From The Malaysian Insider
By Muaz Omar
FEB 15 — Opposition Leader Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim is facing one of the most daunting period of his political career.
If the court finds that the AG Chambers is able to prove beyond reasonable doubt and convict Anwar, it will most probably spell the end of a tumultuos career of an enigmatic leader.
For the uninitiated, this “Sodomy Redux” of Anwar’s alleged indescretion bears a similar plot, from the main players right up to the actual charge itself.
The story goes of how Anwar, a 62 year old father of six with a history of back problems who forced himself on his former aide Saiful Bukhari Azlan, a young and fit mid 20’s university dropout.
The storyline is bizzare to say the least that would even make Hugh Hefner, founder of the biggest pornographic empire Playboy smirk in disgust.
While we are being fed with juicy details of the supposedly homosexual tendencies of Anwar, it is nauseating to see how the media is bent on tarnishing and assasinate the character of the person representing the biggest threat to Umno and almost single handedly dented Umno’s 50-odd years of hegemony.
Umno pulled out from the book every single dirty trick that it knows to add to the sodomy charge in their desperate attempt to hold on to power by abusing the media, institutions and enforcement agencies in their attempt to hoodwink the people.
With both Anwar and the government jostling to win over the public — one claiming political motives on the charges and the other trying to display Anwar as a sodomist — the mainstream media is siding with the government and the new media tilting towards Anwar. Continue reading ‘Nation Dragged Into Immoral Politics’
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