By : JOE FERNANDEZ
OPPOSITION leader Anwar
Ibrahim struck a chord when he said that former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad
should drop dead since he’s too old to be jailed and no prison wants to accept
him.
If Mahathir doesn’t drop
dead, he should take his advice to the Malays not too long ago to emulate the
Japanese and commit hara kiri if they brought shame upon the community. Hara
kiri is an addition to Mahathir’s Look East Policy.
Impatience with Mahathir,
the grandson of immigrants from Kerala, southwest India, has reached a boiling
point since the man has refused to shut up since the political tsunami of Sat 8
Mar, 2008 and has been virtually running amok in the media and across the
length and breath of the country.
It seems that twice-born
Mahathir who will be 88 on July 10 – his birth certificate states he was born
on Dec 20, 1925 – wants to set, determine and dictate a self-serving National
Agenda although he has one foot already in the grave. If not for two heart
by-passes over the last 15 years or so, he would have been roasting in the
eternal fires of hell by now. Everyone has been waiting patiently for so long
to urinate on his grave, a favourite Malay pastime.
Everyone has a reason to
hate Mahathir and his family who have been busy running up the National Debt
Burden to put their hands in the National Cookie Jar under the guise of
bringing so-called development to the people.
They have also been even
busier using Petronas Funds as if they were inherited from his grandfather in
Kerala. Sabahans and Sarawakians in particular are determined to recover these
funds which originate mostly from their nations.
Anwar has vowed to end all
Petronas contacts awarded to Mahathir’s children and kick him out as Petronas
Advisor.
So, Mahathir has been busy
hitting the campaign trail.
He has even visited various
army, navy and police camps which have been declared off limits to the
Opposition. That must be on Mahathir’s “instructions”. The Opposition is using
the internet and text messaging to beam their campaign themes at the men and
women in uniform.
On May 5, when Umno/BN does
not do as well as Mahathir expects, it’s unlikely that his heart will be able
to take the strain.
That’s the trouble with
being an old geezer.
At the slightest sign of
distress, their heart will kick in.
What more if you are a
control freak like Mahathir who wants to have his cake and eat it too!
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