To shamsul anuar and zak_hammaad, I reproduce here my thoughts earlier posted in another thread in this blog in reply to zak_hammaad -

zak_hammaad, don’t thank me. I only agreed with you that there need to be changes and there are many ways to effect them, some smooth and others reckless. But I do not agree with your other views especially when you argue in favour of RPK’s arrest, saying that he has insulted Islam and that his arrest is not political. You have an impeccable command of English and therefore I think you are a smart person and I hope you understand this message and take it in a right spirit.

Assuming that RPK has insulted Islam, which I do not agree as I have read and re-read his allegedly offending articles and did not find those offending, my view is that the most important message or teaching in any religion or of God is humility. To be truly humble is to be truly great. Vice versa, to be great is to be humble. God has always ask us to be humble and to forgive in the face of criticisms and insult. I am a Christian and I speak from the Christian perspective but I think that perspective is shared by Islam. Jesus was persecuted, tortured and hanged. And his last words about his persecutors were, “Father, forgive them for they know not what they are doing”. I believe your God also asks you to be humble and to be forgiving. Would you say that He would be angry or take offence when insulted and ask or allow you or His believers to arrest or punish the person who allegedly insulted Him? Would you make Him lesser than His teaching?

I believe in the Greatness of your God. I believe in the Great Mercy of your God. I believe He wants you also to be humble so as to be great, to forgive so as to be merciful. I don’t think a Great Wise Merciful God would sanction the incarceration and punishment of anyone who may seem to have insulted Him. Being merciful, He would say “Forgive him for he does not know what he is saying” and He would find ways to bring that offender back to Him in His own Merciful way for I think the greatest happiness for God would be the salvation of a soul, for another “sinner” to have come back to Him.

We mortals have no right to pass a religious judgment on another for we are all sinners in our own ways, sins being just a matter of degree, and while we can try to convince, persuade and cajol a fellow brother to go back to the ways of God, all matters of religion should be left to God and that man. I do not think that God is so helpless that He requires mortals to protect Him and His teachings. Because He is God and we mere mortals, He will protect us and preserve His teachings forever and ever. We mortals would be most offensive to Him if we start to play God.

Understood? This is only a personal opinion and should not be taken to be an insult to you or your God. I respect Islam and your right to believe in Islam. Let that be very clear. Having said that, I think most right thinking Malaysians have no problems with the true teachings of Islam which is one of the greatest and perhaps the most popular religion of the world. Only some God-playing mortals have put Islam in a bad light and that is not only truly regrettable and definitely painful to God but has the even more regrettable effect or result of making many shy away from Islam. Would not that be more offensive and insulting to your God?

My view is that RPK has been arrested for a political reason for he is one of the greatest factor in the sinking of UMNO but a religious reason was put forth as an aberration to hide the real reason and to appease or to hookwink the Malay Muslims or to provide a more noble justification to incarcerate him. This is cowardice at its best.

I think the greatest mistake of the UMNO mad leaders is that they think we Malaysians, Malays or not, are stupid. They think they can lie to all or most of the people all the time and still be victorious. They think the the country belongs to them. They think that they can get away with any atrocities. They think that they and only they are capable of managing this country.

zak_hammaad, you and I know it is time we stop these bandits from further sending us and our country to hell. I truly hope and pray that your God will touch you so that you will be humbled to acknowledge the Truth and condemn, reject and eject the totally corrupted ones for the sake of our common destiny.

Jeffrey said that all strategies etc against Cavemen would ultimately depend on the final thrust which is the carrying out of the 916 plan. I cannot agree more. He said -

“This means everything hinges on DSAI whether he is good for his word on 9/16! RPK banks on this promise! The dragnet is a golden opportunity to bolster his crossover plan, if real. Otherwise, if its bluff on his part, then the BN would have by dragnet called the bluff and the game is over.”

We have been persuaded, led-on, encouraged, emboldened and consoled by the 916 “promise”. The Titanic is sinking, let’s be brave and rejoice…that is the message. But is the 916 plan real?? I have said my piece in other threads in this blog and I say it again here that if Anwar is just playing a game with us as the pawns or stakes and if he loses the gamble, we will indeed suffer like hell. In fact, we are already suffering in many ways as a result of UMNO focussing more on the Anwar threat and its internal problems and practically neglecting the business of governing the nation.

If the plan is real and Anwar has the numbers, then what YB Lim should tell us is to be quiet and be patient and that it is only matter of a couple of days before an audience can be had before the Agung to effect a change of government. I fear that by asking us to gather in numbers for a candlelight virgil, the Cavemen may use that opportunity to create a reason to swing their clubs again. And what is the point of taking a risk if the big change that will reverse all atrocities, as promised and which is real and not merely a gamble or a bluff, is just a few days away?

If the 916 plan is more of a gamble or bluff , it would be a travesty of justice to the people who have being encouraged by, voted for and supported Anwar. If Cavemen find that the PR are not as strong as they claim to be, they will likely be decimated before the next GE because the Cavemen have all the big clubs to hammer them. But if the PR instead of trumpeting a change of Federal government had been building up their strength slowly and peacefully but visibly in the 5 states that they now have, they would definitely have it easy in the next GE.

Whatever it is, if Anwar indeed has the numbers, please go ahead with your plan as quickly as possible.

In the political development in the last few months, the role of the sacrosanct Institution of the Rulers has become very crucial, more than ever in our constitutional history. Ultimately, whether to effect a change of government or to declare an emergency, the Rulers have a say. To me, unless we have despotic Rulers, it is good to have the Institution of the Rulers as another real, significant, meaningful and effective constitutional institution. Thus far, especially since Mahathir’s tirade and attack against the monarchy in the 80’s, the Rulers’ role have just been ceremonial.

Back to the Cavemen who have been swinging their clubs the last couple of days, who is the chief among them? Many have criticised AAB but I tend to think that AAB is not the principal person. AAB has lost control of UMNO and whether he succeeds against Anwar or not is irrelevant to him – he is politically dead anyway with the implosion within UMNO. The burial is just a matter of time. If I were him, since my political life is as good as over, I would want to be remembered as the PM who saved Malaysia from UMNO by leading the exodus and walking across and joined the PR. But that is just my thought. That way he may end up in Malaysian history as the most famous PM Malaysia ever had instead of being the weakest and most useless.

The chief Caveman is the one who has everything to lose if Anwar succeeds in his 916 plan. That leaves Najib and Mahathir. I think Mahathir is more motivated by the personal agenda of preventing Anwar from rising to become PM. The reasons are obvious – Anwar’s success would mean that the old man had been wrong all this while and if Anwar becomes the PM, the old man would feel at least embarrassment and discomfort all around.

To my mind, as a conclusion, the real culprit and the Chief Caveman is Najib. And his nemesis is RPK who has probably done more harm to Najib than anyone else. RPK has vowed to do anything to prevent Najib from being PM and RPK’s words cannot be taken lightly at all for obvious reasons.

Now that he is so close to become the PM, Najib would not want anything or anyone to spoil his chances of becoming PM or taint his character and reputation after he has become PM. RPK is the man who could do the biggest damage and in all likelihood, RPK has more than we know to completely annihilate Najib. That probably answers Jeffrey’s questions why the police had to ransack RPK’s house when the charge is related to insulting Islam and all the evidence for that is already in the two allegedly insulting articles already freely available in blogsphere.

The prize is the top post in the nation and no price is too high to stop anything or anyone from him getting that prize. So, Najib is on a mad mission to eradicate all adverse evidence against him which are in the possession of RPK. If he has his ways, he will lock up RPK at his pleasure and keep him incommunicado so that he can do no further harm.

But the Chief Caveman has to face many factions even within the confines of his cave. There is a more senior but weak Caveman in the form of AAB who has been helping Chief Caveman by making sure that the lid to the barrel that contains all the shit about Chief Caveman is not opened on condition that Chief Caveman remains loyal but that loyalty is waning and Senior Caveman may not want now to protect him anymore. Chief Caveman has also other competitors for that top prize to contend with.

I think with a little more saucy evidence against Chief Caveman, the internal squabbles within the UMNO cavemen would lead to them burning or exploding their own cave. When that happens, the minions and the stray hyenas hanging outside the cave waiting for favours and crumbs would run asunder like ants running about when you disturb their network. Probably they would run to the PR but that entails a difficult philosophical or moral issue – do we take in shit into our fold and make it stink? The PR has to pick and choose the good ones.

Hence, I think in the final analysis a dissolution of Parliament will happen and a new GE called either by AAB himself or by a vote of no confidence or whatever. The role of the Rulers would come sharply into focus. There has to be a caretaker government pending the GE and that would probably fall into the hands of a loose coalition between PR and some of those minions and stray hyenas led by probably Anwar.

Would PR win Federal Government in a new GE? That is another story but I think UMNO would have been so weakened that it would be many years, like the Kuomintang in Taiwan, before it can be a force to be reckoned with again. As a result, the BN as a whole would have been so badly battled and demoralised that the only fight would be between a big and well organised PR and some mosquito parties. At some point, PAS would probably opt out of the PR and be on their own again. The politics of Malaysia would then move on from one which is race-based to one which is religion-based. Within the Muslims, it would be a battle between Modern and Fundamental Islam and within the different races, merit-based and needs-based policies would take root and flourish. Ultimately, like the rest of the world, religion would be the divisive factor. Good or bad? I don’t know but that is how I foresee the development of Malaysian politics.

As for Theresa and RPK, I think their incarceration would not be long. Once UMNO implodes, it will be over. Earlier still if Anwar has a real 916 plan.