‘Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets...’ - Napoléon Bonaparte

COMMENT Nobody would agree more with the above quote than the Najib Abdul Razak regime. Ever since the Sarawak Report expose and then the alternative press began reporting on the ‘donation’-now-investment scandal that has engulfed the prime minister, the keris(es) have been out for the online media.

With Umno devouring itself with its internal schisms, the search for acceptable scapegoats has been frantic. The Chinese community, always the first choice, has proven problematic since with each passing the day the Malay community has been inundated with news that the so-called defenders of race and religion have been selling them out for decades and getting rich in the process.

Sacred cows of Malay hegemony have been railing against the Najib regime and in the process, the Najib Umno faction has been carry out a systemic Night of the Long Knives on dissenters and rebels.