Anwar Will Not Berundur Lah - So Reformasi Or Diktatorship ?

First lets look at the news. My comments follow.

1. Sabah DAP wants Brader Anwar Out

• KK : Pakatan Harapan semakin bergolak 
• pemimpin pembangkang lantang gesa Anwar berundur 

Ketua Pemuda DAP Sabah, Phoong kata Anwar gagal menunaikan janji 
menjejaskan kredibiliti PH
janji Anwar untuk majoriti kuat tidak berhasil
Janji (Anwar) tidak menjadi 
kerjasama dengan UMNO juga disangsi ramai 
ramai dukacita kegagalan Anwar menolak Belanjawan 2021 
Semua ini menghakis keyakinan rakyat terhadap PH

• Ketua Pembangkang diejek kerana tidak menunaikan janji
• Phoong berkata PH akan kehilangan sokongan
• Pemimpin baharu, dasar baharu, pemikiran baharu (diperlukan)
• presiden Upko Wilfred Tangau minta Anwar hentikan “politik nombor”
• Guan Eng, Mat Sabu gesa Anwar henti buang masa dengan PN 
• yang memperalatkan mereka
• PH perlu anjakan politik baru, susulan kegagalan halang belanjawan 

Shafie Apdal tegaskan pembangkang perlu perubahan kepimpinan 
jika tidak mahu kewibawaan terjejas di kalangan rakyat

2.  Shafie Apdal wants Brader Anwar Out

fall out between PH and Warisan 
things are rocky after Shafie’s call for change of leadership 
opposition parties are in disarray
Warisan could be looking at other partners at federal level 
opportunities abound to find new political coalitions
Shafie claimed opposition would fail in GE15 
if same old leaders helm opposition
current leaders disunited and had no direction
PKR and Warisan on collision course 
absence of Warisan MPs from budget votes 
Warisan acknowledged absence of MPs show displeasure with Anwar

3.  DAP turns against Brader Anwar

KK : Sabah DAP assemblyman rocked PH boat even further
calling for new opposition leader to replace Anwar Ibrahim
days after Shafie Apdal made similar call
Phoong noted Anwar did not deliver claim of having numbers 
many questioned and poked fun at PH’s credibility

• so-called ‘strong, formidable and convincing’ majority did not turn up 
• building coalition with Umno doubted by many
• people's faith in PH faltering 
• opposition leader mocked as ‘the boy who cried wolf’
• PH will lose supporters 
• PH urgently needed political reset
• as stated by Guan Eng, Mat Sabu today

New leaders, new policies, new mindset, fresh team 
Upko president Wilfred Tangau told Anwar to give up “numbersd” politics 
PH must admit its strategic mistake recapturing power through defectors 
split PH even further
leaders fight over next prime minister before it is reality
voter thinks opposition lacks credibility
Unfortunately, we no longer see enthusiasm in opposition chief 

4.  Even PKR Sabah Having Doubts

Body language : Christina does not appear convinced

KK Anwar met Sabah party chief Christina Liew 
after Shafie Apdal called for change in opposition leadership
Shafie called for change across the board in opposition leadership
which he described as disunited and directionless
Liew said “foreseeable changes in political landscape in Malaysia”

My comments : 

First of all we see that those who can see the Brader is a dud are mostly the non Melayus. Especially the non Melayus from Sabah. DAP's Phoong, UPKO's Wilfred Tangau, Warisan's Shafie and Sabah PKR's Christina Liew. 

The Brader's bombastic choice of words 'formidable, convincing, super-cali-fragilistic-expialidocious"  majority of MPs etc was just so much bullshit. It was designed to impress the Semenanjung supporters who are somehow easier to 'con-vince'. 

But the Sabah folks seem to have a better set of otak on their shoulders and they are calling out the Brader's bullshit for what it really is.

DAP is also playing clever again. While DAP Semenanjung kept quiet, they got their Pemuda boy in Sabah to say that it is time for Brader Anwar to become an exhibit in the museum.  

CONCLUSION 1 : Folks, it is plain that Brader Anwar has long ago outlived his uselessness. 

CONCLUSION 2 : Folks, it is plain that Brader Anwar is NOT GOING TO STEP Out Of The Way or STEP DOWN as leader of the Opposition.  So if you want to see what a dictator may look like, pay close attention.  The dud is just NOT GOING to step down. You will have to call Ridpest or someone. 

QUESTION 1  :  So what the hell is the Pakatan Harapan going to do about it? Brader Anwar is not going to step down or step aside. So what is the Pakatan Harapan going to do?

Brader Anwar's Melayu supporters in the Semenanjung (like Otai Reformis) have also said they are fed up with Brader Anwar but usually they do not follow their words with actions.

The next elections must take place in 2023 - three years away.  The Pakatan Harapan will certainly get kicked out if they present Brader Anwar as their candidate for PM.

If the Pakatan Harapan waits until the last minute to find a new Prime Minister candidate, that will also be too late.  

So the Pakatan Harapan must make the changes now. 

The PH must find a new PM candidate now.  

May I humbly suggest Shafie Apdal?  

Shafie Apdal is a far better and far superior candidate to lead the Opposition.

Conclusion 3 : Brader Anwar is not going to step down or step aside. So to all you dunggus out there, how are you going to get rid of him?   

Breaking News - PH In Serious Political Crisis, Close To Breaking Up

OSTB :  The Pakatan Harapan is about to break up. 

Even if they do not break up two things are for certain :

1. The Brader's role as kepala of the pembangkang is over. As good as dead and gone. 
2. There is no more respect for PKR as top dog in the Opposition. 

Here is some news :

KL Dec 17 — Guan Eng, Mat Sabu said PH dont waste time on PN 
after failing to stop Budget time now for PH to face reality it needs reset
Tues disappointing for PH who hoped Budget would be defeated 
need for reset in course set by PH following passage of Budget 2021 
not a single PN backbencher voted with PH, including those who support Anwar 
Clearly these backbenchers playing games to gain maximum leverage 
backbenchers only using PH for own gain
must be political reset to focus on next general election

OSTB : Today (Thurs 17 Dec 2020) the PH was supposed to have an emergency meeting to discuss a "reset" for the Pakatan Harapan. The meeting was cancelled at the last minute. No prizes for guessing who cancelled the meeting.

Here is Malaysiakini's headline only :

OSTB :  The Pakatan Harapan (Mat Sabu, Guan Eng, DAP etc) are beginning to realise what I have known for 22 years - the Brader is a dud.

He is no leader. Not only has he failed to form any convincing and formidable majority to topple the government but in the process of making his bombastic claims he has made the entire Pakatan Harapan look like clowns and fools. Including Guan Eng and Mat Sabu. 

Gambar hiasan saja. Some resemblance to a Thai 
po_n actor doubling as a clown act

The writing on the wall is very clear -  the PH wants to appoint a NEW leader of the Opposition. It is obvious. They want a reset. 

Reset means they do not want the Brader as their leader anymore.   

• Guan Eng and Mat Sabu should just come out and say it point blank.  
• The question is if Mat Sabu and Guan Eng do not want Brader as the leader, will the PKR leave the Pakatan Harapan ?
• The answer is a straight NO. 
• If the PKR leaves the PH, where will the PKR go? 
• What can PKR do on their own? 
• Nothing.

So now is indeed the time for DAP and Amanah to put their foot down and insist that the Brader step down as the leader of the Opposition.

(I say DAP, Amanah and Pakatan Harapan people, think : so what are your choices? If the Brader remains as the leader of the Opposition, the Pakatan Harapan will become a worse laughing stock. You will lose all chances of winning the elections. Get rid of him now.)

Either appoint Dr Mahathir (and become the laughing stock again) or appoint someone else. There is another candidate but I reserve my comments on him - for now.

Guan Eng should not be elevated to leader of the Opposition because then it will become Melayu lawan Cina all over again.

The alternative is appoint Mat Sabu of Amanah as leader of the Opposition. Give him a shot. Abang Mat is a good story teller.  

The PKR should break up one more time. That may not happen at this point because all the "rebels" have left. There are no new 'rebel leaders' inside PKR to agitate for a break up.

In lieu of which the Pakatan Harapan should break up.

One more break up that is long overdue is UMNO. The party should break up - unless those three stumbling blocks are put away in jail. In which case the party may remain intact. 

Back to the Pakatan Harapan, the sooner they get rid of the Brader the faster they can reorganise and move forward.  

Asal Usul Perkataan Lebai

Suatu ketika dulu saya pernah berbincang dengan seorang professor sejarah di Universiti Malaya yang bertanya berkenaan perkatan 'lebai' (Pak Lebai dsbnya).

Walaupun perkataan 'lebai' dan 'pak lebai' dikenali dan difahami oleh orang Melayu dan bahasa Melayu tetapi sahabat saya professor itu berkata asal usul 'lebai' tidak terjumpa dalam bahasa Melayu.

Maka saya pun jawab  bahawa lebai itu diambil daripada perkataan Tamil 'leb-bai' atau 'lab-bay' atau pun le-vey.  Yang berikut adalah sedikit research Wikipedia berkenaan Leb-bai atau Labbay di Tamil Nadu, India.  

Labbay, Leb-bai (Labbai, Lebbay, Lebbai), is an Islamic community in southern India found throughout the southern Indian states including Tamil Nadu.

Labbays are said to have descended from traders who originated in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Peninsula through mixed unions of themselves with the local Tamil population, as well as many converts from the southern states of India. Since the late 13th century, Labbays have specialized in the trade and manufacturing of leather, tobacco, grains and spices. 

Today, the Labbay community is based in towns including Bangalore, Chennai, Kadayanallur, Kilakarai, Koothanallur, Kayalpatnam, Adiramapattinam, Pazhaverkadu, Thondi, thopputhurai, Nagore, and Erwadi.

Labbays constitute a substantial percentage in the coastal villages and towns from the border of Andhra to Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu, from Kanyakumari to the Karnataka border, and all over Sri Lanka. 

Dalam bahasa Ibrani (Hebrew atau bahasa orang Yahudi) mereka juga sebut "levy" (serupa jenama seluar jeans Levi).  Le-vy di sebut lee-vai.

Levy adalah seorang padri atau sami agama Yahudi. 

Dalam kitab Pentateuch atau Torah (Old Testament)  terdapat bab 'Leviticus' yang maksudnya kaum Levy.  

Kalama Sutta The Buddha's Charter of Free Inquiry Compared To The Quran

Hi folks. I was doing some reading and found the following from the teachings of Buddhism :

Kalama Sutta -  The Buddha's Charter of Free Inquiry

translated from the Pali 

The Instruction to the Kalamas

The instruction of the Kalamas (Kalama Sutta) is justly famous for its encouragement of free inquiry; the spirit of the sutta signifies a teaching that is exempt from fanaticism, bigotry, dogmatism, and intolerance.

The reasonableness of the Dhamma, the Buddha's teaching, is chiefly evident in its welcoming careful examination at all stages of the path to enlightenment. 

Indeed the whole course of training for wisdom culminating in the purity of the consummate one (the arahant) is intimately bound up with examination and analysis of things internal: the eye and visible objects, the ear and sounds, the nose and smells, the tongue and tastes, the body and tactile impressions, the mind and ideas.

Thus since all phenomena have to be correctly understood in the field of Dhamma, insight is operative throughout. 

In this sutta it is active in rejecting the bad and adopting the good way;  in clarifying the basis of knowledge of conditionality and arhatship. 

Here it may be mentioned that the methods of examination in the Kalama Sutta have sprung from the knowledge of things as they are and that the tenor of these methods are implied in all straight thinking. 

Further, as penetration and comprehension, the constituents of wisdom are the result of such thinking, the place of critical examination and analysis in the development of right vision is obvious. 

Where is the wisdom or vision that can descend, all of a sudden, untouched and uninfluenced by a critical thought?

My comments :  Please pay attention to that last line above in red.  Wisdom does not "fall out of the sky".  Wisdom is acquired through a process of seeing, doing, understanding, reading, more understanding. It is a process.

Here are three verses from the Quran which say the same thing :

1. Surah 39:18

Those who listen to all speech (yas-tamee-oona al qawla) and then follow the best (ahsanahu). These are the ulul al-bab or the people of understanding.

To be able to listen to all speech (yas-tamee-oona al qawla) you cannot have laws which jail people for saying things that you (yes I am referring to you) do not like.

For example the Sedition Act can jail you if you say something someone in power does not like.

The Shariah Criminal Amendments can jail you if you say something those in power do not like. 

Hence you cannot be considered a person with wisdom when you hide behind things like the Sedition Act or the Syariah Criminal Amendments that stifle free speech. 

2.  Surah 17:36 

If you do not know much about something then it is best not to follow it. You have the hearing, the sight and the capacity to understand (fu'ad) which you must use to try to understand anything.  Do not simply swallow anything anyone tells you. 

3. Sura 3:100

The verse starts with "wa maa kaana li nafsin". Nafsin is the Self, the person, the individual. 

Rijsa actually means doubt (not defilement). Laa ya'qiloon (akal) means 'not using their akal or reasoning'.  It is therefore extremely important to use reasoning, logic, common sense.

Ok folks, we do not use akal or reasoning because the Quran says so. The Quran says use your akal because it is indeed the right thing to do.

We should not follow people blindly because the Quran says so. The Quran says do not follow people blindly because that is indeed the right thing to do.

We do not listen to all speech, views and ideas and follow the best  because the Quran says so. The Quran says so because it is indeed the right thing to do.

Please learn to put the cart before the horse.

I am glad to find these similarities between the teachings of the Buddha and the Quran.

Budget Approved, Brader Anwar Is Not Even Opposition Leader Anymore. There is no political crisis. Everyone just go home.

So what was Dr Mahathir's Press Conference all about yesterday? Dr Mahathir said, tomorrow the Budget may not get approved, the government might fall, if frogs had wings they would fly, if  a donkey could sing the Negara Ku it could bla bla'.

Well nothing of that sort happened. 

First of all to the super lembap Malaysian Press why didnt anyone of you ask Dr M how many MPs he had on his side? It is a simple numbers game isnt it? Why didnt you ask Dr M  'Do you have 112 MPs on your side?' 

None of you asked that question.  Well the Budget has been approved 112 - 108 or something.

This means the PM is intact for a full year. I keep repeating - there is no political crisis. Everyone just go home.

The political crisis is now with Dr Mahathir, PKR (yes do read on) and inside UMNO.

Dr Mahathir saying that the government is weak is so far quite a misnomer. With only a three seat majority Tan Sri Muhyiddin can get the Budget 2021 approved and he is still in power.

In stark contrast in May 2018 Dr Mahathir had a majority of more than 20 MPs yet Dr Mahathir was removed from office after only 22 months. And the PH was kicked out. So even a 20++ seats majority could not guarantee they were a strong government.   

There is a conspiracy theory which says that the whole thing was just a wayang by Dr Mahathir. To cut Brader Anwar down to size.

If the dodos do not realise it Dr M has now fully usurped Brader Anwar's role as leader of the Opposition. The real leader of the Opposition is Dr Mahathir Mohamed. Not Brader Anwar.

And everytime this 'Vote of no confidence', 'Lets vote against the Budget' etc shenanigans come up, Dr Mahathir hijacks the narrative from Brader Anwar.

As Opposition Leader it is actually Brader Anwar's role to take the lead on issues like 'No Confidence Vote', 'Vote against the Budget' etc.

But that is not the case. Each time something like this crops up, Dr M hijacks the discussion and takes charge of the matter. 

Brader Anwar has become a lame duck Opposition Leader.

And then whatever is attempted simply fails. The No Confidence Vote against the PM Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin was spearheaded by Dr Mahathir. It failed.

But it was Brader Anwar who went to the Istana and made a fool of himself. 

Lembu punya susu sapi punya nama.
Dr M punya 'screw up', Brader Anwar punya malu.

Do you all notice that despite making such a big fuss about the No Confidence Vote not once did Dr M make even a tiny suggestion that he would be seeking an audience at the Istana. Why not? Because he knew the No Confidence Vote was NOT going to happen. Its just a wayang. Read on.

And yesterday's Press Conference was just giving the PM Tan Sri Muhyiddin advance notice to be on his guard. I am certain that after Dr M's Press Conference, Tan Sri Muhyiddin's team made some phone calls to make sure that the headcount today would be sufficient.  Thanks to Dr M's advance warning.

Now Brader Anwar cannot bring up the "Vote of No Confidence" again. He will be a laughing stock. The Brader is already a laughing stock - he is a lame duck Opposition leader. No one listens to him anymore. Dr Mahathir has made sure of that.

But of course Brader Anwar does not need any help to be a nincompoop. He is his own worst enemy. The following is from M'kini. Some Anwarinas are being frank about the Brader's incompetence :

Bersih@: Anwar regain power not through SD from tainted Umno leaders ..  

All those around  after 2018 are certainly Trojan horses, he is a lame duck 

Indigo: Anwar, it's about time you put your feet on the ground .. Forget about SDs

Bring back Rafizi and Nurul. Let young leaders come in 

get rid of people with money politics and self-interest 

Scarlet: Rafizi, you should spearhead reformasi with Nurul 

Anwar, what's the use of announcing you have numbers when you dare not reveal names? 

Do not mix good eggs with rotten eggs, lest all the eggs in the basket go bad.

J : Rafizi must rise up to lead as there is a crisis in PKR’s leadership and vacuum 

Anwar should be aware that all his actions are not favourably received

Goliath: Rafizi had big hand in Harapan win GE14 

return of Rafizi and Nurul is what Malaysia truly needs

Ferd: Rafizi, take over the party, if Anwar cannot perform. combo Rafizi-Nurul  

Nurul  - stay far away from father's politics.

Concerned : Rafizi the backbone of Harapan’s election victory in 2018

most of us want you to come back 

PKR IN CRISIS 

What does this mean? This means that PKR is in serious crisis. The Peter Principle kicked in a long time ago in PKR. Now the full effects of the Peter Principle are finally bringing down the curtain on them. (The Peter Principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their "level of incompetence".)

My view is Dr Mahathir's end game is quite obvious. The end game envisioned is Bersatu and Umno. Minus Pas and minus PKR of course. And minus at least three guys who will be going to jail. 

Who do I support?

In 2018 I never supported Bersatu working together with PKR. That is why I did not attend the PH victory celebration at the Sheraton.

Similarly now I do not support Bersatu (minus Dr M) working with Pas.

To me Pas and PKR are no no.

Unless Rafizi takes over PKR and Brader Anwar disappears. 

We need an ummatan wasatan - a moderate community, a progressive community - from Bersatu, Umno and PKR to merge. Minus corruption, minus racism, minus RM888,000 superbikes.  Scientific, logic based, free market oriented and progressive. 

Above all else - we need a change in policies.