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Was there a Cabinet meeting yesterday? Incidentally, after the regular post-Cabinet briefing time yesterday, a deputy minister sent me an SMS. The heat of Ijok campaigning must have been too overpowering. The season of demonising has just started:

How come got rumours floating around saying you have joined KeADILan?

I was amused. I told the YB that I am not going to waste time on the rumour-mongers as they don't affect me. I replied to the SMS:

First, they said I will stand as a DAP candidate in the next general election.

Now they said I have joined KeADILan.

Next, they will say I have joined PAS.

I will leave it to your imagination to figure this 'they' means. If the HP6 (half-past-six) spin-doctors are smart, they should have labelled me a PAS operative since 2004, when this picture was taken with Husam Musa, before he became a PAS vice president in 2005:

2004 With Husam, who sought a briefing on why Berita Harian vilified me for 4 consecutive days on its frontpage. I will try to dig out other personalities' pictures if I have time.

And remember, there were also rumours going around saying that I am a pro-Mahathir.

Meanwhile, let me relish the distinct stature as an individual who have the ears of leaders from the Other Side of the the present day political divide. Not many bloggers could have done that, perhaps. So, I should take all the rumours as a compliment, even a chip on the shoulder.

But to me, I only see them as my fellow Malaysians. Opposition leaders or ex-PM, they are first and foremost brethren in my eyes. No qualms over their religious or political convictions as they are their rightful entitlement if individual rights are to be respected.

Malaysia should not be a country of 'either you are with us or against us' in political ideology.

If ever this world is as simple as black-and-white, then we must be living in peace with no amount of disputes and contradictions. Virtue would then be as sparkling white as the whitewash used on the Putrajaya offices.

But we are living in the world swarmed with spin-doctors, so we've gotta tread carefully. Very carefully.

Anyway, I took the opportunity to brief the deputy minister that BM should not condone the Mat Rempit hooliganism.

I want him to understand how Paul Choo was assaulted as an innocent bystander by the BN Mat Rempit.

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I hope BN leaders are brave and straight enough to publicly denounce violence perpetrated by their own cadres. So far, they have maintained the infamous 'elegant silence'.