GE13, a battle royale between Dr M and PR

Nobody seems to be able to tell the Tun to talk sense. Nobody seems to be able to tell him to measure up to universal standards of Statesmanship.

Nobody seems to be able to take appropriate action against the Tun for his unending statements – in print and speech and even through his actions and inactions hinge on sensitivities that threaten the fragile fabric of this multi-cultural and multi-religious nation of people.

Why?

Up to Dr M who becomes PM

Even when he threatened the current PM with a chilling statement, “..if he does not do well, of course his position will not be stable”, there was no protest – not even a whisper, from the PM and all those who have been throwing their weight behind Najib.

The entire UMNO band-wagon, including the patriotic MIC and MCA stood in silence or chose to be blind and deaf when the Tun blatantly and shamelessly stated, “I don’t have a candidate in mind”, in response to a question of who does he think would be the next PM replacing Najib.

He riddles the socio-political landscape with a barrage of race-based and religiously divisive statements and yet nobody can call the shots within the confines of the laws of this country.

The powers that be continue to facilitate and accommodate his apperances on public platforms that threaten to rig the rakyat’s aspirations for a united Malaysia based on democratic principles and not the Tun’s version of ‘managed (rather manipulated) democracy that splits humanity along color and creed yardsticks.

Nobody takes action.

Jail not pedestal!

Meanwhile the media puts him on a pedestal blaring his divisive statements without shame or reservations.

This is the man who systematically annihilated all his deputies. None of them – Musa Hitam, Tengku Razaleigh, Ghafar Baba, Anwar Ibrahim, Badawie and now Najib – are any good to fit the bill of PM as per the measured cutting of this Tun.

One man decides for 28 million people’s destiny. That is what it translates to.

Yet we all are apparently incapacitated. It appears that we just can only wait on the wayside and gape at the situation as the Tun continues with his barrage after barrage of attacks shredding the sentiments of caring Malaysians without any cares.

How come he seems to get away with all these horrendous statements and mind-shattering claims? Mind you, the Tun is a retired politician. He is an EX-prime minister. He is not in office. He is only an UMNO member and that too he resigned and came back again.

The only comfort seems to be in the hope that come GE-13, the rakyat will vote decisively that will put an end to the Tun’s seemingly diabolic predictions and divisive stances.

Is that all we are left with?

Then it is indeed a sad day for all the institutions of Malaysia that proclaim and pledge to safeguard, strengthen and uphold democracy, ethics, law, order, justice, transparency and accountability in, for and with the nation.

Absolute power unto himself

The Tun has indeed made himself not only as the absolute power, but is increasingly being made out to be the credo for Malaysia – the sole decision maker, the most precious advisor, the ultimate and only capable leader and the most endowed solution-provider of Malaysia.

He is definitely seen as being well above the law as everything that he says and means is swallowed without protest.

Nobody within the institutions of governance and even within political barricades is able to deal with this once-upon-a-time prime minister decisively, objectively and substantially.

UMNO leaders and followers should be ashamed that they are made helpless as the Tun shames them by removing and or threatening to remove the very leaders they put on the chair of prime minister.

Indeed it is death of democratic Malaysia to let the Tun continue to be the architect, maestro and choreographer of the socio-political, socio-economic and socio-religious topography of future Malaysia.

MAILBAG