Disheartened.
I admit I am no elections expert. The most I did was study the various electoral systems and all its flaws back in A Levels and first year law. Even then, I knew there isn’t a single perfect and comprehensive electoral system that suitably fits all countries. Considering the results in Ijok last night which I had the privilege of covering, I think there will never be free and fair elections in this country for as long the ruling Barisan Nasional continues to go about with its plenitude of dirty tricks.
I saw intimidation. I saw misuse of government machinery. I saw vote-buying. I saw phantom voters. I saw scuffles. I saw sheer bribery with all the money pumped into the town. I saw arrogance (met him and interviewed him too). I saw despair. I saw sorrow. I saw injustice.
If you think BN won fair and square, you are dead wrong. K Parthiban may be a good guy but he is with a party that has killed off whatever little democracy we’ve had left. The absence of integrity and transparency in the entire by-election process invalidates whatever results. Nobody won. Only all the rottenness that BN stands for, has prevailed.
With so much crap that goes on within Umno, MCA, MIC, Gerakan and all those other component parties - I used to wonder, how can anybody believe that they are the good guys?
Yes, I can. People who have little principles. People indoctrinated with ideas that they are supreme to others (think race, think religion, think stature, think geopolitics, think class, think thought control). People who have been given contracts. People who have been granted favours. People with no sense of justice. People blinded by the doublespeak and thoughtcrime. People who think we live in our own compartmentalised world limiting our freedom to associate and disassociate. People too believing. Defeatists.
But there are always those whom I have come to admire and respect - the real good guys. Those who have earned their stripes by not giving up and succumbing to bullying and government machinery. I salute you all, for showing those powerful that the powerless can give them a bloody good fight. And that a clean fight resonates louder than a winning fight.
You reap what you sow. Good luck, Ijok. It was fun while it lasted. See you in a month and a half :)
With all the poetic bits done aside, here’s the brief low down as to what I got up to yesterday.
Woke up at 6:15am. Got to Ijok at 8am. Checked out Tuan Mee and Sungai Darah. Was pretty much based in Batang Berjuntai near the media room. Walked quite a distance to the nomination/results centre because the police blocked off all the major roads turning it into a long mafan one-way street. Went for Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim’s press conference. Went back to the media room and filed my story. Had dinner after midnight. Left for KL at close to 1am. Reached TTDI at 2:30am. Showered. Slept at 3:30am.
I’m so knackered! I woke up late and I refuse to get out of bed (Bel, I’m sleeping in your bed!! It’s so comfy. lol.) Heck, I’m still in my pyjamas. I blogged in bed. Nat bought pizza and I ate it in bed. I am not getting up. ZZZzzz.
:)
April 29th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
despite it all, the results show that PKR failed to get the indian votes.
and PKR has to asked themselves why?
but they did well in splitting the malay and chinese votes.
maybe they harped too much on najib and ignored pak lah’s misconduct?
April 29th, 2007 at 4:49 pm
Hey politikus - don’t be disheartened! KeADILan gave them a good run for their money and scared the pants of megamonster BN! :)
Things happen for a reason - mark my words!
Your paper did a good job - congratulations!
April 29th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
‘ I used to wonder, how can anybody believe that they are the good guys (BN)? Yes, I can. People who have little principles. People indoctrinated with ideas that they are supreme to others (think race, think religion, think stature, think geopolitics, think class, think thought control). People who have been given contracts.’
Dear Politikus, I admire your strength and resolve in fighting for what you believe in but must voice my strong objection to you lumping all BN supporters into the above category. I can definitely state that I have not been given any contracts, nor do I believe in the supremacy of the Chinese race or my religion. Have you not considered that people support BN because they honestly believe that it is the better choice for Malaysia? You cannot judge others’ morals simply based on their choice of political party. Continue your struggle, but do not let bitterness cloud your judgement.
April 29th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
Hello Alex,
Having first hand information hearing MCA’s top men speaking about giving money to voters in Pekan Ijok, all I can say is *speechless*. And hearing Chinese voters say their vote for BN depends on how much money they get, again *speechless*. And Umno and MIC thugs or even DPM’s promises only when election time comes - let’s not even go there. So much more I can’t even begin to list them down. It is beyond comprehension how one could support a party (and any of their components) who would employs such tactics.
Of course I’m open to hear about the dirty tricks played by PKR. Let’s hear some.
I may sound bitter which may have clouded my judgment but please don’t let ignorance cloud yours :)
Cheers for the comment!
April 29th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
Hi Politikus,
I’m writing this re ur article and re ur reply to Alex.
Do you really think we Malaysians are that stupid not being able to understand the simple fact of patriotism? Are we Malaysians so low that we would sell our votes to anyone as long as the price is right? If I could understand you well enough with my limited english, then I presume you are saying that we Malaysians have no sense of nationalism and love for your country. Doesn’t matter who comes along as long as he/she has the cash, they’ll sell their votes and sell their soul. Call me naive, I still like to believe that there are Malaysians (preferably majority) who knows how to differentiate between right and wrong and have a sense of morality. Surely vote-buying is a crime in Malaysia. Surely if that’s all real and true then those who get paid would be witness to this crime and surely surely the country’s judiciary are capable of attending to such crime. I’m a novice Malaysian politics follower so I don’t think I know as much as you do but what you said there are some real strong statements.
And I do have to agree with Alex on the part that.. “Maybe BN is the better choice?” .. plenty have been said about rights and NEP and etc by sections of the opposition. Where is all this RIGHTS and REFOMATION when certain people are in power? I read you are a strong pro-rights and pro-democratic person, me too. Maybe we are too idealistic. No where in this world actually have real democracy. There will and forever will be sections in each nation that is not happy with the election results calling it “Undemocratic” and “Corrupted”. Till the day we see real democracy. CHEERS…
April 29th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
frannyt,
judging from your IP, you’re based in australia, if you’re studying or working there (if you’re malaysian) and i can safely say you are on average better off than the towns people in ijok who have little access to internet and to independent media to know about extensive corruption, media control laws and politicking that goes on. please take advantage of that and read more to see the judiciary here is not independent, vote-buying will go unpunished, police and EC all makan gaji saja and pledge allegiance to money.
and you read me completely wrong i’m afraid. nowhere did i state people here are not nationalistic, patriotic and that malaysians are stupid. just because i’m not pro-government, doesn’t make me any less patriotic. i read international relations overseas and did an entire dissertation on nationalism in malaysia. let me know if you’d like a copy.
strong statements? better strong to make you think and argue than to be silent and watch injustice perpetuate further.
grazie :)
April 29th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
Surely vote-buying is a crime in Malaysia. Surely if that’s all real and true then those who get paid would be witness to this crime and surely surely the country’s judiciary are capable of attending to such crime.
by this sentance it shows you know nothing of what is defined as crime in Malaysia. KJ can ride around town with other mat rempits without helmets and its posted on newspapers yet no action has been taken for that crime… can you tell me why? no need go to other more serious crimes. if you are from BN you can mow over anyone and never get thrown in jail. pls check our track records it doesn’t lie.
April 29th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
Well Politikus, many Malaysians don’t know right from wrong so it’s not surprising that we are where we are today.
People get the government they deserve!
April 29th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
I think what Politikus is saying is that given all the abuses of the BN government, and all their racist demagoguery meant to appeal to the lowest common denominator, not to mention their obviously failing policies, she simply can’t see how BN can be the better choice for the country.
And I agree. I don’t like the opposition; sometimes I think a spoilt vote would be better than voting for either. But I simply don’t understand how anyone can support BN, or believe that it is the best choice for the government. BN’s history of racism, attacks on basic civil rights, and failure to even simply run the country properly, all indicate that it has become a terrible choice for the government. BN might have been the best choice 20 or 30 years ago. But today? I don’t think so.
April 29th, 2007 at 11:20 pm
‘I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo. ― ‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ‘and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.’
April 30th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
Politikus, some people like Alex is awake, like our PM but they have not decided to get out of bed. LOL. Stay cool…..mee rubus tomorrow…..holiday mah….drag Nat….long time never harass him.
April 30th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
Unfortunately you are right, I don’t see much of a Malaysian in myself anymore, I left when the boss is someone called Dr M. I’m also afraid you’ve read me wrong, Politikus, I am no pro-government or have I ever said a person needs to be pro-government to patriotic. I hate the government so much so that I left the country. However, leaving the country and seeing from outside makes one realised there’s a lot going there. If racism is the topic, then I think we are much better than a lot of countries. 3 major races with different cultures and language living peacefully together is rather bloody good. Just look at Korea, for god sake they are the same people, why does the North hates the South that much or Iraq as another example. It’s not easy.
WATTAHACK?, I apologise for my ignorance for not knowing what KJ or Mat Rempis means, but if we are talking about riding bikes with no helmets, then I would have to say it’s not defined as a CRIME under Criminal Justice Act (Act 345) - of course Malaysian Law I’m quoting, but if you look under the Road Transport Act 1987 (Act 333), then you will most probably find riding without a helmet is an OFFENCE. If you then look into Election Offences Act 1954 (Act 5), I’m pretty sure you’ll see something called vote buying or using money to buy votes and it would as I’m quite certain it’s a crime. I still refused to believe that the Judiciary can turn a blind eye if a much published collective action to bring certain offender to justice, surely Malaysia has not reach such a state of corrupt-ness.
I thought I’ve found a place we could talk sensible politics rather than bashing of political parties. Maybe I’ve come to the wrong party. It’s been fun people.
May 1st, 2007 at 12:50 am
fannyt,
“I hate the government so much so that I left the country.”
ouch. if politics was sensible in this country you’d still be here. also, you sound like an outsider looking in. there is more going on in the undercurrents, so much more than you realise. there is no fair play in the country, that is the reason why you left to begin with.
“3 major races with different cultures and language living peacefully together is rather bloody good.”
people often fail to realise that malaysia isn’t the only country that is multiracial and multireligious. every other state in the world has a healthy mix of races and even more diversified at that. the only difference is how the government feed us with such facts as though we’re SO special and slapped affirmative action upon us. we’re not special and we’re far behind in terms of equality amongst the people. it’s amazing how people think we must help malays more than thinking of helping malaysians living in poverty regardless of their race. the government has got their priorities all wrong and have gotten complacent (but so powerful) in the process.
sigh. i really hate this whole ‘we should be thankful’ when the situation can clearly be a lot better. like australia. you get equal rights there but you might not in malaysia. don’t you think there’s already something wrong there? how can i be thankful to a country where 2nd generation muslim indonesians can be ‘bumiputera’ where as i’m a third generation chinese, can’t?? you know better, you left.
question is, do you want to help in making malaysia better or resolve to leaving comments and discuss about issues til the cows come home but yet do nothing about it? i really do hope the former because the latter is really not enough. like how this blog is not enough and why everybody should vote in the coming GE.
May 1st, 2007 at 1:23 am
what’s the point of quoting a crime act #### when those incharge care the nuts about using it unless they are asked by the GOV aka PM to clam down on whoever that broke the law (which normally is the opposition or bloggers) but its never UMNO, MCA, MIC or Gerakan’s ppl. what law are we talking about? I’m talking about Malaysian LAW - “Lies Always Works” - look at how rotten the GOV became until roofs came falling down in new buildings. “sign from God” sammy?
May 1st, 2007 at 5:26 pm
Anyone who actually thinks our judiciary or police are capable of bringing offenders to book has not been in Malaysia for a very, very long time.
May 1st, 2007 at 5:40 pm
Its how you see it and want to see it. I see PKR is the party of thugs and mob mentality. I see PKR party workers who are the hooligans who tried to stop Deputy Prime Minister visiting Jaya Setia polling station (and its clearly captured on TV). I have been involved with electoral rolls that involved BN straight against Keadilan and I failed to see “phantom voters” or other election discrepancies. I have been briefed and told by Police on duty is the Keadilan who always start the brawl or provocation which ended in a fist fight. In Indera Kayangan, I was in the Selangor UMNO Op tent during our bloody usual business when suddenly a group of Keadilan hooligans antagonised the BN workers and provoked the situation into a high tense mode that FRU were called in. Like the raid on buses in Lunas. So as in Ijok. The Police said Keadilan heroes wannabe like Ezam was wrong!
Personally, PKR are the street mobs. BN has never missed any by-elections (thats the constant) and whenever BN has to face PKR, these mob mentality issues never failed to appear significantly (most probably as SOP) and so much physical controversies arisen from them!
Before 1998, before ‘Reformasi’, where do you have these “phantom voters”, “rigging elections” and “BN thugs”, EVER????
It clearly shows all of these are brought upon and nutured / fanned by Anwar Ibrahim! The last time there was an ugly street mob demonstrations that turned riot was in 1974, also led by Anwar!
Wake up and smell the real roses la.
Wattahack,
Get your bloody facts rughts, la. Where got “roofs falling down from new building”? Only ceilings fell off, NOT roofs! Buildings constructed in Putrajaya are developed and managed by Putrajaya. Not JKR. How come you people pick and choose and attack current ONLY BN leaders for these so called fiascoes? What about past BN leaders? BN leaders who are NO LONGER in BN!
The Matrade building, which JKR could never resolve is a direct result of Anwar Ibrahim’s decision in 1993. He was then the Finance Minister who unilaterally awarded the contract (not referring to JKR or EPU) to the Peransang subsidiary for the contract of the Matrade building, totally by-passing JKR. How come none of you people ever raised this un-ended corruption contract issued by non other than Anwar Ibrahim?
Last night, I was with lawyer Harris Ibrahim (of the Article 11) at NPC. He reminded us in June 1998 UMNO Assembly, UMNO Youth Head and Anwar’s chief lackey Zahid Hamidi shouted of “cronyism” and “corruption arisen from nepotism” in his UMNO Youth keynote address and drummed up a movement that hopefully snowballed into UMNO Assembly’s demand of Dato’ Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamad’s immediate resignation (in another words, coup d’etat!). Instead, the next day Government published all those who benefited from large contracts in the walls of PWTC. Most of them are actually Anwar’s cronies! Harris reiterated, how come none of those published on the wall list ever took Govt or Dr. Mahathir to court? Because, Dr. Mahathir is right. These were Anwar’s cronies!
Never since Anwar brought up these “cronies” issues ever again! So this brand of politics that Anwar Ibrahim brought upon and what you people religiously trying to defend flawed in principle right from day one.
Again, you people see what and when you want to see!
May 1st, 2007 at 9:13 pm
Wake up and smell the real roses la.
been there smelled TDM, AI & Pak Lah’s roses and they do smell the same so?
end of the day corruption under any name is binded to the gov policy and certain ppl that need not work gets helicopters just the same. Like I said its the Malaysian LAW - “Lies Always Works”
May 2nd, 2007 at 2:29 am
you know what, people? i have never met anybody from umno who has a bad thing to say about the party or BN ever. has it to do with loyalty or principles or contracts or fear, gawd only knows. but none of them have been frank and are willing to listen to me talk about the dismal state of affairs. they act as though everything is fine and what the opposition does is bollocks. they argue argue argue ….. and they just don’t even try to listen.
don’tlah liddat.
some of you may think the country is fine the way it is. i find that incomprehensible. for as long as there’s double standards in treating your citizens, there will always be a problem. people will always fight for equality. and there will always be those who insist on keeping their share of their pie. so yeah, depends on where you stand.
bigdog, i know you are an umno pro and i respect that. but bashing anwar for past sins is not necessary. otherwise we can all hate TDM for the rest of our lives for what he did to the country (corruption, NEP, malaysia is a muslim state) but we don’t. we give people second chances. i just personally hope this isn’t a case of personal vendetta.
you were involved with the electoral roll? were you involved with the process?? the roll is only part of the problem. the rest has to do with parties buying votes, EC closing their eyes and the police are in cohorts. and this comes from a man who has monitored our elections of the past 30 years. it’s not something so simple as the electoral roll, i’m afraid.
a lot of things are plain to see. we don’t choose to see certain things. i most certainly don’t. it’s there and i’m not happy.
May 2nd, 2007 at 11:17 am
Most probably most of the BN people you’ve met don’t care about nit-picking. BN is a coalition of 14 parties, representing all the different ethnic groups and their interests in their own local issues. Any of you come to them with a half full attitude, so most probably that’s what you get.
This EC closing their eyes and police in cohorts with them its a grandmother story emphasized ever since Dr. Mahathir Mohamad kicked Anwar out. He has done everything to make a circus out of his sudden departure; demonstration, riot, calling the Govt corrupt (like as if he wasn’t part of Govt for 16 bleeding years!), suing Dr. Mahathir (which include his unlawful dismissal!) and dunno God knows what else. Nobody cares talking about BN plus EC and the police on “phantom voters”, “rigging electoral roles” and sort of nonsical stories sore losers talk about before Anwar was kicked out.
Of course you can see them! You made believe about them everyday and when the time comes, you actually hallucinated what you believed to be true (in your heads!). The most important thing, nobody CARES!
Election Commission is a body where its members are appointment by HRH Seri Paduka Baginda Yang DiPertuan Agong. You try talking to any of them about these nit-pick “ghost” stories you TOTALLY believed in? Most probably, they will just say “Oh, is it really?”!
Either you change what’s in your head or you will live on a bed of nails. Life won’t change just because a bunch of you thinks something is wrong with the system. Life’s like that. Really. You go with the flow or you go someplace else. Where ever you are, you live by the life like how its being practiced, NOT you perceived it should be practiced.
Democracy has not been practiced since the days of the Greeks 2500 years ago. Its controlled and defined democracy now. Its so defined and controlled that democracy its about 219 men and women who decides on so many issues. And people who represent you, in that House like Lord Proctector Lim Kit Siang or Wan Azizah simply don’t care what you and I arguing about here.
That’s life!
You shall wake up tomorrow, go to work like lemmings jumping into the sea, chin-wag about the things you hate about this Govt, over and over again and at the end of the financial year, pay taxes. You don’t pay tax, then you go jail! If you don’t like this lifestyle, then get another one in another place, where you don’t have to pay tax and make statements “Hey, I am a taxpayer. I demand blah …blah….blah….blah….”.
Cest La Vie!
May 2nd, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Dear Big Dog,
I’m glad I got to meet you before, so I can put a face to this response :)
Actually, you’ve more or less hit the problem on the head: people too often only see what they want to.
Is this true of the opposition though?
Let’s go through your hypothesis: that people only join the opposition to make kacau and be hooligans.
Hooliganism can only survive and berleluasa when there is something to be gained by the hooligan (pay, benefits, contracts some day, etc).
Perhaps someone in your position might like to think that we pay people to be hooligans and cause a ruckus. Please, feel free to present any evidence to that effect.
The truth is, even if we wanted to, we couldn’t afford it. And trust me, we don’t want to.
If PKR is a party of thugs, how do you explain the membership of some of the most refined, successful and educated people in Malaysia?
I know beyond doubt that not all BN people are thugs, but I’ve got plenty of photos to suggest that the thug faction is not exactly the tiniest minority. You speak of first hand experience, and I too, acting just as a photographer, have been threatened by Umno Youth as well and witnessed a few feet from me those same Umno Youth hammering a car, kicking it, accosting people, etc.
Speaking of educated luminaries, the closest thing Umno has is perhaps the Oxford grad / no. 1 hooligan, that I suspect you have little love for either.
(ps- if you don’t mind me asking a personal question, why blog anonymously?)
*
On Anwar: you can bash him till the cows come home, we really don’t mind.
I will believe all of your allegations that a leopard cannot change his spots if and when you ever get the misfortune of spending six years in prison.
Until then, I admit I will keep my own counsel and understanding of how history can shape a man who only needed to shut up and nod to be Prime Minister today.
*
But the most important/interesting thing in your last comment is the sense of defeatism you are trying to propagate.
You are free to submit to the current government.
Trying to get us to do the same however, will prove an exercise in futility. I, for one, am not so stupid as to frontally attempt to make you change your mind about Umno, that too would be futile. But I’m here to defend our views in the court of public opinion.
You wrote: “Life won’t change just because a bunch of you thinks something is wrong with the system. Life’s like that. Really. You go with the flow or you go someplace else. Where ever you are, you live by the life like how its being practiced, NOT you perceived it should be practiced.”
Aha, but that is where you couldn’t be more wrong. I have never seen a more perfect example of that which I work against.
We’ll take you on. And like Gandhi, MLK, etc, who also thought something is wrong with the system, we will not go with the flow, or go some place else. We will not submit to injustice, but work to shape reality until it becomes how the good perceive it should be: where justice and equality prevails.
You can go ahead and laugh and gloat, but we press on, we won’t stop, and we will prevail. Did you see the way the rakyat in V for Vendetta swarmed the soldiers in the final scene?
*
Trying to tell us that “no one cares” is the height of desperate propaganda.
In the interests of making this contest interesting, I would invite you to think up better strategies. You can persist, but I assure you it would be the ideological equivalent of bringing a knife to a gunfight - or to use a less martial example, inviting Abdullah/Najib to a public debate with Anwar.
We care deeply, all of us. Me, politikus, people who sweated day and night in Ijok for absolutely nothing but their ideals, YB Lim, Kak Wan. Every single one of us cares.
Even you do, Big Dog. I know you care about truth and justice. And I know that if you search your feelings long enough, and heed your advice about seeing only what one wants to, you’ll eventually find where goodness lies - just like Anakin.
Every single one of us cares. And we’re not going to stop caring, least of all because our respected opponents tell us to.
We do not submit to apathy; we live in faith in the goodness around us.
We do not run like cowards from challenge; we live in unity against adversary.
We do not live in despair or submit to tyranny; we live in hope and strive for justice.
May 2nd, 2007 at 2:59 pm
Huh? No phantom voters before Reformasi? You gotta be kidding me. Thuggery has been a fixture in certain constituencies like Sg Siput since the 80s and don’t forget the haunted MCA elections of the mid 80s and the exorcisms done by Neo Yee Pan and Lee Kim Sai et al which still didn’t work. Finally had to get Master Exorcist, Ghafar Baba to settle the hauntings.
There are still many of us who’ve been in the fight against this monster called BN long before Anwar decided to switch camps. The corruption and disintegration of our society’s fabric was something we foresaw long ago (15 years ago in my case) and we’ve been trying to stop the rot ever since.
May 2nd, 2007 at 5:36 pm
politikus said at 2:29am 2 May 07:
“you know what, people? i have never met anybody from umno who has a bad thing to say about the party or BN ever…”
The last I heard, Dr M is still very much an UMNO member. Heard him speak about “rotten government”?
May 2nd, 2007 at 5:43 pm
damn, you got me there. shame he isn’t so well liked by the party as he was once revered :)
May 2nd, 2007 at 5:47 pm
I must say from the comments going on here, this pops up in my mind:
Are you, bigdog being paid to write for BN? why the desperation to dismiss all issues politikus has raised? Why instead of pondering whether these issues can be tackled however minute they may seem to you, do you prefer to point the finger back at Anwar Ibrahim? Did you know that in developed countries, even minute details like how often rubbish is collected, how safe roads are designed determine the outcome of votes? Are you perhaps also accepting bribes from BN? Is that why you’re so satisfied with their governance?
You don’t need to answer me. I don’t really want to know.
It’s not so hard to admit that BN isn’t perfect you know. Even if you support BN, surely you want to see it improve itself to become a better coalition that is worthy of governing Malaysia, including all its opposition voters? Are you trying to tell everyone that by pointing the finger at Anwar for his bad past, whether true or not, BN can ignore their own shortcomings and not strive to improve?
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:01 am
BN Supporters See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Talk No Evil…
cause they are govern by the party Whip!
oooh! Come-on Whip-me baby, Whip-me hard…. I’m a notti boy!
May 3rd, 2007 at 1:36 pm
Nat,
Life’s too complicated. The Malaysian majority wants a simplistic solution, to almost everything. They are not bothered with what ever points you want to mess their brain up with. Life’s like that.
The smarter of the lot choose to bicker but at the end the day, when they cows do come home, a bigger portion of these so called smart people don’t even vote. These smart people perpetually have the attitude “hollier than thou”, where the simpleton folks in the kampungs don’t bloody give a toss!
Just because you have one or two brainy people in PKR, people like you think you have them all? Just because some people attend Harvard, doesn’t mean they are brainier and smarter than the rest. They proved they can earn a degree according to Harvard’s discipline and process, but that doesn’t prove that they are able to think for a bigger majority of Malaysians.
How come some brainy people like Dr. Chandra Muzaffar, Jomo K. Sundram and the Mighty Zainur Zakaria left Keadilan and Anwar?
Be realistic. Malaysian political scene is about realism. Forget all those idealism and utopia people like you daydream every single day. It won’t happened. At least, not in your life time. Rhetorics have no place the realism of Malaysian politics. Rhetorical chants will not put food on the table, pay for electricity bills and ensure Astro bills not go up.
Police people are NOT party members. Of course people like you feel they are not impartial and least of all, professional. However, I am close to some police people. Mid level to some of the higher ranking ones. They tell me stories in private.
I was on the ground in a few incidence where Keadilan people were arrested for breaking the law. I saw how it happened, through out. All the time, I see how Keadilan thugs wearing Keadilan regalias challenge authorities and UMNO Youth with sensitive provocations and sometime, profanities. ON PURPOSE, Keadilan people do this.
Regardless how ultra smart some people like you exist in the party, the mainstay of the people down there are those who thrives on hooliganism as a mode of their political and emotional expression, ALL THE TIME!
I was in Indera Kayangan, Perlis and chin-wagging quitely in the Selangor UMNO camp when suddenly a bunch of Keadilan people show up on the door step provocating an unwarranted debate of profanities. In no time, the number grew, out of nowhere. Then situation became tense. Then FRU were called in. The FRU were professional enough to ask the Keadilan stand down and back off. Instead, they weere shouting profanities straight into the FRU’s face, calling them “Anjing Kerajaan!”, rather loudly! Of course, in retaliation the Field Commander then instructed that FRU break the line and some were arrested.
Of course, there will be people who still claim that Police were brutal and absolutely unfair to Keadilan people.
The fact is that, the rakyat have the right to choose. They made their choices. They also have the right not to be manipulated by politicians like Keadilan leaders who enjoy making opportunity to uphold democracy like by-elections into a political circus and waste everyone’s resources, including the rakyat. If Anwar did not make a ruckus about Ijok, then the by election would have gone very sparsely like Kuala Brang. BN moves had always been reactionary.
Keadilan really serious about the rakyat? Is the PKR MP of Permatang Pauh serious about the rakyat’s issues in the constituency? How about the other four PKR’s former constituencies? Do PKR bother about the rakyat issues there?
Get real lah! PKR really interested to serve the rakyat or make these constituencies as political circus????
Bottomline, you people can make believe all you like and bluff yourselves with all the evidence you people chose to see. The proof of the pudding is still in the eating. The 12th General Elections, Barisan Nasional won 199 seats and Parti Keadilan Rakyat only managed one!
Don’t need a fancy ivy league qualification to digress that very simple point!
Hahahahahhahahahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahhahahahahaha :)
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:51 pm
oooh! Come-on Whip-me baby, Whip-me hard…. I’m serious come-on make me happy….
May 6th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
Goodness me, the STENCH! That’s why I give politics a wide berth. Seems to bring out the worst in humans. Years of observing how dogs behave have taught me all I want to know. Dum and Dee.
Elephant and Donkey. Umno and Umyes and Ummm…maybe. Wake up humans - the real action isn’t OUT THERE… it’s IN HERE!!! Nevertheless, it beats me how anybody in ntheir right senses can put up with the arrogance, complacency, greed, and smugness of Barisan Nazional politicians - and even VOTE for them! FEAR OF CHANGE, I guess… some folks still choose Colgate because they grew up using this crappy toothpaste that rots your teeth.
May 7th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
Saddam Hussein won 98% of the votes for President of Iraq. That shows how he is a man much loved and have total support from all Iraqis. Anyone disputing that is just sore because the numbers clearly show his level of support.