Its pure madness

Eh........ ini macam pun bolehkah ?

I guess it takes desperate measures during desperate times. The BN stands accused of throwing lots of money around to entice and lure the elected members of PKR to defect or even to declare themselves "independent"! Speaking of independents I can never begin to understand how an elected member of Parliament/state assembly who was elected by the electorate on a party basis can now suddenly declare himself/herself an "independent"? How ah ? You work hard at begging ...sorry... I mean persuading people to vote for your party and then once elected you declare that you are an "independent"! Absolute poppycock I say! Maybe it is high time to make it illegal to become "independent" midstream. If you want to be "independent" then you ought to be an "independent" candidate from nomination day. All this nonsense of becoming "independent" after being elected on a party ticket is cheating the rakyat!

Speaking of elected members, the Elections commission in my books have clearly taken on a role that has not been provided for by law. There are these "independent" state assemblymen whose membership to the state assembly has now been questioned.The Perak State Speaker has declared the seats vacant and on the other hand the members say they have not resigned for the seats to be declared vacant. So how ? In my view the only recourse for the Elections Commission in the circumstances would be to refer the matter to the courts to be resolved. For the EC to declare the seats "not vacant" and the resignations to be "invalid" clearly implies that the EC has made a decision favouring one party. This in my view is never part of the scope, functions and duties of the EC. The EC must always maintain a neutral and independent stance at all times and it must always seen to be doing so. There are no two ways about it.

Anyway, did you hear/read about how the Deputy PM stands accused of offering RM50 million to persuade defections ? True or not I dont know. Whatever it is, I think this is an incredible accusation. Don't you think the police or the MACC ought to investigate the statutory declaration made by Fauzi Muda ? Will the DPM be called in for investigations and have his statements recorded ? Remanded maybe ? Nah....... no chancelah! That is only for the average Ali, Samy and Ah chong and not for sharks!

It has now been confirmed that there indeed was a meeting between the DPM and Fauzi. The former deputy defence minister had confirmed that such a meeting had indeed taken place. The only question that is disputed is whether money had been offered at the meeting. I don't know about you lah....but what is the DPM doing having meetings with PKR members ? Untuk apa ? Nothing to do is it ? Remember Saiful ? Didn't the DPM also say he also met this alleged "victim" of a S.377 penal code offence? Why ah ? So free are you Sir ? Anyway thank you for making time to meet the rakyat.

Cheers,

M V Nathan