"Zahidism" - "Securing" Parliamentary Constituencies

Heard about this a few days back .......
It appears that certain quarters are keen on some "internal security duties" for the Armed Forces. Zahid Hamidi has become a military tactician, and suggested that they have a platoon of "Askar Wataniah" in every Parliamentary Constituency, and not selected strategic locations!!
Looks like the Army is ready to stake its claim in national politics. Is this a subtle admission that we are indeed a Failed State, and are headed towards a Military Govt?

One can only ask - Are we moving from a Police State to an "Army State"?
This reflects very poorly on the Police, if you ask me. Gone are the days when the police jealously defended their "territory"- Looks like the Police are gonna be relegated to being "mandors" on their own turf......
Wonder what our newly minted Home Minister, Mr. Hishamuddin, has got to say about it. 'Some people' are definitely quite nervous about the state of affairs and are beginning to resort to desperate measures to secure their positions.
Well maybe, "somebody" has given the greenlight, after the "joint exercises" with the police some time back. Perhaps there is a subtle plan for an impending "emergency" or a Military Coup?
Thailand - Red shirt, Yellow shirt ...... here we come!!
The following article was taken from Aisehman :

Atten-SHUN!

Got this from Jeff Ooi’s blog, and it made me sit up like nobody’s business:

Kementerian Pertahanan akan menubuhkan satu batalion Tentera Wataniah di kesemua 222 kawasan Parlimen dalam usaha memantapkan sistem pertahanan bagi seluruh negara, kata Menteri berkenaan Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

Beliau berkata pasukan pertahanan itu akan mengandungi 300 anggota bagi setiap platun yang terdiri pelbagai kaum dan bilangan anggota secara keseluruhan dijangka 60,000 dalam tempoh lima tahun akan datang.

“Penubuhan Tentera Wataniah adalah sebagai usaha untuk membantu angkatan tentera dalam menjalankan tugas menjaga keamanan negara,” katanya … [Bernama]

Last time I checked, our soldiers are there to defend the country against external armed threats.

So why do you need to form a Tentera Wataniah and station a platoon of 300 soldiers in each of the 222 Parliamentary constituencies?

What sort of external armed threats do we face in say, the middle of Kuala Lumpur?

All this only makes sense if the soldiers are to be used against internal “threats”.

Because if the rationale behind the formation of the Tentera Wataniah is to defend the country against external armed threats, don’t you think they are being spread out too thin?

60,000 soldiers across the country to “menjaga keamanan negara” — what is the government up to here?

Isn’t “keamanan negara” the job of the police?

I don’t like how this sounds. Because it sounds pretty disturbing to me.

Especially when someone like Zahid Hamidi is the person announcing it.

ON ANOTHER matter, Zahid certainly didn’t waste time on more immediate concerns:

… beliau mengumumkan penubuhan satu batalion Kem Tentera di kawasan seluas 80 hektar berhampiran Ladang Jenderata di Hutan Melintang di sini serta sebuah pangkalan mini Tentera Laut Diraja Malaysia (TLDM) di Jeti Bagan Datoh.

That was fast — a new 80-hectare Army Camp and a mini Naval Base in his kawasan, within less than a week of becoming Defense Minister.

Talk about rapid deployment, eh?

Zahid gains on several counts here — he makes the Armed Forces happy, he gets to dish out contracts for the construction of the two facilities, and once they’re operational, he stands to receive thousands of new votes in elections.

AND BTW dude, 300 soldiers x 222 equals 66,600 soldiers. That’s more than a battalion — that’s about two divisions, a full-blown corps.