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Thursday, March 1, 2012

New term: Neo-merito-democracy

When I was in the Lee Kuan Yew Ministerial Forum last year, one of the audiences asked him a question.
" Is that called political conscious when you have participated in the voting for the election ? "
For me, if I were that person, I would not ask like that because my answer was same as Mr Lee.
His answer to that audience was:
"The political conscious is not about having participation in voting alone. I think you were just too excited after the voting and that's not called political conscious! The correct way of political conscious is to have an idea in the social, economic, welfare, progress of the nation etc. ( i.e. current affairs ). So, I don't think you are political conscious enough."
Well, it was not hard to find that in Singapore, the political environment is still stirring around People Action Party which in charge of the country for nearly  half a century. All the best things they can contribute and the people in Singapore enjoy high living standards but suffering from the limited spaces of living and large influx of foreign talents. The policy which in favor to the foreign talents attraction has declined in recent years and still Singapore government wants to retain its foreign talents' help. The methodology of retaining talent is actually very simple. Treat them nicely and make them feel at home (Singapore has done better than its neighboring cousin).
Unlike in Malaysia where the policies in favor of  Malay. The story begins in 1969, when the opposition almost toppled up the Allied Parties government and triggered the anger of the extremists in the Allied Parties. The extremists in the party went to the street and then beat the other races on streets. Hence, 13 May Incident(Riot) broke out. There were casualties and hence, the government went into emergency state under the control of National Movement Council (MAGERAN) in 1970. At the same year, the government started to implement the New Economic Policy which intended to minimize the income gap between the Malay and the other races in the country.
The policy worked well but subsequently, some of the people became too dependent on the policy and the whole procedure and system became corrupted. The government insisted that there was no corruption neither deliberately helping Malays. Indeed and honestly, most of the Malays and the natives(Kadazandusun, Iban, Orang Asli) are still living in poverty. The rich becomes richer, but the poor becomes poorest. Most of the people were exploited by this policy and yet some of them embrace it. The ignorant group who still embrace this policy has become more and more arrogant. Some of them announced that we (Chinese, Indian) should go back to our homeland.
But, where is our homeland? We are holding MyKad(IC in Malaysia) and we speak the same language as you. Why and who the hell are you to chase us out of this beloved nation? You have no rights to say so! Politically, socially, economically, we should stand an equal chance to work together for a better country development, but not to work for somebody else! This is the era of neo-democracy! Not the 60-70s where you cannot say something which is supposed morally right but politically wrong. Now, it's the time for us to join our hands to move into the new era of democracy- Neo-merito-democracy !
Corruption, inequality, non-transparency, political scandals, we had enough! Enough is Enough!!!! And yet you announced that the illegal immigrants as the local natives and we(Chinese, Indian, Kadazan-dusun, Iban, Orang Asli) are not natives or Malaysian, asking us to go back our "homeland", what the fxxk is this?!!!!!!!!! Moreover, you invite Lynas coming to Malaysia to give us radiation from rare earth! Are you kidding me?!

IF YOU INSIST THAT THIS IS HARMLESS, YOU STAY NEARBY FOR A YEAR AND THEN TELL US, "IT'S TOTALLY ALRIGHT!!!!" TRY IT AND I BET YOU WON'T DO IT!
Ladies and gentlemen, please see things with your conscience. This is our country, our one and only country. Where can you find such a nice country with abundant natural resources, colourful demographics and cultures?
We must not vote with our feet anymore. We can't afford to lose a beautiful home like this and witnessing our country fallen just like that! We need to fight for our rights of being a Malaysian, a truly Malaysian!

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