by Joe Fernandez
COMMENT The last Sarawak state
election was in 2011. So the next one could be held anytime between now and 2016
even as the dust refuses to settle on 505, the just-concluded 13th General
Election of May 5. We probably haven't heard the last of 505 either until the
14th GE.
We have had nothing but politics after the political tsunami of Sat 8 Mar, 2008.
Again, 505 may be over.
But it seems the politicking is not going to be over anytime soon since the Barisan Nasional (BN) has less than a proper mandate i.e. (1) having not secured the popular vote, (2) claimed 133 seats in Parliament -- blame the Election Commission -- in a manner which can be disputed in the Court of Public Opinion, and (3) the First Past the Post System is only morally tenable if the so-called winner secures the popular vote as well. Otherwise, the sordid issue of gerrymandering and more from the BN's Department of Dirty Tricks (DDT) comes in.
Sarawak will add to the politicking in the country.
It should have gone to the state polls as well on May 5 to reduce the level of politicking. But alas it didn't! But that's another story.
This is more of a curtain raiser on politicking over Sarawak within the context of 505 and GE14 and not so much the GE13 per se.
Even as the rallies and roadshows on 505 proceed and no doubt until the BN falls, the political parties are expected to focus on getting as many people as possible in Sarawak to register themselves as voters and educating them on the importance of turning up on D Day.
Sarawak Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud, 77, and family remaining in office 42 years, corruption, abuse of power, conflict of interest issues, land, dam building and the influx of foreign labour into the SCORE region are expected to figure prominently.
In all likelihood Taib will not step down as pledged during the run-up to 2011. He will probably attempt to serve out yet another full five-year term and thereby add to the growing controversy on Sarawak .
Hence, Taib will no doubt emerge as the best campaigner for the Opposition as the politicking in Sarawak begins.
In his defence, he can be expected to recycle his "politics of development", an approach which has seen Sarawak reduced to the dubious distinction of being the 2nd poorest Territory in Malaysia . Sabah is the poorest, according to a Dec 2010 World Bank Report released in Kota Kinabalu on the two Borneo nations.
The politics of development is the proverbial fig leaf.
Some people just don't know when to simply let go and move on, come what may, with the rest of what remains of their lives. They live in constant fear of incarceration for any number of transgressions in office if they just let go and walk into the sunset. In the end, their own guilty conscience will kill them. That would be poetic justice indeed!
Self-preservation is driving Taib to prolong the Melanau political Mafia sanctioned Rahman-Taib political dynasty of latter day Brown Rajahs in Dayak country. He seems smitten as well in a way with stories on the White Rajahs and even had a huge portrait of him painted in a similar outfit as James Brooke, the first White Rajah, wore.
At the heart of the political debate in Sarawak is that the Rahman-Taib dynasty presides over the increasing criminalisation of the nation.
The Melanau political Mafia are in league with the Chinese Triads who virtually terrorize the Orang Asal in the interior regions, as mercenaries for the Mafia, in search of plunder for timber, land and other resources.
The Police look the other way or even join in for some crumbs now and then from the table. It's an open secret that every Commissioner of Police Sarawak, generally from Malaya , goes home after his tenure of office laughing all the way to the bank.
The Court goes around in circles between three points viz. "ostrich head in the sand", "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" and three blind men and the elephant.
Things will get a whole lot worse in Sarawak before they turn a corner, if at all, for the better.
For one thing, Taib has been further emboldened by the 25 parliamentary seats he bagged in GE13. He's walking on cloud nine even as he fends off, in the most bizarre of circumstances, his much younger Lebanese wife's childish tantrums and her attempts in her pyjamas ever so often to publicly ridicule him at his office as the onlookers giggle nervously.
There are other skeletons in Taib's cupboard which will provide fodder for the Opposition cannons.
Abdul Rahman Ya'kub, 85, Taib's maternal uncle, was his immediate predecessor who was later Governor during his nephew's first term in office. He provides the Rahman component in the Taib-Rahman dynasty. He was in the news recently when two of his daughters were caught on TV discussing ways to evade taxes in cahoots with Taib. Tax avoidance and tax evasion, the latter a crime, are not one and the same thing.
These days, discredited by the Uncle-Nephew Feud scam, he can reportedly be found operating more in the shadows in Sarawak, in the corridors of power in Putrajaya where the Melanau Mafia have long had fulltime lobbyists no doubt paid with the people's money, or in Singapore , Hong Kong , Saudi Arabia and other locations abroad.
Back in 1980, he boasted publicly during a ceramah in the interior in the semi-literate Iban country of having some RM 7 billion in personal assets salted away, small change these days considering the fabulous fortune that his nephew has allegedly amassed in public office during the last 32 years and the US$ 44 billion that Mahathir Mohamad managed to make off, this according to a long list of references in Wikipedia, during his 22 years in the premiership.
The disclosure on the RM 7 billion had a point. Rahman was in fact impressing upon and warning the backward longhouse Ibans in a thinly-veiled statement that it would be foolhardy to cross his family. The underlying message was that he could buy them at a loss and sell them at a profit.
Taib reportedly made a similar "like father, like son" statement in the longhouses in 2011. He made no threats. He simply admitted that he had so much money that he no longer needed to be in politics. The MACC may have been hard of hearing here.
More recently, on internet TV, he shot himself in the foot when he claimed with a straight face that all his children were fabulously wealthy in their own right because they were "smart". He tapped his forehead to stress the point. It seems that bad genes have a way of getting around.
We have had nothing but politics after the political tsunami of Sat 8 Mar, 2008.
Again, 505 may be over.
But it seems the politicking is not going to be over anytime soon since the Barisan Nasional (BN) has less than a proper mandate i.e. (1) having not secured the popular vote, (2) claimed 133 seats in Parliament -- blame the Election Commission -- in a manner which can be disputed in the Court of Public Opinion, and (3) the First Past the Post System is only morally tenable if the so-called winner secures the popular vote as well. Otherwise, the sordid issue of gerrymandering and more from the BN's Department of Dirty Tricks (DDT) comes in.
Sarawak will add to the politicking in the country.
It should have gone to the state polls as well on May 5 to reduce the level of politicking. But alas it didn't! But that's another story.
This is more of a curtain raiser on politicking over Sarawak within the context of 505 and GE14 and not so much the GE13 per se.
Even as the rallies and roadshows on 505 proceed and no doubt until the BN falls, the political parties are expected to focus on getting as many people as possible in Sarawak to register themselves as voters and educating them on the importance of turning up on D Day.
Sarawak Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud, 77, and family remaining in office 42 years, corruption, abuse of power, conflict of interest issues, land, dam building and the influx of foreign labour into the SCORE region are expected to figure prominently.
In all likelihood Taib will not step down as pledged during the run-up to 2011. He will probably attempt to serve out yet another full five-year term and thereby add to the growing controversy on Sarawak .
Hence, Taib will no doubt emerge as the best campaigner for the Opposition as the politicking in Sarawak begins.
In his defence, he can be expected to recycle his "politics of development", an approach which has seen Sarawak reduced to the dubious distinction of being the 2nd poorest Territory in Malaysia . Sabah is the poorest, according to a Dec 2010 World Bank Report released in Kota Kinabalu on the two Borneo nations.
The politics of development is the proverbial fig leaf.
Some people just don't know when to simply let go and move on, come what may, with the rest of what remains of their lives. They live in constant fear of incarceration for any number of transgressions in office if they just let go and walk into the sunset. In the end, their own guilty conscience will kill them. That would be poetic justice indeed!
Self-preservation is driving Taib to prolong the Melanau political Mafia sanctioned Rahman-Taib political dynasty of latter day Brown Rajahs in Dayak country. He seems smitten as well in a way with stories on the White Rajahs and even had a huge portrait of him painted in a similar outfit as James Brooke, the first White Rajah, wore.
At the heart of the political debate in Sarawak is that the Rahman-Taib dynasty presides over the increasing criminalisation of the nation.
The Melanau political Mafia are in league with the Chinese Triads who virtually terrorize the Orang Asal in the interior regions, as mercenaries for the Mafia, in search of plunder for timber, land and other resources.
The Police look the other way or even join in for some crumbs now and then from the table. It's an open secret that every Commissioner of Police Sarawak, generally from Malaya , goes home after his tenure of office laughing all the way to the bank.
The Court goes around in circles between three points viz. "ostrich head in the sand", "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" and three blind men and the elephant.
Things will get a whole lot worse in Sarawak before they turn a corner, if at all, for the better.
For one thing, Taib has been further emboldened by the 25 parliamentary seats he bagged in GE13. He's walking on cloud nine even as he fends off, in the most bizarre of circumstances, his much younger Lebanese wife's childish tantrums and her attempts in her pyjamas ever so often to publicly ridicule him at his office as the onlookers giggle nervously.
There are other skeletons in Taib's cupboard which will provide fodder for the Opposition cannons.
Abdul Rahman Ya'kub, 85, Taib's maternal uncle, was his immediate predecessor who was later Governor during his nephew's first term in office. He provides the Rahman component in the Taib-Rahman dynasty. He was in the news recently when two of his daughters were caught on TV discussing ways to evade taxes in cahoots with Taib. Tax avoidance and tax evasion, the latter a crime, are not one and the same thing.
These days, discredited by the Uncle-Nephew Feud scam, he can reportedly be found operating more in the shadows in Sarawak, in the corridors of power in Putrajaya where the Melanau Mafia have long had fulltime lobbyists no doubt paid with the people's money, or in Singapore , Hong Kong , Saudi Arabia and other locations abroad.
Back in 1980, he boasted publicly during a ceramah in the interior in the semi-literate Iban country of having some RM 7 billion in personal assets salted away, small change these days considering the fabulous fortune that his nephew has allegedly amassed in public office during the last 32 years and the US$ 44 billion that Mahathir Mohamad managed to make off, this according to a long list of references in Wikipedia, during his 22 years in the premiership.
The disclosure on the RM 7 billion had a point. Rahman was in fact impressing upon and warning the backward longhouse Ibans in a thinly-veiled statement that it would be foolhardy to cross his family. The underlying message was that he could buy them at a loss and sell them at a profit.
Taib reportedly made a similar "like father, like son" statement in the longhouses in 2011. He made no threats. He simply admitted that he had so much money that he no longer needed to be in politics. The MACC may have been hard of hearing here.
More recently, on internet TV, he shot himself in the foot when he claimed with a straight face that all his children were fabulously wealthy in their own right because they were "smart". He tapped his forehead to stress the point. It seems that bad genes have a way of getting around.
All this provides plenty
of ammunition for the Opposition.
Although storm clouds are gathering on the horizon in the wake of 505, BN Sarawak will not defect to the Pakatan Rakyat (PR), as speculated, as long as Umno hangs on to Putrajaya. Besides, Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim has already said that there won't be another Sept 16, a reference to the 16 Sept, 2008 People's Revolution, an anti climax of sorts. Anwar has his reasons but more on that in a while.
Fugitive Raja, Petra Kamaruddin, to digress a little, is just promoting hysterical bullshit -- Azmin & Co defecting being another hogwash spin -- in his blog as he has to sing for his supper. He wants us to think the pickled in shit brains at Umno are soooo smart that they have smartness oozing out of their very ears and have thus planned the politics of Malaysia from A to Z, until the end of the universe, and that the Indians and Chinese are simply so dumb that they haven't realised this yet.
I guess that's why BN won a disputed 133 seats in Parliament on May 5 with the EC's help, and with less than 50 per cent of the votes counted.
Umno, Anwar knows, will use any indication of another Sept 16 to justify the wooing of "BN-friendly" defectors from PR and create Sodomy 3. In hindsight, Anwar more probably used the prospect of 16 Sept 2008 to keep his people in line and prevent defections. The Jury is still out on this.
Again, on the storm clouds gathering on the horizon, Najib has said, "there will be people who will expect a bit more because they voted for us. But we have to do a balancing act".
Many in Sabah and Sarawak -- read Anifah Aman, Ghapur Salleh, Bernard Dompok, among others -- are furious over the Najib statement.
They feel the composition of the Federal Cabinet and Government posts should be a reflection of the election results on the BN side. Star insiders concede the point.
Why include losers? They will never win because the communities they claim to represent will never vote for them.
However, the critics in BN Sabah have no objection if the Opposition is included as well in Government. Star strategists think that this should be done without asking the Opposition to join BN, or without forming a coalition Government/national unity Government. That, it is considered, should be the only balancing act since, again, "it's morally untenable for the BN to form the Federal Government by clinging to the First Past the Post Principle when it has less than 50 per cent of the votes counted".
Although storm clouds are gathering on the horizon in the wake of 505, BN Sarawak will not defect to the Pakatan Rakyat (PR), as speculated, as long as Umno hangs on to Putrajaya. Besides, Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim has already said that there won't be another Sept 16, a reference to the 16 Sept, 2008 People's Revolution, an anti climax of sorts. Anwar has his reasons but more on that in a while.
Fugitive Raja, Petra Kamaruddin, to digress a little, is just promoting hysterical bullshit -- Azmin & Co defecting being another hogwash spin -- in his blog as he has to sing for his supper. He wants us to think the pickled in shit brains at Umno are soooo smart that they have smartness oozing out of their very ears and have thus planned the politics of Malaysia from A to Z, until the end of the universe, and that the Indians and Chinese are simply so dumb that they haven't realised this yet.
I guess that's why BN won a disputed 133 seats in Parliament on May 5 with the EC's help, and with less than 50 per cent of the votes counted.
Umno, Anwar knows, will use any indication of another Sept 16 to justify the wooing of "BN-friendly" defectors from PR and create Sodomy 3. In hindsight, Anwar more probably used the prospect of 16 Sept 2008 to keep his people in line and prevent defections. The Jury is still out on this.
Again, on the storm clouds gathering on the horizon, Najib has said, "there will be people who will expect a bit more because they voted for us. But we have to do a balancing act".
Many in Sabah and Sarawak -- read Anifah Aman, Ghapur Salleh, Bernard Dompok, among others -- are furious over the Najib statement.
They feel the composition of the Federal Cabinet and Government posts should be a reflection of the election results on the BN side. Star insiders concede the point.
Why include losers? They will never win because the communities they claim to represent will never vote for them.
However, the critics in BN Sabah have no objection if the Opposition is included as well in Government. Star strategists think that this should be done without asking the Opposition to join BN, or without forming a coalition Government/national unity Government. That, it is considered, should be the only balancing act since, again, "it's morally untenable for the BN to form the Federal Government by clinging to the First Past the Post Principle when it has less than 50 per cent of the votes counted".
If Taib doesn't defect to
PR, it's because he's virtually master of the situation in Sarawak and doesn't
need to toady up to the Opposition Alliance.
Like Rahman, he's Umno's Chief Proxy in Borneo with evidently a licence to thumb his nose at the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission (MACC), the Inland Revenue Department, the Police, and the Court in land and timber cases and the Registrar of Societies (ROS). Taib, like Putrajaya's other proxies and their stooges and rogue elements -- read the Royal Commission of Inquiry on Traitors -- facilitates Putrajaya's continued colonisation of Sabah and Sarawak .
In any case, Taib's days are numbered. He does not want to see the writing on the wall and probably harbours a death wish.
The existing power structure in the state is no longer sustainable. Every organisation, except the Church, contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction. It will invariably break down given Dap's strong foothold there, the Chinese in revolt along with the Bidayuh and Orang Ulu, the Malays waiting to run amok and PR's determination to wrest even more seats to add to their haul in 2011.
Henceforth, it will not be business as usual in Sabah and Sarawak for Putrajaya, as demonstrated in Malaya since 2008 and in the country on May 5.
Star, the lonely standard bearer for the 3rd Force, can for example focus only on the Orang Asal (Original People) and mixed seats held by PKR, Supp and the Pesaka component of PBB instead of going all over the place -- no offence meant -- as during the 13th General Election.
At the same time, it would not do for Star to antagonise Dap, PRS and SPDP even if these parties "spurn" its hand of friendship. The enemies (PRS, SPDP) of my enemies (PBB, Supp, PKR) are my (Star) friends. The enemy (Dap) of my enemies (PBB, Supp) is my friend.
When Pesaka falls, and fall it will this seed of destruction, PBB will lose power in Sarawak and the Melanau political Mafia in this nation's politics will flee in their pyjamas in attempts to escape the long arm of the law.
It's the Ibans in the Orang Asal heartland of the country who are propping up Taib, a Melanau, and keeping him in power since 1981 as they earlier allowed Rahman to rule for ten years. Most Melanau are Muslim with the rest either Christian or practising an ancient form of Hinduism, often mistaken in the past by western scholars as paganism.
Melanau politicians already have a vice-like grip on Malay politics as well in Sarawak . No Malay in Sarawak can even breathe without asking for permission, an understatement, from the Melanau Mafia and they are suffocating to near death. That's something the Chinese are not going to tolerate as indicated by their renewed revolt against Taib on May 5.
Nevertheless, PR will never be able to take both Sabah and Sarawak .
At best, they can take either Sabah or Sarawak if they win the majority of the Muslim votes or up to half the seats in both Sabah and Sarawak . They can only wait for voluntary crossovers from the other side while hoping that none of the Opposition legislators defect. The time frame for realisation of this scenario could be anything from immediate term to longterm.
Whatever the scenario, Star is a player and game changer in Sarawak as well, denying PR these two real possibilities which are not just merely on paper.
This may be for now the real meaning of the 3rd Force which is positioned to set, determine and dictate politics in Malaysia forever more.
Like Rahman, he's Umno's Chief Proxy in Borneo with evidently a licence to thumb his nose at the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission (MACC), the Inland Revenue Department, the Police, and the Court in land and timber cases and the Registrar of Societies (ROS). Taib, like Putrajaya's other proxies and their stooges and rogue elements -- read the Royal Commission of Inquiry on Traitors -- facilitates Putrajaya's continued colonisation of Sabah and Sarawak .
In any case, Taib's days are numbered. He does not want to see the writing on the wall and probably harbours a death wish.
The existing power structure in the state is no longer sustainable. Every organisation, except the Church, contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction. It will invariably break down given Dap's strong foothold there, the Chinese in revolt along with the Bidayuh and Orang Ulu, the Malays waiting to run amok and PR's determination to wrest even more seats to add to their haul in 2011.
Henceforth, it will not be business as usual in Sabah and Sarawak for Putrajaya, as demonstrated in Malaya since 2008 and in the country on May 5.
Star, the lonely standard bearer for the 3rd Force, can for example focus only on the Orang Asal (Original People) and mixed seats held by PKR, Supp and the Pesaka component of PBB instead of going all over the place -- no offence meant -- as during the 13th General Election.
At the same time, it would not do for Star to antagonise Dap, PRS and SPDP even if these parties "spurn" its hand of friendship. The enemies (PRS, SPDP) of my enemies (PBB, Supp, PKR) are my (Star) friends. The enemy (Dap) of my enemies (PBB, Supp) is my friend.
When Pesaka falls, and fall it will this seed of destruction, PBB will lose power in Sarawak and the Melanau political Mafia in this nation's politics will flee in their pyjamas in attempts to escape the long arm of the law.
It's the Ibans in the Orang Asal heartland of the country who are propping up Taib, a Melanau, and keeping him in power since 1981 as they earlier allowed Rahman to rule for ten years. Most Melanau are Muslim with the rest either Christian or practising an ancient form of Hinduism, often mistaken in the past by western scholars as paganism.
Melanau politicians already have a vice-like grip on Malay politics as well in Sarawak . No Malay in Sarawak can even breathe without asking for permission, an understatement, from the Melanau Mafia and they are suffocating to near death. That's something the Chinese are not going to tolerate as indicated by their renewed revolt against Taib on May 5.
Nevertheless, PR will never be able to take both Sabah and Sarawak .
At best, they can take either Sabah or Sarawak if they win the majority of the Muslim votes or up to half the seats in both Sabah and Sarawak . They can only wait for voluntary crossovers from the other side while hoping that none of the Opposition legislators defect. The time frame for realisation of this scenario could be anything from immediate term to longterm.
Whatever the scenario, Star is a player and game changer in Sarawak as well, denying PR these two real possibilities which are not just merely on paper.
This may be for now the real meaning of the 3rd Force which is positioned to set, determine and dictate politics in Malaysia forever more.
Hindraf Makkal Sakthi,
the ad hoc apolitical human rights people's movement, is a key component of the
3rd Force. This Hindraf is not to be mistaken for Hindraf Malaysia Association
(Himas) which signed a controversial MOU with "Lu Tolong Gua, Gua Tolong Lu"
Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak in the run up to May 5.
The 3rd Force has nothing to do with the bad blood between Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim and Star chairman Jeffrey Kitingan who is also the newly-elected state assemblyman for Bingkor, Sabah .
The Gospel Truth on the illegality of Malaysia in Borneo is with the 3rd Force and Jeffrey is flogging the issue for all it’s worth. It’s in his very genes as demonstrated by his somewhat credible claim, albeit tongue in cheek, that he has always been a Good Frog as the King of the Frogs, moving away from parties which frogged on his and their principles. However, no one expects Jeffrey to frog from his own party. In that sense, his frogging days may be over. He will not frog on his principles unlike Joseph Pairin Kitingan, his elder brother in politics and the Huguan Siou (Paramount Chief).
The onus is on Anwar to reach across to Jeffrey and make peace on the only basis possible: "Malaya must withdraw from Borneo ". The Jury is still out on whether this principle can be deferred temporarily given the need to dislodge BN from power. That possibility of a peace formula is almost non-existent as Anwar has a sordid reputation somewhat in Borneo of being a wannabe colonialist cast in the ketuanan Melayu -- Malay political dominance and supremacy -- mould. In Sabah, in the wake of 505, Star should consider loaning candidates to Dap, PKR and Pas without compromising on its principle on the "parti parti Malaya in Borneo". In other seats, it can contest under its own symbol.
Dap is the only party which has emerged as a truly national organisation in Malaysia . It maintains good ties with Star.
The other parti parti Malaya "seat stealers in Borneo" should stay out of Sabah and Sarawak in keeping with both the letter and spirit of the 1963 Malaysia Agreement. This is the position taken by Star.
In hindsight, Star's strategy in Sabah during GE13 was proven right. It prevented PR from making even greater inroads and established Star as a player and game changer. There are enough parti parti Malaya in Sabah and the issue is to cut down on the number. Eventually, only Dap will be left in Borneo from among the parti parti Malaya . By that time, Malaya will be gladly on its way out from Borneo .
PR secured the GE13 votes of the Chinese and illegals in Sabah in the seats they won and secured a share of the Orang Asal and local Muslim votes which had to be shared with BN, Star and Sapp.
It's unfortunate that PBS did not work together with Star. Dap couldn't translate its understanding with Star into action because of its alliance in PR with the two other component members, PKR and Pas.
The 3rd Force has nothing to do with the bad blood between Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim and Star chairman Jeffrey Kitingan who is also the newly-elected state assemblyman for Bingkor, Sabah .
The Gospel Truth on the illegality of Malaysia in Borneo is with the 3rd Force and Jeffrey is flogging the issue for all it’s worth. It’s in his very genes as demonstrated by his somewhat credible claim, albeit tongue in cheek, that he has always been a Good Frog as the King of the Frogs, moving away from parties which frogged on his and their principles. However, no one expects Jeffrey to frog from his own party. In that sense, his frogging days may be over. He will not frog on his principles unlike Joseph Pairin Kitingan, his elder brother in politics and the Huguan Siou (Paramount Chief).
The onus is on Anwar to reach across to Jeffrey and make peace on the only basis possible: "Malaya must withdraw from Borneo ". The Jury is still out on whether this principle can be deferred temporarily given the need to dislodge BN from power. That possibility of a peace formula is almost non-existent as Anwar has a sordid reputation somewhat in Borneo of being a wannabe colonialist cast in the ketuanan Melayu -- Malay political dominance and supremacy -- mould. In Sabah, in the wake of 505, Star should consider loaning candidates to Dap, PKR and Pas without compromising on its principle on the "parti parti Malaya in Borneo". In other seats, it can contest under its own symbol.
Dap is the only party which has emerged as a truly national organisation in Malaysia . It maintains good ties with Star.
The other parti parti Malaya "seat stealers in Borneo" should stay out of Sabah and Sarawak in keeping with both the letter and spirit of the 1963 Malaysia Agreement. This is the position taken by Star.
In hindsight, Star's strategy in Sabah during GE13 was proven right. It prevented PR from making even greater inroads and established Star as a player and game changer. There are enough parti parti Malaya in Sabah and the issue is to cut down on the number. Eventually, only Dap will be left in Borneo from among the parti parti Malaya . By that time, Malaya will be gladly on its way out from Borneo .
PR secured the GE13 votes of the Chinese and illegals in Sabah in the seats they won and secured a share of the Orang Asal and local Muslim votes which had to be shared with BN, Star and Sapp.
It's unfortunate that PBS did not work together with Star. Dap couldn't translate its understanding with Star into action because of its alliance in PR with the two other component members, PKR and Pas.
Note: If there are any
contradictions, apparent or otherwise, and/or discrepancies between this
masterpiece and an earlier one -- Jeffrey, Star a player beyond Bingkor in this Blog and http://www.malaysia-today.net/mtcolumns/guest-columnists/56586-jeffrey-star-a-player-beyond-bingkor
-- consider this the true and more accurate version notwithstanding the extent
of it's inconsistency with the earlier one as the information herein has been
updated as much as possible. I am too lazy to look at what I wrote before. It’s
for others to point out any contradictions and discrepancies. I can explain.
1 comment:
USD 44 billions @ 3.8 exchange rate (2003) is equivalent to RM167 billions.
It's an insane amount of wealth! He can buy an island, a ranch, even a small country.
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