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Chandra Muzaffar's selective memory |
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Wednesday, 02 April 2008 00:17 |
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Dear Chandra, In your letter 'More pro-establishment? Not Quite' to the Sun March 31, 2008, you try to give the impression that you are not pro-BN by giving selected examples of your activities. However you conveniently leave out some damning ones.
Your association with Anwar Ibrahim during his period in the government coincided with a scholarship for your daughter to the University, and also a Professorship for you at the University of Malaya. These events also brought about your resignation from Aliran, a social reform group which you founded in which you were critical of the government.
From thence on, you were so close to the establishment that you even organized a seminar on human rights which you invited the then PM Mahathir Mohamed to open, of all people, prompting Aliran to title an article on this seminar, "The Height of Hypocrisy" in their journal. Clearly it was meant that you were "The Highest Hypocrite".
In the run up to our elections of 2008, you gladly volunteered to utter some disparaging remarks about Anwar Ibrahim hoping both to damage his credibility as well as to please your political masters. Your remarks had no effect on Anwar, but it definitely did damage YOUR credibility, or what's left of it.
Did you think that you can be absolved of your pitiful attempt to put Anwar in the worst light by writing the letter? Or are you now beating your breast in regret for backing the wrong side? You may twist and you may turn, you may flip and you may flop, but you cannot fool the people any more. Perhaps you are not pro-establishment as you claim. You are part of the establishment now.
I would like now to remember some who have served the cause of the people without being hypocrites, and who would be happy at the elections results if they were here today. Ahmad Nor, P. Patto, M.G.G Pillai, Chan Kok Kit.............
-Truth Speaks-
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He has to serve 2 Masters at the same time. His first Master is beholden to AA/K.J. for his appointment in the Nordin Sopie Chair. His second Master is his food on the table with all the perks thrown in.
For this he has to chastise DSAI just a few hours before the 12th GE, hopefully his intellectual bantering would tilt towards BN's favour.