A bygone quest or its the last straw, the
Amanah (Trust), an NGO forged over months of painstaking study for the best bulk of the popular protest in the killing of the mocking bird, is looking good.
It was five minutes late in the launching by the nobleman, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, on July 22. It was a Friday, a day of prayers for Muslims and possibly also a day of hope for all brothers and sisters-in-kind.
The Angkatan Amanah Merdeka launching left us gaping with the question about what it will be when its time for the good wolves to huff and to puff to bring the whole corrupt house down.
Its not anymore an existential question mark, like it had been with Hamlet, asking his conscience To be or not to be? as he walked down the endless steps of becoming.
The question having been answered by Tengku Li and his associate now begs for a clear remark about whether or not Ku Li, as he is better known, will one day take the Amanah out of the Barisan Nasional (BN) and surface it, as a yellow submarine, into the frontline of the Pakatan.
If Anwar Ibrahim ends up in the jail again, it is possible that the Amanah would be required to helm the Pakatan.
Prime Minister, Najib Tun Razak, is biting his finger in deciding when he will dissolve parliament. Some in the BN may be thinking of avoiding the general elections by calling an Emergency.
Umno and the BN is being battered everyday. They are almost sunk after willfully destroying as many cherished institutions as can be counted without tears.
Said a former minister at the launching of Amanah, the government is misgoverning the economy into a mess of super-costly projects, high and still rising prices of food, of housing and of essential items.
! Its a ci pher for certain regime change.
Following the daring showdown of right against might in the Bersih 2.0 through the streets of Kuala Lumpur on July 9, the BN can hardly be expected to let the cross-party new organization Ku Li is leading to exist.
It can be counted to pull out the required number of votes and force through a regime change after that had nearly happened in the 8 March 2008 general elections.
The Opposition had taken 51 percent of the total votes but fell short in the count for a majority in Parliament.
Of state governments the Pakatan took five but quickly lost Perak in a blur of sexual trysts and a case of poor leadership which together counted as a very high price to pay for moral misconduct and general inexperience.
The Amanah at the top is sexually safe and secure as a sum of leaders who have mostly been battered into good shape and others as social idealists of note like Tan Sri Simon Sipaun, 70, who had risen from a wasting village and taken by the Lord into Oxford University and became State Secretary of Sabah and then the No. 2 of SUHAKAM, the Human Rights Commission.
Theres Daniel Tajem, lawyer, in-out-in of SNAP in Sarawak, whos still living in a village among the people he represents politically and as a lawyer in Sarawak.
Former MCA president, the inspiring Ong Tee Keat, obviously towers as a man of conscience. He is a beacon, like Razaleigh.
Given the ready pool of the morally injured among the people, its hard to miss a win with the group of leaders of the Amanah a line-up of moral and ethical beacons that can, with freedom of speech, expression and assembly, light a path to the freedom from corruption, from collusion and from cronyism.
Other than former Minister, Tan Sri Kadir Sheikh Fadzir, one of whose brothers had risen to the helm of the Umno Youth, there are Dato Subramaniam, formerly MIC deputy president and Ragunath Kesavan, former Bar Council president, with Bujang Ulis, Dr. Patau Rubis, Wilf! red Bumb uring and even a guy who has climbed Mt. Kinabalu more than 50 times, making the sum into Pegasus, the constellation the ancients identified as the messenger or postmaster of the gods.
Therefore the powers will want Amanah blacked out.
Tengku Li said in his speech, This morning can just be another interesting social event in the Malaysian landscape or it could be the start of something unprecedented that it could alter the course of our countrys future and direction.
The room to move is calculated. It is limited.
The Tengku is aware some in Anwar Ibrahims PKR had blamed him for the failure of the September 16 lunge for power Anwar made.
As a result he slumped, only to mount again in the spectacular re-run of a famous rectum of Saiful Bukhari, one of his aides.
In the Pas some who are dismayed by the ranting of the aging Nik Aziz Nik Mat and equally disturbed by the rise of Mat Sabu as deputy president, want Anwar as president with Hadi Awang replacing Nik Aziz as the
Murshid ul-Am (General Guide).
Mat Sabu is not a religious scholar. Mat Sabu, as a carpet-bagger without any political base, is an obvious risk.
Its about a simple thought for the culture of power, meaning Tengku Razaleigh could prove to become a torn in the Pas stronghold of Kelantan, which is also the Tengkus home-ground.
Hence, the launching of Amanah passed in the media, including in the cyber portals, as a monumental whimper of a consortium which included more than a hundred corporate leaders who had come dressed in suits, many armed with blackberries, cameras and tablets to ensure a memory in digital-space of a reasoning for peace, for sanity, for a correction of systematic errors and for a return to development for the people.
This is the difference in Tengku Razaleighs touch. He brought leaders in the corporate sector to ground zero and to walk alongside with NGOs, intellectuals and the people at large, a ! final re finement of the Opposition that can make the Pakatan become the arm that will nail the coffin.
Elite RuleThere is a certain rule in Malaysia of the super-elite. It had arisen in the evolution of the New Economic Policy into a systematic dictatorship and which bastardized the whole of the policy while the civil service had become more and more the Umno and Barisan Nasional (BN) cadre outfit.
Former Prime Minister, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, had said, about 85 percent of projects meant for Bumiputras had been leaked and given to Non-Bumiputras, suggesting a system overwhelmed by graft and mutual gratifications.
After some high government officers had stunned the people by openly campaigning for the BN in recent by-elections, a broader-based participation became immensely necessary for the people to protect themselves from the power-elite.
The rich must help the poor and the successful must help the unfortunate, Tengku Razalegh recalled. It was what Tunku Abdul Rahman had said in his vision of a united and happy nation.
Its not about nostalgia. Its a basic in the formula for peoples who must rise to protect themselves from the dementia affecting governments when power is assumed for the competitive accumulation of money and of wealth in the human search for grand opulence in the Order of Ma
mmon.
Met Him? Know Him? Your fate and destiny are your simple choices. ----a. ghani ismail, 23 July, 2011
The Amanah website is at http://www.amanah.my/
Lim said that the authorities should investigate the relevant MACC officers for possible offences under sections 304 and 304A of the Penal Code, namely for culpable homicide not amounting to murder, and for causing Teohs death through negligence, respectively.
He further opined that the context of the events that had taken place was not one which, in [his] experience, leads to suicide in custody, as he had not been made aware of anything to explain panic and distress sufficient to drive (Teoh) to conclude his honour had been irreparably tarnished, said Lim.
The report read: We did not have any evidence on how the investigation was conducted as there were no written questions posted to (Teoh) or audio recording as to ascertain the amount of pressure he experienced.
That the RCI was unable to accept that the alleged suicide note had been written by Teoh, and that the undue delay by the authorities in tendering th! e allege d suicide note at the first available opportunity could not be taken as mere carelessness or neglect, and therefore the authenticity of the note could not be trusted;
According to the report, contrary to his testimony, Hishamuddin (left) was found to have been in full control and actively involved in the entire operation from the very start.
The senior officer, who has been with the MACC for 21 years, was described by the report as an "arrogant leader who would have no qualms in lying as long as his ends were achieved, regardless of the means employed".
Azeen Hafees Jamaluddin (left) and Azian Umar were the two MACC officers who exposed Hishamuddin's falsehoods during the inquiry.
