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YOURSAY | 'So OSF is bad, but billions from an absolute monarchy without elections is okay?'

Unlike Soros fund, RM2.6b had no strings attached, says Khairy

Rojak: Even from someone increasingly desperate to defend the indefensible this is quite bizarre. Does Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin seriously think a few thousand from the Open Society Foundations (OSF) to organisations like Malaysiakini - with a firm commitment to dialogue and openness - are more suspicious than billions from an absolute monarchy that doesn't even hold national elections?

I don't believe he seriously thinks that, not if his privileged education meant anything. So perhaps he could perform the small courtesy of not treating the rest of the population like illiterate idiots.

Kangkung: How come when it concerns 'Malaysian Official 1' (MO1), it is "no strings attached", but for everyone else, a donation is interference? Did you learn this from Oxford, Khairy?

Roguekiller: I don't believe you are an Oxford graduate. The RM2.6 billion was (allegedly misappropriated) from the rakyat through 1MDB which employed a few intermediaries entities/correspondent banks before arriving at the PM's personal account.

This tactic was a smoke screen - indirect route, but as well-planned as it seemingly was, there were always some smarter people - the Sarawak Report and The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) - identifying the source.

It is NOT a donation because there is no identifiable donor. Besides, the FBI and US Department of Justice had investigated and proved it in tandem with SR and WSJ's findings.

Soros is a well-known personality, his funding is merely for free and fair elections and it is spelled out. His funding is to aid beneficiaries to beef up their abilities to perform what the funds are designed for.

There is no strings attached too, for the benefactor does not insist on any role if the beneficiary wins the election. How and where is the string attached to?

Kim Quek: I just can't help but wonder how thick is Khairy's skin that he could continue to repeat the lie that Najib received his RM2.6 billion from the Saudi royal family, when US Department of Justice (DOJ) has already proven to the whole world that this money was in truth misappropriated from 1MDB.

In a sensational press conference televised worldwide, US attorney-general Loretta Lynch disclosed the precise details of this money trail that ended in MO1's account.

On the day (March 21, 2013) 1MDB Global (1MDB subsidiary) received US$1.59 billion from its US$3 billion bond issue, it wired US$1.5 billion to 3 intermediaries (names given) which collectively wired $835 million on the same day to Tanore Finance (controlled by Jho Low), which in turn wired on the same day US$620 million to MO1's account in Ambank, and again US$61 million on March 25, 2013. The names of all transacting banks were given.

Against such intractable evidence of crime, which has remained unchallenged to date, there is no tangible evidence that the money came from the Saudis. Najib has remained resoundingly mute since this mega heist exploded in early July 2015, except his lame protest that he has done nothing wrong, and that this is but a plot to topple him.

In any country other than a corrupt dictatorship, the culprit would have been imprisoned long ago. Even in pseudo-democracy Malaysia, can we at least expect some decency from leaders such as Khairy to refrain from adding salt to injury by discontinuing trumpeting their lies to the people?

Odin Tajué: Khairy Jamaluddin, until and unless you can supply the name of the supposed Arab donor and proof of the money having been his made or earned from sources other than 1MDB directly or indirectly, then the assertion that it has been stolen from 1MDB will continue to be accepted by us.

And since it has been stolen from 1MDB, then there, of course, would be no strings attached. But you and we know that your implication that the money was a donation is simply false, a badly concocted grandmother's tale, a load of camel dung from the whole of Arabia.

Like your boss, you are completely without shame, and continue to spout falsities and/or inanities to protect your position. The letter you have mentioned is fake. It was produced solely to support the lie told that the money was a donation. Anyone with a brain and grasp of English can tell you that.

Negarawan: With the looming elections, Umno aspirants will start to battle it out for seat allocations by impressing their supreme leader with the most nonsensical statements.

Rembau is at stake if KJ does not show allegiance. His statement shows that he is not capable of independent thinking and does not have the intellectual capacity of a typical university graduate.

He does not possess the intelligence and curiosity to question and investigate the contents, language and letterhead of the letters that accompanied every "donation" to MO1.

The investigation agencies in seven countries, including the US DOJ and FBI, have explained it with clear evidence that the money that went into MO1's personal accounts was from the rakyat, not some fictitious Arabian prince that Umno and MO1 want us to believe.

KJ should at least try to grow up as he's not a "Fourth Floor Boy" anymore.

Doc: I understand why Khairy and Umno are blaming Soros and his OSF for meddling in our local NGOs. Now that Najib Razak has gone to China to beg and borrow money ahead of the next general election, obviously playing the usual "Chinese are stealing from the Malays" racial card rhetoric come election time is not going to sit well with the new creditors.

So a new "bogeyman" is needed, hence the Soros and Jew bashing.

I am predicting that come GE 14, the Christians and Jews/Soros will be Umno's designated bogeyman and the new election mantra will be 'the Christians and Jews are stealing from the Malays'.


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