Back in 1990, the lead opposition party, Parti Melayu Semangat 46 (S46) led two pacts into the General Elections (GE) at the time. The first pact was made between S46 and Pas called Angkatan Perpaduan Ummah (APU) while the second pact consisted of S46, Dap and Pbs of Sabah called Gagasan Rakyat (GR). Given the dissatisfaction of the Malays and certain quarters of the Chinese population in the country, APU and GR made significant inroads into the federal and state legislatures with the number of parliamentary and state seats that they won.
Kelantan was won over from the BN while Sabah BN was defeated by GR. Penang, although still under BN control, was a heavy casualty with Gerakan taking a terrible beating from Dap. Even the Chief Minister at the time, Dr. Lim Chong Eu, was not spared.
The point is, Malaysia has had it's fair share of strong opposition parties before. But while politicking being what it is, the politicians of the time competed at the ballot boxes. And given Dr.M's stronghold over Malaysia at that time, losing two states was very much akin to a political tsunami.
My point is, why do we need street demos? It has well been proven time and time again that Malaysians, well the bulk of us at least, have the common decency to air our frustrations, dissapointments and whatnots come election time.
Bersih cannot claim that it's first demo was what brought about change in the 2008 GE. It was already a foregone conclusion that support for BN was dwindling with sleppy lethargic and lame pak lah at the helm of BN's leadership. Had bersih 2007 not taken place, the outcome of GE 2008 would still be the same.
Fast forward to the present, it is quite clear that the bersih organizers (read puppets of pakatan rakyat (PR)) are hoping that another show of protests would lead to great victory at the ballot boxes once again. That may not necessarily be the case. If their analysis of the level of support was done correctly, they would realize that whatever support they had during GE 2008 was nothing more than protest votes against pak lah. And the protests came in various forms. The outright angry kind, with no regard for future consequences, actually casted their votes for PR parties. While the more subtle but yet still angry ones decided not to vote, myself included.
Bersih 2007 had little or no impact whatsoever to the decisions made at the ballot boxes in GE 2008. And if claims that elections are so blatantly rigged, it is highly illogical that PR could've retained Kelantan and won four additional states while crippling Kuala Lumpur as well. Believe me, Malaysians are mature enough to decide what they want. All this talk about cleaning up elections is hogwash, the hidden agenda is their main concern. Which is to cause chaos and disruption. To push the authorities to the wall so that they will appear as the persecuted.
Given pakatan's various wins in the many by-elections held over the last three years how can they still claim that elections are rigged? To me, they appear power hungry. No amount of victory in any election is good enough unless they win. And to assume that they always have the support is arrogant and somewhat stupid. Sure plenty attend ceramahs but ceramahs do not equal votes. I myself attended pakatan ceramah's during the campaign period of GE 2008 yet me and those like me refused to cast our votes. Pakatan is just drowning itself in the sewerage of it's own dellusions of grandeur and media spinning.
With all that said. The King has granted pakatan via their proxy ambiga an audience. If they are anywhere near being sincere about handing over a memorandum to His Majesty citing the need for electoral reforms, they would have done so. Their main goal is chaos, chaos and more chaos. Don't be fooled and don't be mislead. It is not about electoral reforms anymore. It is about intolerance and tension that they themselves will fan to create chaos. From chaos comes disruption and with disruption comes weakness. That is their goal. Let us be level headed Malaysians as we have always been and take our dissatisfaction to the ballot boxes (or not if abstaining). No need to march the streets lah....
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1 comments:
As-Salam Bro ML,..heheh,..lama tak memblog ekk,..neway wat ur saying is rite,..knowing bro AnWar thr's no way he's gonna give up his intention to create chaos over d country as dats d only way he can come into 'Power' not jst in bed but on d PM's comfy chair,..wakaka,..org cam dia yg dh murtad ni ape jadi pun its a do or die mission le,..if he fails to take PutraJaya he's a dead meat either go to jail or abscond n die in another country wth d CIA hitman goin fer his head,..pathetic piece of a lunatic Malay leader,..heheh..neway let us pray dat Allah will protect Malaysia & its warganegara yg love d keamanan n hopefully after this we'll live happily ever after in d spirit of muhibbah...okies bro all d best to u n happy blogging again,..wat else can I say,..(,")
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