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Anwar’s acquittal has bought for Najib his last but very short-lived chance to prove that he can walk the talk of a reformer and proponent of “1Malaysia. People First. Performance Now” slogan

Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s surprise acquittal of Sodomy 2 charge on Monday has bought for the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak his last but very short-lived chance to prove that he can walk the talk of a reformer and proponent of “1Malaysia. People First. Performance Now” slogan.

Nobody really believes the self-serving claims by Najib, Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin and the Minister for Information, Communications and Culture Datuk Seri Dr. Rais Yatim that Anwar’s acquittal was proof of the independence of the judiciary in Malaysia and would increase the confidence of Malaysians and international community in Najib’s transformation promises.

The 33 months of Najib’s premiership since April 2009 were lost months for reform and transformation as there were only empty rhetorics not backed up with any political will to bring about fundamental changes in all aspects of national life.

There are, for instance, all sorts of 1Malaysia gimmicry in the past 33 months but Malaysia has never been so divided and polarised along ethnic and religious lines under Najib’s premiership than under any Prime Minister in Malaysia history – all caused by the politics of desperation, hate and lies emanating from UMNO and its mouthpieces.

In fact, right from the very beginning, Najib’s concept of 1Malaysia to create a nation where every Malaysian perceives himself or herself as Malaysian first, and by race, religion, geographic or socio-economic background second, was rubbished by none other than the Deputy Prime Minister who declared himself as Malay first and Malaysian second!

When Najib dared not bring his deputy into line to comply with the 1Malaysia policy, avoiding the issue completely when asked by the media what he thought of Muhyiddin’s open repudiation of 1Malaysia policy, it was in fact a death-knell for any meaningful 1Malaysia policy apart from the 1Malaysia gimmicries.

Najib’s reform and transformation programmes also suffered early death with the swift burial of the New Economic Model, in particular to break from the New Economic Policy (NEP) and introduce new affirmative actions based on need and merit which will consider all ethnic groups fairly and equally as long as they are in the low-income 40% of the households.

The year 2012 ended with Najib’s National Transformation Programmes given two
“black eyes”:

*firstly, when Transparency International’s (TI) Corruption Perception Index (CPI) 2011 showed Malaysia in two-and-a-half years under Najib was more corrupt than 22 years under Tun Mahathir and five years under Tun Abdullah, with Malaysia registering the worst TI CPI ranking and score in 17 years – ranked No. 60 with score of 4.3; and

*secondly, when not a single Malaysian university was included in the Times Higher Education (THE) 400 Top World University Ranking 2011/2012.

Najib’s last chance to “walk the talk” of a 1Malaysia reformer and transformer could be very short-lived indeed, as it could be smashed to smithereens in a matter of days if the growing pressure for the Attorney-General to appeal against Anwar’s acquittal succeeds in the coming days.

The announcement by the Solicitor-General II Datuk Mohd Yusof Zainal Abiden over TV3 last night that the prosecution team will recommend to the Attorney-General that an appeal to be filed against Anwar’s acquittal is most extraordinary and unprecedented, and must be the first case of its kind where any prosecution team goes public to lobby and pressure the Attorney-General to file any appeal.

Let there be no doubt that any appeal by the Attorney-General against Anwar’s acquittal would smash to smithereens whatever little credibility and confidence the Najib administration has gained nationally and internationally from Monday’s High Court judgment in Anwar’s Sodomy II trial – plunging Malaysia back into the maelstrom of gutter politics and further despoilation of institutional independence, integrity and legitimacy.

15 Replies to “Anwar’s acquittal has bought for Najib his last but very short-lived chance to prove that he can walk the talk of a reformer and proponent of “1Malaysia. People First. Performance Now” slogan”

  3. Well, we will soon see who wins …..It’s the empty can that makes the most noise …. a noisy river is a shallow river…..Opposition leaders only know how to make empty promises, … some have even been proven fake such as the leader had declared that he would be able to take over the federal government ….September 16, 2008…opposition to take over the Federal Govt??? What happened in 2008 was just a fluke….

  4. Smart fellows know when to talk…and the right things to say. (Watch Lee Kuan Yew’s DVD on Hard Truths-lah, Jib & Moo.)

    Silly boys prattle on & on….like the independence of d judiciary-lah, 1Melayu-lah, blah…blah…blah..

    So we know the boys from d silly burgers..

  5. He will walk the talks..from his two slogans?
    He is powerless and getting the medicine he keep feeding others.
    He is a born liar and will never change.
    The day he walks his talks…he will walk straight to His Majesty Hotel…free makan..
    Cintanegara cannot read signs.
    He is so used to smoke screen ..and half truths..that is brain is cloudy and always.,..half drunk.
    People Power shouts are not like empty cans.
    If so…why Najib and his cousin..extremely quiet?
    One need wife to help…the other big mouth..cannot speak…both bolas shrunk.

  6. Cintanegara… wjhat kinda sausage r u? Good for a silly burger-lah. I can’t stand burgers that stink like a cesspool.

    U hv d right to disagree.Which cesspool ever says they stink, eh?

  7. cintanegara keep using the same old story to prove Anwar is a liar.
    He cannot differentiate a man like Anwar…straight forward taking and got it wrong.
    If we are to quote what Najib said and prove what a liar he is…it is a mile long against Anwar.. an inch.
    Why does cintanegara keep bringing out Sept 16 2008?
    Did he pack all and surrender his rented room..bought an air ticket to ,,,,first time flying and then…Sept 16 came and gone…he lost all his savings…his room and possibly his girl friend who thinks he is a nut.

  9. People first. Performance now. Really ? You are not serious, are you ? My dearest. What can RM 50 give you these days ? A mansion ? A Formula 1 sports car ? People first. They want more money. Performance now. Give them more money. The lawful way. Then of course there is also the unlawful way.

  12. Najib will be the last of the Mohicans. Cintamyfoot will beat his chest in despair. His beloved Kim Um No will finally put to rest together with all the dunggus like him. Deep, wide river full of corruption makes even greater noise when free fall from the cliff. But of course, cintamyfoot will pretend not to hear anything. His two balls are too small to confront it. He has enough guts just to go into knee deep harmless river and kick a fuss to show his NEP assisted ketuanan.

    O by the way, the big roaring river has swept away your rambutan tree. Quick, scoot!!!

  14. cintanegara :Well, we will soon see who wins …..It’s the empty can that makes the most noise …. a noisy river is a shallow river…..Opposition leaders only know how to make empty promises, … some have even been proven fake such as the leader had declared that he would be able to take over the federal government ….September 16, 2008…opposition to take over the Federal Govt??? What happened in 2008 was just a fluke….

    Hasn’t the said opposition leader already admitted to his mistake and apologised?

    Compare this to the behaviour of the Penang CM’s political adversaries when their allegation that the CM’s son had molested a girl, eventually turned out to be untrue…

  15. 1Malaysia, People 1st? No way! Non sense!

    Return all money back to Malaysians. Get those corrupted politician UMNOputras into jail first then only talk about 1Malaysia.

    1Malaysia? Big sweet talk! Give fair funding to Chinese and Tamil schools first before you talk about 1Malaysia!

    For what uses to have 1Malaysia when UMNO often bias toward discrimiated and corrupted policies?

    Don’t talk about 1Malaysia. It is totally useless if you don’t get Taib to be in jail. Return all Taib’s property in overseas to Sarawakians. Build freeway and give solar panels to each long house!

    Pakatan is to change federal law! Change the law to confiscate all property of corrupted politicians and put them into jail and return all money back to Malaysians: no toll road, no toll Penang Bridge, reduce corporate tax and income tax like Brunei and Singapore.

    No privatisation. Privatisation is to make some UMNOputra companies rich. This is how Mathir started this.

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