What a comedy – Ah Lek’s proposal to Ka Ting to vie for the Presidency of the MCA (the Chinese component party of the Barisan Nasional).
If there ever was a poison chalice given to an opponent, this must be it!
I surmise that, if Ka Ting were to put on his thinking cap as a former political secretary he would refuse the suggestion outright and if he behaves as a former minister, the lust for power would seduce him and he would fall for the bait, hook, line and sinker!
I have held back my commentary till today because I wanted to see whether Ka Ting would realize the trap that he had walked into. He may have second thoughts, because the mainstream mass media have reported that Ka Ting has indicated that his candidacy would not be as easy as assured by Ah Lek and his band of has-beens and indicated that he might want to have a “jaw, jaw” with Ong Tee Keat, the incumbent president, to work out an exit strategy.
There is the much quoted cliché that in politics there are no permanent friends or enemies. It follows that political relationships are grounded on opportunism and the advancement of self-interest.
Every Chinese in Malaysia knows that Ah Lek hates the guts of Ka Ting way back during the infamous “MCA crisis between Team A and Team B” as Ka Ting was the master strategist behind the then President of MCA, Tun Ling Leong Sik.
Ah Lek’s antagonism towards Leong Sik was supposedly because his protégé Chan Kong Choy was sidelined, so that Ka Ting would succeed Leong Sik. But all along, Ah Lek’s hidden agenda was to be the President for one term at the minimum.
However, the drama turned out differently, Leong Sik and Ah Lek were rejected by the Chinese community and Ka Ting and Kong Choy teamed up and took over the party!
So, is the suggestion from Ah Lek that Ka Ting is sorely needed to save the party a genuine attempt to resolve the crisis or is there a hidden agenda?
The Kingmakers of the MCA whether within or without, have always paid a heavy price at the General Elections when they insulted and abused the intelligence of the Chinese voters and the community as a whole.
The comedy of the Deputy President, Chua Soi Lek and the Vice-President, Liow Tiong Lai boycotting the party’s AGM, sheepishly followed by the heads of the Youth and Women’s wings is an indication how far down these leaders have degenerated into the gutter level of subservient politics.
One cannot but question the motives of these political comedians when they and their supporters submitted their resignation as Central Committee members a few days before the party’s AGM. These same political charlatans have previously agreed to hold the AGM on March 7th, 2010.
The AGM is the highest decision making body of the party, for that matter any organisation. So what was it that instilled so much fear (or what were the inducements offered by Kingmakers) that they deemed it fit to scuttle the AGM at the 11th hour?
Whatever may be the case, their very actions have smeared the integrity of the party which they have professed to protect and redeem as a result of the political defeat suffered in the last General Elections in March, 2008.
In their attempts to embarrass and humiliate the President, they have actually insulted the Chinese community by their infantile theatrics!
This will be one of my shortest articles as it is written as a RED ALERT.
When I send out Red Alerts, it is a dire warning and a call for immediate action to protect your wealth (if there is any remaining).
Of late, I have been reading articles (some of which I have posted to the website) suggesting that Greece would be the trigger for the 2nd wave of the Global Tsunami. Obviously, if Greece defaults and goes belly up, it will have a disastrous effect, but not in the way that I see it.
There may be some manipulated “flight to safety to US dollars” (which itself is a dumb thing to do) in the short run. How can dollar be a currency haven when its value is total junk – toilet paper!
Such so-called “flight to safety” is a reflection of the intensity of the on-going currency warfare, principally between the Dollar and the Euro and skirmishes between the Dollar and the Yuan. But, this manipulation by the US global banks would not last and will be exposed for what it is – a global scam.
Since July last year, policy makers and so-called experts have relied on economic recovery in Asia to spur global growth and the resumption of the good times. Such thinking reflects a muddle mind.
Every economy in Asia is export-orientated and the domestic economies are just too small to take up the drastic fall in exports. Following Bernanke’s reckless lead, they have all jumped on the band wagon of quantitative easing – the printing of massive fiat monies (electronically or otherwise). Inflation has soared!
In an earlier posting to my website, I have indicated that there is a weak link holding up the Asian economies, and it is not China.
