Wednesday, April 6, 2011

MALAYSIA - Sex, politics and video

If you want to kill a politician in the Malaysian way, aim below the belt. That apparently is the goal of the campaign against Anwar Ibrahim since it must be emphasized, September 1998 [date of his fall from power when he was seen previously as the dolphin's Prime Minister Mahathir]. If you think soap operas, these sentimental soap operas, have a limited life, you do not know the Malaysian version, which itself is indestructible.

Policy for the keyhole, the kind of voyeurism that has already caused the loss of a handful of Malaysian politicians, never took a turn too melodramatic when "Datuk T did his show in, sorry the little, Carcosa Seri Negara [a palace in Kuala Lumpur]. For hours, he kept our netizens on tenterhooks, with preliminary panting.

Obviously, nothing is more Malaysians drool when they announced the imminent vision of sexual escapades of a man in sight. One wonders why, if this clip is genuine, it simply did not circulate on YouTube, the video sharing site. No, Datuk T, in a theatrical style properly worthy of Bollywood, was to issue an ultimatum: the politician exposed [ie even if Anwar has not been explicitly named], supposed to be caught and his wife, a woman long-suffering, must retire from politics.

Otherwise he would lay the overwhelming evidence, such confetti on the national scene for most lustful pleasure of hoi polloi. For some 12 years now, knows Malaysian politics periodic crises obsessive for alleged sexual escapades of Anwar [in 2000, he was once convicted of sodomy and subject today of a second trial for the same charge].

In the end, it gives a really distressing spectacle, which is demeaning to the actor, the target and the public. It's as if people had nothing better to do than indulge in an orgy of voyeurism. In the history of Malaysian politics, nobody has had to endure such treatment. Any political party [namely the UMNO in power], the entire police and the judicial system have been raised on this single issue.

A host of lawyers, doctors and laboratory technicians have been extras in the room. And why? Because attacking the man's sexual orientation would be the best way for opponents to shoot him on the very ground on which he chose to build his political career: religion. More than any other politician is Anwar Ibrahim who has made religion the alpha and omega of political life.

Unable, it seems, to address the major issues of the day, his enemies have chosen to launch the assault on the single theme which, if proved guilty, would cause its loss. For this they are willing to ignore basic rules of common sense and any decision in good and due form. Thus one arrives at a situation where his guilt - or lack of guilt - has become more than ever a festering wound biting politics.

The Carcosa Seri tragedy artificial Negara March 21 only serves to underline the fact that, even if they are not homosexual, the method used to destroy Anwar and always relates to his sexual life. If we did not let religion become a monomania, would we get there? The issue is not to remove religion from national debate, but understand that this is a genius he is better maintained in the bottle.

Because once released, it causes grotesque farces such as those which assist Malaysians for 12 years. It is simply despicable. At the point where we are, the man largely responsible for having missed the genius should have a chance to contain, what it alone can do. He freed the genius and had to bear the consequences, enough at least for now to have acquired the wisdom to want him back in his place.

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