Let me give a double advice to the MCA deputy president Wee Ka Siong: Don’t tell a bare-faced lie and don’t be caught immediately with such downright dishonesty.
Ka Siong committed both sins today when he rebutted my media conference statement in Batu Pahat yesterday that the MCA President, Liow Tiong Lai had missed a “golden opportunity” to say “No” to the Prime Minister and UMNO President, Datuk Seri Najib Razak who had attended the launch of the MCA’s “Stronger Together” programme at Tunku Abdul Rahman University College in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday that MCA cannot accept Najib’s unilateral and arbitrary announcement in Alor Star last Thursday that the Barisan Nasional Federal Government had never rejected hudud.
This was because what Najib said was not the original Barisan Nasional stand, and furthermore, violates an important BN principle that any change of Barisan Nasional policy must be the result of the consensus of all component parties and not unilaterally and arbitrarily by any one party, even if it is UMNO.
Ka Siong should know better than anyone that the Barisan Nasional Federal Government’s stand, even going back to the UMNO, MCA and MIC founders like Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tun Razak, Tun Hussein, Tun Tan Cheng Lock, Tun Tan Siew Sin and Tun V.T. Sambanthan was that hudud was inconsistent with the secular 1957 constitution.
When did the Barisan Nasional Federal Government change this fundamental position and why did the MCA support such a fundamental policy change?
Ka Siong’s bare-faced lie is claiming that Tiong Lai had said “No” to Najib in front of the Prime Minister on Saturday, rejecting Najib’s statement in Alor Star last Thursday that the Barisan Nasional Federal Government had never rejected hudud.
What is unfortunate for Ka Siong is that he is immediately caught telling a bare-faced lie, as this is easily proven by referring to Tiong Lai’s speech or the MCA newspaper Star’s report of the speech – which showed that Tiong Lai missed the “golden opportunity” to tell Najib in his presence that MCA repudiated the Prime Minister’s Alor Star statement that the Barisan Nasional Federal Government had never rejected hudud.
#1 by boh-liao on Monday, 5 May 2014 - 10:20 pm
Aiyah, dis suka CRY tua pui kia only keen 2 pick up a cabinet post, gimme gimme ……………………..
#2 by undertaker888 on Monday, 5 May 2014 - 11:56 pm
Looking at his blardy face you would know that he is only after money and position. The rests are not in his dictionary. Well except copying the fake crocodile tears from his master Maha-liar.
#3 by Noble House on Tuesday, 6 May 2014 - 4:14 am
To some, ignorance is blissful. So what is new with these MCA blokes?
#4 by tmc on Tuesday, 6 May 2014 - 8:01 am
Has been said recently the next GE will be difficult for Pakatan to maintain its winning streak. So go after BN’s weak areas like MCA and UMNO internal strife (yes, there’s plenty there), be disciplined and focus on their weakest areas MCA’s inaction on the hudud and Bible issues, justice, transparency, education, the prevalent corruption, GST, so many there to choose. Huddle up on a unified front, the mother of all battle is coming and I am sure PAS will realise very soon and be smart enough the very possible loss of their seats will mean a loss of advancing their own platform. BN will never allow them to stand in their BN areas. Why allow a lion into their own den of lies, corruption, corruption, corruption and corruption. IF PAS is so childish and stupid to reach out for the carrot and empty promises (one step forward, 3 steps backward), then they will allow themselves to be lied to everytime again and again. Grow up PAS, PKR and DAP, you have come together, stand united, and dont allow unofficial individual stupid comments and acts to divert and distract. That’s what your opposition wants.
#5 by Bigjoe on Tuesday, 6 May 2014 - 11:13 am
MCA leaders NOT lie? Their problem is they lie so often now, even if they tell the truth, no one can tell…
But the real significance is this. Najib at the MCA programne, kept repeating the same liners that have been repeated by Mahathir and UMNO top leaders for decades which is now completely debunked and no one listen to – meaning that the real reason why Najib is keeping MCA in the fold is because the alternative of being labeled a Perkasa controlled party is deadly to UMNO Its purely for advertising and deniability. Again, who in the world wants to be led by Ibrahim Ali? If Najib cannot keep up the pretense, there is no real use for him by the rignt-wingers..
MCA is a billboard, an advertisement, and Najib already known to spent a lot on it, will spent even more to keep the pretence and therefore his job, no matter how ineffective it is.