This MCLM wants to be a father figure to the Opposition...

Its President was speaking on April 15, two weeks too late for the best 2011's April Fool's joke!

Just launched less than a year ago, MCLM's self-anointed President Haris Ibrahim says his supra-governing body called Malaysian Civil Liberties Movement, initially flagged off as a Third Force, then a cndiadtes' selection body to the Pakatan Rakyat, then an Auditor of all Parliamentarians, you name its chameleonic forms, dear EsteemedReaders!, now MCLM wants to be a "father" figure to the Opposition parties. Hey Haris, DAP and PAS are in their fifties quite close to your age and Raja Petra's while PKR under Anwar Ibrahim is in its teens of 12 or 13 years, but Anwar has been an activist starting as ABIM chief, then as a politician, for at least four decades!...).

Hey. why don't you go "fly a kite" in the UK or Australia -- join thy Chairmanlah well endowed by some philanthropist's funds -- whose name I won't even deem worth while mentioning in full here because he has fooled enough Malaysians longing for a two-party/coalition system for along time. As I said about six months ago, MCLM's only clear-cut role is to put spanners into the wheel of Pakatan Rakyat now running quite smoothly except for some "Trojan horses" who entered PKR house as guests and tried to burn the house down (Thank the good Lord our God who's smarter than Zaid Ibrahim, John Soh CW and Jeffrey Kitingan and all their cronies combined ..., they did NOT succeed! ~~ Amen).

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Partial extract from the Malaysian Insider's report:

MCLM sees itself a father figure to Opposition parties
By Melissa Chi
April 15, 2011

MCLM president Haris Ibrahim said the organisation criticises the Opposition in the hope that it will bring about improvements. — file pic

KUALA LUMPUR, April 15 — Fledgling group Malaysian Civil Liberties Movement (MCLM) justified its criticisms of Opposition parties and its leaders, saying today it was only hoping to see them improve and did not wish to discredit them.

MCLM president Haris Ibrahim stressed they wanted to see Opposition parties improve in the future when commenting on the outrage over the organisation chairman Raja Petra Kamarudin’s criticism of opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim that was broadcast by the pro-government TV3 television station.

“We do this almost like how a father would chastise a child whom he loves because you see something wrong and you set it right.

“If you go through this entire video clip, you will not find once where Raja Petra says Anwar has lost complete credibility. He was critical over efforts by the Opposition to form a shadow Cabinet, as he has said several times before in his blog,” Haris told reporters at the organisation’s headquarters here.

The MCLM was formed last October in London.
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(Go read the report in full at themalaysianinsider.com!)

I will now just copy six samples of the comments to this report sighted just before midnight Friday, the close of campaigning in the Sarawak state elections. Thanks a million MI! ENJOY!-- YL, Desi


Tahir Nisa · 2 hours ago
Whether spinned or not. It was a pure stupid action by RPK to agree to be interviewed by TV3, when it was this same guy (RPK) that categorised mainstream media's as unethical and spinners. Now it what circumstances did you RPK agree to be interviewed by TV3 and don't tell us here in Malaysia that it is none of our business on who interviews you. Bear in mind RPK you partly survive with money donated/paid by fellow Malaysians that oppose BN and its cronies....and if you had forgotten RPK, TV3 is one of them (cronies of BN).


bonnie · 4 hours ago
This must be the joke of the century. RPK and MCLM by association is worse than Mr Anwar Ibrahim. Talk about hypocrisy, lies, deception, arrogance, and ambitions. Your image and reputation now is so tarnished one sees u as no more than a pile of cow crap. Stinking and yucky and totally undesired. At least AI did not betrayed anyone or any principle.




michealvernon · 3 hours ago
Be careful of MCLM. Two turncoats , RPK and Zaid, are prominient members of this organisation. Please folks read between the lines. The MCLM is a TROJAN HORSE which will destroy the opposition. Like a Trojan virus which infects the computer, the MCLM has been planted by "you know who", to destroy the opposition.



justlee · 3 hours ago
Whatever MCLM says here in mitigation is inconsequential.Harm has already been done to opposition efforts and a big boost given to the BN.A lot of questions are in readers' minds like why your chairman chose this timing to make his "revelations" and the use of mainstream media knowing very well they will twist,turn and spin every word he says.Do you really think readers will believe you or the opposition will accept such a two timing father ?




Gerard Samuel Vijayan Lourdesamy · 3 hours ago
Harris, since when did the MCLM become the "father" figure for the Opposition parties in Malaysia? Most of these parties were formed well before MCLM. A father does not chastise his children in public when he is fully aware that his comments or actions would be distorted. RPK's interview with TV3 was the height of stupidity. Since when did the mainstream media become the friend of civil society? If RPK has a bone to pick with Anwar do it elsewhere and some other time. If he wants to cut a deal with Najib and return home, so be it. But RPK should not try to make fools of the rest of us. He is not that smart.



menj · 2 hours ago
With people like Haris Ibrahim heading MCLM, who needs enemies?

DESIDERATA: Yes, dear MENJ -- I had also written an article last October I reprised two days ago titled: "With friends like RPK and Haris Ibrahim, PKR doesn't need enemies"!