Anwar's fixation for a foreigner's buttressing

IT'S uncanny that whenever Parti Keadilan Rakyat de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and some of his quarrelsome ilk lose the plot or argument, they back-pedal furiously to rely on foreigners with dubious credentials to do their bidding, or make a quick rescue from a debilitating stance, or buttress a tactical blunder.

Consider the theatrics behind two recent examples of how Anwar appropriated two foreigners to boost his limp position: Thai forensic pathologist Pornthip Rojanasunand, 57, and Australian independent senator Nick Xenophon, 54, both left exposed with dodgy reputations after earlier stints here fortifying Pakatan Rakyat's shenanigans.

Pornthip was here in 2011 for the autopsy of Teoh Beng Hock, who died under questionable circumstances, but she fouled-up in her "fantasist" diagnosis of Teoh's death as 80 per cent homicide just by looking at pictures of his body and the subsequent dismissal of her examination by three internationally reputable forensic experts.

Pornthip was unwittingly injected into yet another PKR broadside of trying to justify a dubious police brutality allegation against the outsized claim that the prime minister ludicrously blocked her entry into Malaysia after he was said to have had a word with his Thai counterpart.

On the other hand, Xenophon's openly condescending meddling (he unlawfully joined the Bersih riots and smeared the nation on Anwar's prodding) was irksome enough for the Immigration Department to blacklist and legitimately ban him from entering Malaysia.

Of course, Xenophon shamelessly kicked up an agitated fuss that forced Canberra to half-heartedly lodge a protest, knowing that they were dealing with a publicity hound, while senior commentators laughed off Xenophon's stunt of echoing Anwar's bogus election rigging accusation as "stupid and impractical".

These stunts by Pornthip and Xenophon are outlandish, designed to rattle the prime minister's unshakable momentum following his bold excursions into the heart of, first, the lion's den of Lim Guan Eng's Penang, and then the dragon's lair of ultra-Chinese educationists Dong Zhong, to honour the Chinese New Year. The sneering that followed, that Datuk Seri Najib Razak failed to fully win the Chinese community's hearts and minds, missed the point.

Najib expects not to get full support but then, he only needs a decent swing after winning Indian backing and re-leveraging returning Malay voters following the 2008 polls debacle, comfortable enough for Barisan Nasional to cross the finishing line with a simple majority but decent enough to roll over with a two-thirds majority of between 150 and 160 seats. That's just a conservative estimate.

But back to Anwar and his predilection to smear the nation in a foreign platform and his fixation for their help in whatever ways and means:


AFTER his sacking from the government in 1998, he got then United States vice-president Al Gore to undiplomatically pitch for him at an Apec bash for heads of states;
WHEN the second sodomy accusation surfaced in 2008, Anwar fled into the Turkish Embassy in full melodrama gear on the fake assumption that his life was in danger (his life was never, ever in danger in the years he fabricated the complaint);

DISGRACED former Philippines' president Joseph Estrada made a pitch to Filipinos to support Anwar in 2011, when the latter visited Manila for a talk;

FORMER Indonesian president B. J. Habibie, denounced by former minister Tan Sri Zainuddin Maidin as a "dog of imperialism" like Anwar, gave a talk in Universiti Selangor on Anwar's behest;

FORMER American ambassador to Malaysia John R. Malott, politicking on behalf of Anwar, lobbed the ridiculous tirade against Malaysia that racial tensions in 2011 were worse than back in 1969;

HIDING behind a generalised edict posed by his guiding intellect Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the scion of the Muslim Brotherhood, after Anwar was urged to hand over a DNA sample when the Sodomy II case surfaced; and,

AT the height of Sodomy II, former US Deputy Secretary of Defence Paul Wolfowitz and Al Gore penned a Wall Street Journal editorial urging the US government to speak out on Anwar's behalf.

As exemplified by the need for foreign help, it's obvious that Anwar and his PKR ideologues have little self-sustaining ability to shore up their arguments or steadying the political plot or battling foes.

The dire need for foreign reinforcement is Anwar's imperialistic enslavement, reflected in the ruckus over the likes of Pornthip and Xenophon, foreigners treated as trump cards no matter how dubious their reputation or backing.

Anwar will slump if ever these foreign elements withdraw support but would they bother to realise that they are flogging a dead horse?

Otherwise, Anwar's erosion of ideas (damning the government with no real plans to govern), tendency to cock-up ("Huguan Siou" mess) and unbearable baggage will prod him into oblivion.




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