I’m having a hard time trying to make sense of comments by UMNO delegates today. My dad, an avid fan of the news reminded me: “Eh, they are showing the UMNO General Assembly live on Astro!â€. I expect my dad will be in a right fit today after the recent statements by Hishamuddin and Khairy yesterday. My colleagues today shared the doom and gloom. Things, they felt, were getting worse.
Yes, but how bad is it really? I don’t want to be contrarian for the sake of being contrarian, but I think we have to remember one thing: the sort of firebrand bullshit that serves as party-political demagoguery is, really, for the consumption of a selected audience. The question, of course, is: who is the audience in this instance?
UMNO delegates themselves?
The Malaysian Malay public?
The non-Malays?
Two issues in particular caught my attention:-
- Fudgy equity figures and the now-infamous 60% / 70% idea
- Lambasting Barisan Nasional partners, MCA MIC and Gerakan
And they are part of the same message being pushed this year - like every other year: that UMNO’s in charge and now one is allowed to challenge this fact. In this respect, equity ownership appears to be a smokescreen, mainly because the figures never really mattered. That’s the impression I’m getting, anyway: that the figures never really mattered, and the figure of “30%†was more for non-Malay consumption.
Well, now that UMNO’s come clean about the veracity of government-issued figures, it cuts through all that confusion caused by competing statistics flailed about by hapless government-types. If the plethora of competing figures of bumi equity ownership had any use, it would’ve been in forcing UMNO to admit they never really mattered. Oh, well: at least Malaysians everywhere now know.
What about Khairy’s kicks in Gerakan’s and MIC’s collective arses? I don’t know. Why is he telling off fellow coalition partners? Why is he turning UMNO delegates, members, watchers, followers, supporters etc against the horrible Indians and Chinese Malaysians who pay their taxes and feed the downtrodden UMNOputras?
Probably because he knows UMNO doesn’t need them to form a fully functioning government.
Right?
Come on, now. There’s got to be more going on behind the scenes. I wonder what’s they’re planning.
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me down with bronchitis, xpyred. my shanghai photos up. go to mainpage cos several entries there already. hope youre not running on dialup. beijing ones still editing. cheers! :D
Scarifies this generation to save for the next. We know they cannot stand alone. We are still capable now. Lets help them to screw it up. When the times comes, wait for their call for help “again”, we will save “their country” with a condition that is to reset the rules again, to become “our country”.
Barisan Nasional quickly issues an order for some people to be arrested in Altantuya Shaariibuu’s death. Does it make any sense to have two PDRM officers murdering someone so foreign ? So who is that powerful person who can escape the death sentence and instead tells somebody to take his place ? How much will these two faithful officers be paid for dying for this person ?
Khairy Jamalludin, Abdul Razak Baginda and a host of others; what do they have in common that can screw Malaysia ? Women, power, name, money, looks, crooked minds…and this is what we have in Malaysia. Oh yes ! Malaysia betul-betul boleh !!!
Don’t quite know what they want anymore. I think they want everything. I think must give them everything. If that’s what they want, then give it to them. That’s what I think.
The longer people are willing to put up with it, the more they get. I just read off another site about the issue of meritocracy in universities and came close to vomiting blood. They are complaining that meritocracy will mean very few Malay doctors and lawyers.
Uh, yah: why not actually use the rottan and force your kids to study? It’s the sort of thing that never crosses their minds. Just like this whole equity business. It’s like piggy-backing on someone else’s entrepreneurship. That means they are always reliant on someone else - or worse, Arabs, because, see, some Malaysian Malays think themselves Arabs.
Now they shout about Malay rights and Article 11. Such a turnaround, this: the Moorthy case is an infringement of his wife’s rights, the Lina Joy case, etc. It was because their rights were infringed that the Art11 coalition came together.
*Sigh*
I think I’m going to make it my goal in real-life to screw with UMNOputras and make as much money off of them as possible.
xpyre: I’ll tell you why UMNO’s doing this right now. Look around at our economy. It isn’t going as well as the 80’s and 90’s now. During those times, when the FDI and money were rolling in, UMNO/BN could always rely on their supposed ‘economic clout’ to clobber DAP, PAS and PKR in GEs without ever needing to actually (gasp!) formulate good social and economic policies for the voters to choose when competing in those GEs.
Now, with that gone, they actually have nothing left to rally their supporters except for 1 thing only: Malay rights ala the NEP. That’s why now all the non-UMNO BN partners are fucked. In addition to DAP, they will also now be made the boogeyman to rally those pro-UMNO Malays.
The solution? MY proposal is that we should strengthen PKR’s political clout in order to counter UMNO’s accusations of DAP being anti-Malay. PKR should work in a loose alliance with DAP and try to whack BN in the next elections. PAS should just be left to fight for itself, as it will be a wedge to the Opposition if it joins them again ala Barisan Alternatif in 1999. So just go PKR + DAP for now. You can read more about what I think of this PKR-DAP pakatan on my blog’s sidebar.
Cheers!