How a contrarian views reformasi. Part 1. Devil's advocate series 78.

1. As a perennial, enduring and everlasting ( what to do, its a finer aspect of my being), I look at reformasi from a different light. 

2. I know it's a battle cry for PKR 

3. But the ideals of reformasi, its aims are for all with the same idea. 

4. But for PKR people, they must have the reformasi state of mind. They must eat, breath sleep and repeat reformasi. Because it can be said they 'own,' the term reformasi. 

5. Heavy indeed is the head that wears the crown. 6. To me, reformasi has 2 aspects. 

7. First, the overthrow of the old regime, old status quo with all it vestiges . 

8. It's like Machiavelli says, I am not interested in retaining the status quo but in overthrowing it 

9. Now, many were responsible for the overthrow of the black mamba of Malaysian politics. 

10. PKR, DAP, AMANAH, PAS, bersatu, the Sarawak and Sabah based parties. 

11. By right, they should be in the unity government, not UMNO. 

12. UMNO is not in the equation. It cannot overthrow itself. 

13. By definition, it ought not be in the unity government. 

14. It's a political mistake to bring UMNO into the the unity government. A mistake ab initio. 

15. It's indeed a fatal mistake to invite the enemy to share political power with you. 

16. Now don't get sentimental at seeing UMNO being excluded from the ' big' family. 

17. Don't read excluding UMNO as excluding malays 18. There are Malays in PKR, DAP, AMANAH PAS bersatu and bumiputeras in the Sarawak and Sabah parties 

19. They are all Malay/bumiputera, except they are not UMNO 

20. That doesn't make them less Malay than an UMNO Malay. 

21. The problem is many of us identify our malayness as to whether we are UMNO or not umno 

22. We think we are less Malay if we are not UMNO. That's a load of BS. 

23. I am a Malay and don't need UMNO to certify I am one. 

24. Indeed it's better to differentiate our selves by economic groups. 

25. As between the have not and the haves 

26. The majority of us are the have nots and the UMNO elites are the haves 

27. Like many of you, I am Malay had father as the sole provider, where eating satay once in a blue moon is a luxury. 

28. We suffered deprivation but as kids we were not conscious of it 

29. That's better than others who had both parents working. The father as an odd job laborer, the mother as a washer woman. 

30. The Chinese who had a bus driver father doubling up as a rubber tapper. 

31. Or a father who is a fruit stall vendor or the luckier one who had fathers as shopkerpers 

31b. Or the Indian boy who had a father going house to house to tajam Batu giling and a mother who giling rempah. 

32. So it's proletariats and lumpenproletariats of Malaysia unite! 

33. You have nothing to lose but the shackles of poverty and dependence. 

34. I will not call for a rumah bangsa melayu but for a rumah rakyat Malaysia 

35. We have hitherto overthrow the house, the shell . 

36. But the component structures remain. 

37. We must now demolish the structures That will be in part 2.