Jacky Yong

I follow gleefully the road to success for the once-down-but-not-out politician Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim (DSAI). First the butt-fuck case during the Mahadthir era back in 1998. I remember vividly that it was only days after the 41st’s Merdeka celebration. He was charged and trialled, for what we all know now that is a slanderous allegation against him to throw him from power. He was barred from any political involvement until 14th April 2008. A date that is obviously noted by Badawi, as he has decided to dissolve the Parliament and hold the General Election earlier, on 8th March 2008. But alas, the people wanted a change, as evident in the result of the election. BN lost most of its stronghold, Selangor, Perak and Penang. Sami also lost, a fact most welcomed by the rakyat, myself included.

But now the man is back! And he is obviously a wiser and more influential than ever before. After his convincing win late last night, he has officially now an MP, and will be sworn into the Parliament this Thursday, and will also be in the session during the tabling of the 2009 Budget! I can imagine the furore that this will create and the chill in the spine for the BN goons. Badawi would have pissed in his pants, Mahadthir would never have dreamt that this would happen to him in his lifetime! Gosh, this makes for an incredible movie moment doesn’t it? 😛

Now that Anwar has come into the picture, the people are expecting a lot to happen in the next few months, if not weeks. DSAI has promised to take over the government by the end of September. Let’s just wait and see if that happens.

To be honest, I too wish for DSAI to come into power. The BN croonies has been in power for much too long. Corruption and malpractise are happening everywhere. The police force are a pain-in-the-ass; instead of protecting the people, the prey on them, wielding fear to subdue them. The public transport system is a joke, and there are plenty of white elephants all over the country. Proton is getting protection for 20 full years and they still product shit cars. Malaysia has grown into a sissy country, and a lot of its best brains are migrating away. And they are still not doing anything about it. Don’t get me started about the education system!

I am also confident of DSAI’s ability in managing a country, comparing among the oppositions. I mean come on, has Nik Aziz run a country before? Has Lim Guan Eng or Lim Kit Siang run a country before? Lim Guan Eng may be experienced in running a small island in Malaysia, but until now Penang is still recuperating from the switch over from Koh, which in my opinion is not that smooth. DSAI on the other hand was Malaysia Finance Minister in 1991 and a Deputy Prime Minister in 1993. He is a fully qualified person to run a country. He is also the only Malaysian ever to make it to Times Magazine’s list of the world 100 most influential people! If any person is to run a government, it’s him!

There are however opinions of DSAI that I cannot really agree on, especially on the issue of subsidized petrol. He wants it to be fixed at RM2.40 per litre, I say that this is not practical. Malaysia cannot live in the false sense of real commodity price in the world. It only depletes the real feel of consumer price index, and thus our income level will forever be stuck in a low margin. Our products becomes lesser quality, and thus lesser competitive in the open world market. I am no economist, but I cannot agree of DSAI’s point on this. However there is one thing that I can always agree on, and this has been mentioned by our beloved BN-Kinabatangan MP Datuk Bung Mokhtar Radin, bocor (leakage)! It happens everywhere, our court house ceiling, our education fund, our income-tax money, our petrol money that we subsidize.

So there, I will ask this question to our PKR hero, what happens next? We chose you because we expect these BN to be gone. And I do expect results this time!