Not that I love the PM less, but I love Umno more
Yes, Brutus killed Caesar not because he loved Caesar less but because he loved Rome more. Not long after that Rome ceased to be the Empire it had been for centuries. Brutus may have loved Rome to the extent he killed his buddy, Caesar. But the new Roman culture of assassinating its own leaders eventually saw the demise of Rome. And this will be Umno’s fate as well if it does not stop stabbing each other in the back like the Romans used to do.
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Raja Petra Kamarudin
Be patient till the last. Romans, countrymen, and lovers! Hear me for my cause and be silent that you may hear. Believe me for mine honour and have respect to mine honour that you may believe. Censure me in your wisdom and awake your senses that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar’s, to him I say that Brutus’ love to Caesar was no less than his. If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer: not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. (Brutus).
Brutus was supposed to have lived around the same era as Judas, and both have gone down in history as the greatest betrayers of their comrades. Judas was said to have betrayed Jesus while Brutus betrayed Julius Caesar.
And those who have read William Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” will know that paragraph (above) regarding not about loving Caesar less but about loving Rome more.
They killed Caesar because they loved Rome more
The excuse for assassinating Julius Caesar was because he was accused of being too ambitious and wished to rule as the Emperor of Rome — and Rome was a Republic, not a Monarchy. Hence Caesar needed to be assassinated so that Rome could be saved — although Brutus also loved Caesar (but then he loved Rome a bit more than he loved Caesar).
According to the Christian historians (as opposed to the Christian theologians) Judas was forced to “betray” Jesus so that God’s plot for the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus could be completed. Without the crucifixion and resurrection event, Christianity would not exist.
Hence Jesus had to die and be raised from the dead to compete the birth of Christianity. Without that there would be no Christianity. Hence Judas did not love Jesus less, he loved Christianity more.
That is the conclusion by the Christian historians (the Grand Design involving the crucifixion and resurrection theory), which differs from the theologians’ “betrayal” by Judas hypothesis.
They killed Najib because they love Umno more, and in the process killed Umno as well in GE14
And then we have the betrayal of Julius Caesar by his closest buddy, Brutus, who assassinated Caesar not because he did not love Caesar but because he loved Rome more. This sounds almost like Azmin Ali betraying his mentor Anwar Ibrahim not because he loved Anwar less but because he loved the Malays more.
And then we have Anwar betraying his mentor Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad not because he loved Mahathir less but because he loved Malaysia more — and Mahathir was a curse and a blight to the country.
Then we have the Umno people betraying Perikatan Nasional not because they love Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin less but because they love Umno more — and under Muhyiddin’s Perikatan Nasional government, Umno is no longer “Soul Brother Number One” (like it was for 72 years from 1946 to 2018) but is just a passenger in a ship it no longer controls.
Umno was Number One for 72 years but today is no longer the Manchester United of Malaysian politics
But then Umno went and lost GE14 — and it lost GE14 because it overestimated its strength and thought that after 72 years as “Soul Brother Number One” there was no way it could be defeated in the general election.
The English call this “the pride before the fall” and it happens to many people – Mahathir, Anwar, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, etc., just some examples of those many.
And now Umno is repeating its mistake of three years ago. Umno refuses to admit that its GE14 defeat was not because of someone else but because of their own mistakes. Umno likes to blame others instead of accepting that it blundered. Semua salah orang lain. Satu pun bukan salah aku.
These Umno people claim to be Muslims. But they are ignorant of Islam’s advice that Allah does not cause you any calamity that do not cause to yourself. Allah is not cruel. Allah is loving. But if you wish to jump off the roof of the Twin Towers, Allah will not stop you.
But then when you jump off the roof of the Twin Towers and die, you blame Allah for being cruel to you. Orang Islam jenis apa ni? You chose that fate, just like Umno chose its fate in GE14. So why marah orang lain?
Umno is demanding to be treated as “Soul Brother Number One” again. To get back that status you need to be Number One. It’s just like Manchester United. Currently, Manchester United is Number Two behind Liverpool. To get back Number One, Man United has to win the next few games. That is how it works.
To become Number One you need to win and not just demand to be treated as Number One
So Umno is no longer “Soul Brother Number One”. In fact, it is not even Number Two. Currently, DAP is stronger than Umno because directly and through proxy it controls double the seats that Umno controls (about 80) while Muhyiddin controls directly and through proxy about 100 seats.
Will Umno ever get back its “Soul Brother Number One” status? The way Umno is going — such as indulging in friendly fire (a term used when you kill your own soldiers) and doing a Brutus on their own leaders — Umno may never regain that Number One position.
Yes, Brutus killed Caesar not because he loved Caesar less but because he loved Rome more. Not long after that Rome ceased to be the Empire it had been for centuries. Brutus may have loved Rome to the extent he killed his buddy, Caesar. But the new Roman culture of assassinating its own leaders eventually saw the demise of Rome. And this will be Umno’s fate as well if it does not stop stabbing each other in the back like the Romans used to do.
