The National Front is in disarray. Individual presidents chart their own course of action, known only at the beginning of their leadership. The moment Dato' Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi took over as Prime Minister, his predecessor, Tun Mahathir's view, was discarded, and Pak Lah's views now took precedence. Islam Hadhari was the order of the day. Everyone talked of it, as if a new religion had been formed. But it was not in Pengkalen Pasir. The National Front policy has its confrontational policies adopted by stealth. Islam Hadhari cannot be a matter of debate. It was all right in the early days of independence, or even when the New Economic Policy was implemented in 1970, but not all right in 2005. The National Front cannot order the youths to follow its president's dictates, let alone other policies, because the youths, often children of Malaysians born after Merdeka in 1957, have difference concerns than the founders of UMNO or the Alliance or even the National Front had in mind. The youngsters of today cannot get jobs, have concerns different when the National Front leaders were youths at the time of independence, will have the National Front racial components ignore them at the best of times. The youth will rally to it by promises of good times to come, but it has not come, and those from all races, join hands in unision against the National Front.

Dato' Ibrahim asked for two conditions for withdrawal: he be reinstated as Pasir Mas UMNO divisional chief, to which he had been elected, and Pak Lah had removed him; and Dato' Annuar Musa be removed as UMNO chief for Kelantan. He went off for his daughter's graduation in Australian, and on his return, met Tan Sri Rashid, who in the meanwhile had presented Dato' Ibrahim's conditions to Pak Lah, who was not agreeable to Dato' Ibrahim being Pasir Mas UMNO chief but agreed to sack Dato' Annuar Musa as UMNO chief in Kelantan. Dato' Ibrahim Ali stood as a candidate in Pengkalen Pasir, and got what was predicted for him by the Election Commission. The Election Commission was in full force in Pengkalen Pasir to see that he also did not get more, besides seeing that PAS did not win the seat. PAS had won the seat before the postal votes were counted but the Postal Votes edged UMNO in, but after more votes than allowed were counted.

The Chinese government has also taken decisions against Malaysia. The Malaysian cabinet told the press of the home affairs minister, Dato' Azmi Khalid, going to China before Beijing was asked if it was free to receive him. The Chinese ambassador was not consulted as he should have. The visit has been postponed to December 20. But not before China sent a protest note to Malaysia about ill-treating its citizens. Dato' Azmi Khalid blamed the press for highlightning the nude woman ear squat, implying that the Chinese believed the international press more than it believed its ambassador. Dato' Azmi can go to China if he wants a holiday, for China has announced decisions that Malaysia had hoped it would not. It has become much ado about nothing. Even if Pak Lah visited Beijing now, it would be too late. Unless the people who should be punished are before the trip.

The National Front government puts all its resouces in a small constituency to show UMNO's relevance in Pengkalen Pasir. In this, it has some connection with its problems with China. The issues do not matter but the National Front Government through UMNO must win. It does not accept, at least in the media, that its opponent can fight back. It treats Chinese tourists like it treats its own ciitizens. It assumes it is right even when it is wrong. When it is challenged, it loses its cool, and falls into disarray. In Pengkalen Pasir, the candidature of Dato' Ibrahim Ali, whose expulson from UMNO did not lose him his warlord status, has caused the UMNO campaign to become unstuck. PAS could win if Dato' Ibrahim Ali could take away from UMNO those who do not like Dato' Annuar Musa. We have not heard of the candidates because to UMNO they do not matter. The prime minister and UMNO president, Dato' Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who is also known as Pak Lah, has staked his reputation by using a hammer to kill a fly. He could well kill it but he might also miss it. With only five more days before the byelection in 6 December 2005, the National Front is pessimistic even if it does not show it in public.

THE PRIME MINISTER, DATO' Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (Pak Lah) is furious with his deputy internal security minister, Dato' Noh Omar for having said that foreigners could go home if they thought Malaysia was cruel. But he does not drop the deputy minister from his government. He dare not, for Dato' Noh and his supporters may join his opponents in UMNO, which has the power in the National Front government. The home affairs minister, Dato' Azmi Khalid, who had to postpone his visit to China from yesterday to 20 December 2005, blames 'negative press reports". He makes a slur on the Chinese government, which the previous day had protested against Malaysia ill- treating its citizens. The Malaysian public is blamed, and anyone else, if only to tell the world that it is not the government's fault. The Malaysian Government illtreats its citizens and they keep quiet. Those from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Vietnam are, but their governments keep quiet; so it assumed wrongly China would too. Malaysia supports, or vaccilates in public about its departments and agencies illtreating the Chinese tourists, and cannot admit that it has done wrong. In this first crisis of its making, it is in dissaray. It thinks it can explain its side of the story, but no one, especially the Malaysian public, believes it. The foreigners, especially China, disbelieves it. The mainstream newspapers in Malaysia, which by and large is the National Front's public relations machine, has carried articles of police and immigration manhandled foreign tourists. The National Front government has no case, but acts as if it has. It could ask its experts to solve the issue, but they are chosen for their political reliability not for their experise.

THE HOME AFFAIRS MINISTER, Dato' Azmi Khaled, who is going to China on 20 December 2005 and not today as he announced to the press, said it is press reports that paint Malaysia as profiling tourists, not that it does, that is hurting tourism. He said that newspapers in China 'have been carrying negative stories on the treatment of their citizens, and it does not help when local newspapers reprint the stories'. But has there been a believable statement so far that it does not profile tourists? The deputy internal security minister, Dato' Noh Omar, says it does profile tourists. So far he has justified the police case against the tourists. What he says is important, because the minister of his ministry is the Prime Minister, Pak Lah. Journalists go after a story, and the naked tourist doing a ear squat is one. The government is at needles and pins, saying one thing one time, and another the next, giving the impression that it is not in control of itself, that the police and immigration care two hoots of official policy. The police and immigration officers have done what they liked, irrrespective of what government policy is, because they have a hidden policy: ketuanan Melayu or MalayDominance. That is why there are few Malays, Chinese and other non-Malays in civil service. Those appointed are usually to make the Malay look good. So, most non-Malays do not apply and prefer to take their chances in the private sector. Most migrate to other countries. How can Dato' Azmi explain this fact of life to China when he goes there later this month?

Pak Lah should have discussed the issue with the Chinese prime minister, Mr Hu Jintao, when they met at the APEC summit in Busan. He cannot say he was not informed. He is the Interior Security Minister as well as Finance Minister. The staff in those ministries should have informed him. It is no use demanding that the problem be resolved. It cannot be resolved. For long, Malaysia has regarded foreign Caucasian tourists as special, and those from Asia and African as beneath contempt. So far, the other countries would not take action for extenuating circumstances: their citizens can go to hell but they must maintain their good relations with Malaysia. But China had taken a policy decison last year not to send its tourists to Malaysia, taken after many Chinese trousts had complained of their treatment in Malaysia. Malaysia now knows why, but it is not resolving the problem. It is still interested in finding out who took the MMS videoclip than if it was true. Reversing that will not necessarily solve the problem. As the government knows. But Dato' Seri Azmi Khalid can only go to China after the present problem is solved!

AFTER 45 YEARS IN journalism, I have been told to join the people who run this country. I should be concentrating on other issues, like the poor. I said the poor in this country is poorer because of the policies now carried out. Another in the group said an average person in authority would not feel comfortable unless he has RM50 million in assets. Now, I know why a former civil servant is working hard at 77. He has only RM10 million in assets. He tells me he is a failure. This is not the first time I have been asked to give up my principles. Thirty years ago I might have, although I doubt it. I am 66, with my life behind me, I treat the offer with the contempt it deserves. I have known all the UMNO presidents and prime ministers, some of them personally, but they have not asked me to join them. I know the present prime minister, Pak Lah, well enough for him and his wife, now alas the late, to drop in at my flat while I was recuperating from my open heart surgery, though I have not met him a while. I hear from friends he is angry with me for what I write about his policies. But that is how the other prime ministers thought of me. I have been expelled - from Singapore - for my views, taken to court - one has not finished although it began in 1994 - and threatened with arrest. I do not intend to migrate, although there was pressure on me to go to the United States after my Nieman fellowship at Harvard University. I had a lifetime visa to the United States, but it is not valid after 11 September 2001. I do not think I would ever visit the United States again. The only place I will migrate to if I am asked to leave is to Kerala, in India.

THERE IS EMBARASSED FACES in the Police as the Prime Minister has ordered an investigation of how a naked woman came to do the ear squat in a police cell. The Deputy IGP, Dato' Musa Hassa, however, wants to find out how the MMS videoclip came to be taken. He has eaten his words now that Pak Lah had said the incident must be investigated. If the former deputy prime minister, Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim, could be beaten to a pulp by no less than the then IGP, Dato' Rahim Noor, what about the ordinary man in the street? Dato' Rahim Noor justified beating Dato' Seri Anwar because the latter, trussed up, had hurled the word 'anjing' for beating him up. It seems standard procedure for the Police to beat up a suspect. What is worse is that Dato' Seri Anwar was arrested and beaten up because he was on the wrong side of the then Prime Minister, Tun Mahathir. Dato' Musa Hassan is promoted to his present post so that he could forestall Dato' Seri Anwar on his political comeback, that he was to stop Dato' Seri Anwar from rejoining UMNO, whose deputy president he once was. If high ranking Malaysians are treated badly by the Police, then what hope is there for a visiting tourist who is not Caucasian. Caucasian troops are treated gingerly, but they do not bring enough money. Depending on them alone will not fill the hotels and faciliies here. The rich Chinese would.

THE CONTRADICTORY STATEMENTS FROM the Police suggest the ear squat is authorised by the IGP Standing Orders, and is therefore allowed. So what is the fuss? The police give out its information little by little, but they have said, in effect, it has done nothing wrong. The MMS videoclip is therefore not an issue at all. After all, the police have said in effect that a woman caught for leaving her passport at home could also be a drug carrier. If that is the law, then all the Malaysian government has to do is tell the Chinese government that its citizens come here at their risk, that its women will be stripped and made to do the ear squat for minor offenses, and if the Chinese government does not agree, its tourists should go elsewhere. After all, the laws must be respected. The IGP Standing Orders (IGPSO) is brought out to say that the police did the right thing. So, why is the Malaysian government behaving like a cat on a hot tin roof? And allowing the newspapers and media it controls to write to put the police in a bad light. But the police is lying. Unless it says that an ordinary Malaysian woman can be told to strip and do the ear squat for minor offenses. The Pak Lah government is in two minds: it wants to protect the police, and it wants the Chinese tourists to come.

IF THERE WAS A CHANCE of Chinese tourists coming to Malaysia, the latest videoclip has made sure they will not. Pak Lah has ordered the Home Affairs Minister, Dato' Seri Azmi Khalid, to tell Chinese authorities that this will not happpen in future. Malaysia does not welcome Asian or African visitors. They are harassed at the immigration counters at the airport, although they have valid visas. If they escape that hurdle, they face harassment from the police. The 70-second videoclip that the MP, Ms Teresa Kok, produced in Parliament yesterday (24 November 2005) has put paid to any official explanation. It is now the perception that the Asian or African tourist will be badly treated, with the women stripped naked and made to do the 'ear squat'. In the light of the video clip, in fact well before yesterday, Malaysians do not believe the government explanations to the contrary. The Pak Lah administration is desperate that it is believed, for it need the Chinese tourist. There has been less than 65 per cent arrivals for the first nine months of this year compared to the last. Malaysia has all the facilties that are half- empty. The Chinese refusal to come to Malaysia is partly responsible. I have a cousin here with a valid work permit, but all he has seen Kuala Lumpur is between his work place and his flat 300 yards away. He dare not go sightseeing, even with others with work permit, because the police would harass him, and take away his money. The foreigner, unless he is Caucasian, will expect a hard time here. Most professional Indians come here en route to the United States or other Western countries. So they keep quiet about the harassment. The Indian government gets involved for political reasons, making a fuss for specific reasons. The Chinese vote with their feet, their Governments supporting them, especially when it has an edge over the foreign government. A visit by Dato' Seri Azmi Khalid would not reverse a trend caused by his underlings. Could not have Pak Lah raise the matter when he saw his Chinese counterpart in Busan, South Korea, during the APEC summit?

But UMNO has been sailing into the sunset long before Dato' Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (Pak Lah) took over as prime minister two years ago. He strengthened his position by winning the general election last year. But he is more interested in keeping UMNO together as he is challenged by warlords in the party, and reluctant to even reshuffle the cabinet he inherited from Tun Mahathir for fear that those dropped would go against him, especially in the 2007 party elections. He is more worried about UMNO than general elections, a trait his predecessor also showed. He is unsure of himself, and there is talk in Kuala Lumpur that he will bring Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim into UMNO - one stone he hopes would kill his two major political enemies, Dato' Seri Najib and his predecessor, Tun Mahathir Mohamed. It was Tun Mahathir who sacked Dato' Seri Anwar as deputy prime minister for committing sodomy but would not appear in court to justify it. No one has asked if Dato' Anwar would rejoin UMNO, from which he was expelled. He is not even a member of Parti Keadilan or its successor, Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), former after its amalgamation with Parti Rakyat Malaysia, although his wife, Datin Seri Wan Aziz binti Dato Wan Ismail, is president. He has since said in press releases that he would rather join the opposition. The scuttlebutt in Kuala Lumpur is that he would join PAS and be its president before the next general election.

POLICE STRIPPING CHINESE TOURISTS is the issue. The visas were valid. Not even the authorities dispute that. Because of what happened to those with valid visa, the Chinese tourists are not coming here. The New Straits Times said on 21 November 2005 said 50,000 tourists come here and disappear. That they disappear is not the issue. Neither is it that those with valid visas break the law. Instead of hunting them, legal tourists are stripped. The news has gone back. Sixty five per cent less tourists from China come here. The government of Malaysia is in a dilemma. It does not seem to know why. The tourism minister is go to China to find out. But the runaway police gives the country a bad name. But the authorities seem to be protecting the policemen in the official statements they have issued. They will probe what happened. They would not have, it seems, had not the newspapers highlighted it. It also is true that the police would not have stripped them had the tourists been Caucasian. They thought there would be no reaction. So far Pak Lah has kept quiet. The Cabinet has not said a word though it would be quick to say something if something goes wrong in a municipal council. The Chinese tourists are going elsewhere. It is costing us money as a result. But this stripping of women is not an isolated incident. A statement that this is prohibited under the law is not the response China is expecting from Malaysia.

THE CHINESE TOURISTS ARE not coming to Malaysia. It has dropped to 49 per cent less, if you compare the statistics with the traffic in the first six months of 2004 and 2005, and to 65 per cent less, if you compare the figures of the first nine months of last year and this. As the tourism minister and his officials plan to go to China and find out why, the result for the decline is in the Malaysian newspapers. The police stripped four Chinese national women, three of them married to Malaysian citizens, after they were arrested for not having papers on them, the mainstream newspapers said. The tourism minister and his team need not go to China now. The people who matter know why. Pak Lah says nice things of China at the APEC summit in Busan, South Korea. But Chinese government will not encourage its citizens to visit Malaysia to be harassed. It is as simple as that. The herd mentality is at work, the Malaysians say, but the effect is 65 per cent tourist traffic in nine months. The Chinese have voted with their feet. The Malaysian government is feeling the pinch. The government officials say that the visitors engage in illegal activities, but they cannot prove the Chinese do. In any case, all tourists should not be targetted for the few guilty ones. But the Chinese can show their citizens are badly treated by government officials. The Malaysian newspapers carried stories of the police stripping women Chinese citizens, three of them married to Malaysians. What is worse is that the chief of police has promised an investigation, and then the policemen punished. But the prime minister has not acted swiftly as he must. In normal circumstances. he should already have removed the OCPD for the district, and the police men put on trial if there is any truth in the claim. He must find out why Chinese tourists do not come here, and take steps to defuse the already explosive situation. He has done nothing so far.

The host government dedicate more security than it can afford to these meetings, which include a gathering of Caucasiuan academics which can last up a week. The academics have taken over, and the meetings are seen as occasions for coverage of national leaders. The format of these meetings are built for their convenience. What was discussed at these meetings? We do not know, but we know what our leaders said, for that is all over the papers here. These meetings seem to strengthen the leaders of countries. Before the APEC meeting, Malaysia's Pak Lah visited Bush a few days before APEC. We do not hear of our leaders calling on other leaders in APEC besides the United States and other Western powers. That Pak Lah visited Washington in secret, and his visit sprung on Malaysians after he landed there, gives him an importance he does not have in the world scheme of things. The only things these meetings show up is the intense nationalism, or the lack of it. President Roh of South Korea spoke in Korean in public; in Malaysia, our leaders would have talked in English. Our leaders speak in English so that they would get coverage overseas. Foreign correspondents in South Korea or Thailand have leaders who speak in public in their national language. The US Embassy in Thailand and other countries engage native people to translate what the government leaders tell the people. In Bangkok, the translation of Thai ministerial statements and press conferences is given to correspondents who do not speak Thai and visiting reporters. I used to get translated texts of press conferences by post. But there is no such worry in Malaysia. The vernacular press is ignored. With the result, we at least know what is happening in this country by reading the vernacular press.

IF THE MAYOR HAS been defamed in a book, he should have taken the author to court. Instead, the police showed they could do as they liked, decided that defamining the mayor was a threat to national security, began investigating two senior City Hall officials and the author, and jailed them for about a week - like common criminals. They should have done so after the mayor has won his action in court, if he dared take it. Even then, the police acting, as they have done, is illegal. They were illegal in arresting the former deputy prime minister, Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim, and the criminal case against him, for which he spent time in jail, is illegal. The then Inspector General of Police, no less, have apologised for beating him up and so have several people. Unless of course the government tells us clearly, and passes the required legislation, that it is an offence to defame either politicians or civil servants. That law would create problems on the ground, where it would be resisted, rightly. But because of the government in full control, with no opposition in sight, it do as it liked. The mayor is attacked because although he is a favoured civil servant, he should not have been appointed. The government is trying to cut dissent in the civil service, and uses the police to stop it. The book, in Malay, which upset the government writes of the newly appointed mayor's sexual affairs. He has not denied the allegations. Nor has he filed a defamation suit against the author of the book. So, who authorised the police to act as it did? Pak Lah must act against these man who lodged the police report, and the police for having harassed the author and the two senior City Hall officers. Since he is responsible for what happens in the government, he must take responsibility. He cannot act as his predecessor, Tun Mahathir, by repeating the allegations after he refuses to prove the allegations in the Anwar Ibrahim trials. He is now facing a defamation action by Dato' Seri Anwar for repeating the sodomy allegation after he has been cleared by the courts. But has he been investigated by the police? Why not? Is he lower in rank than the mayor of City Hall? Pak Lah cannot act as he pleases. He should have had the police investigate the former prime minister. What has not the police treated him as he treated the author and the senior City Hall officials?

Until the 1969 racial riots and the National Economic Policy, the non- Malay parties had their say in the Alliance. The MCA president, Tun Tan Sew Sin, abruptly resigned on the mistaken assumption the party did badly in the 1969 general election. But MCA did not remain out. It allowed itself to remain in the cabinet of Tun Abdul Razak, father of the deputy prime minister, and that ensured the disappearance of the non-Malay ministers in policy making ministries. They are happy at this turn of events for it allowed them to remain in the cabinet, nominally representing their constituents, but in reality not. It is probably too late now. The new prime minister, Pak Lah, has made it clear that losing a party election does not mean the person must leave his government. He has taken the view that they are appointed by the government, and that takes precedence. What the UMNO-led Alliance was is not the National Front today. It is UMNO which is in the top now. The MCA and MIC ministers have agreed to turn Malaysia into an Islamic state because UMNO wanted it to defeat PAS at its own game. MCA and MIC ministers have pontificated on the UMNO Islam being better than PAS Islam though they might not know what Islam is. For them, and that includes UMNO, Islam is a political fight as it is not to PAS. The MCA and MIC ministers, deputy prime ministers, and parliamentary secretaries remain in the government not for helping their respective communities but for what they can get individually from agreeing to UMNO's dictates.

Another factor making the American invader having a rough time is Saddam Hussein's trial. The man is behaving not as the United States expected, and his trial, with his principled stand, will give the Sunni and the Iraqi vicarious victory. The United States is now talking of shifting the trial to another Middle Eastern country. If it does that, he, and the Iraqi nationalist and Sunni has won. The United States, faced with an insurgency that has no end is now faced with the fallout of the Saddam trial and gowing US public reaction against the war. You cannot run an empire on other people's money. But that is what the United States is doing. Its only product is money, and so it allowed US companies to hive off its manufacturing to cheaper Asian countries. The public was kept quiet for a while, but it lost the jobs as a result. Now, President Bush and the neocons are in trouble with his own Republican Party over the war in Iraq. The smoking gun is in the closet of the highest offical, and he would be forced to pull back the troops in Iraq before the next election. Vice President Cheney is implicated, and would have to resign to save the president. But unlike Vietnam, the United States has gone to war on terror with a Muslim country, and blamed Al Qaeda for it, and has made plans to get rid of the Saudi monarchy. I think he would not be allowed to, for local reasons, as he does not want to invade Syria over the Hariri assassination. He hopes the IAEC will rein in Iran on its nuclear plans. But the IAEC is discredited, although it has won the Nobel Peace Prize. The United States has manouevred it such that he got it. But it has to fight its battle in Iraq, with or without troops, for it has started a battle with no end in sight. The United States undersecretary for public diplomacy, Mrs Karen Hughes, visited Muslim nations to get these countries over, and her record is patchy at best. In Malaysia, the newspapers sang in praise of her visit and her results, but would the National Front go against the war in Iraq? It would not. The National Front cannot be against the war on Iraq, knows full well that the people are with Al Qaeda in this war on terror. Pak Lah is chairman of the Organisation of Islam Countries, but he is in the minority in supporting the United States. His attempt to get Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim to the chairmanship of a Muslim fund of nearly a billion US dollars came to nought. All Muslim countries now supporting the United States in this war on Iraq must eventually change sides, or its Muslim street would not let it alone.

MALAYSIAN OFFICIALS GIVE the Prime Minister and the family the same respect they give the Royal Familes. We saw that yesterday (20 October 2005) in the death and funeral of the wife of the Prime Minister, Datin Seri Endon Mohmood. She was not the First Lady as newspapers and television networks insisted on referring to her. She was not even the Second Lady; that honour went to the deputy Yang DiPertuan Agung. She was not the Third Lady; she could be called the Fourteenth lady, after the Sultans' and Governors' wives. I am sorry she died, and this would make Pak Lah's burden heavier than normal. May he have the courage to face the years ahead. They are not pleasant. There is talk of UMNO members wanting to challenge him from the president, and one man, if he does stand, can defeat Pak Lah. Be that as it may, the Prime Minister has become more imperial as he loses his grip on the supreme council and the warlords in the party. He has untramelled powers as Prime Minister and as president of UMNO but he must always watch his back, because he is faced with political enemies in his own party. That he could not sack two cabinet ministers, after they had been found guilty, by the party or by the people, is proof of that. If more is needed, he has yet to revamp the cabinet of his predecessor two years after he took office and after the general election last year.

THE MALAYSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER, Dato' Syed Hamid Albar, has told Thailand not to interfere in Malaysia's internal affairs. Why he needed to do so escapes me, when he did not interfere when the Thai prime minister, Mr Thaksin Shinawatra, told Pak Lah off at the United Nations last month (September) about the situation in southern Thailand, in Dato' Syed Hamid's presence, and both did not respond. Why? It is no use playing to the gallery because UMNO general assembly is around the corner. For Malaysia's record in southern Thailand, where Thai Malays are fighting for independence from Thailand for more than a century, is based on the belief that Britain in the early years of the 20th century should have insisted on the Thai Malay provinces be given to the Malay peninsula. Malaysia has interfered in south Thailand from the early days of independence. I spoke to the PULO representative in the prime minister's department more than 30 years ago. (PULO is the fighting arm of the Thai Malays in southern Thailand.) Malaysia has internationalised the conflict by bringing in the Muslim nations, and brought in the global war on terror that the United States launched. Mr Thaksin has added the pressure recently and so has PULO. Southern Thailand in the East is not safe for the Malaysian. Recently, southern Thai separatists killed a Thai monk, one of several in recent months, and a friend whose mother is from southern Thailand was trapped for months when he went to visit his relatives across the border. It is unsafe to visit southern Thailand by crossing the Golok River In Kelantan state. This is a stream most of the year, and one can wade across into southern Thailand. It has now become a conflict also between Buddhists and Muslims, a religious war in what has been a territorial dispute.

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