People say that as we grow
older, we should grow wiser but of late that doesn’t seemed to be with the
people governing our country. For many years now, I have always been at the
forefront of writing articles or posting humorous satire in the social media
that would be forthright and honest but now, there seemed to be a trend to
“silence” the public and expression of thoughts by the people This curtailing
of freedom of speech and thoughts are a dangerous path in a democratic or
rather, an undemocratic country of ours. Surely there is a big difference
between inciting the nation into a revolt and an honest heartfelt opinion by a
“nobody” of the public. That’s what makes democracy such a unique stand. We
agree to disagree on matters and we live in harmony as Malaysia is unique as we
are a multiracial society. Some people in our country seemed to forget this
fact! I can never stress enough for the saying “absolute power corrupts
absolutely! “.
I dare say that everyone of us
grew up with the tenets of our country tucked into our hearts and mind. The
words of the tenets of Rukunegara will and always will be in our minds, hearts
and souls. In fact, every child, men and women are conscious of the Rukunegara
as they are all exposed to it as early as 4 years old while in kindergarten
until the day they die, I guess. I don’t know about you but I grew up with friends
from every layer of society recognizing that special difference in our
pigmented skin and we are aptly called Malay, Chinese, Indian, Sikh, Iban,
Kadazan and so on. There is NEVER a hint or stench of racism until the arrival
of mega politicians, power grabbing , screw loose in the head politicians and
religious bigots with big power grab ambitions, religious pariahnism and power
greed. The level of respect, tolerant and well-being were at the highest level
and still are especially with the right minded rakyats that understood that very
unique fabric of respect, harmony and peace. Sure, we do have some stirrers of
hate and racial disharmony but in general ( there will always be people like
that in any society! ), people from all walks of life understands the meaning
of respect, harmony and peace.
I grew up respecting and
getting the same level of respect from my friends of different race and creed.
There must be sincerity and good will. Today, that rift of racial discord is
ripped so far apart by these so-called brutes of politicians who doesn’t care
one bit of what will ever happen to the rakyat as a whole. They continue to
show discord and spew hatred and poison the minds of the people just so they
could stay in power. Recently, mentality frame of people are so warped that
even a simple Good Friday greeting can be such a stigma to some people. Are we so weak in our religious beliefs that
even a simple faith greeting will deviate us from our religious faith? Cowards
is what I would call them. Stand on your feet and have some balls or else even
the balls you are having will be chopped off or easily tucked in between your
own legs! There is nothing shameful of standing on your faith because that is
what makes us all human beings in the first place. I am reminded by a quote by one of my late dad’s friend, Pakcik Mahmud
who says “Without religion and faith, human beings are like wild animals in the
jungle.” This is indeed so profound. Distrusts,
all sorts of threats, race supremacy, religious bigotry and social injustice
have been the order of the day. I believe, many well minded Malaysian from all
races and religious background are with me when I say “ PLEASE STOP DIVIDING
THIS NATION!”
I am particularly irked with
politicians and religious people who continue to spew false sense of security
and mind invasion thoughts of conversion, political dominance, race championing
and religion championing and so on. NO ONE in this country is contending
against anything in this country! These are all political games and fear
tactics to poison the people’s minds. All of us knows where our places are. All of
us do understand what is special privilege and no ONE is questioning that! Is
the country any better when only one particular race is the governing body? In
actual fact, no one made a noise if one particular race governs the country.
The big question is and always will be : Are we any better than what we have
been? The golden question of the citizens of this country : Is Malaysia getting
any better economically & development, progress in the nation – morally,
socially and spiritually and most important of all, are we safe?
We allowed the biggest scandals
and corruption cases in our country
happened during our watch, people. Billions and millions of ringgits were
siphoned off under the noses and pretext of development seed. OMG, the foul
stench of corruption in terms of billions and millions are so rampant and
blatant. We should be ashamed of ourselves that our country economy is in the
doldrums. We should be ashamed to our children and children’s children. We
allowed our sacred trust of the nation to robbers, thieves, corrupters and
religious bigots to whitewash our country and bring our country to the
forefront of world’s mockery. What a shameful state our beloved nation,
Malaysia had become! Our country became the laughing stock and butt of jokes
from every news station around the world! We are now world famous and renown
for the different reasons nowadays. Our nation used to be the Tiger of South
East Asia but today we are like stray pussy cat awaiting scraps thrown by rich
owners of the region. Even Indonesia and Thailand, our nearby neighbours are moving
towards a greater nation while we can only see the dust off our nearest
neighbour, Singapore. Don’t get me wrong. I love our nation but we have fallen
off the grid so far in terms of development and moving ahead with times.
Instead, we are still fighting poverty, religious issues, unemployment, illegal
immigrants and lately stupidity and more confusion when facing a global
pandemic. It is embarrassing when our leaders falter time after time in
speeches, actions and deeds and yet they still become “bodoh sombong” as my
good friends used to say. We languished far down in development and in our
economic sectors and yet, we conveniently say our economics are good and on
track when even our neighbouring countries shunned down our currency while
foreign investors are shying away from investing in our country economics
citing political instability. What a
shame indeed!
It is just time for our
leaders to wake up, stop bickering like little spoilt brats and get their ass
off the chairs and start working……..properly. For far too long, we have
ministers expansion in bodies & numbers for political reasons and
strengthening but yet works are not done to benefit the people. Just look at
all the confusing SOPs for the pandemic situation the country is facing and the
laughable suggestions that all of this will go away with a drink of warm water!
How the hell are the people going to get their business up and running with
such confusing SOPs? Even the fines implementations
are equally moronic, nonsensical and double standard especially to the VIPs and
the public in general. All this ought to anger the general public but
surprisingly, the public had been cool, constraint and collected up till today.
However, I believe a storm is brewing fast and thick when stupid implementation
of fines and SOPs are further introduced.
Look, my dear government of
the day and politicians, the public is NEVER your enemy. But if you continue to
treat your rakyats as enemy, the consequences are so dire indeed. The public
had awakened from their long slumber that the power to change the government of
the day is in their hands by votes and by working together as one Malaysia and
not by the manipulations of frog jumping, reward induced politicians and
cross-overs. These jumpers generally don’t do well traditionally during the next
coming election. Yes, it would take 4
years of suffering but it can be done as times does flies these days, don’t
they?
I am often reminded of what
Mark Twain once said about government of the day. It goes like this : “Loyalty
to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government , when it deserves it.” I am definitely taking this stand!
