15 February 2012

Will the Guan Eng-Soi Lek debate bring any benefit?

February 15, 2012
FMT LETTER, From Jackson Ng, via e-mail


Based on the feedback from internet news portal readers, I am also as puzzled as most of them – why should DAP secretary-general and Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng accept to debate with Dr Chua Soi Lek, a womaniser who is leading a party that supports immorality?

It is also equally puzzling why Chua would want such a debate when the stakes are stacked against him. When MCA cannot even defend the dignity of the Chinese when publicly insulted by Ibrahim “Perkasa” Ali, do you really expect him to be able to defend the misdeeds and corruption-saddled Barisan Nasional (BN)?

Can he really tick off the misdeeds of Umno for allowing Ibrahim to freely spew seditious garbage against Christians and non-Muslims in a bid to fan emotions and racial hatred?

Up to today, has Chua made any strong statements to tick off Ibrahim and Cowgate Sharizat?

Either Chua has something up his sleeves to make a fool out of Lim or he has gone desperate and cuckoo.

As for Lim, he must remember that he is no more just the secretary-general of DAP. He is the current Penang Chief Minister and he must be a leader of all Malaysians, irrespective of race. So, he must be wary of his position and to maintain the dignity of his position and office. So why engage with this zina?

The only reasons that I can think of, for Lim to agree to debate the wife-cheating Chua is that Chua would be “easy meat” in a debate or perhaps, Lim could not resist the opportunity to be on Astro AEC TV, which is a worst excuse for accepting the debate challenge.

According to some readers’ feedback, the debate will not bring about any benefit to Malaysians.

What will benefit Malaysians and Malaysia is a debate between the Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak and Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim. These are currently the two men who can shape the political landscape and future of the country because they are in positions of political power. Not Lim or, worse still, porno Chua.

Interestingly, Lim wrote this: “I wish to stress that I am willing to debate in English or Bahasa Malaysia at another slot similar to my debate in 1991 with Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat where two debates were held, one in Mandarin and the other in English. I have appointed my political secretary and Komtar ADUN YB Ng Weik Aik to finalise debate arrangements and details with MCA as well as DAPSY National Chair Rasah MP YB Anthony Loke to handle the logistics of the debate.”

Interesting because Lim remembers the 1991 debate and had also proposed that Ong be appointed the moderator of the debate.

Of course the MCA and MCA’s Institute of Strategic Analysis and Policy Research (Insap) and Asian Strategy & Leadership Institute (Asli) immediately rejected the proposal, out of fear or what? Isn’t Ong still a MCA member and a BN man?

Imagine the irony of a DAP leader, in this case Lim, having the confidence to propose a former MCA president and a MCA member to be the moderator but not the MCA?

Ong, the current Pandan MP, is an acknowledged orator who is fluent in Bahasa Malaysia, Mandarin and English – perhaps also in that order of strength.

Ong has also accepted many inivitations recently to engage in debates with the DAP, not organised by the DAP but third parties like news organisations.

For the benefit of those who don’t remember what happened in August 1991 at the Selangor and Kuala Lumpur Chinese Assembly Hall, Lim (then the DAP Youth chief) and Ong (then a MCA Youth secretary-general and a central committee member) debated for two consecutive nights for three hours each night, attracting 5,000 people.

Two Federal Reserve Unit platoons were present to control law and order but nothing untoward happened.

And it was Lim who challenged Ong to debate on the topic “Who is the political parasite, MCA or DAP?.

Ong accepted Lim’s challenge without any conditions or choice of moderator or choice of language. Not splitting hairs over restrictions or whatever.

ORIGINAL POST : FMT

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