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An Orgy of Malaysian Politics
Malaysian politics is just like an orgy. Everyone screws everyone. The only thing is one must be careful though. In all that exchanging of partners going on one must not make the mistake of screwing one's own partner. This would defeat the objective of an orgy where one is supposed to exchange partners and not indulge with one's own partner, which could be done in the privacy of your home. But then this sometimes poses a problem when one is not too clear about which one is one's own partner and which one must be screwed instead. And this is what Malaysian politics has been reduced to: a crisis of confusion as to who is the ‘victim of the day' and who is your ‘partner'.

Let us take the Umno Supreme Council meeting scheduled for this Monday, 19 June 2006, as an example. In this coming meeting, the one that is supposed to be screwed is previous Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad. And how are they going to do this? Well, they are going to do a ‘Second September 1998' on Mahathir. For the uninitiated, 2 September 1998 was the day the Umno Supreme Council met to sack Anwar Ibrahim from Umno after a day earlier being removed as the Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister for what was alleged was his sexual misconduct with partners of both the opposite and same sex. Hmm.....now that is what I call a real orgy and one after my own heart. I should have teamed up with Anwar earlier, not after he had been removed from circulation. Well, never mind, better late than never I always say.

This Monday's Umno Supreme Council meeting came about after Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi made his one-day official visit to Selangor last Tuesday. Why he needs to make an official visit to Selangor when he passes through the state almost every day is beyond me. Maybe it is because he needed the television cameras to cover it. If not there would be no reason to waste ten minutes of air time showing Abdullah pulling out vegetables from the ground and saying hello to goats and cows.

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