We are talking about betrayal. It is no small matter!
We have seen the BN politicians of Sarawak applauding the political-power robbery in Perak, endorsing the most dirty and undemocratic move orchestrated by the Deputy Prime Minister against the mandate of Perakians, robbing the Government from the Pakatan Rakyat which was formed after the March 8 2008 State election in Perak.
These Sarawak BN politicians never felt ashamed of what their political partners in Perak and Putrajaya had done. They were even proud of it.
What had the Sarawak BN said about political frogs? The 3 paragraphs below are reproduced from the 13th May 2008 Hansard, part of the speech delivered by Abang Jo, the Minister of Housing, in the Dewan Undangan Negeri Sarawak:
“Tuan Speaker, perjuangan politik adalah berasaskan kepada conviction ataupun pendirian. Dalam hal ini, saya berpendapat politik di Sarawak adalah berpaksikan kepada perjuangan untuk membantu rakyat di samping membangun negeri supaya mereka dapat hidup di dalam keadaan yang selesa. Pemimpin bertukar ganti tetapi politik kita hendaklah diteruskan berpaksikan kepada development oriented politics.
“Oleh itu, seseorang ahli politik mestilah mempunyai conviction ini dan parti adalah organisasi yang menjadi platform bagi memperjuangkan conviction ini secara berkumpulan.
“Tuan Speaker, kepada saya, conviction pemimpin politik tidak boleh dijual beli. Ianya bukan komoditi kerana conviction ini adalah cetusan perjuangan yang disokong oleh pengikut iaitu rakyat. Oleh itu, leaders who have been given mandate by his followers through election based on the organisation’s shared platform cannot change positions because he is morally and ethically required to perform based on this shared political platform when he was given the mandate.”
Why then the inconsistencies in the action of the Sarawak BN to endorse Najib’s action? And to confer on him the honorarium of Datuk Pattinggi too right after the power grab in Perak?
Abang Jo can be said to be representative of the Sarawak BN. If something should happen to Taib Mahmud, the Chief Minister of Sarawak for over a quarter of century, nobody can discount that Abang Jo may become the Chief Minister and helm the state BN, at least for the transition period, to enable the Dynasty to continue. In that event, it is likely that Abang Jo will have the endorsement and blessing of Putrajaya too.
Many Sarawakians despised the culture of political jumping frogs. The reason is pretty simple. Sarawakians have seen frogs jumping in 1987, during the Ming Court incident, only to see many of these frogs jumping back to the same dirty and contaminated pond of the Sarawak BN some months later.
Sarawakians have also seen the frog-jumping culture at work in neighbouring Sabah which toppled the Pairin Government.
I called this betrayal of the people’s trust, confidence and mandate.
The actions of the DPM in Perak convinced me that he lacks the moral uprightness to lead the nation. He was very high handed just to enable the BN to gain power in state of Perak.
The only morally acceptable thing to do now is to dissolve the State Assembly of Perak and return the mandate to the people. But the BN will not dare. They know that they will suffer more than a backlash from the moral mistake of 4th February 2009 - Wong Ho Leng
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