I’ve not written for over a month now, and I must confess that my absence has been in part due to some personal issues. The main reason, however, is my utter and complete disappointment with Pakatan Rakyat’s promise for change on 16th September 2008, and Anwar Ibrahim’s later admission that the change of government would now be difficult.
...ContinueNo joy on September 16th, and we are left with a wreckage on our hands: a demoralized, dispirited government and loyalty in tatters. Two innocent people locked up for stupid, mysterious crimes without the opportunity to defend themselves. And the country in standstill, waiting for Anwar to do something.
Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim, you h ...Continue
They’ve already turned RPK, Teresa Kok and Tan Hoon Cheng into matyrs and national heroes for those who believe that BN’s days are due. I wasn’t watching Anwar Ibrahim’s speech on the net and other places this evening, so I don’t know what he’s said. I don’t want to know, really, because I don’t wan ...Continue
The fact of the matter is, there will be no better way to shame Anwar Ibrahim than to beat him in his traditional stronghold. It’s better than resorting to the tainted claim of sodomy, which - it has become clear - people don’t believe anyway. The problem for BN, I suppose, is the fact that no one will believe that they won fairly if they wre ...Continue
It was about race, not religion.
That much was clear from the insults hurled at participants during the open forum on the “Conversion to Islam”. For the religion to have been hijacked is pretty sad, but that’s what you get in communitarian Malaysia, especially when the idea of race is so inextricably entwined with being Mu ...Continue