The new year 2012 has dawned upon us. When a fate sealed upon 2011, a single is left with a vivid thought of how many worse things could have become. Granted a litany of weird happenings which have appeared upon a inhabitant theatre pre-2012, a single could usually goal for improved days ahead. But alas, right away in 2012, it looks similar to nothing many would change anyway. Sigh.
Never thoughts a impending nonetheless fugitive 13th ubiquitous election (13GE) which is lurking dangerously ahead. Political pundits have been kept bustling mulling over a assorted post-13GE permutations, trimming from a manoeuvre de grace of Umno et al to a retrogressive lapse to a aged sequence of a one-dominant celebration system.
Never thoughts a much-awaited visualisation due to be handed down upon a Sodomy II hearing of a former deputy budding apportion upon 901 (January 9). It is no exaggeration to suggest which a ears of a entire universe await a outcome which, in typically Malaysian style, is virtually a fait accompli. And nonetheless again another mislaid opportunity for a judiciary to redeem a sinister honour as well as respect as well as as for a "state of a Federation" an indictment of sorts.
But for a relentless nonetheless realistic optimist as he claims himself to be, this bard would similar to to consider which there is always space for a new as well as improved Malaysia in 2012 despite a rude odds! It simply begs a subject as to what is it which had incarcerated as well as has continued to enslave a Malaysian body, thoughts as well as soul?
Lest you consider a bard is being inflammatory, stoking a sentiments of a citizens as well as a rakyat or at least a "faithful" so as to be "engaged" in a domestic events as well as "happenings" by laying a compound to light a "Malaysian Spring" phenomenon, a likes of "Pakatan Rakyat" 2.0 or even 901, sorry, you got him wrong again. The crux of row is really about how do you get rid of a Malaysian domestic feel a border of "submissiven! ess" as well as "inertness"?
Notwithstanding a activism of ? la mode civil society, a immeasurable "passive majority" of a non-partisan rakyat has remained dreadfully as well as ominously muted. While which "inertia or inactivity" competence to some extent explain a perpetuation of domestic apathy, as a result domestic hegemony of a Umno-BN, it doesn't really explain because as well as how it developed and, if left unplugged, would go upon unabated, vilifying a Malaysian domestic landscape.
This essay is an try at bargain because such a pitiable ambience of detachment as well as obliviousness persisted, nay in actuality thrived, in a multitude which is ironically experiencing tremendous shake as well as long-lived domestic turbulence. The answer solid as well as simple is FEAR!
This bard firmly believes which if a Malaysian citizenry is means to break a border as well as tear a leg irons of FEAR, a republic would catapult unto an wholly opposite arena as well as as a result shall experience genuine revision as well as successive inhabitant transformation.
As a prerequisite to reform, a rakyat must understand how this system of administration perpetuates their hegemonic hold upon power as well as subjugating a people by a exploitation as well as institutionalisation of a governing body of FEAR.
Fear is arguably a many powerful enemy of Reason. While Reason might infrequently waste Fear, oftentimes Fear shuts down Reason. So a threat Fear poses to Reason is genuine as well as founded. Once Fear displaces Reason as well as surrenders a leisure to a manipulator or a bigot or a garland of "politicians" from any ideological persuasions or conviction, earnest a lapse of strength, confidence as well as perhaps "supremacy as well as lordship" over others, a endgame is a single of secular as well as eremite bigotry, irrationality, loathing as well as dissension.
Nations attain or fail as well as indeed define their inhabitant impression by a way they challenge a different as well ! as cope with Fear. If leaders irresponsibly feat open fears to flock people in directions or make them submit their leisure in lapse for "superiority, confidence as well as strength", Fear afterwards becomes a self-perpetuating force which undermines inhabitant will as well as weakens a inhabitant character.
Responsible leaders enthuse a people to conduct their legitimate fears as well as move about a "well-informed citizenry" formed upon Reason. But irresponsible leaders instead would feat fright as well as trigger a temptation to surrender a leisure to demagoguery as well as bigotry.
The aforementioned narrative aptly describes a governing body of fright of a statute Umno-BN for decades. The exploitation of Fear has been more conspicuous of late. In actuality it is a governing body of post-12GE of a Umno-BN supervision which is right away hell-bent upon perpetuating fright which is subverting a birth of a indeed organic as well as a vibrant democracy.
The rude awakening of losing a domestic stranglehold as well as abdication to a actuality which regaining a majority of Chinese as well as Indians support demeanour similar to wholly untenable or a nearby impossible, save a MCA-MIC diehards, Umno has right away turned to usually a Malays, a gullible as well as undiscerning sections of a Malay community.
Umno right away harps upon a primordial fright of Malays, which in actuality is their own creation "should Umno lose domestic supremacy, a Malays have been at risk of losing wholly this republic together with their sacrament to a non-Malays especially to DAP", a Chinese chauvinist party, as adamantly promoted by a Umno-BN media.
Umno has exploited as well as abused every entrance as well as means to stimulate secular distrust as well as stoke eremite dogmatism of a Malays as well as a Umno ubiquitous assembly (GA) spoke all. My critique upon a Umno GA is clear in my many new writing "Umno-Najib needs a game-changer?"
Despite a new arrangement of how Umno leaders plundered! a resou rces of a nation, right away epitomized by a "Cowgate" scandal as well as a humiliating controversy involving a religion-based apportion as well as many others as purported by a apportion embattled by a NFC scandal, a Umno-BN supervision has a insolence to lay claim which a Pakatan federal supervision would bankrupt a nation. Atrocious sigh!
Umno unashamedly goes around preaching to a undiscerning as well as gullible Malays which their future rests in Umno helming a federal supervision as well as clinching domestic victory in a next GE.
Umno is totally preoccupied which a Malays have been right away fully cognisant as to how they Umno have impoverished a Malays to turn a racial organisation suffering many in both inter- as well as intra-ethnic income-wealth disparity. They have usually enriched disproportionately a chosen Umnoputera, perhaps BNputera!
Of late they have descended to a ultimate low by any norms of tellurian decency by directly instilling as well as perpetuating FEAR, by a sheer use of beast force.
The Lawyers For Liberty (LFL) has cursed a action of military brutality inflicted upon tyro activists who were peacefully convention to demand academic leisure in front of Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI) upon Jan 1 at about 12.30am. This eventuality again spoke all.
Umno has right away wantonly used extreme force opposite pacific as well as with bare hands students in a try to disperse a students. This penchant for a arrangement as well as use of jagged force by a police, as condoned by their domestic masters, is an action of timidity as well as pathognomonic Umno's governing body of fear!
The result of GE13 as well as a outcome of 901 have been surely main milestones as well as watershed events in a nation's domestic history. But until as well as unless you have been means to mount up to debunk bigotry, demagoguery as well as governing body of fear, this republic is cursed as well as 2012 shall nonetheless be another politics-as-! usual ye ar!
So shall you all mount up as well as be counted! Shall you all say NO to a governing body of fear?
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