Mahathir said Democracy’s last mile is not to commit gruesome act

NaJIB's misfortune was to encounter an adversary who could out-Twitter him at high noon in the gunfight at UMNO corral they have more in common than sharp suits, sharp wits and a dogged commitment to the television cameras. Having achieved so much through effective use of the media, they were convinced their favourite WMD remained the best option.Mahathir has left UMNO with a complicated problem: how do you rearrange spaghetti into straight lines?The casualty is credibility: it began to creep away but the pace has gradually built up to a crawl. If Najib, whose own reputation remains more positive than that of hisministers, ministers have always known that they owe their jobs to UMNO  does not act soon, the pace will quicken to a trot and develop into an irreversible gallop.

Weakness is contagious. It tends to debilitate even those limbs of the body politic that are functioning normally.  Power is never stagnant. It either consolidates around the leader, or ebbs. Those with longer plans for the future than the Prime Minister are establishing individual markers at the cost of collective cohesion. Power is never stagnant. It either consolidates around the leader, or ebbs. Those with longer plans for the future than the Prime Minister are establishing individual markers at the cost of collective cohesion.

 
Mahathir said Democracy’s last mile not to commit gruesome act  Razak Baginda's emotional outburst may well cause Najib the PM's chair
We Malaysians owe the world and the late Altantuya family as well as to our own national integrity a solution that can finally put the case to rest with honor restored.
The courts may not have needed to establish the motive for the murder of Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu, but the inspector-general of police (IGP) is duty bound to find out the reasons for his men's gruesome act.Najib is writhing between a mistake and a misfortune. His mistake was to gatecrash Police and Judiciary
Razak Baginda says he is now willing to speak "from a legal point" as the criminal case involving Azilah and Sirul is over. Razak Baginda fails to explain why he chose to call a press conference shortly after his acquittal in November 2008. See this link.Razak Baginda says the court proceedings were “so transparent”. He does not however make any mention of the fact that before those proceedings began, the judge was changed, the entire prosecution team was changed and all defence counsel were changed. Does he explain why he discharged his first lawyer and family friend, Puravalen, a well-known senior criminal lawyer, in favour of KK Wong? Even Shafee got the boot in between.

On October 24, 2006, Razak Baginda accompanied Bala to the Brickfields police station to lodge a report over the harassment Razak Baginda was receiving from Altantuya’s cousins regarding her disappearance. Razak Baginda lodged a report in front of ASP Tonny. Razak Baginda was supposed to provide ASP Tonny with a recorded statement but he refused on the grounds he was leaving the country. Razak Baginda promised ASP Tonny that he would prepare a statement himself and download it on a thumb drive to hand over to ASP Tonny. He never did this. Why?

Prior attempts by Bala to persuade Razak Baginda to lodge a police report at the beginning stages of the harassment from Altantuya failed. Why? Apparently Razak Baginda did not want the police involved as there were VIPs involved.

Razak Baginda apparently left Malaysia for Hong Kong on his own on October 26, 2006, one week after the murder. Why?

There is something Razak Baginda has conveniently omitted to mention. Who exactly recommended that he contact Azilah and Musa Safri to assist him in solving the problem Altantuya was posing?

Razak Baginda appears to be coming across as Najib’s protector. He keeps saying Najib is an innocent victim, that Najib has been dealt with unfairly, that this is all a political stunt and that there is no connection between Najib and Altantuya’s death.

No one has accused Najib of being involved. Bala in his SD 1 certainly didn’t accuse Najib of having anything to do with the murder of Altantuya. All Bala said in that SD was that Razak Baginda told him about Najib’s involvement with Altantuya. That is all. Razak Baginda has yet to specifically deny he told Bala this. Bala has admitted right from the beginning that some of the contents of his SD 1 was hearsay. So what is Razak Baginda’s point when he says Bala’s SD is hearsay?


DAP Gelang Patah MP Lim Kit Siang said for IGP Khalid Abu Bakar not to do so amounts to "dereliction of duty"
 Very worrying thought indeed that our 'elite' police men can be trained to kill like robots. ?Rogue-police, Razak Baginda prefers to call them. Do these guys keep C4 material in their desks just in case the superior officer nods or presses a a certain button that says 'X needs treatment Y?, and no question asked, like contract killers in crime stories?

The criminal case was still in progress then, sans his presence of course.

Why does Razak Baginda keep insisting this case has been politicised and at the same time refers to it as "just another straightforward murder case"? He doesn’t explain why he thinks it is "political". How has this case been used against Najib? He doesn’t explain.

No one has accused Najib of being involved in this murder. Is this Razak Baginda a Freudian slip on  part? Does he know more about this whole sordid affair than he is letting on?

Fresh from the ruckus at MIC’s headquarters yesterday that saw deaththreats and gangsters taking centre stage, veteran journalist Kadir Jasin took to his blog saying the country’s political coalitions, both Opposition and ruling, were falling apart at the seams much to the oblivious Prime Minister Najib Razak who was busy attacking imaginary enemies instead.

Likening Najib to the fictional Don Quixote, Kadir said, “Weak BN leadership is encouraging component parties to go their own ways” in reference to MIC’s internal strife, which he warned, if not resolved, would adversely affect Barisan Nasional, as the ruling coalition depended on the Indian vote to stay in power.

He also noted the “growing discontent” within UMNO itself, and lamented that instead of fighting the Pakatan Rakyat, Najib’s “real foes”, the PM and his “UMNO psychological warfare machinery” were bent instead on attacking imaginary enemies like former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and former Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin.

Tun Daim and Tun Dr. Mahathir

He said, “They (Najib and his machinery) committed the ultimate misstep by enlisting Opposition Leader (Datuk Seri) Anwar Ibrahim and his PKR cohorts to attack Daim on prime time TV and in the UMNO-controlled newspapers,” only to run “helter-skelter” when Daim himself said he knew who was behind the campaign that was smearing his good name.

Saying point blank, “Mohd Najib should be less gullible and spend more time running the country and party,” Kadir added, “He should by now realise that not everybody in his payroll are as good as they promoted themselves to be.He should stop following his daydreaming Don Quixotes on their silly missions fighting the windmills.”

He said another sign that Najib was failing miserably in keeping his coalition intact, was the way BN parties in Sarawak were “striking out on their own”.

“The state government is surreptitiously flexing its muscle over immigration by barring many Peninsula residents from entering the state.

“Even civil servants and GLC employers are subjected to closer scrutiny now before being allowed entry,” he said, noting that the “supposedly weak and amiable” Adenan Satem was proving to be more decisive that his predecessor when it came to corruption and abuse of power.

He also had some words of advice for Opposition leaders, telling them that their future lay with the “younger and more idealistic leaders, and their youthful supporters”, not “old-timers” like Anwar Ibrahim, Lim Kit Siang and Hadi Awang, who they should “wean” themselves off.

He, however, said that 1MDB would continue to haunt the Opposition coalition even if they came to power.“I told them that if ever they win, they can choose to banish Mohd Najib and his merry men (and women) to the mythical Laut Kalzum (Kalzum Sea) to be devoured by the Garuda, but 1MDB will not disappear.

“The debt-laden sovereign fund will become their problem. So are other issues the country is now facing.”

Saying, “At the end of the day, it’s not about politics but about the country,” Kadir added, “…the future of UMNO, the Malays and Islam is far more important than the future of any one person in UMNO.”