December 14, 2012
Biro Tata NegaraThe Ethnic Hate Machine
by J Bellamy (12-13-12)@http://www.malaysiakini.com
COMMENT: I was once a part of of a organisation of supervision servants forced to attend a Biro Tatanegara (BTN, or National Civics Bureau) "nationhood" course.
This Orwellian dialect began life as a 'Youth Research Unit' in 1974, underneath a Youth Ministry. It was re-invented as a BTN in a Prime Minister's Department, underneath Dr Mahathir Mohamad,Prime Minister during a time.
Prime Minister Najib Adul Razak's overfed, flabby dialect bestowed a BTN with RM74 million of open money in 2009.
BTN has repaid taxpayers with secular slurs. Hamim Husin (left), a deputy executive of a Federal Territory office of a BTN, called a Chinese 'si sepet' (slanted-eye) as well as a Indians 'si botol' (alcoholics) during an UMNO assembly in September 2010. Hamim managed to alienate some-more than 30 percent of a nation's race in one breath.
Half a year earlier, in Feb 2010, Nasir Safar, a "special assistant" to Najib, was forced to renounce after expressing his contempt for a non-Malay 'pendatang' or immigrants.
At a 1Malaysia event, Nasir called Malaysian Indians "beggars" as well as Malaysian Chinese "prostitutes". His half-crazed debate was blamed upon brainwashing by a BTN. BTN officers must have been drinking too much of their own essence of racial hatred.
The BTN took a hammering in a press for a crude attempts during indoctrination. There were calls from a MCA , MIC as well as NGOs for a BTN to be dismantled, as well as to be packed away in a same musty drawers as a 'psy-ops' experts of China's Cultural Revolution or Stalin's Gulag Archipelago.
Since 2010, a BTN has malleable somewhat: a widely reported insults against non-Malays as immigrants or 'pendatang' have been toned down. Non-Malays have been no longer instructed to publicly make known they have been 'pendatang'. Instead, they have been invited to state, during organisation discussions, their dialect organisation as well as their ancestral homes in China or India, as a kind of confession of their 'pendatang' status.
'BERSIH' is dirty
The formerly routine racist attacks in BTN have largely been replaced by a tepid
platitudes of 1Malaysia. But a BTN has not since up a tack diet of championing Malay supremacy, of lauding UMNO, as well as of attacking PAS, PKR's Anwar Ibrahim as well as a DAP.
The BTN continues to emphasise a supposed "unchangeable" articles in a Federal Constitution which protect a "special position" of a Malays (Article 153), a Malay Rulers, Islam as a religion of a nation as well as Malay as a inhabitant language.
Copies of a constitution have been handed out, as well as BTN participants have been warned repeatedly never to question these supposedly inviolate articles.
We were reminded multiform times about a constitutional latitude afforded to a supervision of a day to impose constraints upon particular liberties, such as freedom of debate as well as expression, in a name of "sedition" as well as "publi! c sequen ce as well as morality".
'BERSIH' is a dirty word. We were educated which a definition of democracy was regular elections, not street rallies. Public demonstrations have been obviously seen as a hazard to Umno's corner upon inhabitant power.
Psy ops, BTN style
One evening, you were malleable up primarily by a lightsome contest, performing nationalistic songs. After a intercourse as well as delight of a competition, you were brought back to earth by a role-playing game, written to remind us of a evils of colonialism.
We were since strict instructions to sojourn silent, while being set a seemingly impossible task, trying to match up stones of opposite sizes.
During a task, BTN facilitators pulled out multiform participants, apparently during random. These "detainees" had masking fasten placed over their lips as well as strings tied loosely around their wrists, to impersonate a senseless injustice of colonial rule. After 20 minutes, a couple of selected participants were authorised to speak, as well as then to release a "detainees" upon a sidelines.
After this mime liberation, you were told to gather in a crowd around one immature man as well as shoulder him aloft, carrying a hulk Malaysian flag while singing a happy nationalistic song.
Finally, you were treated to a video essentially a tinge film directed during traumatising participants, so which you would feel which Muslims as well as Malays have been victims as well as therefore Malays must unite against a larger world.
There was a slip show of stomach-turning violence, depicting Iraqi as well as Palestinian young kids as well as women buried alive, draining from facial wounds, as well as butchered by American or Israeli soldiers. One photograph focussed upon an American soldier's T-shirt, temperament a slogan 'Born to Kill'.
A repulsive video was then played, showing religious violence among Muslim as well as Christian Malays in Ambon, including a! scene o f an attacker hacking a defenceless man with a machete, until a square of his skull was partly detached, while Policemen looked on.
These horrific scenes were interspersed with images of unidentified Malay protesters throwing stones as well as BERSIH demonstrators picking up as well as hurling tear gas canisters. The final message of Malay togetherness was driven home regulating a weeping debate by former Prime Minister Mahathir, reminding us tremulously which a Malay "struggle" is not over. Several of us were in tears by this stage.
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