— Spencer Gan The Malaysian Insider Nov 30, 2011
NOV 30 — I can predict how this week’s Umno assembly will go: Some bit players will play the Malay card (this includes Ahmad Maslan and Muhyiddin Yassin) but then the man of the hour — Najib Razak — will saunter in and make this grand speech of how Umno cares for everyone, etc.
He will talk about how Umno needs to unite and win the coming general election because only Umno can guarantee the future of Malaysians. It will be one big party over the next few days.
All this is boring. To spice things up a bit, and since this will be the party of the year, I think we should also invite:
1) The MACC. This organisation has been talking tough about tackling corruption and how it needs more manpower. But here is the deal of the year: The biggest collection of miscreants is in town and all of them are situated in one hall. There are big fish (ministers, division chiefs) and ikan bilis (branch officials). All the MACC officials have to do is check out the cars many of these “unemployed” officials arrive in.
2) Income tax department. Apparently we have an increasing number of millionaires but a much smaller number of people who pay the highest tax rates. This means that quite a lot of Malaysians are evading or avoiding paying tax. I bet many of them may be attending the annual racist convention at the Putra World Trade Centre. Tax officials just have to check out the Birkin bags, the expensive jewellery and linen shirts.
3) Religious leaders of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, and Sikhism. Please sit through the debates and you will realise two sad facts of life: The IQ of many of the people who are governing us is low and that it is not only Ahmad Maslan who is a racist and suspicious of all non-Muslims. This is a party of racists and all talk of inter-faith dialogue is just talk.
4) Bernard Dompok, Joseph Kurup, Joseph Pairin Kitingan and other Christians in the Cabinet. Don’t just go for the opening ceremony but stay for the whole nine yards and then cringe when the attack against Christianity starts.