A Ghani Ismail | Jun 26, 08
Malaysiakini
Raja Petra Kamaruddin, blogger of bloggers famed for his no-holds-barred ‘Malaysia Today’, believes the number of killers on the fateful night of October 18, 2007, should be six and not the three that are now still facing trial.
His Statutory Declaration (SD) is behaving like it is meant to scuttle once and for all the ruling Umno’s numbers one and two, hence securing the way for the opposition’s regime change kicked started by the Sapp in Sabah a couple of days earlier.
The blast from Petra’s ‘nuclear bomb’ can toss him back into prison where he had been for a few days after refusing to post bail following a charge of sedition only months before on the same case.
After the CID chief had mentioned the jail term for making a false report could be two years, Petra once again looms as an incredible hulk battling alone for years against the state’s terror agencies and remaining fit for yet another shot against the oppressors, this time fighting those he believes are licensed to kill.
Petra has boldly said the long Altantuya trial was a ‘show trial’ and after he implicated the deputy premier’s wife and was charged for sedition, he was reported to have said he could be holding a document which we now know as the report from army intelligence on which his SD was based.
In his SD, Petra reminded the country that to withhold evidence is a crime, meaning the prime minister and his son-in-law are together liable if his story is true.
But his evidence could run out of character and it could stretch itself into a fantasia of absurd cross-purpose the likes of which was never seen before or after Cervante’s Don Quixote charged some gruesome enemies that were, in fact, windmills.
What then are probably Petra’s plan and purpose? The prime minister has since denied there has been an army intelligence report of such purport.
Unless Petra has corroborative evidences that will stand in a trial, his only relief appears to be hanging somewhere in a royal privy.
He did not tell us which royalty is the link, causing many to suspect the royal household is in a Disney studio he is using to hold the police at ransom so the department must thoroughly investigate or find itself facing the ire of the sire just in case Petra’s story somehow becomes true.
He is closely linked to the Selangor Sultan and was also a close friend of the Sultan of Trengganu, who is now the Yang Di Pertuan Agong (King).
There is another face to Petra’s novel action. If he had timed his adventure to mix well with the Sapp’s curtain-raiser revolt against the prime minister, his temper this time is, indeed, a sparkling act of self-sacrifice to divide the house into two halves, one believing there was a cover-up no matter if police investigations find not an iota of truth in Petra’s hearsay.
Should police investigations reveal nothing, Petra needs to merely point towards a royal household that will remain silent to set Malaysian politics adrift in a divide of wills, with one side allegedly guilty of extra-judicial murder and removing the bodies with C4.
Petra, if he is jailed for sedition and for making a false report, will become the cause celebre, as Anwar had been before.
Raja Petra Kamaruddin - once before the chairman of East Asiatic Company and proven a mean mind in corporate strategy - is showing his natural bend for political strategy as well. He could be trying to turn the tables, playing the counter-conspiracy game in a style not altogether unlikely.
Should all go according to plan and he finds himself back in a jail cell, all he would need to pull off another spate of spitfire against the government of flip-flop Pak Lah would be a death-fast he had longed to do.
The glorious intermix of political revolt with the stress of hyper-inflation ought to pack enough force to unseat the premier.
Pak Lah could be forced to call for a snap-election and that would leave Umno and the Barisan Nasional in ruins no matter the troubles brewing in the PKR against its Selangor menteri besar.
Raja Petra is a genius gone stark crazy, a Bugis as impulsive as they come and choosing to dance on the flavors of fantasies in creating history, like it was with I La Galigo.
I La Galigo was the Bugis legendary hero who took for himself and his nation a niche in China simply because he found a Chinese princess attractive and must have her, plus the kingdom her husband ruled, or he would rather be dead.
He planned all sorts of plans and finally decided to simply walk straight into her room, let her take him captive and seduce him instead, stayed for days with her and finally replaced her husband as ruler of the land as well. Some guts!
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