16th September has come and gone. Many blogs, such Big Dog, Tunku, Unspinners and My Anger (to name a few), have posted revisits to that day. I wonder whether it's worth it to revisit an occasion that has become a laughing stock to many of us, even though Anwar's obsessive pursuit remains an "auspicious" occasion worth remembering for his equally obsessive followers (he hasn't given up, has he?).
I call Anwar's stunt a folly. The synonyms for folly are foolishness, madness, stupidity, idiocy, silliness, craziness, and recklessness, all of which are apt depictions of what he did on that day.
I for one never believed he would have achieved his "coup". I had watched in amusement his play-acting while the event unfolded. I believed then that he simply did not have the numbers, and there's no reason to believe it now. If he really had the number, he would have brought about the defection and change over of government in Parliament, then seen the Agong to effect the take over. He knew the correct procedures and he chose, deliberately I believe, not to pursue it. It's that simple.
A far more appropriate question would be: Shouldn't we just let it (16 Sept) go and focus on other questions regarding Anwar that need to be addressed, as well as other national issues at hand? Whether he has given up his pursuit or not is an open question. But making a din in the blogsphere and elsewhere, even if justified, will only serve to perpetually put him in the limelight as far his ambition to be PM is concerned (and further boost his ego), which is what he always seeks, even if the event has discredited him in the eyes of many of us. We should not be distracted by 16 Sept per se. We should be well appraised by now that distractions and diversions are part of his game plan.
Some of the more serious question that we, as peace-loving Malaysians, should be addressing with regard to Anwar include:
- Why is he given special treatment by the judiciary (the sodomy trial) and the government as a whole (doing things with impunity and without reproach)?
- Why is he always ahead of the government in strategising his actions? There's every reason to believe he has his own people within the government to do his bidding? Who are they? By their past connections with Anwar (while he was in the government where he had built his network), we should know some of them by now. Some have left him, some have stuck by him thick and thin. Even then, do we really know whether the defectors have abandoned him completely? More importantly, it's the "invisible hands" that we should be concerned about.
- Why are his followers persistently being obsessive? Money? Position and prestige? Follow the leader blindly? Mob rule? Herd instinct? Possessed?
- More critically, is 16 Sept a means to an end? Is in part of a hidden agenda or a grand design?
Only by addressing at the questions will we able to uncover the real reasons behind his compulsive demeanour, his followers' obsession, and the inertia that is gripping the government. It's all in his head, his mind, what he thinks. It's the battle of the mind - his and his followers' - that we should be focusing on.
True, many bloggers have written about the above matters, but they have not stopped him in his track, have they?
True, many bloggers have written about the above matters, but they have not stopped him in his track, have they?
Salam Tuan,
ReplyDeleteSelamat hari raya
salam tuan, selamat hari raya eidulfitri maaf lahir dan batin..
ReplyDeleteDear Alizul,
ReplyDeleteWhy the pre-occupation with Anwar? I think Anwar is the only person who save Barisan Nasional from a total collapse to PAS-DAP coalition. PAS is using Anwar as an agent provocateur to continue to harrass the BN government. They are just waiting for BN to put him under ISA so that they can re-create the sympathy factor and ride into power, only this time they will have the Chinese on board and BN will fall like a sack of potatoes.
And Anwar is using PAS because PAS has a very strong political machinery, I think its even stronger than UMNO. It is lean, hungry and most important its a thinking machinery. Even now, PAS is beginning to beat its war drums in Bagan Pinang, and they actually believe that they can score a major upset.
So unless you are quite content to be under PAS-DAP rule,perhaps its time to lay off DSAI, because the more UMNO whacks him, the less useful he can be to rescue UMNO and BN from certain doom.
Just a thought, remember when DSAI split from ABIM to join UMNO. History does not repeat itself, it rhymes.