The Star Has Taken A Stand

Today's Star Editorial (26/6/2011) has taken a stand in the Anwar Ibrahim' sex video :

Anwar should do the honourable thing and resign from office

THE STAR SAYS

http://thestar.com.my/columnists/story.asp?col=thestarsays&file=/2011/6/26/columnists/thestarsays/8978025&sec=The Star Says

MULTIPLE expert analyses have now identified Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim as the man in the sex video.

But his unlikely resignation from public office will remain unlikely, since public interest here is easily shunted aside.

Earlier, a local video professional and a Korean expert had also pronounced the video as genuine and undoctored.

Now Prof Hany Farid and Asst Prof Lorenzo Torresani of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire concur with those findings. Dartmouth is a top-notch Ivy League institution and among the most distinguished educational establishments in the world.

Prof Farid himself, a leading researcher and chair of Dartmouth’s Neukom Institute for Computational Science, had even developed some of the latest techniques of video analysis.

All the available evidence and all the best forensic science now point overwhelmingly to Anwar.

Farid and Torresani’s findings are said to be of “99.99%” certainty because to be 100% certain, a witness would have to be in the room at the time. That person is Datuk Shazryl Eskay Abdullah, who never had any doubts who was with him in the room.

But none of this will suffice for those who would insist on argument by denial.

A familiar combination of denial, spin and protestation would junk key witness testimony and top forensic analyses.

Reasonable people now know the truth, however much those with desperate political ambitions may deny and distort it.

PKR’s partners in DAP and PAS must also know what they are unable to bring themselves to acknowledge publicly.

Adultery or even patronising a prostitute may not seem such a great crime. However, the stakes multiply for a Muslim leader, particularly one with an Islamist background who is aiming for the highest public office in the land.

PAS had earlier said it might have to review its Pakatan partnership with PKR if Anwar is the man in the video. Since there is no longer any reasonable doubt that he is, PAS now has to do the honourable thing as a reputedly forthright party with vaunted moral values.

But if nothing changes within PKR or Pakatan, that should also be no surprise.

In politics, doing what is honourable can often be difficult, especially for those who like to accuse their opponents of all kinds of intrigue and plots.

THE QUESTION NOW IS : WILL THE SAME STAND/STANDARD BE APPLICABLE TO OTHER LEADERS? WHAT IS CSL'S STAND?

蔡细历，请不要擦边球

老蔡高调论政治，说什么如果来届大选，马华成绩比308差，马华就不入阁，从中央到村委全线退出。

一方面听起来很伟大，很神勇!

另外一方面又让人觉得是在要挟华人，要华人小心，没人在朝难办事。

其实，老蔡这种说话，对华人没用，华人对马华已经心死了!

你知道，大马华人，很多是处于中产阶级，也有不少是“吃饱卖包”。他们就是看不起口口声声说代表华人的政治领袖被巫统“KAM HENG”，欺凌！许子根在槟城的处境就是最好的例子了!槟城人还在骂子根, 不肯原谅他. 人联党在SARAWAK也同样是这样。

总之，现在的华人，要声明，海外华人，看到中国崛起了，连美国都要怕中国三分，所以大家觉得很有脸了，不可以被KAM HENG。

这里的华人，看到自己的领袖，屈服于UMNO、白毛等，你说大家心里会爽吗？要记得，投票很多时候是要让人民爽，好感觉才会把票给你. 所以，请不要在威胁华人，越威胁，越不爽！

好了，老蔡你在星期五说了这翻自己爽的话，星期六NAJIB却在TRENGGANU公然PAS加入国阵。国阵成员党的感受是怎样的?

老蔡，现在你这么说呢？

说白了, 老蔡高调论政, 全线退出, 都是在玩擦边球 ! 但是 , 对于正在感染到中国崛起的气势的华人, 这些都没作用. 要不要做官, 是你阁下的事.


备注：如果不了解什么是擦边球，可以百度一下，就知道是什么了。