Of Lies and Liars

Nazri Aziz managed to get himself into the lime light again. He had accused Thai pathologist Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand of being a liar: “She lied in the inquest and she is lying now”.

I remembered once read a Buddhist story, where the moral of the story is:"When your heart is filled with shit, you will see shit everywhere."

Nazri Aziz had in countless times, shown himself to be a much more well established pathological liar. Perhaps it is because his heart is filled with so much lies that, the first instinct he had of others is that they had lied.

It seems to be that UMNO had lied so many times that they no longer have the capability to differentiate between what is the truth and what constitute a lie.

Another example, the smear campaign on Zaid Ibrahim. One BN blogger, purportedly have a picture evidence that Zaid Ibrahim is an alcoholic. Which turns out to be a blatant lie, where the blogger (read liar) doctored a picture from the Nutgraph and produced it as an evidence.

It might be true that all is fair in the affair of war and love, but running a smear campaign by splashing doctored picture on the internet is low. It is lower than hitting below the belt. I do not know how much lower BN could go and I am waiting with baited breath to see if they will set a new record.

Liar, liar pants on fire, nose is as long as a telephone wire!

The rise of Oligarchy in Malaysia

Merriam Webster Dictionary define Oligarchy as:-

1. government by the few;


2. a government in which a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes;

Watching the political development in Malaysia, from the bizarre right down to the idiotic turns of events, have made me ponder if Malaysia indeed practices democracy.

Take for example, how our Prime Minister is elected. But wait, he wasn't elected! Yes, he is an elected member of Parliament, but there were no election mechanism at all that would determine if Malaysians in general, and UMNO party members in particular have chosen him as the Prime Minister of Malaysia! He had ascended to that seat by means of a "power transition" between him and former prime minister Abdullah Badawi.

The manner that "power transition" was being handled made me wonder if the Prime Minister seat is the heirloom of these few selected families, just like how oligarchy works.

Since our Second Prime Minister Tun Razak, the seat of Prime Minister had and have been from only a few closely knitted individuals many of them from the same family: they are related to Tun Razak.

Third Prime Minister Tun Hussein Onn is the brother in law of Tun Razak.

Our current Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib is the son of Tun Razak. The Razak family indeed have a stranglehold onto the Premiership of Malaysia Government today.

Our Home Minister is Datuk Seri Hishammuddin (the son of Tun Hussein Onn).

Khairy Jamaluddin (the son in law of the Fifth Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Badawi) is currently the youth chief of UMNO. (The strongest party in Barisan Nasional, the ruling coalition in the government.)

Datuk Mukhriz, the Deputy Minister of International Trade and Industry is the third son of our Fourth Prime Minister Tun Mahathir.

If we Malaysians allow the status quo to remain and let the Barisan Nasional regime to continue ruling Malaysia, we could expect that Datuk Seri Hishamuddin, Datuk Mukhriz or Jamaluddin to one day to ascend to the throne of Prime Minister just like their dads. The ascend would be in the form of power transition plan just like how their fathers (or father-in-law) ascended to become the Prime Minister of Malaysia. The power to rule will be in the hands of the Razak family, the Abdullah family, and the Mahathir family. The transformation from democracy to oligarchy in Malaysia would then be completed and these families would be the new ruling elite class of oligarchy Malaysia.

We, Malaysians might have to chant long live the Prime Minister one day...

14 Reasons why we should vote BN out.

1) RM482 million Shah Alam Hospital.

2) RM4.6 billion Port Klang Free Zone.

3) USD$3 billion Perwaja Steel.

4) More than USD$6.2 billion loses by Bank Negara Malaysia in speculative forex trading.

5) USD$1 billion Bumiputra Malaysia Finance (BMF) Scandal.

6) RM270 million Terengganu Stadium with a collapsed roof.

7) RM1.14 billion cost overrun of the RM6 billion Ipoh-Rawang double track project.

8) RM100 billion wastage via Proton and a string of financial scandals with Tun Dr Mahatir as PM and BN at the helm as government of Malaysia.

9) RM270 billion wasted by the BN government when Datuk Seri Abdullah Badawi was PM.

We are not done yet, there are still the Malaysian Military Scandals:

10) The RM50 million missing Jet Engines.

11) The RM6.75 billion leaky Naval Patrol Boats.

12) The overpriced Eurocopter. We spent RM2.3 billion for 12 units while, Brazil only spent USD$1.2 billion (RM4.5 billion) for 50 units.

13) The 1 billion Euros Scorpene Submarine that cannot dive with 114 million Euros commission paid to Perimekar, a company controlled by Abdul Razak Baginda, confidante of PM Datuk Seri Najib.

14) The lucrative RM3.2 billion Sukhoi Jet Fighter deal with RM308 million missing commission.

Isn't this enough reasons (billions) to vote BN out?

To the staunch BN supporters, how many more billions are needed to convince you that Malaysia can no longer afford to let BN rule the country? When you have caught your house maid stealing from you, would you continue to keep her as your housemaid? If you would not keep a house maid that is stealing from you, then why continue keeping BN as our government when we have caught them stealing billions?