The statute bloc has unsuccessful to sense from a humbling 2008 General Election experience. And leading a container of a unreformed is a deputy prime minister
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Once bitten twice bashful is a word alien to Barisan Nasional. The three-party coalition's intolerable defeat in a 2008 General Election has unsuccessful to teach it any doctrine in humility.
Take a overbearing uncover of power by Deputy Prime Minister as well as Education Minister Muhyiddin Yassin who stubbornly spoken that a teaching of Maths as well as Science in English be reverted to Bahasa Malaysia this notwithstanding pleas by relatives for their children to have a option of choosing between either.
Muhyiddin, however, remained austere of completing his goal of making a Malay bulletin his tip many priority. It was a pleasing finish to this controversy when Muhyiddin unsuccessful to perform his wish, a single that served some-more of a personal bulletin instead of a nation's.
Prior to this, a DPM was usually as reluctant to step in as well as finish a controversy surrounding a Malay novel Interlok that was done a novel textbook for Form Five students starting this year.
Muhyiddin could not care reduction whether Indians in Interlok were called pariah or a Chinese were decorated as cheats as well as heartless parents. What he did reason important was that a author of this novel, national laureate Abdullah Hus! sain, no t be chided for labelling a non Malays in a racist as well as discrimninatory way.
It seems that BN is behind to a aged modus operandi of receiving a rakyat for granted. Hoodwinking a people underneath a tagline "people initial opening now" BN arch as well as prime minister, ! Najib Tu n Razak, has incited complacent, misguided by a idea that a mega bucks splashed upon mega projects have been sure to earn him mega votes come a 13th General Election.
But both Najib as well as Muyhiddin have got it all wrong. In fact, they have decided that a rakyat has no alternative choice though to come great to BN for help. Perhaps that is since Muyhiddin so confidently remarked upon Halloween Day that a rakyat has no improved choice than a BN government harrowing indeed.
Post-2008, there has been little consolation that BN has come to a senses as well as would spin over a brand new leaf. The ineffective leadership plus a bullying tactic practical by Najib as well as association have left a rakyat sure that BN has nonetheless to bury a massive ego.
This display of "leadership by example" has right away taken a spin for a worse. The antics of MCA president Chua Soi Lek as well as Women, Family as well as Community Development Minister Shahrizat Abdul Jalil have reliable a rakyat's worst calamity that governing body in Malaysia is all about portion personal interests, never a people's.
When BN censors a truth
Chua, a former illness apportion whose political career was broken after he was exposed having an extramarital affair, has nonetheless to sense his lesson, as distant as dispensing advice goes.
Reacting to a police's pierce to ban a Seksualiti Merdeka festival, an eventuality directed at empowering a LGBTIQ community, Chua pronounced military interference could have been avoided had a legal holiday organiser reason it in a "hush hush" manner.
Chua was quoted in The Star as saying that "the legal holiday organiser must be supportive as there have been sure segments of a village that competence ! not be a ble to accept such an event".
"If they wish to organise it similar to a legal holiday that runs for days, it might provoke people who might not agree with it," Chua had said.
Looks similar to Chua was speaking from expe! rience, though afterwards as a Malay saying goes, "berani kerana benar, takut kerana salah" (one is brave when right as well as fearful when in a wrong), there was no reason for a legal holiday organiser to cower in fear.
If dispensing that uncalled for advice was not enough, MCA warranted a defamation of Malaysians living abroad when MCA executive committee part of Ei Kim Hock told a Parliamentary Select Committee row upon Nov 11 that Malaysians living abroad were utter to opinion as they were "out of touch" with a country's current affairs.
Backing his claim, Ei pronounced MCA's research showed that many of these Malaysians usually received inform from dubious sources that might not paint a true picture of a situation here.
Needless to say, Malaysians living abroad squandered no time in receiving MCA to task, forcing Chua to rught away chastise Ei for his improper explanation. Chua clarified that MCA against abroad voting since of a "logistical nightmare" as well as resources indispensable for a success.
Such a comedy of errors! If indeed Malaysians abroad gained inform from unreliable sources, what afterwards have been a roles played by a Malaysian embassies located overseas? Do we take it as that a Tourism Ministry, mired in a everlasting controversy of extravagance, has unsuccessful to do a pursuit as a representative of inform for Malaysians in alternative parts of a world?
If a law cannot reach Malaysians staying abroad, it is since BN as a sovereign statute government chooses not to tell a law as well as not since a former does not know how to get reason of inform pertaining to their motherland.
Embezzlement of supports rakyat never forgets
2011 seems to be a single of controversies. The many new involv! es seaso ned politician, Shahrizat.
Shahrizat seems to have joined a bandwagon of hurtful as well as nepotism-practising politicians as well as has come underneath glow over claims that a National Feedlot Centre (NFC) paid f! or a RM1 0 million common ownership belonging to National Meat as well as Livestocks Corporation, a association wholly-owned by her family.
The NFC according to a Auditor-General's Report released last month, was right away in a mess. The inform pronounced production in 2010 was usually 3,289 head of cattle or 41.1% of a target set.
Opposition celebration PKR, meanwhile, purported that ! supports me termite for a NFC were siphoned off to associated companies owned by Shahrizat's family.
This news of open supports being swindled has enraged a rakyat, so most so that change.org, an online advocacy height has put out a petition job for Shahrizat's abdication over a NFC fiasco.
But resigning is distant from Shahrizat's mind. Instead, she resorted to gaining open sympathy by blaming a opposition for trying to fall short her as well as Wanita Umno, of that she is a chief.
"I see it as an try by a opposition to weaken our suggestion as wel! l as tha t of Wanita Umno. We have been not that easy to be broken nor have been we that soft," she told reporters.
But afterwards no a single is godlike as well as this Shahrizat has taken for granted. Yes, a rakyat, in their times of hurry-scurrying, do finish with a short memory though when it comes to piracy of open money, a rakyat is not a single to pardon or forget.
Jeswan Kaur is a freelance bard as well as a FMT columnist.
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