The last few days has been rather troubling for me.. I was worried about the nation.
Last Thursday an elderly man who claims to represent several malay NGO that works behind the scene came to my house. Apparently he wanted to meet me when he heard I was the chairman of a house buyers committee whose property completion was delayed by 2 years due to some problems with a particular developer in Ulu Kelang.
After about half an hour chatting about my role, he started to deviate his topic towards politics. I told him that I am not in any political party. I am not loyal to political party but was only loyal to any agenda that is relevant to the country. He claims that he and several others of people like him work behind the scene to save the Malays and that he use to work with Pak Lah. He claims that the country is in danger of collapsing due to Anwar’s involvement with the American Democratic body which gives him money to do his political campaign here. Apparently he claims that Anwar is about to send ½ billion Sing Dollar into Sabah . He gave me some home made videos for my consumption. I saw them and my conclusion was…. it was a creative video. On the content whether there is any truth in it, I don’t know. I did not any good evidence in the CD.
After he left I ponder on what he said and what I saw on the video and immediately recalled an article I read in Malaysiakini where Anwar declared that PKR is the government in waiting. At the time of reading that news piece, I was under the impression that Anwar is telling people that by next GE (PRU 13), PKR will win and rule the country. Yesterday at a relative kenduri, I heard some background talk that Azmin in his speech at UK Perdana, which was done a day earlier that BN will collapse by July and Opposition will be running the country by then. My immediate reaction was huh..?
I was troubled by all this talk. My heart was really pounding. Further research on the internet (Ku Li pushing for UMNO EGM, change in oil price and several others led me to the following conclusion. It seems that when Anwar said “PKR is the government in waiting..” was sending a strong signal that the changes at the Federal level is very imminent. The fact that Sabah politician are easily bought, I am not surprised if indeed Anwar has gone shopping for parliamentarian in Sabah . If he manage to convince the Sabah politicians of forming an alliance with PKR then, BN government will collapse. This worries me.
Dear fellow Malaysian, I have a small request to put forward to all of you to consider.
Maintain the Check and Balance system.
There is saying .. “Politicians are strange bed fellows”. When we put the PKR-DAP-PAS to power, we did it for the purpose of check and balance. We need to have a check and balance system to ensure the best result will come out and the rakyat will benefit. If there is no check and balance then, things will go back to status quo. The only differences are the players.
Is the people who switch camps did this for the country or their personal interest?
Should we Malaysian, respect those parliamentarians that switch camps? Why did they switch? They did it because of personal interest. The interest of the nation is not on their priority list. If they are sincere and unhappy with BN they should have change the flag before contesting and not after winning. Should we respect those people who switch camps because of money? What kind of character that we send to represent us.
Are we Malaysian’s ready for this change?
Assuming that this changes does take place, we need to ask if the 22 million Malaysian ready for this. In my humble opinion, I can tell you NO. Malaysians are not ready for this change. There will be problems in large proportions and even Anwar or his people cannot do anything about it. The country will go into a turmoil. As the PKR-DAP-PAS alliance has swept 6 states (including WPKL) and this is already putting many people in jitters. Mentally Malaysian are not ready for this change. At a badminton game yesterday, I was told that the state assemblyman for Klang that beat Zakaria Deros daughter in-law (Roselinda Abdul Jalil) was actually a ground cabin technician with Transmile, I was shocked and almost choke. With no disrespect intended, how many more of this honest souls but lack of professional qualification is with PKR? Can they run the country? At the moment they are still groping about how to run the states.
Impact of change
In my honest assessment, I feel that there will riots. Malaysians are not ready for this kind of change. There will be trouble. MNC may pull out and there will be more unemployment. Investors will shy away for a few years. All this changes will cause the country to go into what I termed as a “spiral down effect”.
Saudara Anwar, I beg you. Please put the country interest above self. Stop this shopping activities for now (if it is true). Allow for gradual transition. Let PKR-DAP-PAS show and proof their capabilities in running the states first. If you are good and have successfully proven yourself, you should not worry. The seond tsunami wave will come. The people will give you the chance to run. As for Malaysians, I beg you that if any of the candidates has switch camps, you should go and meet your representative and tell him/her to resign. This is not the way government should be form. An old wise man once said to me – “Before building a house, make sure you are using a good material and make sure the pillars are straight. If not your house will collapse” . Honestly I hope and pray that we do not come to this stage.
Dr Mohamed Rafick
Posted by labisman
Monday, 17 March 2008
Malaysia Today
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