Josh Hong From day one, Najib Abdul Razak's apprenticeship as prime minister has been noted by facade.
Having edged out Abdullah Ahmad Badawi with a assistance of Muhyiddin Yassin as well as Dr Mahathir Mohamad, he betrothed a people a consummate reform, so which Barisan Nasional as well as most critically, Umno, could regain a open trust, as well as nonetheless another charge to rule.
At a media function nearly 4 years ago, hepublicly statedthat "there is a vital place for a vibrant, giveaway as well as sensitive media" as well as which "we need a media both old as well as new which is empowered to responsibly inform what they see, without fright of consequence".
Now, spin toUtusan Malaysia,Berita Harian, theNew Straits Times,The Starand a Najib-friendlySinchew Daily, as well as review for yourself their coverage upon a fiasco during a Chinese New Year jubilee in Penang, during which a throng shouted "No!" loud as well as clear not once, though 3 times to Najib early this week. There is no improved way to put Najib's sincerity to test, as well as it is found definitely wanting. Najib also admits which "the era when a government knows most appropriate is over". Still, his party as well as bloc partners go upon to practice a parsimonious hold upon a mainstream media, withUtusanarguing openly as well as ! atrociou sly which there is no need to verify negative headlines connected with a antithesis parties.
And my sources told me which with Chinese await roughly bottoming out with no hope of being revived before a upcoming general election, there is now a group of people during a Prime Minister's Department without delay monitoring all a Mandarin headlines upon TV to safeguard which 'undesirable' elements have been edited out before they have been aired.
Even a Malay chosen have been beginning to feel a heat of Umno's hegemony, as well as Azrul Azwar, a arch economist during a Islamic Bank suspended from duty over his 'politically incorrect' predictions, is a box in point. Facade is essentially a worse form of politicking than spin-doctoring. Whereas a latter is meant to appreciate agreeably words as well as actions of a certain statesman to remonstrate a public, as well as might contain half truths in it, a former is a sheer practice of deception with a clear goal of fooling a people.
Najib's rubbing salt into wounds
Hence, when Najib bent to mounting open pressures as well as set up a royal commission of exploration (RCI) into a puzzling as well as tragic genocide of Teoh Beng Hock, all which it culminated in was a outcome which usually rubbed salt into a wounds of a victim's family, whilst a genocide ofAhmad Sarbaini Mohamedhad been completely erased from open memory.
Despite which a RCI did identify 'institutional racism' as being pervasive in a open sector, Najib has finished nothing to address a issue, selecting to blow his own horn of '1Malaysia' ad nauseam.
But what '1Malaysia' is he boasting? His wife, a infamou! s 'First Lady' Rosmah Mansor, graced a fundraising event hosted by Ibrahim Ali of Perkasa exactly a year ago, over which Najib was conspicuous by his elegant silence. we still remember someone describing it as, "as if Michelle Obama is endorsing a Ku Klux Klan". What a fitting analogy!
Najib's being gratified to a ultra-conservative forces within Umno can be clearly seen from his disaster to disapprove Ibrahim Ali (right) over a latter's recent threat to bake a Bible. While Mahathir rushed to a counterclaim of a Perkasa head, Najib only played dumb as usual. As a believer in giveaway speech, we disagree with those who call for Ibrahim Ali's arrest in a wake of his remarks, incendiary yet they might have been. But as a statesman determined allegedly to national leadership, Najib should have during slightest had a courage to reprove them. Born with a silver spoon, Najib is no risk-taker. He prefers, obviously, to put up with in his own fantasies of 'transformation' whilst a extremists have been becoming bolder by a day.
And never in Malaysian story has there been a prime minister who is so shameless as well as desperate as to try to float upon others' coattails during each opportunity. At a most politically-charged CNY jubilee in Penang, Najib had hoped Psy's recognition would massage off onto him, though a throng showed no qualms in revelation him off, leaving him so broke which it was roughly like a diverting 'You assistance me, we assistance you'episodeall over again.
But a worse was nonetheless to come. Three days after a open relations nightmare, Penang BN arch Teng Chang Yeow unexpected regained his mental recall as well as revealed which Najib had to leave a theatre rught away after tossing a yee sang since "there was an try upon Psy's life". Remember how a police sealed down a complete city centre of Kuala Lumpur as well as installed roadblocks upon all a vital roads heading to a Klang Valley areas ahead of a pacific travel rallies of Berish 1.0 as well as 2.0? The drastic actions were taken in annoy of a miss of evidence of violence upon a partial of a participants.
Now they have been seeking to have us hold which a 'Oppa Gangnam Style' uncover contingency go upon even when Psy's life was during risk. Some who were there told me security was barely competent as well as which people were giveaway to pierce in as well as out of thepadang(field). we suspicion our PDRM would have dispatched a moment squad so which a 'First Lady' as well as a others would get to suffer a horse-riding dance?
What an meaningful sign for BN, when their leaders no longer know how to tell lies properly. With their credit so easibly demolished, we would not be astounded which Mahathir (left) as well as his boys have been quietly sharpening their knives once again. Like all regimes confronting a fast downfall, these people have been deceived to consider which any a single of them would do improved than Najib, perhaps by adopting an ultra-Malay platform. My recommendation is for everybody to stay calm even if voices of 'Chinese in Penang showing disrespect to Malay leaders' have been heard in a days to come, for this is only a single of a superfluous antics which they can employ to obstruct a public's att! ention f rom unbridled corruption, alarming crime rates, as well as rising costs of living.
As for Najib, we would not strew a rip for him should he spin out to be a usually prime minister without a mandate. After all, his probation would have been consummated prolonged ago in light of his disastrous performance had there been a some-more approved resource of checks as well as balances in Malaysia.
JOSH HONG complicated politics during London Metropolitan University as well as a School of Oriental as well as African Studies, University of London. A keen viewer of domestic as well as general politics, he longs for a day when Malaysians will learn as well as master a art of self-mockery, as well as suffer life to a full in annoy of politicians.
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