Unelected Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has been reported in the Guardian newspaper, UK as having thrown his endorsement behind silat groups to fight against Bersih while the police rehearsed using banners that threaten to shoot at demonstrators unless they disperse. For an UNELECTED PM, this shows great gall and monumental hypocrisy. This is especially so in the light of the Najib administration's parading before the world that Malaysia is a model of "moderation" and self-hailing our country as an example worthy of emulation by developing democratic nations. But nothing could be further from the truth. Behind his facade of pretended moderation, Najib's administration has quietly presided over the inexplicable deaths of 2 men whilst in MACC custody, the yet-to-be-resolved Altantuya Shariibu murder case which has implicated Najib personally despite the administration's vigorous and bare denials, the sordid sex video drama alleging the Opposition Leader's involvement which brought local politics literally to an even more below-the-belt level and the recent arrest since June 22nd of over 230 people including women and minors amidst threats to use the archaic colonial era's Internal Security Act against Bersih 2.0 supporters under ridiculous charges of "communism" and waging war against the Constitutional Monarchy. All of which smacks of blatant wrongs un-righted and gross abuses of power hiding beneath a tissue-thin veneer of "moderation" and "reform". Najib's administration is slowly but surely losing its tenuous claim to legitimacy and choses NOT moderation and reform, as it publicly proclaims, but feudal repression and a myopic style of administration. It can at least spare us and other nations its wholly unmerited claim to the former.
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