Did Khairy also hijack the “Free Burma” demonstration?

Category: General

Posted by: Raja Petra

Rustam Sani

http://malaysia-today.net/blog2006/index.php?itemid=8790

 

Khairy Jamaluddin, the infamous son-in-law of the PM, seems to have perfected the art of hijacking highly visible political events for which he has no moral right to claim credits.

Take, for example, the highly hyped 50th Merdeka celebration at the end of last August. After making some historically false claims of Umno being the sole “winner”of this nation’s independence (“Where were the opposition when we won the independence?”) Khairy and his father-in-law actually enacted the roles of the independence heroes during the ceremonies.

On two occasions, Khairy did the honour of unfurling the Malaysian flag and of leading the procession of youths to present a capsule – to be opened 50 years later – to the PM. The latter even shouted “Merdeka!” seven times, exactly as the Tunku did fifty years ago.

Last Monday (October 1, 2007), Khairy once again demonstrated his extraordinary talent in “political hijack”. This time the occasion was a demonstration – in support of the “saffron revolution” that is going on in Burma – which was supposedly organised by 14 youth NGOs and political parties.

The main organisers from among the NGOs, however, at the crucial moment of the demonstration abdicated to Khairy the honour of reading and presenting the protest note at the Burmese embassy – the duty that was initially to have been assigned to Stephen Doss, the leader of two of the NGOs – also head of research and development at Khairy’s wife’s (Nori) organisation, Penyayang.

Considering that the notorious Stephen Doss was involved, I would not even be surprised if the turn of events had been conspiratorially pre-arranged by him and Khairy. After all, Stephen is famous for his talent of aligning himself or betraying his sponsors from all sides of the political divide.

I can claim to know Stephen quite well – not only for his attempts to align to me during the early days of reformasi (perhaps because he thought I was an ambitious politician with money to throw) but also because he was my student in the graduate program on Civilizational Dialogue at Universiti Malaya.

Eli Wong, in her blog, asked the pertinent question of why Khairy and Pemuda Umno, for the resources and the cash that they control, must hijack other people’s show and not organise one for themselves.

To which, I think, the answer is quite obvious: If Khairy can have the services of the best organiser, or organisers, that money can buy, then would it not be better for him to use the services rather than organise the event himself?

Had Khairy and Pemuda Umno initiate the event from the start, then the whole thing would have appeared hollow and hypocritical. After all, is Pemuda Umno not aligned to a government whose hands are stained with the blood of the people of Burma through its support for the oppressive military junta?

Moreover, who would take seriously a Pemuda Umno’s initiative in defending the people’s right to freedom and protest, when it is part of a government that uses police brutality (even live bullets in the case of Batu Buruk) to suppress its own people who hold peaceful demonstrations?

Isn’t hijacking an event that have already been initiated by someone else at the appropriate juncture a better alternative for the resource-rich and cash-strapped Pemuda Umno?

Comments

tanny1416 wrote:

There is simply no doubt that KJ is an opportunist. That is the nature of the beast eg married into position, stoke fires of racial divide etc Fortunately for him, the powers that be are more than willing to provide him with all the opportunities he needs much as he serves their interest and his own,

03/10 16:13:10

tonixe wrote:

so now that you have said it again , whats next ? what shall ( or can we ) do about this hijacker ? throw him to the dogs ? or shall we wait for his next episode so we can write, laugh about it and then nex… and nexxxxxx.?
hey enough is enough ! Do something ! anything

03/10 16:13:16

educationist wrote:

Yes, he has hijacked the protest but isn’t it because the organisers agreed to it? It is indeed repulsive, but perhaps a plus point is that the protest garnered more mention in the mainstream media than would normally be the case.

03/10 16:25:28

kingmaker65 wrote:

well..it shows about KJ since the day that he stood up and ask the resignation of Pak Tun during the latter visit to oxford & cambridge in the reformasi hype. he was looking for opportunity to enter UMNO through the fast lane. he got it when he married nori but before that he was going for Izzah anuar’s daughter. when he got nori, well as we know today what has happen. this shows that this scumbeg is looking for opportunity everywhere he can get. through media, sports, demonstration, gangster act in election & GOD knows what else.

Unfortunate for malaysia we got him.

GOD save Malaysia, The King & Pak Tun.

03/10 16:32:48

ksl1979 wrote:

Good piece there Rusty. As far as I am concerned, it makes perfect sense for KJ to do so. Sad that the Burmese mission didn’t shoot back at him on the armed confrontation in Batu Burok resulting in several fatalities.

http://spaces.live.com/igoy…

03/10 16:52:17

rayfire wrote:

We need salvation quick!

Can’t stand this KJ and his antics anymore!

Please oh please Royalties, still no action?

Raja Nazrin??? is just delivering speech adequate to save this nation?

Why the silence?

Rakyat, how can we overcome this trauma?

03/10 16:54:03

jack little wrote:

somehow KJ came into power. but in the next GE we must make sure he lose that power.

Learn from your mistakes y’all.

03/10 16:57:36

The Blue Monster wrote:

Without a shadow of doubt, the monkey hijacked the event.

03/10 17:02:53

Merlin2001 wrote:

The ASEAN accord states that its members shall not interfere into the internal affairs of each member country.
KJ may have hijacked the the NGOs’ roles by leading the protest at the Mynmar Embassy.
His actions has opened the Pandora box and put this accord in jeopardy.
Now it is up to Indonesia and The Philippines to initiate the reclaim of of Sabah and Sarawak.
He may have put the nail in the coffin of ASEAN.

03/10 17:12:52

kingmaker65 wrote:

kenape polis tak tembak dengan peluru hidup?biar bersepai otak monyet seekor ni. kat KT & Putrajaya mak ai..mcm le ganas gile demonstrasinye. tembak orangramai, FRU siap full gear lagi. petualang sungguh si KJ ni. ni le orang yang diagung2kn oleh (Pak Habib keturunan Nabi sebelah abu jahal). KJ keturunan abdullah bin ubai..hhmm saja elok le jadi keng kawan.

GOD save Malaysia, The King & Pak Tun.

03/10 17:40:04

budakindia wrote:

KJ is trying his best to garner political mileage. Even the football association is not spared! How about we organize a toilet cleaning association and ask him to be the president? I’m sure we have many uses for his political power greed, haven’t we? Or may an ikan bilis lover club?

03/10 18:02:32

panca wrote:

para 2 of the above article:

Take, for example, the highly hyped 50th Merdeka celebration at the end of last August. After making some historically false claims of Umno being the sole “winner”of this nation’s independence (“Where were the opposition when we won the independence?”) Khairy and his father-in-law actually enacted the roles of the independence heroes during the ceremonies.

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It reminds me of all the current Merdeka 50th Image Displays (everywhere) where there are 5 PMs. It is at the back of my mind that i ve wanted to say, now that Rusty mentioned this.I believe many could agree with what I feel about the Image for each Merdeka celebration.

Merdeka Icon should have been ‘YM Tunku Abdul Rahman’ as the ‘Main Image’ and if the rest of the pmS successorS-in-line want to share that glory, the size SHOULD be not larger than of YM Tunku Rahman. If one observes, the current is so PROMINENT.

Merdeka is about Merdeka, the others can have smaller print of their so-called contribution to their era if there is any so far?!

We have to show more respect to the historical event and the Prime Minister of Merdeka. What…. think that we are like the Past Presidents of US, did anyone see Carter, Reagan, Senior Bush or Clinton on the Iconic Mountain?

Isnt our past and current Merdeka a hijack too?

Merdeka = YM Tunku Abdul Rahman, perhaps to add more colours the picture of the past leaders of the races is more deserving!!! That would be history best remembered for racial harmony.

03/10 18:05:33

chee meng wong wrote:

All monkeys can learn new tricks. Need some bananas though. This monkey is well fed one. Nothing to do but scheme and scheme.

03/10 19:02:21

kosmoa wrote:

this kj is not only ‘pirate from the bolehland’,if malaysian still couldn’t see thro’ n be right-minded enough;this jackass is infact another “than swee”in the making!!difference in mode only.beware, malaysian beware!!

03/10 19:55:25

harbinger wrote:

Any event,anything,anything at all linked to KJ is a farce !! There is nothing this hypocrite won’t do for political mileage !

03/10 20:49:45

eekiat lim wrote:

Sometimes bad people do good things once in a while. I have never been a supporter of any Burmese course. If legitimate assembly by Malaysian could not be allowed, why should these illegals Burmese be issued permits for demonstration? Enough of social problems caused by these bunch of people. Take the demonstration back to their own country soil and fight alongside those brave Buddhist monks, not shouting here in Malaysia. We don’t need all these.

03/10 20:50:37