I could not be at the Bandar Tun Razak ABU ceramah last Friday, but folk at the ABU secretariat inform me that it was well-attended.
Don’t know how many of you who got whacked and cajoled in RPK’s “ABU? Betul ke?” were able to make that ceramah, but if you could not, don’t sweat it.
If you understand the ABU game plan, and yes, we do have one, then you’ll understand that our target audience are principally those who do not have access to the internet.
Not you, who is reading this now.
Don’t get me wrong.
We welcome you to the ABU ceramah, and you might well learn a thing or two by attending.
But chances are that, other than the UMNO cybertroopers who have to cari makan and so must come to sites like this and bising, most of you are already well informed and have already decided to ABU come the 13th GE.
And, yes, those working the ABU initiative do have a strategy, contrary to what some might say.
Read RPK’s post just referred to again and you’ll see he makes the assumption that we’re pinning all our hopes on Pakatan and Pakatan alone, without more.
Not so.
In my ‘Strategising ABU’ post, this is what I said :
“We’ve done our homework, and identified the vulnerable BN seats that can be taken and the vulnerable opposition seats that need to be defended.
In Malaya, Sabah and Sarawak.
For obvious reasons, I’m not going to detail those seats I’ve just mentioned.
Suffice to say that, if we can prise those vulnerable seats away from BN, and successfully defend the existing opposition seats, we should take Putrajaya with a total of 141 seats.
Now, I want to clarify here that by ‘we’, I do not mean Pakatan Rakyat.
I mean the 3 Pakatan parties, working cohesively with the many other non-BN parties in Malaya, Sabah and Sarawak.
And us, the rakyat.
Lets be very, very clear about this.
Pakatan Rakyat cannot and will not be able to bring BN to its knees by itself.
Its going to require the combined force of all these parties working towards 1 goal : ABU” .
See that?
Not just Pakatan but the combined force of all the non-BN parties working with us, the rakyat.
RPK does get it wrong sometimes.
Proves he is human.
Yet his recent exposes clearly show that notwithstanding his being based in Manchester, his tentacles still reach deep into the corridors of power here.
Remember the expose on Saiful bonking the DPP last year?
The sand-mining scandal?
And more recently, the RM2.2 billion pay off to the ex-CJ and the present UMNO legal advisor for delivering Perak to UMNO?
The guy still has it!
What he may not have, though, is an on the spot self-assessment of situations on the ground.
Like the mood in the streets during BERSIH 2.0.
Or like how ABU is faring now.
So just put it down to this the next time he goes off on a tangent and decides to take a swipe at ABU.
I’m going to do just that.
ctteo
February 20, 2012
TQ, Haris!!
What a beautiful response to RPK’s post!!
Sam Chye
February 20, 2012
Thanks Haris. Wise advice. I`m an ABU supporter, have always been. I travel a lot for work, but when i`m in town, I`m there for any ABU event. Thanks too, for your advice re:RPK. He screwed up MCLM (my perception) and now he is screwing up ABU (my perception). He can dish it (the whacks) but cannot take it. He blocks comments, when he gets whacked for accusing ABU folks of just screaming without strategy. And then he says he blocks comments because of non-valid email. And then he says he has been an ABU person for decades. The man in Manchester seems to have lost it (my perception). He is writing more and more like Rocky’s Bru. Very defensive, cannot say sorry when he has made a mistake, and blames everyone but himself for things not happening the way he wants it to.
On the ground, here in Malaysia, many men and women on the street are supporting ABU and telling their family and friends about ABU – the folks, for some reason or other, have no access to the ABU campaign information. The number of ABU supporters are growing, and it will have an impact come the 13th GE because you and other ABU activists are putting in the effort and have a strategy.
I guess you (we) have to just work harder and put in more time when cyber troopers like RPK are sabotaging the ABU efforts here in Malaysia.
I salute you, and other ABU activists at the helm, here in Malaysia, for being steadfast and consistent in the ABU campaign.
malchindian
February 20, 2012
I did notice that he kept busy karate-ing the cybertroopers who plagued MT that night.
But he comes up with some beaut exposes`.
You make plenty of sense targeting key seats.
Onwards!
Jong
February 21, 2012
Haris, I was waiting for this, wondering when you will tell him(rpk) off and finally, yes finally you did it. Good for you, long overdue infact!
AngryGuy
February 21, 2012
Reblogged this on Angry Malaysian….
Lau Chin Jien
February 21, 2012
I am humbled by your patience and gentleman manners. This is something not many people can do, including me, when facing such situation.
Leithaisor
February 21, 2012
Haris,
I have said this before as my own decison with respect to dealings with RPK, but this time, I’d urge you to consider adopting some aspects of it.
Personally I don’t trust RPK, and will not touch him with a 10 foot pole.
Yes, at times he did, and may still, reveal wrongdoings which have advanced the cause of fighting for a better and fairer Malaysia.
Yes, ABU and other allied efforts do need all the help and participation it can get.
But against that, RPK is at best an ego-maniac loose cannon whose craving for the spotlight and the adoration of his “Yang Mulia” groupies reminds me of Ibrahim Ali in many ways.
At worst, there may well be truth in allegations that he is nothing more than a mercenary gunman, and lately his paymasters have changed.
Whatever the reality may be, someone like RPK can be very much of a dangerous ally who can prove to be a boat-sinking liability at the worst possible time.
Just look at post-2008, and all the assorted turncoat kataks ranging from Hee to Zul to Zahrian to Tan Tee beng to Ibrahim Ali. What havoc! It is imperative that the painful lesson be learnt from that.
I will still not touch RPK with a 10 foot pole.
Sam Chye
February 24, 2012
look at anus zubedy’s latest comments on ABU – same position as RPk and Rocky Bru – 3 arseholes