DAP and the west coast plan, part 2
Raggie Jessy
So, Pakatan Rakyat has finally gone belly-up.
Regardless what any Tom, Dick or Harry might tell you, the coalition has fallen apart at the seams and is presumed dead. Even the big gun in Sungai Buloh knows it. But he’s temporally incapacitated and can’t fire salvos, so he consigned every shot and shell he had to his wife and Rafizi Ramli.
But then, his wife is more of a gun that doesn’t smoke. And the only time she does is when they call the roll in party meetings, where she answers ‘not guilty’ rather than ‘present’. As far as I can tell, she’s a con artist, one who spins incredible yarns all the way from Selangor to Permatang Pauh. But she most certainly isn’t a gun that smokes, so we’ll just leave her to her own devices.
Be that as it may, all is not well on the PKR front. With candlelight vigils that appear only to attract mayflies and moths, party leaders may want to consider soliciting for votes in the night market come the next general elections. And I’ll be damned if any one of them ends up paying for a landslide.
But Rafizi…now there’s a hell of a cannon when you need one. The all knowing, self acclaimed guru of conscience who many believe had ‘single-handedly’ architected the Kajang move. He was all that and more, right until the judge read the verdict on Sodomy II, following which Rafizi cracked like a nut right under the might of the gavel and began speaking Martian. So no, I wouldn’t take him seriously either.
And that leaves us with Kit Siang, Machiavellian and illusionist extraordinaire. In part 1, I spoke of a conspiracy to do Hadi in that may have been machinated well ahead of the 13th general elections. As a matter of fact, both Rafizi and Azmin haven’t the faintest idea what they’re up against, though Anwar and Wan Azizah appear to be in on the ruse. Suffice to say, the better half of Pakatan Rakyat’s leadership may have inadvertently been serving a blueprint they haven’t yet a clue exists.
But if I were to tell you of the plan right now, you’d quickly dismiss this article and accuse me of being off my trolley. So we’ll just take things a step at a time, and begin by anticipating the fit between truth and perception on various issues, some of which have been spun beyond the bounds of political woe since langkah Kajang.
The west coast and Khalid
Not many are aware that a long range mission to overthrow the government of Malaysia was in full throttle as early as 1998 when Anwar was yet Deputy Prime Minister. American functionaries to Singapore and Malaysia were in cahoots with Anwar, the CIA and financial speculators from abroad to topple the Barisan Nasional led government by artifice.
During Tun Abdullah Badawi’s tenure as Prime Minister, regional American forces sought to coerce certain politicians under terms of reciprocity into acquiescing to a ‘significant American presence’ within waters conterminous to the peninsula. It is believed that they were in touch with select personalities from the opposition over trade and security within the Malacca straits and the expanse of the South China Sea. The negotiations were contingent upon the fall of the ruling Barisan Nasional regime into the hands of the opposition.
Unbeknown to many from the opposition, these politicians were said to have worked up a blueprint that seemed to coincide with an age old dream by the late Lee Kuan Yew, which was to reinstate Penang’s status as a regional trade entrepôt in conjunction with Hong Kong and Singapore. It is not immediately clear if Anwar himself knew of or shared Kuan Yew’s enthusiasm on the matter, although the two appeared to put the accent on key states within the west coast of the peninsula. As a matter of fact, both leaders seemed to punctuate on Selangor and port Klang for very strategic reasons.
Whispers from the alley were of negotiations between DAP supremo uno Kit Siang and Kuan Yew to reinstate Penang’s status under a trans leadership initiative that may have been mooted as early as the nineties, perhaps even earlier. Irrespective if such negotiations did take place or merely is the figment of some twisted imagination, DAP had undertaken to turn Penang into its pivot within the peninsula for some time then, a plan that bore fruit in 2008 following a landslide victory that saw the party bagging most of Gerakan’s and MCA’s prized trophies.
Following this and Selangor’s fall into the hands of Pakatan Rakyat, Khalid was invested with authority by His Royal Highness the Sultan of Selangor and led the crown state of the peninsula towards the 13th general elections. But news on the bush telegraph was of cloak and dagger pursuits to eliminate forces in Selangor that were recalcitrant and didn’t serve to Anwar’s grand design. It became apparent to Anwar back in 2009 that Khalid was not someone he could wangle his way through, although, the two seemed to hit it off pretty good back then.
It was rumoured that both Anwar and Kit Siang were on the same page regarding Khalid. The ostensible displays of support for Khalid by Kit Siang prior to the 13th general elections may have been nothing more than a ruse to stave off the threat of dissension among Selangor PKR and DAP legislators, some of who were seen to be Khalid loyalists. As the rumour goes, both Kit Siang and Anwar had resolved to usurp Khalid’s authority, by means which were then unclear to me.
Then, some time in 2013, Khalid crossed swords with Anwar over the use of state funds, which the latter had sought to finance a revolt against the Federal government. Khalid was said to have put his foot down and refused to do Anwar’s bidding. In conjunction with these issues, Anwar deliberated with several quarters on Khalid’s bull-headedness and refusal to toe the party line.
Anwar painted a very bleak picture of the future when he met village elders, NGO’s and other personalities known to be his apologists. He foretold of a conspiracy between Khalid and UMNO that would see to a return of Barisan Nasional rule in Selangor. In some cases, deliberations involved monetary terms that justified investments for a campaign to oust Khalid.
Thence was born, a conflict of prejudices that escalated into a very public and gruelling spat, which saw the position of the Palace and the supremacy of both the Federal and state constitutions being more or less challenged by Anwar and Kit Siang. They appeared to share a common goal, which was to sully Khalid’s name and force him out of government by whatever means deemed necessary.
Prior to the 13th general elections and some weeks later, Anwar began to consort with select village elders from around Selangor over Khalid’s leadership. It is believed that Anwar had undertaken in a verbal contract with each of these elders, the express terms of which aren’t immediately available. By the time Langkah Kajang had come to print, an undisclosed but sizeable number of confederacies had been established by Anwar with various persons, groups, NGO’s and politicians.
Apparently, even Rafizi is in the dark over some of these confederacies, despite taking the part of architect in ‘Langkah Kajang’. As a matter of fact, a long range manoeuvre to supplant Khalid had already been invoked long before the 13th general elections by Anwar in some of his dealings with his confederates.
As such, it is believed that Rafizi merely enacted his role as party strategist by drawing up action blueprints. Be that as it may, Anwar committed to control the state of Selangor by the year 2014, which in 2012 was anticipated to be the year Putrajaya would fall to its heels. As the story goes, Anwar had sought to use Selangor as his launch pad to bring the Federal government down by artifice.
To be continued…
