Stupid move really. Really, really stupid…

This is my quote to Barisan Nasional as a present for the upcoming elections.
The ever famous quote from Abraham Lincoln:

"Government of the people, By the people, For the people, shall not perish from the Earth"

7th March 2008, Friday..
Malaysia’s National Newspaper The Star…
On the front page with the headlines:

Vote for a voice in the Govt, says Abdullah

Penang :

“You have to decide if you want a louder voice in Parliament or representation in the Cabinet, where they can be more effective in representing all communities” The Barisan Nasional Chairman said.

Another Paragraph from the same article:

“He said that if the Chinese did not have representation in the cabinet, their requests will not be heard. However Abdullah said that the Barisan wanted the Chinese community to be part of the government. ‘We do not want to have a government that does not have representation of all ethnic groups in the cabinet. We want to be the best and I want to do the best for the rakyat’ Abdullah said”

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Page 10 of the same newspaper with the headlines:
Vote for own interest, Chinese told

Kuala Lumpur:

“Don’t harm your community interest by voting for the Opposition, the Chinese voters have been told. They were also told that their representation in the government would be affected if they over-react and vote in opposition candidates at the expense of the MCA and Gerakan

MCA central committee member Datuk Wong Mook Leong said if the Chinese voters get taken in by the ‘angry speeches of the opposition’ then their voices would not get heard within the corridors of power.

‘Chinese voters should not let their anger turn into situation where they punish the MCA and the Gerakan which ultimately meant punishing themselves’.”

Although it’s said by two different people, as quoted in the newspaper, it’s essentially the same meaning.. So is this BN’s new strategy?

Before I start, I will first apologise for my ignorance, insensitivity and wrath. And also everything stated here, is of my own opinion that I have formed on my own after following the heat of the election campaign for these past two weeks. I’ve been educating myself on the current political situation, based on our mainstream media, and the internet, all these years I may have been apathetic, but that doesn’t mean that I am 100% ignorant as to the on goings around me.

Many, many years back, I decided that when I was eligible to vote, I would already have a party in mind, because to me, BN would win either way,(naïve thinking of a child.. since they are strong let them win..) so I thought what the heck.. But as I grew older, I grew my own mind, my own thinking, and with all the happenings occurring in the country (walk for justice etc), people change, and I am, unfortunately for BN one of those people.

I’ve been exposed to an overseas country, and realised the importance of political equality, thus I pounced along the chance and rode along with the election fever to present you my views as I have been doing for the last week or so..

My title for this post says it all.. WTF is BN thinking? Is this a threat to us voters?

Vote Barisan Nasional or “your voices will not be heard”????!!!

So in other words you are giving us NO choice, we MUST vote BN so that our opinions are heard.. Well guess what, BN? Before the 8th of March anyway, your party is currently already in Parliament, and are our voices getting heard?? No it isn’t..
Why???!!


Well I heard that when PJU’s Chew Mei Fun made it into Parliament, initially she did raise out her voice and opinions, and what happened to her? Look at her now, all subdued, she can’t say what she wants.. Forgive me for thinking this way, but doesn’t it look like BN is pressing her down? And making her hold her silence.. Since she has a seat in Parliament, but she can’t raise her voice.. So what does she do.. Look at drains… and where does that get her? Losing the people’s confidence in her, and the votes seem to be taking a strong turn to DAP.

It’s not really the people’s fault that we want to vote the opposition.. The Selangor state has so many educated people, we are a population of 76, 618 in just PJU itself. Imagine the whole state...

We have the internet, who are you trying to lie to? How are you going to lie to us? It’s very hard to lie to educated people, cause we use our brains to think.. And saying things like that.. Are you trying to push your voters further away?? Who came up with this bloody idea to threaten the public..

"Your voice will not be heard.. No Chinese Representative in the Cabinet... "

WTF is this?? What you say dear Prime Minister is even more contradicting than I am, are you not for all the races??

"Punish the Gerakan, Punish MCA??!!"

Oooh ok, I get it, so that makes us, the voters the bad guys now, is that it??

It sounds like you are trying to imply exactly that. We, well at least I, believe in political equality, I am not voting just for the sake of voting.

I really thought hard, and I really looked carefully and thoughtfully at both parties.. but I’ve been a Malaysian for all of my 21 years of my life, and guess what, since I was a kid, I’ve known of certain things going around. (We all now what are those ‘certain things’ so there's no need to elaborate right?)

I was exposed to the International Movement for a Just World (JUST for youths) and guess what? I learnt even more things, yet I still had faith in the government then. To me, they were still fine with the medical subsidies, and petrol subsidies.. I’m thankful for that.. But medical subsidies.. Guess what, I’m not exactly entitled for it, nope, ever since I turned 18. (they must have expected me to start working and to pay for my own medical fees after high school.. such thoughtfulness..)

Even though I was still a student at 19 till my current age, i'm not covered.. Why? Is it because I refused to go to their "not very good" local education institutions, and wanted a better education, where I ended up in private institutions..?

I mean I don’t see the problem here, both my parents served the government, so why can’t I be covered till I graduate, regardless of what institution I study at??!!

To put it in their way (ie BN's way) of phrasing it, I’m being punished for wanting a better education.. Oh woe is me…

The way they were phrasing themselves in the newspapers, it's as if we are in the wrong for wanting something better, we are in the wrong for wanting our voices to be heard.. if the BN had been doing their job all the while, then we wouldn’t be voting for the opposition now, would we?

The reason we are voting the opposition is because from the looks of it MCA can’t say nor do much, that’s why we are putting in someone who doesn’t fear your "oppression"..

It’s as simple as that, times have changed. Maybe in the urban areas, you may continue with your lies and manipulation, but not in the cities. You can manipulate the newspapers and lie all you want (like you did for the BERSIH rally last year, such a big thing and you called it an illegal gathering, it didn't even make the front lines for something so big, and it was on page 4 of the National newspaper. Sometimes I really have to bow down to you. Really amiable..--> this statement is a statement of truth and fact, not something that i made up)

Our media has no freedom of speech, because they fear losing their permits, is that how it’s supposed to work? At times like this we thank god for other news source such as, Malaysiakini. (Though there were some times, I felt that you really had to analyse what they posted)
But that’s how it is… BN stop threatening the people, no matter what party we send to the Parliament, you are supposed to be fair and listen to our voices. If you don’t want us to send the opposition into Parliament, then buck up, or lose out, it’s as simple as that. Don’t try your meaningless threats, it just makes people angrier.

THAT MY DEAR BN is the very reason why the people want to deny you a 2/3 majority, because you are powerful enough to use the newspapers to threaten us.

WE WANT POLITICAL EQUALITY!! That’s why we are voting the opposition..
WE ARE TIRED OF YOUR LIES, that’s why we are voting the opposition.
NO CHINESE REPRESENTATIVE IN PARLIAMENT BECAUSE WE ARE NOT GOING TO VOTE MCA?? That's even more the reason why we are voting the opposition...

I could go on and on and never be finished.. so stop being such a pain in the ass, and get yourself working.. i'm disappointed with our Prime Minister... So unethical... Threatening his rakyat the day before elections.. that's why i said STUPID MOVE!!

The most idealistic political equal party in the country would be, to me that is.. A party which doesn’t go...

"Vote UMNO to protect the Malay rights, vote MCA to protect the Chinese rights, vote MIC to Protect the Indian rights.."

Guess whom are you fighting?? No one but yourselves.. The idiocy of it all doesn’t fail to amaze me.. What the 3 of you should be doing is,

"Vote for US, Barisan Nasional, for equality, REGARDLESS of race and religion.."

(That means, getting rid of... For example, the special rights like Indonesia. They are going along well without it, so why are we keeping it? Yes I’m talking about doing away with the quotas, if you don’t want to lose to other races, then just study harder. Competition can sometimes be healthy.. someone please tell the BN that…)

But I guess that’s just a hopeless dream of mine, which will never come true in my lifetime.. Because no matter how multiracial and harmonious we Malaysians claim to be, there are still a lot of racists out there… Good riddance to us all, and Happy Voting tomorrow.

By the way, anyone regardless of race and religion, if you have the same views as me, then come on, let’s start our own party and “punish” BN….

*And well if you disagree with my point of view, that these articles in the newspaper are carrying a somewhat mildly threatening notice to the voters, then please just assume that i'm imagining things on my own accord, or you could go to DAP's Lim Kit Siang's blog He says it much better than I, and he doesn't fear action against him haha, besides he has more knowledge about our politics as well, and had unfortunately suffered under the ISA at least 2 or was it 3 times... *

BN what has happened to you? Can't take some pressure so started to act ?
You know, it's a sign when the people start to oppose you. People (or at least most people) don't oppose just for the fun nor sake of it, people oppose because they are not happy about something, so instead of stressing on how to opress it, you should just go to the root of the problem and fix it...
To think that even I, had the compassion to pity the Prime Minister (What an unneccsarry outcry from today's youth, caused by a careless statement in the newspaper today..) cause he had to face all this.. I take back my compassion because of what he stated and which was published in today's newspaper.. Now all I'll say is this:
Barisan Nasional, don't think threatening us will help you!!

What on earth is happening to my beloved nation...

-Oracl3-