Political incontinence

Political incontinence

Incontinence is a sign of biological dysfunction. It is often linked to the lack of voluntary control of excretory functions over urine and faeces. Wikipedia refers to incontinence as leakage that occurs under conditions that cannot be helped or stopped. Largely, they are due to stress and urge.

Patients of incontinence, adults included, are forced to wear diapers to save them the agony of wetting themselves in public.

In these days of political upheavals in Barisan Nasional (BN), it is apparent that Putrajaya must order loads of adult diapers for Abdullah Badawi and his Umno men in Penang. They are all suffering from political incontinence of sorts.

Case in hand is the way Abdullah, the temporary BN and Umno president, losing control over his henchman in Penang, Ahmad Ismail; and the way Ahmad losing control over his followers along the chain of command.

Intentionally and intentionally, racial sentiments are allowed to inflame over the name-calling of Chinese Malaysians as being the 'penumpang' (squatters) in this country.

Protracted over weeks after Umno lost in the August 26 Permatang Pauh by-election, Ahmad twice went on the racial romp, followed by Penang Umno secretary Azhar Ibrahim, who mutated a new issue, demanding for the Sinchew journalist who exposed Ahmad's racial slur to be shot (ditembak).

In the heat of things, Ahmad tongue-lashed at Penang BN chief, ex-CM Koh Tsu Koon, and urged for the expulsion of Gerakan from the 34-year coalition.

'Chinese Malaysians mimic American Jews'

Yesterday, Ahmad chaired his second PC in a week, and was seen to condone his supporters to remove Koh's picture hanged in the Umno Penang premises, and torn in the probing eyes of the journalists, and within the ranges of lenses of the photogs who covered the function.

At the same press conference yesterday, Ahmad warned Chinese Malaysians not to mimic American Jews who not only seek to control the country's economy but also its political power.

By the measure of political theatrics, this is an act that pacifies the filial peers but truly agonises the multi-racial fabric of bystanders.

By the standard of civility, it is a sheer incident of political indecency.

It also indicates the political incontinence that Abdullah is suffering from. He wets himself in public for losing control over his political anatomy.

Taking a realist stance, I do not pity Koh for being humiliated by his partners in the political coalition that he chooses to align with and to remain within. He has been offering himself a slave, rather than equal partner, to Umno all these years. It matters naught even if Gerakan, or for that matter the MCA, chooses to leave BN.

However, I do pity that 51 years of nationhood building has to go down the drain due to nincompoops like Ahmad and Azhar. Their reign of arrogance and tyranny has dealt national unity into disrepair.

Again, Abdullah triumphs by flip-flopping on his authority to stamp ruckus within his household, and submits the country to racial discord. This is not good for Malaysia.

I believe the right way to stop this malaise is that, rather than getting everyone else to leave the coalition -- as Ahmad dictates -- it's best to get all BN component parties to press for the ouster Umno for condoning the uber race politics.

That's is political wisdom that Malaysians sorely lacks.

Cut ties to developers

For Ahmad, who is the Umno Bukit Bendera Division chief, to rebuff the party's chieftains like Abdullah and Najib, it is because he holds sway over delegates who will decide the party's leadership line-up this December. Ahmad's peers at the other 12 divisions saw the same trump card and joined in the fray to ransom Abdullah, who needs their votes to survive in politics.

Secondly, Ahmad and other little warlords at the Umno division level are well funded by Chinese-run and Chinese-owned real estate developers who hooked them on on the gravy train when BN ruled Penang before GE2008.

One way to cut the umbilical chord, if Koh had already known, was to manage these real estate developers at their Achilles' heel. When the life support system is unplugged, the devils of Ahmad die.

taken from:- http://jeffooi.com/