August 3, 2012
Najib's Patina of Liberalism
by Terence Netto@www.malaysiakini.com
COMMENT: For a little time prior to a headlines pennyless which PKR's Rafizi Ramli was being charged with offences opposite a Banking as well as Financial Institutions Act (BAFIA), a actuality which Prime Minister Najib Razak is an obscurantist posing as a reformer had a standing of an open secret.
Anyone with some-more than a passing knowledge of his career was in upon a secret, though since a way political society is configured in Malaysia, even PERKASA arch Ibrahim Ali can be done to seem a born-again magnanimous should he, with a connivance of a powers-that-be, so desire.
What more, then, a possibilities of transfiguration from latent obscurantist to magnanimous poseur for someone of Najib's extraction as well as perceptible destiny?
During a penultimate theatre of Najib's climb to a top of UMNO's greasy pole, a Internet-accessing open were arcane to covert information, pleasantness of a mobile phone conversation between a afterwards Deputy Prime Minister as well as a friend of his about to be charged with murder, which Malaysian governing body does not usually have corridors of power; it has subterranean alleyways in which assorted factors salary their devious battles with a bent for skullduggery which has become de rigueur of those wanting to maintain their grip upon power.
With a charging of PKR vital director Rafiz! i (r ight in photo) for disclosing report protected by promissory note secrecy laws report which has led to a bearing of a multimillion ringgit liaison of a arrange which could lead to a rain of governments a cat is out of a bag which a Najib administration department department department is certifiably not reformist.
The subsequent time which crapulous slogan 'Government Transformation Programme' trips off a tongue of a Najib administration department department department flunkey, his or her assembly ought to remind a hapless orator which a word is not what Humpty Dumpty binds it to be 'Anything a orator says it means'.
PM's patina of liberalism
The administration department department department began a year intent upon leveraging upon a astonishing exculpation of Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim upon a assign of sodomising an aide a growth a PM lauded as indicative of a Judiciary's independence.
Najib managed to means this patina of liberalism by primarily signaling a placatory position towards polls remodel advocacy group BERSIH's bid to theatre a third open proof in Apr to accelerate their box for a clean-up of a electoral rolls as well as fairer practices during a electioneering period.
But a position not propped up by a requisite attitude is shortly suggested to be what it is: a facade.
How flaky a Najib administration's magnanimous masquerade was became evident in a contingent response to a BERSIH demonstration, a greatest open gathering for a political cause in Malaysia in decades.
The oppressive greeting of a Police as well as a knee-jerk responses of a government to a huge mob a BERSIH proof succeeded in job out showed which a administration department department depart! ment was keener upon a rhetorical posturing rather than in a tangible piece of liberalism.
This charade became even some-more tawdry when Anwar as well as dual of his PKR aides were not usually charged with offences in connection with their participation in a Apr twenty-eight proof a charges were protracted as well as reinforced in a second round of indictments.
This was followed by a filing of a grounds of appeal in Jul by a Attorney-Gneral of Anwar's sodomy acquittal.
It takes a burglar to catch a thief
Now with whistleblower unusual Rafizi charged with offences under BAFIA upon an issue concerning misappropriation of open funds for a cattle-breeding plan which has already led to a complaint for hurtful practices of personnel endangered in a management, you have a imitation of a 'Government Transformation Programme' upon foot upon all fours.
Though Rafizi was called in by Bank Negara for questioning upon purported violations of BAFIA, a prevalent sense upon a make a difference was which someone who had called courtesy to crimes which had not usually taken place though had led to a indictments of an array of suspects should not be impugned upon a conjecture which it sometimes takes a burglar to catch a thief.
The conjecture is which when Rafizi went upon to display shenanigans which allegedly occurred in a award of a stipulate for prolongation works to a Ampang Light Rail Transit (LRT) line, his malfeasance-scouring run of recent weeks had hit a highly supportive nerve.
There's hell to compensate for exposes of which kind, since what a conjecture is about who's unequivocally in assign where a Najib administration department department department is concerned. Now it no longer a box of a PM being out-ed as a artificial liberal; it's a box of whether he was any kind of magnanimous at all.
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