May 7, 2012
PART 1: Seeing The Bright Side
(Next Week: Part Two: Lessons To Be Learned)
By Dr. M. Bakri Musa
Morgan-Hill, California
In a issue of a largest public demonstrations against a Barisan government, a officials' mania now turns to a practice of apportioning censure as good as a associated inflicting of vengeance. Both have been tender human reactions, though frequency enlightening, sophisticated, or even fruitful. Besides, there is copiousness of censure to go around. you prefer to look during a splendid side as good as on a lessons which can be learned.
BERSIH 3.0 clearly demonstrates which Malaysians no longer fright a state. In which courtesy you have been a quantum jump forward of a Egyptians under Mubarak, a Iraqis under Saddam, or a Chinese under Mao (or even today). When adults have been no longer fearful of a state, most smashing things would follow. BERSIH is additionally a initial successful multiracial mass movement in Malaysia. In a republic spooky with as good as where each facet is tangible by race, which is an feat estimable of note. Another significant milestone, again not widely acknowledged, is which a movement is led by a lady who is neither Malay nor a Muslim. Ambiga Sreenevasan broke not a single though 3 Malaysian glass ceilings!
On a green note, BERSIH 3.0 suggested which Barisan leaders (and a couple of from a Opposition) have nonetheless to sense as good as accept a elemental premise which dissent is an integral partial of a democratic process, as good as expressing it by pacific public a simple human right. At a some-more mundane level though no less important, a authorities' performance in BERSIH 3.0 additionally unprotected their sad incompete! nce as g ood as loosening in simple throng control.
In any mass convene you design a minority to get carried divided or be willfully indulging in criminal acts. It is a duty of a authorities to forestall and
apprehend them, though not to use which as fact to provide as criminals a vast infancy who have been differently peaceful, or for a Police to behave similar to criminals in responding.
To keep things in perspective, as good as with no intent to insult those injured, whose properties were damaged, as good as those differently inconvenienced, a mayhem final Saturday was no worse than which following an American college championship game. More to a point, considering a vastly most larger throng as good as a most some-more main issues during stake, no lives were lost.
Discerning The Winners as good as Losers
As with a college championship game, there were definite winners as good as champions from final Saturday's contest. As for a losers, there were copiousness of them too. If you were to crop up late on a theatre or just a detached spectator similar to me, it would not be terribly difficult to figure out who were a brand new champions as good as who were a sore losers just by examination their reactions.
It was a tribute to BERSIH's leaders which they did not gloat a hallmark of genuine champions. They remained cool as good as confidently went on to aim their next trophy, a removal of a Chairman as good as Vice-Chairman of a Elections Commission for a pair's blatant domestic partisanship by being, between others, UMNO members.
Although BERSIH was a bloc of NGOs, it nonetheless welcomed participation from all, together with members of domestic parties. Thus there were inexhaustible representations from a Op! position as they as good shared BERSIH's design of clean as good as satisfactory elections. Again it was a tribute to BERSIH's cordial as good as worldly leadership which it welcomed their participation as good as did not try to carry out or differently censor their speeches as good as actions. BERSIH leaders reputable individual freedom, again reflecting their maturity as good as sophistication.
As for a domestic players on possibly side of a issue, you as good could additionally easily mind a winners as good as losers between them. KEADILAN's personality Anwar Ibrahim described a eventuality as a "celebration of unity, an awakening for liberation. [It] shall go down in a nation's history as Merdeka Rakyat when 300,000 spoke in a single voice to demand a giveaway as good as satisfactory election. . [Those who] came down in full force were speedy by a sense of justice to demand ransom from usurpers. Their summary cannot be mistaken a giveaway republic cannot be enslaved anymore."He continued, "BERSIH 3.0 represents a hopes as good as dreams of all Malaysians which a domestic legitimacy of any supervision in a destiny can usually be achieved by a genuine democratic process." That is a confident voice of a winner.
Contrast which to a reactions of a Prime Minister, his Deputy Muhyiddin, as good as Home Minister Hishammuddin. Muhyiddin was initial to a draw, threatening to make BERSIH pay for a damages, presumably together with those caused by those ubiquitous razor fences, tear gas explosions, as good as blasting water cannons. For his part, Hishammuddin contemptuously dismissed a smashing of journalists' cameras as "standard operating procedure," usually to be contradicted after by his Chief of Police. As most after found out, a P! olice sm ashed some-more than just cameras.
Najib's hospital visit to a harmed publisher Radzi Razak was a friendly personal touch. However, a heavily-covered media eventuality backfired as it suggested as good much. Radzi's facial countenance during Najib's scarcely quarter-of-an-hour monologue where he (Najib) apparently apologized to a harmed reporter showed which he (Radzi) was anything though comforted by a Prime Minister's participation or words. Later Najib blasted a demonstrators for not with regard to a justice order banning entry into Dataran Merdeka, in a centre forgetting his administration's contempt for citizens' right to pacific assembly. The irony of a venue; Dataran Merdeka Freedom Square!
In short, a domestic contingent of Najib, Muhyyiddin as good as Hishammuddin behaved similar to standard losers, consumed with blaming others as good as looking vengeance. They were not distinct a 3 blind mice using around as if BERSIH had cut off their tails. The contingent might not be blind though they positively behaved similar to 3 myopic mice, incompetent to see over their whiskers.
Futility of a "Blame Game"
Trying to dispense censure during this theatre of a game, even when attempted by well-meaning as good as neutral observers, is a fatuous exercise. When done by domestic hacks, as most certainly it would, a practice would offer usually to aggravate aged wounds.
When you have dry balderdash strewn all over, cans of gasoline purposely left open, as good as match boxes fast tossed around, a subject of who illuminated 
the initial matchstick becomes irrelevant. There will regularly be someone who saw somebody else who struck a match earlier. Then a analyses as good as debates would fast degenerate into a minutiae of dete! rmining a expect seconds or minutes, or interpreting what certain gestures as good as phrases might or might not mean in a feverishness of a occasion. Indeed such a puerile practice is already good underway, as good as worse, it is being taken seriously by a authorities!
A some-more utilitarian try would be to sense ways of, metaphorically speaking, getting rid of a dry tinder, a thick brush of mutual suspicions, a open cans of inflammatory slimes, as good as a straightforwardly accessible matches. Such an practice would need of Najib, Muhyiddin as good as Hishammuddin (right) to be alternative than a 3 blind mice. Mice, blind as good as otherwise, flower in rubbish.
Najib et al. need to look distant over their whiskers as good as ponder whether a laying of razor fences during Dataran Merdeka as good as branch a core of modern pacific Kuala Lumpur into an Israeli-occupied West Bank, Korea's Demilitarized Zone, or Stalin's Gulag is a homogeneous of stealing open cans of gasoline or merely spewing some-more fuel. This indicate was forcefully done by a poster on a single razor fence, "Welcome to Tel Aviv!"
There have been hundreds if not thousands of such cinema as good as personal accounts of BERSEH 3.0. One overwhelmed me immensely. "Up 'til Friday afternoon you was still unsure about going," she wrote. " Then you saw a photos of a Police rolling out a spiny wire as good as you saw red. Since when did a police, or whoever is their boss, hurl out spiny wire spiny wire!! against their own people?? Are you thugs? Terrorists? Thieves?"
The spectator who wrote which is no raging anti-establishment anarchist. On a contrary, Marina Mahathir is a thoughtful commentator, really most mainstream. She saw usually a pictures ! of Polic e laying down those razor fences, as good as she was incensed. Imagine if she had been strolling down a travel as good as been rudely confronted by which hideous sight? What if she was a foreign tourist?
Ponder a mindset of those who due a thought in a initial place, or a crew who laid down those razor fences. Did they think which Malaysians have been such unruly hooligans which could usually be kept divided by those ominous barriers? Or were a authorities gleefully devising as good as salivating in expectation of a little trusting adults being ripped detached by those pointy blades? We decider others by a own image. To a leaders you contingency be a republic of thieves, thugs, as good as terrorists since they themselves are.
Najib as good as others straightforwardly referred to a damages done by a demonstrators while in a centre unaware those incurred by a police, as with a nonessential highway closures prolonged prior to a event. you consternation how most ambulances as good as doctors were behind on their approach to a hospital to attend to emergencies before the convene since of a large highway closures. Violence was perpetrated on a city prolonged prior to a initial demonstrators arrived.
Do not design most introspection from a leaders; sore losers have been unqualified of that. They could not for example, fathom which a laying of razor fences, drawn out closing of streets, as good as complicated Police participation contributed to a violence. Such an insight escapes them.
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