Godfather sees “the hand of UMNO in this fiasco” & “top brass in PKNS are trying to destabilise PR”. What is clear to me and sad about is that it is PAS people that are destabilizing PR more by their stand in support against Low’s appointment.

PKNS people have government’s mentality, that is only expected but PAS???

I am not to sure they are, as Godfather sees them, “a fringe group at PAS” in his posting Yesterday at 23: 04.14, “fringe” as in reference to some extremely minority group at the edges or border of that political party.

More likely their attitudes represent greater numbers within PAS than just “fringe” or else why is it that the party’s top leadership doesn’t come forth to outright to rebuke or repudiate the stance of Selangor PAS commissioner Datuk Dr Hasan Mohamad Ali, who by the way, is also a state executive councillor???

However it not just Hasan Mohamad Ali or a small group of like minded PAS officials.

Responding to a call made by MCA vice-president Liow Tiong Lai that the condition for 30 percent bumiputera equity in public-listed companies should be abolished in order for them to remain competitive, PAS Youth wing warned MCA not to gain political mileage by calling for the abolition of the 30 percent bumiputera equity in public-listed companies. PAS Youth chief Salahuddin Ayub said that the 30-percent equity must be retained and defended “even if the target has been reached” – see Malaysiakini’s report “PAS Youth warns MCA not to harp on NEP” – Oct 29th. This position is based on race – not even religion. It is position aligned to TDM’s. No bigwigs in PAS contradicts Salahuddin Ayub. He seems to be even more UMNO prone in this respect than UMNO’s Deputy President Najib who at least talks (albeit vaguely) of NEP aspects being “liberalized” (short of abolished)….

So don’t be surprised that PAS would at 11th hour throw a spanner into the works of Anwar Ibrahim’s professed plan of taking control of the parliament by leaving PR to join UMNO’s BN to revert it the 2/3 rd parliamentary majority.

So far even the top PAS leaders have been ambivalent. Whilst on one hand saying that PAS is wary of Umno and its ulterior motives, it continues on the other hand to participate in ‘Malay unity’ talks and has not unequivocally gone out of its way publicly declare and assure PR’s other component parties that joining forces with Umno is something that’s out of the question. As long as PAS-Umno talks continue, there is a motive more consistent with collaboration than opposing UMNO.

We can’t indulge in wishful thinking that the signs are not obvious that this is brewing.

YB,

It is obvious that inpite of electoral gains on March 8th, it is more out of the electorate’s disaffection of the policies and administration of UMNO led BN than any great confidence in Pakatan Rakyat (PR)’s set up.

PR’s collaboration with PAS’s inclusion is a misalliance : a marriage of convenience that is on balance of probabilities destined not to work……

Being opposed to continuance of BN’s rule should not blind BN’s detractors to this inevitable reality to vest in PR more promise than what it actually could hold out based on such an Axis of Misalliance!

For the country to move forward, the Axis of Collaboration has to be drawn along lines that those who want Malaysia to move forward as a modern and ciompetent nation away from the old feudal system of patronage should be on one side, and those who want to preserve status quo as much as possible on the other.

This means that for PKR & DAP to have a political future to lead the country out of h er present plight, they have to ally with the more progressive sections of UMNO and other BN component parties leaving out PAS to be either on its own or to join the more reactionary conservative groups within UMNO and other BN component parties sympathetic to the vision of TDM as his ilk.

Now I would be tyhe first to concede that this is easier said than done but this re-strategising has vto be on the draweing b oards of the political strategists on both the parties.

Right now one can see clearly that moves and signals from certain sections of PAS (which may represent a significant portion) supporting “Ketuanan” in PKNS issue and support of NEP go beyond its traditional theocratic premises – they are signals sent out by t hese people to UMNO that PAS and UMNO have common ground on these issues which open the way for collaboration…..

We are indulging in denial syndrome – more an emotional than objective stance – to say that this is not the case.