Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Some photos from last night's rally

Last night, 15/9/2008 Pakatan Rakyat held a rally at Kelana Jaya stadium in conjunction with the formation of Malaysia in 1963. No official head counts, but I think it was more than 10,000 who attended.

I came quite late, only managed to see DSAI speak while missing the other speakers i.e Lim Kit Siang, Lim Guan Eng and some others. However, hearing DSAI's speech is enough for me. By the time the event ended around 11.30, I feel rejuvenated, as if adrenalin has been pumped into me via tubes. The thought of having a new government just feels refreshing.

DSAI reiterated that today, 16 September 2008, Pakatan rakyat will make a very important aanouncement, which is probably the list of BN MPs switching sides to Pakatan. He also said that the power transition will be done smoothly and diplomatically, and we shouldn't have fear of riots and whatnot.

Other than that, its the usual talk on reduction of fuel price if PR comes to power (RM0.70!!), corruption by BN's highest officials and its arms in the AG, IGP, ACA. Also mentioned was about the story of the latest ISA detainees (RPK, Teresa and Tan Hoon Cheng the Sin Chew journalist)

We ended the night with good TT session with discussion on what to expect today. Needless to say, it was a heated but fun session.

Well, today is 916, and I'm looking forward to some bombastic news from Pakatan. In the mean time, here are some photos from last nights rally.







Friday, September 12, 2008

Nailing the coffin...

from navel gazing blog...

1.0 Lies

When you are lied to the first time, you tend to get upset because you have been lied to. When you are lied to by the same party many times, you would not only get even more upset and angry but you would also develop a sense of distrust of the lying party. However, what is even more upsetting than continuous lies would be lies which are so stupid and so unbelievably astounding that it is a gross insult for the perpetrator to actually think that his or her lie will be believed by us.

The audacity with which the current government is lying to the people would make the ruse involving a certain wooden horse pregnant with soldiers in its belly seems meek, if not downright tame and uninventive. "Bersih rally by 4000 people", screamed the government gazettes last year. It was of course a blatant lie. When the whole world could see the truth from photographs splashed all over the internet, one began not to get upset only by the fact that they have been lied to but also from the audacity of it all. It prompted me to write and send this letter. It of course did not get to see the light of day.

"I don't have anything to do with Jean", said the PM. He of course married her not too long after that. "I am not going to dissolve the Parliament", again, said the PM. The very next day, when the ink on the newspaper quoting him saying so was barely dry, he dissolved the Parliament. Malaysia holds many world records, among which, the longest ikan bakar grill in the Milky Way. Add to that is the fastest time in which a major newspaper headline is proven untrue or incorrect.

The latest is of course the lie about the trip to Taiwan and Macau being a trip arranged for the Barisan Nasional's MPs to learn about agriculture in order to enable them to better argue and debate the budget in Parliament! Why don't they just say that the trip was arranged to enable the BN MPs to visit a UFO site where aliens with solution for our racial integration problems; budget deficit; inter-faith issues; incompetent Judges; corrupt politicians and civil service and men with small dick had landed? It would easier for all of us to swallow.

1.1 Maths and Science - to English or not to English

No less than Khairy Jamaluddin has critisised the "half-baked" (to borrow his own words) policy of improving the standard of English among Malaysian students by teaching Maths and Science subjects in English. I don't really know what motivates him for doing so but the odd thing is he now seems to be critisising his superior in UMNO Youth. As we all know, that policy was mooted and implemented by the current Education Minister, Hishamuddin Hussein who is of course the Youth movement's chief. So, is this a sign of a sudden surge of intellectualism within UMNO Youth or is it some kind of a political posturing or both, one wonders?

Be that as it may, I have been saying all these while that that policy is not half baked but it is actually baked in an electric oven without the mains switch being switched on. Just imagine a 14 year old students in Form 2. For 8 years of his life he has been learning Maths and Science in Bahasa Malaysia. "Add" means "campur" to him. So does "fraction" mean "pecahan". His English is not good. Suddenly they teach those subject in English. How does that help him to improve his English? And we have not even begun to talk about the teachers. These teachers were all from Bahasa Malaysia school. They themselves were taught Maths and Science in Bahasa Malaysia. They were trained in Bahasa Malaysia. And one day, they woke up, brushed their teeth, took a bath, went to school and they had to teach these subjects in English. You don't have to graduate from Oxford to know that that policy will not work! In fact, it is a burden on the students and teachers alike.

The problem with this government is its inability to grasp a problem, analise it and come up with a holistic solution for it. It is so used to sweeping things under the carpet so much so that when it is confronted with problems, it's knee jerk reaction would be to come up with stop gap measures. In other words, it knows next to nuts about governing!

Dear Ministers, please read this. I am no expert in education but I think I am blessed with a slightly clearer head than all of you put together. The low standard of English among our students is a product of a wrong education policy which started in early 1970s. That was the era when the then government suddenly thought that efforts must be made to "mendaulatkan Bahasa Melayu/Kebangsaan/Malaysia/Baku/Kebangsaan and back to Melayu" again. Lets not go into the rationale for that policy. Lets just accept the fact that the result of that policy is that most students - and even graduates - nowadays can't even construct a decent sentence in English. Students did not just wake up one morning and found out that they could not speak English. It was a rapid evolution, if ever there was one. (Well, it could be a slow revolution, if you want to be argumentative).

A holistic approach towards solving this problem would be to start all over again. There is no fast cure -nip-in-the-bud kind of solution. So, what needed to be done was to start training teachers to teach whatever subject in English. Lets say we start doing so next year. It takes 3 years to train the teachers. So, 3 years from then, we would have to start teaching whatever subjects in English and make English more prominent in the curriculum from the standard 1 intake of that year, namely, 2012. Than we continue doing so until the whole system is filled with such curriculum. That is how we should do it.

Mr Prime Minister, you asked the people to work with you. Here I am. I had just done so. When will I be invited for tea?

1.2 The Unholy Trinity

Of all the news this week, this takes the cake. Muhyidin Yasin, a vice-President of UMNO, has managed to persuade Dr Mahathir to rejoin UMNO. Just how much persuasion did Dr Mahathir, the has-been of UMNO, who had left UMNO 3 months ago in disgust over the ineptitude of the Prime Minister cum current chief-in-command of UMNO and who vowed to never return to UMNO as long as the Prime Minister remains as such, need? Did Muhyiddin have to cry like Rafidah Aziz when Dr Mahathir announced that he had wanted to resign on stage before? Or was Dr Mahathir tied up, beaten like Anwar Ibrahim while he was in detention in 1997 and forced to submission? Or was it all it takes was a simple pact involving Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah challenging Abdullah Ahmad for the UMNO presidency and Muhyiddin challenging Najib Razak for the number 2 spot this December? That's all? Or is there more? Something like Dr Mahathir becoming some sort of a Minister Mentor or puppet master or whatever?

Dr Mahathir Mohamad. I just love that name. I love that name in the same vein I do the name Mawi. Or George Bush. Oh, Mugabe too. This is the guy who wrote a really rude letter to Tengku Abdul Rahman in 1969 after the 13th May riot. He was then sacked from UMNO. Then he rejoined. IN 1987, he was challenged for the UMNO Presidency by non other than Tengku Razaleigh. He won by a mere 46 votes (if memory serves me right). 12 UMNO members (later reduced to 11 as one withdrew) brought a court action challenging the validity of the voting process as there were representatives from unapproved divisions attending and voting. The younger generation now do not actually know what happened in Court in that UMNO 11 action. Let me tell you what actually happened. You can make up your own mind whether Dr Mahathir loves UMNO, as he says he does, or whether he is just in love with himself. What I am about to tell here are facts, nothing but facts.

The UMNO 11 action was never aimed at obtaining a Court order to declare UMNO illegal. Remember that. The UMNO 11 were just asking the Court to declare the voting process invalid because of the above reason. That was all. The order to declare UMNO illegal was never asked for by the UMNO 11. The UMNO 11 were represented by Raja Aziz Addruse, if I am not mistaken. Dr Mahathir's camp was represented, among others, by Gopal Sri Ram, who was then a practising lawyer. Now he is a Court of Appeal Judge. During the hearing, it was agreed by both sides that there were in fact representatives from unapproved divisions attending the assembly and voting. Under the law, societies, such as UMNO, must be registered. Not only that, the societies' branches or divisions must also be approved by the Registrar of Societies before they could be established. And UMNO at that time had several divisions which were unapproved.

If unapproved branches or divisions existed, the Societies Act provide that not only the unapproved branches or divisions shall be illegal, the society itself shall be illegal. This ridiculous law was enacted by the BN government than to catch PAS, which was known to have many unapproved branches. So, during the hearing, suddenly, and out of the blue, Gopal Sri Ram submitted that UMNO was illegal! It was not Raja Aziz Addruse or the UMNO 11 who said so but it was the lawyer acting for Dr Mahathir's camp who said so! That lawyer must have instruction to say so or otherwise he couldn't have said so.

Raja Aziz was caught by surprise with that submission. I vividly remember he was reportedly saying in the newspaper that that was a "kamikaze defence"! He then reminded the Court that he wasn't asking for UMNO to be declared illegal. But the Court declared UMNO illegal instead. Dr Mahathir, in all his speeches and writings have always blamed the UMNO 11 for causing it to be declared illegal. But it was Counsel acting for his side who submitted that point to the Judge. And it was through his sheer negligence that unapproved UMNO branches/divisions existed and were permitted to send delegates to the assembly to vote.

Who destroyed UMNO? You tell me.

All Dr Mahathir cared about is himself and his position as the Supreme chief of UMNO, Barisan Nasional and Malaysia. After UMNO was declared illegal, Tengku Abdul Rahman, Rais Yatim (if I am not mistaken) etc out of their love for the party formed a new party called UMNO Malaysia. Of course, the registration of this new party was strangely blocked by the Registrar of Society. The registry comes under the Home Ministry and it does not take any imagination to guess who the Home Minister was at that time. After that, Dr Mahathir formed UMNO Baru and he managed to register it. Strange. The earlier one was rejected and unapproved but the later one was accepted. Funny? Well, you make up your own mind.

Then Dr Mahathir passed a new law which says a new party with a certain percentage of members from an old party can retain the old party's name. Hahah...and so UMNO Baru was back to UMNO. Meanwhile, the rejection of UMNO Malaysia became a Court case. And Dr Mahathir fought that case as if his life depended on it. If he loved UMNO so much, why didn't he work together with Tengku Abdul Rahman, the Father of Malaysia to re-establish the real UMNO? You tell me.

Then he changed UMNO's constitution to make it real difficult for anybody to run for the office of President or Vice-President against the incumbent. This, according to him, was to make sure that only serious contenders would run for such office. Like, wow!

The rest, as they say, is history. Before he retired, he handpicked Abdullah Badawi, in the true tradition of UMNO, the passing-the-baton adat. He thought Abdullah Ahmad would be submissive to him and his ilk. He thought Abdullah Ahmad was a meek lackey who would yield to his whims and fancies. Little did he know what was to come. Now UMNO has lost all credibility and is destined for extinction. Who caused it? You tell me.

He now admitted that it was a mistake for him to pass the baton to Abdullah Ahmad. He asked people to oust him from UMNO. When that did not yield result, he left UMNO hoping many others would revolt and follow him. As it turned out, only one of his son and his wife, and Sanusi Junid followed him. Even baby Mukhriz did not do so! He failed. He then complained that the provision in UMNO constitution, which he inserted, makes it difficult for Abdullah Ahmad to be challenged. Irony personified!

Now, he has ganged up with Muhyiddin Yasin and his old nemesis, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah to challenge Abdullah Ahmad.The guile of this man. Would make Nicollo Machiavelli proud, this one.

UMNO Baru/UMNO Lama/UMNO Asal whatever is a sinking ship because of Dr Mahathir. All this void in the party's leadership is caused by him. He never appreciate dissent. Any voice of rationale or dissent would be perceived as opposition and would quickly be killed off. UMNO "leadership" has always been, under Dr Mahathir, about listening to and following him and doing what he wants. That creates a big hole in its leadership. When Dr Mahathir left, UMNO was like a headless chicken. That is why UMNO is where it is now. It is not because of Abdullah Ahmad.

But the again, Dr Mahathir will never ever accept this fact.

1.3 Transfer of cases

Under the law the Attorney General has the power to transfer any criminal case from the lower Courts to the High Courts. I think the validity of this law has been argued and determined. It is apparently a valid law. This power is exercised at the sole discretion of the AG. He doesn't even need to give reasons for it. All he needs to do was to sign a certificate of transfer and that's it.

Now he wants Anwar Ibrahim's sodomy case to be transferred to the High Court. Apparently because of who Anwar is (whatever that means!) and because of public interest. Well let me tell you something Honourable AG. Nobody gives two hoots about Anwar's sexuality.

Frankly, this absolute power to transfer is unconstitutional, I think. It gives a lot of room for abuse. It even gives the possibility to the AG to choose a Judge. It should be struck down as unconstitutional because it transgresses the very basis of our legal and judicial system. An accused person is entitled to a fair trial in a Court not of the AG's choosing but in a Court which has the proper jurisdiction over the offence of which he is being accused.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

The race is not over yet

Finally, after 10 years, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim rejoins Parliament as Permatang Pauh MP, the same seat he had prior to being sacked and incarcerated for 5 years for sodomy and corruption charges. He was released in 2004 after the Court overturned the Sodomy charges.

In Malaysia, politics is like the Decathlon event between Pakatan Rakyat and BN (ameno), where the winner is decided after 8 or 10 different sports or events. Thats right boys and girls, its not over yet.

Event No 1: BN rushed the amendment of Constitution (Amendment) Bill 2007, where the government intends to make the mandatory retirement age of the Election Commission members 66 years old instead of the present 65. Just in time before GE12, and in particular to accomodate SPR Chairman, Tan Sri Rashid Abdul Rahman.
BN 1 : PR 0

Event No 2: Pak Lah announced early dissolution of Parliament in February 2008, and General Election set for March 8, 2008. This is just 1 months shy of Anwar's eligibility to contest, due to his 4-year ban from politics.
BN 2 : PR 0

Event No. 3: SD from Raja Petra accusing Najib and Rosmah's involvement, along with several others in the Altantuya murder. This was followed by Balasubramaniam's SD, again implicating Najib.
BN 2 : PR 1

Event No. 4: Counter attack from Umno against Anwar Ibrahim allegedly sodomizing Saiful Bukhari Azlan. Probably to neutralize Event No. 4. Anwar was charged in early August 2008. However, the swearing by Saiful was countered by Ramlang Porigi, who said the oath is not valid.
Shame on Umno and Saiful!
BN 2 : PR 2

Event No. 5: PKR President, Datin Seri Wan Azizah Ismail vacating her Permatang Pauh Seat to make way for Anwar to contest. This came as a suprise to many, especially Umno who thought Anwar would contest in Kulim or Bandar Tun Razak instead.
BN 2 : PR 3

Event No. 6: BN/ameno rushing the DNA Bill to be debated in Parliament. Once the bill has been debated 3 times (just finished the 2nd debate on 26 August 2008), it will become and Act. They will use this to force Anwar to give up his blood sample (to be planted on Saiful's underwear?..)
BN 4 : PR 3

Event No. 7: Anwar wins big in Permatang Pauh by-election. Probably be sworn-in by Thursday at the earliest. Although I doubt this since Pak Lah will present Budget 2008 on Friday. They wouldn't want Pak Lah to be embarassed by Anwar on Friday.
BN 4 : PR 4

And these events hopefully would occur soon-

Event No. 9: The so-called 30 BN MPs jump ship to Pakatan Rakyat as soon as Anwar is sworn-in as MP. This occurs earlier then 10 September. Pakatan Rakyat forms new government with Datuk Seri Anwar as the 6th Prime Minister of Malaysia.
BN 4 : PR 5

Event No. 9: New IGP, AG, ACA DG and Chief Justice is elected to replace the Umno elected reps. Anwar still undergoes trial for Sodomy but will be dropped due to false evidence.
BN 4 : PR 6

Event No. 10: All the corrupted BN MPs, their families and cronies; be investigated for crime against Malaysians committed in the past 20 years.
BN 4 : PR 7

So who comes out the winner in the end? It is still too early to break out the champagne. The race will continue, but it looks like Pakatan Rakyat will win this Decathlon...

Monday, August 25, 2008

7 KEBETULAN UNTUK PENGUNDI PERMATANG PAUH

Courtesy from MarGeeMar

7 KEBETULAN UNTUK PENGUNDI PERMATANG PAUH MENGAPA ARIF SHAH TIDAK BOLEH MENJADI MP.

Ini untuk para pengundi di Permatang Pauh. Artikel ini sangat penting. Bacalah, kemudian fikir-fikirkan dan renung-renungkan.



1. Calon BN/Umno Arif Shah Omar Shah berkata beliau telah berhenti mengikuti pengajian Phd. Di Edision University of Technology. Soalannya, bagaimanakah seorang yang hanya mempunyai kelulusan Diploma sahaja seperti Arif ini,boleh terus melangkah sampai keperingkat Phd. pula? Pelik tapi benar! Takkan Si Arif ini tak tahu bahawa sesiapapun boleh membeli Phd dari universiti ini? Samada Si Arif ini bodoh sial ataupun cuba menipu Rakyat dengan Phdnya.

2. Sogok RM500 kepada penduduk Permatang Pauh upah sebagai perisik.

3. Tidak membayar wang caruman KWSP.

4. Menyertai perarakan haram Umno di Komtar apabila Pakatan Rakyat mengambil-alih Kerajaan Negeri Pulau Pinang. Perarakan haram ini disertai Arif kerana kononnya kedudukan kaum Melayu di Pulau Pinang diancam oleh kerajaan PR.

5. Ariff Shah adalah adik kepada Tan Sri Amin Shah Omar Shah (Foto atas kanan) yang kini tinggal di UK kerana terlibat dalam skandal . Skandal ini melibatkan kes penipuan PSC Industries Berhad, dimana Amin Shah telah diberi kontrak bernilai lebih daripada RM24 billion dalam bentuk kontak TLDM sekitar tahun 1998 pada ketika Timbalan Perdana Menteri Najib Tun Razak memegang jawatan Menteri Pertahanan. Kerajaan Malaysia telah membayar Amin Shah berbillion Ringgit sebagai ‘duit hangus’ tetapi malangnya Amin Shah tidak menunaikan bahagiannya. Berbillion Ringgit wang Rakyat Malaysian telah lenyap begitu sahaja. Ini merupakan skandal kewangan terbesar dalam sejarah Negara! Mustahil jika Arif Shah mengatakan bahawa beliau tidak terlibat dalam perkara ini.

6. Demi mempopularkan dirinya dikalangan orazng Melayu yang menyoal laterbelangnya sebagai seorang India Muslim, Arif Shah telahcuba munukarkan nama George Town kepada “Bandar Datuk Abdullah Fahim”.

7. Arif Shah inilah yang telah mendesak Pak Lah bersama pemimpin Unmo Pulau Pinang lain untuk membatalkan semua Projek Mega di Pulau Pinang sebagai hukuman kepada Rakyat Pulau Pinang kerana mengundi Pakatan Rakyat.

Pada pendapat saya, jika seseorang itu boleh bercakap bohong tentang kelulusan akademiknya, beliau juga boleh berbohong tentang pembabitannya dalam perniagaan abangnya, Amin Shah. Di Negara demokrasi lain, seorang individu seperti Arif Shah tidak akan diletakkan bertanding segai seorang calon sama sekali.

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Swearing is the new game in town

In a typical western court, a person swears on the Bible to "tell the truth and nothing but the truth" so help him God. In Buddhism, you create your own bad karma - and there's no such thing as swearing on the Buddha's picture or image to support your claim of the "truth". Chinese families were known to settle disputes by swearing in front of a deity. The divine retribution is very heavy on the sinner who lied.

In Islam, swearing on the Quran is not part of the teachings in Islam as Tuan Guru Nik Aziz had said and cannot be found in the Quran or Hadith. A Quran is meant to be recited, understood, and used as law for Islam religion, not to be sweared upon.

If Saiful/Amno say its part of Prophet Muhammad SAW teachings, the Quran during the Prophet's time isn't in book form like one can get today. It was passed on and memorized by Muhammad's disciples. Only during Khalifah Saidina Usman's time, that he decided to document the Quran as the people who memorize the Quran verses were getting old, beginning to forget the verses, and dying or old age.

If swearing can get Saiful proof his innocence and saudara Anwar's guilt, we should get all these people to swear immediately:
* Azilah Hadri & Sirul swear they did not kill Altantuya
* Aziz Buyong swear he did not strap C4 on Altantuya
* Rahim Noor swear he did not cause Anwar's black eye
* Muhammad 2x swear he did not bring out undeclared cash from Australia (although caught doing it!)
* Muhammad 2x swear he speekee no ingliiish
* Najib swear he did not summon Musa Hassan to instruct Musa Safri to order Azilah Hadri to kill Altantuya.
*
*...and the list goes on.

Such irony isn't it? We have laws in Malaysia, civil and syariah. But at the same time, these Umno goons keep asking Anwar to swear on the Quran, like Saiful did. Even Tun Mahathir challenged Anwar to do the same to proof he is not guilty. Why not ask every criminal to swear while we're at it, then the courts, lawyers, prosecutors, judges can call it a day, since everyone is innocent. Welcome to Malaysia, where swearing by the good book has more weight than our Civil or Syariah laws. No pun intended despite how questionable the integrity and transparency of our judiciary is in right now.

Anwar made a wise decision not to play along. That would've made Islam look like a joke, where everyone can swear on the Quran and claim innocence. Now, it is Saiful who looks like a complete fool. No one beliefs him. I mean, if a 12 year old can protect himself from being sodomised by his teacher what is Saiful's excuse?

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Its time to open up




Selangor MB was caught by suprise when thousands of UiTM students marched towards SUK, the official Selangor government administration building. The students were protesting suggestion by YB Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim on UiTM opening up 10% of its intake quota for non-bumiputra students.

I see Khalid's intention is good: to create a more competitive environment for Bumiputra students whilst having much-clever non-Bumi students as the challengers. Besides, competition makes us become a better person, we know where we are relative to others around us. So whats is the problem of having just 10% non-bumi competing amongst the 90% bumis? Exactly, nothing.
Its just another day where umno is using Khalid's suggestion to stir-up the racial issue. I can't help notice the word 'hadhari' printed on the protest banner.

UiTM is funded by the government, thus making it IPTA (Awam) status. Government funded means the money is coming from Malaysian tax payers, you and me. Now, its a fact that majority of tax payers are non-bumis, ie the Chinese. Knowing that, is it too difficult to spare 10% of the quota for the non-bumis to study there? Indians and Chinese are Malaysians too remember?

Imagine the universities worldwide practicing this quota system. We will never have Malaysian graduates from MIT, Oxford, Cambridge, Yale, Kettering and thousand others. Reason: we are not Caucasian, thus we are not eligible to study there. These prestigious schools and many others accepts students based on merits, not based on ethnicity and where they're from. Its not abnormal to see the best MIT student is a Chinese, or a Russian, or Indian. Its nothing to be afraid of when a Malaysian tops out the Deans List at London School or Economics. The Malaysians see this as a national achievement, while the Americans or British sees this as a challenge for them to improve.

Instead of being selfish and racist, UiTM should open up its doors to non-Bumi students as well. 10% is too small a percentage to hurt anybody. But these Malay students will know where they are on a level-playing field. We always jeer our sportsmen as being 'jaguh kampung', now lets put the money where our mouth is. Then maybe one day, UiTM and others like it will become the school of choice in the likes of the American and British Ivy Leagues.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Another theory on Saiful-Najib-DSAI saga

So a friend came over to visit a few nights ago. Turns out he has some nuggets to share about our friend, Saiful the sodo-mee. This is what he has to say:

Saiful was indeed planted by Umno (aka Najib) to spy on PKR's campaigning activities during March 8 election.

Post election, several secret meetings held between DSAI and MPs from all over the country, in particular from Sabah and Sarawak. As DSAI's aide, Saiful was in charge of setting-up these meetings, the dates, time, and venues on behalf of DSAI. It is unknown if Saiful is also present during these secret sessions.

Most of the time, the meeting was conducted at the Damansara condominium where the alleged sodomy (ies) took place. Saiful was pronged in the butt 8 times, mind you.

The potential threats of BN MP defections are real. Saiful immediately reported this to Najib.

Using C4 would be too obvious, and they can't pin DSAI on corruption since he doesn't have any, Thus, Najib, Gani & Musa created this Sodomy II story, similar to the Sodomy I episode.

The accusation is simple, and punishable by up to 20 years imprisonment. It would prevent DSAI from entering parliament, and would deter the potential defectors from jumping ship.

When asked if DSAI had ever been to the condominium, he didn't deny he's been there on more than a few occasions. Even the condo security personnel has testified to the police of seeing him entering the premise.

So the story of the secret meetings must be true.
Najib is aware of this, and he probably even have the list of MPs waiting for DSAI to win Permatang Pauh on Aug. 26.

DSAI must be stopped at all cost, even if Najib has to recycle the bullshit story of Sodomy I.

Where is Pak Lah during all this? Can't figure this one yet. Either he is out of the loop, sleeping, or he is on top of all this but manage to keep out of the lime light. I guess we will find out soon enough, come PR taking over the Federal Government.