The Rat Race Part VII – Wrapping up & navigating the landmines of 2010

ARCHIVES 2010

By admin-s On Jan 2, 2010

This Rat Race Series is dedicated to Raja Petra Kamaruddin who was instrumental in educating us on the inner workings of UMNO, without which many of the ideas would not have evolved.

By PY Wong

PART I: NAVIGATING THE LANDMINES OF 2010

2009 has been a very momentous year. We started off the year in February with a BN grab for power in Perak in collusion with the Sultan of Perak. Much heat and drama was generated in the ensuing months. The case is still wending its way through the courts, which judging from the judges’ behavior, does not give much hope for justice.

Abdullah Badawi was forced out as the 5th Prime Minister of Malaysia with Muhyiddin fronting as the attack dog while Najib played his role as the “loyal assistant” to a T, all the while adding on to the pressure behind the scenes to force Badawi to quit. The UMNO warlords blamed everything on Badawi, ignoring their role in angering the people with their arrogance and corruption. Eventually, Najib took over the reins on 1st Apr 09. We had expected him to be forced out by Oct 09 and his longevity has surprised us.

He surprised us even further with his 1Malaysia programme, which seemed to have overcome the negativity suffered by him over the Altantuya case. In fact, after his successful take-over in Perak, he was seen to be on track to take-over Selangor … until Teoh Beng Hock’s unfortunate death while in the custody of the MACC.

Another issue which blew up was the PKFZ case with costs projected to rise to RM 12.5 billion, making this the largest bailout in Malaysian history. Coupled with the fratricidal war within MCA which threatens to wipe out the already largely irrelevant Chinese party. In addition to that are the mini-wars going on among the mosquito BN parties – MIC, Gerakan, PPP.

Meanwhile, the ongoing controversy over BTN threatens to make a farce of Najib’s 1Malaysia.

In desperation, UMNO and her War-machine are trying to hunt down any person deemed to be a threat to them – RPK, Anwar, plus the Pakatan Rakyat MPs who were arrested for peaceful demonstrations or on imaginary corrupt acts.

Is it any wonder that many of us feel we are caught like this Rat….

What about 2010? How are we to face the future

How do we process and interpret the masses of information that will be drowning us?

Help is at hand. Over the past 20 months, we have compiled enough information in Tindak Malaysia to enable us to create sufficient mental models to filter the information. Furthermore, although much critical information is cloaked in secrecy under the OSA, there is enough information in the public domain for us to identify trends. And trends can be our friends.

Next: Part 2 – Understanding the Economic Rat Race Model.

Part 3 – What can we do to protect ourselves?