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TJ MT MGG: Mulut Tabuh Dapat Disumbat, Mulut Orang? By M.G.G. Pillai 9/4/2001 1:11 am Mon  | 
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 MGG 8201  [Umno cuba memerap salahlaku dengan mengadakan siasatan dalaman 
sedangkan itu tidak perlu kerana polis dan BPR memang ditubuhkan  
untuk hal itu dan harta rakyat seperti balak memang menjadi mangsanya  
di situ. Umno sebenarnya tidak mampu mencuci dirinya tetapi mahu  
menyembunyikan kejijikkannya tetapi baunya tetap ada dan akan merosakkan 
imej Umno juga.   Umno dilanda kemelut akibat membiarkan penyakit bermaharaja gila dalam 
dirinya tanpa merawatnya atau membedahnya kerana bimbang pecah tembelang 
seseorang yang amat berkuasa di dalamnya. Ia menjaga populariti individu  
lebih dari populariti parti. Inilah dilema Melayu yang mencekik sendiri Umno.  
Akhirnya ia akan menjahanamkan semua termasuk yang sihat dan buncit-buncit 
belaka kerana mulut manusia sukar untuk menutupnya dan penyakit kronik  
sudah jauh merebak di dalam dirinya.      (For Whom The Bells Toll)    Ketua UMNO Bahagian Kuantan, Dato Fauzi Abdul Rahman, telah  
menyindir para pemimpin UMNO begitu hebat sekali sehinggakan BPR  
melawat pejabat syarikat kerjasama yang dipengerusikan oleh  
timbalan pengerusi UMNO Kuantan, Dato' Faizal Abdullah dan  
mengambil beberapa dokumen yang ada kaitan dengan lapuran tahunan  
yang terkini. Tidak ada sebarang petanda yang akan mengaitkannya  
kepada sebarang salahlaku, tetapi ia tentunya bertujuan kepada  
sesuatu. Dokumen yang selalu diambil oleh BPR memang jarang sangat  
dipulangkan dan kerap menyebabkan sesuatu organisasi itu menjadi  
pincang. Mungkin ini bertujuan memesongkan perhatian daripada  
masalah utama: tuduhan Dato Fauzi bahawa Setiausaha Agong UMNO,  
merangkap menteri penerangan telah menyalahgunakan kekayaan negara.  
Inilah yang membuatkan para pemimpin UMNO gelabah kini dan perkara  
itu tidak dibincangkan lagi secara terbuka. Satu siasatan dalaman  
sudah pun direncana, pihak polis dan BPR pula bertindak secara sambil  
lewa.            -MGG Pillai-  Rencana Asal:  For Whom The Bells Toll  The UMNO Kuantan division chief, Dato' Fauzi Abdul Rahman, 
nettles UMNO leaders so badly that the ACA visits a 
cooperative which Dato' Faizal Abdullah chairs, [- typo  
correction by Editor] and takes away documents relating to 
its latest annual reports.  No hint of wrongdoing is hurled 
at him, but it is to unnerve him.  The documents taken away, 
in any ACA visit, is returned rarely or not at all, and 
throws any organisation into confusion.  This is to divert 
attention from the main problem:  his allegation that the 
UMNO secretary-general, information minister and former 
mentri besar of Pahang, Tan Sri Khalil Yaakob, had misused 
the state's wealth.  It threw UMNO leaders into a tailspin 
and the matter is not discussed in public any more.  An 
internal investigation is ordered, the police and the ACA 
react with total unconcern.   This one has come to expect.  Look at the tens of 
police reports filed against the cabinet by the jailed 
former deputy prime minister, Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim, and 
his supporters.  Not one is seriously looked into.  It is 
not, in the government's considered view, the cabinet 
ministers who ought to be destroyed but Dato' Seri Anwar. 
But the inaction is more from fear of political 
consequences.  Those in the cabinet privately agree that if 
investigations are allowed to proceed to its logical 
conclusion, there would be a queue outside Sungei Buloh 
prison to rub shoulders for a few years with the VIP 
prisoner there.  The police reports of ministerial and 
official corruption helps keep Dato' Seri Anwar on the high 
moral ground culturally;  and Dato' Fauzi's report questions 
UMNO moral standing.  That Dato' Fauzi is still close to 
Dato' Seri Anwar makes it even more so. 
   The Prime Minister clearly was caught offside when the 
crisis blew into his face.  Tan Sri Khalil and Dato' Fauzi 
married step-sisters.  They were close.  One supported the 
other.  Both mounted a solid front to maintain their hold on 
Kelantan UMNO.  But the Anwar affair unscrambled it.  Dato' 
Fauzi did not hide his ties with Dato' Seri Anwar, was one 
of the first at the house in Bukit Damansara after the 
latter was sacked from UMNO and the government in September 
1998.  But, in the view of UMNO leaders', pro-Anwar backers 
in the party, especially in government, must be 
systematically rooted out.  This is one such.  It has blown 
into their collective faces.  It does not matter here what 
happens to Dato' Fauzi, as it does not matter, in the larger 
political and cultural context, what happens to his jailed 
friend.   UMNO tells the world it follows rules no one else does. 
The law is not to investigate their misdoings, but its 
leaders' enemies.  The home mininster, Dato' Seri Abdullah 
Ahmad Badawi, should have asked the police, not the UMNO 
disciplinary committee, to investigate Dato' Fauzi's 
charges.  For what is at stake is UMNO's, and the 
government's, credibility.  It is taken in panic, in the 
belief that if the mainstream media does not report what 
happens, it is all right.  But UMNO's right to lead the 
Malays is challenged politically and culturally.  Every 
action its leaders take enhances this Malay belief that 
UMNO's time is past.  It has descended from the national 
movement it once was to another political party.  The 
political mistakes of its leaders in the past come to haunt 
it.   Indeed, the greater threat to UMNO now is what happens 
when the next prime minister, whoever he is, takes office. 
Yes, in the UMNO musical chairs heirarchial chart, it should 
be Dato' Seri Abdullah.  But he cannot, in the current 
political climate, repair the Malay ground view against 
UMNO.  He has become, as deputy prime minister, too 
confrontational to unite the disparate groups.  The 
infighting amongst the UMNO leaders comes out into the open. 
The relationship between the Prime Minister and his finance 
minister is so bad that one should expect a public explosion 
soon.  What made it worse is the EPF and KWAP bailout of 
TimeDotCom share fiasco and the the government purchase of 
MAS shares to bailout Tan Sri Tajuddin Ramli. 
   I am told of one top secret meeting, in the presence of 
others, at which Dr Mahathir questioned Tun Daim about both, 
and wanted to know EPF exposure in "this private company" -- 
TimeDotCom.  Tun Daim did not have the figures, one of those 
irrelevant figures that slipped off his mind, and Dr 
Mahathir wanted the answers within a week.  That deadline is 
past, and the figures remain unknown.  This could well be 
how the two men discuss matters of state, and there is 
nothing unusual about it.  But then I hear of Tun Daim 
telling his acolytes:  that whereas once he saw his boss six 
or seven times a day, it is now once in six or seven days. 
The Prime Minister has come to his senses, realises a lot 
done in his name now sinks him.  He had had his waking hours 
spent on how to destroy his nemesis, when others on his side 
spent time and effort on how to destroy him.  That is Dr 
Mahathir Mohamed's Malay Dilemma.  M.G.G. Pillai       |