The
oft repeated lies by leaders of the present government have reached
their tipping point, boiling point, smoke point or whatever one wishes
to term it. The
biggest lie is this country will descend into anarchy if a new
government takes over. Leaders of the present government must be taking
us as fools or we are regarded as being born yesterday. Moreover, they
must be suffering from an overblown case of inflated sense of
importance. UMNO/BN is not indispensable. Najib is not indispensable.
Of
course everyone in Malaysia is committed to the idea of changing the
government through the vote. No one tolerates any other idea of
effecting change other than voting. This is a democratic practice. All
of us chose Malaysia to be governed by a good government. Mahathir must
be hallucinating now when he says better the devil we know that the
angel we don’t know? We know the devil and his devilish ways and we
still want to choose him? Have we lost our marbles?
We
chose to kick out the devil. And it’s farcical for Dr Mahathir to
endorse voting when in UMNO he extinguishes the flame of democracy.
During his rule, he started the anti-voting measures to ensure the UMNO
president and Deputy President to be almost unchallengeable with bonus
votes and all that.
Why
must it be so? Why should we even believe that if UMNO/BN falls, this
country will descend into widespread chaos? It will be so, only if
people do not obey laws anymore. It will if the structures of government
crumble.
If
UMNO/BN loses, it’s not that the structures of government will
disintegrate will they? The civil service will still be around. We are
not firing civil servants although there are 1.4 million of them. They
will still perform their respective functions. We are not going to close
down the land and district office. Post office. Fire stations. Etc. we
want to replace only a few scoundrels. Just a scratch. Not even a flesh
wound. Maybe we want to replace the chief secretary so that he can join
UMNO or Kimma. We want to replace the chairman and president of
PETRONAS. Maybe we want to close down MAS and create a MAS-2. Of course
we want to replace the CEO of Khazanah. With the exit of these few
people, the 1.4 million civil servants are not going to lay down tools,
are they?
The police
and enforcement agencies will still remain and will still be
responsible for the internal security and safety of our citizens. The
judiciary will still be there though we would like to replace the rotten
apples. Perhaps we want to replace the AG. The military establishment
will still be there guarding our nation from external aggression.
Meaning-
all the structures of government are still going to be around, their
existence isn’t dependent on UMNO/BN’s. What is there to worry then?
Only UMNO/BN isn’t there. The rest will still be intact looking out for
the country and its people.
And
here is a special note to the Malays and Bumiputeras. Their interests
are not necessarily looked out best by UMNO alone. As long as Malays are
articulate and as long as there are laws that govern our existence and
regulate the conduct between persons, it is we who look out for our
interest. Why
must we depend on UMNO? Malays formed 61% of our 28 million population.
Only 1 in 6 Malays is an UMNO member. There are more of us and less of
them. Do they have even the capacity to look out for us? The last time I
heard, even the quality of the UMNO people is being assailed by
non-other than DR Mahathir. UMNO is rotten to the core and consists of
half-past six fellows. UMNO says Dr Mahathir, is corrupt from the bottom
to the very top!
How can the fate of this country be made to depend on mediocrity?
Many of you have read Michael Porter’s Competitivebook
series. One of the things he mentioned is we can determine the highest
quality of our services and products, by demanding and insisting them to
be so. Similarly it is with government. We the people must demand and
insist it to be of the highest quality. We translate the forceful demand
in the form of our votes.
Vote in good people to get a good government.
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