Why the New Government will not be another BN
the crowd at my ceramah in Parit Buntar
Before
I go off on another extended round of ceramahs, I am posting this article. Many
times, I have been confronted with a typical response- why should we change
government? The new people in power will do the same things the present govern does.
They will steal, rob and pillage and build up cronies around them. Whoever I choose, my lot will still be the same.
This
kind of response which seems difficult to counter in the first place can be
dealt with when proper reasoning is applied. First, the typical answer reveals
an admission that the present government does what it is accused of- a litany
of misdeeds. Corruption, pillage, embezzlement( RM80 billion each year over the
last 10 years being smuggled out of the country- a hotchpotch of ill-gotten gains
such as bribery, commissions, inflated transfer pricing and such things).
We have scored a victory in having these deeds admitted.
We have scored a victory in having these deeds admitted.
Once
again I come to my previous argument
which asks why is it that even the most liberal of minds seem unable to accept
that those good souls outside the corridors of power are not capable of doing
good, while we, ( of the establishment of course) are more than endowed to do
good things. We are the good people, they, the bad.
The answer to this of course- holding ourselves in such esteem only requires self-praise and an appeal to the emotions. The emotional side of our brain is receptive to such self-praises.
The answer to this of course- holding ourselves in such esteem only requires self-praise and an appeal to the emotions. The emotional side of our brain is receptive to such self-praises.
On
the other hand, accepting that those good souls outside the corridors of power
are also capable as we are, require deeper and serious reasoning. The reasoning
is indirect and appeals to the rational side of our brains. Now, because our
part of the brain that deals with emotions is particularly receptive to emotive
persuasions, we obviously find ourselves readily susceptible to emotional
appeals. ( Wow- I like the word susceptible because it reminds me of the statement that a certain Mongolian lady of leisure who has since departed, was also susceptible to anal sex) The rational portion on the other hand requires more arguments and is
therefore more slowly influenced, but once influenced, reasoned arguments become
convictions that will be uneasy to shake.
The
next government replacing the BN and UMNO will not be the same and they will
not repeat the so many transgressions committed by UMNO and BN.
Three
things act as insurance against a repeat.
One,
the sum total of our accumulated experience pushes the boundaries of our social
consciousness. The lessons learn impose constraints upon the new government
from transgressing. Members of society become advocates of propriety and
probity. The heightened social consciousness serve as sufficient deterrent for
would be transgressors.
Two-
the sum total of our accumulated experience living under the rule of a corrupt
and duplicitous government, served as grounds to acquired standard of measures. What are the standards? Standards that
abhor corruption, abuse of power, cronyism etc. Members of society made wiser
by the sum total of accumulated experience, know that if the new government
does steps A, B, C, D they will eventually lead to an unwanted E. the new standards
of measure by which good governance is evaluated further serve as boundaries
for accepted behaviour of rulers. They are censored even before outcome E is achieved.
3rd,
this is an age where good governance is the norm rather than an exception. Our own
society’s preference for good governance is now represented by the Rafizi Ramli’s,
the Bawanis, the Adam Adlis of our country. Everything is questioned which
forces the new government to act within the boundaries of the norm.
So,
the answer is no- the new government replacing UMNO/BN will not be the same. It
will not be because of the new social constraints.
So
my fellow Malaysians- if you want the answers to these questions:-
1.
Who are the people behind the
murder of Altantuya
2.
Who got the money from the purchase
of the submarines
3.
Who get money from the purchase of
littoral combat ships, from the purchase of armoured personnel carriers,
purchase of airplanes etc
4.
If we want to bring to book the
many KSUs who invented projects near the end of their tenures as retirement
fund
5.
What Dr Mahathir really
accomplished during his 22 years tenure as PM,
We
must all resolve to kick out UMNO and BN.
28 comments:
Fully agree Dato.
My fear is massive cheating by EC. I hope PR has some ammunitions to counter cheating by EC
This is the kind of message...loud and clear...no beating around the bush...that voters...especially the young educated Malaysians will pay attention and listen carefully.
Compare this...with Najib's non stop campaigning with money..with shows...dinners..so clear to catch fishes....he is doing.
Why does a 55 years old Govt needs to campaign so hard..so desperately...so vigorously. nowadays......especially by Mahathir and Najib?
The reasons are given by Sak at his written...5 points.
After 12th GE....cans and cans of dirt and worm exposed by PR politicians.
How nice Umno b Govt is....not one being sued for telling lies.
It is the other way round....Utusan told lies....sued and found guilty..pay huge compensation. Any other Govt will cancel the license.
Telling lies are very much needed by Najib.
Meanwhile the Show Dog..keep performing.
Last count....
"Are you ready for BN?"...bad bad mistake....yet asking 3 times!!!
Is he deaf??
Dato,the doubters of a new incoming gomen to be the same as the corrupted good for nothing pillaging Umno/BN,are usually the chicken hearted tongkat,crutches and wheelchair dependents.These people are scared of changes and will give all sorts of reasons and excuses,that the devils in Umno/BN are better than the untested in PR.
Yes,we have to agree that with a new gomen comes with a price.That all men/ladies are not equal.There will be honest,not so honest and the very greedy and corrupted to surface after they get used to warming the cozy chairs in Putrajaya.
But the greedy and corrupted will be kept to a minimun,as the rakyat will be watching like an eagle.And the Umno/BN will be waiting for a chance to whack them too.Like in Singapore there are always a few bad apples,but they will not be swept under the carpet,like what Umno/BN does.
Whatever a PR gomen does will anytime be many many times better than the Umno/BN.Do these doubters not know that many containers of illegally gotten ringgit are shipped out every year.Just imagined what these hundreds of billions of ringgit can do to the economy,if they stayed inside the country.The economy will be booming.
In a booming economy,the people will be working and with better wages too.A happy people and workforce will see less crimes,as no happy person will go on a crime rampage,as what is happening now.The streets will be safe,and children can wander the streets not afraid of been kidnapped or afraid of child predators.
We do not have to look far.Just look at that small little red dot of an island state down South.
Dato,if the crowd at your ceramah is almost the same size or bigger then Najib's,with the presence of Psy helping to draw in the crowd for him,then I do not know what to say to Najib by e-mail to his Ist Malaysia blog.
something stink in here....i smell...BULLLLL...SHITTTTTT.....hahaha
the comments like that coming from berkatshahpadu are the contrarian comments UMNO cyber-stompers want me to publish.
go publish at your own blogs and pour out all the venom and bile there. i have never read those.
It is natural for anyone to smell something fishy ...when the post and comments do not suit his/her likings.
Voters who are ready to vote for change of Govt...noticed the bullshits and hypocrisy from Mahathir and Najib too.
The moment we see their faces...they stink and smell like shit....for we know...what big BULLLLLL...SHIITTTTERS they are.
"berkatshah padu" should press his nose from breathing in ...or get lost ...if he cannot stand the smell here.
Dear Sakmongkol
“Why should we change government? The new people in power will do the same things the present government does.”
This is an important question, and it must be answered clearly and decisively. We cannot answer by saying PR is different from the current BN bunch, or that the PR people have learned from the mistakes of the BN fellows so will not commit breaches of trust. The PR people will, if they are in government for 55 years, like the BN guys.
The answer consists of two parts. The first is that we must install and restore the institutions of power – the courts, an independent civil service and a fearless parliament that guards the interest of the people, not the interest of the party. In other words we must restore effective checks and balances into the political and governance systems. Mahathir has destroyed all these.
The second part consists of telling the people that they truly have the power in a democracy, not the people whom they vote into office. These are merely their public servants. Currently the people in government are divorced from the people who elected them, bullying and bossing over them. The government seems to be a version of the monarchy, an institution that you pay unquestioned loyalty to. No, we do not need to be loyal to the government, only to our country. The government is not the country. So tell them: the government is of the people, by the people and for the people. If the government (including a PR one) is unresponsive to our needs we kick them out in 5 years time. So democracy is premised on choices. Without choice we might as well have a dictatorship, and we have had a quasi-dictatorship for 55 years already. Enough is enough. By exercising our choice we are exercising our democratic right to good government.
kalau boleh, selepas pilihanraya, tiada lagi sebut nama-nama parti BN ka, PR ka.... itu semua kita simpan. Lakukan kerja pentadbiran dengan nama kerajaan Malaysia..
Such is the success of the present regime in planting the perception that anybody who helms the government is the same ie as corrupted as they are. This is purely to justify their plundering of the country. It is sickening to see that even some "educated" citizens think the same way.
It is definitely going to be different when a new government takes over. History shows that even the worst dictator in the world started off with good governance. However derailment started to happen when they tried to hang on to power at all cost and family interest, cronyism, nepotism come into play. This is where a strong 2 party system becomes crucial for check and balance. In addition, some constitutional changes need to be done like limiting the PM to two terms, making MACC responsible directly to Parliament and freeing the judiciary and mainstream media.
Of course the new social constraints will play an important role too with alternative media and more demanding young generation in the picture.
For now, I do hope PR is ready to counter cheatings by UMNO/BN in the coming GE13. Its good to see large crowds at PR ceramahs but history shows that it did not necessarily translate into votes.
Dato and fellow bloggers
Ini Kalilah!
Syabas, and God's willing, this is it!
OneMalaysian.
If we, the RAKYAT can yanked out BN because of all the wrongs it has committed, we the RAKYAT can also similarly yanked out the PR government if it did the same wrongs that are unacceptable to the rakyat, we just have to wait for 5 years.
This is the beauty of having a successful 2 party system, the RAKYAT are the BOSS and the government are our employees, HIRE and FIRE will be normal.
We expect the new government to restore all that has been destroyed by BN, restore the judiciary, MACC, PDRM, clean up the EC, free the media etc. We also expect a strong and viable 2 party system. A strong opposition will provide the good check and balance..
Salam,
Tidak ada sesiapa yang sempurna di dalam dunia ini.
Tuhan tidak akan mengubah nasib sesuatu kaum, sehingga kaum itu mengubah nasibnya sendiri.
Ini prinsip PR, "ubah".
Kita tidak kata MB Selangor itu perfect sangat, tapi, tidaklah sampai kelemahannya itu, sehingga menyusahkan ribuan rakyat Selangor.
Kita tidak kata yang UMNO ini buruk semua, ada kebaikannya.
Jadi dalam hal neraca keadilan ini, rakyat Malaysia harus melihat pretasi kepimpinan BN UMNO secara holistik. Jangan salah tafsir, pertolongan kerajaan sebagai pertolongan parti politik.
Kita semua sedar, rakyat Malaysia harus maju dalam perkara sivik dan bijak menilai apa itu pemberian parti dan apa itu pemberian kerjaan. Sebab pemberian dalam acara kerajaan, sebenarnya adalah dari duit rakayat itu sendiri.
Contoh :
1. Buang sampah merata-rata. Saya gelihati melihat dalam TV, masa kempen kesukarelawan oeh PM, padang di mana pelajar berhimpun habis bersepah dengan botol air mineral dan bekas makanan. Mana minda sivik dan sukarela kita?
2. Bila menerima BR1M 1 Malaysia, sampai berebut-rebut dan bergaduh. Mana minda sivik kita? Adakah rakyat Malaysia tidak cukup makan?
3. Bila ada siibu membawa anak kecil dalam monorel sambil berdiri memegang tiang, tidak ada orang beri ruang untuknya duduk. Mana minda sivik kita?
Jadi mana-mana rakyat Malaysia yang masih kabur dengan perjuangan PR, harus ada jati diri dalam menentukan kepimpinan negara. Kalau ada rasa tak kena dengan kepimpinan, kita ada hak untuk menegur dan membuat perubahan.
Macam Hak Pengguna, kalau harga barang naik tak tentu pasal, maka rakyat Malaysia harus berani bertindak dan bersuara hatta boikot sekalipun.
Sampai masanya sekarang kita rakyat mesti berani buat perubahan, kalau tidak kita akan kalah dalam negara kita sendiri gara-gara sekelompok penyamun dan kita akan kalah di peringkat antarabangsa, baik politik, ekonomi maupun sukan.
Lihatlah bolasepak kita,gara-gara keras kepala puak penyamun politik, sampai bila. Lihatlah filem kita, entah sampai kemana. Lihatlah ranking universiti kita, entah kemana.
Negara kita Malaysia harus buang penyakit "aku kenal kau, kau kenal aku". Ini penyakit sangat merbahaya, dan boleh menjumudkan negara kita. Kita tidak kurang dengan orang berbakat.
Kalau tidak kita makin ketinggalan di belakang negara jiran kita sendiri. Jauh sekali di belakang Jepun apalagi Korea Selatan yang stau ketika dulu ekonomi mereka jauh di bawah kita.
Jangan salahkan anak bangsa kita, kalau ada yang berhijrah ke US, Kanada, atau Australia (di sana bakat mereka di hargai).... bukan apa, kerana bakat mereka dipinggirkan gara-gara mainan politik yang memihak kepada siapa yang mereka kenal, walaupun mereka itu bau busuk, bau mulut, bau ketiak dan hodoh tak kira lagi.
Jadi saya harap pimpinan PR bila berjaya nanti, semua aspek "transparency" harus diletak sebagai wajib dalam pelbagai sektor kerajaan dan swasta.
Kita harap semua pembaca semua disini, menyeru kepimpian PR nanti :
1. Tukar istilah YB (Yang berhormat) kepada YB (Yang berkhidmat). Kalau tidak bakal YB nanti akan jadi syaitan yang syok sendiri dan gah sendiri.
2. Kerajaan PR, tukar kepada Kerajaan Rakyat dalam semua TV dan mass media nanti.
3. Bila ada keramaian(event bersama rakyat), kita tidak mau rakyat berdiri tengah panas, pimpinan syok sendiri di bawah khemah di tambah kipas angin. Kalau ada orang mempersoal mesti hormat pemimpin, adakah panas peluh rakyat di kira tidak ada harga diri. Pemimpin mesti duduk bersama-sama rakyat. Jangan bila berkempen pilihanraya nanti, terhegeh-hegeh duduk sama-sama pakcik makcik di kampung di atas tikar. Soal keselamatan dan khemah untuk rakyat boleh di urus.
4. Pimpinan PR nanti, mesti menerima aduan rakyat walau tukang sapu sekalipun pergi kepejabat jumpa wakil rakyat. Jangan ada alasan sibuklah meetinglah. Apa guna digelar wakil rakyat? Istilah wakil rakyat di tukar kepada 'Penjaga amanah Rakyat". mest buat penilaian, kalau 3 kali rakyat nak jumpa masih tak dapat, pimpinan negara mesti ambil tindakan segera ke atas wakil rakyat itu.
Please, don't chase away people like berkatshahpadu. We would like to have them here, so that we know how stupid they are. They can't argue, but at least they read your article, and understand the message that we are trying to convey here.
Please, invite all those macais out there...
Lets hope there are still those ALLAH fearing Umno members won't let their evil masters bring the Malay race and the country to ruin. If Umno BN steals GE13 from the rakyat and the Oppositions, Malayisia will be rule with an iron fist, a police state, repression of the rakyat, a dictatorship .
UBN will do whatever it takes to stay in power, to avoid from prosecution, return of stolen wrealth, the safety of corrupted families, cronies & hidden assets. Eg. Zambabwe, Khazakstan etc.....
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So Mahathir, Najib, Rais, Soi Lek, Soon Koh, Taib Mahmud, James Masing, etc, etc are still talking about letting people 'with experience' to continue running the government, and not to experiment with the Opposition as if the people are still ignorant about the billions upon billions stolen and hidden overseas.
Copied from matbulat, posted on Saturday, 26 May 2012 03:01
65 reasons why BN will be wiped out soon :
1. PKFZ RM12bill
2. Submarine commission RM500mil
3. Sime Darby RM964mil
4. Paya Indah Westland RM88mil
5. Posmalaysia (transmile) RM230mil lost
6. Eurocopter deal RM1bil wasted?
7. Terengganu Stadium Collapsed RM292mil
8. MRR2 repair cost RM70mil
9. Maybank Overpaid BII RM4bil
10. Tourism -NYY kickback RM10mil
11. 3 paintings bought by MAS—————– RM 1.5M
12. Overpayment by Sport Ministry————- RM 8.4M
13. London 's white elephant sports complex —- RM 70M
14. MATRADE repairs ————————– RM 120M
15. Cost of new plane used by PM————– RM 200M
16. InventQ irrecoverable debt —————- RM 228M
17. Compensation for killing crooked bridge —– RM 257M
18. Lost in selling Augusta ——————— RM 510M
19. Worth of AP given out in a year ———— RM 1.8B
20. Submarines (future Muzium Negara artifacts)- RM 4.1B
21. PSC Naval dockyard ———————— RM 6.75B
22. The Bank Bumiputra twin scandals in the early 1980s saw US$1 billion loss (RM3.2 billion in 2008 ringgit)
23. The Maminco attempt to corner the world tin market in the 1980s is believed to have cost some US$500 million. (RM1.6 billion)
24. Betting in foreign exchange futures cost Bank Negara Malaysia RM30 billion in the 1990s.
25. Perwaja Steel resulted in losses of US$800 million (RM2.56 billion).
26. Use of RM10 billion public funds in the Valuecap Sdn Bhd operation to shore up the stock market
27. Banking scandal of RM700 million losses in Bank Islam
28. The sale of M.V. Agusta by Proton for one Euro making a loss of €75.99 million (RM 348 million) Same as No:20?
29. Wang Ehsan from oil royalty on Terengganu RM7.4 billion from 2004 – 2007
30. For the past 10 years since Philharmonic Orchestra was established, this orchestra has swallowed a total of RM500 million.Hiring a kwai-lo CEO with salary of more than RM1 M per annum !
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31. In Advisors Fees, Mahathir was paid RM180,000, Shahrizat Abdul Jalil (women and social development affairs) RM404,726 and Abdul Hamid Othman (religious) RM549,675 per annum
32. The government has spent a total of RM3.2 billion in teaching Maths and Science in English over the past five years. Out of the amount, the government paid a whopping RM2.21 billion for the purchase of information and computer technology (ICT) equipments which it is unable to give a breakdown. Govt paid more than RM6k per notebook vs per market price of less than RM3k through some new consortiums that setup just to transact the notebook deal. There was no math & science content for the teachers and the notebooks are all with the teachers' children now.
33. The commission paid for purchase of jets and submarines to two private companies Perimeker Sdn Bhd and IMT Defence Sdn Bhd amounted to RM910 million. Expanding on No 2?
37. RM300 million to compensate Gerbang Perdana for the RM1.1 billion"Crooked Scenic Half-Bridge"
38. RM1.3 billion have been wasted building the white elephant Customs, Immigration and Quarantine (CIQ) facilities on cancellation ofthe Malaysia-Singapore scenic bridge
39. RM 100 million on renovation of Parliament building and leaks
40. National Astronaut Programme – RM 40 million
41. National Service Training Programme – yearly an estimate of RM 500 million
42. Eye of Malaysia – RM 30 million and another RM5.7 million of free ticket
43. RM 2.4 million on indelible ink
44. Samy announced in September 2006 that the government paid compensation amounting to RM 38.5 billion to 20 highway companies. RM380 million windfalls for 9 toll concessionaires earned solely from the toll hike in 2008 alone.
45. RM32 million timber export kickbacks involving companies connected to Sarawak Chief Minister and his family.
46. Two bailouts of Malaysia Airline System RM7.9 billion. At a time when MAS incurring losses every year, RM1.55 million used to buy three paintings to decorate its chairman's (Munir) office. Expanding on No:11
47. Putra transport system bailout which cost RM4.486 billion.
48. STAR-LRT bailout costing RM3.256 billion.
49. National Sewerage System bailout costing RM192.54 million.
50. Seremban-Port Dickson Highway bailout costing RM142 million.
51. Kuching Prison bailout costing RM135 million.
52. Kajian Makanan dan Gunaan Orang Islam bailout costing RM8.3 million.
53. Le Tour de Langkawi bailout costing RM 3.5 Million.
54. Wholesale distribution of tens of millions of shares in BursaMalaysia under guise of NEP to cronies, children and relatives of BN leaders and Ministers worth billions of ringgits.
55. Alienation of tens of thousands of hectares of commercial lands and forestry concessions to children and relatives of BN leaders and Ministers worth tens of billions of ringgits.
56. Since 1997, Petronas has handed out a staggering 30 billion ringgit in natural gas subsidies to IPPs who were making huge profits.In addition, there were much wastages and forward trading of Petronas oil in the 1990s based on the low price of oil then. Since the accounts of Petronas are for the eyes of Prime Minister only, we have absolutely no idea of the amount.
57. RM5700 for a car jack worth RM50
58. Government-owned vehicle consumed a tank of petrol worth RM113 within a few minutes
59. A pole platform that cost RM990 was bought for RM30,000
60. A thumb drive that cost RM90 was bought for RM480
61. A cabinet that cost RM1,500 was bought for RM13,500
62. A flashlight that cost RM35 was bought for RM143
63. Expenses for 1 Malaysia campaign paid to APCO?
64. RM17 billion subsidy to IPP
65. USD24 million diamond ring for Ro$mah --- cancellation of order -- how much compensation???
66. Broga Incinerator Project RM2Billion! (Saturday, 26 May 2012 14:48 posted by FUCKBOLEHLAND`
Dato Sak,
My view is that, PR having tasted power in governing state government will DEFINATELY be CLEAN at least for the 1st 2 terms. This is because, i strongly believe the PR leadership does not want to be termed as "1 TERM" government. So they will do their utmost best to reduce if not eliminate corruption. Anything longer than 2 terms, is a no no as power will lead to greed, and greed will lead to corruption.
Darth Vader
Dato dear. Assalaamu ealaikum wa Rahmatu'Llaahi wa Barakaatuh. I would like to contribute something to you and to all concern.
Sermon of Ali ibn Abi Thalib karama'Llaahu wajhah.
Grounds for accepting the Caliphate and the qualities of a ruler and governor.
"O' (people of) differing minds and divided hearts, whose bodies are present but wits are absent. I am leading you (amicably) towards truthfulness, but you run away from it like goats and sheep running away from the howling of a lion. How hard it is for me to uncover for you the secrets of justice, or to straighten the curve of truthfulness.
O' my Allah! Thou knowest that what we did was not to seek power nor to acquire anything from the vanities of the world. We rather wanted to restore the signs of Thy religion and to usher prosperity into Thy cities so that the oppressed among Thy creatures might be safe and Thy forsaken commands might be established. O' my Allah! I am the first who leaned (towards Thee) and who heard and responded (to the call of Islam). No one preceded me in prayer (salat) except the Prophet.
You certainly know that he who is in charge of honour, life, booty (enforcement of), legal commandments and the leadership of the Muslim should not be a miser as his greed would aim at their wealth, nor be ignorant as he would then mislead them wiith his ignorance, nor be of rude behaviour who would estrange them with his rudeness, nor should he deal unjustly with wealth thus preferring one group over another, nor should he accept a bribe while taking decisions, as he would forfeit (others) rights and hold them up without finality, nor should he ignore sunnah as he would ruin the people."
Hope you be enliighten as I was and still am. Wassalam.
Amin Saedi. aminsaedi@hotmail.com
Amin Saedi, this is poetic and beautiful. Hope this rubs into the souls of BN 'leaders'
Many thanks.
We have had too much of BN's Bull***t. Any alternative that is more honest and sensible will be welcome. Pakatan has done well in Penang and Selangor. Things are good too in Kelantan and Kedah. Let's get all Malaysians to vote for a better country.
http://happilyspeaking.blogspot.com/2013/02/lets-make-malaysia-great-again.html
Wakil rakyat Pulau Manis samseng. Maki Mahasiswa. Dia ni lulus apa? Bengap sangat.
Is this the Adun that replace you? Your ex-state seat?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeEcRkIhj8g
Simple!!
New Government be like BN...it will have the shortest governing authority in Malaysia.
This is the time...where People Power will dictate...no more elected servants to to treat voters like fools.
It is whether there will be a change in government will become a reality is not that difficult to predict.The rakyat is comfortable with the many years of BN rule.PR can only try to deny the 2/3 majority perhaps.Good luck to you.
complain and scream all we want.
BN will win by hook and crook.
Hook means hand outs
Crook means phantom voters whose names are recycled from dead Malaysians
Yip.... by hook or by crook but the hooking does not work..Malaysians wanting change of govt....no matter how many tricks and treats by Najib..to fish for votes...sumua tak boleh pakai.
And the crooked ways.....thousands of eyes are watching....no so easy now.
His popularity slipping.
Najib's bullshitting days are coming to an end.
He needs to pray for a miracle....and God does not listen to crooks prayers....except forgive them...if they accept the final judgement with courage...to the gallows!!
Tengok catatan "matbulat" tu menakutkan. Dan EC buatlah kerja secara tertib & displin supaya kesihatan MALAYSIA terjamin. Saya tak suka huru-hara dan saya lebih tak suka orang-orang yang jadi "pagar makan padi"
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