YOURSAY ‘The trouble with M’sians is that they love to talk around the problem.’
Najib, the meek, strikes back!
Malaysia-boho-leh: Penang Deputy Chief Minister II P Ramasamy, you are in danger of glamourising PM Najib Razak's exploits.
Such a huge amount of public money in your personal accounts is not acceptable, period. No excuses for Najib, please. If DAP politicians do the same, they should also resign or be sacked. No two ways about it.
The trouble with Malaysians is that they love to talk around the problem instead of taking prompt action to punish the wrongdoer.
Turvy: Ramasamy, you picked the wrong literary characters. Both those you mention -Macbeth and Lady Macbeth - were caught in the grip of circumstances which were not of their creation.
Nor have you understood that their dilemma was one of conscience - one before the deed, the other after.
Our brother, Najib, is the creator of his problems and his problem is not his conscience but of the burglar caught in the spotlight of the public gaze while allegedly emptying the national coffers.
Look for a character that has no morals, no conscience to tell him what is right and wrong, no guilt in breaking the trust of the people or ruining the name of his family and a great father, and you will have the right analogy.
But I hope you won’t do that, but will simply call him by his right name. No embellishments please.
Anonymous #33227154: Former PM Mahathir Mohamad sacked his deputy Anwar Ibrahim and he also removed Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. What Najib did is nothing new.
Mahathir started this trend of sacking DPMs and removing PMs. Why wasn't anyone making noise when he committed these acts then?
MAT: Neither Najib nor any of his current plausible replacements appear capable of reversing Malaysia’s decades-long decline. Herein lies perhaps Mahathir’s worst legacy of all.
By forcing the three most capable politicians beside himself out of Umno during their prime, Mahathir ensured that only relative lightweights would command leading positions in Malaysia’s most powerful political institution.
If Malaysia is to exit this crisis on a path to restored health rather than steeper decline, the political and economic reforms first demanded in the reformasi movement of the late 1990s will finally need to put in place: either by a new generation of leadership within Umno, or by Malaysia’s repressed but resilient political opposition.
Anonymous 2188621438089990: Mahathir was very lucky that social media did not exist during his era.
During his dictatorship era, he shut down any news outlets which went against him and people were not made aware of the evil side of him; much, much different to what the current leader is going through now.
Progressive: Many of us have differing views and dead against some of our government’s policies. I'm one of those.
All said - what is most important in this hour of need is for political stability in our beloved country. Najib's action is most welcome as you cannot run any organisation let alone a country with a dissenting team of managers or ministers.
The country is more important than an individual. Muhyiddin should have resigned as a matter of principle rather than wait to be sacked.
Dizzer: Lady Macbeth's most relevant pieces of advice to her husband are: "Things without all remedy/Should be without regard: what's done, is done." and, "Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our pow'r to account?"
As always, Shakespeare has words for every conceivable situation.
R1: Bravery and an act of desperation, what are the differences really?
Pemerhati: Here is another possible scenario. Muhyiddin is likely to have skeletons in his cupboard. Even if he does not have any skeletons, Najib can create them just as Mahathir and Najib created the ‘sodomy skeletons’ in the case of former opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim.
If Muhyiddin tries to fight back and make life difficult for Najib, Najib will almost certainly unleash his hounds in the enforcement agencies and charge him with some sort of wrongdoing.
The charges may be real or trumped-up but Najib’s alleged kangaroo judges will find him guilty and send him to rot in jail.
Muhyiddin knows that such a scenario is very likely as he has seen at close range what happened to Anwar and since the very much more charismatic Anwar could not do anything about it, Muhyiddin would feel that he also would be as helpless as Anwar.
Thus it is very likely that a 68-year-old Muhyiddin may decide that it is best to call it a day and enjoy the wealth he has accumulated.
Anonymous_1423808262: I don't agree with the assessment that the top duo dare not touch the nonagenarian.
Desperate time calls for desperate measure. If Mahathir has to be sacrificed for Najib to survive, it will be done. After all, he has nothing to lose.
Swipenter: A replay of the good old days of ‘Team A’ and ‘Team B’. PAS now effectively also has ‘Team A’ and ‘Team B’.
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