Khairy (Maruah Bangsa) Jamaluddin - Impassioned Demagogue And Artful Manipulator.
First read this dictionary definition of demagogue: A leader who attempts to gain a following by appealing to the emotions and prejudices of people in order to advance his or her political purposes.
Now read KJ's speech at the Umno General Assembly: Khairy slammed the Asli (Asian Strategy and Leadership Institute) report that claimed Malay corporate equity had reached 45%. “They are manipulating figures. If we want to use the Asli figures, let’s set a new target. Let’s make it 70% for the Malay equity,” he added.
He also slammed some government-linked companies (GLCs) which were said to treat Umno Youth members as beggars.
He told reporters later that the statement by a Penang delegate (that the Penang Malays are being neglected) was important for the Penang government led by Gerakan deputy president Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon to take stock of the situation and address the problems faced by the Malays in the state. “The actual message is that the Malays are feeling dissatisfied in Penang and they have the right to express their feelings,” he said.
**** As you can see the definition and his speech have a lot in common. However there are demagogues and there are demagogues. There are lorry loads of them in Umno itself. What sets KJ apart from the riffraff is, that devious manipulative mind which preaches one thing while assiduously practicing another; screw the chinaman publicly here but clandestinely cultivate intimate financial relationships outside, be it in Singapore, Hong Kong or elsewhere.
The prick is not without brains. He probably plans painstakingly every manoeuvre, pores through minute details of each cunning scheme and act of deception and when the time is ripe, as this assembly is, spits out the venom calculated to hurt and maim 'soft targets' while simultaneously boosting his stock a notch or five. It is at the same time tragic and comical that he actually has thousands of simpletons nodding in agreement, totally oblivious to the artful manipulation they are being subjected to. A good example is his bluster about 70% Malay equity. Do you for a moment think that he does not comprehend and appreciate the ridiculousness or the severe economic implications and adverse effects of such an ill-advised move? Yet he spews it out as if he really means it! Why? Because speeches like that count for something, and Brownie points, like pahala will prove useful at some later date.
So all you apprehensive non-bumis out there, don't worry. KJ is merely following the footsteps of his more senior abang2 in this matter. Their speeches over the years achieved nothing and neither will that of this unabashed saviour of maruah bangsa. Relax and enjoy the annual sandiwara.
posted by The Malaysian. at 11/15/2006 12:02:00 PM
8 Comments:
Yes he is a demagogue and manipulator but that is not what is wrong. Irresponsible ambitious politician is too common in this modern era.
That is the problem: His arrogance. He is actually very average person even by Malay standard and yet he is arrogant. Given his privilleged background, his achievement is actually mediocre. There are many more who have had less privilleged background and not rely on nepotism to get him where they are
His disrespect is not most with other races but his own really. He knows that all that he has done will not benefit the audience he is talking to and yet its the main thing that he does.
His success will only encourage more Malay youth to manipulate their own race for their own selfish ends.
Wow! And I thought I was one of the very few who thought the bugger is damn arrogant... especially having nothing-to-shout-about achievements! I guess you can see what they inherit from their parents/parents-in-law... Dr M's siblings vs Pak Lah's siblings... all credit goes to the latter's!
IT is disguting to note that the annual umno assembly has turned into a annual event for the bashing of non-bumis. Every body is wrong (i.e., non bumis are racist, unreasonable,ungrateful, greedy etc) except umnoputras and umnoputeris.
Semantics aside I like the strength of your logic martini!
Eh........you mean Kali Jambantulin ?
The prick is not without brains. He probably plans painstakingly every manoeuvre, pores through minute details of each cunning scheme and act of deception and when the time is ripe, as this assembly is, spits out the venom calculated to hurt and maim 'soft targets' while simultaneously boosting his stock a notch or five."
You do realize that you had just complimented him?
VK
Of course VK! I qualified that statement and said as much, with this preceding line: What sets KJ apart from the riffraff is, that devious manipulative mind which preaches one thing while assiduously practicing another.
A Mature Malay Race Should Not Blame Others For their Problems. And UMNO Leaders have to stop behaving like the Wives of the Serial Rapist(Incestors), Abeting the Crimes But Withdrawing the Hands when The Fires They Stoke Explodes....soon.
From Straits Times Singapore:- "Police probe into role of wives in rapist-dad case
Checks into whether they abetted crime, and if one girl was raped by dad's driver
By K.C. Vijayan, Crime Correspondent
THE case against the father of 64 who was convicted of raping five of his daughters ended recently, but the police have now begun a probe on people linked to him.
At least two of his 10 wives - four married under Muslim law, and six so-called 'contractual wives' - are now under investigation to ascertain whether any of them had tried to persuade the victims to withdraw their allegations against their father in the run-up to his prosecution.
A driver of the now-defunct transport services firm run by the 45-year-old rapist-dad is also being quizzed for allegedly raping one of the victims. Also in his 40s and married with children, he is suspected of having persuaded his victim to have sex with him.
Police spokesman Victor Keong confirmed that investigations were ongoing, but declined to give further details.
The fresh probe comes in the wake of the High Court case in April, which ended with the conviction of the man for the 'systematic and sickening' rapes he carried out on his own children.
The former Muslim preacher, who practised a deviant brand of Islam not recognised in the region, was dealt a 32-year jail term and the maximum 24 strokes by Justice Tay Yong Kwang.
Neither he nor any of the other parties can be named to protect the identity of his five victim-daughters, who were then aged between 12 and 15.
His lawyer Harold Seet said his client did not appeal against the sentence. The man was found guilty of having preyed repeatedly on his daughters, apparently with help from some of his wives.
He had convinced his wives that he had 'ownership' over his children - an ownership which extended to having sex with them. Some of his wives are suspected of having arranged for the girls to keep their 'appointments' with him.
The police are now understood to be looking at the activities of the family as a whole, and how the rapist could prey on his daughters for a year and a half before the incidents surfaced in June last year.
Under the law, a person who abets the commission of a crime is liable, if convicted, to a penalty of up to the same term dealt out to the principal offender.
A Straits Times check showed that back in 2002, a 35-year-old woman who helped her lover rape her nine-year-old daughter over a five-year period was jailed for 36 years - the same prison term meted out to her lover, who received 24 strokes in addition to jail.
Then chief justice Yong Pung How had slammed the mother as 'the most despicable female I have ever come across'.
vijayan@sph.com.sg
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