You realise which our mistrust of a future creates it hard to give up a past.- Chuck Palahniuk (Survivor)
COMMENTHere you go again. The central thesis of myprevious piecewas how you as Malaysians frankly played Dr Mahathir Mohamad's competition diversion as well as lost.
That's not surprising since a Umno house regularly wins. We have been still playing a same diversion usually this time, you have changed a rules. Prime Minister Najib Razak as well as MCA arch Dr Chua Soi Lek obviously have not caught upon to this fact.
I do not find either Najib'smendacious assurancesto a Chinese village which a systemic racism faced by them is a border beliefs as well as not mainstream Umno convictions or a predictable banal recoil by a sure territory of a Chinese community, particularly newsworthy.
Perceptive observers would assimilate which competition relations in Malaysia is solely tangible by these dual communities - Umnoputra as well as a Chinese community, while a Orang Asli, non-Umno Malays, Indian, et al, have been merely 'passengers' (or traitors in a box of non-Umno Malays) - a step-up from 'pendatangs' you suppose.
Pointing out a inconsistencies in Najib's 'reassurances' would be similar to shooting fish in a barrel though there have been a little insights to be gained from a tongue oozing onward from a complement of administration with regards to a domestic being of Malaysia.
"We do not intend to lose," Najib! proclai ms so sure of he of a democratic ! routine in Malaysia, as well as seeing as how a numbers have been constantly being manipulated you do not disbelief him. But by 'we' he doesn't unequivocally mean BN though Umno.
He warns a Chinese if they wish to have a 'voice' in a system, they should opinion for MCA, never thoughts which having a voice hasn't halted a institutional racism which is a substructure of Umno routine or which he (and Umno) have been supposed to represent each Malaysian in any case of race, or so they claim.
But a questions still remains, what would Umno do as distant as communal expectations have been concerned if their bloc partners lose?
That's not surprising since a Umno house regularly wins. We have been still playing a same diversion usually this time, you have changed a rules. Prime Minister Najib Razak as well as MCA arch Dr Chua Soi Lek obviously have not caught upon to this fact.
I do not find either Najib'smendacious assurancesto a Chinese village which a systemic racism faced by them is a border beliefs as well as not mainstream Umno convictions or a predictable banal recoil by a sure territory of a Chinese community, particularly newsworthy.Perceptive observers would assimilate which competition relations in Malaysia is solely tangible by these dual communities - Umnoputra as well as a Chinese community, while a Orang Asli, non-Umno Malays, Indian, et al, have been merely 'passengers' (or traitors in a box of non-Umno Malays) - a step-up from 'pendatangs' you suppose.
Pointing out a inconsistencies in Najib's 'reassurances' would be similar to shooting fish in a barrel though there have been a little insights to be gained from a tongue oozing onward from a complement of administration with regards to a domestic being of Malaysia.
"We do not intend to lose," Najib! proclai ms so sure of he of a democratic ! routine in Malaysia, as well as seeing as how a numbers have been constantly being manipulated you do not disbelief him. But by 'we' he doesn't unequivocally mean BN though Umno.
He warns a Chinese if they wish to have a 'voice' in a system, they should opinion for MCA, never thoughts which having a voice hasn't halted a institutional racism which is a substructure of Umno routine or which he (and Umno) have been supposed to represent each Malaysian in any case of race, or so they claim.
But a questions still remains, what would Umno do as distant as communal expectations have been concerned if their bloc partners lose?
Malays go during it alone
Well, a answer to which is simple. The hawks in Umno have already motionless which a "Malay go during it alone" routine is a many appropriate strategy. No disbelief buttressed by a hurtful coalitions from Sabah as well as Sarawak, Umno could theoretically reason upon to power as well as wait a opposition out.
By progressing control in a supposed 'Malay heartland' by any means necessary, they goal to cut off Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim from a mainstream Malay polity. This, as well as of march a "flawed" electoral process, should keep a diversion starting for a little time even if by electoral attrition their influence wanes.
The supposed moderates realising a inevitable futility of this have been chaotically coming up with other strategies.
The newish plan of Najib echoing a Anwar give up of supervision assist not being a zero-sum diversion as well as implying which BN, or during slightest his BN, is offering a class-based proceed to problems even if BN is in speculation a race-based domestic coalition, has been flattering limp starting so far.
The usually difference between him as well as Anwar is which distinct Anwar, who has been flattering consistent in his summary to a assorted communities he is campaigning to (much to a fear of his domestic opponents); Najib as well as his allies have one summary for each community, which during slightest in this courtesy is consistent with a underlying beliefs of their domestic pact.
This abrupt change of ideological tongue of Umno is frequency surprising. Former budding apportion as well as Perkasa enthusiast Dr Mahathir Mohamad claimed not as well long ago during a Perkasa/Gertak 'mega' rally which May 13 was in reality a class-based dispute though of march his polemic was kaleidoscopic with a usual 'communist' undertones directed during Anwar as well as a DAP.
The reality which a former premier could suggest such a thing during a supposed 'race-based awakening' was amusing, though you reckon usually to me.
But afterwards again, nobody should be astounded with BN's ideological dissonance since Pakatan Rakyat itself is a bundle of barely suppressed ideological as well as religious impulses. Not which it matters of course.
Pakatan partisans have displayed a conspicuous intolerance during challenging their own domestic convictions or even possible policies preferring instead to fill upon a daily financial scandals as well as a resultant shade fool around arrests, which have been fed to them by canny domestic operatives.
The opposition bloc has played a domestic diversion shrewdly though unequivocally Umno's incompetence is half a battle won. Pakatan's own financial as well as domestic scandals have been dismissed by their supporters as insignificant (compared to BN's) or as BN promotion meant to destabilise a frail coalition.
Modern-day slavery
Najib's ultimate "goody" - how you disgust which tenure - bag to cab drivers is a ultimate state-sanctioned bribery which has blown up in Umno's face. Predictably Pakatan supporter! s have l apped this up gleefully indicating out a countless cronycrats, who have benefitted from this system.
Taxi drivers as a possible voting retard have been awash with a plod which soils a system. Playing a complement with price-fixing gangs, employing 'foreigners' as substitute drivers, as well as a list goes on.
Najib's rsther than preposterous explain which a corner of private companies of cab licences is a form of modern-day labour is despicable though fits in easily with PAS' 'mahafiraun' account with regards to a citizen labour to Umno.
If Najib unequivocally wants to wage a jihad upon modern-day labour here in Malaysia, he should privately demeanour into a tellurian trafficking of children, women as well as group who use a assorted industries - both legal as well as bootleg - which contribute to a economy of this nation as well as Umno coffers.
He should demeanour during a 'slave wages' earned by a little in a Indian as well as Chinese village who have a added violation of being denied citizenships for bureaucratic reasons. And afterwards of course, there's a 'Orang Asli problem'.
But all these really genuine issues have been subsumed beneath a domestic one-upmanship which Umno seems to be losing in a cyber promotion fight as well as let's face it, Pakatan is unable to address for assorted reasons. All which is stirring have been assurances which by winning federal power, they would be means to compromise these 'issues"' Exactly how they intend to do this is something you have to take upon faith.
Faith. Something which Umno doesn't appear to realise is practically self-existent in a sure territory of a voting public, which Umno is aggressively courting. Najib talks of "ghosts" which have been being created out of a Lynas emanate as well as he's ! right.
There has been really little design sermon upon a Lynas emanate so distant solely appeals to tension from both sides of a domestic divide. BN, of course, has got zero to tumble back upon since decades of! senior manager interference has left all a supervision institutions abandoned of credibility staffed by cronycrats unable to command an iota of respect.
Pakatan, upon a other hand, has had a margin day turning this emanate into their categorical environmental as well as safety (sic) emanate in lieu of any substantive environmental policies of their own.
And great for them though bad for us in a long tenure if any emanate will regularly been used as stakes in a domestic diversion since a alternative alliance which claims to be brazen thinking as well as on-going regularly has a forgive which it is concerned in a hold up as well as death onslaught with their domestic opponents.
Najib's wingman
I'm not astounded which Umno has a little arrange of 'reality distortion field' during work in Putrajaya though I'm astounded which it has influenced Najib's wingman to a Chinese community, Chua Soi Lek.
Chua a sleek user with a great work ethic - he would have finished well during Tunku Abdul Rahman's tenure (sex liaison as well as all) - though seems to have unequivocally mislaid a plot.
His bare exposed shilling for Umno has reached preposterous heights. His 'counseling' of 'not dwelling' upon what happened in 60s as well as 70s to those youths is bizarre. you disbelief many Chinese, or even many Malaysians, have been even aware of what happened in a 60s or 70s. What they know of it is probably Umno promotion or unaccepted communal propaganda! . you doub t they have been up-to-date upon a subaltern narratives which have been released from a discourse.
No. What they have been home upon is what happened final year. Or final week or yesterday. What they have been home upon is a attempted murder of Teoh Beng Hock or a demonisation of a Malay! sian pol itician similar to Lim Guan Eng who is a noted man simply since he is Chinese arch apportion not authorised by Umno. They have been home upon a countless provocations by Umno outsourced thugs who a MCA is guilty by organisation with.
As you pronounced you have been playing a same diversion though you changed a rules. The categorical order change is which a Chinese village doesn't caring if they get illustration in a cabinet since a MCA has been doing a piss poor job. They do not give a damn about a vigorous discussions behind 'closed doors'. The communal issues which a MCA championed prior to is right away in a purview of a DAP.
The MCA, distinct Umno, has zero to tumble back on. That's a problem with being a minority race-based party in a multiracial country. Of course, a existential crisis MCA is confronting right away will eventually be experienced by any minority race-based party. Thinking long-term has never been a strong fit of a Malaysian voting public.
Ghosts from a past haunt this choosing as well as each other election. We will never be means to exorcise them since you continue to fool around a same game.
Well, a answer to which is simple. The hawks in Umno have already motionless which a "Malay go during it alone" routine is a many appropriate strategy. No disbelief buttressed by a hurtful coalitions from Sabah as well as Sarawak, Umno could theoretically reason upon to power as well as wait a opposition out.
By progressing control in a supposed 'Malay heartland' by any means necessary, they goal to cut off Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim from a mainstream Malay polity. This, as well as of march a "flawed" electoral process, should keep a diversion starting for a little time even if by electoral attrition their influence wanes.
The supposed moderates realising a inevitable futility of this have been chaotically coming up with other strategies.
The newish plan of Najib echoing a Anwar give up of supervision assist not being a zero-sum diversion as well as implying which BN, or during slightest his BN, is offering a class-based proceed to problems even if BN is in speculation a race-based domestic coalition, has been flattering limp starting so far.
The usually difference between him as well as Anwar is which distinct Anwar, who has been flattering consistent in his summary to a assorted communities he is campaigning to (much to a fear of his domestic opponents); Najib as well as his allies have one summary for each community, which during slightest in this courtesy is consistent with a underlying beliefs of their domestic pact.This abrupt change of ideological tongue of Umno is frequency surprising. Former budding apportion as well as Perkasa enthusiast Dr Mahathir Mohamad claimed not as well long ago during a Perkasa/Gertak 'mega' rally which May 13 was in reality a class-based dispute though of march his polemic was kaleidoscopic with a usual 'communist' undertones directed during Anwar as well as a DAP.
The reality which a former premier could suggest such a thing during a supposed 'race-based awakening' was amusing, though you reckon usually to me.
But afterwards again, nobody should be astounded with BN's ideological dissonance since Pakatan Rakyat itself is a bundle of barely suppressed ideological as well as religious impulses. Not which it matters of course.
Pakatan partisans have displayed a conspicuous intolerance during challenging their own domestic convictions or even possible policies preferring instead to fill upon a daily financial scandals as well as a resultant shade fool around arrests, which have been fed to them by canny domestic operatives.
The opposition bloc has played a domestic diversion shrewdly though unequivocally Umno's incompetence is half a battle won. Pakatan's own financial as well as domestic scandals have been dismissed by their supporters as insignificant (compared to BN's) or as BN promotion meant to destabilise a frail coalition.
Modern-day slavery
Najib's ultimate "goody" - how you disgust which tenure - bag to cab drivers is a ultimate state-sanctioned bribery which has blown up in Umno's face. Predictably Pakatan supporter! s have l apped this up gleefully indicating out a countless cronycrats, who have benefitted from this system.
Taxi drivers as a possible voting retard have been awash with a plod which soils a system. Playing a complement with price-fixing gangs, employing 'foreigners' as substitute drivers, as well as a list goes on.
Najib's rsther than preposterous explain which a corner of private companies of cab licences is a form of modern-day labour is despicable though fits in easily with PAS' 'mahafiraun' account with regards to a citizen labour to Umno.
If Najib unequivocally wants to wage a jihad upon modern-day labour here in Malaysia, he should privately demeanour into a tellurian trafficking of children, women as well as group who use a assorted industries - both legal as well as bootleg - which contribute to a economy of this nation as well as Umno coffers.
He should demeanour during a 'slave wages' earned by a little in a Indian as well as Chinese village who have a added violation of being denied citizenships for bureaucratic reasons. And afterwards of course, there's a 'Orang Asli problem'.
But all these really genuine issues have been subsumed beneath a domestic one-upmanship which Umno seems to be losing in a cyber promotion fight as well as let's face it, Pakatan is unable to address for assorted reasons. All which is stirring have been assurances which by winning federal power, they would be means to compromise these 'issues"' Exactly how they intend to do this is something you have to take upon faith.
Faith. Something which Umno doesn't appear to realise is practically self-existent in a sure territory of a voting public, which Umno is aggressively courting. Najib talks of "ghosts" which have been being created out of a Lynas emanate as well as he's ! right.
There has been really little design sermon upon a Lynas emanate so distant solely appeals to tension from both sides of a domestic divide. BN, of course, has got zero to tumble back upon since decades of! senior manager interference has left all a supervision institutions abandoned of credibility staffed by cronycrats unable to command an iota of respect.
Pakatan, upon a other hand, has had a margin day turning this emanate into their categorical environmental as well as safety (sic) emanate in lieu of any substantive environmental policies of their own.
And great for them though bad for us in a long tenure if any emanate will regularly been used as stakes in a domestic diversion since a alternative alliance which claims to be brazen thinking as well as on-going regularly has a forgive which it is concerned in a hold up as well as death onslaught with their domestic opponents.
Najib's wingman
I'm not astounded which Umno has a little arrange of 'reality distortion field' during work in Putrajaya though I'm astounded which it has influenced Najib's wingman to a Chinese community, Chua Soi Lek.
Chua a sleek user with a great work ethic - he would have finished well during Tunku Abdul Rahman's tenure (sex liaison as well as all) - though seems to have unequivocally mislaid a plot.
His bare exposed shilling for Umno has reached preposterous heights. His 'counseling' of 'not dwelling' upon what happened in 60s as well as 70s to those youths is bizarre. you disbelief many Chinese, or even many Malaysians, have been even aware of what happened in a 60s or 70s. What they know of it is probably Umno promotion or unaccepted communal propaganda! . you doub t they have been up-to-date upon a subaltern narratives which have been released from a discourse.
No. What they have been home upon is what happened final year. Or final week or yesterday. What they have been home upon is a attempted murder of Teoh Beng Hock or a demonisation of a Malay! sian pol itician similar to Lim Guan Eng who is a noted man simply since he is Chinese arch apportion not authorised by Umno. They have been home upon a countless provocations by Umno outsourced thugs who a MCA is guilty by organisation with.As you pronounced you have been playing a same diversion though you changed a rules. The categorical order change is which a Chinese village doesn't caring if they get illustration in a cabinet since a MCA has been doing a piss poor job. They do not give a damn about a vigorous discussions behind 'closed doors'. The communal issues which a MCA championed prior to is right away in a purview of a DAP.
The MCA, distinct Umno, has zero to tumble back on. That's a problem with being a minority race-based party in a multiracial country. Of course, a existential crisis MCA is confronting right away will eventually be experienced by any minority race-based party. Thinking long-term has never been a strong fit of a Malaysian voting public.
Ghosts from a past haunt this choosing as well as each other election. We will never be means to exorcise them since you continue to fool around a same game.
S THAYAPARAN is Commander (rtd) of a Royal Malaysian Navy.
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