The title of this article is fairly long. I have deliberately chosen it to reproduce the extended comments sent in by Walla. I present here his thoughts, verbatim. Sakmongkol.
UMNO was formed
to fight imperialism. Yet its offspring called UMNO Baru has become even worse
imperialists. Worse because it wears the
cloak of wolves to entice the flock of sheep that it wants to keep in its fold
as meat for its own dinners.
Even little Red Riding Hood can see through
the scam, what more the millions in this land who are daily facing the new
imperialist order that has already usurped the nationalism all had forged
together over fifty years ago.
Because they are
dullards, the new imperialists have also copied word-for-word the
divide-and-rule tactic of the old foreign imperialists by pitting one brother
against another.
That is also why it is hard to understand how
someone can say tomorrow's marchers are bad parents. If they are bad, then UMNO is even worse to
have produced UMNO Baru whose yellow-livered leaders have already decided to tear-gas
and bludgeon the rakyat of Malaysia who are marching against imperialism inside
the present government.
One is tempted
to ask since these so-called leaders of the present government are
yellow-livered, why are they so against those who wear yellow? It's just a
colour, like blue. Is even colour subject to monopoly in this land?
Secondly, the
same character tried to tar the leader of the Opposition by saying he is
power-crazy. But what has that leader been doing so far other than to articulate
for changes?
So if UMNO is fighting against the Opposition
on the supercalifragilisticexpialidocious ground that their leader is
power-crazy, how are the rakyat not to conclude that UMNO is therefore fighting
against the changes that he has personified?
Since those changes are also what the
marchers are asking for, why has UMNO not realized the changes more honestly,
for that matter protect the rights of the marchers instead of planning to harm
them, starting with barricades at a place with the word 'Merdeka' that was
first ever roared on the very night this nation was freed from imperialism?
You see this
same contradiction in UMNO - it says it is for our Malays but it enchains them
in the wrought iron of subservience to an imperialist order made sneaky by
friendly pats on the shoulder and thin wads on the palm while it vacuum-cleans
the entire national coffer behind their backs.
That explains why today we have one humungous
national debt which is growing faster than it can be reduced. Because the
government we are presently having is neither clean nor fair and yet only good
at flip-flopping and cheating.
However a tiny doubt remains. Imperialists, it
is asked? How does one recognize the imperialist in our midst?
(1)
How about the guy who invited the poor to his
mansion of elephantine size built on low-cost land and then explained his
generosity by saying, "if not here, how else can they taste this
luxury?"
(2)
Or, the other guy who showed how good he was to
be able to negotiate a mansion at below market rate despite having given up his
dental practice?
(3)
Or, the chief of a state once caught laundering
money overseas who now decides to monopolize the billboard business in a single
company so that rates can be raised tenfold, purportedly to fund his favorite
charity.
(4)
Or, the quantum leap from rearing cows to
rent-collecting of expensive condos, with the rent paid by associate companies
of the same beneficiaries funded in the first place by public money issued
under dubious circumstances, money now gone up in smoke thicker than the haze
from Kalimantan because it was really a huge amount....for a low-level
appointee.
(5)
Or, the slush funds amounting to hundreds of
millions deposited in offshore accounts but somehow only detected by a foreign
anti-corruption agency while the local one sits silent awaiting higher orders
from those yang mengikut perintah yang tak akan datang. Too shy, perhaps?
(6)
Or, the GLC honcho suspended for money politics
but reinstated out of the blue, however best only for wisecracking on the one
hand, and yet on the other hand losing his cool to tell poor farmers to get out
if they cannot accept his boss, the one who already has enough problems of his
own trying to explain why he had walked away from answering honest questions by
the rakyat. Again, shy, perhaps?
(7)
Or, the super-rich shopping tastes, flying
allowances, monarch-level accommodations, super-class limousine services, not
to forget the entertainment allowances that smoothen bed sheets at discreet
rendezvous three times a week, fifty two weeks a year.
(7)
The only thing missing in the picture forming
in your mind right now is a lowly servant from some kampung, standing behind
the new brown mat salleh of this 21st century, fanning away with a large
feather fan the draining heat of each day that starts with a late morning and
ends with an early night, a day at best pushing paper on the table, speaking
nonsense to the masses, and generally causing trouble and mess all over the
place, and paid a gazetted salary that in a thousand years will never explain
all the excesses the calculator has already collapsed from trying to compute.
Enough?
In such a situation, how are our Malays and
other Malaysians ever to make real progress? How can real progress be made when
the economy is as fake as the government leading it? Meanwhile, despite all the machinations,
bamboozling and chicaneries of UMNO layered like lard on the rakyat, the
peoples of Malaysia are united more than ever.
And the greatest hope for Malaysia was already
shown in the singular action by so many millions of our Malays when in their
finest hour in GE12 they had collectively rejected UMNO and turned enough of
the popular vote in the peninsular to give the Opposition a simple tipping
point majority.
If UMNO thinks it can leap, why not the
voters? They too can quantum leap to enlarge that majority even more in GE13
and in one stroke redefine the tired and jaded political landscape of Malaysia
for the first time in the history of this nation.
In doing so, our voters will show the
imperialists in our midst that our Malays are no different from any other human
beings on this planet in their capacity to improve their lot. It is bad
training which has impeded them. It is bad policies which have eroded all the
goodwill so necessary for building networking and contacts for bigger markets
and better exchanges. It is bad economics which have given to the imperialists
a head start for a few at the expense of the many.
And that is why there is a new wave of courage
in this nation that says the rakyat will rather do the right thing and fail
than continue to see the present government do the wrong thing and succeed.
Avoid this sad tragedy. Bring about changes.
Go beyond the tipping point. Make the quantum leap. After that, it gets easier.
After all, the buck stops with us and not UMNO. If it stops with us, you will
know it won’t be miss-spent; it’s your own money in the first place. But if it
stops with UMNO, first hilang, then habis.
Only a few more hours to wait before dawn
breaks on a day where the same courage will be shown. The will of the rakyat
cannot be weaker than the will of those who have chosen to do wrong because the
riffraff in UMNO still think they can fool the rakyat when the only people they
are fooling are the people they see in their own mirrors every day.
walla, for all of you.