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Anwar, do you remember your promise?
Published:  Jan 28, 2010 7:46 AM
Updated: Jan 29, 2010 2:51 AM

vox populi big thumbnail 'You promised in a closed-door session one Sunday three weeks ago that you will be hard on Zulkifli should he fail to toe the line in the future.'

Zaid: PKR has become poor man's Umno

SusahKes: Anwar, let me remind you of what you promised at a closed-door session one Sunday a few weeks ago. I was there, so this is not ‘pasang telinga punya cerita' (hearsay). You promised that you will be hard on Zulkifli should he fail to toe the line in the future. Many people heard your undertaking. That was three weeks ago.

What do we have today? As much I dislike Umno, I hate even more a person who promises reform but goes in the opposite direction. You keep forgetting that PKR did not come into power because the rakyat loved them. It was because they hated Umno/Barisan Nasional.

If you treat PKR like the poor man's Umno - as Zaid Ibrahim puts it - then you are doomed to lose votes. At the end of the day, you let the people's aspirations down just because you want to adopt the populist view.

The Star 's Joceline Tan has already gone to town with this; they are cooking the entire Pakatan Rakyat team. Is it fair to the rest of us because of one recalcitrant MP? You decide. If you don't, the rakyat will.

MorningSun!: To date, PKR is only one-quarter cooked. We need time to make it fully cooked. There are still many leaders who are like Zulkifli Noordin, even those inside the party's disciplinary board. It is not an easy job, Zaid. PKR needs more leaders like you to clean up its house.

Soon Lay Peng: PKR has never been different. As a wise lawyer, Zaid should have known better. Are you now tired that there is no breakthrough in your struggles for what you think is right? After all, a man of principles wouldn't have jumped like a frog in the first place.

Azmil Tayeb: PKR leaders have demonstrated that they are weak and have no disciplinary procedures. They should have issued a show-cause letter to Zulklifi to explain why he should not be suspended. Gagging him is of no use. He would still talk loud and challenge the leadership on the Allah issue.

He has to be sacked before better leaders quit. Losing one is better than losing many good ones. Sack him before he creates more problems.

Inspektor Klueso: Thank God, Malaysia still has men of character and principles like Zaid. Anwar is increasingly looking like the Umno operator of old, steeped in the habits of delaying, obfuscating and hoping that problems will go away.

Cancer is best dealt with in the early stages, not when they are in the late malignancy period. Zulkifli and PAS' Hasan Ali are both in the later incubation stages. Further indecisiveness will lead to having to amputate the whole torso, rather than just one of the limbs, which is what is needed now.

Dr Mahathir Mohamad was much more decisive than his former protege Anwar. This due to his medical training, perhaps?

Minority view prevails in PKR over Zulkifli

Jiminy Qrikert: This imposition of will by two supremos over the majority 23 members in support of a racist bigot speaks volumes of what PKR means by ‘Ketuanan Rakyat' (people's supremacy).

After all the trumpeting PKR has done about being the champion of all Malaysians, when it comes to the crunch and calls for the party to stand by its principles and act firmly against discrimination, it has failed and failed miserably.

If Zulkifli can get away with opposing a stand that PKR has taken on the issue of Allah and which even PAS has agreed to, then PKR is no better than Umno. This issue is about religious freedom to practice what has always been the case until Umno played it up. By the action of these two supremos, PKR has endorsed Umno's bigoted scheme.

Just like Umno's 1Malaysia is really 1Melayu, PKR's 'Ketuanan Rakyat' is really a convenient disguise of 'Ketuanan Melayu', until such time that the ultra Malays in PKR rear their ugly heads en bloc. Meanwhile, Chinese emigration goes on.

Sabahan: PKR/Anwar, please rethink your actions towards Zulkifli. This is not a case of backstabbing or an act of sabotage by party members against him, but rather Zulkifli backstabbing the party and the people who voted for him.

Sabah and Sarawak are very upset with BN, especially pertaining to the recent religious controversy. Pakatan will win by default, not because of its own merits as East Malaysians don't know Pakatan candidates very well.

But if PKR is showing similar 'tolerance' of racism and religious bigotry, then East Malaysians will have to rethink ditching the devil they know. PKR is getting more and more irrelevant within Pakatan, since it is looking more and more like Umno.

Penang PKR MP may defect to new party

Disgusted Malaysian: May I remind this Penang PKR leader that during the last general election, he had appeared in various DAP ceramahs all over Penang and told the people very aggressively that PKR can be trusted as loyal partners to DAP, and that it should govern the state together with DAP to bring progress and development to Penangites. What happened to those beautiful promises?

PCM vice-president Huan Cheng Guan: For your information, Parti Cinta Malaysia (PCM) belongs to everyone. We are friendly to everyone, including Pakatan. Don't put words in our mouths and say that we are friendly to Barisan only. We welcome all Malaysians who love the country to join us.

Karma: It is so sickening to hear about these people betraying those who voted for them. If anyone from Barisan were to jump over to Pakatan, it is the same - they are traitors. What is the point of elections if you're going to abuse the electoral system?

Geronimo: The moles are popping out from their holes. In typical Umno fashion, they blame everyone but themselves. Have some integrity. Resign and re-contest the seat. That is, if you still think you are still needed by the rakyat.


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