Freedom of speech is not freedom to destroy

Salleh Said Keruak

There were some Umno divisions that wanted the party to censure Muhyiddin Yassin and Shafie Apdal for their actions that could tantamount to disrupting party unity. No doubt there are some who say Umno practices freedom of speech and therefore leaders and members must be allowed to speak their mind. However, there is a difference between freedom of speech and freedom to destroy and some divisions felt that this line had been crossed.

It must be noted that amongst the most liberal countries in Europe that practice freedom of speech they also set limits to this freedom. You are not allowed to deny the holocaust or to display Nazi symbols in France or Germany as this would be considered as stepping over the boundary of your freedom. And in Britain if you break party ranks you would be expected to resign, which they would normally do in the spirit of standing by what you say.

Anyway, the party did not take action against Muhyiddin and Shafie although there were demands from some of the divisions to do so. The Umno Supreme Council, however, decided to allow the heads of the various wings to open their meetings, as what they had asked for.

There are some critics who say that this is a break from party tradition. That may be so but there are many party traditions that are being broken over this last one year. One party tradition that is being broken is accusing the party president of stealing RM42 billion when this is not so. Trying to bring down the party president through fabricated allegations affects the entire party and risks Umno getting defeated in the general election and this is certainly not in line with party tradition.

If we wish to talk about maintaining party tradition and not breaking away from party tradition then we have to look at it in total and not take it piecemeal based on what suits us. The tradition of the deputy president declaring the opening of the meeting of the wings is just that, a tradition. It is merely a privilege given to the deputy. It is not a right. And while rights cannot be taken away from someone, privileges need to be earned. And privileges can be lost if they are abused. That is how it works.

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Today's Malaysian headline was dominated by an article by The New York Times that PM Najib is apparently under investigations by a federal grand jury for allegations of corruption.

The New York Times was also the same newspaper that published Tun Mahathir's interview back in June 2015 which slammed PM Najib, UMNO and the Malaysian Govt and was published on the same day that Foreign Minister Anifah Aman was supposed to attend and address the United Nations Security Council meeting.  This lead to Anifah Aman writing an open letter to the New York Times and slamming Tun Mahathir for his indiscretion saying it is regrettable to sere Tun M undermining Malaysia in the foreign press.

Amazingly, today the UN Security Council is again in session - the first time since June. In fact, PM Najib is on the way to New York now for the UN's General Assembly and their 70th anniversary celebrations.

The timing.of the publication of this article is very suspicious and seems designed to embarrass PM Najib and Malaysia at the UN.

Why I came to this conclusion is based on the following points from today's New York Times article:

1) The persons investigated are Najib's step-son (Rosmah's natural son from her previous marriage) Riza Aziz and also his buddy Jho Low.

New York Times are saying that Najib is also investigated because presumably Reza is related by marriage to Najib while Jho Low is presumably also Najib's friend.

It is important to note that Najib is not personally being investigated himself for corruption as he has no known properties in the USA.

At this point, it is important to note that Jho Low has been listed companies in Malaysia since the year 2007 and 2008 - before Najib became Prime Minister and 1MDB was not even in existence. He was already wealthy then and also had access to serious Middle-Eastern money via his friendship and partnerships with the various royal families even then.

On the other hand, Riza has been producing movies since 2010,

And before this, Riza holds a BS degree in Government & Economics and an MS in Politics from the London School of Economics. He is also a registered authorized person with the UK Financial Services Authority and worked as an investment banker for many years in London.

As a producer, Riza is also in charge of getting investors for their movie projects. It does not mean he himself funded the entire project - that is not what a producer does. Riza had said that there are quite a list of investors who funded his film projects.

But Riza has indeed been successful in producing the Wolf of Wall Street, which grossed more than USD400 million in worldwide ticket and DVD sales - one of the top 200 most commercially successful films of all time and beat out films such as Superman Returns, Ice Age, Mad Max Fury Road, Batman Begins and many others.

Riza's next firm Dumb and Dumber II was also commercially successful and grossed USD170m in ticket sales.

It is clear that Riza has the means and the smarts to make money too and we should not begrudge him this as he is playing in the biggest game of all - Hollywood.

2) The property purchases in questions date back to Oct 2012. But somehow, the New York Times links this to the USD681m (the famous RM2.6b) deposited by a Middle-East campaign contributor to Najib's accounts - which was only deposited in March 2013 - a month before GE13..

Therefore, it is weird for New York Times to link this later deposit with the earlier purchase of apartments much earlier - unless you can hutang first (buku 555 style) when buying properties in the USA.

3) This property purchase was then exposed by the New York Times on February 8 this year around the time that Anwar Ibrahim was sentenced to jail for sodomy. Amazingly, New York Times also took the trouble to translate their article on their website to Chinese and Bahasa Malaysia - presumably because there must be a large population of Malays staying in New York.

This is very strange because not a single other article in the New York Times have a Bahasa Malaysia version.

3) The investigations in the USA appears to have been started by Sarawak Report making a complaint in the USA in March 2015 where Sarawak Report seems to be accusing the USA authorities of not taking things seriously and letting these "criminals" like Jho Low and Najib run free and not taking any action.

Further complaints against Najib to the USA were also apparently made by selfie-fan and Tun Mahathir stalwart Khairuddin Abu Hassan and Tun Mahathir's ex-political secretary Matthias Chang.

Mathhias has revealed that both of them had been talking to the USA embassy and were schedueld to be in New York this week to meet with the FBI regarding 1MDB.

Both of them had gone all around the world lodging cases against Najib and 1MDB with Switzerland, France, England, Singapore and Hong Kong authorities.

When you lodge a case, by law the authorities there are obliged to open an investigation.

This was the same case when Sarawak Report played up the matter Sabah Chief Minister Musa Aman being investigated by Hong Kong's famed ICAC related to the case of businessman Michael Chia who was caught in the year 2008 for carrying RM40mil of cash into Hong Kong.

Sarawak Report even came up with lots of documents and flow charts in their so-called expose of Musa Aman in their article titled ""Hold On Trust For Aman" - More Devastating Evidence From The ICAC Investigation!

With such "detailed" evidence and documents, anyone reading that Sarawak Report would have been convinced of Musa Aman's guilt and ICAC would have thrown Musa Aman in jail.

Instead, in December 2012, the ICAC wrote to Musa Aman that he that he was no longer under probe for corruption for a RM40 million donation to the state Umno chapter.

ICAC explained to Musa Aman that it had started the probe after receiving a complaint against him, saying that this was required by Hong Kong’s laws on corruption.

But the agency said that upon completing investigations and filing a report with its Operations Review Committee (ORC), both the committee and the ICAC Commissioner had agreed not to take further investigative action “on the basis of the facts now known”.

The letter, which bore the ICAC’s letterhead, was signed off by principal investigator Tso Wai-Yan and was addressed solely to Musa at his office in Kota Kinabalu.

It took ICAC all of 4 years to clear Musa Aman but Sarawak Report and the now-dead Pakatan Rakyat played this Musa Aman corruption issue for years and frequently cited he is now under ICAC investigations and cannot escape due to overwhelming evidence - hence Musa will be going to jail soon.

But yet today, Musa Aman has been cleared by both ICAC and MACC and still remains Chief Minister of Sabah today.

Similarly, the pro-opposition NGO SUARAM filed a complaint on the Scorpene case to the French courts in the year 2010 which compelled the French authorities to start an inquiry.

In fact, in May 2012, SUARAM proudly announced that the French courts will be asking Najib to appear for questioning in the French Courts and that France will soon issue an Interpol Red Notice to arrest Najib if he refuses to attend.

Three years later, and 5 years after the initial report to France was lodged by SUARAM, we are still waiting for the France court to supposedly haul Najib in for questioning which they said was imminent.

In fact, this investigation actually worked against Pakatan and Suaram as it was determined by the French courts that Najib, Razak Baginda and Altantuya was never in France at the same time and that Altantuya was never hired as a translator as all meetings were held in English.

Even today's New York Times article admitted that the Federal Grand Jury investigations into Najib was at the very preliminary stage and will likely take many years to complete.

It appears that it has now become a favorite tactic by those with vested interest against the government to lodge report against our country's leaders overseas since by law, those countries have to act on any complaints and start investigations.

These investigations take years but during this period, they can continue to feed the frenzy and play up this issue -both with locally and overseas.

It makes for very good headlines - especially in the foreign press - which the opposition would then play up the issue saying it is an international embarrassment and that the evidence is so overwhelming that even the foreign governments have to investigate and that our leaders will be caught and jailed overseas if they travel abroad.

The opposition fails to reveal, however, that it was they who made those complaints overseas which prompted the investigations to start and hence all the fancy and damaging overseas headlines - all designed to cause harm and damage the credibility of Malaysia and our leaders.

Foreign governments don't simply start investigations on another govt or country unless an official complaint was lodged by someone else.

But these people don't care. They are not interested to find out the truth but merely interested in toppling others. Malaysia's reputation and credibility is not their concern.

Also, Tun Mahathir is also wrong for suggesting that Najib is afraid to go overseas now as he may be arrested. In fact, as we speak, Najib is overseas in UK for some meetings and will then travel to the USA for the UN celebrations in a few days.

Tun Mahathir is naughty for saying this as he forgot about the immunity granted to heads of states and also the fact that any investigations overseas will take years.

As we write, Khairuddin Abu Hassan is still in jail for a week under remand and is now under police questioning.


Khairuddin with Tun Mahathir take center-stage at the Nothing2lose forum in June 2015

Perhaps soon we will find out who ordered and funded him and Matthias Chang to travel all around the world to lodge reports against Najib and linked him up with all the foreign press for his interviews.

Eight months ago, Khairuddin was still a bankrupt and his penthouse apartment got auctioned off in January 2015. But strangely, months later after Khairuddin started attacking 1MDB, he managed to pay off all his debts and even went all around the world lodging police reports - Switzerland, France, UK, Singapore, Hong Kong and the aborted USA trip.

It seems that these people have no problems inviting foreign interference into Malaysia's own investigations and our sovereignty as long as they and their political masters' objective is met.


Bankruptcy search confirming that Khairuddin has been bankrupt since May 2014


Auction of Khairuddin's house in Jan 2015

This will be an interesting story - depending on who or what Khairuddin Abu Hassan reveals under questioning by PDRM in this one week jail period.

As for Najib, if those famous authorities from USA, HK, Switzerland, Singapore, France and UK clears him from these RM2.6b and 1MDB allegations years later, then no one should question him on these anymore.

But it would be years later. By then, I am sure Najib's enemies will come out with newer allegations and continue the same practise of filing reports overseas and working with foreign media in order to embarrass and pressure him.

They have done it before, they are doing it now and they will do it again in future coz its cheap, easy and you get a few years worth of political bullets to use to attack your opponent.

Whether it is fair or not is an entirely different matter.

Written by LSS and sourced from HERE

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An Umno leader is behind a plot to topple the government with the support of opposition lawmakers, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said today.

The Umno vice-president said that as home minister, he had learned that they were preparing statutory declarations (SD) ‎to remove the government.

"There is an effort to obtain SDs among the opposition lawmakers and to pull in Barisan Nasional (BN) lawmakers to topple the government.

"I received this information from very trusted sources. This effort is going on... The strange thing is that it is led by an Umno, BN member," Zahid said when officiating the annual general meeting of Umno's Ampang division today at Dewan Dato' Setia Mufti Shuib in Kuala Lumpur.

However, he did not reveal the identity of the Umno leader, saying it would be "exposed on its own".

Zahid said the movement was ongoing, and a lawyer was already preparing to present a seven-page memorandum made up of yellow paper, with the SDs attached, to show that they represented the majority.

"This is a serious matter. They cannot wait until the next election. They want to enter through the back door," said Zahid.

"They are not only stabbing the party in the back, but the‎y are destroying the institution of democracy."

He said as home minister, he will not allow any efforts to oust the government to succeed, and urged Umno to rise up and prevent the plan from becoming a reality.

Zahid also told delegates in the hall not to sabotage their own party, saying those who did so were mentally unstable.

"Don't drill a hole into the ship. We have to sail this ship together.‎ That's the right way.

"Instead, we have a person who has taken a screwdriver and is drilling a hole into the ship. That leader is mentally unstable (masuk air)," said Zahid.

Rumours have been circulating that Umno deputy president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin is attempting to overthrow the government, after‎ Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak dropped him from the Cabinet.

However, the former deputy prime minister has denied this repeatedly, and maintained he would never betray Umno.

Meanwhile, Asia Sentinel reported on Wednesday that Umno veteran Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah had met with former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad to form a unity government to remove Najib. – August 15, 2015.

The Malaysian Insider

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Yes, Tun Dr Mahathir and Tun Daim created this system to protect Umno and to make sure they never again face the same financial problem they faced back in 1988 when Umno’s assets and bank accounts got frozen. And those who came after Dr Mahathir and Daim just continued with what was party policy, Anwar included.

THE CORRIDORS OF POWER

Raja Petra Kamarudin

Anwar Ibrahim said that Umno is worth at least RM100 billion. I do not know whether this is true but that was what Anwar said. And he said this after he had been sacked from Umno and the government. When he was still in Umno and the government and when the opposition alleged that Umno is worth billions Anwar denied it and said that that was plain fitnah (lies).

The problem, explained Anwar, is that the RM100 billion is not entirely in cash or in Umno’s bank account. Some of it is in cash but much more is in assets and investments. And most of it is in the name of trustees and nominees and not in Umno’s name.

So what Abdul Rahman Dahlan said yesterday (see below) is true because Anwar, too, confirmed the same thing about 17 years ago. And if it was RM100 billion 17 years ago, as Anwar said, then it is probably worth more than that today.

Anyway, I have already written about this matter before but maybe some of you did not believe it at that time. Even when Anwar revealed this 17 years ago many probably thought that he was ‘sour grapes’ and was just trying to badmouth or smear the party that had kicked him out and about three weeks later arrested him and sent him to jail.

The whole thing actually started soon after the Team A versus Team B tussle for power, which resulted in Umno getting deregistered. When the Registrar of Societies deregistered Umno, two new ‘Umno’ parties were formed — Umno Baru and Umno Malaysia (Umno Malaysia had to change its name to Semangat 46 because the RoS would not allow two parties with the name ‘Umno’)

Both Umno Baru and Semangat 46 claimed to be the ‘genuine’ Umno party or the reincarnation of the old Umno. And since both were claiming legitimacy, and hence were claiming that the old Umno’s assets belonged to them, the RoS froze those assets and bank accounts.

To prove that you are the legitimate Umno you would need to show the RoS that at least 70% of the old Umno members are now members of your so-called ‘new’ Umno. Only then can the new Umno claim that is still the same party as the old Umno and, therefore, take possession of the assets of the old Umno.

So for three years Umno Baru scrambled like mad to get the old Umno members registered as members of the new Umno. Yes, it was a colossal job that took three years because it was not easy to find three million members who either did not exist, had already died but were still registered as members, were only ‘paper’ members or ‘phantoms’, and so on.

Finally, they managed to obtain the required number of old Umno members to register as members of the new Umno and the RoS then allowed the new Umno to take possession of the old Umno’s assets. Meanwhile, during that time, the new Umno was broke and did not have any money to operate and even faced legal suits for unpaid debts and overdue loan repayments.

To prevent such a thing from ever happening again, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad decided that Umno must no longer hold its cash, assets and investments in the name of the party. If anything happened to the party then Umno would, again, be in dire straits.

And that was when Dr Mahathir and Tun Daim Zainuddin decided to set up a new system where all Umno’s cash, assets and investments would have to be placed under the names of nominees and trustees. And three of the many of these nominees and trustees would be Umno’s President, Deputy President and Treasurer.

But those were not the only three nominees and trustees. The Umno President, Deputy President and Treasurer, in turn, had their own nominees and trustees. And that was when names such as Tajuddin Ramli, Halim Saad, Yahya Ahmad, Samsudin Abu Hassan, Khalid Ahmad, Ahmad Nazeri, Ahmad Sebi Abu Bakar, Syed Ibrahim Syed Mohamed, Hamzah Zainuddin, Vincent Tan, Ananda Krishnan, Francis Yeoh, and many, many more started appearing onto the Malaysian corporate scene.

So, for over 30 years or so, probably 100 or more very fortunate Malaysians became multi-millionaires and billionaires. Of course, these nominees and trustees were not holding Umno’s wealth 100% on behalf of Umno. Some of it belonged to Umno and some of it belonged to the nominees and trustees. They helped make Umno rich but they, too, made themselves rich. That was only fair: they should be rewarded for helping Umno get rich and for acting as Umno’s trustee and nominee.

The problem is some of these people got greedy. Not enough they had a share of the billions they were holding in their name, they decided why share 50% with Umno when they can have 100% all to themselves. And that was when the shit began to hit the fan (which is another story for another time).

Tun Dr Mahathir, Tun Musa Hitam, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, Tun Daim Zainuddin, Anwar Ibrahim, Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Muhyiddin Yassin and many more of the Umno leaders right down to the division chiefs and wakil rakyat (MPs and state assemblymen/women) all know about this arrangement. It is a ‘secret’ shared by probably one million Umno people.

But Dr Mahathir, Anwar, and all those Umno and ex-Umno people who are opposed to Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, cannot reveal this. If they do then they would have to admit that they were part of the system and were involved as well.

So they have to say that the money that was in Najib’s personal bank account was stolen from 1MDB. They cannot say that Najib was merely operating a trustee or nominee bank account on behalf of Umno. They cannot say that the money came from donations. They cannot say that this is legal and provided for under Umno’s party constitution. If they do then they will have to admit that they, too, did precisely the same thing.

Yes, Tun Dr Mahathir and Tun Daim created this system to protect Umno and to make sure they never again face the same financial problem they faced back in 1988 when Umno’s assets and bank accounts got frozen. And those who came after Dr Mahathir and Daim just continued with what was party policy, Anwar included.

And do you think all the previous Prime Ministers, all the previous Deputy Prime Ministers, all the previous Finance Ministers, the Umno Supreme Council, the Cabinet, the Umno division chiefs, Bank Negara, the Anti-Corruption Commission, the Attorney General, the Inspector General of Police, etc., are not aware of this?

Of course they are aware of it. They have been aware of it for the last 30 years or so long before Najib became Prime Minister. But they are pretending they do not know anything because they want to use this issue to bring down the Prime Minister. Furthermore, they do not want to be accused of being part of this system that Dr Mahathir created when Umno was deregistered and the new Umno was formed.

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Rahman Dahlan: Umno president has trust account provided under party constitution

(Bernama) – The Umno constitution provides for the party president to have a trust account on behalf of the party, said Barisan Nasional strategic communications director Datuk Seri Abdul Rahman Dahlan.

He said it was not only Datuk Seri Najib Razak who had a trust account on behalf of Umno but also the previous Umno presidents.

“I wish to inform that the Umno constitution provides for the party president to have a trust account on behalf of the party.

“It is not impossible or surprising if the (current) Umno president and previous presidents have a trust account for the party,” he told reporters after opening the Kubang Pasu Umno Youth delegates meeting here today.

Rahman, who is urban well-being, housing and local government minister, said the money currently in a trust account under Najib’s name as the Umno president was not from 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) or public funds.

Source: Malaysia Today

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Results speak for themselves.

GE10
When Tun M caused a split in 1998 by sacking Anwar, UMNO lost 24.5% of UMNO seats in GE10 (UMNO lost 22 out of their previous 93 seats won in GE9) and lost Terengganu.
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GE12
When Tun M next caused a split in 2007 by leading a campaign to remove Pak Lah because Pak Lah didn't listen to him, UMNO lost 27.5% of their seats (30 out of 119 UMNO seats which they previously won in GE11) and lost an additional 4 states - Penang, Perak, Selangor and Kedah.

From wining the biggest landslide ever in 2004 GE11, UMNO lost a staggering 27.5% of their seats and lost 5 states - and this allowed Pakatan to govern and build their funds, support base and strength.
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GE14
Now Tun M is causing another split in 2015  by leading a campaign to remove Najib because Najib didn't listen to him, how many seats and states will UMNO lose in GE14?
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GE10, GE12, GE14 - Tun M's causing splits seems to happen EVERY OTHER election.

And you blame Najib for weakening UMNO and BN?

I am sure you know who is the real underlying cause.

Note: The 1MDB issue is just a tool used by Tun M to attack Najib. Before Tun M used this as a tool, Pakatan had been using it for years and years and the effect was very limited. It is only when Tun M started using it that people started to beleive the worst - even though all the international auditors and the interim AG report could not find any money missing or stolen.

In 2008, do you remember what were the reasons why Pak Lah HAD to be removed and was corrupt to the core? What were those issues then since it was SO SERIOUS and what happened to those issues now?

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The twists and turns in the current 1MDB-SR-Mahathir spate is very good material for a Hollywood blockbuster. Daily, Malaysians check updates in news sites while moonlighting as WhatsApp news broadcasters forwarding links or updates.

One never knows what might happen round the corner.

What's the motivation behind all the intrique? Is it all about money or what?

Just when you think you have understood the issue, comes another blog post that throws you off-balance.

Here is one by RPK that does just that!

WAS THE RM2.6 BILLION A DONATION AFTER ALL?

I doubt Najib can reveal that just like Dr Mahathir will not reveal those donors to Umno and/or Barisan Nasional when he was Prime Minister for 22 years and five general elections or Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi when he was Prime Minister for six years and two general elections.

THE CORRIDORS OF POWER

Raja Petra Kamarudin

Dr M: Money in private account went for polls

(Malaysiakini) – Dr Mahathir Mohamad has claimed Umno was told that the money purportedly deposited into a private bank account was used in the last general election.

“There is no denial the money was deposited in the private account. The explanation to Umno is that it was for the elections. Umno seems satisfied.”

“Don’t they know that government money cannot be used to help a political party win elections?” Mahathir asked in his blog today.

“But the money was from donation. Who donated the RM2 billion? No answer,” he added.

Although Mahathir did not specify whose account he was referring to, it is believed that his remarks were aimed at Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak.

READ MORE HERE http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/305620

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I have written about this many times but it appears like no one is paying any attention. Since years back I had been saying that the general elections cost at least RM1.5 billion to RM2 billion each time. And someone has to pay this cost.

Tun Dr Mahathir knows this. He has known this long before he became Prime Minister in 1981. It actually became more costly since the 1982 general election and has increased every general election since then.

Eventually, even the Umno party elections became as costly as the general elections. That started during the time when Anwar Ibrahim took on Tun Ghafar Baba and ousted him as the Deputy President and later as the Deputy Prime Minister. (Sabah alone cost Anwar RM200 million).

In fact, Dr Mahathir blamed Anwar for the ‘money politics’ in Umno, which is a polite term for vote buying or corruption. And once the party adopts this culture of money politics it is very difficult to get rid of it after that.

During Dr Mahathir’s time they obtained funding through projects, contracts, concessions, privatisation, and so on, plus donations from businessmen, of course. In fact, the Hatibudi Sdn Bhd, United Engineers (UEM), Renong, the North-South Highway, Commerce Asset Holdings Bhd (now CIMB), and many more, were all fund raising exercises to finance the elections.

Then there was the privatisation of the rail transport system in the Federal Territory, the privatisation of the toll highways in the Kelang Valley, the privatisation of water concessionaires all over Malaysia, the privatisation of independent power plants all over Malaysia, etc. Either they were privatised to Umno companies, to Umno people, or to Umno cronies of all races.

Ultimately, many were actually nominees who held all these investments and assets in trust for Umno (while taking a cut of the action, of course, which was the deal). And all these, even the cash in personal bank accounts, belonged to Umno.

Dr Mahathir is giving an impression that he is surprised and was not aware of this. He makes it appear like it is news to him that the Prime Minister could be holding large sums of cash in his personal name on behalf of Umno, which is then used to finance the general elections.

How can he be surprised when it was he who started this practice of not using Umno directly but of using nominees to hold Umno’s estimated RM100 billion fortune in cash, investments and assets?

In the past, during the time of Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tun Razak Hussein and Tun Hussein Onn, Umno financed the general elections through donations from Chinese businessmen or towkays. (At that time there were no Malay tycoons. Then Dr Mahathir decided to create Malay tycoons as nominees of Umno).

That would work if you were talking about just a few hundred million Ringgit. But when it touched billions that would no longer be possible. They needed other ways to get money and that was when Dr Mahathir created the Umno nominees and parked all the assets, projects, investments, and so on, under these nominees.

Tun Daim Zainuddin knows this because he created many of these nominees. Anwar Ibrahim, too, knows this because he, too, created many nominees, some who today are in PAS and PKR. And, of course, Dr Mahathir created his nominees as well. (Maybe Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah can tell us more about this because during his Semangat 46 days he had already spilled the beans).

So can we stop this drama and pretending? You know what went on for more than 30 years. I know what went on for more than 30 years. So do not pretend and act as if you are shocked that Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak may have, or may have had, RM2.6 billion in his personal bank account that may have been used to finance the 2013 general election.

That is how Umno does things and has been doing so since the beginning of general elections in Malaysia in 1955, 60 years ago. The amounts may have changed. The methods may have changed. But the way Umno does business has not changed.

So, Umno is corrupted and therefore must be kicked out and replaced with Pakatan Rakyat. Maybe so, but many of those you regard as ‘criminals’ who used to be in Umno (and who raised money through such methods) are now in the opposition. And are you telling me that Pakatan Rakyat does not also do the same to raise money for the elections?

If you believe that then you probably also believe in Santa Claus and the tooth fairy. Every fooking political party does it, both in Barisan Nasional as well as in Pakatan Rakyat. Ask all those ex-Umno people in Pakatan Rakyat. Ask Zaid Ibrahim who is screaming for clean politics. Every fooking political party does it, both in Barisan Nasional as well as in Pakatan Rakyat.

“Don’t they know that government money cannot be used to help a political party win elections? But the money was from donation. Who donated the RM2 billion? No answer,” said Dr Mahathir.

What the fook is Dr Mahathir trying to say? Umno has been using the government to make money to finance the general elections since he became Prime Minister in 1981. What do you think all those projects, contracts, water and highway concessions, privatisation of power plants, etc., were all about if not to use the government to make money?

Dr Mahathir is suggesting that the RM2.6 billion may not have been 1MDB’s money after all but a donation from someone. And Dr Mahathir wants to know who this donor is.

Will Dr Mahathir reveal those donors to Umno and/or Barisan Nasional when he was Prime Minister for 22 years and five general elections or when Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was Prime Minister for six years and two general elections?

Maybe Najib can tell Dr Mahathir, “Show me yours and I will show you mine.” I don’t mean show their dicks but show where the money to finance the general elections came from and the full list of donors over 34 years from 1981 to 2015.

Source: Malaysia Today

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Just after Tun Dr Mahathir celebrated his 90th birthday, he wrote a blog entry titled Conspiracy.

Basically, what he says in a generalised manner is that since everything is out in the open, there is no conspiracy.

I truly beg to differ.

The term 'Conspiracy' refers to:

1. An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act.

2. A group of conspirators.

3. An agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action.

4. A joining or acting together, as if by sinister design

So tell me now. Is there a conspiracy or not?

Another blogger LSS has written at length about this:

Conspiracy is no stranger to Tun Mahathir

Happy belated 90th birthday, Tun M.

I would like to share a few opinion of mine on your latest blog post today titled "Conspiracy" - from one rakyat blogger (me) to another blogger (Che Det).

The numbered points in italics are what Tun M wrote:

1. There has been much talk by certain people of a conspiracy to overthrow Dato Sri Najib as Prime Minister. 

2. Is there a conspiracy? Is there someone or some group conspiring i.e moving in secret in the underground to overthrow Najib. There could have been before but apart from people complaining privately about their dissatisfaction with Najib’s administration, no one was planning his overthrow. That is not to say that they did welcome the idea of his resigning or vacating his post. But active underground planning and action there was none. 

3. What we do know now is that I had openly called for his stepping down. No conspiracy. Just open declaration to the whole nation that I would like to see Najib cease to be Prime Minister. 

4 So if any investigation is to be made, there is no need for detectives or special agents. That there is a move or push for Dato Sri Najib to step down is known to everyone. 

5. So again where is the conspiracy!! It is all in the open. There is no need to conspire. There is open campaigning for his ceasing to be Prime Minister.No. I am sure there are no conspiracies, whatsoever.

Just a bunch of old friends who happens to catching up for old time sakes. I am sure you and your friends have been best of buddies with British National Clare Brown, - who so happens to run the Sarawak Report who has been critical of Government since it was started in 2011 -  for a long long time.

Here are some happy pictures from the January 14th 2015 "catch-up session" at Tun M's own office which was proudly published by Sarawak Report itself.

At the start of article, Brown claimed it was Dr Mahathir who made the first move. “Dr Mahathir... had invited the editor of Sarawak Report to the Perdana Leadership Foundation in Putrajaya to discuss issues relating to Sarawak’s environmental and human rights record.”

No conspiracy either - just a Wefie of a catch-up session between two very dear old friends who were never critical of each other and always on the same side of truth, justice and fairness.

It is just pure coincidence that within a month of this catch up at Tun M's office, Sarawak Report then published their "Heist of the Century" article with a bunch of (apparently tampered) documents about 1MDB and PetroSaudi's deal.

And of course, the legally bankrupt Datuk Khairuddin Abu Hassan also happened to make a MACC report against 1MDB the next day on Jan 15th after your catch-up with Clare Brown.

5th June 2015: Secara kebetulan, Khairuddin and Tun M at Nothing2Lose forum

Of course, Khairuddin and Tun M are just normal friends and they happened to bump into each other at the Nothing2Lose forum a few months later and happened to be sitted next to each other.

So happens that Khairuddin and Sarawak Report's Clare Brown are also common friends (it's a small small world after all) and Khairuddin then went to London and met Clare Brown a few days before 1st July 2015 - probably for tea with biscuits and scones too. Khairuddin in his FB post said it was "Secara kebetulan saya sempat berjumpa dengan kawan baik iaitu claire rewcastle brown; editor sarawak report di london beberapa hari yang lepas.".

RM100 big and RM100 small please: Can start buying 4D already. Who knows? So happen to bumping into by chance that 1 person out of 8.3 million in London is 830,000 times better odds than the 1 out of 10,000 that you get with striking top price in 4D.

Of course secara kebetulan since London is a small city of 8.31 million people only and just a mere 5.5 times bigger than Kuala Lumpur. Little bit bigger only. Not much.

What a coincidence ! Secara kebetulan we manage to meet in London. It must be fate!

Of course it was again another amazing "kebetulan" that just the next day after Khairuddin posted that he had secara kebetulan met Clare Brown a few days earlier, Wall Street Journal and Sarawak Report so happens to get their hands on some documents of unknown origins which Sarawak Report then posted "Sensational findings".

Yup. More "kebetulan". It's Magnum 4D time for sure.

However, luck is not always on your side.

It's just a bit of bad luck that Sarawak Report's Clare Brown may be in a bit of trouble right now since Thai Police have pretty much confirmed that stolen documents sold by Xavier Justo, which after having left Justo's hands to Sarawak Report had been tampered with in minor but important ways to led to significant change in meaning.

Now, before you shout ... but hey! Free Malaysia Today quoted New Straits Times, the UMNO-BN crony mainstream paper, it is important to note that:

Thailand's major newspaper, Bangkok Post had reported this earlier - even BEFORE NST came out with their article:

"This wrongdoing took place in Singapore," he said, adding that police found traces of the data being tampered with by the buyer."

And Singapore's top newspaper The Straits Times ALSO reported this earlier - again, even BEFORE NST came out with their article:

Thai police Chief said "The data on the *Sarawak Report) blog has been TAMPERED WITH to discredit PM Najib."

Ever skeptical, MalaysiaKini probably did not believe those crony-crony newspapers from around the region and later on the same day, MalaysiaKini decided to personally contact Thailand Police spokesperson Major-General Prawut Tavornsiri only to be told by the Major General the following:

"Asked whether the tampering was extensive, Thai police spokesperson major-general Prawut Tavornsiri told Malaysiakini: "The changes are small, but important".

He said Thai police had made this deduction after interviewing Justo, who insisted to them that only the original documents from PSI were passed on to others.

Oops!! Re-confirmation that after the documents left Xavier Justo, someone had made "small but important" changes.

As a side-note and "secara kebetulan", Thailand Police Chief also said at least one out of the 10 persons who had made contact with Xavier Justo is from UMNO. Thailand English newspaper, The Nation had reported that this person includes a "former key politician" in Malaysia.

How key and how former?

And since Datuk Khairuddin has such good fortune to bump into Clare Brown in the 8.3million population London, perhaps he could use his extra-ordinary luck to help us guess who this "former key politician" is?

It gets worse! Singapore authorties could be getting involved too as apparently Justo's case also involves money-laundering.

The spokesman also offered to share information with the Singapore police. "This case should be reported in Singapore because the money laundering to attack the PM started in Singapore," he said. "If the Singapore police ask me for evidence (through) the foreign affairs protocol, I can send it."

Just so you know, the penalties for money laundering in Singapore is up to ten years jail. Good luck!

Anyway, Tun Mahathir is definitely incapable of lying since he is apparently "Anugerah Allah" (according to PERKASA's Ibrahim Ali) and we do believe him when he said he there is no conspiracy. - just heck of a lot of kebetulan and tampered documents only.

Definitely, we also believe Tun Mahathir when he repeated many times recently that Malaysia is in the top ten most corrupt countries in the world - despite the fact that Malaysia is ranked by Transparency International in their 2014 Corruption Perceptions Index at the top 30% least corrupt in the world at number 50th place out of 174 countries.

NOT EDITED!!! (not) : As you can see in the Transparency International 2014 table Malaysia is most corrupted in the world - we are not 50th out of 174 least corrupt - but at number 175th out of 174 most corrupt.

Of course ordinary Malaysians brought up on a steady diet of DAP's lies and propaganda would know that Malaysians are worse-off than happy places such as Syria, North Korea, Somalia etc..

Okay... let's continue with Tun M's blog post:

6. Lately we are seeing many funny statements. The Utusan loudly proclaimed that the Prime Minister had taken action against the Wall Street Journal.

7. Actually it was not legal action or suing for defamation. Just politely asking the Wall Street Journal why do they publish the article.

8. Is there a need to ask that silly question? Isn’t it obvious that as a newspaper the information obtained by Wall Street Journal was sensational. Any newspaper, convinced of the authenticity of the information would have printed it. Of course the local mainstream papers will not for obvious reasons.

9. To ingratiate themselves with the Prime Minister they would rather mislead people. The sub-editors are good at writing misleading headlines. For example when a statement is made to let the task force of four do their work this is headlined as support for the Prime Minister.

Sorry Tun M, you may be mistaken here again or perhaps did not read Najib's lawyer letter to WSJ properly..

Najib's lawyer letter did not ask WHY the Wall Street Journal published the article. Najib's letter, please understand that this is just the first step in the process and is necessary before a specific defamation charge can be filed.

This is because WSJ was a bit cowardly in their article and Najib's lawyers want to nail their position.

WSJ had said in their very same article that they did not know where the funds comes from but on the other hand they said the funds comes from 1MDB.

It's like WSJ saying we are not sure whether the ball is blue or whether it is indeed a ball and then saying the ball is blue.

So, which is which? Did WSJ say Najib stole the RM2.6b from 1MDB and masuk poket or not? WSJ needs to confirm this.

Najib's lawyer letter stated this: "In the circumstances, we are instructed by our Client to seek confirmation as to whether it is your position as taken in the Articles that our Client misappropriated nearly USD 700 million from 1Malaysia Development Berhad?"

Therefore, Najib's letter is to nail down WSJ's position before they can proceed to the next stage.

If Najib sued WSJ saying that WSJ defamed Najib by saying he stole money from 1MDB, WSJ could easily say This is to prevent WSJ from saying "but we also said we don't know where the funds were from".

The last part of the letter is also very good:

"please let us know whether you have appointed solicitors in Malaysia to accept service of legal proceedings on your behalf and on behalf of the reporters who wrote the Articles".

Looks like Najib is following Singapore's advice and suing under Malaysian laws and courts which are much stricter.

Remember that this is a first step. Najib has never stopped his legal proceedings against Mkini, Tony Pua and Rafizi and definitely won't be pulling back this time on WSJ.

And even more shocking! of all people, Anwar Ibrahim's Chief legal council Sankaran Nair also agrees with my view and Najib lawyer's legal letter to WSJ.

Lawyer who is no stranger to "U ulang, I saman" defamation cases agrees with Najib's lawyers' letter to WSJ

And this lawyer is famous for representing Anwar in many of his famous RM50 million or RM100 million "you ulang, I saman" defamation suits against others.

Lawyer S.N. Nair was of the view that it was not an exception to ask for clarification and particulars before filing a civil action.

"I have adopted this step before making demands and instituting lawsuits on behalf of my clients," he added.

Nair, who has represented former opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim in defamation suits, said he would expect a responsible lawyer to act prudently.

"In the course of carrying out one's professional duty, a lawyer must also ensure his or her reputation is not at stake," he added.

Unless Tun M is a lawyer or have vast experience in defamation cases, perhaps Tun M should not have called the lawyer letter as silly.

For the record, Tun M apparently has never sued anyone for defamation in his life - he either suspends all the Supreme Court judges, throws people in ISA or just ignores all those very very nasty things said about him by foreign media and DAP over the past decades and pretends not to hear them.

10. Then there was a minister who, after saying that the interim report shows nothing wrong with 1MDB, then went on to advise people not to say anything about 1MDB until the report is out. But he himself had made a premature statement.

11. To all comments made against 1MDB, the standard answer is to deny, to say “No it is not true.” It is like somebody upon being asked whether he had stolen the money as alleged, simply denies that he had stolen, expecting the judge to acquit him simply because he denied.

12. There is no denial that money was deposited in the private account. The explanation to UMNO is that it was for the elections. UMNO seems satisfied. Don’t they know that Government money cannot be used to help a political party to win elections? But the money was from donation. Who donated 2 billion Ringgit? No answer.

Since the report and investigations have not come out now, how did Tun M come to the conclusion that the alleged money is from government?

Already the Auditor-General's preliminary report and the international auditor Deloitte also cannot find proof of any money missing from 1MDB.

So, if no money is missing from 1MDB then how did 1MDB money get stolen? Strange.

Is Tun M suggesting that UMNO is now a poor party after he left it and all those alleged UMNO-linked or allegedly UMNO-owned firms of the past such as Renong, KUB, Tanjung, Media Prima, Peremba, Time, TRI etc have all ceased to exist?

What happened to all their money and their companies?

And how the heck did Tun M fund past General elections before? Out of your own pocket?

And are you sure there are no companies or tycoons willing to donate money to the ruling party, UMNO-BN for the purpose of elections?

And do you seriously believe that we should list out the names of all the donors who probably wants to keep their donations private for fear of public boycotts?

Even DAP disagrees with making political donors transparent at the moment.

DAP election strategist Dr Ong Kian Ming, who is also Serdang MP, says the proposal to regulate political finances would only be viable if there is a genuinely level playing field.“My fear is that this may be used as a tool to ‘scare’ people off from contributing to opposition parties.

It is truly astonishing that Tun M is now asking for all the donors to be listed publicly right now - it's just not going to happen, is unrealistic and Tun M understands the reasons why.

Anyway, since Tun M says that UMNO members seem to accept this reason now, then I see no reason why Najib needs to resign as UMNO president and Prime Minister right now.

Okay, let's continue with Tun M's blog. It's getting a bit long now.

13. But what about BR1M? Isn’t it Government money, all 7 billion Ringgit and more. That was clever. It is not for elections but given before any election, with the promise of more if the party wins, isn’t it about using Government money to win elections?14. Truly cash is king!!

BR1M was given in 2012 (not election year), in 2013 (election year), 2014 (not election year), 2015 (not election year) and will probably be given in 2016 (probably not election year) and in 2012 (probably not election year) - therefore Tun M's dissertation that BR1M is given just before election is WRONG!

How can BR1M be an election bribe by BN if it is paid every year and not just on election year?

How can BR1M be an election bribe by BN if Pakatan had already said that they will continue BR1M if they win and hence remove any advantage that the govt has with just one statement?

Many countries have BR1M like schemes - such as the USA's famous food stamps program which they have been running for decades.

There is no doubt that programs such as BR1M helps in transferring money from the rich to the poor directly and can assist in reducing our income inequality.

Only very deluded people thinks that BR1M is a replacement for a normal salary and makes the people dependent on govt or makes them lazy. How can anyone or any family live with RM600 a year or RM1.65 per day?

BR1M is not meant to be a salary replacement but a supplement to their normal salary so that they can live better!

Yes, there could be abuses in BR1M where money could have been given to people that don't deserve it but with so many people avoiding income tax and properly declaring their assets, how can we 100% avoid such abuses?

Even in the unlikely event that up to 5% of the people are abusing this system, the fact that 95% of the people are receiving much needed help is more than enough reason to continue with BR1M. Govt just needs to continually tighten up monitoring and weed out the abusers.

Do we punish the 95% of those who needs it most for the actions of the 5%?

That would be kejam.

Tun M, as you can see from above, BR1M is a policy tool to re-distribute income already used in many countries and has now been proven effective in Malaysia..

As policy measures such as BR1M and minimum wages take effect, Income inequality is on the decline in Malaysia while all income groups experience significant yearly growth in income levels.

As a result, the Gini co-efficient that monitors income equality has seen a drop from 0.441 in 2009 to 0.401 in 2014. The lower the Gini score, the more equal it is.

No prizes for guessing who made income inequality so high before Najib became PM and implemented all these policy measures to improve equality.

Maybe you should ask Tun M or his friends, Daim, Halim Saad, Tajuddin Ramli, Ananda Krishnan etc why it was so unequal in the past.

15. Then there is this insistence that since Najib was elected, no one has any right to demand he should step down.

16. How short is their memory. Don’t they remember Abdullah who was also elected being asked by Najib to step down. And he did.

17. And I myself, also an elected PM, did step down in 2003.

18. All over the world elected Presidents and Prime Ministers have been asked or forced to step down and they all did. In fact in some countries, if something untoward happens, Ministers, Prime Ministers step down.

19. So don’t be silly and demand that since Najib was elected, no one has a right to ask him to step down. Abdullah won more seats in 2008 than Najib in 2013. If Abdullah was prepared to step down, Najib after his poor performance in the general election should not even offer to be the PM. He should resign from being President of UMNO and head of BN and let somebody else lead and become PM.

Well, I am not sure if PM Najib ever asked Pak Lah to step down as Prime Minister since all the public pressure for Pak Lah to step down seemed to have come from Tun M.

And Pak Lah has never accused Najib of asking him to step down and continues to blame Tun M until this day.

If I listened to Mahathir, Malaysia would be bankrupt said Pak Lah.

“Perhaps I should have been more vehement in defending and explaining these issues. I could have retaliated by exposing Mahathir. But what good would have come out of this for the government and party?” he said.

If not for Tun M being the patronage of PERKASA and driving away the majority of non-Malay votes (thank you Tun and Ibrahim Ali), PM Najib did relatively well in GE 13:

• He won back Perak and Kedah state governments which was lost in GE12
• He did not lose any state govt. Tun M had lost Kelantan and Terengganu state govts in the past and he never won them back - ever.
• Najib also won 10 additional seats for UMNO compared to GE12

Hence, Najib actually did pretty well for UMNO in GE13 and hence as President of UMNO, he becomes president of BN and by default, the Prime Minister.

I guess UMNO is relatively happy with Najib and hence UMNO leaders agree to postpone their party elections to 2018 after GE14 and you yourself say it is normal.

Glad you agree, Tun M and glad that Tun M respects the decision of UMNO leaders.

And due to the systems that Tun M have put in place before, then there is certainly no need for PM Najib to resign if he does not want to resign - just because you felt ignored and wants him to resign.

Interview by The Weekend Australian with Tun Mahathir 13th June 2015

Although Tun M may feel that "They still owe it all to you" as per your recent interview in Australia, I think PM Najib owes it to Malaysia to complete his transformation journey and implement unpopular but necessary and urgent policies such as BR1M, Minimum wages, subsidy rationalization, tax reforms such as GST and others.

Policies that are unpopular now but necessary for long-term growth and sustainability of Malaysia's future. No economist in the world would say that Najib's policies above are wrong.

I am sure Tun M understands this.

20. There is this suggestion that the amendment to the election rules in UMNO was meant to make it more democratic. Very many more members would vote in the UMNO elections than the 2,000 or so delegates to the UMNO General Assembly.

21. Actually the intention is to limit the number of entities involved in the election. The winners would be those getting the biggest number of divisions voting for. Effectively this means the real electors have been reduced from 2,000 to about 190 UMNO divisions.

The number of members voting for a candidate is nullified. Far from making UMNO elections more democratic, Najib has actually restricted the right to vote from ordinary members to just the divisions. And Najib has a strangle-hold over most of the division heads.

22. So much for more democracy in UMNO.

The previous bonus votes and quota system in the UMNO party elections and how it kept Tun M in power for 22 years.

Bonus votes? got such things? I thought 1 person 1 vote. lo - unless the bonus votes comes from the non-existent 40k Banglas.

Turns out the bonus votes are not like bonuslink points and the quota was not actually Bumi quotas when in the context of the UMNO party elections.

Undemocratic Bonus system in the past - a bonus only to the incumbents and makes it hard for challengers to even get nominated.

After the 1987 Team A vs Team B fight where Tun M won with only 43 votes against Ku Li despite receiving more nominations from the divisions, Tun M decided to change the way the party elections are determined.

Using the excuse to of preventing “fake nominations”, Tun M then introduced the bonus-vote system in which 10 bonus votes would be automatically added to those contesting for party president for every nomination they receive.

Definitely during the nominations stage, division leaders will be pressured to nominate the incumbent - hence this system essentially guarantees a win for the incumbent.

Obviously this flaky bonus-vote system was not democratic. Thus, UMNO abolished this in 1998 and replaced it with an equally iffy quota system.

This quota system requires those contesting for president to receive at least 30% of all divisions nominations BEFORE they even have the right to contest.

This means that you require at least 63 divisions (out of 210 divisions then) to officially nominate you before you even qualify to challenge the president.

Essentially, your fate depended on just 210 division heads that the President could easily control. Chances were not that good, of course.

In essence, the "Bonus votes" and "Quota system" were cowardly undemocratic systems put in place by Tun M to prevent any challenge to him.

However, Najib did not wish to hide behind the quota system and scrapped it in Oct 2009 - meaning that anyone who received a nomination from any division can challenge for any post within UMNO.

Also in an effort to curb money politics, Najib increased the number of people qualified to vote from just 2,500 to 146,500 UMNO members.

Compared to the nomination and quota system previously which depended on just 210 persons to determine who can be President, trying to control and buy votes from 146,500 people is much much harder.

Najib was this brave enough to transform the party and also democratic enough to put the fate of his PM and party president position in the hands of 146,500 party members - which he did in the 2013 UMNO party elections.

This new UMNO party elections system introduced by UMNO in 2009 is called the electoral college system - the very same system used in the USA presidential elections.

I am sure you don't really want to accuse the USA of having unfair elections system.

UMNO Sec-Gen Tengku Adnan said the system was chosen for the party elections, which for the first time will see about 150,000 members voting for supreme council members, as it was deemed the most practical due to the large number of voters involved.

“We have explained to party members how the system works. Although each division represents one vote, the grassroots will still be the deciders because it is they who will first vote to determine candidates their division will support,”

It is certainly insulting to all UMNO membes when Tun M says that the division leaders of 190 division will determine the votes for that division.

Assoc Prof Shaharuddin Badaruddin from Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) said that while division chiefs sympathetic towards certain candidates could attempt to sway their members’ sentiments by organising activities for the candidates, they would still not be able to guarantee votes because of the large number of branch members who will be voting.

Please respect the large number of UMNO branch members and give them credit - their votes now make a difference and is what counts and they should be independent to vote who they want without having to follow the orders of the branch leaders blindly.

Hence, Tun M is mistaken again. UMNO party elections have become more democratic and less about money politics.

At least after PM Najib's UMNO elections reforms, people actually gets a chance to be nominated (all you need is one nomination) and to contest - unlike your dodgy bonus votes and quota nomination system which stopped candidates from even being nominated and even before they had a chance to run.

SOURCE: LSS REPORT HERE

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Another brilliant piece par excellence by Raja Petra Kamarudin. A must read and must share.

Mahathir's Kung Fu Versus Najib's Tai Chi

If Najib can be hit with a sniper shot and no one else gets hurt then many would support Dr Mahathir’s effort to oust the Prime Minister. But if it means bringing down the entire Barisan Nasional then the ballgame changes. And this is precisely what the new ballgame is all about — kill Najib by blowing up the entire plane and everyone in it.

THE CORRIDORS OF POWER

Raja Petra Kamarudin

I suppose it all depends on what you want to achieve. Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad wants a quick end to all this. He wants Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak brought down as fast as possible.

Earlier it was said that Najib was going to be ousted by May 2015. Then it was changed to June 2015. And now the anti-Najib forces are saying that Najib is going to be out just as soon as Hari Raya is over. I suppose that would mean by or before the end of July 2015.

Basically, Dr Mahathir is using Kungfu to try to bring Najib down. He is screaming, jumping, kicking and punching in his attempt to finish off the Prime Minister. However, while some hits appear to be pretty close, Dr Mahathir is yet to land his killer blow.

Najib, however, is playing Taichi. All he needs to do is to dance and prance and duck and dodge every time a blow comes. While Dr Mahathir is using Muhammad Ali’s strategy of ignore everything else and just keep punching the same spot again and again until it bleeds, Najib is using Muhammad Ali’s strategy of float like a butterfly and sting like a bee (although Najib may not have quite stung Dr Mahathir just yet but is certainly floating all over the place).

Anyway, it is all a matter of why hurry when you have the luxury of time on your side? You need to study the options available and run with the best option. So you can afford to dance, prance, duck and dodge while the attacker screams, jumps, kicks and punches. You then wait for an opening and once one offers itself you move in and with one hit you end it all.

Both Dr Mahathir and Najib have very clear objectives. Dr Mahathir’s objective is to oust Najib while Najib’s objective is to stay in office. Once these objectives are understood you then work towards your objective and do not get distracted by sideshows.

Many ask: why does Najib not just bring down the curtain and end this drama once and for all by showing the details of the bank accounts or show what happened to the money or explain this or prove that?

Why should Najib do all that? If he does not do that can they kick him out? His Majesty the Agong cannot sack a Prime Minister although the Agong appoints that Prime Minister.

If Parliament wants to remove a Prime Minister via a vote a no confidence it will need at least 112 Members of Parliament to do that. Before they can get 112 Members of Parliament to agree to pass a vote of no confidence against Najib they will first need to discuss and agree on who will be taking over from Najib once he is ousted.

Can at least 112 Members of Parliament agree to Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin taking over as the new Prime Minister? Muhyiddin will get the support of Dr Mahathir only if he agrees to become a proxy Prime Minister. So that means Dr Mahathir is going to be the de facto Prime Minister. Will at least 112 Members of Parliament, other than Lim Kit Siang, agree to this?

Some think that Anwar Ibrahim would be able to help swing some of those 112 Members of Parliament. Well, Anwar cannot be the Prime Minister not only because he is in jail but also because you must first be a Member of Parliament to be appointed a Prime Minister. So Anwar will have to support someone else to become that Prime Minister.

Anwar has already told Dr Mahathir that he will support the move to oust Najib (and maybe even support the move to replace him with Muhyiddin) if Dr Mahathir can agree that once Najib is ousted he (Anwar) would be released from jail.

Dr Mahathir told Anwar to go screw himself and he also warned Muhyiddin that one of the terms of his appointment as Prime Minister is that he must not release Anwar from jail. So, will Anwar still support the move to oust Najib since there is no benefit to him? Anwar is never known to have done anything unless there is something in it for him.

Anyway, Anwar could not even swing a single Member of Parliament from the 30 he promised in September 2008. So what makes you think he can swing 112? Let us see whether he can first swing a pardon for himself or make DAP and PAS stop bickering. Then let us talk about the bigger things in life.

Dr Mahathir is in a hurry. Najib is not. Short of a coup d’état, either through a vote of no confidence in Parliament or a military takeover, Najib has three years to get his affairs in order. And three years is a long time. In three years Najib could be ousted either by being challenged in the party elections or by his party being voted out in the general election. Until then he is safe for at least another three years.

Dr Mahathir has shifted the goalpost a number of times. It is no longer about Najib being too accommodating to the Chinese voters (at the risk of losing Malay votes) or too compliant to Singapore (and not building the Crooked Bridge). It is now about RM42 billion of 1MDB’s money disappearing into thin air.

Dr Mahathir is going to keep hammering that point home. And if Najib answers those charges and puts the 1MDB issue to sleep, then all that is going to happen is Dr Mahathir will just look for another issue to hit Najib with. So better Najib just let Dr Mahathir scream, jump, kick and punch while he dances, prances, ducks and dodges and when the time is right he pulls his rabbit out of the hat and face the voters in the general election and his party in the party elections with a very loud, “did I not tell you so?”

The problem with Dr Mahathir’s attacks is it is now no longer just about hurting Najib. It is also hurting Umno and Barisan Nasional. To kill Najib, Dr Mahathir must also bomb Umno and Barisan Nasional. This is akin to blowing up an entire plane of 300 passengers just to kill one person on that plane.

And this is what is unsettling most people. And the RM2.6 billion is a case in point. Did Najib steal that money or was it for the use of Barisan Nasional in the 2013 general election? If Najib did not pocket that money then someone else must have done so. And if Barisan Nasional pocketed that money instead, then it opens up an entirely new can of worms

If Najib can be hit with a sniper shot and no one else gets hurt then many would support Dr Mahathir’s effort to oust the Prime Minister. But if it means bringing down the entire Barisan Nasional then the ballgame changes. And this is precisely what the new ballgame is all about — kill Najib by blowing up the entire plane and everyone in it.

And this is the very reason why Najib can afford to play Taichi.

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