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An interesting twist to the RAHMAN Prophecy. In case you didn’t know, quite some time ago, it was widely speculated that the name of Malaysia’s first PM spells out the initial of the first six PMs.

So yesterday, Umno president Abdullah Badawi said that BN’s unprecedented defeat in the last general election was due to the acts of saboteurs within the party. All news reports that I read/watched said that he did not comment on why did these Umno members sabotage in the first place?

Today, the deputy president Najib Razak went on saying that “the party had an idea on the individuals who were allegedly involved in sabotaging activity”. Again, what, in the party’s “idea”, did actually these saboteurs do?

The simplest form of “sabotage” that I could think of is Umno members voted for the opponent parties. In such case, are they punishable as Umno members for exercising their own rights to vote as Malaysians? Wouldn’t it be way unfair to even call what they did as a sabotage?

Let me give you an example of my idea of sabotage. See, Umno and I are talking ideas now. Let’s say A had been running a restaurant on a street for many years and it was the only restaurant on the street. One day, B came to the street and set up his own restaurant. These two restaurants became competitors to each other. A started to lose his regulars to B and his business growth became slower. To make sure people come and dine at his restaurant and win over customers who preferred B’s, A planted stink bombs in B’s. Whether or not A succeed, what A did was a sabotage. Although what B did was not in A’s favour, B did not sabotage A. Get it?

So now, the mind-boggling question is what exactly Badawi meant by sabotage?

I am wondering what happened to Badawi’s so-called elegant silence? I mean seriously, in times like this the best way to move forward is shut up and just do your work. I prefer the silent Badawi right now, elegant or otherwise. People will pick up on silly things you say. The other old man need to learn to shut up, too, although I truly admire his wit (just go look for videos of his speech at the recent mykmu.net forum). Just shut up and move on for the sake of moving on. Spare the people your party infighting.

We’ve got far greater issues to deal with right now. Let me suggest a few: global warming, immigration, crime, socio-economic gap, etc. We don’t need Umno news in the front page every day especially on Sunday paper. I think it really made me grumpy today.