Zahid's DNAA - A Bridge Too Far Even For DSAI?

DSAI has so far led a charmed life. Those ten years in prison came in handy when he needed a sob story to tell. The sacking, the beating, the black eye, the sodomy charges, the promise not kept by Mahathir....all served their purpose in earning him sympathy from a rakyat desperate for heroes to rescue them from successive corrupt leaders and government.

We were prepared to overlook his early misdeeds as Minister of Education, and his crude attempt to use race and religion to shore up his political credentials in UMNO. We were willingly seduced by Reformasi. For some, the promises of the Madani government were too tantalizingly seductive to ignore: Sustainability, care and compassion, respect, innovation, prosperity, and trust. Huh! Cakap tak serupa bikin!

The promises he had not kept - and there have been many - the deals he had to make to be PM and to stay as PM, all this we tried to understand in the hope that in time, our belief and our trust in him will not be used or abused to serve other dark and troubling agendas.

But the release of Zahid Hamidi, from all the 47 charges that he faced, whether politically motivated or not, is, even for DSAI, a bridge too far, when the Green barbarians are already at the gate.

But there will still be believers. There will still be people who will give DSAI the benefit of the doubt. And to these people, I simply ask this: What more do you need to see DSAI do before you hold him responsible for what he has done in the past, and for what he continues to do today?

DSAI has done his sums. He thinks he can survive Zahid's DNAA and he is prepared to pay the price. Will the price he now has to pay for this folly be too much even for DSAI, Malaysia, and Malaysians, to pay? Will this be the tipping point that pushes our nation under the surging Green Barbarians already at the gates? We wait.