Ungrateful Government, Greedy Oligarchs
There
has been a spate of overtly racist slants in the utterances of UMNO leaders. They
did so because they lost the elections. The fact was: more people, 5.6 million
voted against UMNO and BN. 5.2 million supported UMNO/BN.
The
lunacy started with Dr Mahathir branding the Chinese as ungrateful and the
Malays as greedy. Why did Mahathir say Malays are greedy?
Because
he was aware of the facts. More Malays did not vote for UMNO despite the
billions dished out by Najib and tons of promises made. Despite the fact that
UMNO and Najib used every dirty trick unimaginable, putting fears into the
hearts and minds of Malays. Out of the 11.22 million votes, UMNO/BN got 5.24
million. PR got 5.62 million. PR got more votes than UMNO/BN.
Let’s
get to the linchpin of UMNO support- the Malays. How many Malay votes did UMNO
get? UMNO candidates got 3.2 million votes. Now- from that, how many were Malay
votes?
While
UMNO candidate were all Malays/Bumiputeras, its voters are not 100% Malays.
Indians and Chinese still voted for UMNO candidates in multi-ethnic
constituencies. Assume that 90% of the 3.2 million voters were Malays, this
will mean that UMNO candidates got 2.88 million votes.
This
time around, what was the number of Malay voters? Of the 11.22 million, 75% were
Malays voters. Malays made up 8.42 million voters. How many did UMNO get? UMNO
got 2.88 million Malay votes. How many Malays rejected UMNO? 5.54million.
Mahathir
called these Malays greedy. What will Najib call them? What will UMNO refer
them as? Turncoat Malays? Only because they did not want UMNO?
Then
Najib came out with his Chinese Tsunami to explain the dismal performance of BN
in the 13th GE. Lesser ranking sycophants followed suit; we had one
tenured professor of a learning institution calling for the abolition of
vernacular schools blaming their existence for destroying national unity. According
to the good professor cum plantation owner, national unity means, one side
predominates, and the others are subjugated. One side is the master, the other
is the slave.
Then
we had a former judge coming out with the facts as it were, saying in effect,
the Chinese are to blame for all the evils befalling the Malays. The vanquished
UMNO candidate for Shah Alam of course blamed the Chinese generally and Kit
Siang in particular for causing the May 13 racial riots.
The
Chinese don’t know how to appreciate the extended hands of friendship. Wrong-
the Chinese refused the extended hands of the UMNO Malays. They don’t refuse
the hands of friendship of non UMNO Malays.
The
UMNO-type Malays are a special specie- believing themselves as being the true Malays
while Malays of other political denominations, being not quite Malay. As a
result, the mental asylum Malays look down on the non-institutionalised Malays.
That is why, we have been saying- we are NOT power crazy, but we want to take
power from crazy people- the Asylum Malays.
The
UMNO government is an ungrateful government, spiteful and black-hearted. Because
that’s what it really is- a vindictive and not a government that has the
interest of the people at heart. It scorns its own people if they are bold
enough to exercise their freedom of choice. What do you call such a government?
An elected dictatorship?
Its
interests are the only interests that matters. It has but one overriding interest-
that it must continue to hold power as government in order that it can pursue
its agenda. The agenda is frightfully simple- the whole world is a piggy bank waiting
to be legally raided and plundered.
All
other interests are subordinate and have relevance in so far as the others
conform to theirs. So what is the UMNO government really pursuing? It pursues absolute
conformity and uniformity. What kind of government has such features? A Dictatorship.
UMNO’s
version of freedom of choice is Henry Ford’s you can have any colour you want
as long as its black. Which translates into total submission and obedience.
It is the one who is ungrateful. It treats
people as mere digits and objects- that could be manipulated at will. Once the
mere digits and objects rise and exercise their given right to choose, because
that is the essence of democracy, the UMNO government sees them as ungrateful.
For as long as citizens of this country, stay obedient and pliant, they are
grateful and responsible people.
But
why should the people, so long pliant and obedient chose to reject the UMNO
government? If it has a good track record, it should not fear the judgment of
the people. It must now recognize that it lost the popular votes and that only gerrymandering
and outright cheating saved them. Najib’s victory was a hollow one no matter
how his minders and spin-doctors want to paint it as.
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