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These Gestapo Tactics By The New UMNOTriumvirate Only Spell Guilt

2 Aug 2015

New Troika plus the unofficial boss (in green)

If the new UMNO leadership had nothing to hide would they be lashingout in the Gestapo fashion, witnessed by astonished Malaysians over the

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past few days?

And if the documents published by Sarawak Report were false or‘doctored’, why have these desperadoes been ordering the ransacking ofpublic offices and the arrest and interrogation of all the publicinvestigators who have been looking into 1MDB on the grounds of“criminal leakages”?

To the contrary, were Najib secure in the knowledge of his own innocencehe and his remaining henchmen would be relaxed and aloof.

They would take a superior position, while of course issuing a viciouslibel action through their lawyers to destroy and ruin the writer ofSarawak Report.

They have not.

How the headlines look these days in Malaysia

Far from it, they are instead acting like desperate men determined tohide, bully and crush the truth by instilling fear of aggressive action

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against anyone who so much as mentions the issue that is exposing themso dangerously.

Don’t mention 1MDB!

Look how the Triumvirate have come out gnashing their teeth andbrandishing their fists over the past few hours.

Zahid Hamidi, the new key linchpin in the Najib regime, as HomeMinister and Deputy Prime Minister rolled into one, has plunged into therole of bully boy and human rights abuser like a mad barking dog,ordering arrests and destroying in an instant the expensively crafted PRimage of Najib in the West.

Calling himself an “Islamic fundamentalist” Zahid yesterday threatenedthe media that they should “expect no warning” of him “taking action” ifhe found them “spinning”.

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Familiar salute? Zahid boasts he is a “Islamicfundamentalist’

By this Malaysia was left in no doubt that he was warning the press tohalt any mention of the scandal surrounding 1MDB, which has embroiledhis boss.

The world now realises that there is no real freedom of the press inMalaysia or genuine rule of law.

And while the world is looking on (slack jawed) perhaps we should recallsome other recent revealing remarks by this bunch?

For example when Najib Razak rallied his party faithful earlier this yearby telling them they should “act more like ISIL fighters” and be solidlyobedient to him.

Yesterday Najib repeated that sentiment, whilst also condemning what hecalled interference by “white foreigners” (meaning journalists). Najibproceeded to then openly announce to his fellow Malaysians that hevalues loyalty to him over ability in those he appoints to governmentoffice.

Najib’s problem is exposure

All this is as revealing as it is brutal and vile.

Why has the man who has so long attempted to act the suave modernreformer suddenly started lashing out like a thug?

Yesterday, amidst all his tub thumping and foreigner bashing he told usin his own words exactly why. According to reports on one of his stirring

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speeches he complained:

“During Mahathir’s 22 years there were problems too but not likenow. Everything is being exposed in the Sarawak Reportas if foreigners are deciding how we should run the country.”

“What’s their right? Ladies and gentlemen, I cannot allow this tocontinue. I cannot allow the white people to determine ourfuture.”[Free Malaysia Today]

Mr Razak, it is our human right to report and you have just publiclyacknowledged that you have been “exposed”. By those “problems” youmean plainly mean corruption.

The only way is down?

So what is the rest of the world to think and what are Malaysians to dowith such an embarrassment for a leader?

Of course, the third member of the new ruling Triumvirate (the rest of thecabinet have been deafeningly silent the past few days) is the armyminister, Najib’s cousin Hishamuddin Hussein.

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Hate against the West the way forward for Malaysia?

This puts every lever of raw power in the hands of Najib, his deputy andhis own cousin (overlooked by the unofficial “Big Boss”, Rosmah Mansor)for as long as he retains his UMNO party base.

UMNO has long adopted the same strategies as the old Soviet communistparty and similar dictatorships, by assuming almost totalitarian controlof Malaysia and its civil institutions – as everyone well knows.

But, is this latest brutal clamp down on all critics of the country’s nowcrippling corruption issues what UMNO and Malaysia really want?

With an already plummeting economy, not least because the cracks andBN’s false figures are now becoming ever more apparent to outsiders,Malaysia faces a very grim prospect if this Najib coup d’etat succeeds inbringing the country under his total, foreigner-hating dictatorship.

Malaysia, which was until so recently regarded as a possible ‘Asian Tiger’,

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rising into the category of leading, modern open economies like SouthKorea, Taiwan, Japan and Singapore, will surely descend into thecategory of an ‘Asian basket-case’ – along with Burma, Vietnam andCambodia.

It is those former South East Asian dictatorships, which havesubsequently found their liberty, that are now being talked up by theworld economists, including Indonesia and the Philippines, who wereonce thought of as servants by Malaysians.

If the Rosmah/Najib dictatorship slips now into full throttle – acorrupted establishment with a muzzled media and obedient civil serviceand judiciary – might Malaysians become the ones forced to send theirdaughters to earn money in better off countries, while the rest of theworld ceases business with such a set up?

What a shame for Malaysia if such were to come to pass, but it appears tobe the price that Najib is willing to exact, so that he can continue inpower and remain protected from the consequences of his actions at1MDB.

It is not at all in the capacity of Sarawak Report, a mere blog, todetermine such events, as Najib is ridiculously attempting to bluff hisaudiences.

But, it is certainly our right and capacity to report on them.