So that we are not at cross-purposes, let me first explain what we in the ABU secretariat mean by winning the ABU war.
The focus of ABU is not the state governments.
Our focus is Putrajaya.
Winning the ABU war therefore means winning the battle to establish a new regime at Putrajaya post the 13th GE.
There are three parts to this ABU war.
Winning the ABU war means, firstly, ensuring that Pakatan Rakyat, PSM, PRM, STAR Sabah and SAPP, who must, by the time parliament is dissolved, have forged a firm and unshakeable election pact with a view to forming the next federal government, collectively garner at least 112 out of the 222 parliamentary seats post the 13th GE.
Secondly, having denied UMNO /BN the requisite number of seats to enable them to seek an audience with the king with a view to having one of their own appointed prime minister and to form the federal government, the ABU war, at that stage, entails ensuring that the none of the newly elected MPs on the non-BN side get seduced and enticed to hop, skip and leap frog to the enemy camp.
Finally, the ABU war requires us to address the possibility of violence or unrest that UMNO /BN may try to perpetrate with a view to derailing our aspirations of establishing a new regime at Putrajaya.
I’ll call these three parts Phase 1, Phase 2 and Phase 3 for ease of reference.
Phase 1 entails work from this very moment running up to and including on polling day.
Phases 2 and 3 entails work post polling day, but the preparation of which, too, has already commenced and will continue up and until polling day.
Phase 1 in itself entails 3 parts, which we will share with you in my next 3 postings. Please do not expect too much detail, though, for obvious reasons.
For now, we will share nothing of Phase 2.
As for Phase 3, again, and for the moment, we will only share with you what you all can do, starting now, and no other details.
sunwayopal
December 7, 2012
Actually there is a 4th part to the ABU war that I think u have explicitly chosen not to address for the time being.
which is post PRU 13, Barisan Najis gets returned with a majority of MPs but very clearly where wholesale cheating has gone on.
Ie say overseas postal voting is allowed but voila, amazingly when they r counted and sent back, 80% of the overseas postal votes has been for Barisan Najis.
what then ?
Bro,
The scenario you have depicted in your comment will not happen if we get parts 1,2 and 3 of Phase 1 spot on.
More of this in my next 3 posts.
muhammad Azman
December 7, 2012
Dear Haris,
The voicing of my opinion through ABU blog was mainly motivated by personal reasons in wanting to stop our country going into ruins lead by BN’s fine tuned racist policies and cabinet level corruption which has become unbearable.
To me, ABU is seen as a channel for opinions to be shared among like minded friends, and along the way, to convince fence sitters why ABU.
Now I get the larger picture, holistic views minus the details. Hopefully, it would be coming along soon.
You have entailed, briefly, ABU’s three part motivation in leading peoples march to Putrajaya through pro opposition political parties. This means ABU is an NGO with no political ambition of its own, but being there for them, in every inch of the struggle. Refreshing indeed.
In part one of ABU’s journey, it is to ensure pro-opposition parties “have forged a firm and unshakeable election pact”. This statements leads me to understand such pact is either non existence today or too loosely coordinated. And if this is true, it is indeed disturbing.
The pro-opposition parties were seen to have form such a pact way back in 1999. After 12 years nothing has been cemented. Why?
We are talking about running a country, not village level administration. Concrete blue prints are vital. None so far has been forth coming from them. Why, again I ask?
Rhetorics can only take you a short distance. Like a road side medicine peddlar, no point in having grand ambitions when fundamentals are not in place.
So Haris, I think there is a need for ABU’s senior members like youself to drum into opposition political party leaders on the meaning of assimilition, cohesiveness, and ideological unity the soonest, for time is not on our side.
to be cont.
Malaysianatheart
December 7, 2012
I agree with Azman. A united and common ideology is essential. Endorsed by all opposition parties. And, ideology alone is not enough. It must be supplemented with an acceptable blue-print for implementation. In the simplest terms; replete with timelines, processes etc. A hodgepodge wish list is not enough. Whatever the chieftains in Pakatan may think about the electorate, nothing can beat a well articulated, logical thought process. It sells itself to the masses. The lack of such a document makes It obvious that the coalition is struggling to find common ground on several issues. This is definitely something that BN can and will use to their advantage. If only the hard heads in Pakatan and other parties were able to think beyond their noses, they would put the general welfare of the nation as a whole before narrow political interests. The fact that they have been unable to do so since March 2008, is very worrying indeed. Somehow, we have got to get them to postpone their selfish battles for another day, another time. We have to make them see that the immediate priority is to win the WAR and seize Putrajaya. How the hell are we going to do that?!
Just Gan
December 7, 2012
4 scenarios are likely after GE13:
1. UMNO/BN will win GE13 marginally even though Pakatan would have the majority votes. In spite of all the cheating, bribery, threats, intimidation and coercion by UMNO/BN, Pakatan is likely to get the majority of votes but will loose the election. This illogical and undemocratic result can happen because of the “super efficient” work of the EC in redrawing electoral boundaries, rigging voter registers and redefining election administration and voting rules totally in favor of their master, UMNO. Even a protest by Pakatan and the Rakyat at this undemocratic result will be turned into utter chaos by the Police, like what happened in Bersih 3.0, to destroy Pakatan. Remember Mahathir’s fore-warning about what will happen if Pakatan looses GE13. The greatest liar but master strategist has never been proven wrong when it comes to predicting the nasty things that will happen in Malaysia. Because UMNO will ensure that the peaceful rally will be turned into a riot.
2. Pakatan wins GE13 by a comfortable margin but will be prevented from forming the government. How? UMNO/BN will create racial riots (Mahathir, Sharizat and others have already issued warnings) like May 13. The legitimately-elected Pakatan government will be dismissed with the approval of the “impartial” Agong and Najib, like his father, will declare a state of emergency and rule again,but only as a puppet of the great dictator Mahathir. The police and military are all at UMNO’s disposal.
3. Pakatan wins marginally and some of the Pakatan MPs are bought over by UMNO/BN so that they can form the federal govt – a repeat of the Perak takeover.
4. Pakatan wins and forms the government but the overwhelmingly UMNO civil servants and police do not cooperate and undermine the Pakatan government. As a result not only law and order becomes worse, the civil service deteriorates further. Chaos results and fresh elections may have to be called.
Pakatan Rakyat and ABU supporters must be aware of these scenarios and plan carefully. Otherwise, disappointment and misery awaits them and the Rakay. It is rare for a totally corrupt government led by an evil dictator to be voted out and replaced through democratic processes. Beware of this fact and prepare and act.
Just wondering
December 7, 2012
PR is not a registered coalition unlike BN. So even if PR wins, the king can still refuse to recognise it as individually, the number of seats won by DAP,PAS or PKR cannot be more than BN coalition. Thus, BN can still say they have the majority votes and can be the ruling govt,! If this happens, then what?
In the scenario you just described, BN would still not be able to form a government that commands the confidence of the majority of the members in the dewan rakyat.
I would be surprised if in the situation you described, the king invited BN to try and form the government.
Of course, if such a situation arose, BN would then be determined to ‘buy’ out a few MPs from the other side.
The situation in Perak immediately post the 12th GE might answer your inquiry.
shakuntala
December 7, 2012
Correct …..let’s follow systematic thinking, planning, doing/acting.. Haris, Just Gan ,Azman Malaysian at Heart…leading us with a lot of good sense….we, the Rakyat have to be first of all united in our common objective. We need to boost the morale of the opposition parties in our own urgings for change.,at Putrajaya. Only then can a united strong opposition emerge, after the example WE set.
And we can give the opposition a strong message by following, right thinking intelligent opinion makers, so many of them are lending inspiration now…we need to read them and follow their thinking.
We need to follow strong NGOs who are focused on change for the Rakyat. At the moment, the NGO with the clout and a systematic direction is without doubt ABU…the Rakyat’s friend, amovement for the Rakyat , totally dedicated, , uncorrupt, far-seeing, all-embracing and loyal beyond measure.
Think ABU…..follow and support ABU’s direction and decide to be in the right lane!.
muhammad Azman
December 7, 2012
Dear Friends,
The real war has began. Harrasment has started paying visits. But why on earth did this people go to grand mothers’s house? This people know where I leave. I have never used my grand mother’s house address in any correspondence with any banks or authorities.
In fact during traffic operation, when I produced my driving licence to be summoned (I do not offer bribes) despite driving licence having Sunway address, the print out came with my current house address.
So, my conclusion, begin with relatives first. Kasi dia takut dulu, must be your current strategy.
You people have not frightened me. In fact you have provoked me further into seing your early demise.
Bring it on, if you are man enough, face me.
Another Anak Bangsa Malaysia
December 7, 2012
Muhammad Azman,
I am truly sorry to hear that you are now receiving unwelcomed notice from undesirable people
Be careful with your routine. You are already being followed.
I hope all will turn out well for you eventually.
Another Anak Bangsa Malaysia
December 7, 2012
Haris,
Take your time with the 3 phases ABU has planned.
I am sure you will be judicious with what information you wish to disclose. We are now coming to the pointy end of the business now so it is understandable that you wish to tread carefully.
As you may have alluded to, the main thing is not only to take Putrajaya, but also to hold it.
As always, more power to you, Haris Ibrahim.
mike
December 8, 2012
What about on the night when PR is declared the winner to take Putrajaya, and then BN locks in Putrajaya to shred away all incriminatory documents, like what happened in Perak post GE12.. How can we stop this from happening.
Another Anak Bangsa Malaysia
December 8, 2012
Mike,
I think the reality is that there will be SOME wholesale destruction of documents which cannot be stopped.
In fact, it is very likely that some “archiving” has already started.
Without disclosing too much methodology, there are many other ways to reconstruct what has happened. We have some very smart forensics people who are on the side of the rakyat
andre das
December 8, 2012
It is not expected for coalition parties to be agreeable as that is the very foundation of democracy and its healthy to know that people will stand up for whatever they feel is wrong even though they are in a coalition. More importantly is that they can work together with a single common objective which is to provide the rakyat an honest, fair and decent governance and I would venture to use the french model of fraternity, equality and liberty as the unifying principles and the constitution as the governance. Malaysians who have not travelled or are widely read may not know what is a better model of government and are content with an illusion but fortunately the 5 Pakatan States have proven themselves so the question of trusting the unknown is no more an issue. If whatever you are doing is for the greater good, you will always have my support and blessings!
S. Menon
December 8, 2012
I am sorry to sound so pessimistic but I have a major concern. I was serving in the armed forces during time of the May 13th incident and saw some pretty nasty things happen! I suspect that, once the election results are declared, we will a “like-father-like-son” situation arising. All I can say is, be prepared for the worst. At the very least, just before election day, make sure you stock up some essential items, like food and water, to tide you over the troubles. I really do hope that I am wrong in this assessment!
Another Anak Bangsa Malaysia
December 8, 2012
S Menon,
Yupe, one of those times when one wishes one could be wrong.
The UMNO goons have already shown that they are prepared to draw blood at Gombak.
PraiseTheLord
December 8, 2012
Feeling harassed? Being followed? Arrest warrants on traffic summonses? Welcome to the art of intimidation? Malaysia style. My sympathy Azman. But this is life.
See the larger picture. You are sacrificing for good of country. Carry on. We cannot be with you but praise the lord, he remains inside you.
I many times visited this blog to update myself. You article are appearing only recently. Now i look for ward to it every day.
Keep up the good work. You keep this blog alife.
shakuntala
December 8, 2012
Time to be aware.
Awareness makes for right action.
Good to know that some minds here do think alike.and are concerned for the safety of their fellow Malaysian…that makes for a strong band of brothers, supporting ABU’s initiatives.for a better Malaysia.
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Another Anak Bangsa Malaysia
December 9, 2012
shakuntala,
“… that makes for a strong band of brothers …. ” AND sisters
heheheheheh!!!
It’s not just the boys having all the fun, you know. We mustn’t forget the girls as well
Simon Chan
December 8, 2012
To the Management of ABU,
Please do not defaced the city and public facilities with primitive ways of getting message across.
1. Do not paste stickers
2. Do not use spray paint
Please use other conventional methods other than those stated above, I’ll take my hat off if ABU could change its primitive communication tactics.
Regards,
ABU Supporter but hate VANDALISM
Another Anak Bangsa Malaysia
December 9, 2012
Simon Chan,
You’ll be surprised how effective “primitive” ways of communicating can be.
I do wonder what “conventional” methods you are referring to – you might wish to be a bit more detailed.
Vandalism? I don’t see any vandalism – I see social expression, I see political awareness.
We Stand Together
December 9, 2012
How do you support ABU, Simon?
Just wondering
December 9, 2012
Simon,
it’s always easy to criticize others and not give suggestions. If this is the case, isn’t it better to keep one’s mouth shut?
Another Anak Bangsa Malaysia
December 9, 2012
Simon Chan,
Please have a careful read of the following. It explains things a lot better than I have done so in my previous response.
As posted by annabrella, November 21, 2012 in Haris’s article “Why ABU graffiti?”.
“A hard point made about ABU and vandalism and one which cannot be brushed-off easily or too glibly. Hence, please beware of my long comment on the nitty gritties of ABU!
That I suppose is because some actions can look the same from the surface but can be very different in content/substance once seen from the perspective of their underlying structure of rationales, intentions, motivations, effects, consequences and justifications.
Like when you kill someone for instance. What others generally see is that a person is dead because of your actions. Civilised society, as a general rule, considers killing people as a very bad act indeed and so classifies it accordingly under its criminal code of offences and also ranks the act of killing in degrees of severity of commission. So if you kill someone then it is murder if you kill that person with premeditation i.e. malice aforethought. Or it can be voluntary manslaughter if you killed that person without premeditation but did it say, while you were not in full control of your mental faculties, like when you are drunk or high on drugs or when you lose your self-control due to some extreme provocation. Or it could be involuntary manslaughter if you killed that person in self-defence or in the defence of someone else. Whether you are convicted or acquitted or the type of sentence you get would depend on the actual circumstances of the case, the reasonableness or unreasonableness of your actions, the consequences and your underlying intentions and motivations. So to hold you to account for the really bad act of taking the life of another, the people judging you would want to look at the situation in detail using a set of consistent general principles for guidance so that they could come to a fair and just decision on your act of killing to ensure that justice is served appropriately to both the victim and accused.
That’s how one should look at any act that is being classified by others as being a bad act. You can use those same generalised considerations as used in the example of the killing act to come to a conclusion about other acts classified as being bad, like acts of vandalism which deface/destroy property.
The ABU initiative acts might look the same as acts of bad vandalism from the surface but they are not that in their underlying structure. They are not pointless destructive acts done by immature delinquents, retards and other such degenerates who have nothing valid to say or better to do with their time other than to go around wasting their and other people’s time, energy and money destroying things simply for the sake of some pointless “rebellious” audacity or sick chauvinism or worse, exhibiting the mindless abhorrence of gang-culture.
ABU’s acts go much deeper than the annoying and pointless shallowness of vandalism. ABU’s acts are considered and justified acts arising from the dynamics of inalienable human intellectual freedoms which refuse to be subservient or be shackled by the more static society-based general rules and laws which themselves once originated, ironically, from the same dynamic intellectual freedom process before these became normalised into the more static societal or self-imposed straightjackets of general rules/laws to follow or obey.
ABU has arisen from the Malaysian ashes as it were because good people now want to do something effective to help remove and get rid of a real evil that has manifested and taken hold of their country in the awesomely destructive shape and cunning parasitic form of a deadly self-serving, non-democratic, authoritarian fascist-supremacist government that is headed by an awesomely greedy and corrupt pariah elite running amok without any democratic accountability whatsoever within the echelons of political power controlled by a Medusa-like UMNO-head with its racist segregationist policies being rubber-stamped without question by a spineless lapdog body of self-serving BN-crony politicians.
Rather than focussing on good stewardship and principled governance of the nation for the good of all, this dreadful UMNO-led BN-coalition government has been far more interested in carrying out its self-serving greedy and corrupt activities to enrich itself and its cronies for the entire length of the 55-years that it has been in power. Throughout that time, it has relentlessly engaged in abuse of power and corrupt activities, using propaganda wholesale to denigrate, degrade and destroy everything of value in the country, vandalising and harming the lives, potential and quality of lives of countless numbers of Malaysians who trusted the BN-government to take care of their country and keep it safe in stewardship for them and for future generations.
The heavy costs paid (and still accruing) and the incalculable consequential harm that has been wreaked upon so many Malaysian lives through UMNO/BN’s wholesale evil vandalism over its 55- year lifespan to date cannot now be undone and redressed adequately or put right easily.
The effects of UMNO/BN’s evil vandalism are also nothing like the easily quantifiable and repairable effects of ABU’s actions (like cleaning up the ABU graffiti through more civil community service actions if Malaysians decide in future not to leave it as a Malaysian art-form to remember the bad ole’ days by). It is also nothing like ABU’s no-real-harm based consequences arising from ABU’s justifiable disobedience and clean/clear conscience acts of non-vandalism. ABU’s acts of civil disobedience will also only be done until the real evil now resident within Malaysian politics is removed for good by good people.
That is why I can support ABU because I see ABU’s acts as being necessary and poles apart from UMNO/BN’s totally unnecessary evil acts of real vandalism.
“Imagine Power To The People” John Lennon.”
shakuntala
December 9, 2012
Be aware Simon Chan, how you say it!
Who are the primitives….pardon me?
ABU or the fellas across the road using primitive methods at suppression of free speech, using mat rempit style harrassment on motor-bikes. You don’t think these scenes of organized repression and cruelty, reported world-wide will not deface the good name of Malaysia, a country, a nation having as its inhabitants a huge number of loyal and proud citizens called Malaysians.
When all is said, I do think you have your point of view and would like to take off my hat to you, for your guts in claiming to be an ABU supporter….cheers
shakuntala
December 9, 2012
Another Anak Bangsa Malaysia…..hihi
I meant to say that band of brothers, includes us gals also lah! You know, words like people, man, mankind….the male gender dominating but also paying due respect to the females in the gang! No problem.
Band of brothers, sounds rather more poetic?…..hehehe
Another Anak Bangsa Malaysia
December 9, 2012
Heheheheheh!! I knew what you meant all along.
Us guys always like having the gals alongside
I suppose a “band of brothers” does kinda sound poetic but I am pretty hopeless with poetry – a result of a misspent childhood lost in scientific fantasies
Muhammad Azman
December 9, 2012
So be it even if it is primitive. Minor vandalism like what ABU is doing is ok compared a group who has been vandalising and raping and robbing and dismantling the nation for the past 55 years.