Did Najib thought this could rectify his cousin’s haywire brain cells? As in the controversial Sabah invasion, Hishammuddin used police instead of army to control the situation. So, by putting him in charge of defence now, will this joker finally do the right things, in case of a similar crisis again? Or is he actually beyond repair by deploying army (instead of police) to suppress domestic issues such as rallies? Anyway, in time of oppression and suppression by the bad guys, people actually need superhero. Okay, supposing superhero such as Iron Man does exist, or at least can be bought with dollar and cent. How much does it cost to be Iron Man 3 in real life?

In the movie Iron Man 3, Tony Stark has a staggering 42 new suits of armour including “a prehensile suit that allows each individual piece of the suit to fly separately and latch on to him.” That suit is called the Mark 42, a significant upgrade from the last intelligent armor we saw him in in The Avengers, the comparatively tame Mark 7. Tony Stark, the CEO of his company Stark Enterprises, is a chemist, an inventor, an engineer and an entrepreneur in the highly successful movie. But how much does it cost to build the suits? Well, if you have US$10 billion, you can be your own Iron Man 3. Here’re some of the costs breakdown:

• Helmet with projected holographic HUD (heads-up display), which includes his HAL-like artificial intelligence butler JARVIS (Just a Rather Very Intelligent System). Cost: $55 million.

• Gold-titanium exoskeleton suit: This is the latest in Stark’s ever-evolving exoskeleton technology, which helps him repel bullets, missiles, and the rough effects of g-force on the human body. Cost: $15 million.

• Brain-controlled armor: Stark built the Mark 42 using nanotechnology, which allows his suit to assemble around him, piece by piece, via a remote synaptic link. Like Magneto calling all available metal to his hand, Stark can gather the various pieces of his armor to his body using his brain. Cost: Unknown.

• Arc reactor nuclear power source. This clean nuclear power source protects Stark’s heart from the shrapnel in his chest that he earned during the first Iron Man, while a prisoner in Afghanistan. Cost: $36 million.

• Repulsor jet packs: One of the coolest parts of Iron Man’s suit is, of course, his jet boots. He also has jets built into the palms of his hands, which he uses to stabilize himself, something he has to do an awful lot. $13.8 million.

• Boot-mounted repulsor jet packs (2 units). Cost: $3.8 million.

• Hand-mounted stabilisation & manoeuvring jets (2 units). Cost: $2 million.

• Shoulder-mounted anti-personnel guns and forearm-mounted anti-tank missile launchers: Well the man does need firepower. His shoulder-mounted guns and forearm-mounted missiles are controlled via his helmet, and the missiles are, of course, heat-seeking. Cost: $1.9 million

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In fact, BN has been reduced to just UMNO and Sarawak Chief Minister’s PBB party. At best, BN is just a minority government, a term which UMNO hates very much. Going by the rate UMNO and its subsidiaries are churning out racial remarks almost every day since the just concluded election, we can safely conclude that we’ll see such pattern to continue till end of the year, when the UMNO general assembly is set to take place. You’ve heard UiTM pro-chancellor Abdul Rahman Arshad’s calls for the abolition of Chinese and Tamil vernacular schools.

And now, you’re also seeing the quality of top judges this country has produced, judging from former Court of Appeal judge Mohd Noor Abdullah’s warning of a Malay backlash. It seems Perkasa has found a new competitor. Perhaps UMNO should register another subsidiary to rival United States’ extremist Ku Klux Klan (KKK) organization. While KKK fought for white supremacy, UMNO’s new toy can fight for “UMNO Supremacy”. What’s next – a similar Hitler’s secret police Gestapo to be called “GasDapur”, maybe? If a former high-ranking judge only sees it as an act of betrayal for not voting ruling BN, it speaks volume about the risk of doing business in Malaysia.

If that was not enough to send shivers into your spine, this former judge also sits on the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) complaints committee. He also proposed that the (UMNO) Malays takes away 67% from every business in the country. I’m not sure about foreign investors but I’ll definitely not going to do any business knowing well in advance these UMNO scumbags are going to rob me 67% of my hard earned money in broad daylight. Of course all these “sandiwaras” or dramas were designed to divert attention from UMNO’s own massive corruption as the culprit for their losses. Anyway, this article is not about UMNO but rather a more dangerous problem that is set to hit Pakatan Rakyat.

We’ve written back in 2009 about the possibility of PAS abandoning Pakatan Rakyat. Nasharuddin Mat Isa, was re-elected as PAS’s deputy president after he defeated Husam Musa and Mat Sabu. It was an open secret that both Nasharuddin and PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang were not against a “joint-venture” between UMNO and PAS. In fact, the idea of both parties holding hands together made both Nasharuddin and Hadi Awang orgasm. The only person blocking such alliance was PAS spiritual adviser Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat. Since then Nasharuddin was put in cold storage while Hadi Awang wasn’t really that happy even though his PAS party almost wrest Terengganu from BN.

Now that Nik Aziz has let go of his chief ministership, Kelantan may not be the same again. Slowly but surely, his influence will deteriorate over time. Ambitious and young PAS leaders would start pondering about the possibility of joining the privilege wealthy and powerful club – UMNO. In their quest for material gains, they would throw in justifications such as in the name of betterment and united Muslim Malays, PAS found no compelling reason not to join UMNO. PAS is still relatively clean because of Nik Aziz. Without the spiritual adviser around grumbling about the evil UMNO, PAS leaders would find it extremely difficult to resist the temptation of joining the exclusive club.

Like it or not, PAS is not that much different from UMNO, without Nik Aziz around. What UMNO scream about “Development”, PAS will scream “Hudud” whenever they want to rally for support from average Joes and Janes. That was the major differentiator that separates both political parties. Take that away and both are couples made in heaven. That was why UMNO keeps seducing PAS to go to bed together. And this is precisely what worries PKR Anwar Ibrahim the most – a PAS pull out from the pact to join BN. Obviously it would be more damaging for PAS to pull out rather than to see Azmin Ali and his gang do so.

Selangor state will not fall even if Azmin Ali is UMNO’s biggest mole inside PKR. But without PAS, Anwar will lose his vital right hand. Anwar can bid farewell to his ambitious plan for Putrajaya without PAS. Not only PR will lose Kelantan and the prospect of Terengganu and Kedah in the next election, it will also lose the PAS’s true supporters, of which the organic growth takes decades to achieve. Assuming UMNO, PAS and PKR each commands 33% of Malays votebank, an UMNO-PAS partnership means a two-thirds ethnic Malay votes. This was exactly what Mahathir meant when he screamed about Malays being divided and weak. Without PKR, UMNO can have half the cake but with PKR, UMNO has to share the cake with another two hungry wolves.

While DAP may have reached the saturation level in terms of Chinese supports and its parliamentary seats, PAS may not be able to grow as big as DAP. Unlike DAP which monopolize every Chinese votes now, PAS has to share the Malay votebank with PKR and UMNO. Looking at the scorecard, it’s true that UMNO does not need Chinese or Indians to survive. They can form a government on their own. The only thing they cannot achieve is to get the precious two-thirds majority. But that also means PAS may not be able to taste the icing on the cake – ministerships or even the prime ministership. That was why there was silent protest within PAS circle as to why PAS (or rather Hadi Awang) cannot have the premiership themselves.

Everybody is now waiting for PM Najib’s final choice of cabinet members. It will be interesting to see if Sabah and Sarawak will be given a fair 20% – 30% representatives each in the cabinet, considering both states contribute 22 and 25 parliamentary seats to the BN coalition respectively. Will naughty rumours about Sabah and Sarawak getting at least a deputy prime ministership comes true? Since the Constitution is silent about the position of deputy prime minister, PM Najib can appoint as many deputy prime ministers as he wishes to. Heck, he can even appoint all the 47 MPs from Sabah and Sarawak as deputy prime minister 2, 3 and so forth, in order to prevent them from defecting to Anwar’s camp.

In this case, it won’t do any harm to give a deputy prime ministership to PAS as well, if the party is willing to jump ship from PR to BN. Furthermore, PAS’s 21 parliamentary seats are invaluable to enable BN to regain its lost trophy – two-thirds majority. If that is not sufficient to satisfy PAS, UMNO can include more goodies such as ministerships, deputy ministerships, chairmanships, directorships and whatever ships as part of the package. What – you actually think all those PAS leaders are God-fearing homo sapiens who despise power and (corrupt) money? Puh-leez !!! They are no difference from other politicians who believe in enriching themselves the moment they seize the opportunity.

What about DAP, the party that is the biggest winner in this election with 38 parliamentary seats to its credit? Actually DAP can replace MCA in the BN coalition hands down. And DAP Lim Kit Siang almost reach his orgasm thinking about such partnership. Unfortunately, unlike PAS which can flash Islam as a common platform (or rather excuse) between UMNO and the party to join hands, DAP couldn’t find a common reason to do so. In fact, DAP would be committing suicide if they ever join the evil coalition. The same 90% Chinese votes would disappear before Kit Siang could even blink his eyes. Thus, the idea of UMNO and DAP hugging each other is impossible at this stage.

Moving forward, the political landscape may see only five major players – UMNO, PBB, PKR, PAS and DAP. And if PAS ever decides to join UMNO for good, it would be a four parties era. Other smaller political parties would become irrelevant so much so that they would end up as if they’re independents, unable to make any impact whatsoever. UMNO may want to reconsider the idea of opening its door to everybody regardless of race hence the merger with MCA, Gerakan, MIC, PPP and whatnot. There’re just too many unproductive parties in the BN coalition. A house cleaning is long overdue so perhaps BN could rejuvenate itself with a new coat of paint - a multiracial new UMNO.

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Mahathir believed BN would win hands down. Opposition would need the help of all the Gods combined in the universe to win the just concluded 13th general election. Based on the strong assumption that more Malays, Indians and Chinese would vote for BN as compared to 2008 tsunami, the hope of regaining two-thirds majority was very real. Hence Mahathir’s dilemma – if Najib could regain the lost two-thirds majority, the latter would be invincible and this will definitely strengthen the then caretaker prime minister’s grip on the throne. He needs to somehow weaken Najib by sending the much tainted Ibrahim Ali and Zulkifli Nordin. Najib can win but cannot do so with a landslide victory.

Meanwhile, Najib thought he would do better than his predecessor sleepy head Abdullah Badawi. Even if he couldn’t regain two-thirds majority, he should have no problem getting more than 140 parliamentary seats achieved by Badawi. He was ill-advised by his team of advisors – that he couldn’t possibly do any worse than Badawi considering the free flow of money, food, beers, sexy ladies, lucky draws and whatnot to the Chinese voters especially in Penang. For the first time in their lifetime, the Chinese were treated like a King and Penang island was transformed into heaven.

Najib also put on Chinese costume and played drum like a clown during Chinese New Year to amuse the Chinese. He believed he was freaking popular with the Chinese and he particularly proud of his “Ah Jib Gor” Chinese name. He promised new Chinese schools wherever he went. Underground betting was also doing brisk business with RM100 win for RM1 bet in favour of Lim Guan Eng’s defeat. According to rumour mill, the stake was so high that you can sell your vote for as much as RM6,000 a piece in Penang. Then came the mega crowd to almost every single opposition’s ceramah.

But these opposition ceramahs attracted mainly the Chinese especially towards the end of the campaign period. With every new ceramah, the Chinese participants increased greatly. While Najib rubbished such pattern as a new threat, Mahathir was quite worried about the Chinese swing. That was why he put on “TSI” (Turbocharged Stratified Injection) mode and screamed every day till foam at mouth about Malay losing power. If Mahathir did nothing, the rural Malays could have given landslide victory to opposition. Najib would be biting his index finger in disbelief till today. Still, Mahathir miscalculated the quantum of the Chinese swing.

The swing of Chinese votes easily breached 90% in most of the constituencies, something which is as rare as finding dinosaur fossils in Malaysia. So while Mahathir lied about not expecting Najib to do worse than Abdullah Badawi, he was honest about didn’t expect the Chinese to dump BN in such a scale. That was why he was emotional and upset about the Chinese, so much so that he didn’t hold back in accusing the Chinese “rejected the hand of friendship” extended by (UMNO) Malays, never mind it was not true in the first place. He was seen openly and deliberately provoking Malays against the Chinese. Obviously it would be to BN’s advantage if Malays start to distrust the Chinese.

Najib needs to survive his next test – UMNO election – hence his parroting about ungrateful Chinese was expected. Actually, Najib is still in a daze, not knowing the root cause of the Chinese’ rejection despite all the goodies and entertainment given to them (*grin*). You don’t need to be a genius to predict that Chinese will once again become UMNO’s punching bag in its coming general assembly. In fact, Mahathir thought it would be a waste of time to recapture Chinese votes by way of sweet-talk them. If the only way to divide the Malays and Chinese is to play racist card again, so be it. The Chinese needs to be intimidated in order for them to go back in droves to BN’s arm like herd of sheep.

Anwar Ibrahim realizes that Mahathir’s latest extreme racial game will have a huge impact on his coalition and he needs to diffuse it fast. If the Chinese do not get the backing from their Malay comrades, they would be too scare to throw their support for PR again in the future. Pakatan Rakyat would be history come next 14th general election. That was why Anwar called for a mega rally, the first after election, to rubbish the “Chinese Tsunami” scare tactic trumpeted by both Mahathir and Najib. Some speculated the reason why police flip-flop about permit requirement for yesterday’s rally, held in Kelana Jaya stadium, was to embarrass Anwar Ibrahim as the spooked Chinese and partners, DAP and PAS, would most probably not present.

However, despite last minute notice, the stadium was packed to the brim. Social media research group Politweet.org estimated the crowd size in and around the stadium at between 64,000 and 69,000, given that the stadium capacity is about 25,000. Some claimed there were easily 100,000 people who answered the call last night, with thousands more stuck in traffic and couldn’t make it to the stadium. If Anwar and Najib administration’s objective was to test the waters as to the relevance of Pakatan Rakyat post 13th general election, the people particularly the young chaps have overwhelmingly given their endorsement to the leadership of Anwar to continue the struggle, judging from Wednesday’s mind-boggling success.

Psychologically, Anwar Ibrahim knew Najib administration would be very careful not to add fuel into the already furious opposition supporters. It would be suicidal to deploy police or FRU and start arresting the public, or to spray them with water cannon, and in the process agitates the situation. It’s always better to let these frustrated people scream till their lungs burst in the stadium. They need to release their steam. Anwar was actually praying for a police crackdown, the more brutal the better, because then he can easily put the blame on Najib’s administration and attracts more sympathizers. Too bad Najib didn’t give Anwar the bullet.

Anwar can now replicate the same rally to other towns throughout the country in order to push the momentum going. Armed with 51.4% of popular votes against BN’s 48.6%, Anwar is set to spread the message of PR’s victory being stolen. Anwar knows that the “flames of desire” amongst the youngsters is his only hope if he still wish to become the country’s 7th prime minister. If there’s one person who knows how to rally people by taking advantage of their sentiments, that person has to be Anwar Ibrahim. Pakatan Rakyat can also take comfort from White House’s congratulatory announcement that comes with a note about irregularities.

As much as Mahathir hates to admit it, this war is far from over. Unless PAS or DAP defects from the current coalition, the future doesn’t look good for BN, if they still intends to recapture Selangor or Penang state. Just like the excessive parties thrown in by BN during the campaign, playing too much racism toys could backfire badly. Mahathir made his biggest mistake by picking Anwar Ibrahim from Abim movement (Angkatan Belia Islam Malaysia) to be nurtured as future prime minister. Will he make another fatal mistake by playing racial card only to unite all the multiracial technology-aware voters instead?

Do you know why Anwar tweeted that his coalition PR has won the election just after two hours into the counting process? On its own, PR couldn’t posibly win the election. At best, it could force BN into chaos with a single digit majority win. What gave Anwar the confidence of tweeting such message was his pact with Sarawak and Sabah greedy politicians in the BN coalition. Anwar had been having tons of meetings with these politicians especially the corrupted Sarawak Chief Minister. With double digits frogs ready to jump, depending on the “rewards”, Anwar was damn sure he would be the country’s 7th prime minister.

Again, Anwar couldn’t keep his cool and his early tweet raised red flags. BN’s war room’s director Mahathir was notified of this troubling tweet message and the old fox decided to triple BN’s insurance coverage. Massive frauds or not, BN just couldn’t take lightly of Anwar’s tweet hence the extraordinary delay in releasing the results. That was why you saw only the BN’s parliamentary scoreboards kept churning new score while the opposition PR’s own scorecard practically didn’t move at all. In certain seats, requests for recount was ignored totally. The priority was to ensure Election Commission announce officially that BN has win the election with comfortable majority seats. Thereafter PR can have the remaining leftovers (*hats off to genius BN*).

Nevertheless, Mahathir was right when he questioned Najib’s strategists, whose ideas may have contributed to BN’s poor performance. If only Najib has strategists such as DAP’s Liew Chin Tong – one of the brilliant architects who proposed and justified that the war should be brought to BN’s stronghold, Johor. But considering how Najib was obsessed with becoming popular as if he was running for the President of the United Malaysia, it wasn’t hard to guess what type of strategists that fit his bill. Najib’s advertising and marketing method was “overkill” to the extent people got sick and tired with its propaganda.

Najib and Mahathir should realize that by cursing and victimizing the Chinese is not a long-term solution, unless of course they’ve given up on their future votes in totality. Still, what do they plan to do next? Close all the Chinese schools, force all of them into unemployment and stop providing them electricity, gas and water as punishment for being naughty? And in return the Chinese stop paying taxes? Gimme a break. It’s better to hedge on more funds – Malays, Chinese and others – rather than to burn the bridge with the Chinese and rely on one less fund in its next general election.

Najib administration has to remember that urban Malays were also in the same boat as the Chinese in rejecting his coalition. It’s time for BN to really ponder on its next course of direction. Will there be more Bersih 4.0 till version 8.0 rallies, assuming it would be an annual event? Surely Ambiga knows Election Commission would not give a hood even if they organize rallies on weekly basis. Perhaps overwhelming internationally political pressure could move the stubborn Election Commission.

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Some trends never fails to amuse everyone during Malaysia general elections – whenever opposition is leading during votes counting, they will always lose towards the end of the process because “courier service” will deliver some magic ballot boxes (*grin*). Equally amusing was the fact that these magic boxes will always save big guns, this round it found its way to MIC President Palanivel, MCA President’s son and Liow Tiong Lai. There were also allegations that more such courier services were on its way to save Gelang Patah’s Abdul Ghani and Lembah Pantai’s Raja Nong Chik but couldn’t reach its destinations (*tongue-in-cheek*).

As expected, BN (Barisan Nasional) retains its power at the federal government while opposition PR (Pakatan Rakyat) is crying fraud over its failure in replacing the 56-year-old corrupt government. Now that official results is out – BN wins 133 parliamentary seats while PR takes home the remaining 89 from the total 222 contested seats – both BN and PR should go back to the drawing board to analyse what had gone wrong. Anwar is right and should challenge the results from between 30 to 40 constituencies due to irregularities such as not given Form 14 by the Election Commission.

If frauds and irregularities are not tackled, the same problems will continue to haunt them in the next 14th general election. Sure, it won’t change a thing since the judiciary is equally bias towards BN but if nothing is done, it will means the current regime will be even bolder in carrying out its frauds. Bersih now has an even bigger role to play – magnify and bring the tainted election process to another level, both domestically and internationally. Thus, Bersih, a coalition for clean and fair elections, should fully utilize the next 4-5 years in educating public (especially ruralites) and to gain international pressures on Malaysia Election Commission.

BN should thank former premier Mahathir simply because without his innovative gerrymandering project during his 22-year-rule, BN would have collapsed today. We have written that Najib Razak’s real battle is his own UMNO election, and not the just concluded 13th general election. Hence, the BN’s win was expected. Of course both BN and PR didn’t expect the surprises in store for them. BN didn’t expect the huge swing of Chinese voters to be of such magnitude. Heck, even DAP was surprised at its own sweet and juicy victory. On the other hand, PR didn’t expect its supposedly tsunami lacked a comprehensive Malay participation.  

As much as the newly crowned PM Najib Razak conveniently blames his poorer performance (BN scored 140 parliamentary seats in 2008) on Chinese alone, the fact is this war is between the urbanites and ruralites. That was why PR managed to tighten its grips on two of the most developed states – Penang and Selangor. If that was not enough to convince you, the fact that PR via its DAP partner successfully secured about one-third (18 out of 56) of Johor state seats, the third most developed state, shows that urbanites are ever ready for a change in government. Chinese voters alone, without Malay votes will not be enough to win 89 parliamentary seats.

If PM Najib is sincere about his 1Malaysia transformation and smart about surviving the next general election, he should start building a foundation that is fair to all Malaysians regardless of their race. Racial politics doesn’t work as can be seen by the defeat of his two endorsed racist candidates – Ibrahim Ali and Zulkifli Nordin. Religion politics also doesn’t work as can be seen by Islamic hudud scare tactic carried out excessively by MCA on the Chinese. Considering below figures and the fact that BN lost the popular votes (46.96% votes) as compared to PR (50.48% votes), PM Najib has more reasons to be super cautious in his next policies.

Assuming PM Najib survives his next UMNO party election, he has to deliver all his manifesto’s promises. On top of that, he has to pray there won’t be any similar CowGate scandal to be capitalized by the opposition PR. As a matter of fact, Najib’s future doesn’t looks bright considering his coalition actually lost a whopping 69 state seats nationwide (secured 275 compared to 2008′s 344 seats). If there’s a single reason Mahathir decides to allow Najib keeps his premiership, that reason is none other than Najib’s own popularity that surpasses UMNO. And Najib’s own popularity was primarily due to cash giveaway in the form of BR1M.

Like it or not, BN’s overall poorer performance despite tens of billions of dollars spent shows something is not right somewhere. This general election results also show that BN’s business model of outsourcing its dirty job in playing racial and religion cards to Utusan Malaysia, Perkasa and former premier Mahathir didn’t work, well, at least not to the Chinese voters. It doesn’t matter if MCA or Gerakan were wiped out because to the Chinese, they can survive with or without those so-called Chinese representatives who were more interested in enriching themselves than anything else. Furthermore, PM Najib can always appoint Senators to paint a fake picture that BN is a coalition consists of a fair representatives from multi-racial composition.

What about PR? Is it game over after their fail attempt to wrest the throne from BN? Actually their supporters especially those who took the trouble to travel back from overseas to vote are now very demoralized. Considering this was their best bet and yet they couldn’t kick the corrupt BN government, they may not be optimistic about the overall plan in forming a new government after all. They’re too tired and disappointed about this “Ubah” thingy and may not be coming back again in the next 14th general election. There’s no doubt the Chinese did ran to the finishing line in style. But their Malay comrades were half-hearted about the race with probably half of them took part. The rest of them probably stayed back at home sleeping or gone out shopping.

Compared to 2008 general election, the Malay ruralites did not have the enthusiasms to punish BN regime, primarily due to BR1M. At the most, only the upper middle-class Malay joined their Chinese brothers and sisters in voting out BN, as can be seen in Selangor, Penang and Johor. Some could be frightened by the BN propaganda about Malay losing power. If that was the case, then PR’s PKR and PAS had done a lousy job in educating them since 2008. In short, PKR and PAS have themselves to blame for being complacent about their “invincible” seats won in 2008. PAS also deserves to lose Kedah for not taking immediate remedy despite its former Chief Minister Azizan’s incompetency.

If that was not enough to say about PSM, PAS and PKR’s arrogance and greed, they also lost Kota Damansara and Semenyih which otherwise could be won without 3-corner fights. Example: in Kota Damansara, BN candidate won the seat by garnering 16,387 votes. PSM chairman Nasir Hashim garnered 14,680 votes while PAS’ Ridzuan Ismail garnered 7,312 votes. Without PSM and PAS fighting each other, they would win the seat with a combined 21,992 votes. In Semenyih, BN won the seat by garnering 17,616 votes while PSM secretary general S Arutchelvan obtained 5,568 votes. PKR candidate Hamidi Hasan garnered 13,471 votes. Without PSM and PKR fighting each other, they could add another seat with the total 19,039 votes.

Kelantan, Kedah, Perak and Negeri Sembilan also saw a reduction in state seats won by PAS as compared to 2008. So, it wasn’t Chinese who rejects “Hudud”; instead it were Malays who doesn’t really fancy about PAS’s lethal weapon. At the parliamentary level, all BN, PAS and PKR performed poorly as compared to 2008 with DAP pocketed all their seats. However at the state level, all PAS, PKR and DAP scored better than BN this time. In case PR doesn’t realize the new opportunities given by Johoreans and Sabahans – they gained 12 and 10 new state seats respectively. Considering these are seats from BN’s fixed deposit, PR should start strategizing on how to defend and perform better come next general election.

Terengganu also presents a golden opportunity for PR to prove themselves. There’re tons of thing-to-do in these Terengganu, Sabah and Johor states. Fortunately PR controls Selangor and Penang. They should fully utilize riches from these two most developed states to help educate ruralites especially in Sabah and Sarawak. If they do nothing in educating and servicing state constituencies won in the next 5 years, they would be punished severely. You can bet your last dollar that BN will play the “Malay losing power” card again hence PR has five years to put the ruralites’ mindset on the right track – via constant education. They can start by telling how UMNO’s Utusan lies about Malay-vs-Chinese racial party system that the newspaper is playing now.

PM Najib Razak has two options on the table. He can firmly and sincerely implement policies that is truly 1Malaysia in order to neutralize PR’s strong grip on Chinese voters so that he can perform better in the next general election. Alternatively, he can continue with his previous good-cop-bad-cop drama by extending Perkasa and Mahathir’s contracts to spook the Malay ruralites. He can also continue to import foreign Bangladeshis, Nepalis, Indonesians and whatnot in huge numbers to vote for BN, and to take over the country. BN should use its new mandate wisely while PR should use the next five years to educate the ruralites. Of course, Bersih should continue to pressure Election Commission for a fair and clean election.

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Everyone knows caretaker PM Najib Razak’s coalition, BN (Barisan Nasional), is going to cheat in this 13th general election. There’re only two types of people who don’t think BN will cheat – the rural villagers whose best friend is government-controlled mainstream media and BN fans themselves. Former premier Mahathir had cheated his way for a rewarding 22-year-rule. Well, to be fair, it was both cheating and peoples’ stupidity that enabled Mahathir to be where he is today. If all his sons are already billionaires, you don’t need to be a genius to guess the 87-year-old’s personal fortune. And Najib is not going to play clean now that the people have awaken from their stupidity.

The BN’s fate relies solely on Election Commission at this crucial stage. On the other hand, its opponent PR (Pakatan Rakyat) depends entirely on the people. Election Commission is the real kingmaker and it will do anything at its disposal to ensure BN’s new term is renewed. Hence the plan to fly in more than 40,000 suspicious foreigners from Sabah and Sarawak via chartered flights. E-mails exposed how PMO (Prime Minister Office) requested for such huge “reinforcement” using 16 chartered flights from Malaysia Airline System (KLSE: MAS, stock-code 3786) and AirAsia Berhad’s (KLSE: AIRASIA, stock-code 5099).

Initially PMO denied the accusation that it was involved in flying in foreigners to the Peninsular Malaysia to vote in Sunday’s polls. Later, BN’s secretary-general Tengku Adnan admitted that such flights indeed happened to ferry voters. But he said such exercise was sponsored by BN “friends” so there was nothing wrong with it. I supposed when it involves such a massive logistic operation, it’s very hard to cover up. However, Tengku Adnan didn’t say if they’re flying in “legitimate voters” or otherwise. As suspicious as it looks, Election Commission  chairman Abdul Aziz said there is nothing wrong even with such transportation because there’s no indication that these foreigners are being asked to vote for a certain party.

Does he really think people are that naive? Right, PMO specifically asked for these 40,000 foreigners from Bangladesh, Nepal, Indonesia, Philippines and whatnot to be given free flight onboard Boeing 747, sponsored by BN friends, and in return vote for opposition? With such intelligence, I supposed your hamster can be the next Election Commission chairman too, no? They should cook up a more convincing excuse or story rather than such silly justification. What’s next – special police VVIP escort for these foreigners to the polling center to vote?

First, you have indelible ink which turns out to be delible after all. When caught red-handed, Election Commission gave an amazing excuse that it was due to inexperienced officers who didn’t “shake” the indelible ink hard enough, thus you can wash it away with ease. If that was not enough, the Election Commission decided to insult your intelligence that even though the ink is washable, you still can detect the remaining ink if you use magnifying glass (*gulp*). I suppose come May 5 polling day, election officers would be using magnifying glass or microscope to check your finger for traces of ink (*grin*). And now, you’ve generous BN tycoons sponsoring Bangladeshis, Indonesians, Filipinos, Nepalis for a “holiday trip” to polling centers – Cool !!!

Actually, Najib should be able to retain power in this general election, even with Lim Kit Siang’s onslaught in Johor. However his attempt in using ROS at eleventh hour before nomination day to send DAP into disarray by telling the party that its central executive committee (CEC) was not recognised, backfired badly. PR was smart to use the issue to gain sympathy, sending many angry fence sitters to the opposition camp. DAP on its own is not strong in Johor. Even PAS and PKR were finding it hard to penetrate the Johorean Malays. But capitalizing on ROS’s mistake, PR found its silver bullet – portraying BN as an evil big bully. The subsequent huge crowd attending PR ceramahs all over Johor and other states is sending shivers down Najib and Mahathir’s spine.

While PR is still not capable of capturing Johor state, the prospect of the opposition winning a damageable number of parliamentary seats is real. The psychological warfare is in PR’s favour. You can already see defeat in MCA and Gerakan’s faces. To say 80% of Chinese votes are now in the PR’s wallet is an understatement. Seriously, MCA could be wiped out entirely on the planet Earth. The Malay and Indian votes may not be sufficient to save them. Taking the average figures between PR and military intelligence report, PR could win up to 135 parliamentary seats. You may not realize this but Sabah and Sarawak are now an open battlefield without major help from BN.

BN assumes Sarawak can defend itself while Sabah would not have much problem due to multi-corner fights. But DAP has sent Superman Hew Kuan Yau into these states to create havocs especially in the Chinese predominantly area (*grin*). Depending on Najib and Mahathir alone to fight against PR’s batallion of speakers such as Anwar Ibrahim, Lim Kit Siang, Lim Guan Eng, Superman Hew, Nga Kor Ming, Nurul Izzah, Rafizi Ramli and whatnot is simply too overwhelming. Furthermore, too much of BN propoganda in the government-controlled mainstream media is overkill. PR’s ceramahs on the ground are more efficient because of the average Joe and Jane’s interaction. There’s no human touch by blasting BN’s propaganda over TV, radio or newspapers.

What else can Election Commission do to help BN, or rather UMNO? Dirty tricks are aplenty and there’re no ways PR or the people can stop them. For a start, ballot boxes could be diverted or exchanged particularly in area with infrastructure issue such as Sarawak whereby helicopter will be used. Spooky things do happen so temporary “power blackouts” may happen, with enough time for ballot boxes to “walk on its own” to the nearest Mamak store for teh tarik (*tongue-in-cheek*), and be replaced with unknown ballot boxes. If unofficial results seem to be not in favour of BN, there could be sudden new boxes on its way from rabbit holes.

If you still remember during the last 2008 general election, the then Election Commission chairman Abdul Rashid was visibly upset when he was bombarded by queries as to why he was dragging his feat in announcing the official results. Apparently he ran out of “extra free votes” to save BN’s butts. This time, Election Commission will not repeat the same mistake again. Thus, there would be tons of suspicious votes to go around. That’s why Election Commission warns people not to prejudge voters even though they look like Banglas, Nepalis or Syrians. That’s funny – since when Malaysia becomes United Nations?

The solution to minimize such cheating – go out crazily early in the morning with superb attendance on polling day. With great high turnout, the prospect of phantom voters showing up can be minimized. It would be interesting and fun to see if Election Commission will announce a turnover of above 100% (*grin*). Furthermore, there’s a possibility of two versions of ink being used – “indelible ink” for the average Joes and Janes and “delible ink” for phantom voters or postal voters. Heck, we still do not know if these Banglas have multiple Identification Cards to perform multiple votings. After your voting, you can stay back to learn a trick or two about “ghosts-hunting” – by PR’s ghostbuster team.

As we speak, there’re already confusions as some voters found their names missing from the Election Commission official website. Some speculate that last minute voters “movement” is still going on, either to frustrate voters into giving up voting or to create confusion during polling day in order to prevent high turnout so that postal votes can have greater impact on the final results. Either way, you should go out to check with your nearest PR (or BN) booth tomorrow as your name should be on the final list prior to this “now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t” trick.

Now, even if PR wins the election, can Election Commission announce that their alliance still can’t form the government because it consists of three separate entities and not a legally formed coalition like BN? So can Election Commission announce BN as the winner instead? Sure, you can argue till kingdom come from the legal perspective but the Election Commission can bulldoze everything and ask you to go to court if you wish to challenge its decision. Before you can blink your eyes, BN is already on its way to the palace to be sworn in. And we have not talk about roads to the palace being blocked and diverted elsewhere. The palace would be heavily fortified and guarded.

We may also see PR parliamentary winners “invited” by unknown forces to highly secured places, and suffocated with money to make them defect. This is where Anwar Ibrahim’s influence in the police and military force comes into play. Anwar knows what the BN will do in any eventualities. And BN knows Anwar knew what they would do. Gosh – this is so exciting and I can’t wait for the results on Sunday night (or rather early Monday morning). Election Commission asks everybody not to listen to unofficial results but their own official announcement. What if the unofficial results and Election Commission’s numbers differs in huge number?

Will PR takes to the street because of massive and blatant cheating, and in the process get arrested instantly in order for BN to be sworn in? If this is not bad enough, it seems Penang is having huge problem – underground betting with 1 for 100 in favour of Guan Eng’s defeat. This means if you bet RM1 you’ll win RM100 and if you bet RM100 you’ll win RM10,000 – if Lim Guan Eng lose. And considering Chinese loves gambling, well, go figure. Go get your popcorn and coke tomorrow.

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How I wish I’m the underground Godfather – my cash registers would be ringing with tons of betting money (*grin*). Going by the rate PR attracts massive crowds to the tune of thousands as compared to BN’s pathetic small numbers, one would conclude that there’s no reason why de-facto opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim cannot walk the corridors of power on May 6, 2013. However, if the number of banners and flags are of any indicator, BN is indeed in full throttle as compared to its 2008′s ill prepared machinery so caretaker PM Najib should have little problem going back to Seri Perdana again post May 5, 2013 polling date.

Sure, the mind-blowing flags and banners’ presence do not represent peoples’ support for Najib’s BN coalition. But it shows, at least on the surface, that there’s little internal sabotage within BN as compared to 2008 general election. And that’s good news to Najib but not so to the opposition PR. If that was not sufficient, this election also saw the return of once powerful veterans such as former premier Mahathir, former Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin and former deputy PM Musa Hitam campaigning for BN. Depending on how you translate their presence, it could mean that BN is sinking thus the needs to strengthen it by playing sentimental card specially with the rural elderly voters.

If yesterday’s estimated 50,000 to 60,000 overwhelming support from the crowd is any indicator endorsing PR’s continuous government for a second term in Penang, it shows no amount of free food, T-shirts, free gifts, lucky draws, entertainment and whatnot can swing Penangites back to BN. Ever since 2008 election, Penangites have embrace “take whatever given by BN but vote for PR” approach very well. It was indeed heart breaking to see BN dishing out money only to be donated back to PR, as can be seen during yesterday’s campaign which saw PR pocketed RM236,000 despite Penangites being made to stand under heavy rain. But that doesn’t mean PR can do better or retain the same number of seats it gotten in 2008.

PR is aiming for 12 parliamentary seats in Johor on top of a third from Sabah and Sarawak’s combination 56 parliamentary seats – an ambitious 33 parliamentary seats. On paper, the objective seems achievable judging by the massive estimated 20,000 crowds during Segamat’s recent “ceramah” in Johor. It seems Johoreans want to create their own version of Penang Han Chiang High School, which eventually wiped out BN’s grip on the island five years ago. But Johor is not Penang. Besides being birthplace of UMNO, the Malay Johoreans do not really share the same enthusiasm for “Change” as their Chinese Johoreans. Heck, it is easier to persuade Sabah’s Kadazans than to get Johor’s Malays to give PR an opportunity.

It was said that it’s really rare to see poor Malays in Johor state. Even if they have financial problem, they can always count on outgoing Chief Minister Abdul Ghani to spare some cash to help them. Abdul Ghani was considered their God of Prosperity so why should Malay Johoreans give their votes to PR? While Chinese Johoreans are ready for the wave, the 2013 tsunami will not happen without Malay Johoreans’ participation. That was why Mahathir is allowed to play racial card till kingdom come. When was the last time Mahathir took it so serious that he asked Johoreans to bury Lim Kit Siang once and for all – hmm, can’t remember in my lifetime.

Actually, Mahathir does not really have to be so “kan-cheong” (flustered) about Lim Kit Siang’s bombardment in Johor state. Thanks to Najib’s 1Malaysia products and its 24 hours a day advertisements in mainstream media, Mahathir can reduce his Korean ginseng consumption due to excessive campaigning on the ground. Did you realize that besides Najib and Mahathir, you seldom see any ceramahs by other BN candidates? That was because TVs and radios are being used to blast 1Malaysia propaganda 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. TV, radio and newspapers are doing BN’s ceramahs days and nights. Most importantly, BN candidates were not encouraged to ceramah to prevent them from making stupid mistakes.

BN strategy is on the right track – letting Najib and Mahathir do all the hard work parroting 1Malaysia products and scaring the shit out of rural Malays and Chinese about May 13, 1969 racial riots and Malays losing power. On the other hand, MCA should imitate it’s buddy MIC by being silent during this campaign period. Making silly stunts such as singing “Love is in the Air” as if they’re in a karaoke competition will only backfire badly, reducing its already small percentage of Chinese support. MCA should also stop its own 988 FM radio from asking (or rather “polling”) listeners about their like or dislike about BN-vs-PR campaign. If 988 FM radio is trying to get sampling on how to help BN tailor-make some goodies for the Chinese at the eleventh hour before polling date, they are wasting their time and may be shooting their own foot.  

Essentially someone will make mistakes. Chances are high that PR will make more mistakes judging by their repetitive childish argument about “hudud law” between DAP and PAS, even till today. Too bad ROS (Registrar of Societies) chicken out from enforcing its ban on DAP’s Rocket symbol usage. It would be fun to see if DAP could win big under PAS symbol or otherwise. The only thing that is making this round of election fun to watch is the unknown component – 2.4 million new young voters’ voting pattern. It’s not true that majority of young voters are pro-opposition. While it may be true that majority of young Chinese voters are pro-opposition namely Pakatan Rakyat (due to obvious sentiment), the same cannot be said about young Malay and Indian voters.

Based on our random sampling example, a young Malay who works as a cashier at a Giant supermarket was anxious to go back to Kuala Kangsar to vote for PR, but another young Malay graduate who works at a Jusco superstore as a salesperson selling cameras was adamant about voting for BN. In this case, while the cashier prefers PR because she wants a better life, the salesperson likes BN due to BR1M money giveaway. There’s no clear winner from this pool of new young Malay vote-bank. Do you know there are many Chinese who initially had decided to vote for PR, but are now making a U-turn simply because they received a letter from Najib asking them to vote for BN since they’ve accepted BR1M money?

If even young professionals are still terrified that their votes are traceable due to voting paper’s serial number, can you blame the illiterates and ignorant for hiding under their bed upon receiving such letter from the government asking them to vote for BN? To people who seldom receive government official letter, such letter could be intimidating and would have psychology impact. Recipients thought that it is a must to return the favour for BR1M cash received. Like it or not, BR1M is still the ultimate weapon that could give BN another 5-year of life. And vote buying is what BN does best over the decades hence it would be foolish for PR to underestimate the influence of money and start counting their chickens before they hatch.

Now that advance voters (some soldiers) revealed that the supposedly indeliable ink used on voter’s index finder is, well, REMOVABLE after all, what can PR do considering the Election Commission is beating around the bush and dragging its feats over the matter?  Now the people finally understand why Election Commission refused to do any demonstration to the public on the indeliable ink prior to the actual polling date. Even if Election Commission decides to admit a “wrongly purchase” ink error, it would be too late to re-purchase a new batch of indeliable ink again, considering polling date is about 4 days away. You may not like this but the actual Kingmakers is the Election Commission (*tongue-in-cheek*).

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Five years later today, her decision in choosing money over party’s struggles proves to be a fruitful one. Almost every Perakian was waiting for the right moment to teach her a lesson but unfortunately she wasn’t “winnable’ enough for caretaker PM Najib to nominate her again. Amusingly, frogs like Zulkifli Noordin and Ibrahim Ali would represent Najib’s BN to the 13th general election battlefield. If Hee Yit Foong didn’t take the RM25 million offer, she may not be a multimillionaire today and perhaps could be dropped by her party as a candidate as well. At least she can enjoy her dim sum now with her latest business acquisition – Ipoh’s famous Foh San Dim Sum Restaurant.

Ibrahim Ali, popularly known as Ibrahim Katak (Ibrahim the Frog), is perhaps the most successful political frogs to date in this country. He hopped happily from BN to Semangat 46 and later to PAS before becoming BN-friendly frog (though still under PAS ticket). It could be due to his magnificent happy-go-hopping talent which impressed former PM Mahathir, so much so that the former premier entrusted Ibrahim with Perkasa’s presidency. Just when everyone thought Ibrahim Ali could be sharing the same bench as Hee Yit Foong, the former suddenly sprang to life when he is set to represent BN against Kelantan Nik Aziz’s son in Pasir Mas. This brings the much sought after entertainment and excitement, without which this election would be too dry and boring.

If you think the previous 2008 Election was the Year of Frogs, wait till you see this year’s results. If 2013 is the Mother of Elections, this year will also known as Year of Mother Frogs simply because there would be hundreds of frogs hopping for fortunes. What do you think the record number of 270 independent candidates (79 for parliamentary and 191 for state seats) were doing? Surely they were not there to lose their deposit money. While some of them were merely paid and planted to spoil the votes, many of them were waiting to be instant millionaires. They hope to hit jackpot the same way Hee Yit Foong got her RM25 million five years ago.

2013 will also be known as the election year where the Chinese voters are spoil for free entertainment. Hoping to get Korean “Psy” (pronounced “Sai”) delivers some votes, Najib was humiliated with “Kanasai” instead. Caretaker PM Najib then arranged for Hong Kong stars such as George Lam, Leon Lai, Hacken Lee, Alan Tam, Grasshopper to capture Chinese hearts in Penang in another attempt to sway their votes. While local singer Eric Moo was criticized for his short speech that the coming elections are clean and fair, the latest speech by actress Michelle Yeoh urging people to vote for Najib was bombarded with heavy criticisms.

Short of calling Michelle Yeoh a slut and prostitute, some Facebook naughty comments dug the past and said if the international celebrity could let herself touched by former PM Abdullah Badawi, she could literally do anything for her own selfish monetary gain. Of course many said she was not fit to play the role as the Myanmar democracy figure Aung San Suu Kyi in the first place, since she supports the evil corrupt and brutal BN administration. Actually, Michelle Yeoh has her own right of which political party to support. After all, Malaysia is a democratic country so one should not force their own political belief into Michelle Yeoh’s throat.

One man’s meat is another man’s poison. PR supporters may think BN was poison that everybody should avoid at all cost. But to Bond girl Michelle Yeoh, BN could be her piggy bank and Najib her sugar daddy. Nevertheless, the moment Michelle Yeoh publicly praised Najib and “urged people” (during a freeflow of wine, dine and songs session) to vote caretaker prime minister, she crossed the line. People saw the actress as “campaigning” for the tainted Najib Razak and that triggered many people spamming her with criticisms. It’s one thing to support Najib Razak but another thing altogether to lobby by telling people publicly to vote for the caretaker prime minister.

The supposedly 5,500-table mega dinner sponsored by tycoons benefited from BN administration was held at PKFZ (Port Klang Free Zone), the same place that raised eyebrows due to its RM12 billion corruption scandal engineered by MCA, the same party that Michelle Yeoh’s father supports strongly. Her father Yeoh Kian Teik, a MCA politician himself, is also the owner of Sri Maju bus company. Some said Michelle Yeoh was returning favour to BN administration for not arresting her brother Bobby Yeoh Lam Jit over an alleged criminal breach of trust (CBT) case some years ago. Her brother, married with a son, once caught fondling 37F-cup actress Joey Choi Wai Man (nicknamed “Big Milk Cow”) in Hong Kong Central District.

Michelle Yeoh herself appears in local advertisement such as Anlene products. In Malaysia where BN controls all the media, it’s impossible for people like Michelle Yeoh to get any job unless she sucks up to the regime. Her husband, former Ferrari Formula-1 owner 66-year-old Frenchman Jean Todt, was appointed as Malaysia tourism ambassador with annual fees amounted to RM593,400 alone plus RM388,000 for the couple’s holidays in Malaysia. If that was not bad enough, taxpayers’ money of RM360,000 were spent on their flights excluding accomodation, travelling and lifestyle allowances. Michelle Yeoh and her husband were also speculated to have been given a piece of land in Pulau Besar, Terengganu by the BN regime.

Facebook fans accused Michelle Yeoh of knowing close to zero about the suffering of the average Joe and Jane under BN administration, since the international actress live a luxury life overseas and spend very little time in the country. Certainly she also knows nothing about the country’s RM500 billion debt, illegal foreigners, crimes rate and whatnot. Heck, if she really loves Najib that much and think the BN regime was the best invention since sliced bread, Michelle Yeoh should ask Najib to nominate her to stand at a parliamentary seat for the coming general election. Based on her popularity, she should have little problem winning a seat for Najib.

Like it or not, Michelle Yeoh doesn’t actually care, even if you scream till foam at mouth, about BN regime’s corruption and bad governance. She loves rubbing shoulder with politicians. She has tons of money, a “kwailo” sex partner and fame. For now, perhaps she hopes to get the next “Tan Sri” title and to help her family get new projects from BN regime. It’s definitely a small price to pay by sucking up to Najib Razak. Just like Jelapang millionaire Hee Yit Foong, you don’t have to be a genius to figure out money as the main motivation for Michelle Yeoh.

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Subsequently, ROS director-general Abdul Rahman Othman had personally met DAP Lim Guan Eng in his office in Penang on April 5. Abdul Rahman agreed to postpone the investigations due to the coming general election. A letter from ROS reached DAP’s table that an inquiry into the party’s election would be postponed until May 9 – just 4 days after the polling date. Amusingly, another letter (bombshell) arrived, barely 2 days before nomination day, telling DAP that its central executive committee (CEC) is not recognized. This latest letter states that while awaiting the resolution of the dispute, it does not recognize the present office-bearers who took up their posts on Dec 15, 2012.

But, how can the ROS concludes that DAP’s CEC cannot be recognized when the ongoing investigations was already postponed in the first place? Obviously DAP was deliberately punished before a proper hearing or investigation is complete. Did PM Najib’s cousin, Hishammuddin had a hand but screw up big time again, as usual, on this matter? If you can’t remember, Home Minister Hishammuddin was hopping with joy as if he hits a billion-dollar jackpot when he anxiously claimed DAP didn’t submit its election report in Feb, when in fact the party had already done so. So, did the genius Hishammuddin made another blunder this time by putting his muscles on ROS?

If even UMNO vice president and caretaker Defence Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi appeals to ROS to allow DAP to field its candidates, there seems to be political intervention in the whole ROS-DAP crisis. In what seems to be damage control by ROS and even Election Commission, they assure DAP that it can still use its “Rocket” symbol or logo to take part in the election. But by ruling that ROS does not recognize DAP’s current CEC, it also means the entire CEC members are invalid or illegal. It also means Lim Guan Eng, being the secretary-general of DAP cannot issue any authorization letter to DAP candidates during tomorrow’s nomination day since it can be challenged. In short, no DAP candidate can go to the 13th General Election battlefield.

Sure, Election Commission chairperson Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusoff has assured that DAP can still field their candidates as usual on nomination day. The problem – the Election Commission chairperson’s integrity is already tainted and his assurance should be taken with a pinch of salt. DAP’s emergency plan is to use its partners PAS and PKR symbols to ensure ROS would not drop any more new bombshells after the polling date, or even between nomination and polling date for that matter. Even if ROS was genuine in carrying its responsibility in investigating every single complaint received, the timing and the way it handles the matter raises eyebrows that it can’t blame the public for being suspicious and accusing it of being another tool of the caretaker government BN.

On the other hand, does BN actually think by suppressing and oppressing DAP in the eleventh hour before nomination day could actually increase the former’s chances in reducing the Chinese votes for the latter, assuming Hishammuddin was being naughty again? If today is 1988, the year (original) UMNO got itself de-registered and Mahathir formed UMNO (Baru) as its replacement, then no doubt this ROS move was a splendid tactical move to immobilize the Chinese popular DAP party. The old Chinese voters who do not know anything but the “Rocket” symbol in their whole life could be confused and may even vote for BN. It was a brilliant plan to borrow your enemies’ votes to strengthen your own armies.

Unfortunately, today is 2013 and DAP is not fighting a lone battle but with its comrade PAS and PKR. The first thing that (furious) Anwar said on stage last night during his “ceramah” was BN’s dirty tricks in refusing DAP’s usage of its traditional “Rocket” logo. He further told the audience that DAP can use PAS or PKR logo and symbols as and when their partner DAP requires it, and there were rounds of applause. If indeed it was someone within BN who architect the stunt, you can be sure that not every BN warlord agrees it would work. Well, at least caretaker Defence Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi knows that such plan could backfire badly on BN.

Now, assuming ROS does not retract the letter by 3pm today as the deadline set by DAP Lim Guan Eng and DAP decides to use PAS and PKR authorization letters, logos, symbols and whatnot in the election on 5-May-2013. There’s no doubt that DAP would lose considerable amount of Chinese votes, especially from the illiterate rural voters. But on the same note, the illiterate rural Malay could be equally confused, thinking they were voting for a PAS or PKR candidate. If the “confuse” Malay votes are more than enough to offset the “confuse” Chinese votes, then ROS’s latest stunt could be a blessing in disguise to the opposition.

The fact is it’s too risky for DAP to use its “Rocket” symbol at this point of time since Election Commission deputy Chairman once said the election regulator would cross check the names of candidates  running on the DAP ticket against the authorization letter issued by the party chief to ensure there is no hanky panky. Heck, considering BN may have more tricks up its sleeve, DAP may just go all the way contesting under PAS and PKR umbrellas. Thereafter Pakatan Rakyat can fully utilize the 2 weeks of campaign period going nationwide to introduce their “PAS” or “PKR” candidates while crying how they were robbed by the notorious and brutal BN.

Caretaker prime minister Najib may be surprised with the results on 5-May-2013′s night. If ABU (Anything But UMNO) was synonym with 2008 election, ABCD (Anything But Chap Dacing) could be the magic word synonym with 2013 general election. ROS may be the peoples’ saviour after all – by granting the little “push” which opposition needs badly to go to Putrajaya. The psychology and mental warfare is getting really interesting.

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Surprisingly, PBS won 25 seats, USNO 16 seats while Berjaya only had 6 seats in the 1985 state election. Due to communication breakdown (there was only land phones and not cellphones back then), USNO couldn’t contact PBS and out of panic (and greed?), USNO did the unthinkable – they called Berjaya (under leadership of Harris Salleh) to form a new coalition and government instantly, trying to make use of a feature (or rather loophole) in the Sabah Legislature whereby the Governor can grant another additional 6 seats to USNO-Berjaya, thus making them commanding 28 seats compared to PBS’s 25. USNO believed PBS had betrayed them, or was it not?

Pairin thought everything was already cast in stone that he was about to become the next Chief Minister. He didn’t realize his partner USNO had defected and was about to form a new Sabah government anytime soon. Only after his men notified him that there was a huge gathering at the Palace did Pairin realized how serious the matter was. Tun Mustapha was sworn in at 4am after he was rushed to the Palace, but was removed the same day due to legality issue and Pairin was sworn in as the rightful Sabah Chief Minister at 8pm the same night. And so Pairin believed the coup or crisis was over, or so he thought.

Tun Mustapha then filed an injunction against the State Governor. Fish bombs started to go off from May 29, 1985 in Kota Kinabalu. Tun Mustapha, being a Muslim Bajau-Suluk himself, had actually opened the floodgate for Filipino refugees into the state when he served as Chief Minister from 1967 to 1975. Indebted to Tun Mustapha, these foreign illegals were given food and money to demonstrate under his instruction, without really knowing what they were doing. Rumours that PBS politicians were about to quit the party spread. Pairin arrogantly rubbished the rumours when asked by journalists during his Rulers’ Conference attendance.

One day later on Feb 24, 1986, six PBS assemblymen quit the party. Although PBS managed to convince some frogs not to jump, the party was in a shaky position as other frogs could jump at anytime. Pairin announced the dissolution of the state assembly. Abdul Salleh Ghapur filed a writ seeking to declare the the dissolution was null and void. Amusingly, Election Commission said it couldn’t proceed with a new election due to lack of fund (*grin*). On Mar 12, 1986, about 2,000 USNO supporters, mostly illegal Filipinos, gathered in front of the Kota Kinabalu High Court awaiting the verdict. The first bomb went off at 8:45am and subsequently another six such explosions shocked the public. The panic and mini riot started.

USNO and Berjaya appealed to Prime Minister Mahathir to intervene. The next morning, Muslim found State Mosque vandalized with crosses. Over 1,000 Muslims gathered at the State Mosque to protest and accuse PBS of violating their mosque. Nobody believed the culprit was PBS but USNO nevertheless blamed PBS as anti-Islam. On Mar 17, 1986, the Kota Kinabalu High Court rejected Ghapur’s application. As a result, thousands more USNO supporters took to the street with more bombs rocking the city. Fierce confrontation between USNO supporters and police occurred and more cars and warehouses were set on fire.

Finally, Mahathir arrived in Sabah as if he was a hero – offering a “peace formula” with an ultimatum to PBS to share power with USNO and Berjaya. Either PBS accept the proposal or risk federal emergency rule. USNO and Berjaya, of course, were delighted with the power-sharing formula. PBS was unhappy with the condition set by Mahathir that amongst other stated no new fresh election is allowed. PBS used delay tactic in signing the peace formula. They launched a signature campaign to reject Mahathir’s lopsided peace proposal. Pairin even faked his sickness to delay the signing agreement. Needless to say, Mahathir was furious that Pairin dared to embarrass him. Fortunately, the Federal Attorney General Abu Talib managed to talk sense and convinced Mahathir that a fresh election was mandatory.

Pairin outmatched PM Mahathir again when he adopted anti-Federal Government strategy – labeling USNO and Berjaya as pro-Federal Government. As a matter of fact, Pairin even announced PBS decision to withdraw from joining Barisan Nasional on Apr 9, 1986 to fish for local Sabah support. PBS won the 1986 state election with a staggering 34 out of 48 Assembly seats. PBS joined Barisan Nasional after its second victory. In 1990, PBS called for the state election but not before it pulled out of the coalition. This time it won 36 seats. Pairin Kitingan, the “Huguan Siou” or paramount chief of the Kadazandusun Murut community, sworn in as Sabah Chief Minister for the third successive times.

In Feb 1994, PBS called for the state election with huge phantom voters stacked against it. Still, PBS managed to win for the fourth consecutive time but with a reduced majority – 25 seats against Barisan Nasional’s 23 seats. However Pairin Kitingan’s luck ran out this time when he was not only made to wait for 36 hours outside the Palace before he was sworn in, he was also forced to resign on Mar 17, 1994 due to defections (engineered by Mahathir) from his own party’s Assemblymen to Barisan Nasional. It was a sweet revenge on Pairin for publicly humiliated Mahathir earlier. The “Huguan Siou” applied and re-admitted into Barisan Nasional in 2002. And the rest is history.

Now, do you understand why the Sabahan will always be suspicious of Peninsular Malaysia (and vice versa) be it the ruling government or opposition parties? In fact, PBS can never reclaim its former glory ever since Mahathir broke the party into smaller breakaways in the form of SAPP (Sabah Progressive People’s Party), PBRS (Parti Bersatu Rakyat Sabah), UPKO (United PasokMomogun KadazanDusunMurut Organisation) and whatnot through divide-and-rule strategy. And now you have Jeffery Kitingan, Pairin’s own brother, declaring its baby STAR (State Reform Party) has the magic wand to win the coming general election.

Pairin Kitingan was perhaps the only Sabah leader who had the ability to rule Sabah while showing his middle finger to the Federal Government. But the good day is gone for good. Actually, PBS could give Mahathir a run for his money if Pairin wishes to, but he chose to submit to Mahathir post 1994′s defeat. However he was not willing to be a true opposition leader like DAP Lim Kit Siang or PAS Nik Aziz. Pairin may be the smartest politician Sabah have ever had but he was definitely not a Sabah hero. Heck, he may be the only Sabah leader who managed to outfox and humiliate Malaysia PM Mahathir. But he chose to sleep with the corrupted Barisan Nasional. He has since remains an obedient follower within Barisan Nasional coalition.

It’s laughable to hear Pairin and his brother Jeffery Kitingan screamed and cried till their face turn blue that Sabah is for Sabahan. It was his own PBS Assemblymen (read: Sabahan) who betrayed the party and Sabahan when money was dished by the Federal Government. Perhaps Jeffery couldn’t remember this due to his frequent party hopping, but if he can even betrayed his own brother by defecting from PBS in 1994, nobody in their right mind can believe him. He literally begged to be admitted into Barisan Nasional in 2003 but was ignored. Jeffrey has hopped 6 times and if Perkasa Ibrahim Ali is a frog, then Jeffrey is the King of Frogs (*tongue-in-cheek*). If you can trust Jeffrey, then you should believe Rosmah is still a virgin.

On the other hand, you have SAPP’s Yong Teck Lee who is as ambitious as Jeffrey to become Sabah Chief Minister. After served for two years as Sabah Chief Minister (1996 – 1998), courtesy of Mahathir, this Sabah Chief Minister wannabe must be dead hungry for the same position again. In actual fact, Yong still loves Barisan Nasional and would like to sleep and have orgasm again with the federal coalition. It was pure sulking about his unhappiness with former PM Abdullah Badawi that made him pull SAPP out from BN. And he has the cheek to demand for all Sabah state seats while offering parliamentary seats to Pakatan Rakyat in the name of Sabah autonomy.

The fact is SAPP or STAR alone cannot form the next Sabah government. If that is not enough, SAPP and STAR, both being Sabah parties couldn’t even work together to kick BN out of the state since both leaders Jeffrey Kitingan and Yong Teck Lee want to become the Chief Minister. Sabah for Sabahan my foot. They couldn’t repeat what Pairin managed to do in 1986. On the same note, Pakatan Rakyat cannot capture Sabah on its alone either. They have to work together, something which is near to impossible considering the greediness and selfishness on the table. But the major problem in the PR-SAPP-STAR partnership is “Trust”.

When even the cat on the street can tell you that Jeffrey or Yong could defect to BN after the general election, can you blame PR to try their luck by going alone on May 5, 2013 election? The solution – PBS to pull out from BN and join force with PR, which is highly unlikely considering the comfortable life Pairin is enjoying now. With a PBS-PR coalition, SAPP and STAR will naturally join the new coalition to fight against BN. It would be fun to see PBS pull up another stunt similar to 1990 – a final stunt on Mahathir’s face. Nevertheless, that could be just a wishful thinking.

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Nevertheless, it’s always good for the voters, especially those fence sitters to ponder on this simple yet sophisticated but important gospel (*grin*), so here goes. Government of the people simply means the government officials (222 Member of Parliaments and 505 State Assemblypersons) elected by the people via election voting process. For simplicity, they are all People’s Representative because it was the people who actually voted them in the first place. But due to some exotic reasons people were reluctant to change non-performing representatives. Over a period of time, these government officials became arrogant, corrupt and whatnot. To stay in power, these peoples’ representatives often use print and electronic media to plant their propaganda into the voters’ mind (brainwashing) or use money to buy over the peoples’ heart.

Government by the people means people are the ones who actually make the decision on who to elect to represent them. In the context of the coming 13th general election, people are the ones who are going to vote for their state and parliamentary representatives. They’re actually peoples’ representative, mind you. Ultimately, how the next government is going to run and shape the country in the next 5 years depends on your vote. For example, if you want a government who will give you RM1,200 BR1M every year, vote for Barisan Nasional (BN) but if you want a government who will abolish car excise duties, vote for Pakatan Rakyat.

Government for the people, meanwhile means the government elected is for the people. A government that is for the people will do things that are beneficial to the people rather than just those things that are good for those in power. In a nutshell, a true government that is for the people will provide, at least, basic necessities such as road, clean water, electricity, home, healthcare, sanitation and education – without costing you a leg and an arm. Of course this is not always true especially in the case of a corrupt government. In such situation, then a change of government is required and necessary. So, before you cast your vote, you’ve to ask yourself whether the present (caretaker) government was a government for the people.

There was a serious misconception amongst Malaysians due to colonial and feudal mindset that the (caretaker) BN government cannot and should not be changed. BN was perceived to be the supreme and ultimate protector of this country. To change BN would be considered a betrayal and the God may send thunder, lightning and earthquakes as punishments (*tongue-in-cheek*), literally speaking. In fact, you still can find such people in abundance today if you care to chat with them. The amazing fact is such people can be either urbanites or ruralites, regardless of their race. They only varies in terms of percentage composition.

When I was a kid, I used to follow my father to political party’s campaign. Actually it was more like a place for free food and drink to me. Besides free food, I was also attracted to storytelling sessions by politicians or politicians wannabe. Really, it was more like small kids crying over spilled milk. They would argue till cows come home about which was a better party and always used newspaper cutting as the jury to win their case. Amusingly, most of the time their conversation would ended with a conclusion that opposition parties cannot rule simply because they were inexperienced thus can’t see what they had done to bring in development.

After some years, out of curiosity I asked some of these genius Uncles and Pakciks why didn’t people vote for opposition to govern a developed city or state such as Kuala Lumpur (FT) or Penang as a testing bed. Since the ruling government BN can’t possibly stop development in these areas overnight, what harm would it do to elect the opposition for once. I justified that if they weren’t given a chance to govern, how can they show what they can or cannot do? Why can’t the opposition be given one single term to prove their claims? It was not like asking to give away the federal government (back then) but merely an opportunity to govern a small state. They kept quiet and couldn’t answer my simple curiosity.

My theory was if hundreds of millions or billions of dollars have been poured into such cities’ development over decades, what were the chances the ruling regime (BN) would stop develop but instead dismantle all the skyscrapers, if the opposition was voted into power? Fast forward 2008 post general election. The opposition parties captured Penang and Selangor. Except for federal government’s attempt in sabotaging local governments, Penang and Selangor states do not see outflows of investment nor collapses in any financial institution. If only people could realize earlier that even by electing opposition parties, BN government cannot shift or move infrastructures and buildings away, physically speaking, as if they were playing Lego or SimCity, billions of dollars could be saved from going into corrupt politicians’ pocket.

Now that the opposition has proven itself in managing two of the most developed states (Penang and Selangor), there are new doubts about its capability in managing the country. Malaysians, regardless of race, are too sentimental to BN government so much so they became too stupid or ignorant to see that BN is not a “Government for the people” anymore. They didn’t even realized that without a strong opposition (Pakatan Rakyat), they would not have enjoy BR1M, let alone a (temporary) freeze in toll or fuel hike as compared to pre-2008 election. If BN performs better than 2008′s result after polling date on this coming 5-May, people cannot blame a corrupt BN government but themselves because it was a “Government by the people”. You chose BN, BN didn’t choose itself.

Sure, you may bitch about gerrymandering, cheating, bribing and whatnot but if over 70% of 13.3 million peoples’ vote goes into opposition camp, BN would not have sufficient free postal votes nor phantom voters to help them. Realistically speaking, 70% of popular votes for the opposition is still not possible at this stage simply because Malaysians do not want a “Government for the people” hard enough. If they want something strong enough and believe a new government change is better than multiple orgasms, they can actually end the 56 years of BN’s UMNO colonization.

There’re people who can’t sacrifice their companies’ trip due to polling date clashes. There’re people who think their single vote will not make any difference so why bother. There’re people who think it doesn’t worth the flight ticket just to cast their vote. There’re people who think Najib and UMNO were sincere about the innovative 1Malaysia slogan. There’re people who like BN because PR would make them lose their car’s second hand resell value. There’re people who scare of losing business because their existing deals were secured via bribery. There’re people who assume PR will be as corrupt as BN so why waste a good weekend sleep. There’re people who are still scare of hudud law if PR is voted to power.

Heck, there’re simply millions of excuses not to choose a new Government of the People, by the People, for the People. Actually, this coming 13th general election is the best opportunity for a government change. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity because the opposition is at its peak while the caretaker government is at its lowest point. If Pakatan Rakyat fails to wrest the federal government this round, Barisan Nasional will emerge stronger come next 14th general election. By then, opposition supporters would not have such a strong enthusiasm for a change. They would think it’s impossible to defeat the giant BN so the whole cycle will continue and BN will rule for at least another 50 years, just like how the stock market bull and bear cycle behaves. It’s now or never. The choice is yours.

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