Government of mobs, by mobs and for mobs
Malays will do better if they abandon UMNO. This isn’t UMNO of the
early years before Mahathir came. Mahathir described UMNO correctly when he
says; UMNO is full of leaders who are interested in feathering their own nest
and that of family and friends. It’s not like Malays are going to drop dead when
they stop supporting UMNO.
The first thing they must do is to shake off that mental bondage.
It’s liberating.
Malays take up the top posts in the country. That’s already provided for in the
constitution. Your numerical strength
will ensure that anyway. In states where Malays are majority, your position is
guaranteed. But in places where you are a minority, such as in Sabah and
Sarawak, why should Malays insist they must be top leaders? The majority in
Sarawak are the ibans and dayaks and since they are also bumiputeras, top
leadership in that state should be given to them. In Sabah, if the non-Malay
bumi are in the majority they deserve to helm the state.
But where does it say, these leaders must come from UMNO or that
Malays are prevented from choosing the more talented Malays? The Malays in UMNO
for example- why must their choice be limited to just Najib, Muhyidin or the
current crop of top leadership? UMNO is an important political factor in the
country indeed. But Malays need not tie their destiny with UMNO. It’s just
another political party whose quality is as good as the quality of its
leadership.
Why should Malays place their future and destiny with a party, which
Dr Mahathir described as being full of half past six leaders? We have a home
minister who hasn’t cleared himself from a case of assault. We have a minister
who is appointed despite being identified as the key Mr Fix It by the RCI on
Judicial appointments. We also have a former CEO of Maybank crowing about taking
Malaysia to new heights despite not making good his promise to unravel the
corruption scandal of Alcatel and Telekom Malaysia. We have crooks and thieves
as members of the cabinet.
And so, we must congratulate our Optimus Prime Minister for his
bizarre choice of autobot ministers. Now
his minions are shouting let there be no contest for the top leadership posts.
What they are really shouting for is, let’s keep Najib. In other words, let us
retain the mob-like character of the party by keeping on the chief mob and the
other lesser dons. If crooks and thieves hold important posts in Najib’s
government, then his government is a government of mobs, by mobs and for mobs.
The latest to join the ignominious band of vengeful and repressive
UMNO leadership is Muhyidin Yassin. He is deputy UMNO president and the deputy
PM. He says that BN will give preference to those who support UMNO and
BN.
There is an old Malay saying, bapa borek, anak rintek, father spotted, the
son speckled which loosely
translates into as is the father so is
the son. As the father urinates while
standing, so the son urinates while running. The bad behavior of the leaders
is soon replicated by the follower.
Now we know why village headmen appointed by UMNO helped out UMNO
supporters only. They share the same bad habits and traits as the leaders. In
giving out the statement, Muhyidin is behaving like an ill-mannered pengerusi
JKKK. All this while, we thought only Najib behaves like one. The entire cabinet
is infected!
In Raub, village headmen appointed by UMNO are refusing to render
assistance to those they think did not support them in the last elections. May
we remind these village headmen, their duty is to help and offer service to ALL
village inhabitants irrespective of political affiliations? If they don’t
understand this basic responsibility, it is better for them to resign their
posts. They get paid from taxpayers’ money without regard to political
affiliations; they must reciprocate by carrying out their duties without regard
to the same. Otherwise, let the government collect taxes from UMNO people
only.
Likewise if Muhyidin does not understand this basic responsibility
towards ALL Malaysians, maybe he is fit to lead UMNO but never this country.
People like Najib, Muhyidin and the others who shout the loudest and
hence got themselves elevated to the status of natural leaders, have turned UMNO
into a party of a mob. These are the people who give life to UMNO by behaving
like the irrational, childlike, violent sounding organisms deriving their energy
from the group. They create chaos, mayhem and images of destruction to allow
their leaders climb or cling to power.
The characteristics of a mob party are twisting the truth, inciting
passions, demonizing opponents and relying on its media industrial complex to
foist propaganda upon us in place of ideas.
That is why, UMNO appeals only to the mob-minded people outside its
own organisation. UMNO appeals to the least-informed whose daily information
diet comes from Utusan Malaysia, TV3 and
so forth. The supporters of UMNO are easily identifiable- welfare recipients,
government workers who can never be laid off, actors and actresses, the soccer
crowds, head-up-their-asses billionaires who run full page advertisements,
over-paid bankers earning RM400k to RM 1,2 million a month.
UMNO has given up attracting votes from the informed crowd. UMNO
knows it’s easier to get support by frightening people and promising earth and
heavens or at least saying, we honour our promises
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