By J. D. Lovrenciear
Holy grail! Even before he could have warmed in his newly
appointed chair as Home Minister, Datuk Zahid Hamidi has belted out his first
threat, demanding that Malaysians who do not like the system here can leave the
country. What he failed to assimilate is that his statement is
extremely provocative, downright insulting and beyond doubt an absolutely uncalled
for bully-statement against the very subjects of His Royal Highness. OMG! What on earth is happening in Malaysia? Are
the citizens such pathetic political eunuchs and suckers to earn such
brandishments?
The 52 percent of the total voting citizens who cast their
ballots for the ‘Opposition’ and the Independent candidates, clearly have taken
a stand of not supporting or agreeing with the BN-political position. The more
than half of the voting population has taken a position that is in summary, one
that is not in agreement with the BN mantra of governance. This is a foregone
conclusion, otherwise why did they not vote for BN. Now, with the given background to the voting pattern, what Zahid’s
statement means is that more than five million Malaysians should ‘GET OUT’ of
this country. Yes or no?
Where in the world do we hear in-coming Ministers warning their
citizens who voted for the ‘opposition’ (i.e. should be rightly termed as ‘alternative
political party’), that they better show support for the party that took
governance with a minority-votes-system supported by gerrymandering, or they
should get out of their country? Okay, Mr. Honorable-newly-minted Home Minister,
let us all
agree to your prescription. Let us then de-register all opposition
political
parties for disagreeing to your BN system and declare them as anti-nationalists.
Let us all fall behind BN. We shall have only BN in this country as
there shall be no need for any
opposing political block. We shall only have your main stream media. We
shall banish any media that reports anything against your system. We
shall take it
lying down. We shall all sing praises and not question anything at all
as long
as it is the BN system.
How is that? Okay for you Sir? Let us take that given rule of thumb where more
than half of the voting population translates to more than half of the
entire contry's population, Now, given this rule-of-thumb, just because
the more than half of the population does not
agree with BN’s system you are threatening us to get out of this
country? And
that warning, coming from the Home Minister of this country - of all
persons, must be taken very,
very seriously. Worse, if the in-coming Prime Minister keeps his
trademark
silence it also means that the entire, newly-minted government agrees
with this
outrageous threat and warning from a fellow appointed leader. Okay. So be it! Then here is the challenge to the Home Minister
who carries that burden of yoke of national security:
Haul up all – each and every single man and women
who voted not
for BN. Haul every single man and woman who is for the ‘Opposition’
political
blocks. Every single one, mind you – from the humble road sweeper to the
MPs
and leaders of ‘Opposition’ political blocks. Everyone - Malays,
Chinese, Indians, Ibans, Dayaks, Kadazans and others. Put us all in
ships and drive us
out to the open seas. Of, course, you cannot house us in detention
centers because
we will bankrupt your BN system as you have to clothe, feed and care for
us and
true too you do not have that many lodges to house almost more than half
the
nation’s 28 million people. Mr. Honorable Home Minister, are you prepared to do that
then? No? Then why on earth (rather, why the hell), did you belt out such a
statement?
Please do not go around the bend and say, “I have been
quoted out of context”. Remember, as the Home Minister, it is your sole
responsibility and imperative duty to ensure that what you spew out to the media is a hundred-percent
fool-proof and therefore, no way it can be misquoted in the first place. And if you have been misquoted, and that it is also established beyond
all reasonable doubt that you did not insult the subjects of His Royal
Highness, then go after all the media that reported you to have threatened the
citizens of this nation.
The rakyat expect to hear from you. Your silence and your
collaborating partners and leaders’ keeping mum will confirm that you did make this
outrageous and dangerous statement and therefore you must be brought to task as
it is an insult to the citizens who are subjects of His Royal Highness. There is no room for a ‘forgive and forget’ here because your
statement is an insidious assault on the very security and safety of this nation.
The
moral responsibility too lies on the leaders of professional
organizations, NGOs, religious congregations and the international
community to register their displeasure.
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