It’s Najib, Kadir Jasin…
the Zacko Mohds Above All
Thoughts Under a Palm Tree
Like us perhaps, you would never have thought to see such comments from a Malay, not the Anglophile sort though, but the Melayu beneath the kampung palm. He is the Melayu looking into the setting sun horizon, a mind without fancy theoretical arguments, without bigotry nor spite. He thinks in plain language.
The following, under the title ‘bukan isu bangsa atau agama‘, is from Pak Pandir. He first lays out the nature of the problem:
Pendirian rasmi ialah:- Kerajaan akan berkerjasama dengan DOJ Amerika dalam memburu sesiapa yang melakukan salahlaku dan, akhirya, pencurian.
Tapi kita tahu jentera najib berkerja 24 jam 7 hari 12 bulan, menukar isu pendedahan dan langkah oleh DOJ Amerika kepada isiu:-
- Inilah adalah serangan politik yang keterlaluan keatas 1MDB dan Malaysia
- Inilah adalah konspirasi Yahudi yang memegang jawatan2 tertinggi Amerika
- Inilah campur-tangan dalam hal ehwal dalaman Malaysia
- Inilah adalah konspirasi keatas bangsa Melayu
- Ini adalah konspirasi keatas negara Malaysia.
- ini konspirasi keatas Islam.
- Najib bukan Malaysian Official 1. Najib tidak bersalah. Tidak ada pun nama Najib keluar.
Then Pak Pandir compares those streams of arguments to one Tan Seng Giaw; it is to demonstrate how the fallacies in them are rooted in the failure of people even like Tan, a medical doctor after all, to think more deeply, just a little:
Yang akhir sekali ialah line argument bodoh seperti diguna oleh MP Tan Seng Giaw- PAC tidak menamakan Najib, maka Najib tidak bersalah. Bingung punya MP.
Several paragraphs later, he reaches the penultimate point suggested in his article title:
Yang disiasat sekarang dan yang berdepan dengan pertuduhan mencuri wang, memindahkan wang secara haram ialah bukan negara Malaysia tapi individu2 dari Malaysia. Kerja AG malaysia bukan mempertahankan individu2 ini. hanya jika Malaysia sebagai negara terlibat, maka dia ada peranan.
AG Malaysia melindungi crook. AG Amerika memburu crook2 seperti Low teik Jho dan rakan2, Riza Aziz dan rakan2, Khadem Al Qubaisi dan rakan2 dan Badawi al Husseiny dan rakan2.
Semua yang terlibat akan di dakwa jika kemudian nya ada kes jenayah, akan berdepan dengan pendakwaan jenayah. Malaysian Official 1 yang semua orang tahu, tidak lain dan tidak bukan adalah PM Najib juga akan didakwa jika melakukan kesalahan. Semua, tidak kira bangsa dan agama.
Jika kita tankap shahrol azral dan Najib Tun Razak, kita bukan tangkap Melayu. Kita tangkap shahrol dan Najib. Jika kita tankap Jho Low, kita bukan tangkap Cina tapi seorang yang bernama Jho Low. Kita hendak tangkap Eric Tan, bukan bangsa Cina. Kalau kita tangkap Arul Kanda, kita bukan tangkap India, tapi tankap seorang dari bangsa itu.Kalau kita tangkap Khadem Qubaisy dan Badawy Husseini, kita tangkap 2 individu , bukan bangsa Arab.
Kita tangkap crooks.
Arriving at morality and the part of Islam, Pak Pandir strums his point to a pitch: ‘we have to look at ourselves‘ he suggests. The responsibility of Malaysia needs to be returned to the person — not the Rakyat, that’s too abstract, meaningless therefore and, besides, some classes of people have never been regarded as Rakyat but pendatang. The responsibility of Malaysia has to be returned to the individual. For too long, political leaders and muftis have been telling us how to live, what to think, what to have and have not. It’s time we master our destiny, seize it in our hands.
Jika kita menuntut mediocrity, itulah yang kita dapat. Kalau kita demand, competency, integrity, honest leaders, kita akan dapat itu semua.
Adakah ini serangan keatas Islam? Jawapan nya tidak. In serangan keatas rasuah, pencurian, salah laku, kemungkaran. Ia dituntut oleh Islam.
Kepada ustaz2 yang membei gelaran keatas diri mereka- tok guru, murabbi, dan apa2 lah saya hendak ingatkan.
Kebenaran itu tidak datang dari timur atau barat lagi. Ianya datang dari dalam diri kita sendiri. kalau kita muliakan dan mendahulukan tuhan, kebenaran itu terbentuk jika kita benar2 muliakan hubungan kita dengan tuhan.
At this critical juncture in Malaysian history — that is, more than ever before — introspection is required. It’s to be critical within ourselves:
Maka jangan menipu rakyat jelata dengan menolak kebenaran itu kerana ianya dimulakan di Amerika. Amerika tidak berminat hendak berkonspirasi dengan Malaysia.
Malaysia sudah teruk. Dia ianya diterukkan oleh pemimpin yang rasuah, mencuri duit rakyat dan menzalimi mereka. Ia teruk jika kita orang Islam kufur, yakni menolak nilai2 tinggi yang Allah perintah kita lakukan.
Now compare those lines with a sample of passages from Kadir Jasin (above) in Fight Kleptocracy or Democracy is Dead:
1. …While the 1.4 million over Malaysians who had so far signed the Deklarasi Rakyat take note of the lawsuit by the DoJ to recover US$1 billion worth of assets from the kleptes (thieves), we must not rely on foreign governments to act on our behalf. We must do much more on our own.
2. We are a sovereign nation and free people. We must not surrender our sovereignty to others.
3. Also it is dangerous to rely on foreign governments, especially the US. They can capitulate. They could be bribed and lobbied.
Haven’t you come across those same platitudinous lines before? Don’t they choke on your mind? Contradicting Pak Pandir’s reasoning is one part, but what else is wrong with those passages? Here, below, is a rebuttal from one of Kadir’s readers named sakasamasuka:
1. I used to believe that Datuk…in all my heart.
2. I also know Datuk is a good man…and, that statement above, is an expression of your hope….
3. But, this IS NOT about what Datuk is hoping for in this nation…and, it also not about what I used to believe either.
4. I am sorry to say that the statement “We are a sovereign nation and free people. We must not surrender our sovereignty to others.” is as empty as a broken vessel.
5. We lost this nation…her sovereignty…her moral values…her right to exist…the very moment when other nations tell us, right on our faces, what we did is simply not acceptable any longer by the very minimum of human decency and civility. The American people tell us rather softly and nicely that the behaviors of the “Malaysian Official 1” is no longer tolerable.
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7. We have surrendered our sovereignty to others because our institutions are broken and failed. Period. … [Are] the American people the cause of our predicament?
Sukasamasuka ends his rhetorical question this way:
Having say that, ONLY the US Department of Justice, the FBI and the IRS can do the job of cleaning the 1MDB, no two way about it.
8. To the American people, thank you very much for looking up to us little man on the street…thank you …!
Under the weight of that rebuttal Kadir comes away as an old-line school of thought that, along with Mahathir Mohamad, had been instrumental in cultivating a xenophobic, racist, nationalist, and a debilitating NEP entitlement culture to the detriment of the Melayu then giving birth to a thing we now despise. It’s call Najib Razak. The lines below are from yet another Kadir reader:
This is the failure of NEP. [It] created the mindset of entitlement. That the coffers of the country is the ATM for Melayu. The father invented NEP, the son steals the money.
Kadir’s old school mind, the same class of 1981, is found in the argument from Wanita Umno chief Shahrizat Abdul Jalil (another thief); there is really no distinction between them:
Wanita Umno chief Shahrizat Abdul Jalil today stated that the movement rejects all efforts by certain quarters to take the opportunity of using foreign powers and the recent scandal involving alleged money laundering in 1MDB, to topple Malaysia’s democratically elected government.
“The consequences of such tactics will get out of hand, just as what occurred to Iraq and Syria, which in the end not only invited conflict but also prolonged civil war,” she cautioned in her statement today.
Kadir is, of course, a member of the core team headed by Mahathir to Save Malaysia. To Save Malaysia from just Najib? But, Najib, as Shahrizat reflects so well, is like Kadir, sharing perhaps the same DNA even, so that after saving the country is it returned to yet more Kadirs? To the same old political and social culture that has today brought this country to its knees?
No, never again, Kadir! Your types have had their shot at it, and see what it got us? More of your kind. Your generation fucked it up. Now step aside. Make way, you are choking up Malaysia’s life lines. Enough of the like of him: He thinks ineffectually and is as deluded as the dedak eaters of Najib.
There has never been a better opportunity than today to sort out everything once and for all, to pick from the lessons of the past and to unite all, from the Melayu cities and Chinese suburbs to the Indian plantations and the misty Penan jungles of Sarawak, and that our destinies are inseparable from each other. Only then will Malaysia be truly sovereign and truly free. All else is just so much of Kadiran claptrap.
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