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 fast 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 26 which is, when he disavowed BERSIH 3.0s unavoidable mob violence, right away a default mode of operation for future domestic strategies of a opposition to coerce 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 helpful 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 celebration as well as someone who must be sacked. The DAP acted quickly to not magnify his senatorship for another three years though his Vice-Chairman position, which of a ornamental DAP Malay leader, stays tenuous.
Still, a elderly king stays indifferent which a travel proof which BERSIH stubbornly propagated goes opposite his canon though what is he unequivocally now? In all which conviction 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 celebration which disdains such punctiliousness, generally when it results in an inner backlash.
For Tunku Aziz, it was domestic paradise duri! ng 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 elementary crime of gullibility.
Let's get a little perspective. Prior to his foray in DAP, Tunku Aziz set up a Malaysian section of Transparency International in 1998 as well as went upon to make use of which key in front of to quarrel crime as well as foster great governance in various general bodies.
Tunku Aziz was bold as well as capable in his critique opposite a Malaysian government; his
passing of tough judgment upon issues of crime supposed in great faith.
But ask this: rather than go upon with his great work, because would he, with his impeccable background, invest his value in a domestic celebration well known more for a street-brawling strategies than civility?
In a hoopla surrounding his primary assignation with a DAP after a 2008 general election, together with heaps of regard as a towering Malaysian as well as a large locate for a DAP, nobody questioned which his uncompromising criticisms as a Transparency International executive was actually a trailer to his large pierce to DAP.
In a nutshell, Tunku Aziz's years in Transparency International were an oblivious preamplifier of DAP's roughshod strategy opposite their enemy, Barisan Nasional. If a Tunku had been wary about his reputation, he would earlier maintain his neutrality than turn a narrow-minded player. That Tunku Aziz gambled with his credentials was somehow overlooked.
At a press discussion announcing his newly-minted DAP membership, Tunku Aziz spoken which he had been "monitoring a party's progress though their knowledge" for 20 years. His monitoring, upon hindsight, was extraneous during best as well as blind during worse.
Had he been thorough, Tunku Aziz would have been horrified during a risks, meaningf! ul which a DAP:
MANIPULATES a dubious "democratic principles" to ruthlessly maintain a father-son dynasty;
REVERTS unpremeditatedly to a fundamental racial shape to win await despite bragging forever about a shape-shifting Malaysian Malaysia credo;
LAMBASTS a sitting Deputy Prime Minister for passionate incorrectness though afterwards defends him legally as well as politically opposite a supervision after realising they could magnitude outrageous points with a electorate;
SPEAKS feverishly of giveaway debate though is childishly prickly when faced with stinging criticisms, to a indicate of barring a media as well as gagging members.
(By now, Tunku Aziz would have entirely appreciated this DAP paradox). For now, Tunku Aziz's discontinued time in a DAP begs a single outcome: will he dish out four-year's value of dirt upon a sharp machinations of DAP right away which he has been excoriated?
If it is any comfort 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 personality whom they collude with, have fooled hundreds, if not thousands, of people with great demur over a decades
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