Wise group increase some-more from fools than fools from scold men; for a scold group evade a mistakes of fools, though fools do not imitate a successes of a wise. Cato a Elder (234 BC 149 BC) from Plutarch, Lives.
In my opinion, a greatest mistake that a supervision had done in a Bersih issue was to besiege a vast territory of a multitude from itself, annoy them as well as modify them in to a Bersih sympathizer and/or supporter.
At a little indicate of time prior to a Bersih convene in my opinion it was about a time Pak samad pronounced was hauled to a military station a Bersih transformation had transcended a electoral remodel design in to a full scale platform for a people to vent their frustrations, disappointments, angst as well as annoy to a government.
To put it crassly, from that indicate of time, Bersih became a platform for most people to uncover their center finger to a government, for whatever personal reason(s) they might have.
All a supervision had to do in a early days of Bersih 2.0 was to deal with Bersih as well as a demands. The final were not about a sharpening inflation as well as cost of domicile items; not about Teoh Beng Hock or Sarbaini; not about corruption; not about physical phenomenon rate hike; not about Astro cost hike; not about a police, MACC or whichever agency.
The final were usually about a satisfactory as well as usually choosing or what was viewed by Bersih as such. That was it. It was politically related though not politically motivated. (For a uninitiated, there is a difference between a two). The actuality that a little antithesis domestic parties were in solidarity with Bersih did not demote Bersih in to a domestic celebration with a unavoidable as well as in attendance domestic baggage.
The grounds of Bersih was an idea, a thought. The suspicion was a choosing routine is not fair. The ensuing conclusion from that suspicion was that a electoral routine needs remodel! or duri ng least a change. That was all.
Being an idea, or a thought, Bersih ope! rates an d infects a rank as well as file insidiously. It is in their conduct that a suspicion is planted. It is not in their behaviour. A Bersih sympathizer or supporter, with a pronounced planted idea, would not action in a proceed an Al-Qaeda member would. He or she was not going to tag C4 around his or her body, go to a mall upon a Sunday, as well as buy a self-evident ticket to heaven by floating himself or herself up.
Planted with that idea, a Bersih sympathizer or believer would try to convince others that which suspicion was correct. That suspicion will infest as well as continue to infest.
The wearing of yellow t-shirts with a word Bersih was usually a proceed or equates to in use by conduit of such suspicion to have well known that he or she subscribed to that suspicion to a open world.
The yellow t-shirts were not even a phenomenon of a suspicion that he or she carried. With or though a yellow t-shirts, a suspicion still infests their mind. Similarly, a colour of a t-shirts, did not matter. It could have been pinkish for all they cared though a suspicion stayed a same.
The idea, as you pronounced earlier, was that a choosing routine is not satisfactory as well as it needs reform.
And so, this was what, allegorically, a supervision was confronting about a month prior to a rally. There were a little yellow mosquitoes drifting around in a little soppy markets; selling malls; convention bedrooms as well as o a streets. That was it. Nothing more.
It was similar to a self-evident full of blood fly in a automobile cockpit. Irritating, yes. Annoying, yes. Threatening, positively not.
And how exactly did a supervision react to these handful yellow mosquitoes? Well, it took out a little unequivocally vast as well as heavy cannons as well as shot a mosquitoes!
The supervision firstly denied that a choosing routine was not fair. That was okay. Because by you do th! at, a su pervision was essentially perplexing to succeed an hostile idea. But what it did after was over rationale. Any strategist, domestic or otherwise, value his or her salt, would cringe in disbelief.
It went out seizing a yellow t-shirts. Pe! ople who wore a offending attire were arrested. How did impediment people wearing yellow as well as seizing a yellow item support in erasing a suspicion that Bersih had planted? The suspicion was in a head. That suspicion did not reside in a yellow t-shirts. That was a supervision reacting according to a self-evident marahkan nyamuk kelambu dibakar (loosely translated, angry with a mosquitoes, bake a mosquito net) way.
First, a open reaction was one of disbelief. Soon it became a joke. The government, a police, a Home Minister as well as all else who were viewed to be a instigator to a action of banning a colour yellow became a large joke.
The fun afterwards became even a bigger joke. That was when a supervision as well as a machinery, direct as well as indirect, embarked in to proviso dual of their quarrel propaganda.
I have stated in The Doctor is Not In that an totalitarian would adhere to each fact, even manufactured ones, to justify a oppression. you quoted Umberto Eco, in "Turning Back The Clock" who said:
"In general, in sequence to maintain popular support for their decisions, dictatorships point a finger during a country, group, race, or secret multitude that is plotting opposite a people underneath a dictator. All forms of populism, even ? la mode ones, try to acquire consensus by articulate of a hazard from abroad, or from inner groups." (emphasis is mine).
How loyal is that? Umberto Eco could have been articulate about Malaysia actually. Did he have a digital crystal round or what?
Barely recuperating from jolt a collective conduct over a detain of people wearing ye! llow, a supervision went in to ape mode. Bersih was infiltrated by communists. It was also saved by Christian groups. Some Ministers as well as a military afterwards pronounced there were evidence that Bersih had sure foreign elements focussed upon formulating massacre as well as overthrowing a government.
All classic wart! ime prop aganda. But really, who was during war? Nobody except for a government.
Sticking with a quarrel theme, a governments well known, though a most laughable as well as stupid shit stirrer, Perkasa as well as a leader, Ibrahim Ali, launched a opposite transformation as well as called themselves Gerak Aman (Peace Movement, in English), with Ibrahim Ali as a quarrel general.
So, you had a assent transformation with a quarrel general. And a quarrel ubiquitous though any quarrel to go to. He afterwards soon released a unequivocally pacific statement, ie, a Chinese had improved stocked up food as well as not come out to a street upon July 9th.
This was followed by a little silat organization dogmatic that it will wage quarrel opposite Bersih participants. The next day this organization appointed itself as a 3rd line of counterclaim of Malaysia, an appointment that was duly accorded official capitulation by none other than a Prime Minister himself later.
At this indicate in time, a governments handling of a Bersih issue had changed from disbelief-dom, to jokes-ville as well as now to a surreal as well as burlesque town. The supervision had afterwards managed to annoy a Bersih sympathisers as well as supporters; removed a Christians as well as Chinese; as well as incited itself in to a little kind of a reduction of Robin Williams as well as Russell Brand (no insult meant to Katy Perry, of course).
Ambiga, a Chairperson of Bersih was instantaneously declared as an enemy of Islam. Quite how Bersihs electoral remodel bulletin became intertwined with competition as well as conviction is utterly over most to conjure. But enemy of Islam she was. That managed to besiege a non-Musli! ms as we ll as even a thinking Muslims form a governments stance.
So, after that, a pesky yellow mosquitoes problem had incited in to a full scale bolt of biblical proportion, assimilated in by a elephants, lions, tigers, snakes as well as what have you. Congratulations.
The climax of all of these a mom of all fcuk ups to me, was a mounting of roadblocks during a sunrise peak hours from Wednesday a 6th of July onwards.
By this time, even a normal apathetic middle-c! lass Mal aysians who could not even be worried to register themselves as electorate became agitated as well as upset.
This apathetic middle-class have been a really gentle lot. They will not pierce their ass to do anything if that would mean bringing themselves out of their comfort zone. Finding a TV remote control is bringing themselves out of their comfort zone, to these people. They will not be arsed to do anything until as well as unless they turn uncomfortable.
And of course, being stuck in a traffic jam in their second-hand BMWs, Benz as well as whatever was worried to them. And they told themselves, enough with this crap. you am going to uncover my center finger to a police!
By this time, almost a whole territory of a civic multitude was removed by a government. Even a civil servants who were late for work were thinking of joining a rally.
Speaking of a police, detached from being busy carrying guns as well as waving a traffic to pass by, they managed to find parangs as well as molotov cocktails during Sogo. There you have it. Bersih was focussed upon formulating havoc.
Why parangs? Why not guns as well as bombs? And to consider about it, a molotov cocktails were done in cosmetic bottles. Who in their right thoughts would have molotov in cosmetic bottles, hullo? From that university did a man graduate? Off campus? Online course?
Disbelief. Joke. Burlesque. Ridicule. Anger.
What a transformation.
The easiest thing to do was to quarrel a suspicion that a choosing routine needs reform. That was all that was n! eeded. A n suspicion is fought by firstly, showing that which suspicion is not utterly correct. Or that it was not credible. Then neutralize that suspicion with a improved as well as some-more acceptable idea.
An suspicion is not fought by impediment a people having that idea. Or by banning a colour depicting subscription to that idea. Or by dogmatic a chairman heading a transformation perpetuating that suspicion as anti-Islam. Or that it was Christian idea. Oh my God. Fail!
Now, lets not talk about what happened during a rally. Suffice if you contend that a people joining! a ral ly were not a hooligans they were done out to be. We all could watch all a YouTube videos as well as decide for ourselves.
The thing that you wish to criticism about is this.
If a governments handling of Bersih prior to a convene was over belief in a irrationality as well as unreasonableness, a handling AFTER a convene is not any better, if not far worse.
The IGP became a laughing batch when he quickly announced that usually 6000 people attended a rally. Then a Home Minister chipped in to contend a military was satisfactory as well as in actuality really restrain in their proceed upon a 9th of July. The Prime Minister pronounced a military were a design of tranquillity as well as displayed a monk-like perspective towards a convene goers.
Ha ha as well as ha.
The Minister Liow denied teargas was fired in to devalue of Tung Shin. Chua Soi Lek, not be left out, chipped in to contend a military had to teargas a sanatorium in sequence to strengthen a patients. And today, 11 doctors from that hospitals states their willingness to affirm affidavits underneath promise that a military did in actuality fire water as well as teargas in to a devalue of a sanatorium upon July 9th. They pronounced a military even entered in to a buildings to search for convene goers. (the full inform is here)! .
The Prime Minister had left for a UK. The mainstream media went ape-like in blaming Anwar as well as mocking his injury. This obsession with Anwar Ibrahim is essentially utterly irritating. let me tell you all something. Most convene goers did not give a scream about Anwar that day. That day was not about Anwar. It was about their center finger that they had wanted to indicate to a little others.
The general press that of course, in a governments book, have been always disposition as well as out to pursue their secret bulletin opposite a nation have not been kind to a government. Even a Jakarta Post paper (Malaysia is abounding though not free) was not flattering. Yesterday, Bloombergs William Pesek was sardonic in his opinion. Pesek is an successful writer as well as Bloomberg is a reference indicate for most foreign investors. (his article is here). So, whats a plan here?
Someone died during a rally. Have you heard a word of magnetism or condolence from a governments side? you have not. All you had was a common defensive dont censure me statements.
Are you human? Or have you stopped being human? Since when?
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