We are blessed with diversity and talent, yet UMNO choose only yes-men (our women are more independent and principled and not easily manipulated) and ampu bodeks, with few exceptions, to administer our country and manage our GLCs. As a result BN component parties become pimps and not questioning to UMNO's wrongdoings and no longer have the trust of Malaysian at large. The component parties has been declared as pimps as they join UMNO's in murdering Malaysia.
The mainstream media, print and electronic, and also the air waves are controlled by UMNO. They become tools of an increasingly myopic state. Your newsblog can serve as an alternative media. The Malaysian public needs reliable information about what is happening in and to our country. It can serve as a forum for free expression and rational exchange views on political, economic, and social issues.
From here on, we must hold our “Yang Amat Berhormats” and “Yang Berhormats” to account for their laws, policies, use of public funds and our oil revenues and for their conduct. We cannot allow one man, for example, to award a RM20 billion project for the redevelopment of the Penang Turf Club to Equine Capital (owned by a certain Patrick Lim-Badawi) without competitive bidding. We cannot allow more public money to be dished to out the UMNO Divisions without the approval of Parliament.
We must ensure that there is a clear separation between UMNO and the Government. UMNO leaders are elected by 2500 delegates at the party convention. In a democracy like ours, government is of Malaysians, by Malaysians and for Malaysians. We must, therefore, defend the Constitution with its clear separation of powers and system of checks and balances. We must uphold the objectives and principles of Rukun Negara. We must respect our King and our Sultans.
Apathy is not an option. It is the sure road to perdition.
All of us share a common concern for the future of our country. We see incompetence and corruption everywhere we look; yet the media are saying that everything is great and rosy here–we must feel good– and our Prime Minister is a genius.
America is an open society and despite cock-ups in George W Bush’s foreign policy, it is a land of opportunity for those who are audacious enough to compete. Why can’t Malaysia be equally open?
Everything is just breaks down and those we elect into office are not doing anything to fix things. This is because the status quo benefits them. It is also creates opportunities for them to use repressive measures against bloggers and other members of civil society who dare to criticise and think differently.They think that they are God-like and forget they depend on our votes.
Today, the Police are no longer a friend of the people. In the name of public order and national security, they have become instruments of repression and brutality to be used by politicians. The people are now the enemy.
If Badawi continues to run the country like the way he is doing now without any clear focus, making promises and commitments that he has neither the personal courage nor the political will to implement, spending money recklessly on the various corridors all over the country (his version of mega projects), condoning corruption, and tolerating incompetence in the civil service, then our country will left behind by other ASEAN member states. No body will invest here.
Badawi must now pull up his socks and get serious with the affairs of the country.
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