From what I see on the net it would seem
that most bloggers view UMNO with equal measures of fear and loathing. What
UMNO offers is all skewered towards race and religion or religion and race –
depending on how one views it! And surely the Rakyat are more intelligent that
to be sucked in by the rhetoric’s of UMNO on these issues? But are they?
From the brazen attempts by Muhyiddin to
proclaim himself as a Malay first and maybe a Malaysian probably closer to the
13th general election -
to the crass buffoonery of Ibrahim Ali with his mindless sloganeering
that makes him an irresistible target for derision - it would seem that UMNO is
bereft of any high morality or vision in its attempt to hold on to power yet
again! So focused are UMNO in this that they are now the target of many who
mocked their inability to understand the need to be a government for all – not
just for the Malays.
But does this make UMNO less politically
dangerous?
What does Pakatan Rakyat offers? Negative
politicking! No vision but open, responsible and accountable government! I tell
Pakatan Rakyat to not tell us what we already know! We know we need open,
responsible and accountable government! We want more!
We want hope and we want that feeling of
looking forward to a brand new day! We want a new beginning! We want to forget
the past 50 over years of UMNO and Barisan rule. We want promise of a future
that will bring us a new beggining to our life – to our hope of a prosperous
and decent future. A future that we can tell our grand children that WE had a
hand in giving them.
I do not feel these things when I think
of Pakatan Rakyat! So you see my friends we need to be careful of what UMNO is
now doing.
UMNO understands that the Malays are
convoluted. Any person, any race any country have dreams of grandeur. Dreams of
being first amongst equals. Dreams of greatness and being a TUAN! And so UMNO
promises the Malays KETUANAN! How hard is it to understand that this might just
resonates within enough Malays to give UMNO victory in the coming general
elections? And it is this possibility that Pakatan Rakyat must take cognizance
and prepare to neutralize.
Do not mock UMNO for you may remember
that there were many who mocked Herr Adolf Hitler. For like what Hitler had
promised the Germans then, UMNO too offers a vision for the Malays when no one
else is able to offer one.
What UMNO articulates is an enticing
vision for the Malays. Vote for UMNO and you will be TUAN over all that we
survey. Over OUR country, over all the other races and over all the wealth and
opportunities within OUR country! The question now for Pakatan Rakyat to
consider is this: How many Malays will vote for UMNO when they offer them this
tantalizing vision of Ketuanan Melayu? How many?
Yes you may giggle at Ibrahim Ali.
Giggling does not make him less dangerous politically! What Ibrahim Ali
articulates is indeed laughably simplistic and yet its attraction to the masses
is undeniable. The masses of Malays that Pakatan Rakayat seems to have
forgotten! This mass of Malays whose only stake in the economy is now only
through Felda, Risda, through the various rural initiatives started by UMNO
…and of course this stake in Malaysia’s economy can only be maintained and
possible increased only through UMNO!
This is what UMNO promises the rural Malays – and for now they believe
that UMNO has the solution. They believe that for now only UMNO can do this.
This reality will become Pakatan Rakyat nemesis if it does not address it
comprehensively because the votes that these rural Malays cast will decide who
governs this country of ours.
What we lack in Malaysia now are Pakatan
Rakyat leaders who are able to offer an alternative vision for these Malays –
to all Malays. 1 Malaysia is a vision that the non-Malays can hold on to,
understand and aspire to. Not for the Malays that matters. I do not matter in
this equation because I can understand the intangibles of what 1Malaysia
promise. The rural Malays cannot – and they matter in this context. And I
despair at how Pakatan Rakyat is failing to meet this need to make these rural
Malays understand what we all already understand.
It would require an extraordinary effort
from Pakatan Rakyat to change this. There are to many Malays who are can see no
one else but UMNO as their savior. And many of them understand that UMNO now
needs for them to decide who they can rely upon to take care of their
interest - UMNO or DAP - yes my
friend not PKR not Pakatan Rakyat but DAP! Is that not how UMNO puts the matter
to these Malays?
Go ask any kampong Malay who they will
give their vote to and you will then understand that we who are with ABU do
have a problem! A problem that needs to be addressed here and now by Pakatan
Rakyat!
You are one. With me we are two. Who else
will join us?
with me you are three -
ReplyDeleteadrian van huizen
There is nothing wrong with declaring yourself as being whatever first. However, you cannot run a country, a civil service, or even a small business on the basis of race or religion. Apartheid has been and is the primary reason for our downward spiral since the British left.
ReplyDeleteDetailed documentaries on the rise of Hitler are now available, but is anyone learning?
We have to tell the Malays that if they have not become Tuans in this country in the last 50 years, it is not going to happen. It is the Malays in UMNO - the KLEPTO-PUTRAS - who have kept them down by giving their children very low class education. The TUANS are the ones with an English education.
ReplyDeleteTell the Felda settlers when PR comes into power, we will give the land which they now mind to them. They can sell their produce to whomsoever they wish and not to another KLEPTO-PUTRA who only robs them.
Tell them that the land is theirs and they can keep it and pass on to the next generation. They are the TUANs in their land.
And keep the promise.
What 'vision' do UMNO offers to the Malays? 6/6 ? 6/200 ? 6/350 ?
ReplyDeleteSyabas Syabas a very very real and timely reminder sometimes this ppl in such a shiok sendiri mode that they overvalue themselves and undervalue their opponents.
ReplyDeleteMr steadyaku hope that you are now already a party member in PR, oh wise and Good man please continue to constantly remind and drive into their head all these simple theory as we here in Bolehsia because we grow up eating kelapa our Head udah keras macam kelapa