" They don't know who their allies and enemies are."

- PSM secretary-general S Arutchelvan

COMMENT A better way to put it, S Arutchelvan, would be "with friends like this, who needs Umno-BN enemies?" Under the title ‘PKR, you can't enter Putrajaya with your brand of arrogance!' my comrade in this struggle for regime change, blogger Zorro Unmasked, writes:

"I will not vote for Sivarasa in Subang, my parliamentary constituent, if PKR disturbs with a three-cornered fight in Kota Damansara, my state constituency. I have nothing against Sivarasa. I voted for him in 2008. It is the posture PKR is taking that I vehemently am opposed to. This is tantamount to bullying, Umno-style."

Now, R Sivarasa and his wife are good friends of mine and Sivarasa is the kind of person we as Malaysians need in the halls of power in Putrajaya. More importantly, every single member of a political party like Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) should be considered as agents of real change in Malaysia and should be ‘allowed' to do their work that goes far beyond the sordid business of getting elected.

It amazes me why PKR, or should that be Pakatan Rakyat, would want to alienate allies like these? Where I vote in Lembah Pantai, the incumbent is PKR vice-president Nurul Izzah Anwar and it would be a waste if right-thinking Malaysians would render these Pakatan candidates as collateral damage of political infighting by abstaining to vote...