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It’s very disturbing news.

I won’t write long on this now, but I’m inclined to agree with those who counsel caution and restraint in our indignance at this matter – clearly there is the stink of a trap in this whole matter.

Someone commented: they tried to instigate the Chinese and failed, now trying the Indians.

Who’s they? Oh I don’t know, maybe those who have an interest in keeping Malaysia racially segregated? Maybe those interested in creating chaos in Selangor.

And indeed this mob had the look of an incited one. One that had the time and money to plan and spend on banners and the like.

I am inclined to either suspect engineering from higher sources, or dismiss as truly fringe elements.

I have perfect faith in the fact that the last thing any good Muslim would do after Friday prayers in the holiest of months is to behead a cow, drag it from the mosque, and then defile it in an expression of hate and intolerance.

All this for a *proposed* temple? I think men of good faith would sit and negotiate. Men who are doing the work of other hateful people though………

Anyway. I have long, long stressed that in when a Malay is wronged, it is best for non-Malays to champion the cause. The converse is true here. Let us not vent anger, but seek solutions, and work to uncover evil.

I don’t follow MCA politics closely. Not so much because it’s generally boring (oh, and it is), but because I find it largely irrelevant.

Seeing that I’m up at this hour though, it’s a good a subject as any to blog about. One of my favourite parts of Chua Soi Lek’s sacking:

At a press conference at 12.15am at the party headquarters, MCA president Ong Tee Keat announced that the presidential council had endorsed the recommendation of the party’s disciplinary committee to sack Chua over the matter.

“We did so with a heavy heart after giving much consideration to the damage inflicted upon the party image, brought about by the sex scandal featured in the DVD.

“This decision has been made in the best interest of the party,” said Ong, reading from a prepared text after a marathon five-hour meeting.

O_o yeah? Well I’m no big fan of Chua Soi Lek, but it looks like the decision was made more in the best interest of Ong Tee Keat.

The sex scandal featured in the DVD inflicted heavy damage on the party image?

Laughable.

MCA’s party image has been damaged by decades of irrelevance, not a sex scandal. It is damaged by being Umno lapdogs for all this time, and by being ethnocentric in an age where no one else in the world would so blatantly organise politics along racial lines.

Our friend Ong seems to be embattled on quite a few fronts here I see. And what next for Chua Soi Lek? Who knows. But I wouldn’t appeal the decision if I were him.

I will agree with him on this point though – the presidential council certainly seems to be ignoring the democratic wishes of their own party members. If the majority truly believed Chua had done such intense damage to the party, there’s no chance in hell he would’ve won the Deputy Presidency.

On that note, you reckon if an election were held in Pandan today, Ong Tee Keat would retain his seat? I’m not so very sure.

Ah well. I’m not ignorant to our own problems. Check out Zul Nordin :P Sigh, if still want to talk about Malay unity (which I fully support, in tandem with Malaysian unity – against corruption and racism), you knowla which party you should leave PKR to join.

I was once told that one good thing about keeping the Zul Nordin thing under wraps is that forcing the issue may bring all sorts of extremists out of the woodwork.

Well, I concur that there is no reason to have religious et al debates that create division unnecessarily; that said, I agree with Haris that Zul is now clearly showing no regard for the party leadership, and espousing political (and not by any stretch of the imagination, religious) principles that go against the core of what PKR stands for.

Belated congratulations to the newly minted YB Haji Mohd. Salleh :)

I’m quite happy with the results. 900 loss of majority ain’t great, but people do swing back and forth a bit. Given that there are over 20,000 voters, and that Pakatan got almost twice the amount of votes BN did, I’d say we did ok.

Congratulations and heartfelt thanks to each and every individual who made this victory possible :)

All that said, it remains that Pakatan has a *lot* of work ahead. Let’s stay focused, and try to put our house in order.

Speaking of lotsa work, I too have a few things to attend to, but will try not to neglect the blog!

Let me start by admitting, it’s embarrassing having all these PKR representatives being such sell-outs. We aren’t the only ones, but each one is a shame.

I do remember though, what it was like in those days nearing the election. How hard it was to find good people to run. How no less than 3 of my office mates – Nik Nazmi, Sim Tze Tsin, and Nurul Izzah had to become candidates (and all won! :D don’t worry, I have faith not a single one will defect).

It was hard back then. Nobody wanted to be on the losing side, risking permanent blacklisting of some sort by going against the BN leviathan. I guess this partly explains the kind of substandard behaviour we’re seeing.

What’s going on in the bigger picture? Muhyiddin:

Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said there is a possibility that more elected representatives from PKR will leave the party as they have lost confidence in the struggles of their leader.

Well, isn’t that an interesting insight. This wouldn’t happen to be because you’re actively pursuing such possibilities using carrots and sticks would it?

I think we’re looking at a real onslaught here.

I’m thinking these BN flers have the gall to think that Perak was a ‘success,’ and now everyone wants a piece of this crossover pie.

Oh, and what’s this?

In an immediate reaction, PKR leaders said that Radzhi’s resignation could be triggered by a Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission investigation into his tourism portfolio.

Granted, there doesn’t seem to be verification of this yet, but if it’s true – MACC is involved again? Really? You don’t say :|

Najib’s ridiculous denials aside, I completely disbelieve that BN had nothing to do with engineering this crossover. I think there are more storms ahead.

Although there aren’t as many as we’d like sometimes though, I still think there are enough good people of integrity in Pakatan to weather those storms.

And to old man Radzhi, good riddance. Bertaubatlah, dalam bulan suci ini.

pre-script: I have no idea who torched the MACC premises in Klang, but whoever did it was evil and clearly misguided. Violence is never the answer!

Goodness. Pretty explosive stuff.

So, caveats: I don’t know how authentic the letter is, and I generally put less faith in unsigned documents.

So the rest of this post proceeds with a gigantic IF. IF the things said in the letter are true:

Well, it seems to me consistent with a lot of facts. There has long been talk of a a concerted campaign to destabilise Pakatan state governments.

We’ve seen clearly how the ACA/MACC started the trouble in Perak (our two friends who were in such hot soup before now appear to be completely innocent, conveniently), and the type of disproportionate intimidation the Selangor government has faced from the MACC would fit all the facts.

IF the contents of the letter regarding Khir Toyo are true, it’d hardly be surprising. He is after all, a politician with nothing on his hands but free time, a humiliating defeat, and promises that the Selangor government will fall by September.

There’s a lot of spicy stuff in there (khalwat and all), but those aren’t the core issues.

IF the letter and its contents are authentic (and I’ll admit for now it’s a sizeable IF), then there are immensely genuine concerns about:

- the fact that this Hishammudin Hashim guy is running every Selangor probe, but doesn’t want to be tied to any of the cases?

- what’s up with this strange refusal to give a sample of his DNA in public?

- wiping off fingerprints??

- his meteoric rise through the civil service ranks

- his involvement (or ‘lack’ thereof) in investigations into Khir Toyo

- these strange assets he owns that he probably shouldn’t be able to afford

Too many questions, not enough answers.

So, doesn’t look like there’s much info on this fellow Hishammudin. But if anyone has any insight, we’re all ears.

Let’s stay vigilant on this one – could be a really important piece in the puzzle.