December 4, 2012
Everything has altered though UMNO
by Terence Netto@www.malaysiakini.com
UMNO no longer manners a set down in Malaysian politics. There was tearful lamentation between a delegates over this fact though no introspection over how this had come to be.-Terence Netto
COMMENT Everything has altered for UMNO, though zero has altered inside of UMNO.It used to be which UMNO got what UMNO wanted. So powerful was a party, it was sovereign of all it surveyed upon a Malaysian domestic stage.
The gaudy theatre of a just-completed annual ubiquitous assembly final week could not censor a salience of a new being which UMNO no longer manners a set down in Malaysian politics. There was tearful lamentation between a delegates over this fact though no introspection over how this had come to be.
Rarely adept during self-scrutiny, it tried to surpass itself in raised a fears: by excoriating a Opposition with reproach as well as calming itself it enjoys divine sanction. In a process, it underscored a being which a celebration has no new ideas of what to do to overcome a complaint of a decline in popularity.
Years of regurgitating clichs had brought it to a theatre where it relies upon a reflex, rather than a fresh idea in a face of new challenges.
Thus a Head of a women's wing, Shahrizat Abdul Jalil, conjured up a spook of renewed secular riots a May thirteen spook when a national accord is which a scab should not be peeled behind to expose a wound of which situation in a common memory.
Some incidents have been as well dire for recall as well as so a mere discuss of them brings out a goosef! lesh. UM NO's boosters know this, which is because they run out a mental recall of May thirteen to cow voters ancillary their opponents in to subservience. But this time around, any assault which occurs after a vote in a 13th ubiquitous choosing would not be inter-racial though intra-racial violence.
That's a radical proposition, with those who in a centre undervalue this faith exposing their attenuation from a being that's out there by a extent of their self-delusion about a competition of illusive enforcers as well as targets in any post-balloting flare-up.
But the biggest misinterpretation of all is which UMNO thinks it can plausibly mountain a good quarrel in an choosing when a President is clearly underneath duress from factions inside of a party, as well as which opposition possibilities can be whipped in to receiving unanimity if they have been not nominated to stand.
Murder which grows some-more extraordinary with time
From a time of a final choosing in 2008, UMNO has struggled with a delusions, a principal a single being which a urgent need for remodel could be filled by a personality who, if reform's logic were to be fulfilled, would be replaced by a thrust.
That it can't do which was starkly unprotected by ominous disclosures by operatives, timed for just prior to a party's annual confab, peripherally inextricable in a saga which will never die a Altantuya Shaarriibuu murder case of 2006.
Unlike a May thirteen incident, whose mishap renders a legatees catatonic, the murder of a Mongolian lady grows some-more as well as some-more extraordinary with time.
Like Banquo's spook in Shakespeare's Macb! eth, it hovers over a parties with links to a personnel which have been indicted as well as found guilty for a deed.
It's a proverbial hungry spook which will not be appeased until a demands of justice in a case have been satisfied.
It has not been, which is why, similar to a nonplus of an unsolved crime, it comes behind to haunt those with a little tie to a sum of a incident.
The disproportion between a many recent disclosures about a part as well as prior ones is which some-more people upon a periphery of a part have been tending to exhibit how they got concerned in a convoluted strands.
This bent will keep a tilt of avowal spinning until a story upon a periphery crumbles as well as collapses upon a centre. Things tumble apart, a centre cannot hold, was a sage regard of a poet WB Yeats.
The Irish bard was talking about cataclysmic events in Europe almost a century ago.His haunting lines do ring with present times in our nation which is staid upon a verge of seismic change, against a backdrop of murder which continues to give off reverberations reaching tall places.
Until a Altantuya murder gets a full reckoning, all which has caused UMNO to be marked down from monarchs to plebeians of a domestic consult will not jar it to turn things a other way round.
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