MM Online - For Umno, knives are out for Dr M (extracts):
Wakakaka.
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as a PM, you haven't f**king reported to me for 6 months |
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I'm going to have you removed as PM |
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I don't think so, but I'll have you removed as a trouble-maker |
Recent attacks suggest that Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad will be framed as the primary target of Umno and Barisan Nasional (BN) heading into the general election, according to political observers.
Commenting on the overt attacks directed at the former prime minister — a departure from the previous restraint showed when rebutting the one-time Umno president — they also said the ruling party will no longer offer him any quarter.
In possibly the most snide remark directed at Dr Mahathir since he began attacking the government, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak made reference to the former’s “Indian heritage” during a celebration of Tamil schools in Malaysia.
The apparent contempt for the just-appointed Pakatan Harapan chairman was a clear deviation from the reverence that the former prime minister had still enjoyed in the nascent days of his offensive against the current administration.
“At the moment, he is the enemy, so (they) must go all out. I think any leftover goodwill within Umno leadership for Dr M has long since exhausted,” political analyst Oh Ei Sun told Malay Mail Online.
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With apologies to the late Cato the Elder, Senator of Rome (234 BC - 149 BC), I reckon UMNO might have already paraphrased his immortalised Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam (which means 'Furthermore, I consider that Carthage must be destroyed') to:
Commenting on the overt attacks directed at the former prime minister — a departure from the previous restraint showed when rebutting the one-time Umno president — they also said the ruling party will no longer offer him any quarter.
In possibly the most snide remark directed at Dr Mahathir since he began attacking the government, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak made reference to the former’s “Indian heritage” during a celebration of Tamil schools in Malaysia.
The apparent contempt for the just-appointed Pakatan Harapan chairman was a clear deviation from the reverence that the former prime minister had still enjoyed in the nascent days of his offensive against the current administration.
“At the moment, he is the enemy, so (they) must go all out. I think any leftover goodwill within Umno leadership for Dr M has long since exhausted,” political analyst Oh Ei Sun told Malay Mail Online.
I personally believe the pending RCI probing into the Bank Negara Forex Loss will be used against Mahathir when the general election nears.
One of the things I have learnt about RCI in general is that in most cases, whoever ordered a RCI would already know what would-should be its findings.
It would be like, as some suspected, the British RCI investigating the tragic death of Princess Diana in a car accident. Mohammad al-Fayed, the millionaire father of Dodi al Fayed who was dating Diana, foolishly thought it would reveal what conspiracy theorists had claimed her death by car accident (and thus his son's) to be, the result of a sinister plot by Britain's Royal family.
But in the end, followers of that RCI couldn't help but notice that all along it was an inquiry that revealed (deliberately?) the very salacious aspects of Diana's private life (after her divorce) with British-Pakistani doctor Hasnat Khan.
The RCI even talked with Hasnat Khan (I saw this on TV) about the use of a condom during their sexual encounters. Just WTF had that got to do with her death by car accident in France, if not to disgrace her in the eyes of the British public and to topple her image from the high pedestal they had regarded her.
IMHO, the aim seemed to be to 'disgrace' Diana who held the hearts of the British people, and thus, with her disgrace (of having sex with a Paki), to rehabilitate once-hated Prince Charles and his even-more-hated new wife, to enable them to ascend to the British throne without the British people objecting angrily.
So that there would always be an expected finding for 'higher' purpose or requirements seems to be spot on, and if anyone, the British Authority always knows how to do that exceedingly well, wakakaka.
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sensational gossips by conspiracy theorists |
Thus, I reckon the RCI will find Mahathir as the guilty party for the humongous loss of Bank Negara with dire recommendations on his 'crime'. It will be a severe blow to him especially in the Heartland.
I believe my previous doubt about the UMNO-led government finding 92-year old Mahathir guilty and cruelly jailing the Old Man may in itself be in doubt.
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Cato the Elder |
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem Mahathir esse delendam.