Sending the political class in Selangor into a tizzy, most people are so outraged by the rising tide of criminals in politics The key problem is not that PAS politicians are inherently crooked or criminal. Rather, the PAS ulama and their syura council system gives a huge incentive for criminals PAS is already losing its credibility big time. It should at last guard whatever little it has left. Sabotaging DAP’s and PKR’s effort to make Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail the new Menteri Besar of Selangor and telling Malaysians that HRH the Sultan of Selangor is behind this sabotage is taking Machiavellian politics a bit too far.PAS is already losing its credibility big time. It should at last guard whatever little it has left. Sabotaging DAP’s and PKR’s effort to make Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail the new Menteri Besar of Selangor and telling Malaysians that HRH the Sultan of Selangor is behind this sabotage is taking Machiavellian politics a bit too far.
Even Machiavelli had his limits and he was not even a Muslim who upheld Islamic values or nilai-nilai Islam. I am beginning to wonder whether Islam is any longer the agenda of PAS or are some people in PAS planted moles of Umno who are being paid handsomely to break up Pakatan Rakyat (and blame the Sultan for this breakup)?
Unprecedented constitutional monarchy to re-enter active politics? Command and control:The future: Does no one care?
One of the disadvantages of being around for a while is that you can’t be easily fooled. That’s the privilege of the young and inexperienced who are often waylaid by hope. Niccolo Machiavelli, the canny philosopher, said that those who deceive will always find those who are ready to be deceived. They are drawn to each other like moths to a flame.
But before I step away from the man who fathered modern political theory, I would like to quote him once more. Even though he lived in 15th century Florence, Machiavelli got the idiom of our politics just right. A promise given was a political necessity of the past, he said; the word broken is a political necessity of the present.But if our past was so great, if our leaders were so wonderful, our culture was so rich, how come we are in such a mess today? How come every time we boast about our achievements, we only wallow in shallow nostalgia? We are constantly copying others or ourselves.
How the soap opera unfolds from here will ultimately depend on how convention has been tempered by the precedent set in 2008 and the wisdom of the Sultan.
The issue before us is whether the discretion to appoint Dato Seri Dr. Wan Azizah Wan Ismail is still with HRH Tuanku Sultan of Selangor. University of Malaya Law Professor Gurdial Singh Nijhar says that HRH has little choice but to appoint her as the new Menteri Besar since she commands the support of 43 out of the 56 members of Dewan Undangan Negeri (State Legislative Assembly) in accordance with Article 53(2)(a) of the Constitution of the State of Selangor. In truth, HRH has the option to ask for additional nominees before he makes up his mind. It cannot be ruled out since that is his Royal prerogative.readmorehttp://themalaybusinesstribune.blogspot.com/2014/09/unprecedented-constitutional-monarchy.html
Constitutional experts say that Malaysia, unlike Thailand, does not have lese majeste laws, which criminalises offences against the monarch. – The Malaysian Insider pic, September 9, 2014.That Malaysia is a constitutional monarchy in a parliamentary democracy is a fact. But there are days when Malaysians will have to reinforce that fact about Malaysia.
That fact about Malaysia cropped up yesterday when the Selangor palace used the word "derhaka", or treason, to describe the actions of PKR and DAP in only nominating Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail to replace the incumbent Selangor Menteri Besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim.
The Selangor ruler had requested for more than two names and only PAS complied. Not PKR or DAP, which together with PAS, form Pakatan Rakyat.His Royal Highness the Sultan of Selangor is feeling slighted (murka). DAP’s and PKR’s defiance plus the many insulting and biadap comments posted in the social media by the DAP Red Bean Army, Pakatoons and ABU activists just make matters worse.
And do not think that HRH the Sultan has not read all those nasty comments that would make even the most docile person’s blood boil. I suppose, since they want a fight then they have a fight on their hands. It is what they have been spoiling for this last month or so.
Over the next three days, HRH the Sultan is going to meet three of the PAS EXCO members whom PAS President Abdul Hadi Awang proposed as the candidate for the new Selangor Menteri Besar.readmore http://themalay-chronicle.blogspot.com/2014/09/without-quick-justice-pas-politics-will.html
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