The ferocity as well as enthusiasm with which UMNO parliamentarians came out to chastise DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng over his alleged remarks connected with Johor's safety is similar to those shown to PAS emissary president Mat Sabu over his comments connected with Bukit Kepong.
There have been no genuine contribution to clear a attacks done around a main-stream media nor through a government-controlled newspapers. What was many expected a verbal matter by an antithesis leader has now been spun to mean alternative things in reserve from what it unequivocally was.
Even so, it has expel a spotlight upon what is unequivocally a stream state of crime rate in Malaysia, not just Johor. How loyal have been a government's gushings which things have been underneath carry out as well as a rate is upon a motionless downtrend?
When crime census data have been classified...
Early this year, Bukit Aman denied NGO Women's Aid Organisation (WAO) entrance to a 2010 Crime Statistics booklet rebuilt by its Sexual Crimes as well as Child Abuse division. "We requested for it upon March 3, but got a reply which they cannot recover these census data as they have been personal as confidential," said Ivy Josiah, WAO executive director. "Why should census data upon sexual crimes as well as crimes opposite children be 'confidential'? Isn't a ask a basic one?"
This is indeed strange, because have been Crime Statistics deemed confidential? Why have been official figures kept away from a open eye? Crime Statistics have been compiled by a military as well as by right up till 2005-2006, these c! ensus da ta were available until they mysteriously left from open view. Now, a 2010 Crime Statistics has even been classified.
So can it unequivocally be untrue which crime rates have been tall generally in states like Johor which sees complicated trade of abounding Singaporeans upon daily shopping excursions? With so small transparency, can Malaysians be blamed for jealous a government's word which a crime rate is actually falling?
Double standards
As for Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin's deduction which Guan Eng longed for to shock away Singaporean investors from investing in Johor, how current is this or is it mere politicising? Yet, throwing good clarity to a wind, a mainstream media spun his difference as a gospel law as well as a prime argument to lash out at Guan Eng.
But did Guan Eng unequivocally meant to shock away Singaporeans from investing in Johor by observant which a place was "not safe"? Would investors be so simply scared? Or was Guan Eng injecting a little black amusement into what is really expected as well as really sadly, a black truth?
And if Guan Eng is to be pinned down for his Johor comment, what about a a single done by a head of a hawkers association, Abdullah Md Yusuf. Abdullah said which given Penang was taken over as well as governed by a DAP, a Malays have been victimised as well as not treated with colour fairly as compared with a alternative groups. Why is Abdullah allowed to get away with such a inspiring as well as racist-t! inged st atement? Others have been charged for Sedition as well as jailed underneath a Internal Security Act for stating less.
Smear debate like Mat Sabu's
If UMNO is all out to infer which Johor is indeed safe, afterwards because not have a military recover a crime census data state by state to a public. Guan Eng would afterwards have to urge himself by releasing all a various census data to infer what he says is loyal - which a Malay businesses hav! e been n ot victimised in Penang as well as in fact far improved off than when Gerakan was in charge. Isn't fairer as well as more constructive for a people?
At a end of a day, it is all a game o! f percep tion as well as a goal is to set up a picture which all things non-UMNO is bad.
Johor is a UMNO heart-land as well as a DPM is himself a Johorean, thus it seems wise to play a 'Malay patriot' defending his home state. Whether or not Johoreans have been naive sufficient to hold as well as opinion for him out of hero-worship stays to be seen. But this certainly has all a signs of a allegation debate to kickstart a GE-13 as well as in loyal UMNO fashion, it is meant to ignite a glow of loathing opposite Pakatan.
The battle for Johor heats up
And this will be a pattern taken by BN as well as UMNO in a run-up to GE13. Starv! ed of re al issues to present prior to a people because they have shirked endeavour genuine reforms, BN will play up each as well as every cheep from a Pakatan leaders. Facts as well as figures will be tossed in reserve as well as hidden, whilst mere opinions from pro-UMNO people will be played up to a max.
The worse is yet to come as UMNO scrambles to win over a Malay vote. UMNO needs to turn 5% of a Malay opinion back into its foster in sequence for BN to benefit two-thirds of a 222 seats in Parliament. And to get ahead this 5% swing, they will resort to every trick in a book, dispatch honour as well as truth. Indeed, a battle has started to win a hearts as well as minds of a Malay heart-land.
Malaysia Chronicle
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