritated when faced with stinging criticisms, to a point of barring a media as well as gagging members.
(By now, Tunku Aziz would have fully appreciated this DAP paradox). For now, Tunku Aziz's diminished time in a DAP begs one outcome: will he dish out four-year's value of dirt upon a slick machinations of DAP right away which he has been excoriated?
If it is any joy to Tunku Aziz, he shouldn't be as well hard upon himself. DAP, as well as in equal measure, a Parti Keadilan Rakyat de facto leader whom they cooperate with, have fooled hundreds, if not thousands, of people with great conscience over a decades
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