Silence of the Lambs

No, it's not the resurrection of Lector.

It's the Malaysian lambs, mainly in the Media, now even the mute among them are talking.

But during 22 years under the Mahathir regime, they chose to keep quiet. Very quiet. By their own volition. They read the Master's mind.
They chose to be The Master's Voice.

Now they are squeling like little piglets. Not even lambs -- and they trumpet it as a virtue -- whose fleece is as white as snow. Lamb chops with Desi, anyone?

And if you are wondering what Desi's rant is all about, be patient.
I'll start now. I'm captain of my own ship, aren't I?

~~~~~~~Penultimate Act~~~~~~~

(I predict the Ultimate Act will come just before the next UMNO GEneral Assembly, so
Miss Patience is a Virtue highly preached at Desi's Place, Mister too!:(

Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad is in a spot.
For being in the spot light.

And some Media personalities who were once His cronies singing the loudest praises are now singing the INCUMBENT PM's song. See The Star -- I won't even dignify to mention their names.

They did the same to the former Porton chief, strangely or by coincidence, another M -- the sacrifiial lamb named Tengu Mahaleel. I remember one GEIC was singing his name like a demi-God, then a month later, was singEing his name like little Mary and her Little Lamb.

If you want names, please-lah, get me someone like that Lawyer who speaks like he's another demi-God, when not even an MP, was asking the Foreign Minister to "resign" or jump from the imaginary bridge. Wow, the mantle of associated power...

Back to the media people, the maxcim: "In politics and media relations, If I am your Friend, Your enemy is my enemy too" holds. There is no permanence in mateship in politics and Media is just the handmaiden of Politikus, is it not?

Let's see:

The establishment New Straits Times today runs several Spot Lights stories -- see, many bulbs are blooming everywhere:~~~~~~~

Spot Light: Effendi, Nazri give full support to current administration

Spot Light: Razaleigh: Dr M has right to criticise

Spot Light: Support for Dr M causes rift in Promuda

Even derailed journalists are back on tracks, with In-Out-In-Out-Of-F(l)avour
Rehman Rashid
penning an

OPEN LETTER TO TUN,
following in some footsteps of Little Bulbs like Jacqueline Ann Surin~~~

I extract some -- as there are some lighting up currents there! -- from Rashid's, because I think this journalist has got balls. He did not sing the tunes to fit the Master's Voice, and was guiven the marching orders by one Group GEIC, goes by the moniker of Dolllah Kok Lanas who supports the ISA strongly despite being a victim himself, on the fround that when it was used against him, it was "an abuse" of a good piece of legislation, but when used against NGO activists and Oppositionists, it's rightly used! (Sorry for digression, but it was worth it, yes?):~~~



An open letter to Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad: Not going gentle into that good night

09 Jun 2006
By Rehman Rashid


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WHY, Tun?

That’s what we — the products, inhabitants, stewards and legatees of the country you designed and built — need to know. Why have you become so harsh a critic of your successor’s administration?

You made them, too. They have cleaved to your vision of what this country needs to be, and they are moving forward — or at least attempting to, as best they can, given the way forward as they see it.

It wasn’t necessarily their way forward; it was yours. No one has argued with the road map you drafted for this country, nor the direction you determined, nor even with the pace you set to get where you wanted us to go.

Nothing of your legacy as prime minister has been dismantled. Such restructuring as is happening in the corporate Malaysia Inc you established — Proton and MAS in particular — is for companies in desperate trouble, needing to be re-engineered to new and more businesslike specifications. Whether this will turn them around remains to be seen, but it needed to be done.

On the fuel price hike, your suggestion that fuel subsidies could have been maintained by allowing the exchange rate to float was, well, radical. Certainly, so was your decision to peg the ringgit to the US dollar during the Asian financial meltdown in 1998. By that time the claws of the crisis had sunk deep, and there was no lack of popular and political support for your soon-to-be famously successful move.

But the present administration, in reducing fuel subsidies, was responding to imperatives of long-term prudence, and that too has been by-and-large accepted and supported by the people. Times have changed, Tun. You should know: You changed them.

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(ends extract, so if you want more, go spend RM1.20-lah, because if you are an Optimist like Desi, PETRONAS your festive sponsor will give thee an ANGPOW come this December 2006 because it has recorded a BUMPER HARVEST oiled in RM83,000,000,000 as this year's profit.


Desiderata is more interested in Media personalities, and have to say his peace as an Indpenmdent Writer watching all this Sandiwara, Opera and Wayang Kulit, for in deed, Malaysians have been entertained to all these in all their variety and nuances in the past -- the last decade especially, beginning with the Sacking of a Lord President and several brother judges, followed by the Anwar Ibrahim Sacking and Trails ga and the Sauk Arms Heist, just mentioning some outstanding episodes.

And all these have traced their links or pathways to a final destination: TUN DR MAHATHIR. Now it's understandable -- by being a Prime Minsiter for 22 years of NegaraKu. Even a two-term American President like Kennedy or Eisenhopwer is now easily forgotten, what more almost THREE TIMES the length of premiership.

But I don't envy Dr Mahathir's position.
Or his feeling that HE HAS BEEN STABBED IN THE BACK.
In politics since Time Immemorial, that's to be expected.
Et tu, Brute?

Da Game is to see who's the last one to sink in "THE MOST UNKINDEST CUT OF ALL".
And the protagonist need not be Mahathir alone -- current Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is in the queue, so also his deputy Najib Tun Razak (of PM lineage), and others of less blue bloodline, nevertheless waiting in the wings ...
Muhyiddin Yassin, Khir Toyo, don't rule out MCA number 1 -- Ong Kah Ting -- and MIC numero uno, Semi Value (did I get that sperring right?)

Meanwhile, I agree with Rehman Rashid's obervation that we are now where we are because of Dr Mahathir's 22-year reign; and the "wise pick" of Pak Lah over Najib; a decisoon he seems to "regret" judgiong by the recent outbursts, but one man's wrong is many people's benefit, desi's too.

TELL YOU WHY.


The mainstream media are now more vociferous in reaction to the Internet bringing forth online news like malaysiakini.com and Blogsworld -- which even a diehard critic like Dr Mahathir had resorted to use -- RELUCTANTLY.

But it';s also due to the quiet democrat that Pak Lah (yes, "Mr Nice Guy") represents.
And that's something to be thankful for.

The flowering of media feedom.
A more vibrant democracy for the past three years almost.
And I pray the PM will continue to promote -- a more OPEN SOCIETY.
Hence we see Jaequeline's OPEN LETTER.
Hence today we read Rehman's OPEN LETTER.
Hence you read Desiderata-YLchong-lah!
See, power by association:)


But the legacy of Dr Mahathir -- for better ior for worse -- will remain.
Aftyer 22 years, many Malaysians have made their evaluation and judgments. Some are brave enough to get out of the sidewalks to speak up.
For Pak Lah, almost three years as CEO of NegaraKU, Desi is of the opinion "IT"S TOO SOON TO GIVE A VERDICT".
Let's judge him after two terms -- my minimum test period.
No, not another two decades.

I just hope there will never be another one. A PM for two decades. NO, not Dr Mahathir. For it's a truism that God created every one of us a UNIQUE person. There is no replica, or clone, possible yet at the momemnt. The future, who's to tell? So for now, Strive To Be Happy -- There won't be a second desiderata-ylchong, rest ASSured. One is more than irritating enough!:)