A highly embarrassed Umno must decide quickly on how to deal with the treachery committed by the Datuk T trio.
Umno is hurting. Rahim Thamby Chik’s actions over the video alleging PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim having procured the services of a prostitute has brought Umno into wretched disrepute.
The video was received with utter disbelief. People are linking it to Umno. Rahim TC is an Umno Supreme Council member.
He has dragged Umno into public contempt and odium.
This is the context to which Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah referred to when he said, Malaysian politics has been reduced to gutter politics.
That’s generally meant to refer to dirty politics.
Perhaps the more appropriate term should have been cesspool politics since a cesspool collects sewage and other unmentionables.
The night soil collectors are Shazryl Eskay Abdullah and Rahim.
Never in the history of Umno has the bedroom activities of anyone been brought out into the open and used as the fatal blow to one’s opponents.
The early Umno leaders were not saints – if we were to examine the lives of past leaders, almost all of them were blemished leaders.
Yet not one among them would ever dream of using personal foibles as a tool to kill of his opponent.
Yet this is happening to modern day Umno – the party that claims pole position as the champion of the Malays.
Umno is to modern Malays as what Malacca was to Malays of antiquity. The downfall of each was brought about by the machinations and treachery of thambis.
In the coming days, Umno leaders will realize that the expose of the video has generally backfired on them.
In old Malay history (Sejarah Melayu) such treachery called for execution or castration.
Will Umno now do the modern day honours to Rahim, Eskay and Shuib Lazim?
Mohd Ariff Sabri Aziz is a former Umno state rep and blogs at sakmongkolak47. This is an excerpt of an article which first appeared on his blog.
Umno is hurting. Rahim Thamby Chik’s actions over the video alleging PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim having procured the services of a prostitute has brought Umno into wretched disrepute.The video was received with utter disbelief. People are linking it to Umno. Rahim TC is an Umno Supreme Council member.
He has dragged Umno into public contempt and odium.
This is the context to which Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah referred to when he said, Malaysian politics has been reduced to gutter politics.
That’s generally meant to refer to dirty politics.
Perhaps the more appropriate term should have been cesspool politics since a cesspool collects sewage and other unmentionables.
The night soil collectors are Shazryl Eskay Abdullah and Rahim.
Never in the history of Umno has the bedroom activities of anyone been brought out into the open and used as the fatal blow to one’s opponents.
The early Umno leaders were not saints – if we were to examine the lives of past leaders, almost all of them were blemished leaders.
Yet not one among them would ever dream of using personal foibles as a tool to kill of his opponent.
Yet this is happening to modern day Umno – the party that claims pole position as the champion of the Malays.
Umno is to modern Malays as what Malacca was to Malays of antiquity. The downfall of each was brought about by the machinations and treachery of thambis.
In the coming days, Umno leaders will realize that the expose of the video has generally backfired on them.
In old Malay history (Sejarah Melayu) such treachery called for execution or castration.
Will Umno now do the modern day honours to Rahim, Eskay and Shuib Lazim?
Mohd Ariff Sabri Aziz is a former Umno state rep and blogs at sakmongkolak47. This is an excerpt of an article which first appeared on his blog.
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