Last year in October I wrote about Maria Chin Abdullah, the person who took over the NGO BERSIH. I stated that it appeared as if she wanted to be a political king-maker.
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Maria Chin has forgiven me so you can all join me in my movement go remove Najib even if I don't promise any reforms on the wrongs I did during my PM days |
BERSIH used to be an NGO which had objectives as follows:
That had been why BERSIH could and was supported by politicians of all hue, as it sought only to ensure elections are held clean and fair. If you recall, under Ambiga Sreenevasan, she was scrupulously non-aligned, once telling Anwar Ibrahim off for his attempt to hijack BERSIH for his own political gains
But WTF is Bersih doing today under Maria Chin Abdullah?
For a start she expanded the ambit of the NGO into being anti Najib. There's actually nothing wrong being anti Najib but, indeed BUT was that the objective of BERSIH?
Now Maria Chin doesn't want us to keep harping on Mahathir's mistakes during his days as PM (365.25 x 22, wakakaka) and the associated calls by activists for him to apologise or at least to acknowledge his role in ruining Malaysia’s institutions, and in concentrating power in the prime minister’s hands during his years of rule.
- Clean up of the electoral roll
- Reform of postal ballot
- Use of indelible ink
- Minimum 21 days of campaign period
- Free and fair access to mass media for all parties
- Strengthening of public institutions
- No corruption
- No dirty politics
That had been why BERSIH could and was supported by politicians of all hue, as it sought only to ensure elections are held clean and fair. If you recall, under Ambiga Sreenevasan, she was scrupulously non-aligned, once telling Anwar Ibrahim off for his attempt to hijack BERSIH for his own political gains
But WTF is Bersih doing today under Maria Chin Abdullah?
For a start she expanded the ambit of the NGO into being anti Najib. There's actually nothing wrong being anti Najib but, indeed BUT was that the objective of BERSIH?
Now Maria Chin doesn't want us to keep harping on Mahathir's mistakes during his days as PM (365.25 x 22, wakakaka) and the associated calls by activists for him to apologise or at least to acknowledge his role in ruining Malaysia’s institutions, and in concentrating power in the prime minister’s hands during his years of rule.
Those calls against Mahathir were demanded by activists as a pre-condition for joining Mahathir’s new movement to remove PM Najib.
I had previously written of her: She seems to be either a confused activist which has been why I see Bersih 4.0 as a confused NGO, or as I suspect, she wants to be a political KINGMAKER, one who wants to change PM, one who pontificates pompously on the timing of Pakatan Harapan's political formation as if that's her business, one who ... god only knows what she wants next?
I had previously written of her: She seems to be either a confused activist which has been why I see Bersih 4.0 as a confused NGO, or as I suspect, she wants to be a political KINGMAKER, one who wants to change PM, one who pontificates pompously on the timing of Pakatan Harapan's political formation as if that's her business, one who ... god only knows what she wants next?
Well, as BERSIH chairperson she's still confused, and now she wants us to additionally forgive Mahathir and forget his role in ruining Malaysia's institutions such as the judiciary and for putting far too much power in a PM's hands (originally his own hands, wakakaka).
Nonetheless, it seems many have heeded her call ..... under the deceitful guise that those Pakatan people who have joined Mahathir despite his refusal to apologise for his deformasi or even to agree to freeing Anwar Ibrahim as one of the objectives of his (Mahathir's) new anti Najib movement, have pretended they have joined not as representatives of Pakatan but as individuals. Bullshit!
And by logical deduction, it would seem Maria Chin Abdullah doesn't give two figs about the possibility of Mahathir's men taking over from Najib BUT continuing to run UMNO as the party was, had been, is and will be, regardless of whether it had been under Mahathir or currently under Najib or in the future, once again under Mahathir or his proxy.
And finally, with thanks (and just in case, apologies) to the scriptwriters of The Sound of Music:
Baroness: My dear, is there anything you can't do
Maria: Well, I'm not sure I'll make a very good nun.
Baroness: Oh, if you have any problems, I'd be happy to help you.