Dejavu? Was it a glitch in the Matrix?
I woke up this morning and can't help but felt a sense of dejavu. Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim is again facing sodomy charges. This time a former aid (AIDS? lol) accuse DSAI of having buttsech with him.It is as if I woke up and it's 1998 all over again. Same allegation of sodomy was hurled on Anwar only this time he is older and my tummy is a wee bit bigger too. The old aging despot from Kedah is now replaced by an old clueless tin head from Penang. The economy is in a shit hole then and funnily enough it’s exactly the same today!
So I guess they are rehashing this accusation since it worked the last time. As the old saying goes "if it works why fix it?". It worked before so why not give it a try again eh. We all know what a bunch of homophobes we Malaysians are! Haha
Let’s take a look back to 1998. I was in England and having a jolly old time wasting Petronas money when I first saw THAT iconic picture of him. If Anwar dies today I bet THAT picture of him, fist in the air, neck brace clasping his neck and a solitary black eye will be his Che Guevara Kodak moment. Something in me snapped that day. Seeing a man I admired due to his awesome rhetoric skill, shackled and hauled into that court for his sham trial. That was the day the inner political rebel in me woke up. I’m quite sure I am not the only Malaysian who got his inner activist activated with a jolt that day. I guess I was lucky to be overseas at that time. The Times and Guardian were giving the Anwar trial acres of editorial space and Malaysian lapped it up. Interesting enough we could openly talk about the case in Malaysia Hall without fear of being prosecuted (The MH is right next door to Malaysian Student Department (MSD) office. There we rumours that the MSD would revoke your scholarship if you dare speak against Encik Mahathir back then.
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