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Musa Hitam: Three ways to get rid of Najib

SusahKes: Are you still an Umno member, ex-DPM Musa Hitam? If yes, you are part of the system that keep MO1 (Malaysian Official 1) propped up. Which means, you are part of the problem.

So I am truly bewildered when you offer suggestions as to how PM Najib Razak could be gotten rid of. It's like you want to have your cake and eat it too.

You want to avoid taking the high road - as former PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad has done - to a direct confrontational path with Najib.

And yet, every now and then you appear out of the woodwork, and give us suggestions and notions that imply that you've got your finger on the pulse of the nation; on what the rakyat is truly feeling.

But to me, you seem more like a person who is sitting on the fence, without truly cutting off ties with the corrupt umbilical cord that feeds the system.

And so, let me imagine, what would happen to this book of yours. Apart from token purchases by and giveaways to, friends and neighbours, my guess is, it would be confined to the dustbin of history.

Here lies the musings of a man who could have been, but who instead felt that he was safer inside the boat, instead of jumping into the deep end with the rest of us.

SpecialBrew: Three ways to get rid of Najib - the first is through Umno, which is near impossible, second through foreign intervention is double impossible, and finally thorough next general election, which is quite challenging due to gerrymandering, which is a hallmark of our nation’s politics.

Ultimately to overcome gerrymandering, the opposition needs to secure more than 60 percent of the popular votes. My bet is the third option, which is difficult but possible, only if opposition can get its act together.

Hang Babeuf: First option is out. Second option might work, but the longer-term consequences are undesirable.

The third way is preferable. But not via some rigged and bought (1MDB-type plundered and gerrymandered and "rorted") general election.

More direct expression of the widespread popular desire for something very different and far better will be needed. That way will require some real guts, courage, determination and persistence.

Are people capable of a sustained effort? Who? How many? For how long? At what personal cost?

Clever Voter: All three options are unlikely to succeed because Najib thrives on a patronage system that rewards loyalty. The system is part of the corrupt culture that Musa grew up.

Fairman: The 87 Umno MPs (minus Najib) and 46 MPs (other BN reps in peninsula, Sabah and Sarawak) should have the courage to remove the PM.

These wakil rakyat have taken their oath to protect the good name of Malaysia and uphold the Federal Constitution. But they are loyal to one destructive character when it was the voters who sent them to the Dewan Rakyat.

So Musa, why leave the task to Umno to remove a PM when it should be the MPs through the king or vote of no confidence in the house? The BN MPs have enough numbers among themselves to ditch the PM.

What is the BN supreme council doing? In the next election, the rakyat have to teach the 143 BN MPs a lesson and maybe the PAS representatives too.

6th Generation Immigrant: Musa, in his mention of the impossibility of the first option to be successful, has confirmed what everyone knows for a fact - Umno members are being made naive and do not (or perhaps not allowed to) think for themselves individually.

There are no intellectual members of leadership qualities left or any questioning of its leaders allowed, whether right or wrong at any time. Freedom of speech is suspect within Umno.

If Umno does not practise management of, by and for its members, how can they ever lead us in a true democracy as a government? The cat is out of the beg.

Anonymous_1414741862: Musa is a senior former politician of wisdom, intellect, and experience. During his heyday he had a lot of followers, many of whom would have loved to see him become PM.

For him to suggest the three ways of getting rid of Najib, however, is regretful and even embarrassing. It smacks of truism: he says the obvious and does not offer anything new.

Is that all his wealth of intellect and experience can offer?

DontPlayGod: There is no way Umno will lose the elections, even if I sincerely hope this will happen.

Thanks to a former PM who devised Project IC, and the rural folks who remain ignorant of what is going on in the country, and who have been brainwashed to hate other races by the ruling party.

Sabah and Sarawak and the rural folks will ensure Umno will be in charge for another 100 years. I have no hope of other alternatives coming into the picture.

I also observe that the racists are very forgiving of their leaders who loot left, right and centre.

Anticonmen: Musa completely and conveniently overlooked the fourth and only practical option - to wind up his kleptocrat party, reinstate the 1957 constitution, treat all as equals, reinstate the freedoms, and ban racism and one-race parties. Simple solution that goes to the root.

Doc: I don't think that Umno leaders who are supporting Najib will rebel against him if they think that the party survival is at stake.

Currently, without a doubt, Umno's political survival is at stake under Najib's leadership and these political leaders in Umno are fully aware of the fact.

But between lining their pocket with money that Najib is allegedly paying to buying them off versus Umno's political survival and the welfare of the Malaysian rakyat, we can safely say that the Umno leaders have adopted Najib's famous mantra - cash is king and a "me" first policy.

I got to admit that one impossible feat that Najib has achieved is that he had united Dr M with all his diehard foes – Anwar Ibrahim, Lim Kit Siang and now Musa.

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