ZAID is with US!
STEADYAKU AK47
There are times when principles and opportunism go hand in hand and at times they are separated by a very fine line by doubters and purists. Not unlike the Taliban who is a Jihadist in one camp and a terrorist in another. Now where do we put Zaid Ibrahim?
I wrote the above paragraph about two weeks ago and for the life of me I could not find a way forward. What should come next? That is until this morning when I saw Zaid’s piece “Fighting for a better Malaysia” in Free Malaysia Today:
In that article I saw again in Zaid what I saw when he left Pak Lah’s Cabinet in September 2008 and when he left PKR in 2010.
For Zaid it was always about anything else but him!
His resignation from Pak Lah’s cabinet was not about him not being given the Defense, Finance or DPM post. It was not about him not being given any project or any contract. It was about his concern for the rights of Teresa Kok, Raja Petra and Tan Hoon Cheng.
In PKR he withdrew his candidacy for the party post of Deputy President as a sign of protest against serious allegations of fraud and electoral misconduct perpetrated by his opponent Azmin Ali – allegations that were proven to have substance in the party’s elections held in 2010.
And today in his article in FMT he is writing not about Zaid Ibrahim or KITA but about Hindraf and Raja Petra.
He writes about remembering the contributions of these two towards Pakatan Rakyat success in the 2008 general elections. He writes about Petra relentless assault on the ISA and Petra tireless online campaign for the opposition.
And he reminds us of what Hindraf was able to do in mobilizing the poor and marginalized Indian community – a feat Zaid believes Hindraf will be able to do again come the 13th general election.
And then Zaid being Zaid, he takes a swipe at Petra and calls Petra a maverick that “will say and do things we don’t approve of” and tells us that some of Hindraf demands, “were questionable and perhaps unreasonable”. Vintage Zaid! Always telling it as it is!
