Najib to skip his Maiden speech at the UN General Assembly

Huh! the statement of the finance ministry giving reasons for Najib skipping his Maiden speech at the assembly, is worse than the type of excuses given by Syed Hamid for all his deeds.

Truly “ornithological specimens of identical plumage congregating in close proximity” so much so the level of intelligence seems to be contagious amongst the species.

This is a clear example of what happens when people of a certain level of knowledge, refuse to mix around with people of yet another level, there is no interactive learning and the result is they remain in that closed domain of intelligence and its limitations will show sooner rather than later.

This is why it is important that Universities be centers of universal learning, not confined to just one race, any way that is not the topic of discussion here.

A statement issued by the office of the Deputy Prime Minister which added that the cancellation was approved by Abdullah says;
"The decision is due to the current global economic situation which requires the deputy prime minister’s attention to ensure the country’s economy stays strong. In addition to that, he was just appointed as the finance minister on Sept 17. He will need more time to attend to briefings on the current economic situation by various agencies and departments under the finance ministry."

What lame excuses, we are used to this type of talk from the Ministers of Abdullah’s cabinet, that we realize that all we’ll get are stupid excuses.

I would suspect that the truth of the matter is, that Najib is afraid to address the assembly, he is afraid that his speech may be boycotted, on the other hand I think he’d welcome such a move, he is afraid that he will be called into account for the violations of Human Rights here in Malaysia, the arrest under the ISA of Malaysians, the arrest of blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin, the arrest of the HINDRAF 5, the case against Anwar, all this have indeed been well rehearsed by representatives of free countries and are to be directed to Najib, and now he is scared, he is frightened, in fact he is so terrified, that he has chosen Rais Yatim to do his job of addressing the assembly, and just imagine this was supposed to be his maiden address to this the United Nations General Assembly.

Rais though a cabinet member has publicly denounced the actions of this government under the ISA, Najib feels that with that credential Rais can go ahead and deliver his speech.

This seems a well rehearsed act, Rais was in the US before Najib’s cancellation, Rais denounced the arrests before Najib’s cancellation of his trip, and now that Rais has done all that - Najib delegates the job to Rais, how easy, this man, our Deputy Prime Minister seems afraid to face the truth.

I suspect Rais will receive sufficient brickbats, as foreign Minister he has to know what is happening, I hope he does not reply in the same fashion as our Home Minister, Rais is one of these Ministers in the cabinet who is noted for his fluency in English and his ability to delver answers that makes sense, lets hope Rais does not disappoint not only those who will call on him to account but the general Malaysian Public, who would want to see answers befitting his position, he always has delivered in this area, I just hope he does not have a script prepared by Najib, Syed Hamid, Nazri our new Law Minister or even the PM.

Frankly Xroy