The people's voice.

Thurs 10 May 2018.

The 14th General Elections are over, but the self-appointed pundits and know-alls are just beginning their "I-told-you-so's".

Everybody, from Najib and his cohorts to the "Washington Post" and similiar other Western press, had dismissed the old man's seemingly misguided and futile attempt at unseating this guy they referred to as "the Malaysian political blue blood". Najib was the Chief Minister of Pahang at 23.  When the old man finally made his mark, he was a ripe old  55. Najib was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, or something to that effect in the fables of the aristocrat. The old man finally used a tin spoon when he started school at 6, or something like that. There is a  complete  contrast.

But just as the old man was politically resurrected by Najib's father 43 years ago at a secretly arranged meeting in Morib (by Harun Idris), so was Najib's rise to political power overseen by the old man, in gratitude, not only for the Morib's rendezvous, but also for the support of the Youth Wing of UMNO under its then leader, Najib, in the battle for UMNO top-dog with Ku Li in 1987, that ended with UMNO being declared an illegal association by Justice Harun Hashim. 

These are facts that cannot be changed, just as the Petronas Twin Towers, Putra Jaya, KLIA and the PLUS Highway cannot be denied, no matter how much TV3 and Said Keruak tried to. But in the heat of the battle in the last four years, Najib showed little gratitude, and much less  respect for the old man, even going to the extent of denigrating his ancestry (false), scorning his old age(true), and even lowering himself to the level of a common brat (very true) by using the insulting Malay curse "your father's head" - "kepala bapak kau"! Why, Najib even initiated the RCI on Bank Negara's foreign exchange forays scores of years ago, blithely forgetting the concept (or maybe ignorant of it) of cabinet collective responsibility, just to pour dirt on the old man, conveniently forgetting the fresh 1 MDB sewage right on his doorstep. 

The internet and the electronic gadgets have been the God-given discoveries that had helped the rise of the people's voice. The good education of the children has also made sure that the remotest kampong-folks have second opinions on whatever is dished out by popular propaganda. The blatant lies that insult our intelligence, spewed by Najib's spokesmen, have been identified by just that - lies. The incessant insults on the old man, right to the very end, by instructing stupidly obedient government servants to cut out the pictures of the old man from the campaign posters, angered people who now see the fear Najib has of him, and became the icing on the cake of their disgust with his antics. And they spoke. And did they speak. With one voice they said this old man, perhaps the oldest Prime Minister candidate in the world, deserves better.

The no.1 resolution of Pakatan Harapan is to catch the no.1 of 1 MDB. They got him now.

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