Dzulkefly Ahmad, PAS Research Centre. (TMI)
JULY fourteen Whether we call it a Freudian slip or not, Datuk Seri Najib Razak's admission which he repealed a Internal Security Act (ISA) since "it did not great BN politically" couldn't come during worse time.
With a ubiquitous election looming so close, a budding apportion has in truth laid unclothed his "real self" to a entire nation.
With which unsolicited confession, Najib has in actuality committed a biggest blunder of his domestic career. Faced with such a predicament, domestic leaders especially heads of state can regularly resort to blaming others, not a least upon misreporting by a media. With this one, he has been checkmated since he was heard 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 a wrongs, which will make up an unconstrained list.
Firstly, a draconian inlet of a ISA needs no serve elaboration. The superannuated law has regularly been looked upon with ridicule as well as utter disdain. The untold agony it has inflicted upon all a victims will never go away as well as shall remain for eternity.
Despite a selective as well as obvious abuse, a power-that-be have regularly insisted which this obsolete piece of legislation was never used to secure or allege a domestic interest of a ruling party.
But, alas as well as behold, it takes none other than a sixth premier, a a single who has oral so much about remodel as well as democracy, to verbalise a truth!
All efforts during sauce up Najib as well as his administration by highly-paid, big-name consultants have come to almost naught, now.
To dedicate to observant which a ISA was repealed since "it did not great BN politically" though in actuality benefited some-more of those detained, is both abominable a! s well a s uncalled for. That this make a difference 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 a indictment by Mark MacKinnon who, in an essay for a Canadian Globe as well as Mail magazine, included a budding apportion in a list of a brand brand new autocrats of a 21st century.
MacKinnon also labelled Najib a "false democrat", a definition being leaders who "hold elections though have no goal of giving up power" as well as their "serious domestic rivals have been locked up as well as their parties have been outlawed upon legal technicalities."
With those parameters clearly spelt out, a single is reminded as to why Najib repealed a ISA. Is his litany of legislative reforms meant to increase polite liberties? Regrettably, no!
One wishes which Najib during least invoked as well as paid lip-service to a really notion of concept probity as well as essentially liberty, as a underpinning of his repealing a ISA.
Najib's barbarous make a difference about defending Putrajaya during all cost "even if a bodies have been dejected as well as a lives lost" right away flies in a face of all that. The really many instances of Najib's paradoxes, double-speak as well as flip-flops abundantly denote a trait of a "false democrat."
One is immediately reminded of his Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012 which replaces a ISA, which is right away ready to be gazetted after being bulldozed through Parliament. The SOA arguably is lot some-more repressive as well as draconian, in some respects, than a strange ISA.
Similarly, a single recalls a Peaceful Assembly Act is in tangible actuality a law which disallows peaceful assembly. The opposition leader as well as other Pakatan leaders have been charged by invoking a provisions of this public law after a "Barisan Nasional" 3.0
Najib's joining to a brand brand new domestic landscape should be a visible one. Sure as well as conv! incing e vidence of his ardour for remodel will be truly in a category of a loyal democrat.
In a surrounded by of all a protests, Najib should have shown a willingness to rivet as well as a ability to house bona fide dissent.
Najib, unfortunately, does not have what it takes to undertake genuine change. Najib's goal to dissolution a Sedition Act has been met with disregard as well as scorn by many, not a least by opposition as well as polite society groups. Their revulsion is understandable.
Similarly, his performance in a field of mercantile remodel as well as great governance has been similarly dismal.
The Land Transport Commission has voiced which up to RM160 billion could be spent upon railway infrastructure projects in a country, creation Malaysia a tantalizing destination for general engineering firms.
But would a care tormented with associate practices as well as rent-seeking behaviour prophesy well with general bidders? For which matter, would shift ever be possible if a leaders themselves have been a stumbling blocks for change? Leaders whose usually concern is sticking to energy during all cost.
Is a system of administration shift a usually way brazen to rid Malaysia of corrupt leaders who have brought a systemic rot in to a beloved country?
Time will tell as well as a dissolution of Parliament is certainly a first step of a cascade of events which will move about a system of administration shift estimable of Malaysia!
Hidup Rakyat! Hidup Malaysia!
* The views voiced here have been a personal perspective of a columnist
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