BERSIH 3 - LET THE COUNTDOWN BEGIN

Malaysiakini is down hit by violent attacks the BN kind.

Reach Malaysiakini on its mirror site here, pass the word around.

http://uppercaise.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/malaysiakini-servers-knocked-out/

Let it begin the countdown begin we have six days to go and we must make it count.
In view of a hostile reaction by this government, a subtle but nonetheless a hostile reaction, like snot letting us have the Dataran  a job they have given a stooge the Mayor of Kuala Lumpur and which he  so blindly and foolishly follows we have no alternative but to take this one level higher.
Let us have a massive show of strength, everyone should participate and I promise if everyone makes this count this government will fall.
Bring on all adult members of your family as long as you are above 18 years old you are old enough to participate.
6 Days is a very short time, make yourselves available, cancel anything and everything that interferes with this timing, if you are getting married come there in your wedding gowns we'll give you such a big crowd you'll be so delighted, nothing should stop you, unless you are in hospital or overseas.
There is a venue in all major towns go to the one nearest to you.
If you do not have a yellow T-shirt it is okay anything will do, try tying a yellow ribbon for men around your scalp, or a yellow scarf, a yellow cap, anything  yellow, including painting your face yellow.
Remember to be orderly, remember not to allow others to intimidate you into a reaction, we are there with one purpose as Tamrin Ghafar Baba so aptly put it "do not let them steal your country away from you."







"It's now or never come hold my hand
Sit by my side and lets make a stand,
Tomorrow will be too late, its now or never
Lets Bersih the land.

Let not our land be given away,
let not our unity go astray
Lets sit together now
Brother and sister to Bersih the way.

 

Well I meant for this to be sung to the tune of the  famous song by Elvis Presley "Its now or Never Never."

That however was not the  chorus I am referring too, I am JUST  saying let us make that our sonG, I prefer if the lyrics could be made in Malay, because  suddenly people who are from UMNO who were Najib's peers are now coming out and saying enough is enough and not to let him and UMNO "steal the elections" from Malaysians.

They have described him as "power crazy." yes we all know that that is Najib alright, but when people from UMNO tell us that we have to take note, that is the seriousness in the deterioration of democracy in this country.

The latest entry into this arena is Tamrin Ghafar Baba, speaking at a rally, a run up to the Bersih 3, he said,
“I have a clarification to make, I am still an Umno member, however  today, I have decided to come down to the ground  because I can no longer bear to see the electoral system being manipulated for the sake of maintaining power.”

Tamrin echoed the cry of NGO's and bloggers saying,  "today, I am saddened to see that our country can simply be sold to foreigners for the sake of winning (the general election).”

Tamrin has joined other UMNO members to bring this issue to the forefront,  it is the fear of the people that Najib will compromise the ballot box and compromise the integrity of the nation as well. Now it is something that is no secret, there are voters who have been given citizenship just to vote for the BN. This elections looks like it is being set to be rigged.

Tamrin himself has had virst hand evidence having met a Pakistani National who was given citizenship, and these actions are even defended by MCA members.

Very soon this Pakistani will become a Bumiputra  or at least his children and our children who by then will be fourth and fifth generation wiill still be second class citizens, that is how MCA sells the Chinese, it is the party who works for UMNO to sell the Chinese and this is the proof.

I once wrote about this in the article  "Invading the country the EC way" that was not meant to be a joke and it is now being confirmed by an UMNO member not just any other UMNO member but Tamrin Ghafar Bab himself.

Then the blogs and the electronic media talk about corruption by the billions of ringgit, I have said over and over again that if all the money were taken back we could all, man woman and child receive a million ringgit each and yet have billions more to put back into the National treasure trove.

Abdul Kadir Sheikh Fadzir who urged the audience not to allow BN to “steal the election, ” he reminded all present that even though this government controlled the media and refused to give the opposition fair access to publishing its information at the last elections 48 percent of the electorate voted against the government.

A huge 48 percent and yet that is not reflected in the number of seats in Parliament, because this Elections Commission which is a disgrace to itself has made sure that the BN has safe seats in which the numbers of the electorate are in some instances even less than 2,000 voters but opposition strongholds have as many as 60,000 voters.

Both Abdul Kadir and Tamrin pledged to be there for Bersih 3, and ahve asked other UMNO members to join in, in an effort not to sell this country to foreigners.

Sheik Kadir went on to say, that he was an UMNO member for   for 56 years and it was a party run  by the membership, the leaders he said were then   clean but sadly  as time passed, it appeared that it had become their (selected few) fathers’ party, in a direct reference to Najib, Hishamuddin and Mukhriz.

After leaving the party  I remained silent but the stealing became worse. Millions were no longer enough, it turned to the  the billions as is the case now, in the end I could no longer take it and resigned from  the party."

The chorus has gained momentum,  so do not just do not sit down at home and hope others will do the job for you, get out and come make it the biggest protest in the history of this nation, come out and join us bring your adult children, your spouse, tell your neighbour to come be there we can't afford to let this country go to thieves and power hungry and greedy self seeking people.

the country can't afford to be feudalistic, or dynastic, no dynasty should  rule, Najib is bad enough and we all know that Hishamuddin will be next followed by Mukhriz if we do nothing, if we come out in huge numbers even the police will join us, because there are so many of them there waiting to, so come out and give them the encouragement to join us free our country.

The Indian Political fiasco - republished

I am republishing this article because nothing has changed, save for the possibility that Uthay is being used by the BN to be the spoiler at the next General Elections.
The HINDRAF a former NGO is not a member of the Pakatan. 
The Pakatan is made up of 3 multi racial parties, and does not subscribe to racial politics so why allocate seats to the HINDRAF or the Hindu Rights party?


"When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn............." Bob Dylan

...at the rate Indian political parties are being formed it is only matter of time before there are more Indian political parties then there are Indians in this country.

this one claims to be an "Indian multi racial party" now try and beat that

The Indian community in Malaysia are being led by a some selfish Tamils who are only in it to pursue their own selfish interests, and in the process betray the entire Indian community.

In this process many Indians who are not Tamils are lumped  into this group and branded similarly, and this explains why the prominent  Sikhs, Malayalees and  Telegus prefer to stay away.

The problems of the Indian community lies within the community itself, every Samy, Subramaniam, and Uthay can claim to represent the community, and they come out with  numbers of "supporters" , and each of them espouses to champion the "Indian Cause." The funny thing is many  of Samy's supporters are Subramaniam's  supporters and also Uthay's supporters too,  and to understand this better you have to take a close look at what happened in  Kampung Buah Pala.

What is this Indian cause anyway?

To many it is to give the Indians the same kind of rights that were accorded to the Malays in the NEP, I say Malay and not Bumiputera because if one takes a close look at the native population of this country, they the natives (asli) seem to be in worse shape then the Malaysian Indians, it is not only the Indians who are marginalised, the Senoi, the Jakun, the Negrito, the Dayak, the Iban, the Kadazan and all the other real natives of this country are far more marginalised then the Indians so what is this marginalisation these champions of the Indian cause are talking about?

I am not saying that there is no marginalisation amongst the Indians, there is, but are they the only ones marginalised?

In professional circles amongst the Doctors, Engineers, Lawyers and in other professions, the Indians compared to and  in ratio of population may seem even better off then the other major races, so why is it there is a great number that is marginalised?

The answer lies on the selfish few, who claim to represent Indian interest and in this pursuit actually enrich themselves just like the UMNO top brass does with the Malays.

Real Malaysian Indian professionals prefer to remain miles away from the grasp of these politicians in order to keep their image and name free from blemish. How many times have you seen  the leadership of MIC especially during the Samy era, berate and insult its own professional members when they disagree with them? 

So the attitude of Indian professionals is: "why should I?"

It is a fallacy to believe that "marginalisation" amongst Malaysians exist only amongst the Indians, it exists among the Malays first, who are told a lot of things, of the what is being done for them, then told to be wary of the other races, and have all the allocations made out to them given to the selected UMNO big wigs and those whose favour they require. 

Similarly, the Chinese and the Indians, and this will explain how top Ministers and Menteris Besar and Chief Minsiters become Millionaires after getting into politics, it also explains why the respective BN party heads cling on to power, and the ways they go to undermine and kick out any member who poses a challenge to them and their authority.

Now to get back to the Indian community, at the rate Indian political parties are being formed it is only matter of time before there are more Indian political parties then there are Indians in this country.

Do the Indians who form a Political party at every turn, really think that these political party will represent their interest?

If they think so then they are idiots of the highest order, they'll first have to come to grips with representation, and in so doing, the question that goes abegging is; Which parliamentary constituency in Malaysia commands an Indian majority electorate, even if there were ten they would still be a minority, but the sad truth is there isn't even one, not even a state constituency so where are these political parties headed for, and who do they really represent?

The truth to the last question is that they represent themselves (those who form these parties) and in their respective parties their share of the loot, in this racial fiasco to support UMNO's pipe dream, their earnings  commensurate with their position in the hierarchy of the party.

Indians in this country need the leadership that will take them to the level where they use their singular vote as Malaysians rather then Indians, and that the community gives that vote to non racial parties and that they vote in toto to swing their vote towards such parties to ensure a fair share of the pie.

This voting pattern could swing from right to left and to the right again depending on what is gained or not gained, small issues must be kept small the big picture has to be taken into account, they need to regain their pride, they need to be recognised as one of he biggest partners in Nation Building and not merely as indented labour, not much better then slaves, the future of all Malaysians is to be less, Malay, Chinese and Indian and be more Malaysian and this what the Malaysians of all communities, especially Indians have to realise. They have to rid themselves of this mental marginalisation, they have to stop looking for immediate favours, they have to look at the long term and elect leaders who do this for them.

The formation of more political parties will only make the community worse, many of its brains like the brains of the other communities have left the country for greener pastures, the less fortunate are left to fend for themselves and most often at their expense and to their own peril they support people who thrive on this support - this so called "Indian Political Parties," whose only purpose is to serve their own purpose."


HINDRAF began as what looked like a very credible organisation it was not political, its aims were noble, the Government in trying to incarcerate its leaders only gave it more credibility, but its own leaders by their present day actions are killing the very seeds of progress they planted.

Now HINDRAF is planning to form its own political party, being a Malaysian of Indian origin, I defended the name HINDRAF when some people in government said it was a movement only for Hindus, because of the name Hindu Rights Action Front, my argument was based on what I used to share long before HINDRAF came into existence. It is wrong to refer to me as Indian, that is an anglicised word, the Europeans went to America attempting to take the North West passage, and found the natives of America there and called them Indians, now after Vasco D'Gama came via the Cape of Good hope to India, they referred to the people of present day India (Hindustan) as Indians and the western "Indian" became a " Red Indian."

I do not ride a horse without saddle that skill is with the natives of North America for whom I have the greatest respect, so stop calling me an Indian, and the native of North America will tell you the same thing, I am a Hindu, check the Chinese vocabulary, they have all along referred to the Indians as Indu, the people below the Indus Valley, so calling the body HINDRAF does not denote religious connotations.

Sadly some members of Indian organisations in a recent attack on another Indian called Anthony Bosco, started mocking him and his name and questioning his status as an Indian. The late Anthony Bosco has had nothing but the interest of marginalised Malaysians in mind,an ex unionist,  he has been noted for it, he has always fought their cause, he could have turned politician a long time ago, but he was no opportunist. I doubt any HINDRAF memebrs and probably some he would have helped know who this Anthony Bosco is, and he is certianly no racialist.

Racialism will get us nowhere, it will be the death knell of any society, it always has been, this is a shrinking globe where every man is a brother, and where equality should prevail regardless of race, creed or culture, its a melting pot of all this, marginalisation is not confined to only one community, those who marginalise are not confined to one community alone, the majority in Malaysia who marginalise others are Malays, and similarly the most marginalised are actually the poor Malays because they happen to make the biggest number in the population, nothing else, so when we look at lifting the marginalised we should look at every Malaysian, we should make lifting the marginalised our priority, that way we work towards a better Malaysia, it has to start with us, yes us meaning me first.

More than fifty years of independence what have we got to show for it, the Petronas Twin Towers? The F1 racing track? the third longest bridge in the world? Beautiful hotels (quite often unkept)? or  buildings and Industrialised Malaysia, where many of its workers live below the poverty line, where squatters abound, where illiterate children of illiterate Malaysian parents, are roaming aimlessly, where drug addiction is rife, where foreign workers earn more then the Malaysian worker, where the independence and integrity of the Judiciary, the Police Force, the Attorney Generals Chambers and even the Government is in question, whre the integrity of the office of the Prime Minsiter has been compromised by his reluctance to take on RPK, and the reluctance of the investigating authority to investigate him on the Altantuya case,  where racial polarization is order of the day,   and all this has come about because of uninterrupted rule of UMNO and its lackeys - the UMNO prescription.

More then fifty years after independence  our Malaysian worker who was amongst he most productive in the world is today lagging far behind, he is paid far less then his Singapore counterpart, in fact less then half the wages of a Singaporean, and why because he suddenly became inefficient and lazy? No, friend he became less productive because the system has become more corrupt, and this corruption has led to the workers downfall so whilst the powerful corrupt become richer the nation is bled and the Malaysian worker marginalised.

The same worker who was once responsible for making this country the worlds largest exporter of Rubber, Palm Oil, Tin, Semiconductors and domestic Air conditioners, are today without jobs, their plants and estates shut down, and why? The only valid reason is corruption, it bleeds productivity, its not because China has cheap labour, Sweden has labour that costs maybe five times that of Malaysian labour, why are we still importing Swedish furniture made of cheaper wood and paying premium prices for it, its all because of productivity. We import a lot from Sweden, oh yes, and France, the US, Korea, Japan and they all have labour costs much higher then ours. Now examine what corruption has done.

On March 8,2008 the people of Malaysia had taken the first step towards change, that change cannot come overnight, the BN is not about to give the opposition an easy ride, they have disposed of one state government, they have neutralized or are in the process of neutralizing HINDRAF, and we stand and watch.

HINDRAF and the Indians have to take stock, stop wallowing in self pity, you are not the only ones marginalized, if we follow a policy of taking care of the have nots then all those who live below the poverty line be they Indian, Chinese or Malay, be they Kadazaan, or Dusun, Negrito, or Orang Laut, every marginalised Malaysian will be given the first bite of the pie and that is what HINDRAF and every other Malaysian should strife for. United we'll stand, we will be the bedrock of the society, but if we fall for these petty racial games we shall be doomed to remain as the 'Asia Week" once put it, "The orphaned Children of South East Asia." And I honestly fear that HINDRAF is playing up to this gallery, the gallery of UMNO.

Every Malaysian should rise above racial politics, discard the racial parties, rid this nation of corruption at every level, and embrace a Malaysia in which its people (we) are less Indian, Chinese, Malay, Kadazaan, Dayak, and more Malaysian.

In parting I think all Indians in this country should note that with all the so called "Indian Political Parties" in this country they could hardly even line up five Indians in Parliament, but since the last general elections, the number of Indians in Parliament and State Assemblies have more then tripled, they are seen in numbers. The question is; How many of these are from the Barisan? The majority came from the opposition, and not because they were Indians, but because they were selected on merit.

At the next General elections they may be more or, on the other hand there may be less far less, the seats have to go on merit, not to Indian or Chinese or Malays, not to natives but to Malaysians, the candidates must be worthy of the seat, people who can represent, who can see the issues, who can offer solutions, who are analytical, who are able to see the big picture,and who are worthy leaders of the people, they have to be truly Malaysian, not Indian, Chinese or Malay.

We have to be less Malay, Chinese or Indian, and more Malaysian, because we are the immigrant races it includes the Malay. The natives the Asli have a right to be native and yet Malaysian.

Get rid of the notion that the Indians are the most marginalised, far from it, they are not, the natives are more marginalised then them, so the next time we make noise we make noise about the Malaysians being marginalised and all this because of what I call  "the UMNO prescription."

Toffee