So, Should These Chinese, Malays, Indians And Others Emigrate?

Even though the general election is over, Anwar still manages to pull in the crowds to hear him speak at the various Blackout 505 rallies held so far, including the one in Seremban.

Seremban is not a very big town, but still the crowd who had turned out was large.

What does it all mean?

What it all means is that many Malaysians are still unhappy about the outcome of GE13 which they feel had been stolen from them.

Should  all of them emigrate as Umno apostle Zahid Hamidi wants them to, simply because they are not happy with the results of GE13?

Many of those who had turned out for the rallies were Malays and Indians too. And they are all Malaysians.

Malaysians don't care if a party or coalition they did not vote for, had won fair and square and there had been no cheating, fraud or rigging involved.

But not, if they have reason(s) to perceive and/or believe that their votes had been stolen from them by cheating at the polls in whatever form.

More so where the announced winner had won on a minority vote in the circumstance.

They just want the authorities to look into the allegations of fraud and cheating, including the alleged use of foreign voters.

In fact, it would be honourable for the announced winner in such a contentious circumstance not to act arrogant and go on a imbecilic self-righteous campaign of demonising the Chinese for their poor showing at the polls.

It would even be more honourable in the circumstance, to call for recounts or re-elections.

And it would do well for Umno to admit that more Malays, this election, had voted for the opposition than for them.

Are you also going to demonise them as well?

Remember, you are just a political party and you do not have the prerogative to perpetual rule.

A citizen, whatever his or her race, has the constitutional right to vote whom he or she wishes.

The country does not only belong to you.

It belongs to all Malaysians - yes, including you guys!

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Have You Heard Of The "G" Word? With It You Can Rule With Just A 17% Vote!

It is the word (and some?) upon which BN rode to Putrajaya.

It is the vehicle that enables a party or coalition with the minority vote to form the government of the day.

It is the holy word that mucked up the mind of Umno apostle Zahid Hamidi to righteously admonish pagans to leave the country if they are not happy with the enabling god.

 It is the word that makes a mockery of the claim of "one man, one vote"

Because what it basically means is that your vote may not be worth as much as mine because yours carries less weightage.

For example, in a rural constituency of say 30,000, you get to send an MP to Parliament and in an urban constituency of say 60,,000 - 80,000 you also get to elect an MP, not two or more.

So, in the case cited, the one rural constituent's vote is worth twice yours!

Sometimes, a rural vote may be worth five times or even more than an urban one!

It is the word that favours the incumbent ruling party or coalition with their vast resources and money bags.

That word is "gerrymandering"

It is the passport to ruling on just a 17% "popular" vote!

That is the beauty of the word that BN and Umno are very familiar with and love to death, and concerned and knowing Malaysians fear and loathe.

That is largely why BN gets to form the Federal government on a minority vote of 47% against the opposition coalition's 52% of popular vote. And that too, on the back of allegations of cheating at the  polls.

Should we allow the BN coalition to go on happily knowing that that monster alone could keep them in ever good political health to rule in perpetuity?

Malaysians have complained against the dirty "G" word in the past . But being "nice", we have always let it pass, believing anyway, that we couldn't do anything about it.

We can and should not let it pass, especially not this time for the first time when the coalition that forms the government of the day does so on a minority vote and that too on the back of allegations of cheating at the polls.

If we let it pass again, we will forever not be able to give effect to the majority's wish. And this is nothing short of betraying democracy where the voice of the majority is king, not the poor bridesmaid.

When the Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya Malaysia (SPR - The Malaysian Election Commission) conducts the next round of constituency delineations soon, the opposition coalition have to be on the alert.

If not, your guess is probably as good as any which way the constituency delineation exercise will go and in whose favour.

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Is Umno Relevant Anymore?

No matter how Umno tries to contort itself to fit the picture, it does not represent the majority Malays, who had voted against it and BN.

More Malays had voted against Umno than had voted for it.

According to prominent blogger Sakmomgkol, an estimated 3.6 million Malays had voted against Umno as against Umno's 3 million.

So, Umno cannot even claim that it represents the majority Malays, let alone the Malaysian majority.

It would serve Umno well to stop playing mind games with itself by blaming the Chinese for its predicament.

It would serve Umno well not to tell Malaysians (including the 3.6 million Malays who had voted for the opposition) who are not happy with the outcome of GE13 to just leave the country.

The country does not belong to Umno or Zahid Hamidi It belongs to all Malaysians, irrespective of their race.

That is the greatest mistake of Umno - to assume that the country belongs to them.

Umno's old politics of race, patronage, arrogance, slogan-mongering - "Kepimpinan Melalui Teladan" ("Leadership By Example") haha; "Cekap, Bersih Dan Amanah" ("Clean, Efficient And Trustworthy") ROFL and "1Malaysia" stillborn and et al is passe and putrid.

The new politics of inclusion, responsibility and accountability is the order of the day.

If Umno does not reform itself, it will soon limp like MCA or become near extinct like Gerakan. (Which might be better for all really)

Or need massive cheating, further constituency gerrymandering and foreigenrs? to survive.

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Should Malaysian Voters Who Are Not Happy About The Result Of GE13 Leave The Country For One Man?

I had just written in my previous post, that Najib's new cabinet was just old wine in a not so new bottle.

(Check out my previous post here)

And just like clockwork orange, one of them quickly came out to prove my point.

Malaysians had thought that Hishamuddin was bad.

His replacement at Home Ministry by comparison, looks like a plain badass

From the provocative and probably treasonous calls that Malaysians often hear for Malaysian Chinese who are not happy to "balik Tong Sun!" ("Go back home to China!") we now hear from no less a personage than the Home Minister that those who had voted for the opposition and are not happy with the result of GE13 should just leave the country!

Haha... may I quote Anwar who is fond of saying "You ingat negeri ini negeri bapak awak!" ("You think this country belongs to your father!")

The 52% majority who did not vote BN are not unhappy with the country. They are unhappy with smart alecks like this clown who thinks that the country belongs to them (BN/Umno).

Not voting for you clowns and being unhappy about the GE13 results does not equate to rejecting the country.

The 52% majority who had voted to reject you clowns are unhappy that their votes have been stolen. They are just seeking for rectification.

Any decent government (especially one that is formed on a minority vote on the back of allegations of cheating at the polls) that finds itself embroiled by claims of fraud at the polls, would have called for a recount in the contested seats or for re-elections.

That would be the decent thing for a decent government to do and not for it to resort to all means to suppress the people's democratic right to speak up and/or protest what they (the rakyat) perceive and have reasons to believe was a general election that had been stolen from them.

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Najib's New Cabinet Or Old Wine In Not So New Bottle?

Okay, okay, before someone nitpicks. "Cabinet" here includes the deputy ministers.

The same old tired faces and some newbies and maidens, including one Indian hero who flew to cold England when the weather got too hot for him in Bolehland.

Then returned to stage a dramatic fast for the Indian cause and got appointed on a memorandum of peace?

That is BolehLand's politics of the possible for you. Where the real can quickly become the surreal and the surreal become the real.

A banker in to hot up the interest rates?

Another couple or two of nondescript newbies.

The return of some old school boys and the man who had been exiled to the Negri pastures and whom some believe was the man responsible for the crooked bridge to nowhere getting lost in Oxford, the latter matter very fortunate for the country and done right by him I should say.

Two old and much disliked old faces switching to the other's old job.

That is why I say that the new cabinet is old wine in a not so new bottle.

They even have the accountability man from Transparency International Malaysia.

But it is not the people you appoint.

It is the culture at the top.

If the head is rotten, like the wise say, the tail can't avoid being infected.

In such a circumstance, even if you appoint Justice Pao, justice can be "ta pao-ed" ("bungkus" in Malay or "wrapped up for takeaway" in English)

Worse, some people say that the new cabinet is a cabinet of shame, being appointed on a minority vote on the back of allegations of cheating at the polls.

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The Chinese Have Never Felt More Malaysian Today Than Anytime In The Past

I believe I speak for many Chinese when I say that we have never felt more Malaysian today than at anytime in the past, except perhaps during Tunku's tenure.

And it has nothing to do with BN or Umno, especially not Umno, whose leader Najib was even perceived to be engaged in race baiting when he dis-ingeniously, and without justification, blamed BN's poor showing at the polls on the Chinese.

That Chinese tsunami thing that he was babbling about appears to be the beginning of, if not the signal for, the  ever crazy and even crazier daily racial baiting like this latest one

We suspect that BN especially their taiko Umno, are trying to divert attention away from the fact that they know they have lost the Malay votes too, by trying to put the blame on the Chinese for their worst ever showing in the history of Malaysian elections.

This concerted demonisation of the Chinese of course, is not endearing the Chinese to BN and especially not to Umno.

It is perhaps a desperate move by Umno to frighten the Malays against the Chinese in a misguided belief that by doing so, they can regain the lost Malay support.

Obviously Umno have been sleeping.

Malays are not as shallow as Najib and Umno would like to have us believe. Many Malays are now abandoning Umno because they perceive Umno as only caring for themselves, just like the Chinese perceive MCA as only caring for themselves

In fact, especially since Mahathir's time, the Chinese have felt more and more alienated.

We feel that we are not even appreciated although it is the Chinese, who though they form only about 28% of the population, contribute the lion's share of income tax despite the handicaps we face.

So, why are Malaysian Chinese feeling more Malaysian today than in the past?

We feel more Malaysian today because we feel that the opposition coalition have a better idea of how to appreciate every Malaysian citizen - be he a Malay, Chinese, Indian, Kadazan, Iban or any other Malaysian and will stand for the well being of all and defend their rights, irrespective of race.  And this gives us hope.

We have never heard anything of a similar nature from BN or Umno.

That is what we appreciate - being recognised and treated as a citizens, not second class ones.

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Does It Matter That Najib's New Cabinet Has Chinese Representation Or Not?

Does it matter that Najib's new cabinet have Chinese ministers or not?

He is thinking of appointing Chinese ministers in his new cabinet even though MCA has said that they won't ask for any this time after their poor showing at the polls

As far as the Chinese are concerned, they are not the least bothered whether there are Chinese ministers or not in the new cabinet.

Even with the MCA ministers in the cabinet, we never felt that they represented us.

MCA hardly spoke out when the Chinese were threatened. In fact, Malay right wing NGO Perkasa had a field day when MCA were in the cabinet.

The Chinese not only felt that MCA ministers where redundant, but also that they were there only to represent their own selfish interests.

In all the years that there were MCA ministers, their presence in the cabinet didn't make any difference  to the Chinese.

If truth were told, we felt that it would have been better that there were no MCA ministers pretending to represent the Chinese.

That was why we decided to boot out the pretenders.

The Chinese have been surviving and doing well, no thank you, all these years whether MCA were there in the cabinet or not.

We have been doing well sans any help from the government because we try to help ourselves by working hard and staying resilient in the face of all the handicaps we face.

MCA for all we care, can close shop.

And they should , because there is no real reason or rationale for them to exist anymore.

Was there ever any, anyway?

So, does it matter at all whether Najib appoints Chinese ministers?

No, it does not.

Whoever Chinese from whichever party Najib appoints to the cabinet, doesn't make an aorta of difference to us.

Najib is himself constrained as far as whom he can appoint to the cabinet.

The BN coalition that he leads does not have the moral authority to govern, having won on a minority vote on the back of allegations of cheating at the polls.

That may explain why they are trying to divert attention from their unenviable position, by playing the dangerous racial card on an almost daily basis, the racial sound bites getting more and more strident and crazier and crazier by the minute.

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