Anyway, today’s debate erupted into chaos when the question of Memali was raised. This was a ‘Nothing to Hide’ debate and yet Mahathir tried to hide the truth. Mahathir still insists he was in China when Memali happened although Tun Musa Hitam had already revealed that Mahathir was hiding in his office in Kuala Lumpur and did not travel to China until the following day.
THE CORRIDORS OF POWER
Raja Petra Kamarudin
The news item below says it all. And you can see the videos of the fiasco here: Nothing To Hide 2.0 Debate Turns Into Chaos When Memali Was Raised.
This morning I received a number of messages asking why Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak is not going to attend the event and debate Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad regarding 1MDB. First of all, nobody wins a debate. We have seen so many debates by a number of government leaders and opposition leaders in the past and in the end nothing is achieved.
The government supporters will go home saying they won the debate while the opposition supporters will go home saying they won the debate. Both sides will declare they won the debate and those who believed what they believed before the debate started will continue to believe what they believe after the debate ends.
If you think a debate is going to change people’s minds then you are more stupid than you look. If you hold a debate called “Which is the true word of God, the Bible or the Qur’an?” do you think Muslims are all going to convert to Christianity after the debate, or Christians are going to convert to Islam?
Both sides will say the other side lost and is talking crap. Nothing is going to change. For all intents and purposes a debate is an ego-trip to talk big and pretend that you won. And you merely impress your own supporters who were already your supporters before the debate started and will remain your supporters at the end of the debate.
So why do they want Najib to debate Mahathir today? What were they hoping to achieve? Or were they planning to attack the Prime Minister? Did someone carry a gun today with intent to shoot Najib dead as soon as he steps onto stage? What security measures did they conduct? Or was there a gun already smuggled in earlier when they prepared the hall?
I personally know someone who offered to assassinate Najib on condition if anything happens to him we guarantee that we will look after his family. I told this chap to stop talking nonsense and to never repeat that again. And this chap is a lawyer mind you, so he is not a stupid kampung person.
Najib would have been stupid to attend today’s debate. And we already wrote about this yesterday in the article Mahathir Will Be Shamelessly Shadowboxing Tomorrow. In that article we said:
Actually Mahathir tak malu. What he does not seem to realise is that Najib is a Prime Minister while he (Mahathir) is no longer a Prime Minister. So Mahathir is not of the same level and status as Najib. In fact, Mahathir has absolutely no status whatsoever. He is not a Member of Parliament while Najib is. He is not a party president while Najib is. Mahathir not only has no status to debate Najib, he also has no status to debate the other 221 Members of Parliament as well because he holds absolutely no position. (READ MORE HERE)
One famous Tok Guru said: timba kena cari telaga, bukan telaga cari timba. That means you go to seek out those with knowledge, not those with knowledge come to seek you out. In this case if Mahathir is seeking knowledge concerning 1MDB then he must go and meet Najib, not Najib must go and meet him. Mahathir has got it backwards.
Anyway, today’s debate erupted into chaos when the question of Memali was raised. This was a ‘Nothing to Hide’ debate and yet Mahathir tried to hide the truth. Mahathir still insists he was in China when Memali happened although Tun Musa Hitam had already revealed that Mahathir was hiding in his office in Kuala Lumpur and did not travel to China until the following day.
Today’s event was a purely PPBM affair. There were no Umno or PAS people there. If Najib had attended the event then the place would have been flooded with Umno and PAS supporters. Even with only PPBM supporters the debate turned to chaos. Can you imagine what would have happened had there also been Umno and PAS supporters in that crowd of about 1,500?
DAP keeps telling the Chinese that Mahathir has changed, he is a reformed man, and so on. The first syarat to reform is to admit your crimes or sins and ask for forgiveness plus pledge never to repeat them again. Mahathir refuses to even admit his crimes and sins. So what change or reforms is DAP talking about? And this was what upset many people today and transformed the whole place into chaos. The only change in Mahathir is that in the past he hated DAP and now he hates Umno and loves DAP.
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