{"id":5483,"date":"2013-08-20T12:35:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T04:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=5483"},"modified":"2013-08-20T12:35:29","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T04:35:29","slug":"no-relent-by-bn-ddd-now-enters-third-phase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/no-relent-by-bn-ddd-now-enters-third-phase\/","title":{"rendered":"No relent by BN, DDD now enters third phase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en-US\"><strong>By Lim Kit Siang<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/LKS4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5485\" style=\"padding-right: 10px;\" title=\"LKS4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/LKS4-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/LKS4-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/LKS4-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/LKS4-262x175.jpg 262w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/LKS4.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>DAP is facing a life-and-death struggle with the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">widening of the battleground and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">opening of the third phase of the UMNO\/BN \u201cDDD\u201d campaign to demonise and destroy the DAP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">In the past several months, the Umno\/BN \u201cDDD\u201d &#8211; \u201cDemonise\/Destroy DAP\u201d &#8211; battalion<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">s<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">\u00a0of propagandists and cybertroopers had launched two phases of assault on the DAP, viz:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">Firstly,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">outrageous and preposterous allegation of the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">non-existent DAP-financed \u201cRed Bean Army\u201d of 3,000 cybertroopers with a budget from RM100 million to RM1 billion in past six years\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">to demonise and character-assassinate Umno\/BN leaders; and<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">Secondly, the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">baseless\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">and malicious\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">campaign about electoral fraud in DAP Central Executive Committee (CEC) elections\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">last December<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">culminating in the booklet of lies by the fictitious \u201cFather Augustus Chen\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">making two major allegations, namely<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">\u00a0\u201c75<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">3 delegates (mostly Indians)\u201d not notified of the DAP Congress and \u201c543 phantom delegates (mostly from Penang)\u201d,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">when both are complete lies and falsehoods.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">In the two phases of the \u201cDDD\u201d campaign, the battalion<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">s<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">\u00a0of Umno\/BN propagandists and cybertroopers had concocted and recycled hundreds of lies and falsehoods against the DAP especially in the Umno\/BN media Utusan Malaysia and New Straits Times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">The \u201cDDD\u201d campaign has not ended or abated after the DAP decision for CEC re-election to pre-empt continued abuse of power by the Regist<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">r<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">ar of Societies (RoS) at the behest of the Umno\/BN political \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">masters\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">, particularly the deregistration of the DAP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">The\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">Umno\/BN&#8217;s \u201cDDD\u201d campaign has now entered a third and even more deadly phase to demonise\/destroy the DAP, with<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">continued concoction and regurgitation of\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">lies and falsehoods\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">against the DAP,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">with scores of lies and falsehoods concocted and regurgitated<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">\u00a0in the past three days just in Utusan Malaysia and New Straits Times;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">widening of the DDD battlefield from hitherto Bahasa Malaysia and English media to Chinese and Tamil media; and<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">official blessing given to the DDD campaign by none other than the Prime Minister and UMNO President, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, who\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">jumped into the chorus of baseless attacks on the DAP within 48 hours of the the DAP decision on CEC re-election, regurgitating the DDD lies and falsehoods against the DA<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">P.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">Najib alleged that the DAP is not a \u201ccredible political party\u201d by trotting out the lie that DAP had failed to notify 753 delegates of the DAP Congress of the CEC elections last Decembe<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">r, when he should know that this\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">lie of \u201c753 delegates (mostly Indians<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">)<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">not notified of the CEC Congress last December, together with the equally meretricious lie\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">of \u201c547 phantom delegates (mostly from Penang)\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">were total concoctions without any proof whatsoever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">DAP is therefore facing a \u201clife-and-death\u201d test as the Umno\/BN \u201cDemolish\/Destroy DAP\u201d battalions are finalising devilish plans and marshalling their forces to try to destroy the DAP once and for all.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lim Kit Siang DAP is facing a life-and-death struggle with the\u00a0widening of the battleground and\u00a0opening of the third phase of the UMNO\/BN \u201cDDD\u201d campaign to demonise and destroy the DAP. In the past several months, the Umno\/BN \u201cDDD\u201d &#8211; \u201cDemonise\/Destroy DAP\u201d &#8211; battalions\u00a0of propagandists and cybertroopers had launched two phases of assault on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5483"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5488,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483\/revisions\/5488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}