Either PAC up, or Keep Calm and Don’t Be A Sore Loser

Kenneth Lee

I have noticed that a lot of things tend to irritate me these days. First, it was a bunch of integrity-less people (whom I thought could teach the Rakyat the right way forward) hugging and kissing that nonagenarian Tun Mahathir who was the one who paved the wrong ways. Talk about original sin! They should be the first to shove it!

Then it was a bunch of kids who weren’t even born yet when Tun Mahathir started charting those wrong ways, throwing yellow balloons and talking nonsense about justice even before they have held their first real job. Rather than just sit around at Starbucks or Mamak restaurants and listening to their friends, perhaps they should spend their time reading Syed Husin Ali’s “Two Faces: Detention Without Trial” or Rehman Rashid’s “A Malaysian Journey” and ask why things are they way they are before even opening their mouths ever again.

Then there is that bunch of people who are paid to keep copy pasting propaganda shit everywhere on the Internet. Actually these Red Bean Army cyber-troopers are still around although they have grown so cheeky to pretend to participate in intellectual discussions at first but then boom! – they copy paste that one stupid propaganda comment again with emojis to disguise their intent.

Then there is also the incessant noise from the media and so-called investigative journalists who continue to think that their “superior” writing and sensational headlines will distract right-thinking Malaysians from asking the two most important questions – is RM42b missing from 1MDB, and was PM Najib’s RM2.6b from 1MDB? If their cause is truly noble to reveal wrongdoings in Malaysia and to show how corrupt the Malaysian system is, why are they not writing about the Bungalow-Gate investigations now going on in Penang? Why are they not questioning Penang CM Lim Guan Eng’s practices in this small but populous island state run like a fiefdom?

So yes, lots of things in Malaysian political news incense me, but let me say that the comments from the ANC campaigners on the PAC Report the last two days really take the cake.

When the 1MDB investigations started, opposition and ANC campaigners urged for a Parliamentary inquiry to be formed to question 1MDB. They lauded it as a positive step towards an unbiased account of 1MDB’s going-ons. So now after months of their own investigations and interviews and based on the Auditor-General’s report which even the righteous DAP Tony Pua said was satisfactory, PAC has finally issued a wholly unanimous consensus report on the state of 1MDB’s affairs. Whilst the findings found 1MDB to have suffered managerial weaknesses and constraints and recommended a probe on its former CEO to ascertain any wrongdoing, it also found that RM42b was not missing and that the RM2.6b in PM Najib’s account was not from 1MDB. PM Najib was also cleared of any culpability.

Instead of welcoming the 106-page PAC report which Opposition representatives participated in and look forward to how lessons can be learnt from it and reforms instituted for the betterment of Malaysia, what we got instead from Opposition leaders, ANC campaigners and civil society leaders were statements like “this means nothing”, “this doesn’t change anything”, “whitewashing”, “I was wrong it was not RM42b, it was RM50b or much more” and many other dismissive or sarcastic ones.

Today DAP leader Lim Kit Siang (who should be spending more time coaching his son) said that it is not what is written in the PAC report that is important, but what is to be “read between the lines”. With due respect, I believe that if the 14 members of PAC (which included DAP’s Tony Pua as one of five Opposition reps) wanted to say something, they would have said it. Otherwise, what is the use of having Opposition voice on the PAC? Is it not to give the rest of the PAC members the correct check-and-balance, even if we accept that BN MPs there are “well selected” (according to Zaid Ibrahim)? What whitewashing that went on, if any at all, was done with the open eyes and ears of their own sanctimonious Opposition representatives!

Why can’t they just accept results as results, facts as facts – plain and simple?

When I read these statements belittling the outcome of a heavily-watched Parliamentary inquiry, I am reaffirmed in my belief that this country will for certain go further to-the-dogs if run by this bunch of inconsistent sore losers. They have shown that they are exactly the same as those they complain about – they will go to any lengths and say anything just to get what they want. They just do it better in “sheep’s clothing”.

And what they want is not to lose. Do you think it’s because they really love Malaysia and us Malaysians?

I doubt very much that they do, other than for themselves. And I doubt very much that we will get anything from them in the next year and half before PRU14. Definitely no real reforms (or even concrete plans for reforms), since all Opposition and ANC campaigners are occupied with at the moment is talking about “Saving Malaysia”, organising rallies, freeing Anwar, saving Lim Guan Eng’s ass, freeing Rafizi (who by the way actually knew he was breaking the law), finding faults, promoting themselves or conspiring for their turn in the seat of power.

So I say stop wasting our time and be gone sore losers. And Malaysia, can we move on already?

P.S. Here are some good quotes that applies to both sore losers and drama queens alike – “keep calm and don’t be a sore loser”, “negative people need drama like oxygen”, “if you’re gonna lose, lose like a boss” and “winners make goals, losers make excuses”.