Fight your own battle Abdul Rahman, why you have to run SOS to “MO1” to direct other UMNO Ministers and Deputy Ministers to come to your rescue?

Let me tell the Barisan Nasional Director of Strategic Communications, Datuk Abdul Rahman Dahlan: Fight your own battle, why have you to run SOS to “MO1” to direct other UMNO Ministers and Deputy Ministers to come to your rescue?

Suddenly, in the last 24 hours, four UMNO Ministers and one UMNO Deputy Ministers have come to the rescue of Abdul Rahman, shoring support for the BN Director of Strategic Communications and opening fire on me as part of the latest UMNO/BN demonization campaign.

But it is note-worthy that these four UMNO Ministers and one UMNO Deputy Ministers have abandoned the “anti-Malay”, “anti-Islam” allegations of the recent demonization campaign, which had been discredited by the RM10,000 offer (upped to RM50,000 within 24 hours) by the UMNO Youth leader Tan Sri Annuar Musa for the “best essay or social media posting” that I am anti-Malay and anti-Islam, which is tantamount to an open confession that these mischievous UMNO/BN propagandists do not have a single proof that I had been anti-Malay and anti-Islam throughout my 51 years of active politics.

They have instead focused on one aspect - accusing me of being “dictator”, virtually alleging that I am “dictator” in Pakatan Harapan and implying in the process that Tun Dr. Mahathir (who was Prime Minister for Malaysia and UMNO President for 22 years), Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin (former Deputy Prime Minister and UMNO Deputy President), Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim (former Deputy Prime Minister and UMNO Deputy President, and Ketua Umum for PKR), Datuk Seri Dr. Wan Azizah Wan Ismail (PKR President and Ketua Pembangkang) and Mohamed Sabu (AMANAH President who had gone in and out of jail) were all my stooges.

I had previously worked with former Prime Ministers Tunku Abdul Rahman and Tun Hussein Onn when they were no more Prime Minister and UMNO President. Did I also make Tunku and Hussein my stooges?

I never knew that I had some fantastic powers that I could make former Prime Ministers and former top UMNO leaders (both former UMNO Presidents and former UMNO Deputy Presidents) as my puppets and stooges.

I will urge the UMNO Ministers and leaders to act with decorum as they can disagree with former Prime Ministers and their former UMNO Presidents and Deputy Presidents, but they should not malign their character as if UMNO leaders, once they relinquish their positions, become morally worthless.

If so, what does it speak about the character of UMNO leaders, including themselves, when they are no more in their top UMNO positions?

In making such insinuations, Rahman and the other UMNO Ministers and leaders are in fact maligning the Malay race, which I do not think is right and proper.

Most shocking of all, even Mahathir had been accused of being my stooge and puppet, although to the Chinese ground, MCA propagandists are spreading the lies, fake news and false information that I have become Mahathir’s puppet and stooge.

Mahathir and I are not stooge or puppet of the other, as we are honourable and self-respecting leaders who are co-operating in a common cause to save Malaysia from the curse, ignominy and infamy of being regarded world-wide as a global kleptocracy – which if not addressed, will result in Malaysia becoming a failed and rogue state.

Mahathir and I are acting as Malaysian patriots to join forces to save Malaysia from degenerating into a political and economic basket-case, and although Mahathir is much older than me coming to 92 years old, I am not young at 76, and we both have no agendas for personal advancement in our common patriotic cause to Save Malaysia from global kleptocracy.

UMNO/BN propagandists have spread the lies, fake news and false information that I am seeking Mahathir’s help to save Penang Chief Minister, Lim Guan Eng, from his corruption case.

If I had done that, I would not be able to look Mahathir in the eye, for I would have acted no different from an opportunist or hustler, who deserves no respect from anyone (with no condition to become anybody’s “dictator”)!

If Abdul Rahman really regards himself as BN Director of Strategic Communications, then stop acting as a BN Director of Strategic Lies.

In any event, can Abdul Rahman state when he was appointed by the BN Supreme Council as the BN Director of Strategic Communications and when such a BN Supreme Council was held, or did he just appoint himself to this position?

Lim Kit Siang DAP Parliamentary Leader & MP for Gelang Patah