In 2008, DAP Penang had done all the work and look sure of beating Gerakan led by the 'lembik" Tan Sri Koh Tsu Koon.
Lim Guan Eng turned up at the Penang state DAP committee meeting before election to announce he is running for both state and Parliment seats in Penang and basically push aside the more popular Penang DAP Chairman Chow Kon Yeow to assume the post of Penang Chief Minister.
DAP custom is repeating itself in Johor with Lim Kit Siang returning back to his home state, Johor to run at the Gelang Patah seat after wandering over the years all over the country - from Melaka to Petaling Jaya, Penang and currently Ipoh.
The senior Lim seemed to be emulating his son to steal the glory from the long hard work of Johore State DAP Chairman Dr Boo Cheng Hau.
There are those who believe that Kit Siang's return is to resolve a crisis in Johor DAP. No, it is not really so because the crisis was actually created by pro-Guan Eng faction.
DAP have been making claims all over Malaya that they are expecting to win up to 10 seats in Johor thus giving a seat to Kit Siang should not be an issue.
The fact is DAP can only get 6 at most and likely much less than that. [Sorry, we are not talking.] So why is Kit Siang running in Johor?
As one who claimed to be a natural nationalist without the need to undergo a Biro Tatanegara boot camp, the return of Kit Siang is seen as the return of a barbarian or a Trojan horse waiting to open the gates for barbarians already waiting to enter.
Wimp and coward
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A "lembik" leader is one that is unable to be decisive and firm in implementing policies and applying the law. They create dissatisfaction and invite criticism, compromise under political pressure from foes, and fallible to subversive elements.
It happened to Barisan Nasional with Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi at the helm of the national leadership and Tan Sri Koh Tsu Koon in Penang.
No, we are not repeating an old story on Abdullah yet. Save it when he tries to be vengeful like Tun Musa Hitam and backing his man run for UMNO office.
Since Tsu Koon is expected to run, we should not repeat on his weaknesses also. But we must mention that this chicken shit "lembik" of a Minister is such a coward that he avoided meeting this blogger after promising an appointment three Ramadhan ago.
The skinny wimp conjured up all sort of excuses to tell this former fellow FOMSANA comrade of his through his Muslim convert Chinese political Secretary, Johan (Abdullah). However, the irrelevant political player has no qualm top take any opportunity available to be featured next to the Prime Minister in the media.
How are voters to have confidence in a leader who behaves like a fashion model or worse still, like a prostitute, making a livelihood by exposing their face and body?
Heard he is looking at a seat in Bukit Gantang or perhaps, Lenggong, Perak.
Expensive ego
That was the case with current lameduck Menteri Besar of Johor, Dato Abdul Ghani Osman. Did we jump the gun to announce him as lameduck?
When Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin left the state for a Federal Minister post and was replaced by Ghani, he left behind a cash rich coffer for the state.
It runs into billion of ringgit kept and hidden in several Foundations, Trust Funds, State linked Companies, etc.
Ghani arrived in Johor Baru with a lot of ideas from his stinct in the Ministry of Finance and as someone who pride himself as a former University lecturer. His wife Jamilah is a University Professor.
At that time, there was much complain against Johor SEDC for entering into businesses that compete with Bumiputera businessmenman on the street. The "Melayu Johor yang bijak pandai dari Kuala Lumpur" was complaining that Johor did not create Bumiputera entrepreneurs despite the robust growth of Johor.
That was one of Gani's promise for Johor. He announced in a closed meeting then that he intend to create 100 Johorean millionaire entrepreneur.
However, Ghani had a problem.
His jealousy towards Muhyiddin was so overbearing that the only time one will see both attend a Persatuan Anak Johor dinner in Kuala Lumpur is when the Sultan attended recently.
Muhyiddin had a bad reputation as being responsible for selling Johor to Singaporean. It is a long story but it was Ghani who expanded and spread the story out of preportion. And there was many more rumours that Ghani did.
His ego see it as beneath him to take a single sen from the effort of Muhyiddin, his former classmate at Muar High School. Another of their classmate is the former Air Force General Dato Sujak who is currently recuperating from a serious operation.
KPRJ dream
One of the first few things that Ghani did upon returning to Johor was to do a thorough study of land use in Johor Baru particularly the business district via his wife-led foundation, Yayasan Sultan Iskandar or the local described as yayasan suami isteri. The key man in YSI was Professor Azman.
One would have thought it was to develop Johor Baru and create opportunity for Johor Malays and increase the population of Malays in the Johor Baru area.
Today one can see it is obviously not.
Another was his grand plan to build roads, schools, suraus and masjids, community halls, local sports facilites, and basically rural infrastructure.
It was a well intentioned idea but in usual government practise, there is the limitation of budget and thus it has to be budgeted annually and build bit by bit. But Gani wants to see to it that it be done immediately and all at once.
While he spread rumours and rubbish Muhyiddin, he wanted to use the plan to make himself more popular than Muhyiddin and that way he can overtake Muhyiddin in the race for UMNO Vice President.
Gani ran for VP a couple of times. He never win but on one occasion, he contributed to deny Muhyiddin a place in the top three after being first VP before that.
So Gani eventually came up with Kumpulan Prasana Rakyat Johor (KPRJ) and stole our intellectual capital to make it happen but missed key important elements intentionally left out in the stolen paper.
Former member of the UEM/Renong Office of Chief Exucitive, New Zealander Dato Amirullah Yusof Lana was made CEO. The executives were paid exorbitant salaries, large expense accounts and BMWs was lining up in front of their office.
KPRJ eventually got into trouble at the midst of the financial crisis at the turn of the new millenium.Padan muka curi hak intelek orang lain.
Gone is the idea of making 100 Johorean Bumiputera millionaires entrepreneur and Gani had to solve the financial mess of Johor SEDC or later Johor Corporation and KPRJ.
Lim Kang Ho
Enter KL-born Lim Kang Ho (now a Tan Sri) who was doing business with Felda to open up rancangan in Sabah. Maybe Kang Ho was given the contract to establish the Felda site in Lahad Datu that is in the news daily.
The words around Johor was that Kang Ho claimed to have spent RM800 million of his own money to bailout KPRJ after several proposal involving a backdoor listing exercise failed.
Every financial assitance have to be paid back. Kang Ho wants land and many more as repayment.
Sometime last year in a closed door meeting of an NGO, it was attended by several of it's Johor members. This blogger heard them raised the issue of Kang Ho. There is a deep rooted displeasure towards Kang Ho and Gani in Johor.
They claimed Kang Ho got back many couple of times more than his RM800 million assistance of KPRJ. Itu belum cerita the profit he could make by developing the asset exchanged for "helping" out KPRJ.
Kang Ho is also given interest in KFC in a recent restructuring that had raised public concern in Johor and Kuala Lumpur over the sheer shrewdness and arrogance of Johor Corp management to ignore public outcry and gave away equity of a cashcow priceless jewel to Phillip Ho and Kang Ho.
More on that at a later time.
Real "Sultan of Johor"
He basically controls the whole stretch of Iskandar waterfront and the area surrounding the Sultan's palaces in Johor Baru. Some say part of the Sultan's investment is stuck with him.
By giving an outsider and businessman much control over Johor Baru and Iskandar Malaysia with the state Menteri Besar and the state aparachik to back him, it is like giving Kang Ho the license to sell Johor to the Singaporean barbarian waiting and some are inside the gates.
Don't ask us what to do or do we want to do this and that. We are not in power to tell of our plans. Iskandar will develop into a sovereignty problem for Johor and Malaysia but everyone chose to ignore out of the chase to get foreign investment.
The 22 years of Dr Mahathir had develop a spirit of Malaysia can do and will do but the Tingkat 4 chose to think we cannot do and invite foreign business consultant to administer our country and sell our land and soverignty in a situation much worse that that happening in Lahad Datu.
Gani did not develop the 100 Bumiputera businessmen into successful millionaires or billionaires but gave practically everything to his favourite businessman Kang Ho and three other Chinese corporate players.
Kit Siang return
The 72 year old Batu Pahat-born politician hails from our parent's neighbourhood of Lim Poon back home in Batu Pahat.
As told by one of the many well known MCA leaders from Batu Pahat, Lim Poon used to be the area where many former Bintang Tiga communist terrorist reside after the Emergency.
Raising the issue of Communist in Lim Poon and Batu Pahat is a sensitive issue. Either they are ashamed of their past or they harbour the thought to return to their anti establishment tendency.
In addition to Kit Siang's Batu Pahat roots, it is an open secret that many former communist activist joined DAP to continue their subversion work but using democrasy as a facade.
To quote Tunku Aziz:
DAP's subversion method and modus operandi closely resemble that of former communist agent provocateur. However, to be fair to DAP, communist subversive agents not only infiltrated DAP but also MCA, Gerakan, Sarawak's SAPP, and other Chinese based political parties.
Historically, the union power based PAP slept with the commies before Lee Kuan Yew purged them when
he came to power.
Despite being an off spring of PAP upon Singapore being kicked out of Malaysia, the commies was not purged by DAP. The party was made their vehicle to create racial friction and bring about chaos in the country prior to and after the 1969 general election.
Watch the movie Tanda Putera after the general election to understand this.
Bintang Tiga
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This blogger is born in Mukim Bagan.
In Zaharah Nawawi's book, Panglima Salleh Selempang Merah, she described kampong Malay folks were spied on and some boiled alive by the Bintang Tiga at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce building when they entered Bandar Penggaram to buy sundry goods.
The legend was that Panglima Salleh and his men fought the Bintang Tiga communist with only parang panjang to face the British armed communist terrorist to clean up from Muar to Batu Pahat.
His secret strength lies in his clairvoyance wife, Makcik Esah. Panglima Salleh has long passed away. So has Makcik Esah.
Makcik Esah is related to Dato Ruhanie Ahmad. She used to join the Yaasin and Quran reading group initiated by this blogger's mother for the first post Merdeka housing project in Batu Pahat town called Kg Merdeka,.
Baru Pahat would have been completely cleaned of any commies if not foiled by the grandfather to the Menteri Amran Dalam Negeri, Dato Onn Jaafar.
He waited for Panglima Salleh and the angry man of Bagan at the Penembang to stop them from flushing out the commies in the Batu Pahat town of Bandar Penggeram.
Complacent
Kelab Sultan Sulaiman in Kuala Lumpur and Istana Besar Johor Baru can claim to be the birthplace of UMNO but it was at the Kelab Melayu Batu Pahat was the birthplace of UMO, the organisation preceding UMNO.
Ironically, Dato Onn also led the formation of UMO and UMNO to become the first Yang Dipertua of UMNO. .
For the historical sacrifice and struggle, it is strange that assemblymen from Batu Pahat will never get to be MB. And despite saving Muar from the commies, Muar Malays can sometimes be rather unthankful with their brown nosed attitude toward Batu Pahat and Batu Pahat Malays.
Serom Muar Malay man, Gani is one such person.By his actions in Johor Baru and Iskandar, Gani had rendered the struggle of Batu Pahat people to preserve Johor and national sovereignty as irrelevant.
Gani is responsible for his failure in KPRJ that resulted in the unresisted opening up of Johor Baru to solve the added financial mess of the state to the reduced price of the Amanah Saham Johor under Johor Corp.
Both the federal and state government of Johor allowed the agents of the trojan horse and barbarians to the helm of Khazanah Nasional, Johor Corp and various Iskandar related development companies.
Off course, we are talking about the myopic and quarterly short sighted commercial minded Tingkat 4 neo liberals.
In addition, Gani has his own Tingkat 4 with the presence of neo-liberal and Mount Pelican funded founder of IDEAS, Wan Muhammd Firdaus on his staff. This over zealous executives should be removed from the Board of Kulim berhad and MB's office for a conflict of interest for being attached with JP Morgan..
With Khairy taking the lead as master destroyer to lullaby the former PM, they discarded our nation building agenda to build capability, capacity, and knowledge of the people, companies, government and nation while enhacing our nationa's wealth and society.
For his mistake and "lembik" leadership over the years, Gani has encouraged the return of the Barbarian or Trojan horse for Barbarians at the peripheral of the gates to enter.
Zulkifli Nordin is going around in his ceramah with this view:
DAP political threat
And, Gani's former Ketua Pemuda's grandfather had an indirect responsibility for DAP's current assault on Batu Pahat. If Panglima Salleh was not held back by the feudel Dato, he could clean up Batu Pahat from any Bintang Tiga.
With the PAP barbarians at and near the gate, their trojan horse DAP could invite them to enter Johor Baru. That is how blogger Mesin Taip Burok [read here] see Kit Siang entry into Gelang Patah.seat. Extract below:
... Kit Siang mencari rumput lain yang boleh dimerahkan di negeri Johor, negeri yang menjadi salah satu sasaran untuk pembangkang khususnya DAP untuk dirampas mereka - selain Perak, Selangor dan Negeri Sembilan. Lagipun DAP sedar mereka ada "big brother" di seberang tambak yang boleh memberi aura kepada mereka dan pengundi Cina untuk memilih mereka.
Kesungguhan DAP untuk menguasai Johor diperkukuhkan lagi dengan hasrat mereka yang mahu bertanding di 15 daripada 26 kerusi Parlimen Johor dan sudah pastilah tumpuannya di kawasan bandar di negeri ini.
They are now returning to make a political assault on Muar, Johor Baru and Batu Pahat.
Incumbent and Deputy Minister, Dato Dr Puad Zarkashi could lose if he does not make serious effort to win the hearts of the Batu Pahat Chinese.
One is talking of Batu Pahat Chinese where certain areas are sensitive when issue of Communist is raised. Sons and daughters of Batu Pahat Chinese are playing key roles in DAP and Singapore.
Before Puad can do that, he must unite the Batu Pahat UMNO which is divided into four factions. Before being Muhyiddin's Deputy, Puad used to be Gani's man.