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Sunday, July 8, 2012

Rosmah Mansor is Najib's Sita Devi, Najib begs Selangor Indian voters give BN a chance


Kamalanathan is a relative of Samy Vellu whom he can control, so Samy makes a pact with UMNO to play it for the public to ensure his hold on the party and the supporters are not affected. In this way, he would look good for the public as he can point out to the Indian voters that he had no choice but to abide by UMNO’s decision.

The hate factor, at least amongst the Malaysian Indians, at the moment is Samy Vellu. BN needed to engineer a way out to persuade those Indian voters there to vote for BN. Samy played the role assisted by UMNO on how to hoodwink the public and get the result they want without bringing Samy into the picture. This is a typical good cop, bad cop scenario.

Read here how Kamalanathan had been lobbied by Rocky Bru,UMNO's media spinner, in the Malay Mail.

The Indians in Hulu Selangor are in this state bcos of 50 years of neglect by MIC/UMNO. He is just trying to manage the symptoms as a result of the negligence all these years. Give him personal credit for that but putting BN back in power is a nightmare for the Indians that they can't wake up from.
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 Najib admitted BN made many mistakes stole their assets but he promised to make up for past mistakes by giving the best to the people of Selangor if they present mandate to BN in the upcoming general election.  Teoh Beng Hock's life was not worth RM2,000, because he had nothing to do with the money. Which, in the first place, was not even misappropriated. His life was worth zero sen.
You must be very happy, Najib. That's the way to treat those ‘pendatangs' who refuse to return to China or India, no?For the family of Teoh, let's pray together and do our utmost best to effect a change from this hideous, racist, unjust and swindling government, and I sincerely and very strongly believe that all our good fellow Malaysians will never let this matter rest until it is properly and rightfully put to rest.We shall never rest; we shall never close this chapter unless the truth is unearthed. Teoh was not a common criminal.
If there is no closure to his death, racism, bullying and persecution will perpetuate. Yes, never rest.“Maybe we made some mistakes in the last election, but we will always be the best in future,” he said.

  In terms of scale, the Talam Corporation Bhd debt settlement pales in comparison with the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) and Scorpene submarine cases.

The mainstream newspapers have been going at great guns with the so-called TalamCorp scandal. Understandbly because they are partial to the Barisan Nasional (BN) government. As for the alternative media, the reverse is true as some are partial to BN’s political foes, the Pakatan Rakyat (PR).

Yet, there’s a marked difference between PR and BN which can be seen by how each one has serious allegations of corruption and mismanagement and their respective reaction to the claims.

In the TalamCorp case, PR leaders are prepared to have a White Paper on the matter although it is puzzling why there has not been one since the case came up in 2010.

And PR MPs such as Tony Pua and Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad and even Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim are all willing to lift the veil of corporate secrecy and explain the numbers to the public. After all, it involves public institutions and funds from the time the deal was struck when Selangor was under BN rule.

Transparency is key to all this.

But how about the the other side. The PKFZ case took years after the Auditor-General and several journalists raised alarm bells. Even today. the federal government is paying money which should not be paid until the entire case is settled. What do you say, Mr Prime Minister, sir. Or Dr Chua Soi Lek or Chua Tee Yong? What do you say, sirs?

Or the Scorpene allegations and claims of the sale of state secrets. All we have is bare denial and some mumbo-jumbo from Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi that nothing happened. Well, ask the French if nothing happened. They have a full-scale inquiry going on about that and we do the Gallic shrug, sir? Really?

Absolute silence seems to be the norm from the BN side. Way back during the Carrian and BMf saga, silence was also the standard operating procedure for BN.

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out how each side views such allegations or are prepared to come clean, admit faults and repair the damage. Is it too much to admit faults, sirs?

In the final analysis it seems is that: one coalition is quite prepared to be put under scrutiny and another coalition has something to hide. You know, sirs, that would be a great consideration when I do vote in the next general election.

I can’t speak for all Malaysians but I want an honest government, not one that runs down their foes but have a lot of dirt under the carpet.


In terms of scale, the Talam Corporation Bhd debt settlement pales in comparison with the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) and Scorpene submarine cases.

The mainstream newspapers have been going at great guns with the so-called TalamCorp scandal. Understandbly because they are partial to the Barisan Nasional (BN) government. As for the alternative media, the reverse is true as some are partial to BN’s political foes, the Pakatan Rakyat (PR).

Yet, there’s a marked difference between PR and BN which can be seen by how each one has serious allegations of corruption and mismanagement and their respective reaction to the claims.

In the TalamCorp case, PR leaders are prepared to have a White Paper on the matter although it is puzzling why there has not been one since the case came up in 2010.

And PR MPs such as Tony Pua and Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad and even Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim are all willing to lift the veil of corporate secrecy and explain the numbers to the public. After all, it involves public institutions and funds from the time the deal was struck when Selangor was under BN rule.

Transparency is key to all this.

But how about the the other side. The PKFZ case took years after the Auditor-General and several journalists raised alarm bells. Even today. the federal government is paying money which should not be paid until the entire case is settled. What do you say, Mr Prime Minister, sir. Or Dr Chua Soi Lek or Chua Tee Yong? What do you say, sirs?

Or the Scorpene allegations and claims of the sale of state secrets. All we have is bare denial and some mumbo-jumbo from Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi that nothing happened. Well, ask the French if nothing happened. They have a full-scale inquiry going on about that and we do the Gallic shrug, sir? Really?

Absolute silence seems to be the norm from the BN side. Way back during the Carrian and BMf saga, silence was also the standard operating procedure for BN.

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out how each side views such allegations or are prepared to come clean, admit faults and repair the damage. Is it too much to admit faults, sirs?

In the final analysis it seems is that: one coalition is quite prepared to be put under scrutiny and another coalition has something to hide. You know, sirs, that would be a great consideration when I do vote in the next general election.

I can’t speak for all Malaysians but I want an honest government, not one that runs down their foes but have a lot of dirt under the carpet.
Rosmah Mansor is Najib's Sita Devi

Sita has always intrigued me. She’s quite a standalone. She’s the one woman who the janta hasn’t sort of figured out quite. Through the entire Ramayana story, of which I’ve read no ‘original’, all I keep realising is that there’s something about Sita. She eludes specific characterisation, lending herself only to interpretations of which there are a zillion. She’s probably the only character among all our ‘gods’ in whom we see what we want to. It’s our reaction to, our interpretation of Sita’s life that truly sets her value, and our beliefs.

Not certain why, but I’ve always been miffed at suggestions of her being a doormat, of being helpless, of her not having a say. There’s something about the viewpoint that don’t seem right. I have my own over-simplistic, interpretations of the major points in the lady’s life. I still flounder at the abandonment, though, when she’s sent off to the forest although she’s pregnant.

For starters, her joining Rama on his punishment posting. It’s mostly spoken of as sacrifice. Sita ‘gave up’ her royal lifestyle to go with hubby. But look at the choice the woman had: she could either go with handsome hubby or stay back with three mothers-in-law and a hen-pecked dad-in-law. Not much choice there, if you ask me. Any girl in her right mind would go with hubby, discomfort be damned. And she finally had cool dude bro-in-law Lakshmana tag along as well who respected her no end. What could be better? You always need an assistant for sundry work. Hubbies don’t oblige often, only lip-sync.

Then the Lakshmana-rekha. Ooh, the line that was crossed, which led to her kidnapping by a man besotted. Yet, nothing happened. Ravana was scared of the curse that if he dared molest another woman, his tenner would splinter. Capital punishment, no less: quite a deterrent that if it was what kept Ravana away. But surely he knew that when he was plotting? Kidnapping Sita was a rather elaborate plan. He yanked her all the way to his kingdom and then got cold feet worrying about his heads? I find the argument a tad insufficient.

What I would like to believe, instead, is that Ravana was ultimately kept away from Sita not by any male-drawn limits or codes, but by Sita herself. There was something about Sita. What it was every woman might want to figure out. It was Sita’s own drawn ‘rekha’ that Ravana didn’t dare cross. Learned he may have been, great ‘love’ --- for want of a better word --- he may have had, but rakshasa he was and he had kidnapped her for a purpose. Which he didn’t complete. Why? What kept him away? What was that quality in Sita? To me, men can keep drawing lines crisscrossing women’s lives till they do themselves to exhaustion, but when it comes to crunch, women draw their own lines, which no Ravana dare step over.

In fact, Sita kept drawing lines for herself throughout her life. So much and no more.  Meghnad Desai makes a damn neat point in a recent book, In Search of Sita by Malashri Lal and Namita Gokhale. In commonsensical reasoning, referring to a footnote in his Gujarati translation of Ramayana, he writes that Rama marries at age 16 and lives 12 years after that in King Dasharatha’s palace. At 28, he goes into exile for 14 years to return when he is 42 years. “If this is true, then during the twelve years of marriage …and thirteen years of exile…Rama and Sita have no children and Sita becomes a mother in her late thirties. This implies that she is at least in control of her reproductive cycle, as she manages to delay her child-bearing until her husband is secure on a throne.” How cool is that?

Alright, to the agni-pareeksha. Here I go with what cartoonist Nina Paley says: that it was demonstration of a woman’s deep grief. Rama had his compulsions, they say, but really, what true-blue independent queen would endure such ridicule? So, Sita snapped, was tired, angry and got a fire crackling in seconds to show she meant business. That kind of wild anger and hurt is completely understandable. Heart-breaking grief that after all that, this. At the same time, you have to spare Rama a thought. He may have snapped too. He was no god at the time, right? He was a human king. So he could surely snap? He probably thought, for this silly woman’s silly desire, I’ve had the most harrowing time on earth. Using ‘citizens gossip’ to explain his directive is just shooting off the hapless citizens’ shoulders. He wanted to hurt her, probably, real bad. And he did. She shot back. It’s been known to happen. Zooksh, zoom, that kinda thing.

What line did Sita draw at the abandonment? I’ve told myself maybe Rama and Sita had a good chat and figured the city’s no place for kids, pollution and all, but it don’t ring true. It equally doesn’t ring true that Rama actually got manipulated into believing Sita had a soft spot for her kidnapper. I don’t know if the equivalent of Stockholm syndrome existed in those days. Haven’t figured that out. It’s not as if they split. They simply separated. And stayed so. That’s saying something grand about Sita’s freedom alright. And also that single mothers can well manage on their own.

Rama ended up a miserable wreck, and Sita, when wounded again, simply said enough and went back home into the earth. Still figuring that out. Maybe I’m too Bollywood-conditioned into wanting endless happy endings. More when I’ve cracked it. Meanwhile, for Sita seekers, go find her.  And send across some thoughts. Nothing like figuring out what Sita was all about.


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