No more Kota Baru pepper spray
Perkasa was just ambushed by the ruling party, UMNO and it’s Chinese component members, MCA and Gerakan. They remain bold and came out unscathed.
UMNO Sec-Gen, Tengku Adnan that fired the first salvo made an about turn the moment Najib expressed his position that UMNO will not make enemy out of Perkasa or any NGO. Nazri, Khairy and the other accomplices are lying quiet, frustrated, and waiting to prance again.
Perkasa is moving ahead to launch it’s nationwide tour from the constituency of Dato Ibrahim Ali, in Pasir Mas Kelantan on Saturday afternoon. The main speaker for the day will be Tun Dr Mahathir.
By Ibrahim’s estimate, he expect some 20,000 to attend the rally. When it comes to gathering masses, you must give it to him. It could exceed expectation.
This is especially so, with supporters and curious onlookers are interested to hear what Dr Mahathir and Ibrahim has to say after the short episode with UMNO.
When Dr Mahathir came in Kota Baru to speak on June 25th 2006, he was greeted by a pepper spray at the Airport. Yours truly, Bigdog, and other cyber activists was with Ibrahim right together in the thick of peppery mist.
Hopefully there is no more such foolish and uncivilised act to come from Kelantan.
Back then, the then Dato Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was insecure and worry of the political threat from Dr Mahathir’s speech in Kota Baru.
He called Tan Sri Anuar Musa from Perth, the first time Malaysian got to know the simple Abdullah had a taste for foreign home in Perth. Anuar was in hospital recovering from a big bike injury.
Abdullah instructed him to stop, sabotage, divert and do whatever necessary from Dr Mahathir delivering his speech. In an earlier speech in Taman Melawati, Kuala Lumpur, he was still speaking in riddles.
Unfortunately, Abdullah’s bad intention was known. The time he called Anuar, there were 20 gawking eyes and ears in Tengku Razaleigh entourage visiting him. This news reached Dr Mahathir eventually and the rest his history.
This time around, the reception at the airport will be bigger than in 2006. Already assembled are few thousands of motorcyclist to receive Dr Mahathir.
Preceding to Saturday, Utusan Malaysia gave a sensational frontpage headline to an interview between Dr Mahathir and UMNO-Online. Read it here.
Unlike UMNO Online’s partisan treatment to their headline here, Utusan’s headline is enticing Dr Mahathir to express more of his concern on the plight of the Malays albeit the Bumiputera in the bigger perspective.
One policy after another, program, restructuring, transformation, and a list of new acronyms does not seem to address the Bumiputera’s concern and insecurity.
Bumiputera is seeing their budget and allocation for scholarship clearly stated under the Constitutional Bumiputera special rights encroached by new programs for non-Bumiputera.
Recently Utusan Malaysia reported the Government left stranded some 500 medical students in Egypt.
To the parents back home, that is a major betrayal. They had spend for the first year based on advise of Government officers with the promise to be considered for scholarship from second year onward. That will cost the Government from its traditional Malay constituents.
Not only is there scholarships but 1Malaysia Government is seen pandering to the Chinese. Private Chinese schools, which is not constitutionally entitled and going counter to 1Malaysia aspirations, are getting priority allocations over the national and poor interiors schools.
New Economic Model is seen as the total end of NEP and systematic destruction of the Malays.
