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The sudden U-turn into hypocrisy
News portal Malaysiakini had a day ago reported that four of the 10 girls were professional models, not MCA members, citing a forum user who goes by the handle ‘hdcyng' on the cari.com.my website.Beliawanis MCA chief Tee Hooi Ling and her deputy Nicole Wong, who have led the attacks against PKR Youth leader Lee Khai Loon and Rawang assemblywoman Gan Pei Nei, were strangely quiet when approached for confirmation.
In the past week, Beliawanis often slammed Pei Nei for disrespecting her own female gender. Yet, Tee directed Malaysiakini to Selangor MCA Youth chief Kow Cheong Wei, saying she was overseas when asked about the girls not being MCA members. Kow also refused to confirm, saying that the media should not focus on only a certain segment of AGM participants.
Tee and MCA's sudden reticence is starkly against the harsh and even smug tone they adopted on October 5.
“That is not true, they are all members, I think some of them were from the Subang division. I don’t know how people can come up with such allegations,” Malaysiakini had reported Tee as saying then.
To compound Tee's hypocrisy, she even added it was “very disgusting” of netizens to question the women’s membership just because they thought the women were pretty.
Pundits said when the truth is finally unveiled, it would interesting to see who were really abusing women and using them as sex objects, and all for the sake of gaining political favour.
"Let the truth surface naturally. There is no point to cover up or try to hide because the Beliawanis also initially attacked PKR for suggesting pretty women could niot be in politics. Now they dare not answer if Wee or MCA had hired the four to be models for, of all functions, the male MCA Youth AGM. So macho, is that what Wee was trying to insinuate? Join MCA Youth and get to mingle with luscious babes? What type of a recruitment campaign can that be," PKR veteran Eddie Wong told Malaysia Chronicle.
MCA is hoping to ride on the issue to gain public sympathy from the Chinese community. However, the issue looks like boomeranging with netizens quick to expose that four of the 10 stunningly pretty girls whom MCA claimed were Beliawanis members were actually professional models.
The netizens also alleged the four were not MCA members at all.
Who is using women as decoration
The Missing Emerald Elephant Five brothers were apprehended in the palace and thrown at the sultan's feet. One of them, the guards asserted, had stolen the prized emerald elephant of Damascus, a precious gift of both monetary and sentimental value to the sultan. Whichever man was deemed guilty of the treason would suffer the sultan's favorite punishment: beheading. The sultan looked over the five terrified men, all of whom looked equally innocent. When the sultan pointed his scimitar at the first man, the second spoke up. "Your highness, I stole the elephant, behead me." As the sultan turned his gaze, a third spoke up. "My brother is a fool. I stole the elephant; spare him and take me instead." Then the fourth, "No, I stole the elephant. I am the guilty one." Finally the fifth, "Alas, all my brothers are protecting me, for I stole the elephant." They fell into one another's arms sobbing. The sultan was touched by the loyalty and loving kinship between the brothers. And seeing that he could not discern a single guilty member, beheaded them all. Two days after their execution, the sultan found his emerald elephant. It was under a big Turkish carpet. Of all the dumb luck! ** The Concubine and the Dream There once was a concubine deeply in love with the sultan. One night she dreamed a wondrous dream. She wandered the deserts alone at night and encountered an enormous fig tree. As if pulled by the stars, the concubine scaled the tree, climbing higher and higher until she could speak to the heavens. The heavens told her that the sultan would fall victim to an assassination plot, which brewed within his own palace walls. If the concubine saved him, she would be chosen as 'the favorite' in the harem, be wed to the sultan, and bear him a son--an heir destined to bring decades of peace and prosperity to the empire. The heavens warned the concubine that she was the only soul capable of saving him. The concubine woke up the next morning, fully aware of the dream and its prophecy. While attending her daily chores, she peered in the sultan's quarters to discover the grand vizier stalking the sleeping sultan with an ivory dagger! The concubine charged and leapt upon the vizier, pulling a hidden blade from her bosom, which she kept for just such emergencies. The clash of bodies woke the sultan in a sudden fit. A fierce struggled ensued, but the concubine prevailed, stabbing the grand vizier in the neck with her bosom-blade. As the sultan watched the grand vizier crumple lifelessly to the floor, the concubine shared her prescient dream from the heavens--the premonition of the murder, her destiny to bear him a son, the ushering of a golden age for the empire. The sultan listened intently and finally understood everything: the concubine spilled blood all over his new silk sheets, which he just got. For this offense, the sultan ordered the concubine to be beheaded. Also, because she was a woman. ** The Three Generals For months, three cities endured a long protracted siege from Hungarian Crusaders. The sultan received word that each city would require a new defense against the onslaught. The general of the first city--a decorated war hero, renowned for his strategic genius and countless victories--stepped forward. "We will construct strong wooden barricades. From there our archers will volley arrows into the ranks of our foes, decimating the enemy before he even reaches our gate." The sultan nodded and the general proceeded with the tactic. The first city built the wooden barricades as the general had planned, but he had not planned on the Hungarians wielding catapults of flaming rocks. The barricades burned to the ground and the first city fell. For his failure, the sultan beheaded the general. The second general stepped forward--a young officer eager to prove himself. He was innovative, courageous, and famous for employing bold, unorthodox gambits. "Sire, my predecessor was caught in the old ways. My forces will construct a defensive wall made of the strongest iron in the kingdom. It will easily withstand the Crusaders' cursed flaming rocks." The sultan nodded and the young general proceeded. The second city poured all the labor it could muster into building the iron wall. Unfortunately, building a giant iron wall takes years, and the Crusaders easily invaded, ransacked, and enslaved the city before anything remotely useful was built. When the second general returned in disgrace, the sultan ordered that his head be removed via beheading. The third general--an old, hunchbacked man dressed in rags, with a scraggily beard and wild left eye--stepped forward. He was neither a lauded war hero, nor a young officer prodigy. In fact, he had no military experience whatsoever, and the sultan wasn't sure why he even made him a general in the first place, but oh well! The strange man ducked down and swiveled his head up to the sultan with a deranged glare and yelped, "Rope! Rope around the city! It'll warn the invaders that we are protected. Protected by God!" The sultan heaved a weary sigh, then nodded. "Whoopee!" the third general cried, fist in his mouth, and hobbled off. When the Crusaders arrived at the roped border of the third city, they were warned that the city and its inhabitants were protected by a mighty and vengeful God, and that whoever should breach the border would suffer a bitter death. The Crusaders, warriors of God themselves, backed away in fear, and finally retreated. The third general returned home a hero. The sultan was so overjoyed that he had him beheaded immediately. ** The Princess and the Horn In the midst of carousing in the palace gardens, the sultan had gotten quite drunk and accidentally thrown his bejeweled drinking horn atop a sycamore tree. The sultan, desperate to regain his royal chalice, ordered a contest to be held across the entire kingdom. The first person to shoot an arrow at the horn and knock it from the tree would be awarded the sultan's daughter's hand in marriage. For weeks, hundreds of men across the kingdom attempted, but all failed. Finally, a slender man with a golden bow approached the sycamore and took aim. He fired, and the arrow landed true, knocking the drinking horn off its perch! "Incredible," the sultan declared. "But, how did you succeed, where so many men failed?"
"Because," the archer retorted, "I am not a man." The archer removed her hat and fake mustache, revealing herself to be none other than the concubine who stopped the grand vizier assassin!
The sultan gasped, "You're that concubine with the crazy dream who saved my life!"
"The very same."
"Guards!" The sultan watched as the concubine was beheaded--to make sure they got it right this time. ** The Lucky Pauper There was once a pauper renowned for giving perfect impressions of the sultan. Cavorting around the town bazaar in rags, he would bellow, "behead him, behead her, behead that," pointing to any person or animal in sight. People laughed and cheered at the pauper's imitations, as many of their friends, relatives, and spouses had been needlessly beheaded by the sultan. When the sultan caught word of the pauper's subversive acts, he had him dragged into his court. "You mock me as a capricious fool, who beheads anyone on the slightest whim," the sultan rebuked. A stony silence filled the palace. Then the pauper did something no one had ever done in the sultan's court: he stood up. "What is a kingdom without free expression? If your subjects are afraid to open their mouths, then how will you ever know when actual danger approaches?" The sultan pondered the pauper's words a moment. His face softened. "Well, I can take a joke. Who is a sultan if he cannot stand a little harmless ridicule? You've taught me a great deal, pauper--about my kingdom and myself, and I thank you for it. For your wisdom, I will grant you riches and my daughter's hand in marriage. But now, let us feast!" And the sultan spared no expense throwing an extravagant festival in the pauper's honor. It was the most beautiful beheading the kingdom had ever seen.
It looks like the Pakatan Rakyat opposition may be right. Umno is really starting to lose it. Its traditional Malay electorate is beginning to see the party as it is and no longer as it was.
In the past due to its awesome power, Malays flocked to join the party, hoping to tap into its huge gravy train. Spurred by the racial politicking of the top Umno leadership, many ordinary Malays stayed on in the party, even though they knew they were unlikely to make it to the higher ranks. Total membership is said to number 3 million these days, the largest political grouping in the country.
But that may have been the peak for the Malay nationalist party. Not only have Malays become more emancipated by education, many are beginning to feel disgust in place of the trust they once held.
Starting to wise up
Not only was one of its senior officers, Ahmad Sarbaini, the victim of an Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission interrogation, Umno bloggers aligned to top leaders have begun spinning a sex video to suggest moral impropriety on his part.
It is believed to be an attempt take the heat off the MACC and Prime Minister Najib Razak's government. Both are blamed for his sudden death fall during a visit to the MACC headquarters in Cheras.
“Although the blog clearly showed sexual acts, until today there has been no further information over who was involved. As such, it cannot be conclusively said that it involved a Customs staff,” Malaysian Insider reported Customs director-general Mohamed Khalid Yusuf (right) as saying.
“Linking the sex act to Sarbaini’s case, which I cannot even see the link, is a cruel act and an irresponsible one, if it seeks to humiliate a person who has died."
Sex - Umno's antidote and addiction?
But this has been Umno's style. Even in the Teoh Beng Hock case, MACC had tried to insinuate he may have taken his own life due to a love triangle with a housemate.Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim has been hit with sex charges one after another - from accusations he had sodomized his male former worker to having sex with a female prostitute.
PAS deputy president Mat Sabu too has been victimized by allegations of sex scandals, with latest being a 'phone-sex' recording of a conversation that purportedly took place in the early 1990s!
In the Sarbaini case, the video shows a Malay man engaging in sex with a Caucasian woman in what looks like a hotel room. Umno blogger theunspinners.blogspot.com was the first to release the video, claiming the man was a Customs officer while suggesting the woman was a Russian prostitute.
The man in the video is not named, but the blogger links the recording, which is titled Pegawai Kastam Yang Terlampau, to Sarbaini's death while in MACC custody earlier this year.
It appears to be an attempt to tarnish the reputation of the Customs officer ahead of Monday’s verdict in his controversial inquest.
Blackmail and 'fitnah'
Meanwhile, Sarbaini's widow Maziah Manap has refused to be brow-beaten by the sex tape, vowing to get justice for her husband. Like Beng Hock's family, she too had been made an object of ridicule during the inquest by the MACC and its lawyer Shafee Abdullah.Shafee, who often acts on behalf of Umno and its leaders, had just days ago postulated that Sarbaini fell off the third-floor window in his haste to meet a girlfriend working at Schenker Logistics (M) Sdn Bhd, a Wan Zainalabidin Wan Zaki.
"I am most disappointed and saddened at the accusation made by the MACC. It is a great slander to make such an insinuation," Maziah had said in a statement.
All eyes are now on Monday's verdict. Pundits say the signs are clear, there is more corruption and shady activities within the MACC than outside.
"We certainly hope they are not trying to blackmail Sarbaini's widow into silence and acceptance over the inquest tomorrow," Batu MP Tian Chua told Malaysia Chronicle.
Coincidence at the MACC - two deathfalls in two years
Sarbaini, the assistant director of Selangor Customs, had gone to the MACC building in Cheras to meet his investigating officer over a money-laundering racket in which he had been implicated. Like Beng Hock, who was being interrogated as a witness into an embezzlement case, Sarbaini never made it out of the MACC premises alive.It is believed Sarbaini fell from the third-floor pantry of the MACC Cheras office. Beng Hock fell from the 14th floor of the MACC Shah Alam building.
Both their families are sure they did not commit suicide and have accused the MACC of foul play. The MACC comes under Najib's direct jurisdiction, but he has done little to rein its officers in.
Beng Hock's body was found in June 2009. Two years later, Sarbaini's body was discovered. Who's next?
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