Living Room Theorem

A friend asked me why didn't I write more about what's happening in the Malaysian political scene. Well, there's simply too many instant just-add-water political 'experts' analysing the situation. Political blogs now sprout like fungus on Britney's, err, nevermind. I read some of them too, I admit. I feel that most of them are just recycling other people's thoughts on the matter. Some are just raving mad lunatics spewing forth obscenities at all and sundry - and call that political observation. Talk is sure cheap these days.

So to appease him, and whoever else, this is my political post. It's a conspiracy theory, a popular theme with those 'political analysts'. I told some friends about this last week and over the weekend, and they say it's incredulous. I don't know, sounds possible to me. At least it's a refreshing change from the usual fare served up on the net and mainstream media. I think that neither Najib nor Anwar orchestrated the whole Tikam Belakang Episode II farce. I think someone just a wee bit higher or his aides/thinkthanks/posse/hangers-on who is greasing the machinery. Yeah, sounds incredulous isn't it? Now let me explain why I think so.

Before this thing blew up in the press, the main topic on everyone's mind was oil price and when will numero uno step down since he's incompetent. There's two candidates waiting in the wings to take over the hot seat, Najib and Anwar (of course, if his takeover plans were to be successful lah). I guess Pak Lah must be under a lot of pressure then. But then, what's the use of all those folks he paid to think for him?

Before you know it, the storm abated for him and wreaked havoc elsewhere - being implicated directly with the Altantuya case for Najib and sodomy again for Anwar. And then comes the connecting factor between them both, the Saiful bloke. So whose to gain from all this? Top Dog is out of the limelight, only appearing in the broadsheets to give comments. His minions aka KJ etc are also strangely quiet. Could they be busy at work, directing this play? Suddenly Top Dog doesn't seem like a bad choice after all when compared to Mr C4 and Mr Sodomizer. Could this be his tactic to undermine his challengers? If it is so, he's doing a good job. Both men's credibilities are being dragged though mud, would the rakyat still want them? Perhaps the rakyat will settle for the lesser evil instead, sleeping on the job doesn't sound so bad when compared to the other things his challengers purpotedly did.

But it's only a baseless theory, conjured up in the living room. Everyone's free to make theirs, so what's yours?

PS: No I don't know that Saiful bloke. Someone wrote about him being a student leader in Uniten and asking isn't there anyone more qualified in Uniten. Well, most of us didn't even bother to have a go at the posts or even vote since the student reps year in year out were usually a bunch of cronyistic, position-seeking sobs. We just boycotted the whole thing, so that's why more qualified folks didn't run for those posts.

PPS: Turned out, RPK wrote of the same theory in his regular column on Sunday. Great minds eh?