I have to say this : PR is foolishly fighting the wrong battle here.

First of all you are not fighting on substance but form. When you argue “ Nizar is still the legitimate Mentri Besar until he has been voted out by a “no confidence” motion in the Perak State Assembly” what is the point? If there is now had been a “no confidence” motion in the Perak State Assembly” you mean that you have majority numbers to defeat it? Why argue on procedures to countermand the sultan’s decision when procedures, even if followed first, would turn the same in the same result?

Come on, you have to take cognizance of Malay tradition and adat of respecting the Sultan’s command : that is hard to fight against, at this juncture.

PR’s Cause will not be served by double talk: Like Mohd Nizar’s other statement, “I refuse to resign as Perak MB on conviction that I still legally hold the position under state constitution. I apologise for rejecting decision of the sultan. We are just appealing for the proper process to be followed. We are not rejecting the sultan’s command, we just want him to follow the provisions of the state constitution” – NST Feb 6 front page.

I ask : How does this make sense? Why appeal for the proper process to be followed as if the sultan has not already taken a position of what is proper process? One cannot say he is not rejecting decision of the sultan and yet say at the same time that the sultan is not following the proper process under state constitution for which one wants to appeal further! What is there to appeal? You think the sultan will change his mind?

Nizar cannot keep on pretending that he is still the MB. It is unreal – and surreal!

“I will go about (with my job as MB) as usual. I have to meet some consultants and investors later. However I will have to tell them that we have to reschedule our appointments,” said Mohd Nizar. You think the consultants and investors will still want to see you? How could he still carry on as MB when his press conference could be interrupted by state secretary Abdul Rahman and the state police chief? Or his desk cleaned out, or the keys of all camry cars for assemblymen be taken back?”

You have been beaten in your own game of defection, accept it, learn from it and fight other winnable battles to win the war. Engaging in make belief and delusion will forfeit your dignity and self respect as well.

I said it in earlier thread but would say it again here:

Even if you were wronged – and unjustly evicted – (which you are), please be dignified and don’t engage in further self delusion and make belief that you could salvage the situation.

Turn your attention to other battles to win the war rather than make a last stand in a battle already lost lost (when you didn’t act pr-empt before the opposite side launched the coup) unless you are willing to die at that spot, which is the case, if double talk is set aside, to say clearly that you PR are not following the Ruler’s command and take on the consequences of Shabery’s threats of “treason” if there is where you actually want to go and fight.

But how do you fight – what weapons have you got to fight – when laws, tradition, feudal culture, police, courts everything are stacked on the other against you?

If you want fight – fight when and where you can win. It is important to know when and where you can and when and where you cannot, and knowing the difference is the distinguishing mark between pragmatic wisdom on one hand and surreal obstinacy and refusal to acknowledge reality on the other.

There are other battles : you don’t have to dig in to fight an already lost one and get buried along with your dignity and pride.
Don’t forget dignity, pride, moral capital, careful planning and wise evauation based on objective assessment/startegy – and rakyat’s support for that which is right, true and fair – are just about the only thing in you have in your pitiful arsenel for ultimate vindication!

I don’t blame Nizar, a decent and smart chap, but the sore losers and the directing brains behind – whose own game back fired and their ocillations and prevarication allowed this Perak debacle to happen – who have no guts to come to the forefront to face the flak and the police action, when it comes or the alternative, migration!