| | Newsletter Date: 27 April 2012
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IN THIS ISSUE
New Blog Claims to Have Anwar's Untold Story
Khairy-Ambiga Debate a Disappointment
Cracks Appear in Bersih’s “United” Front
Five Years: Najib Pledges Support to Indian Community Giving Timeline for Progress
Our Electoral System Will Never Be Perfect But It’s Getting Better
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| | | | Whilst scanning the blogs and portals, we discovered something new, and rather intriguing. The "I" Files purports to be the documented life story of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, from his early life to his eventually being sacked by Dr M, and beyond. The author, one Jonathan Smith, claims to have been in KL from the early 1980s onward, although it is not clear from what we have read online whether he was an intelligence operative or just a mat salleh businessman (or both?) during much of Anwar's career. Based on the work as published, it would appear that he was some kind of old hand who has flitted in and out of our country over the course of the past thirty years, but he has obviously kept abreast of Anwar and his career for all of these years. | | Bring back Rafizi.
We had perhaps been spoiled by Khairy Jamaluddin's prior debate, with Rafizi Ramli in London some months ago. There, the two debaters -- on opposite sides of the parliamentary divide, and dedicated to vanquishing the other's party in GE13 -- were polite, respectful, jovial, and intelligent. While we awarded the debate to Khairy on points, we appreciated Rafizi's tone, approach, and substantive approach.
Dato' Ambiga Sreenevasan could learn a thing or two from Rafizi.
We are discussing, of course, The Malay Mail's Spark the Debate, held between Ambiga and Khairy. Although the debate began on friendly terms -- after a painfully long series of introductions -- the debaters had a brief moment of surprise at the musical choice The Malay Mail chose to begin the debate -- but the two debaters' sides rapidly coalesced.
| | The first signs are emerging that support for Bersih 3.0 is collapsing and there could be far fewer yellow t-shirts in the Dataran Merdeka on Saturday than expected.
Veteran DAP Senator Tunku Abdul Aziz has broken ranks with his party to say he does not support Saturday's rally because it encourages people to break the law.
He says his opposition to the event is his personal view, but the importance of a party vice-chairman contradicting the "united" stance of Pakatan Rakyat can't be underestimated. After all, if his intention was not to stop people turning out he could have kept his opinion to himself.
| Five years. That is the target that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has set to see what he described as a "vast improvement" on the status and welfare accorded to the Indian community in the country. Barisan Nasional under Najib has long shown a commitment to a unified Malaysia, not distracted with ethnic rivalry, but instead cooperating and working together to achieve the nation's goals. The Prime Minister made the comments on Thursday during a lengthy interview with THR Raaga, the Tamil radio station. "I really hope that in the next five years we will see the improvement of the Indian community and hope that we can work together to achieve the government's vision of a high-income nation by the year 2020," he said. | As a nation that preaches democracy to the rest of the world, the United States doesn't fondly remember the events of the year 2000. In that year the Presidential Election between George W Bush and Vice President Al Gore went from farce to fiasco as part of the country's electoral system was consumed with allegations of improperly-cast ballots, misplaced and fraudulent votes, and military voters denied their votes, all over the course of five long weeks, until the matter was finally settled by the country's Supreme Court. At the height of the drama Russia cheekily offered to help show America how to run an election properly. That must have hurt. Of course, the US recovered from the blip to re-elect Bush in 2004 and then Obama in 2008. The system proved that it works, but also reminded us that it isn't perfect. | | | | |
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