I AM MALAYSIAN! (Annuar: Drop Ahmad issue)?? Tuesday - September 2, 2008

“Kelantan UMNO yesterday urged Barisan Nasional component party Gerakan to stop demanding that UMNO and the coalition penalise [Datuk Ahmad Ismail] over his racially sensitive remarks about the Chinese community (read previous post).” 

” It’s chairman, Tan Sri Annuar Musa, said the remarks by Bukit Bendera UMNO division chief Datuk Ahmad Ismail were made in a personal capacity, similar to the statements by several Gerakan leaders urging the party to leave BN.”

“Gerakan has, of late, issued statements which threatened the harmony of BN but UMNO leaders have been patient … the moderation of UMNO leaders, particularly Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, should not be taken advantage of.” 

-All excerpts from New Straits Times page 8 (Prime News), September 2nd 2008, Tuesday.

The New Straits Times has been accused of serving as a propaganda tool for the Malaysia government^{[citation needed]} and its proxy owner, theUnited Malays National Organisation (UMNO), which is a right-wing Malay political party. - excerpt from Wikipedia article on New Straits Times.

Dear YOU. 

If, hypothetically speaking, I stood in the middle of, say, KLCC Park, and shouted out that in my personal opinion, I HATE Indians/Malays and I think they’re inhibiting the country’s progress, would I be charged with sedition? Would the ISA be all out for my guts? Or would you stoop so low as to send of your people to beat me up and say, oh, s/he did of in her/his personal conviction? Why are bloggers, whose blogs are filled with personal thoughts and opinions and heartfelt hopes, being blocked and taken down for being ’seditious’ then? 

UMNO, do not change the topic… the fact remains that what Ahmad Ismail said hurt the country’s people, he should be charged by the ISA by all legal counts. Don’t try to divert our attention to something that Gerakan did, it doesn’t change what Ahmad Ismail said. At least Gerakan learned their lesson and has the guts to speak their mind even if we all think it may just be a losing battle.

If I understand correctly, UMNO would rather keep Ahmad Ismail as he is and allow Najib to slide by without at least a public apology/reprimanding, and are more focused on the statements made by Gerakan that could ‘threaten the harmony of BN’, than passions and pride of their people? Or are we ‘Malaysians’ not your people, that you would stand up for the Malays but not for us? Or is the party for the people, more important than the people? Or do you simply not see that your people are angry at you?

Moderation? Where was the moderation of the UMNO leaders during other times? Calling this ‘moderation’ instead of lenience is more laughable than that joke about the twleve-inch pianist.

From this statement, if he speaks for all of UMNO, I can clearly see where their priorities lie. Haven’t you realized by now that if the majority of your people are Malays but you’re STILL losing the elections (by a metaphorical landslide, I may add) with the current stand you’re taking, it might *HACK**HACK**COUGH* be time for a change? 

I’d like to write a more educated-sounding article, but this extent of stupidity present is too much for even me to process.

Here’s my advice, SIR. Go get an SPM History textbook. Read it. Try to use your ‘adult’, ‘educated’ mind to think about what sparked the racial riots and dissatisfaction here.

I know how pissed I am when I find myself wanting to kick someone whom I know could very well put me in jail.

It’s not people like us who are making racial harmony impossible. It’s people like you. 

 

What have you done for/to us?
ThEditor.