14 April 2009 tarikh keramat yang ditakuti BN dan UMNO?

The political nightmare that is Anwar Ibrahim

WHAT UPSETS THE NATIONAL Front (BN) coalition and its lead party, UMNO, now is that it splinters from within. Despite the best results ever in a general election in five decades, it flounders and blunders, with uncertain and worried leaders more worried about their future than if the coalition and its member parties must survive. The Malay ground is split, diffused, confused, still seeking a cultural leader it lost in UMNO when it defied Malay cultural mores to sack its deputy president, and the country's deputy prime minister, Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim in 1998. The UMNO president then did not care how he went, only that he must. But he also wanted him to be humiliated so that he would not have a political future outside of UMNO. He was then detained under the ISA, beaten to an inch of his life by the Inspector-General of Police no less, charged and convicted for sodomy and corruption in circumstances that ensured he would not get a fair trial. He is jailed for 15 years, his appeals wends its way through the courts. As expected, they are dismissed, but with fresh doubts about the fairness of the proceedings. It now redounds on Malaysians that the BN and UMNO, for their own political future, cannot allow him to be free.

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