July 14, 2012
Time for Regime Change?
by Dr. Zulkefly Ahmad
Whether we call it the Freudian slip or not, Datuk Seri Najib Razak's acknowledgment which he repealed the Internal Security Act (ISA) since "it did not benefit BN politically" couldn't come during worse time.
With the general election looming so close, the Prime Minister has indeed laid bare his "real self" to the entire nation.With which unsolicited confession, Najib has in actuality committed the greatest blunder of his domestic career.
Faced with such the predicament, domestic leaders especially heads of state can always review to blaming others, not the slightest upon misreporting by the media. With this one, he has been checkmated since he was listened as well as quoted verbatim.But what is so wrong about it, we might wonder.
Well, there is frequency anything right about which statement. As to the wrongs, which will make up an endless list. Firstly, the draconian inlet of the ISA needs no further elaboration. The 
antiquated law has always been looked upon with ridicule as well as utter disdain. The infinite anguish it has inflicted upon all the victims will never go away as well as shall remain for eternity.
Despite the resourceful as well as blatant abuse, the power-that-be have always insisted which this obsolete square of legislation was never used to secure or advance the domestic seductiveness of the ruling party.
But, alas as well as behold, it takes nothing alternative than the sixth premier, the a single who has spoken ! so most about remodel as well as democracy, to speak the truth!
All efforts during sauce up Najib as well as his administration department by highly-paid, big-name consultants have come to almost naught, now.
To commit to saying which the ISA was repealed since "it did not benefit BN politically" but in actuality benefited some-more of those detained, is both deplorable as well as uncalled for. That this matter is suicidal to Najib could usually be proven in due time.
But some-more importantly for now, Najib's faux pas seems to abundantly absolve the indictment by Mark MacKinnon who, in an article for the Canadian Globe as well as Mail magazine, included the Prime Minister in the list of the brand new autocrats of the 21st century.
MacKinnon additionally marked down Najib the "false democrat", the clarification being leaders who "hold elections but have no intention of giving up power" as well as their "serious domestic rivals have been jailed as well as their parties have been outlawed upon authorised technicalities."
With those parameters clearly spelt out, the single is reminded as to because Najib repealed the ISA. Is his litany of legislative reforms meant to increase polite liberties? Regrettably, no!
One wishes which Najib during slightest invoked as well as paid lip-service to the really idea of concept justice as well as essentially liberty, as the underpinning of his repealing the ISA.
Najib's barbarous matter about fortifying Putrajaya during all cost "even if the bodies have been dejected as well as the lives lost" right away flies in the face of all that. The really most instances of Najib's paradoxes, double-speak as well as flip-flops abundantly demonstrate the trait of the "false democrat."
One is rught away reminded of his Security Offences (! Special Measures) Act 2012 which replaces the ISA, which is right away ready to be gazetted after being bulldozed by Parliament. The SOA arguably is lot some-more repressive as well as draconian, in some respects, than the strange ISA.
Similarly, the single recalls the Peaceful Assembly Act is in tangible actuality the law which disallows pacific assembly. The Opposition leader as well as alternative Pakatan leaders have been charged by invoking the provisions of this public law after the Bersih 3.0
Najib's joining to the brand new domestic landscape should be the manifest one. Sure as well as credible justification of his ardour for remodel will be truly in the category of the loyal democrat.
In the surrounded by of all the protests, Najib should have shown the eagerness to engage as well as the ability to accommodate legitimate dissent.
Najib, unfortunately, does not have what it takes to undertake genuine change. Najib's intention to repeal the Sedition Act has been met with contempt as well as derision by many, not the slightest by opposition as well as polite society groups. Their denial is understandable.
Similarly, his opening in the field of economic remodel as well as good governance has been similarly dismal.The Land Transport Commission has voiced which up to RM160 billion could be outlayed upon railway infrastructure projects in the country, creation Malaysia the tantalizing destination for general engineering firms.
But would the care plagued with associate practices as well as rent-seeking behaviour prophesy well with general bidders? For which matter, would shift ever be probable if the leaders themselves have been the stumbling blocks for change? Leaders whose usually concern is sticking to power during all cost.
Is the system of administration shift the usually approach brazen to absolved Malaysia of corrupt leaders who have brought the systemic debase into the dear c! ountry?T ime will discuss it as well as the retraction of Parliament is certainly the first step of the cascade of events which will move about the system of administration shift estimable of Malaysia!
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