September 15, 2012
Home Minister outdoes even himself
by Terence Netto@www.malaysiakini.com
COMMENT: More urgent to Prime Najib Abdul Razak than picking the suitable date for the country's ubiquitous choosing would be deciding either his cousin, Hishammuddin Hussein, deserves to be in his cabinet of ministers the single versed to carry out his so-called remodel agenda.
The Home Minister, already notorious over the final 6 years for foot-in-
the-mouth statements as well as open exhibitions of ethnic chauvinism like the fluttering of the 'keris', has now topped his jot down in weird control as well as statement.
This grandson of UMNO's renowned as well as redoubtable owner (Onn Jaafar), as well as son of Tun Hussein Onn who is regarded as an exemplar of care as the form of honest stewardship, was quoted yesterday as saying something which is the extreme abdication of the Home Minister's fiduciary duty.
As the single of the more consequential exponents of the rule of law, as well as during the time when the dysfunctional wing of his Ministry the Police Force is besieged by the notice which it is palpably lingering in the law coercion as well as crime impediment functions, the Home Minister delivered himself of an additional outlandish statement.
Hishammuddin said there was no need to guarantee the safety of the debate train used by the antithesis leader upon an electioneering debate of the country, already stoned once as well as daubed with red paint twice.
Menaced 3 times already in the past dual weeks of the debate of the peninsula, leaders of Pakatan Rakyat appealed to the police to ensure the safety of the t! rain as well as the personnel in the run-up to the 13th ubiquitous election.
"No need for guarantees," the Home Minister was quoted yesterday as saying in response. "It is motionless by the people of Johor themselves," the country's supervisor of his Ministry's law coercion purpose unhelpfully added, as the train debate began the Johor run yesterday in the state regarded as an inaccessible UMNO bastion.
Barely had the Minister finished vocalization then the train was splashed with red paint in Tangkak in the afternoon, upon the first stop of the debate in the southern state.
Mammoth cooking crowd
Sundry other incidents of the threatening effort also occurred upon the bus's Johor tarry yesterday, but PKR as well as the supremo remained unfazed by the threat nonetheless Hishamuddin's desertion came in for caustic criticism by the slew of speakers during the sold-out cooking organized by the celebration in Skudai final night.
Attended by 8,000 people the largest subscription-paying throng to turn up for an antithesis party-organised duty in the state ever the speakers told the throng which their size was an augury of the changed change of domestic energy to come during the ubiquitous election.
"I have listened it upon great authority," hollered Chua Jui Meng, the PKR state chief, "that UMNO expects the antithesis to win nine to 10 parliamentary seats here."
"This is an UMNO citadel but it will soon be the funeral ground," asserted the former MCA-appointed minister with what, from the size as well as enthusiasm of the crowd, was distinct hyperbole.
Johor has 26 parliamentary as well as 56 state seats. The antithesis bagged the single federal seat (DAP took Bakri) as well as five state seats (DAP, four as well as PAS, one).
Th! ose figu res have been set for acceleration during the polls in which Hishammuddin is approaching to pierce from his Sembrong bailiwick to Kota Tinggi, the pierce which of itself is the pointer of his as well as his party's vulnerability.
In mortal hazard of electoral rejection
But UMNO's precariousness is increasingly clad by jingoism, as in
Hishammuddin's keris-waving, as well as compounded by fiduciary dereliction, as in his misconstruing of the duties of the Home Minister.
The forfeiture of the moral as well as domestic legitimacy of the governance is mirrored in the career of this scion of the party's founding bluebloods, so observably illegitimate nonetheless remorselessly ascendant inside of celebration as well as cabinet.
If you have been wondering because UMNO, notwithstanding being in mortal hazard of electoral rejection, cannot remodel take the demeanour during Hishammuddin's career: he's from the top drawer by lineage, from the opposite by performance.
Expect no chastisement from superiors over his latest mistake pas or the diminution of his prospects for upward mobility plutocrats have been famously free from the downward pulls of failure. This is not just farce; it is mime parading upon all fours.
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