When 40% Truth Lies Beneath 60% Lies

Hanya separuh daripada kandungan rencana tulisan penulis blog yang melarikan diri ke luar negara Raja Petra Kamarudin adalah berdasarkan fakta, manakala selebihnya sengaja ditokok tambah, kata Timbalan Menteri Perdagangan Antarabangsa dan Industri Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir.

The above statement by the politician son of ole sage Tun Mahathir finally exposed the truth behind the fugitive blogger Raja Petra's blogging on Malaysia Today.

40% truth and 60% fiction. Reminds one long ago of someone making a comment about Time magazine which was something like 'reports factual events of a fictitious world" or 'fiction of a real world'.

RPK's spin is perhaps about factual people living in a make believe world or fake people making you believe they are real in their make believe stories, huh?

It would be interesting if Mukhriz would help all those legions of Malaysia Today and RPK followers to shift through, the fact and fiction.

Is it his characters are factual but the story about them lies or, the story is true of true characters or it is true but characters are make belief?

Or, everything is a modern version of 'Alice in Wonderland' entitled 'RPK in BolehLand' which if one has read Lewis Carroll's Alice, may draw similar parallels to RPK's jabberwocky similar to Lewis' jabberwocky!

RPK's writings in probably similar to Lewis' jabberwocky* , "it seems to fill my head with truths-- only I don't know exactly where the 40% truth is and what they are..." as critics posit 'although the strange words have no precise meaning, they seem to chime with subtle overtones.'

Perhaps Mukhriz being the UMNO politician who tells know lies is unable to understand Pete's jabberwocky thinking RPK is nonsensically jabbing at jibby in his cocky ways!

40% true? Hmm don't we need only 1% of a truth to blow up the lid off the 99% hidden away, huh? If there is an iota of doubt in the court of law, the case would be either won or lost depending on which side of the case one is.

So which 40% of RPK's prose is true? That the government is corrupt, the real fellos who murdered the Mongolian lass, charges against him untrue, he is in London? Mukhriz probably believe 100% in the Hikayat Hang Tuah together with Ibrahim Ali and that Tee Abdullah cina-apek to take take on themselves as the modern Hang Tuah!

If only 40% of what RPK writes is true, pray RPK don't write positive good things like the government is clean and free from corruption, noone should be implicated in the murder except the two charged, or the ISA is nobel and warranted on him, Pakatan fellos are as enthusiastic defending their respective races as the BN fellos, we would only be able to believe 40% as truth and the other lies then huh?

Mukhriz is kinda than his party fellos who gives RPK 100% for lies. Perhaps Mukhriz knows some hidden truth in RPK musings else how does he come up with the magic 40% of the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help us all? Or is Mukhriz going to be a politician he is and amend his truth to say 'half truths' or just 'outright lie?'

So if he knows RPK writes 40% truth, the IGP and MACC should question him on every of RPK's writing and try and squeeze out where the truth is and start their investigation back home. The London trip may after all be unnecessary and certainly save 'taxpayers money' if MACC can glean the 40% truth out of RPK's writing on Bala's SD from Mukhriz, huh?

Truth is relative really? The government or ruling party of the day determines the truth of a religion, the truth of any matter and see themselves the guardian of that Platonic 'heavenly truth.' If we learnt our history well and correctly you will see how institutions like state and religious institutions determine what truth is and what is falsehood. Even poor Robespierre fell to the guillotine even though he was supposed to be a man of truth! Lawyers who give due justice to every person are also telling the 'truth' to win the case for clients, but for legal eagles they say they are about the only three fellos who are given the licence to lie, besides the politicians and judges

In BolehLand, telling the truth even a simple one has become a laborious affair. There is more doubt to what is said than what is not said! For too long perhaps, the masses have been led to believe their leaders are bearers and custodian of the truth. And via their holy race based media, they churn out so many 'matters of truth' until they couldn't even see that some of them contradicted those just issued!!!

Truth in BolehLand has been buried in so much of skepticism, lies and deceit, finding 1% is already hope what of being told 40% is truth, must really be gemstones, no? At last someone is not a complete liar, no?

They say to make someone to only believe your version of truth, you either don't educate that fello or only educate him in only your way or your viewpoint of things! You can't have deviant or opposing views. If they do exist you must snuff them out in whatever means!

Back to our beloved politician Mukhriz, it would be interesting to have a truth meter to out the public's perception of who among these fellos below score in terms of what they say or write as truth?

To him RPK scores a 40%, wonder what he gives for:
- his beloved father Tun M
- his beloved leader, 1Malaysia
- beloved first lady
- beloved Youth Leader KJ
- beloved Home Minister Hisham
- beloved defacto Law Minister - Nazri
- ditto MCA leader, MIC leader, Gerakan, PPP, and the rest of BN leaders

On on the other side, Anwar, LKS, LEG, Karpal, Tien Chua, Gobind, Theresa Kuok
What about our Saiful? the IGP, the AG, PI Bala, Baginda
or for that matter, Ibrahim Ali and all those independent fellos who left Pakatan
Dead fellos like Altantuya, TBH, Kugan and even the kids who died in the ragging and another  shot for illegal driving as well as his friend... how many %truth do we give to what they said?

Sometimes when people find no hope in their political leaders and lawmakers, they will believe vagabonds and mavericks. Hey those who have been incarcerated believe in the rat or roach in their cell as well as those the imagery person with them in the cell.

So do kids with their imaginery friend. We may think them cuckoo or saying jabberwocky stuff. But their world of half truths is real truths to them!

And RPK followers and readers will lap up every word he writes as Gospel truth just like what followers do on the other side of the divide towards their leaders, no?

Mukhriz may think RPK's 60% is all poppycocky and the other 40% petwockey truths. But for people who have lost faith in the system, they are like the Cheshire cat in a land called BolehLand."Oh, you can't help that. Most everyone's mad here."

And RPK writing to these lost rabbits is perhaps "It would be so nice if something made sense for a change?”

*"It seems very pretty," she said when she had finished it, "but it's rather hard to understand!"  "Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas--only I don't exactly know what they are! However, somebody killed something: that's clear, at any rate---" Alice in Wonderland