RPK'S ONCE UPON A TIME JALAN GASING & PUSING IN PAKATAN SELANGOR

by eli whitney, Donplaypuks® intrepid correspondent for cotton spinning affairs

When you spin a top, it must eventually come to rest. No human has invented a perpetual motion machine. The known laws of physics do not permit it. Thus worthless unspinners must spin, and spinners, unspin, themselves into oblivion.

The pity is Raja Petra Kamaruddin (RPK) is in danger of doing so too. Watchdog or Running Dog, I don't know. But, I hope he has not become someone's lapdog, or worse, Birkin bag carrier.

A pity, because, a flaccid RPK and M2Day are still a worth a darn good read and are more credible than the whole lot of pro-BUMNO bloggers put together. Imagine what an upright and fully seized RPK could achieve. 

Lately, RPK’s been too intent on fitting “facts” to hypothesis, since he’s prematurely announced to the world there is serious corruption in Selangor, and God forbid, if that’s not the case, and the world should come to its end yesterday.

(Do remember that something can only be called a ‘theory’ if it can be verified and reconstructed with predictable results using the laws formulated in that theory. Otherwise, it’s just another hypothesis. Thus, the ‘Big Bang Theory,’ no matter if even Einstein believes in it, is still only a hypothesis because no one knows how to start an explosion, from which strange creatures like Rosemajib, Maha Firaun, AP Kings and Queen and $2.2 billion KIDEX YOU NOT toll highways could be created, and whose reverberations could still be heard 14 billion years later, as you can the methane -filled farts from Bigbangsar Fidnotalot Cowgatesville!).

And that’s the problem with ego, mania and megalomania. 

Here’s a good definition of Megalomania from Wikileaks, owned by Anwar Ibrahim. Okay lah RPK, that’s a lie; it’s from Wikipedia:

“A psycho-pathological condition characterized by delusional fantasies of power, relevance, or omnipotence. Megalomania is characterized by an inflated sense of self-esteem and overestimation by persons of their powers and beliefs'.^[1] Historically it was used as an old name for narcissistic personality disorder prior to the latter's first use by Heinz Kohut in 1968, and is used these days as a non-clinical equivalent.^[2][3] It is not mentioned in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)^[4] or the International Statistical Classification of Diseases (ICD).”

Psycho-pathological. Delusions of power. Omnipotence. Narcissistic. Psycho-babble? A wee bit OTT (Over The Top) perhaps. 

But can we be blamed for our scepticism, if in reputedly bending over backwards to appear to be neutral, RPK bashes the current Selangor Government and accuses its leadership of corruption, backed, not with hard solid evidence, but slant spin? And then compares it with 30 years of proven, hard-core corruption by BUMNO/BN?

Let me illustrate this with reference to RPK’s exposé of 15^th March 2012 titled ‘EPISODE 20: The USD10 million kickback.’

“This matter involves a privatisation project between the Selangor state government (Selangor) and a company called Azam dan Azan Sdn Bhd (AASB). The facts of the case are as follows……” 

CLICK HERE for the full article.

With an opening gambit of this type, RPK gives the impression that not only was the Selangor Government under BUMNO/BN whiter than white, but that somehow PKR, DAP, PAS and Khalid Ibrahim are the proven corrupt parties. 

Yet, ALL the documents tendered by RPK are pre-2008 when Selangor was under BUMNO/BN and prove not an iota that any corrupt act was planned or committed, especially by Pakatan.

Here’s how a really fair-minded person would have written RPK’s opening lines:

“The reality is, this matter involves a problematical 1997 privatisation project signed between the Selangor state government (Selangor) which was then under the rule of Barisan National (BN) led by Butt United Malay National Organization (BUMNO) Menteri Besar (Chief Minister) Tan Sri Abu Hassan Haji Omar, succeeded in 2000 by Dr. Mohamed Khir bin Toyo. Dr. Khir Toyo lost his position after BUMNO/BN was defeated at GE 2008, and was replaced by PKR’s  Tan Sri Abdul Khalid bin Ibrahim, who inherited this 1997 problem.”

Could the word “corruption” possibly be used in the same breath and sentence as Abu Hassan and Khir Toyo? Nah, no way!

RPK then moves on with:

“Since 2009, nothing much has happened and it remained a deadlock. …….Finally, AASB had no choice but to try to seek a ‘political solution’ to their problems……PKR Sarawak leaders, Baru Bian, AASB was introduced to the PKR Treasurer and Member of Parliament for Selayang, William Leong. After a few meetings, it was suggested that the matter be brought to the attention of the Menteri Besar, Khalid Ibrahim.

Baru Bian then introduced AASB to Tian Chua, MP for Batu who is said to have the ears of the Menteri Besar…….. 

AASB was told that the matter can be resolved if they agreed to donate USD10 million to PKR as ‘election funds’. AASB was also asked to submit a ‘statement of claim’ for RM70 million for the construction cost of the market in the first phase, which the state will approve.” RPK M2Day.

This is utter crapulence of the highest and stinkiest order! Why would a local party ask another local party for a local bribe for a local project in US$, even if it is to be paid overseas? The bribe would have been fixed in Ringgit Malaysia as a percentage of the project cost  - 10%, 50%, 100% - whatever. So, what was the exchange rate? 3.80? 3.20? 3.10? This is the kind of elementary errors RPK makes in his haste to spin and gasak (wallop), when he has no proof but only hot air!  

In February, he made that kind of same elementary mistake by writing he was told by John Soh that Anwar Ibrahim  had billions of dollars stashed away oveseas. Yet, he believed John Soh when he told him Anwar had asked him to fund $300 million to buy over BUMNO/BN MP’s in 2008 to stage the September 16 coup attempt.

QUOTE:“For weeks Anwar refused to talk to John Soh. He put the failure of September the 16th squarely on John Soh’s shoulders. When they finally met, Anwar and John Soh had a heated exchange of words. When Anwar said that John Soh was to be blamed for the September 16th failure, John Soh retorted, “If you are so confident it was going to work then why not fund it yourself? Bring back some of the billions you have stashed overseas and pay the RM300 million from your own pocket!” M2Day.UNQUOTE.

CLICK HERE for the full article.

You can see how hot air is in superabundance where solid proof is not! Is there a Statutory Declaration by John Soh on this alleged confession? Or even a Dato Trio blue film shot in Thailand, starring China Doll and Phat Pong Soh, drooping belly, crew cut, Omega watch and all? And even if John Soh were to appear on Al Jazeera with a confession, is anyone likely to believe a word he utters?

And here’s RPK’s totally devastating “clincher” on proven corruption involving William Leong, Tian Chua, MB Khalid Ibrahim and Pakatan:

“Once AASB receives the RM70 million from the state, they are to pay the USD10 million donation as stipulated. AASB's response was: go to hell! They are prepared to sit it out and wait until after the next general election when Pakatan Rakyat will be kicked out of Selangor and the state falls back to Bumno.” RPK/M2Day.

Wow, a local property developer actually said FO to an "under-table" payment to accommodate a political party?

Uncork the non-alcoholic (after all, Azam dan Azan Sdn. Bhd. could not possibly consume the ‘haram’ version) champagne. Let ‘er rip!

And the beauty of  it all which should get them the Ghandi-Mandela Gold Medal for probity, honesty and uprightness?

“They are prepared to sit it out and wait until after the next general election when Pakatan Rakyat will be kicked out of Selangor and the state falls back to BUMNO.”

Sorry, I must stop here. It is so moving, I am reduced to tears. SOB!

So, they all lived happily ever after in their uncorrupted and incorruptible Selangor under the aegis of BUMNO/BN.

Aah, how we miss the dang good 'ol days of Camelot Selangor and clean governance in the state of the “abode of sincerity.”

Now, for the moment, allow me to retire in peace, knowing the future of Selangor shall be safe when once again it is in BUMNO/BN hands, and smoke a camel or two, one hump or two! 

Donplaypuks® with spin and counterspin, man!