Passive May Be Better Than Active

In his article Cure the Cause, Not the Symptoms yesterday, Raja Petra said:

If the domestic parties infer they have been unqualified of bringing about shift afterwards maybe we should forget about domestic parties (and thus about seeing shift through the electoral process -- which but reforms is not starting to see the shift of supervision anyway). Maybe it requires the opposite form of transformation to bring about change.


And what alternative form of transformation do we consider this will require?


That is what we might need to speak about now.
Now, I wonder what he meant by that. Could he probably have meant receiving the pacifist rsther than than active stance?

Passive insurgency might be the improved option than active transformation seeing which many Malaysians can be viewed as gutless as well as frightened of polite transformation such as receiving to the streets given they fear the police, arrest, H2O cannons, etc.

Well, how about we DON'T take to the streets? Instead, we stay home as well as do nothing. Imagine the scenario where twenty-eight million Malaysians stay home as well as do not go to work or school. Public ride such! as buse s, train as well as taxis do not run. How long do we consider the supervision can last. Is this what RPK meant? Was he referring to 'hartal' - the power of wordless protests?

H artal is the word subsequent from Gujurati which literally translates to "closing down shops" or "locking doors"! refers t o the act of closing shops or suspending work, esp in domestic protest. To be fair, whilehartal by trait is the domestic as well as inherent right of adults to criticism the failure of their supervision during keeping promises and/or making decisions or receiving actions contrary to people's interest, hartal can negatively stroke the economy as well as every day activities of people.

Historically, it has been some-more than the century given the initial hartal was staged in South Africa. Led by Ghandi who recognised the thought of polite disobedience given of his methodology of satyagraha(devotion to the truth) against colonialism , it was orderly to criticism The Black Act in 1906 in 1906.

It is inspiring to see how the legislative addition of the 'Black Act' mobilized some-more Indian people in the Transvaal in to fasten Gandhi's Satyagraha campaign. South African History Online says:

On 29 Mar 1907, Transvaal Indian residents met during the mass assembly to criticism against the Asiatic Registration Act as well as offered intentional registration. This lead to the seven-year struggle in which thousands of Indians were jailed together with Gandhi himself upon many occasions. Protesters were flogged or even shot for striking, refusing to register, blazing their registration cards, or engaging in alternative forms of non-violent resistance.


The supervision was successful in repressing the Indian protesters. However, the open was angry during the oppressive methods in use by the South African supervision in the face of pacific Indian protesters. Therefore, South African General Jan Christiaan Smuts was fo! rced to come to terms the compromise with Gandhi.
(Source: HERE)

After the debut suc! cess of hartal aka non-violent resistance, Gandhi initiated an additional hartal, this time in India in 1918. Gandhi started an additional hartal the following year to criticism the Rowlatt Bill.

The proponents of hartals claim to be sportive globally concluded rights such as leisure of assembly as well as leisure of expression. However, as long as hartals have been compared with intimidation, coercion as well as transgression upon alternative people's leisure of movement, as well as if hartals inflict serious costs upon the nation as the whole, attempts to clear hartals by invoking principles of "freedom" might not come across as convincing or credible.

The South African experience shows how the dogged integrity of the people to fight for the approved rights of the people .

According to this link:

The African National Congress predates the Afrikaner Nationalist Party as the domestic organization in South Africa. Originally f! ounded i n 1912 (as the South African Native National Congress, acquiring the present name in 1923), the initial purpose is to urge as well as extend the voting rights of Coloured as well as African adults in the Cape Province.


After the National Party's postwar choosing victory, with conditions removing worse rsther than than better, leadership of the ANC is taken in 1949 by in advance younger members together with Oliver Tambo as well as Nelson Mandela. They classify the programme of i! ndustria l strikes, boycotts, marches as well as pacifist insurgency to discriminatory laws. In 1955 they assemble the mass open meeting, the Congress of the People, which proclaims the Freedom Charter.


The Freedom Charter ! of 1955 emphasizes the ANC's approved nonracial credentials, saying which 'South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black or white, as well as no supervision can justly claim management unless it is formed upon the will of the people'.


The ANC leaders as well as their supporters (among them Coloureds, Asians as well as magnanimous whites) have been increasingly harassed by the police. Yet during this stage the debate stays one of non-violent insurgency - the actuality internationally recognized when Albert Luthuli, boss of the ANC from 1952, is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1960. But this same year also sees the dramatic escalation in the conflict, following the first of the PAC.


In 195! 9 Robert Sobukwe, believing which the African cause is weakened by the ANC's partnership with alternative races, forms the breakaway organisation underneath the name Pan-Africanist Congress. The PAC devises the some-more confrontational gesture than any yet attempted by the ANC. In Mar 1960 tens of thousands of Africans all round the nation present themselves during military stations. They have been breaking the law given they have been not carrying their compulsory passes. In their vast numbers they present the military with an unfit challenge: detain us.


At Sharpeville, nearby Johannesburg, the military overreact. They glow upon the crowd, killing some-more than 60 people as well as wounding about 180 (most of them shot in the behind as they flee).


This snub proves the branch point. Thousands impetus as well as go upon strike, whilst the supervision reacts with severity - d! eclaring both the ANC as well as PAC prohibited organizations as well as arresting some 11,000 peop! le under neath puncture measures.


The ANC responds in 1961 with the arrangement of the guerrilla force, Umkhonto we Sizwe ('Spear of the Nation'), to carry out acts of sabotage. One of the leaders is Nelson Mandela. He is prisoner as well as is condemned in 1964 to hold up imprisonment. He is sent to the gaol upon Robben Island, in the brook off Cape Town. Oliver Tambo escapes in 1960 to Zambia, where he presides over the executive of the ANC in exile. READ MORE HERE.

Mandela served twenty-seven years in prison, spending many of these years upon Robben Island. After he was expelled from jail upon 11 February 1990, Mandela led his party in the negotiations which led to multi-racial democracy in 1994. As president, he frequently gave priority to reconciliation, whilst introducing policies aimed during combating poverty as well as inequality in South Africa. Since then, Mandela has received some-more than 250 awards over four decades, together with the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize.

If there had been no hartal as well as if Mandela as well as his fellow countrymen had not persevered for the cause, would South Africa have been liberated? For! sure, w e need brave Malaysians to fire the trail for shift in our dear country!


... if Parliament Members outside the parties in power find themselves regularly excluded from meaningful discourse as well as if Parliament does not offer as the first forum for approved discourse upon the nation's future, it is frequency surprising which the centre of gravity of the domestic debate shifts to some-mo! re uncon trolled arenassuch as the streets."

Furthermore, the investigate concludes which "although domestic parties must take the pass shortcoming in finale the 'hartal impasse', all sectors of multitude have an critical purpose to play to ensure which countenance of views takes place in the obliged way which will concede the nation to go upon the development path This will need courage, integrity as well as aptitude to move away from the hartal convention to embrace the brand brand new approved enlightenment of toleration as well as responsibility."
Page 83 of the UNDP study highlights an interesting development:

During the Ershad regime in Pakistan, polite multitude played the critical role, for e.g. in preventing Ershad from introducing the military in to the proposed Zila Parishad. The check could not be upheld in the surrounded by of serious condemnation from both the opposition as well as polite society.

Another e.g. of the polite multitude during this period was the lawyers' coordination committee which against the government's proposed inherent legislative addition check to set up permanent benches for High Court as well as Supreme Court groups during opposite divisional as well as district headquarters. In the similar manner the coordination
committees of doctors, engineers as well as agronomists, various associations of teachers, students as well as traffic unions voiced their professional as well as domestic final through non-cooperation as well as non-violent methods.

In 1991, after the free as well as fair general choosing conducted by the neutral caretaker government, both the statute party as well as the opposition easy parliamentary democracy upon the basis of accord - the singular pointer of cooperation in Bangladeshi domestic history.
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Can such positive developments occur in Malaysia?

Interestingly, hartal has the place in Malaysian history. Watch the following videos:






In reality, on top of travel demonstrations such as 'Bersih' as well as hartal, there ! have been othe r 'soft strategies' which have been in effect in influencing process as well as voicing views together with 'human chains', wordless protests, ridicule Parliaments as well as ridicule courts.

It is time polite society, the media, as well as the rakyat play their purposes as advocates for change. Civil multitude should adopt brand brand new as well as innovative ways of popularizing approved reforms alternative than the existent methods of workshops as well as seminars. One way would be to make firm media family as well as with players in the alternative media. All parties should be grown up sufficient to encourage approved discourse with the aim of compelling approved remodel through their programmes as well as advocacy.

While we might have leisure of expression, this must take place in the obliged manner to open up avenues for all have the ro! le to pl ay in developing this nation. Courage, unity, integrity as well as bid have been indispensable to develop the brand brand new approved enlightenment of tolerance, apply oneself as well as responsibility. In this respect, I hold pacifist might be improved than active. - masterwordsmith
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