WHO NEXT IS ANWAR REGIME GUNNING AFTER? - KHAIRY FOR HIS 'COWARDS! BLACKROCK STOOGES' OUTBURST? - CRITICS MOCK 'SENSITIVE' ANWAR & 'CLUELESS' FAHMI - WHY NOT CLOSE DOWN THE INTERNET TOO?

 

Written by Stan Lee, PoliticsNow!

KUALA LUMPUR (politicsnowmy.blogspot.com) - A cry of desperation or weakness or is it a combination of both? Whichever, a public "instruction" from embattled Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's perhaps most disliked Communications minister Fahmi Fadzil has raised eyebrows, drawn ridicule as well as raised the heckles of both the ordinary folk and those in the political arena - even more than before.

Who is former actor Fahmi trying to go after now is the buzz around town? Is it the Oxford-educated Khairy Jamaluddin, the former health minister, who days ago lambasted the Anwar regime as a bunch of "cowards" and as good as accused them of being so fond of Zionist money that to defend and protect Anwar's epic but questionable RM18billion deal with 'pro-US, pro-Israel but anti-Palestine' investor BlackRock, the Anwar regime was ready to suspend an outspoken opposition MP from Parliament for six months! 

"The desperate Fahmi," wrote another former Cabinet minister Zaid Ibrahim on X. "He is desperate. He publicly ordered the MCMC Chairman to act on what he called abuses on social media platforms as if the Chairman had not done so.

"The Madani Ministers are all desperate to control social media for anything, including cyberbullying simply because they are now being bombarded left, right and centre by the netizens. They are not able to deal with the anger of the people."

"So what do they do? They blamed MCMC Chairman; they rebuked him; they threatened the social media platform. Soon, they will close the I internet ( if they can)," mocked Zaid.

WHAT NEXT? CLOSE DOWN THE INTERNET?

Indeed, it may be reflective of Anwar's weakness as a leader and the poor esteem in which his administration, especially his ministers such as Fahmi, are held by the public that begets the increasing scorn that they might well be tempted to "close" down the internet if they could - just to gag and silence critics.

As if such foolish moves could ever work! If so, then Anwar's old 'buddy' the notoriously corrupt ex-premier Najib Razak would still be in power. Yet instead of learning and distancing from the blunders made by Najib and sticking to doing the right things of maintaining freedom of speech, a free press and social media, Anwar via Fahmi seem to have expressly chosen to tread where Najib fell.

And just like for Najib and his wife Rosmah Mansor, this fatally costly mistake is bound to lead to a similar downfall for Anwar and Fahmi too - as social media-loving Malaysians, no worse abusers than their counterparts in most other parts of the world, get ready to throw out the Anwar regime at the coming general election due in 2027, or perhaps earlier if they get the opportunity to do so.

As pointed out by Zaid, the Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission has already got on the people's nerves by closing down blogs, blocking websites and social media accounts that they see as unfriendly to Anwar. 

As such, Fahmi's comments over the weekend were seen as 'more than meets the eye'. By invoking Anwar's name, was Fahmi trying to imply he is only acting on the PM's orders? "Tan Sri (MCMC chairman Salim Fateh Din), in front of everyone, including the prime minister (Anwar Ibrahim) and the chief secretary (Zuki Ali), I instruct you to do something about it," the Communications minister had said during a speech at a government event.

The 43-year-old Fahmi had earlier hinted that 'very firm' action will be taken against social media platforms within the next few days - justifying it as necessary because according to him, allegedly more Malaysians were now grappling with social media issues, such as scams, the dissemination of fake news and cyberbullying which have unfortunately led to some suicides here. Not to be blasé but what Fahmi has pointed out happens in every other part of the world where social media is allowed, and Malaysians are no more victimized and no less protected.

What is omitted by Fahmi though is that the Anwar regime may have 'weaponized' their authority to control the internet - so as to hobble their political opponents including the PN main opposition bloc, which consists of the very TikTok-savvy Pas and Bersatu parties.  .

Jus days ago, the MCMC was accused of asking TikTok to remove videos from the account of the chief minister of Terengganu, a state governed by the Pas party. Terenggan's chief minister Samsuri Mokhtar is one of the fastest-rising stars in Malay politics and among the top bets to replace Anwar as the next PM. 

“The MCMC categorically states that it has never submitted any request to TikTok to remove content as claimed," the MCMC responded in a statement.

Yet TikTok has in the past revealed that Malaysian authorities are among its most frequent complainants who request for posts and accounts to be taken down!

GOING AFTER KHAIRY?

In the case of Khairy, he had walloped team Anwar on Instagram over the BlackRock incident. His previous posts of TikTok had been removed - and again the MCMC had mysteriously denied any knowledge. 

Khairy not only criticized the strategic and financial aspects of the deal, which involves an unnecessary sale of national air infrastructure to the US-based BlackRock, but warned that the Anwar regime would be as guilty of genocide as Israel if they persisted in dealing with BlackRock, which is America's largest asset manager and also recently revealed as being among the top supplier of deadly arms and weapons to Israel in the Palestine conflict. 

"Cowards. You make fun of him saying he is ‘jargon’, ‘clueless’. In the end, you abuse your legislative might to throw him out for six months. Clearly, he’s getting to you. Blackrock stooges. Hope the Zionist money is worth it,” Khairy minced no words in the no-holds-barred post on Instagram.

The former health minister was referring to the Member of Parliament for Machang Wan Fayhsal, who is the youth chief of the Bersatu party. Fayhsal's outspoken and non-stop probing of the rather secretive BlackRock deal, demanding clarity and transparency, had made him a thorn in the flesh for the increasingly unpopular Anwar and his government.

"It's not clear yet who Fahmi is after but let's wait and see. Khairy's words were strong but no stronger than the critiques made by Anwar, Fahmi and their Pakatan Harapan coalition when they themselves were in the opposition. They should review their own insulting language then against Najib and  Rosmah and not to mention ex-premier Mahathir Mohamad and his sons," a political analyst told PoliticsNow!

"So if you can't take the heat, then get out of the kitchen. It's the same for politics. But the problem with Anwar is he seems to have developed an 'emperor without clothes' syndrome. He and his inner circle have become vain and despotic with power and if some young Malay leaders who are capable like Khairy and Fayhsal expose them as wearing no clothes, they cannot take it. They panic they will lose power sooner rather than later," the analyst opined.

Written by Stan Lee, PoliticsNow!

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