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| Political WTF 3 - OK to leap but why not look beforehand Posted: 08 Dec 2012 04:29 PM PST
But given the ringgit-driven politics of our much battered nation, I have to admit (perhaps even boast a wee bit, please allow me that) that I have expected/anticipated such late belakang-pusing (volte-face) entries into our political arena, in the persons of Musa Hassan and Deepak Jaikisian … and perhaps even more. No sirree, we can't depend on Balasubramaniam Perumal alone or even the poor over-exploited soul of Altantuyaa Shaariibuu to invigorate interests in the non-PKR dark side of Malaysian politics. There must be an innovative rafter of fresh sensational exposés to capture and hold voters' interests.
But I must confess I've been influenced by the grapevine info that Anwar Ibrahim has a new and very rich financial backer. There's nothing wrong with having financial backers, which is a normal practice in American, Australian and western politics, except over there, contributors of sums above, say, $ x must be known and recorded/reported, though in the USA, this regulation has been cleverly circumvented by breaking a large contribution into many many contributions of less than $ x. The Jews are far more clever, contributing to both sides of politics … just in case, you know ... making them always winners regardless who wins and rules. To be fair, many American Jews are left leaning liberals so please don't assume they're all Zionists. Perhaps the only chink in their left wing liberal politics is that, as Jews inheriting horrendous memories of the Holocaust, they are obligated in more than one way, to ensure at least the survival of Israel as a state.
But such is their political acumen and influence in Western democracies, through a combination of generous financial contributions and exploitation of Western guilt over the Holocaust, that an example of their intrinsic political power has recently manifested itself in Australia, in the state of New South Wales (NSW), which is now ruled by the right-wing Coalition under the leadership of Barry O'Farrell. The NSW Board of Studies and Department of Education has accepted the Jewish Board of Deputies's recommendation to make the study of the Holocaust a compulsory subject in Years 9 and 10 in NSW secondary schools. Previously the NSW Labor government had refused to make the subject compulsory, though it was available as a study option - see Sydney Morning Herald's Study of Holocaust mandated for schools.
Vic Alhadeff of the Jewish Board of Deputies stated that ''The Holocaust is a warning to every generation about the potential for evil, especially as a consequence of racial hatred, and about the inherent evil of totalitarian regimes. It teaches us that every generation owes it to itself and to future generations to cherish and, if necessary, fight to defend the sanctity of life, dignity and freedom.'' I cannot but whole-heartedly agree with the opposition NSW Greens Party MP John Kaye who said that (since the study objective is to warn younger generations of Australians about the potential for evil arising from the consequence of racial hatred) while the Holocaust is rightly an essential part of the state syllabus, it should be taught in the context of the other 20th-century genocides.
Indeed, kaytee has in mind studies of genocides and/or atrocities like the ones in Rwanda, Khmer under the Pol Pot Khmer Rouge regime, the massacre in Nanjing (Nanking) by the Japanese military during WWII, Sabra & Shatila and Deir Yassin in Palestine, Gaza during the Israeli Ops Cast Lead, My Lai in Vietnam, Wounded Knee and Indian Reservations in the USA as ugly examples of brutal colonialism, the US-British sanction of Iraq leading to infant malnutrition and deaths by the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi infants and children, etc.
Focusing solely on the Holocaust effectively confers monopoly of victim-hood to the Jews and indirectly teflonises Israeli atrocities automatically as defensive measures when the truth could well be otherwise, obviously something the Zionists and pro Israel lobbies want. Anyway, back to financial contributions in Malaysian politics – as mentioned there's nothing incorrect about this, as even DAP strives for this but through election fund raising dinners and donation drives where supporters and well-wishers donate relatively small and accountable sums.
Only big political movers (UMNO) or those the financial contributors see as potential big political movers (wakakaka) receive humongous (and in most cases, unaccountable) sums, which enable the big political movers the latitude to 'strategize' and 'campaign' for voters' support, or even without voters' support, wakakaka. For example, it's no secret that there were talks (at RPK's Malaysia-Today) about the 916 coup d'état requiring at least RM 300 million to bring about that aspired change of government, an amazing strategy that had required its Great Conceptualizer to think totally outside the box .... specifically the ballot box, wakakaka. We were informed that it didn't eventuate for the same reprehensible ringgit reason, that the RM 300 million was deemed as, insanely as this may sound, not enough … because the other side had (still has) deeper pockets to counter-offer far bigger sums to the potential political defectors.
Well, wow, WTF, one would be totally gob-smacked f* and kau kau too, when one is informed that RM 300 million is NOTmoi, but I'm just not used to such Fort Knox sums being considered as not enough. enough? Pardon Mind, we've gathered too from the grapevine that a Madame reputed to be the Whore of Babylonpang was paid a humongous RM 25 million to metamorphose into Madame Butterfly so as to flutter over to another rose, wakakaka, so perhaps on second thoughts, indeed, what would be a mere RM 300 million for 30 MPs?
This leads us to one of the most despised persons in Malaysia, Musa Hassan the former IGP, who has recently and almost on a daily basis, self-canonized himself into some kind of law & order Saint Ralph Nader, in turn leading us to undergo a range of emotions … outrage at what we saw as his brazen hypocrisy, wakakaka at the ridiculousness of an oxymoron-ic reformasi ex-IGP, and finally deep suspicions as to the likely person behind Musa Hassan's pseudo-crusade of righteous criticisms against ministerial political interference in police operational process.
People such as blogger Ahmad Lufti Othman leapt at the opportunity to call for serious investigations into Musa Hassan's accusations. In his post Musa Hassan dan aksi Bollywood he wrote:
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| Musa Hassan dan aksi Bollywood Posted: 08 Dec 2012 12:52 AM PST Bagaimanpun, ramai beranggapan, "jalan ceritanya" masih panjang ... malah kemungkinan ada kejutan lebih sensasi sebelum kisah kontroversi itu berakhir. Tidak mustahil akan terakam tragedi lebih besar apabila kita melintas tahun baru 2013 nanti. Ketika menulis kolum ini, jam 11.30 malam, 4 Disember, khabarnya ada darah yang tumpah gara-gara samseng Umno menganggu Jelajah Merdeka Rakyat di Gombak. Mungkin ia merupakan manifestasi semangat berkobar-kobar ekoran pidato berapi-rapi Najib Razak yang mengisytiharkan perang kepada Pakatan semasa menutup Perhimpunan Agung Umno (PAU) 2012! Dalam masa sama, Himpunan Kebangkitan Rakyat yang berlangsung di seluruh negara, bermula di Seremban sebulan lalu, mendapat sambutan cukup memberangsangkan. Selain mencatatkan kehadiran luar biasa, ia juga menyaksikan sederetan nama-nama besar, termasuk bekas pegawai kanan kerajaan dan swasta, serta tokoh korporat menyertai PAS. Terbaru di Batu Pahat, Johor, bekas Pengerusi Dewan Perniagaan Melayu dan Dewan Perniagaan Kebangsaan, Abdul Rahman Maidin menyerahkan borang keahlian PAS kepada Tuan Guru Abdul Hadi Awang, sekali gus membuktikan "kubu kuat" Umno di negeri asalnya itu sudah pecah dan roboh. (Ramai pembaca meminta Harakah menyenaraikan kembali tokoh-tokoh atau personaliti besar yang telah bersama PAS berserta profil masing-masing). Tidak hairanlah jika ada pihak seperti terpinga-pinga melihat apa yang berlaku. Menonton televisyen atau menatap akhbar harian milik Umno berbeda sama sekali dengan realiti yang dipaparkan media baru. Ya, dalam politik tempoh seminggu sudah terlalu lama, dan pelbagai kejutan bisa tercetus dalam waktu singkat. Tanpa diduga, Umno-BN menerima tamparan dahsyat daripada mereka yang selama ini menyokongnya. Lebih kalut jika ia membabitkan individu yang dilihat boleh membocorkan rahsia atau konspirasi besar pemimpin utama Umno. Inilah risiko segalanya jika diatur melalui komplot jahat; sampai masanya terdedah jua. Daripada pelbagai senario yang menggamit perhatian itu, saya lebih tertarik dengan kenyataan Musa Hassan. Dalam sidang media Badan Bertindak Pemerhati Jenayah Malaysia (MyWatch) di Petaling Jaya, baru-baru ini, Musa mendakwa pasukan polis yang diterajuinya sering berdepan campur tangan dan gangguan Menteri Dalam Negeri, Hishamuddin Hussein. Katanya, Hishamuddin pernah mengeluarkan arahan terus kepada pegawai bawahannya dan juga ketua polis daerah tanpa pengetahuannya. "Saya pernah membangkitkan kepadanya mengenai Seksyen 4 Akta Polis 1967 yang mengatakan bahawa arahan dan kawalan terhadap pasukan polis dibuat oleh KPN, bukan menteri. Sudah tentulah saya tidak boleh bertindak kurang ajar dengannya sebab dia menteri. Saya beritahu dia cara baik tetapi dia tidak boleh terima," kata Musa. Arahan terus kepada pegawai polis, dengan mendahului KPN, kata Musa, bukan sahaja membabitkan Hishamuddin tetapi juga menteri-menteri lain. Selain itu, ujarnya, terdapat ahli-ahli politik dan "orang atas" cuba campur tangan dalam kes penangkapan penjenayah tertentu. "Saya boleh bagi contoh. Apabila saya menangkap orang jahat yang terlibat dengan aktiviti-aktiviti haram, pasti akan ada panggilan telefon meminta mereka dibebaskan dan ia datang dari orang atas," katanya dengan menyambung bahawa perkara sebegitu kerap berlaku. Musa turut "menyerang" penggantinya, Ismail Omar, yang dilihat banyak pihak sebagai "orang baik" tetapi dipersoalkan kualiti kepimpinannya . Ismail dianggap boneka yang cukup mudah diperalatkan dan tidak berupaya berdepan tekanan elit politik. "Saya bercakap ini bukan sebab saya nak hentam orang..., tidak... tetapi untuk betulkan keadaan. Keadaan sekarang makin teruk, makin teruk dan saya tidak mahu orang tidak percaya kepada polis," kata Musa. Manurutnya, sejak akhir-akhir ini campur tangan menteri semakin dalam pasukan polis semakin parah berbanding dahulu. "Dulu tak kerap berlaku begini. Dulu tak ada saya rasa. Masa Menteri Dalam Negeri yang lama-lama kita tak pernah dengar jadi begini. Tapi yang baru-baru nilah," tegasnya. Sebenarnya pendedahan Musa bukanlah sesuatu yang menggemparkan. Sejak lama -- mungkin kemuncaknya semasa pemecatan Anwar Ibrahim dan era reformasi -- masyarakat memandang serong pasukan polis, yang dianggap institusi kritikal tetap paling kerap dan mudah dimanipulasi elit penguasa sehingga tugas asasi, seperti menangani jenayah terabai. Pengendalian polis terhadap isu-isu politik, yang disamarkan sebagai isu keselamatan negara, cukup menjolok mata. Lihat saja siri demonstrasi Bersih, protes sekitar Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman tahun 1998-99 dan perhimpunan aman lainnya. Orang ramai disepak terajang, dibalun, ditembak gas dan ditangkap tanpa mengikut prosedur yang ditetapkan. Kebenaran untuk mengadakan ceramah politik juga begitu sukar. Pemberian (dan juga pembatalan) permit sering dibuat berdasarkan faktor kepentingan politik Umno-BN, dan bukannya keselamatan negara. Ya, integriti dan wibawa PDRM sudah terkambus. Ia perlu dipulihkan segera, melalui proses reformasi menyeluruh, bersama institusi strategik lainnya seperti Jabatan Peguam Negara, media, badan kehakiman, SPR dan SPRM. Sukar untuk membayangkan natijah buruk buat rakyat dan negara ini jika pihak polis, AG dan para hakim pun boleh dibeli, yang menyebabkan keadilan sukar untuk dilaksanakan.
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