Is any a single keeping tabs upon how most taxpayers' supports have been being outlayed upon generating a incessant promotion we have been being bombarded with? If Ng Yen Yen can spend RM1.8 million oncreating 6 Facebook pages, how most is being paid to emanate these promotion video spots as well as for broadcast airtime, in further to a mobile as well as billboard advertising, not forgetting a entire banners temperament images of BN figures?
Kee Thuan Chye
we was greeted first thing this morning by an SMS from a dear old friend. It read: "Saudara XXX[my friend's name in full],Selamat Menyambut Hari Lahir.Happy Birthday.Ikhlas dari DS Ir Mohd Zin Mohamed, Kordinator BN Selangor. Sayangi Selangor, Yakini BN."
At first, we wondered since my crony had forwarded me this SMS. Then when we saw a four-letter word he had appended during a end of it, we understood. He was pity with me his offend during a nod from Mohd Zin.
This coordinator of Selangor Barisan Nasional (BN) who is campaigning to win a state from Pakatan Rakyat during a soon-to-be-held general election has been promulgation out many such messages to a whole lot of people ever given final year. However, they have become such an distrurbance which a recipients invariably express zero though offend each time they embrace such messages.
Some of my alternative friends have additionally been angry to me about Mohd Zin's barrage of! not onl y SMSes though postcards as well as letters as well. And social media is full of curses opposite him as well as his tasteless proselytising efforts to a BN cause.
Most recipients know which all this is being finished for a blatant political purpose, which means a gesture is not a single of goodwill. Nor is it flushed with sincerity. Many even say which no alternative nation in a universe practises this kind of tactic to appeal votes.
They have been greatly concerned which Selangor BN has easy access to their private particulars, similar to their birthdate as well as mobile number. And even a constituencies they'll be choosing by casting votes during for these have been additionally enclosed in a postcards as well as letters. Who has been provision Selangor BN all this information?
And since should a electoral constituencies be enclosed when a purpose is presumably to send a festive greeting? Why run it with a tagline "Yakini BN" (Have Faith in BN), right next to a BNdacingsymbol, during a tip of a letter?
Another question upon people's minds is: Who is profitable for all these proselytising efforts? Is therakyat's income being used?
I'd similar to to consider which given this is a BN initiative, a expenses should be borne by BN. I'd additionally similar to to consider which BN has tons of income so profitable for it should not be a problem. we positively hope this is a case.
My own young kids perceived a Chinese New Year minute final week wishing themGong Xi Fa Caiand attempting to sight them about BN's mutation programme. One side of a minute is in Chinese, a alternative in Malay. The minute is sealed by BN arch Najib Razak as well as carries a design of him. But a people behind it have been Selangor BN, going by a contact details supposing during a bottom.
This is a third or fourth time my young kids h! ave perc eived such a letter. The first a single was in as well as with Malaysia Day final August. Then, a essence of a minute were aimed during emphasising a supposed "non-confrontational culture" in sequence to persuade a recipient to abstain from street protests.
What which minute said was hogwash since if ours was truly a non-confrontational culture, Umno would not have led a massive street rallies to protest opposite a Malayan Union in 1946. The minute was an viewable try during brainwashing.
The same is loyal of a Chinese New Year letter. Acknowledging which there have been people who have been still sceptical about BN's mercantile as well as political mutation programme, it tries to persuade a recipient to accept a idea which such a programme will take time as well as bid to be realised. Hence a need for long-term fortitude in government. In alternative words, vote for BN.
Each minute was accompanied byang-powpackets additionally temperament Najib's picture. we was frightened as well as faraway during a same time when we saw them. Which Chinese person would put income into these packets to give to others if they know which face represents a statute celebration which is corrupt? Most would only chuck a packets away!
we contingency be right BN does have tons of money, perhaps as well most given it's spending it so foolishly.
I, too, perceived a Chinese New Year message. Like my friend's birthday greeting, it came from Mohd Zin.
Before that, we got a single from him in December wishing me Merry Christmas. It wasn't a first as well as it gave me a creepy feeling. So we posted a comment upon his Facebook page telling him in no capricious terms to stop bothering my family as well as me.
Another crony of cave reacted similarly though not during him when she got a birthday nod final year. She forwarded it to me in! stead, w ith a abuse upon a people who had sent it. She was livid which BN had zero better to do than to track people's birthdays as well as to stoop to such a low tactic to try as well as win their votes.
Then there was a arise when a Malay crony of cave perceived a racist SMS in Malay which read: "Congratulations! You have been a purebred voter for a Subang parliamentary constituency. Please fulfil your shortcoming by ensuring which Malays go upon to rule. BN IS THE CHOICE OF THE YOUTH."
This SMS was, however, anonymous. But what's appealing is which a sender knew my crony was purebred to vote for a Subang parliamentary seat.
My crony sent back an appropriate reply additionally in Malay: "It's not important to a devout whether a statute celebration is Malay or non-Malay. Leaders who have been free from corruption as well as pomposity will be a choice of those who have faith. God willing, we shall fulfil my shortcoming of ensuring which we have been ruled by a supervision which is caring as well as trustworthy. BN/Umno is a choice of obstinately stupid people regardless of age. Salam Bersih!"
Another crony who had been bloody with a wider range of promotion wrote me an e-mail full of ire as well as concern:
"My mother as well as we not long ago done a day trip back to Ipoh by sight as well as throughout a journey, we were confounded as well as troubled to see how a trains as well as every platform pillar from KL to Ipoh bore images of which megalomaniac Najib. Even a bonus card that's going to be issued to those earning reduction than RM3,000 will bear Najib's image. Only dictators have a need for this amount of propaganda.
"When we reached home which day, we found in a mailbox full-colour letters as well as small calendars individually addressed to us again temperament Najib's image. The letters had a voter report as well as referred us to! a Selan gor BN website. While we am planning to use a minute with Najib's picture to collect up my dog's poop, there have been a series of burning questions upon my mind: How most is being outlayed to clutter a mailboxes with BN propaganda? Who's profitable for this? Let's not forget which postage costs have gone up. Is a statute bloc regulating federal supports for political campaigning? Are limits imposed upon how most can be spent?
"Is there an avenue where complaints can be done regarding a excessive promotion in a media? we pay to allow to satellite TV as well as am forced to put up with promotion videos interrupting a TV shows I'm watching. All of it is in a same insipid vein of a 'Cinta IT' rubbish which aired upon RTM, forcing me to switch channels when it is aired.
"Is any a single keeping tabs upon how most taxpayers' supports have been being outlayed upon generating a incessant promotion we have been being bombarded with? If Ng Yen Yen can spend RM1.8 million oncreating 6 Facebook pages, how most is being paid to emanate these promotion video spots as well as for broadcast airtime, in further to a mobile as well as billboard advertising, not forgetting a entire banners temperament images of BN figures?
"I sent a complaint to MCMC (Malaysian Communications as well as Multimedia Commission) about a invasion of remoteness though did not get any response. Not even a common canned response."
Our reactions my friends' as well as cave simulate a distrurbance as well as a concerns. Mohd Zin as well as his cohorts need to be warned which a some-more they irritate us, a some-more we will be swayed opposite their cause. And this might essentially work opposite them.
To borrow from a recent analogy, a some-more they ask, "Are we ready for BN?", a some-more loudly they will listen to a resounding reply "No!"
*Kee Thuan Ch! ye is a author of a bestselling bookNo More Bullshit, Please, We're All Malaysians, as well as a latest volume,Ask for No Bullshit, Get Some More!
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