Thursday, August 18, 2011

Who is pointing the gun at whose head?

The EC Chairman, Abdul Aziz has cautioned Bersih 2 not to put a gun to his head when discussing Electoral reforms. Does the chairman know what is putting a gun to someone's head? Most probably he doesn't. So I would advise him to look at the  Armed Forces chief General Zulkifeli Mohd Zin's outburst as a typical example of putting a gun to someone head's head, in this case the rakyat's head. Zulkifeli’s rhetorical question “How can we be loyal to you if you are disloyal to us” is not only a threat but an ultimatum. In the first place, what disloyalty was he talking about? How can exposing a fraud or hanky-panky be termed as disloyal?He further warned that it was "treachery" for staff to blow the whistle on their bosses. So does that mean, soldiers cannot blow whistles on officers who are treacherous? What the four ex-servicemen, Major (Rtd) Risman Mastor, Kamarulzaman Ibrahim, Mohamed Nasir Ahmad and Mohd Kamil Omar did has only confirmed that such electoral malpractices with regard to postal ballots is an open secret for decades. The traitors should be the commanding officers who gave the orders officers to mark postal votes from hundreds and thousands of personnel who were out of the field in three separate general elections between 1978 and 1999 s. Such shallow thinking is not befitting of a general who is tasked to protect the people and country. Hey General. where have you been? Haven't you read of all the electoral frauds and discrepancies that are being exposed on a daily basis? And when proofs are presented, excuses after excuses are offered. So you still "denied that there is any manipulation as claimed. The voting process carried out by the Armed Forces is clean, transparent and professional without any interference by all levels of the Armed Forces' leadership,” So far 5 patriotic ex-army officers who have nothing to gain except loyalty to King and country, have exposed the manipulation in the army postal votes, and you have called them traitors. I have not doubt more will come forward and this time with concrete proofs. I shall be waiting with bated breath to hear of your excuses.

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