Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim is a dangerous man. If he is not put in prison, the chances are that past and present members of Prime Minister Najib Razak’s Cabinet will be in jail, for crimes against the people and country of Malaysia.It is a simple equation: If Anwar is free, the corrupt BN elite will be incarcerated. If Anwar is imprisoned, the corrupt BN elite escape prosecution. It is as simple as that.
Notice how there has been a concerted attack on Anwar at almost every opportunity since last year. Each, more intense than the previous barrage. When Anwar first highlighted the major role played by APCO in Najib’s administration, Anwar became a marked man. In Najib’s eyes, Anwar was public enemy number one. That debacle with APCO ended when the Dewan Rakyat prevented Anwar from presenting his evidence to the Parliamentary Select Committee. The upshot was that Anwar and opposition politicians who supported Anwar’s protest, ended up being suspended from parliament.
Anwar rode that storm only to have more obstacles put in his way. The Sodomy trial is one such barrier. Then, over the past months, various oddballs have made unexpected appearances, all purporting to have facts that show how Anwar is an evil and depraved individual. One of those was Umi Hafilda Ali, the sister of the PKR deputy president Azmin Ali. She didn’t just regurgitate old rubbish, she reported to everyone that she was sueing Anwar for millions of ringgits and that she compelled to expose Anwar for he was an evil man.
If that was not enough, the sex video purportedly featuring Anwar suddenly made its appearance. Senior politicians were the mastermind behind this project of BN and when the video ‘bombed’’ on them, the trio responsible for screening, revealed their identities so as to protect Najib and his First Lady, Rosmah Mansor. A few days after the trio failed to produce the desired effect on the public, another blast from the past surfaced to attack Anwar. He was Daim Zainuddin, a former Cabinet member.
Later, when Anwar tried to talk at a rally, he was limited to 15 minutes of speech and escorted away by several policemen. The next day, around 20 policemen swooped on the house of the PKR deputy president, Azmin Ali. Was Azmin such a threat? So is Anwar that dangerous? The answer is yes. But only to BN. That is why he became their target.
The fact that all these Umno politicians are resurfacing, one by one, to attack Anwar should be heartening for him. He has put in much effort to galvanise the opposition that BN now sees it as credible threat. BN is afraid of the influence of Pakatan both in peninsular and east Malaysia.Umno is afraid because they fear losing their licence to operate in Malaysia. That is why Anwar has to be brought down at all costs.
Almost a fortnight has lapsed and there have been no arrests over the sex video, but a lot of conjecture. Laws have been broken but the perpetrators who first screened the video, have been able to give press conferences, get the support of and protection of members of the Cabinet and demand questions of the person they accused in the video.
So what makes them think they have this right? Why should either Anwar or his wife have to answer to them? These two have not broken the law. They are not guilty of anything and do not have to prove their innocence. Some politicians and policemen have viewed the tape twice or more times. Their excuse is that they had to be certain it was Anwar.
Few will believe them. The people who are in charge of the investigations and the others who have viewed the tape are just depraved and morally corrupt people who are simply enjoying a pornographic movie with the consent of the authorities.They take us for fools when they tell us the're doing it as part of the investigation. BN will use the nation’s fascination and fixation on sex to confuse us. It does this so that we lose our focus on the important things that matter in the country right now. Our interest should be concentrated on Sarawak.- Mariam Mokhtar
source:malaysia chronicle
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