Today we witnessed the swearing in our nation's sixth Prime Minister. 81 MPs and 5673 Malaysians don't want Najib. That's the sarcastic headline of Rocky Bru's post today. Yes, I believe the petition initiated by Haris Ibrahim has failed but I'm proud to be part of that failed effort and I thank Haris for his unwavering effort in realizing the idea of 'Anak Bangsa Malaysia' where all of us a treated as equal irespective of race, religion and economic status.
Najib may now be the PM and all the legal authority of a PM is vested in him. But as long as he has not cleared his name on all those allegations thrown at him, he has no moral authority to take on the highest post of governance in this country. I do not expect him to prove that he is innocent as it's trite law that the burden of proof falls on those who alleged (of course, this has not always been the case, re Anwar Ibrahim's 1st sodomy case), the very least he can do is to sue all those who have cast aspersions on his character. So far he has not done so.
Well, whatever doubt I may have about Najib is confirmed by what happened in Perak. Here we witnessed someone who has no qualms in robbing the rakyat of their constituional rights and using all the machinery of the state to ensure that those rights continue to be suppressed and violated. His oath in protecting the Constitution this morning means nothing.
One Malaysia? After all the racial venom that were spewed during the just concluded UMNO General Assembly? Read what Liew Chin Tong's take on this here.
Hopefully he will be the last PM from BN/UMNO.
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