Apologists for the system in the wake of GE13 are anachronisms

by Joe Fernandez

COMMENT The apologists for the system in the wake of GE13 are anachronisms who refuse to see the writing on the wall.

I would define a racist as one who tries to deny others -- read Umno -- their place in the sun. There could be any number of reasons.

Umno's racism is of the sapu bersih opportunist kind which includes squatting on others. Malaysia, after having failed to squat on Singapore, is squatting on Sabah and Sarawak. Consider the fact that the World Bank declared in Dec 2010 in Kota Kinabalu that  the two Nations in Borneo were the poorest in Malaysia. Sabah is the poorest. Earlier, the World Bank also warned that Sabah was chasing its tail on poverty eradication because of the continuing influx of illegal immigrants

For example, why isn't there even one non-Malay VC among the 20-odd Government-owned universities? So, we don't need to humour such buggers and engage in the humbuggery of having a "civilized debate" with them. They are probably hooting with laughter behind our backs as we engage in this so-called civilized debate with them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism

Ex-Navy man and malaysiakini columnist Thaya Param is wasting his time in fighting an increasingly losing battle on land. The apologists will never concede defeat. That's like asking them to eat their own sh.t. We should be telling these buggers to FO and stay that way and don't bother about proving to us that they are civilized. Intellectually, they are yet to shed their tails and come down from the trees to find their way on the ground. Thaya's fellow columnist Terence Netto has wised up a long time ago and says nothing and means nothing even as he churns out  some 20-odd pieces a month while struggling not to see the forest for the trees. He worships the very ground that Anwar Ibrahim, his great hero, walks on.

By the same token, someone who fights for his place in the sun -- read Hindraf Makkal Sakthi -- cannot be termed a racist.

Having said that, let's explore the issue of "Chinese tsunami" raised by Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak when explaining in Bugisthink why the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) could only manage to win 133 seats in Parliament during GE13 on May 5 or 505.

It's an undeniable fact that many eligible voters among the Chinese not only registered but turned up to vote and when they did, they were against the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), Gerakan and the Sarawak United People's Party (Supp), all lapdogs of Umno and the Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB). It's the right of the Chinese to vote for whomever they wish. Umno cannot refer to the refusal of the Chinese to vote for Chinese parties in BN as indication of their betrayal of the Malays (actually meaning Umno). Pas is Muslim and Malay, Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) is Malay-led and Malay-based and there are many Malays in the Democratic Action Party (Dap).

At the same time, it seems that many eligible Malays not only did not register as voters and where they did, many did not turn up on 505 to cast their votes. This shows that many Malays have given up on politics and the system of political parties as an exercise in futility. They may have been influenced at the same time by the Talibanist line of thinking that democracy is unIslamic.

Also, to be considered is the fact that any aspiring young Malay politician today has no place in Umno which is dominated by the old fogies and veterans who are into mini dynasty building. Outside the dynasties, there's a long queue of ever hopeful people waiting to be candidates so that they can get their hands on a share of the loot. So, this group will naturally gravitate eventually in frustration towards Pas, PKR and Dap in that order to be fielded as candidates. In 2008, some of these people thought that they could frog over to BN for a share of the spoils of office, after winning on an Opposition ticket, and get away with it. GE13 proved them wrong. The sky is the limit for a Malay who joins Dap. Eventually, there would be more Malay than Chinese MPs in Dap. There's nothing PKR and Pas can do to prevent this.

In reality, the Umno-dominated BN has no political ideology and is bogged down by the ruling elite's `"Cina ini, Cina itu" mindset based on "jealousy of the Chinese, in particular of those in business". This is their recipe for plunder. Umno is driven by ketuanan Melayuism, a sick combination of Apartheid, Nazism, Fascism, communism, militant Islam, political Islam, and the caste system a la feudalism.  Behind this facade, the ruling elite is busy running up the National Debt Burden to facilitate their plundering of the National Treasury to feather their own nests under the guise of bringing so-called development to the people.

Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), an Umno in the making, is driven by greed, jealousy and revenge against Umno. Anwar Ibrahim's highest ambition is to get Umno MPs to cross over to his party so that it can replace Umno to promote ketuanan Melayuism.

Both Umno and PKR are determined to maintain the current political system in Sabah and Sarawak  made up of the proxies of Putrajaya, their (the proxies') stooges and Putrajaya's rogue elements who are used for issuing MyKads (meant for citizens by operation of law) to illegal immigrants and other foreigners and entering their names on the electoral rolls.

Pas is into political Islam and obsessed with hudud and an Islamic state.

Dap is for secular politics free of race.

The electoral system is loaded against the Opposition.

The GE13 results shows that BN won 112 parliamentary seats with only 20 per cent of the votes cast, and another 21 seats with 27 per cent of the votes cast.

Umno and PBB talk about embracing change.

What they actually mean is self-preservation i.e. the more that things appear to change, the more they remain the same.

The change that the people want is one which involves the Opposition seizing the reins of power in Putrajaya.

It's time after 56 years of BN rule for the Opposition to form the Government and conduct due diligence of Umno. The people have a right to know the truth of those 56 years.