Whatever agenda that comes over from Kuala Lumpur across the South China is suspect.
Pakatan Rakyat's efforts to spoil the local Sabah votes shows how important Sabah is at this point to its overseas masters whether they are in power or in opposition.
Sabah is important to PR because it can wrest power from UMNO if it can capture the Sabah Federal and State Parliaments. Sarawak State seats are already in UMNO hand for another 3 years. Further, much is at stake if the local opposition parties win the elections as Malaya risk losing control of local rich resources which are vital sources for Malaya's funding of government development plans and patronage system..
Both Sabah's 25 Parliament and 60 State seats are all up for grabs in the coming elections.
In Sarawak the competition is for the 31 parliament seats as the 71 state seats were decided in the State elections in 2011 . The competition is no less intense but only between UMNO PBB BN and Pakatan.
In Sabah it is between UMNO Pakatan and STAR and SAPP. Pakatan has little influence in Sabah but it has a big media image backed up by instant proxy PK parties.
UMNO is happy because Pakatan is the spoiler for Sabahans and splitter of Sabah unity and voters.
However, the legitimacy of Malaya's hold on Sabah is being challenged by (a) the Philippines (proxy) Sulu claim and (b) the brewing Sabahan (peaceful) rebellion against UMNO direct rule which many have increasingly see as colonialist in nature.
UMNO WIN WIN ELECTION TACTIC IS TO ENTICE ILLEGALS CAPTIVE VOTERS WITH “RE-SETTLEMENT”
The political maestros in UMNO know long before the Sulu invasion, that the Sabah Opposition has a chance to retake Sabah if united. Thus UMNO has re distributed its instant voters to dominate the parliamentary and state seats so that they can capture the vote and all looks fine, democratic and legitimate.
The Sulu invasion has delivered to UMNO an improved chance of winning the elections.
The PKR this division of the opposition is a bonus but the Sulus and illegals are the guarantee for UMNO winning power with its instant voters.
The illegals instead of being threatened with deportation have been promised by UMNO to keep them legally in Sabah with "resettlement" (new villages a la Malayan and Sarawak emergencies) seen in the ESSCOM agenda of containment of the Sulu Sabah armed struggle. It also part of UMNO well tried tactic of distracting and diverting attention from the UMNO government's failure to protect Sabah from foreign invasion.
This is a powerful enticement for the unsuspecting Sulus to vote for UMNO with promises of new housing and be protected by the Malayan army from any BSRA intimidation and threats or invitation to support the liberation of Sabah from Malaya cause. So in a sense the Sulus are UMNO's captive voters and pawns in its political manoeuvres! This puts Pakatan in a quandary as it would like to capture this vote but it would offend too many Sabahans to proclaim the same deal as UMNO's for the illegals.
Sabahans were warned of this “clear and present danger” in the new year. They must decide which way to go. The only peaceful way Sabahans can take back control of their country is for local opposition parties and the people to unite and REJECT the foreign Malayan parties at the elections. It is better to stand up firmly now and say “NO” to UMNO even though winning may be only 50/50 or less with the illegals vote.
SULU INVASION CRISIS UNDERLINES SABAH'S IMPORTANCE TO MALAYA
The current political/security crisis has emphasises the importance of Sabah to Malaysia.
The Philippines is challenging the Malayan claim and control on Sabah. This claim is based on historic grounds with a potential to use its local based Suluks Bajaus and other Filipinos to capture political power at some stage. Mustapha was a Suluk.
Malaya cannot and could not base its claim on any historic or cultural links with the Borneo colonies (other than a shared colonial master).
Kuala Lumpur can only claim sovereignty over Sabah because the British transferred its colonial control to Malaya under the guise the British Malayan formation of Malaysia.
This claim hangs on a flimsy argument that the Borneo people in Sabah and Sarawak supported and chose to become part of Malaysia with the Cobbold Commission "referendum".
The fact is that there was never such as referendum and therefore no act of “free will” to choose to be part of Malaysia.
The other less noticed fact is that when the Malaysia Agreement was signed on July 9th 1963, Sabah and Sarawak were still colonies. This means only the British government could have legally signed the treaty on their behalf. This was not an act of free will by 2 independent countries like Malayan and Singapore. Sabah became independent for 2 weeks on 31 August 1963 while Sarawak regained its independence on July 22 1963. The deal was sealed before their independence. These facts cannot be changed.
This means Malaysia was not validly and properly constituted and therefore illegitimate from the beginning.
The Philippines government knows this and has directed its press media to drop using Malaysia" when referring to Sabah. In other words, it has practically de-recognized Malaysia as it is now constituted and Sabah should not have been a part of Malaysia since 1963.
As far as the Philippines is concerned Brunei (1963) Singapore (1965) and now Sabah (1963) are out of Malaysia. That leaves Sarawak and Malaya.
Malaysia's fervent (surprisingly mainly Malayan) defenders have pointed out that the elections of the UMNO BN government over the past 45 years serve as proof that the people chose to remain in Malaysia. The fact is that the people were never asked to chose if they wanted to remain in Malaysia in these elections and the elections have been confirmed by the RCI to be fraudulent.
The obvious conclusion is that UMNO BN has been in power illegally without proper constitutional authority for all those years. But the Opposition has not challenged this point seriously.
The only argument Malaya can use to justify it claim over Sabah is its de facto occupation and control of the territories which has been challenged by the Sulu invasion. This was serious failure of security by the rulers in the sense that the UMNO government failed to detect and prevent an invasion of some 300 armed BSRA men.
UMNO has overreacted by responding with overwhelming fire power and over 5,000 soldiers were deployed by Air Asia to encircle the invaders now turned guerrillas in the coastal areas. It is reported that about 68 BSRA soldiers (aka "terrorists") have been killed by Malaysian security forces. But where is the rest of them? They are said to know the terrain better than the 5,000 troops as they trained in Sabah. The ratio of government troops to guerrilla is about 17:1. But this may change if the insurgency grows with more BSRA men infiltrating through the "porous" borders.
So the UMNO control of Sabah is now being challenged by a proxy army.
Both the UMNO and PKR agendas will be to win the elections so they each can claim the Sabah people vote for Malaysia to counter the Philippines claim. At the same time, whichever party comes to power it will have to stake Malayan claim on Sabah by armed force to suppress the BSRA and to coerce the brewing Sabah peoples uprising into submission with the threat of the ESSCOM and its army.
The fact stands out that Malaya has maintained its rule of Sabah by military occupation since 1963.
SABAHANS CAN STILL OVERTHROW UMNO
In 1985 Sabahans temporarily threw of UMNO's political yoke but lost its gain by betrayal of the PBS assisted by USNO.
But in the coming elections Sabahans must see that the military crisis is a sandiwara to scare them AND the 2 million plus foreign shifting instant voters into supporting Malayan rule.
It is of greatest importance that Sabahans wake up to this and vote their own local opposition parties. Even if you cannot win the elections at least make it a "No" vote for Malayan domination.
Sabah's destiny once again hangs in the balance.
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