The article I wrote after reading about the PKR & DAP apology, inspired by this video: youtube/watch?v=93B072j-E3I Imagine that someone has parked in your parking spot after you expressly told them not to. You confront the person as he exits his car, and he reacts by offering his profuse apologies, all the while standing there and making no move to park his car somewhere else. PKR seems to be living in blatant denial of the obvious endgame here. Either it backs down, or continues in open defiance. Empty apologies and hollow repetitions of a ‘commitment to uphold the constitutional monarchy’ will not protect PKR against the BN onslaught (on Utusan, TV3, etc re: being anti-royalty and anti-Malay) or expedite an end to this crisis, because, as always, actions speak louder than words. An accomplished poker player once gave me a critique of what went wrong in a hand that I played. He said I was caught off guard because I wasn’t prepared for the moves my opponent made, simply stating, “You obviously didn’t have a plan.” Sometimes I wonder whether PKR ever has a plan, or a coherent strategy for that matter (though, it clearly is not lacking of strategists). Either PKR does not, or it has bad ones that are predicated on gambling, rather than principles and facts. The Sept 16 announce first, get numbers later approach ended in failure. The Black 505 rallies achieved nothing beyond sound and fury that soon faded, and now, the Kajang Move seems to have only achieved the one thing that hudud, BN or anything else has failed to do: split up Pakatan. As the palace deadlock continues, PKR and DAP supporters continue to vent by taking thinly veiled potshots, which is eminently their right, but what do they achieve? Without a more comprehensive strategy, the proponents of the Kajang Move are left with little more than half-hearted measures that are neither here nor there, and bound to evaporate into inconsequence. In case of the DAP and PKR, they will face the inevitable question: if you didn’t have a good endgame, then why did you bother creating all this trouble while bringing Pakatan to the brink of disintegration in the first place? malaysiakini/news/274217
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 06:52:00 +0000
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