Tunku Abdul Aziz, once of Transparency International, latterly of a DAP, as well as in his many recent incarnation - one can't be certain there will be no further mutations to his elaborating domestic impression - a critic of Pakatan Rakyat, has written a couple of articles in theNew Straits Timeswhere he ruminates upon a impression of Anwar Ibrahim.
The gist of Tunku Aziz's musings convey his apprehension that Anwar might not be a man he publicly comports himself to be.
In alternative words, Anwar, a Pied Piper of domestic reform to a dysfunctional as well as sclerotic Malaysian socio-economic system, might well turn out to be a Frankenstein.
Tunku Aziz doesn't name them but, in attempting to give factitious faith to his misgivings, implies that some senior ex-colleagues of his in a care of a DAP share his qualms about Anwar.
Tunku Aziz was inhabitant vice-chairman of DAP in a short period of his cheating with a celebration that, in a haste to install high-ranking Malays, had regarded enlistment to a ranks of a founding chairman of a Malaysian section of Transparency International as a coup.
The celebration had prolonged stretched to shed a tag as a vehicle of Chinese chauvinism. So when it succeeded in interesting a Malay of Tunku Aziz's stature - urbane as well as as if magnanimous - it squandered no time in lifted a value of a catch: it placed him nearby a tip of a hierarchy.
The gist of Tunku Aziz's musings convey his apprehension that Anwar might not be a man he publicly comports himself to be.
In alternative words, Anwar, a Pied Piper of domestic reform to a dysfunctional as well as sclerotic Malaysian socio-economic system, might well turn out to be a Frankenstein.Tunku Aziz doesn't name them but, in attempting to give factitious faith to his misgivings, implies that some senior ex-colleagues of his in a care of a DAP share his qualms about Anwar.
Tunku Aziz was inhabitant vice-chairman of DAP in a short period of his cheating with a celebration that, in a haste to install high-ranking Malays, had regarded enlistment to a ranks of a founding chairman of a Malaysian section of Transparency International as a coup.
The celebration had prolonged stretched to shed a tag as a vehicle of Chinese chauvinism. So when it succeeded in interesting a Malay of Tunku Aziz's stature - urbane as well as as if magnanimous - it squandered no time in lifted a value of a catch: it placed him nearby a tip of a hierarchy.
Following his exit from a celebration early this year, a departure - if Tunku Aziz's expostulations over it have been vetted - prompted some-more by a wish of punctilio than of! princip le upon a part of secretary-general Lim Guan Eng - a DAP as if knows better now how to differentiate glister from gold.
In fact, since Tunku Aziz's affinity for a polemical word, it looks like a DAP is going to be since some-more reason to rue a haste in misconstruing his persona - ironically, a really same misapprehension he is during pains these days to indicate besets a DAP's as well as a public's perspective of Anwar.
Anwar's DNA
Tunku Aziz is nothing if not a survivor. In him, a line in between a art of presence as well as a calumny of opportunism have been blurred.
Some years ago, during an early stage in a controversy over a second round of sodomy accusations against him, Tunku Aziz, in a column in theNST, admonished Anwar over a latter's warding off to give a police a representation of his DNA.
The police as well as a then supervision of Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had been propelling Anwar to do so.
The call from Tunku Aziz was particularly gross because he, as a member of a Royal Commission of Inquiry in to a police force (December 2003 to Mar 2005), was upon record as having been deeply skeptical of a firmness of a force.
From expert t! estimony that was subsequently adduced during a trial's proceedings, it could be inferred that it was fortuitous that Anwar had declined to give police a representation of his DNA.
In a event, doubts lifted during a trial over a firmness of a DNA samples taken from Anwar led to High Court decider Mohamed Zabidin Diah's acquittal of Anwar of a assign of sodomy.
Shortly after Tunku Aziz had called upon Anwar to furnish his DNA sample, he joined a DAP, a pierce that shortly led to his appointment as a member from a celebration to a Upper House of Parliament.
Th ereafter, during a open seminar that was attended by Tunku Aziz as well as during that Anwar eloquently had held onward upon a issues of accountability as well as clarity - incidentally, a pet themes of Tunku Aziz's career prior to he joined a DAP - a party's recent vice-chairman praised Anwar in felicitous terms.
Crossovers in Sabah
Now this erstwhile columnist of theNST(the paper dropped him as writer during a short period of his membership of a DAP though restored him after his exit) plies a tune that is during odds with his position of not so prolonged ago.
The immediate arise for Tunku Aziz's casting of aspersions upon a impression of Anwar is a latter's encouragement of crossovers from Sabah BN to a eccentric dais as well as to Pakatan.
Two crossovers late final month of Sabah BN federal legislators to a eccentric benches had a effect of forcing Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak to commission a Royal Commission of Inquiry in to a emanate of illegal immigrants in Sabah who have been since c! itizensh ip as well as have been allegedly upon a electoral roll.
In his columns (NST, Jul 27 as well as Aug 18), Tunku Aziz goes upon during self-righteous length about Anwar's miss of principle in fomenting a crossovers as well as berates his slavishness to domestic expediency.
Only a tin-eared would miss a irony in Tunku Aziz's strictures: a man with his revolving doorway position towards domestic ideology is hoist with own controversial petards.
In fact, since Tunku Aziz's affinity for a polemical word, it looks like a DAP is going to be since some-more reason to rue a haste in misconstruing his persona - ironically, a really same misapprehension he is during pains these days to indicate besets a DAP's as well as a public's perspective of Anwar.
Anwar's DNA
Tunku Aziz is nothing if not a survivor. In him, a line in between a art of presence as well as a calumny of opportunism have been blurred.
Some years ago, during an early stage in a controversy over a second round of sodomy accusations against him, Tunku Aziz, in a column in theNST, admonished Anwar over a latter's warding off to give a police a representation of his DNA.
The police as well as a then supervision of Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had been propelling Anwar to do so.
The call from Tunku Aziz was particularly gross because he, as a member of a Royal Commission of Inquiry in to a police force (December 2003 to Mar 2005), was upon record as having been deeply skeptical of a firmness of a force.
From expert t! estimony that was subsequently adduced during a trial's proceedings, it could be inferred that it was fortuitous that Anwar had declined to give police a representation of his DNA.In a event, doubts lifted during a trial over a firmness of a DNA samples taken from Anwar led to High Court decider Mohamed Zabidin Diah's acquittal of Anwar of a assign of sodomy.
Shortly after Tunku Aziz had called upon Anwar to furnish his DNA sample, he joined a DAP, a pierce that shortly led to his appointment as a member from a celebration to a Upper House of Parliament.
Th ereafter, during a open seminar that was attended by Tunku Aziz as well as during that Anwar eloquently had held onward upon a issues of accountability as well as clarity - incidentally, a pet themes of Tunku Aziz's career prior to he joined a DAP - a party's recent vice-chairman praised Anwar in felicitous terms.
Crossovers in Sabah
Now this erstwhile columnist of theNST(the paper dropped him as writer during a short period of his membership of a DAP though restored him after his exit) plies a tune that is during odds with his position of not so prolonged ago.
The immediate arise for Tunku Aziz's casting of aspersions upon a impression of Anwar is a latter's encouragement of crossovers from Sabah BN to a eccentric dais as well as to Pakatan.
Two crossovers late final month of Sabah BN federal legislators to a eccentric benches had a effect of forcing Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak to commission a Royal Commission of Inquiry in to a emanate of illegal immigrants in Sabah who have been since c! itizensh ip as well as have been allegedly upon a electoral roll.
In his columns (NST, Jul 27 as well as Aug 18), Tunku Aziz goes upon during self-righteous length about Anwar's miss of principle in fomenting a crossovers as well as berates his slavishness to domestic expediency.
Only a tin-eared would miss a irony in Tunku Aziz's strictures: a man with his revolving doorway position towards domestic ideology is hoist with own controversial petards.
TERENCE NETTO has been a journalist for close upon 4 decades. He likes a function because it puts him in contact with a venerable but being under a necessity to admire them. It is a preferred function for a temperament that finds energy erotically appealing as well as a practice abhorrent.
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