{"id":659,"date":"2005-11-14T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-14T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=659"},"modified":"2006-10-08T15:41:33","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T15:41:33","slug":"677-of-10-ways-for-pas-to-secure-pengkalan-pasir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=659","title":{"rendered":"[657] Of 10 ways for PAS to secure Pengkalan Pasir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned before, I&#8217;m placing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maddruid.com\/2005\/10\/666-of-devil-pas-or-devil-umno.html\">my money on UMNO to win the December 6 Pengkalan Pasir by-election<\/a>. However, here&#8217;s  a list of 10 ways to force odd to favor PAS. In the list:<\/p>\n<p>#10. Bribe UMNO candidate. Doubt it will work? Hey, Isa Samad hasn&#8217;t been dragged to court of law yet despite his proven corruption. Instead, he&#8217;s been merely admonished by UMNO disciplinary board and suspended for a few years. Proof that most people in UMNO, even those in the high up, doesn&#8217;t mind corruption. What about Badawi&#8217;s anti-corruption drive you say? Hell, we have &#8211; given the situation, had &#8211; a <em>tak nak rokok<\/em> campaign but the <em>Dewan Rakyat<\/em> mocks it by promising players in the cigarette industry greater reward. What? Bribery is sinful you PAS people say? I somehow remember a logging concession in Kelantan. Or was it Terengganu?<\/p>\n<p>#9. Send in thugs to convince voters to pick PAS. Tell all those people, tick the moon or we&#8217;ll break your bones. Of course, no bone will break and snap. It&#8217;s all merely intimidation. <em>Macam tak biasa pulak<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>#8. Declare, or rather re-declare a fatwa that implores that a vote for PAS is a ticket to heaven and a vote for UMNO is a ticket to somewhere too hot to handle. I still sometimes wonder how the hell does this work but hey, you&#8217;ll never know what makes a rightist nut ticks.<\/p>\n<p>#7. Assert that Nik Aziz is more religious than Badawi and assert that Islam PAS is Islam while Islam Hadhari is bs. (<em>caveat emptor<\/em> &#8211; if the word u-turn sounds familiar, don&#8217;t attempt this. I repeat, do not attempt this.)<\/p>\n<p>#6. Invite Ibrahim Ali into PAS and let him run as PAS candidate. Ibrahim Ali dreams of a chance to screw UMNO. So, given that PAS hardcores will be voting for whoever that sucks up on PAS, Ibrahim Ali&#8217;s vote will at least bring in extra precious numbers, particularly some of former UMNO&#8217;s votes. UMNO would be furious if this happen, I tell you.<\/p>\n<p>#5. Or better yet, invite Mawi into PAS and let him run as PAS candidate. With Mawi, I&#8217;m sure PAS will secure all female voters&#8217; vote. People has been talking about the Mawi factor as an asset. Hell, a good political entity would internalize that asset. Add that with PAS wackos, UMNO will be caught with defeat and disbelief.<\/p>\n<p>#4. Say Buck the Fuckeyes! Well, they might not get enough votes but if I could vote in Pengkalan Pasir, I&#8217;d goddamn vote for them if they say out loud Buck the Fuckeyes. Anybody that wanna kick Buckeyes&#8217; nut is my friend.<\/p>\n<p>#3. Actually do something with the state economy and maybe even clean up that state capital of trash a bit. Declaring the state capital as an Islamic city won&#8217;t do a jack. Given how Kota Bahru looks (I haven&#8217;t been to KB for perhaps 11 years but doubt there is any change, except the name for Pantai Cinta Berahi&#8230;), it makes people smirk at the hilarity and indirectly insult Islam.<\/p>\n<p>#2. Pray to god and do nothing.<\/p>\n<p>And number one is, drumroll please&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>#1. Pack up and leave for Pattani. PAS won&#8217;t get Pengkalan Pasir but at least they&#8217;ll win in Pattani.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly however, my skepticism for PAS and my previous statement of I-don&#8217;t-care-who-will-win notwithstanding, I hope PAS will win. A PAS win may indicate that there&#8217;s some hope for a stronger opposition in the next general election. Malaysia desperately needs more dissenting voices in the <em>Dewan Rakyat<\/em> to undo the rubberstamping trend in the Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>p\/s &#8211; Wow. I didn&#8217;t know a Malaysian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun2surf.com\/article.cfm?id=11885\">was nominated for Nobel Prize for literature<\/a>. (<a href=\"http:\/\/recom.org\/modules.php?name=Forums&#038;file=viewtopic&#038;p=72167#72167\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned before, I&#8217;m placing my money on UMNO to win the December 6 Pengkalan Pasir by-election. However, here&#8217;s a list of 10 ways to force odd to favor PAS. In the list: #10. Bribe UMNO candidate. Doubt it will work? Hey, Isa Samad hasn&#8217;t been dragged to court of law yet despite his proven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-politics-government","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}