Taniah kepada Yang Amat Berhormat Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim sempena pertama kali menyambut Hari Merdeka sebagai Perdana Menteri Malaysia selepas perjuangan selama 25 tahun. Selamat menyambut 66 tahun Merdeka – 31hb Ogos 2023.
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The Koboi Returns 2023
In December 2019, I did a Koboi Performance for Percha Art Space in Lumut, in which I raised a new SUPERSTAR banner depicting a giant hoarding of Anwar Ibrahim. I performed a cleansing ritual on the Lumut waterfront and left for Vancouver soon after. I will return to Malaysia in August this year (2023).
Since my performance, and after a long struggle, Anwar Ibrahim has become the 10th Prime Minister of the nation and holds on to this seat by the skin of his teeth. Anwar incredible return to power, after a quarter-century perjuangan, is an exemplary Hero’s journey – a striking display determination, endurance and a sense of destiny. To mark my own much less momentous return, I am working towards another Koboi Performance the details of which will be announced shortly.
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18. Autocracy: A form of government wherein a single person has unlimited power, usually but not necessarily a form of despotism. Malaysians might associate the term with the long reign of Mahathir Mohamad as Prime Minister, although his rule was effected under the auspices of Democracy..
Update 17. 12.2022: Some quarters are now suggesting that Anwar Ibrahim’s Memorandum of Agreement (MOA)signed with his Unity Government supporters on the eve of the vote of confidence on his new government, is a prelude to a new Malaysian Autocracy! The MOA allegedly contains a condition that misconstrues Article 49A of the Federal constitution as it refers to it as the basis for a clause that requires government MPs to vacate their seat if they vote against the prime minister. On the other hand one cannot but sympathize with the new PM in his desperate need to restrain Malaysian parliaments inherently amphibious condition – its tendency towards Katakcracy!
https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/409069
https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2022/12/17/unity-govts-mou-prelude-to-dictatorship-says-ex-deputy-law-minister/
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11. Xerocracy: A form of government in which power is achieved and maintained by rule by leaflet … surat layang lah…. apa lagi – Misalnya ’50 Dalil Kenapa Anwar Ibrahim Tidak Boleh Jadi PM .oleh Khalid Jafri Bakar Shah.
https://radziamin.blogspot.com/2011/08/50-dalil-mengapa-anwar-tidak-boleh-jadi.html
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8. Theocracy: An archaic form of government, soon to make a comeback near you! In Malaysia, theocracy used to vie for power with ethnocracy but in GE15 these the forces pushing for these two systems of goverments have coalaced to an unprecedented degree.
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7. Plutocracy: A form of government exercised by the few (the 1%). It is a global phenomena but in Malaysia we can see clearly how its the same small bunch of friends, or rather frenemies, that has ruled us for decades.
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2. Ethnocracy: A form of government based on communalism. It is more widespread than you might think. Sometimes it is an explicit premise, at other times, it is just an unstated reality. Wherever the communal organization is stated explicitly in law, we find the formal ethnocracy that we call apartheid.
Here are three instances of legislated ethnocracy –
1) Canada, the quintessential settler-colonial ethnocracy, based on the Indian Act, status identity cards, and native reservations, upon which South African apartheid was based.
2) Malaysia, where there is a constitutionally enshrined ‘special position’ for the indigenous Malays by which they assert their supremacy over immigrant Indians and Chinese who settled under the auspices of colonial rule.
3) Israel, where there is an ongoing occupation of Palestinian lands effected through an apartheid system that involves limiting the Palestinian’s right to movement, denying them the right to vote, and subjecting them to a separate legal system. The seal was set on this ethnocracy, when Israel passed a law in 2018, symbolically affirming that it was the nation-state of the Jewish people.
Teka Teki: Malaysia, Canada, Israel; Apa Persamaannya?
Jawapan: Semuanya mengamalkan Ethnocracy!
UPDATED 13.11.2023
https://en.everybodywiki.com/Apartheid_in_Malaysia
https://troymedia.com/politicslaw/indigenous-apartheid-system-canada/
https://www.vox.com/23924319/israel-palestine-apartheid-meaning-history-debate
https://www.vox.com/world/2018/7/31/17623978/israel-jewish-nation-state-law-bill-explained-apartheid-netanyahu-democracy
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NOW SHOWING at a Parliament Near You! … Anwar Ibrahim’s Unity Government Cabinet! PKR, DAP, AMANAH, UPKO, MUDA, MAP, UMNO, MCA, MIC, PBRS, PBB, PRS, PDP, BERSATU Sabah, PBS, STAR, SAPP, USNO, WARISAN, MUDA, PBM, KDM, ….
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Zahid visiting Anwar in Hospital in 2017. Pecah belah kuncu yang rapat, Lama lama berkuncu lagi!
A friend, in need, is a friend indeed. Whenever Anwar Ibrahim has been in need Zahid has been there in deed –
- Brothers in activism at Universiti Malaya in the 1970’s
- Zahid was chief during Anwar’s risi in UMNO in the 1990’s
- Spearheaded Anwar’s challenge to Mahathir during Umno general assembly in June 1998
- Stood by Anwar at the cost of being detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA) when Anwar was sacked in Sept 1998.
- Joined Najib to write a letter to the Agong, backing Anwar’s bid to become prime minister in October 16, 2020.
- A press statements matching with Anwar’s in a bid to topple Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin in March 2021.
- His surprisingly intimate and sympathetic conversation with Anwar against respective party sentiments, leaked in April 2021.
- And now, leading UMNO in backing Anwar’s long awaited asscent to Malaysia’s Prime Ministership
Image: https://www.malaysianow.com/news/2021/03/17/full-circle-why-the-coming-together-of-anwar-and-zahid-is-no-surprise
https://www.malaysianow.com/news/2020/10/16/revealed-najib-zahid-jointly-wrote-to-palace-in-support-of-anwar
https://www.malaysianow.com/news/2021/03/05/bn-ph-come-together-with-identical-statements-signed-by-zahid-and-anwar
https://soundcloud.com/malaysianow/anwar-zahid-phone-conversation
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