What is Happening on The Ground (a personal observation of a shift in trend within the Malay community)

written by arazak, October 16, 2010 16:09:23
What is Happening on The Ground (a personal observation of a shift in trend within the Malay community).

Dear MT Readers,

Recently, during the Hari Raya holidays back home in Bolehland, I visited many friends and relatives. And sometimes they come over to our humble dwelling to visit us. I took this opportunity to conduct a somewhat loose observation study on the political scenario of Bolehland. Of course my samples in this loose observation study are Malays as the interaction with them are made during the visits throughout a period of 2 weeks during the Hari Raya celebration.

Usually, over ketupat, lemang and rendang on the first week of interaction and kuih raya on the 2nd week we will talk about anything under he sun. They will often talk about children education, their health condition, prices of goods, their maid who went back to Indonesia and never return, etc. (the usual mundane things). I will than steer them to talk about politics. As they are relatives and close friend, it was a no hold barred kind of conversation.

From my observation and fair judgment, 80% had openly declared their hatred towards UMNO. Surprisingly, out of this 80% some of them are known to me as government servants and previously hard-core UMNO supporters. To them UMNO was associated with “rasuah”, “penyamun”, “kebas duit rakyaat”, “tak sedar diri”, “menyusahkan rakyaat” and “barang semua jadi mahal”(corruption, thief, looters of the peoples’ money, forgetting itself, making peoples life difficult and increasing prices of goods). If you look at the key words they gave, most of them are about UMNO destroying the country economy.

Now here’s the catch with the Special Branch and Bukit Aman intelligence report to Jibby. The report only emphasize that UMNO has loose support. It does not emphasize the reasons why UMNO has loose its support. It does not emphasize UMNO loose support because they are corrupt, they are thieves or they destroy the country’s economy. That brings us to one important understanding on what is wrong with UMNO, and that is; UMNO do not want to change or mend its’ ways. What they want are people to change their ways and to support them no matter how corrupt or thieving they are. It is the people who must change . . . ., and not UMNO.

For those SB or Bukit Aman people out there reading his, tell your bosses that the problem lie within UMNO and not the people. We know UMNO will not change their corrupt ways and thieving activities. It is already in the fabric of their culture. For UMNO, ruling this country meant being corrupt and looting as much money as possible.

Even when UMNO's numero uno came up with the grand plans of "transformation" and the "NEM", people see it as a grand plan for looting and thieving and not a grand plan to change the country's economy. That is how bad people are thinking about UMNO now. Nothing seems right for them!

Also, from the observation done and through my assessment, UMNO will loose big time in the next GE. . ., unless the EC came up with a grand cheating and rigging exercise, OR. . ., UMNO change their ways.

But I do not think it would be the later, UMNO will remain as they are, i.e., corrupt, thieving and looting, “dulu, kini dan selamanya”!
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A great piece. I hope Malaysians will work hard to make sure in the coming GE we can send umNO into oblivion.