steadyaku47 comment :
I wrote this for Lim Kit Siang blog on Monday, 7 September 2009........over five years ago.... my sentiments remain the same...nothing has changed. If anything the arrogance that those in power now have have worsen. God help us all.
The Arrogance of Power
When you are in power for over fifty years, every now and then there
is that temptation to bend the rules and sometimes even the truth to
suit the political needs of the moment. You can be forgiven if this
inclination does come up once in a blue moon – though the colour of the
moon can be said to be blue every month if you are powerful enough to
want it to be so. So here lies the problem. When this inclination
becomes the norm where does that put good governance?
Almost daily now we are subject to the painful and most uncomfortable
sensation of having our leaders take us for fools. They boldly stand in
front of us through the medium of their Television Stations, their
Media or even at times in person and proceed to tell us what they want
us to know – not what we should know. Is there nobody amongst them that
can tell them that what they are doing is like peeing into the wind?
Have the educated, intelligent and rational generation of Malays all
left UMNO leaving our nation without some of its best people in
government even when we need them most? Najib is in a world of his own.
He lacks the ability to make sense of what is happening around the
country. Surviving day to day is hard enough for him. UMNO has sworn
blood oaths that they will defend themselves from PAS, from DAP from
Keadilan from everybody – no matter what. In desperation they have
ventured into territory where they violate all democratic conventions
almost on a daily basis. When we question the legality of their actions
their answer is that ‘might is right’.
When the court initially finds in favor of the opposition as in Perak – they appeal its decision confident that the Judiciary is ultimately theirs to instruct and manage. When a death in custody happens the usual suspects are paraded. A commission, an inquiry, no stones unturned….and then slowly but surely nothing will come of it. They play the Judiciary as if it was their own – and why not when the Chief Justice is indeed their own. Whenever a situation arise that will give problems to them they no longer even have the decency to pay lip service to placate the Rakyat – now days it is deny, deny deny.
When the court initially finds in favor of the opposition as in Perak – they appeal its decision confident that the Judiciary is ultimately theirs to instruct and manage. When a death in custody happens the usual suspects are paraded. A commission, an inquiry, no stones unturned….and then slowly but surely nothing will come of it. They play the Judiciary as if it was their own – and why not when the Chief Justice is indeed their own. Whenever a situation arise that will give problems to them they no longer even have the decency to pay lip service to placate the Rakyat – now days it is deny, deny deny.
Deny there was ever any intention to humilate the Hindus in the
cow-head incident. Deny that there was any reason to not renew the IGP
again and again. Deny that there was anything wrong in the caning
sentence of Kartika but nevertheless no less a person then the Prime
Minister himself has asked her to appeal for a reduction in her
sentence.
Arrest 16 people for carrying yellow candles and red and white roses
who were seeking freedom of religion in this country and yet deny that
Muslims stepping on the sacred head of a cow is doing anything to incite
another race. They invoke the name of ALLAH at their whims and fancies
and see no sin in promoting the very sins that Islam frowns upon. For
surely corruption and greed is also corruption and greed whether in
Mecca or Malaysia? That all this has become the norm for UMNO frightens
me. This is the arrogance of power that I am talking about. Perhaps the
most outrageous example of this arrogance is their inability to
understand that there are another points of view to be considered other
then their own. To them any deviations from their point of view is a
conspiracy to undermine their ability to hold on to power – no matter
what. I try to do this. By my writing if I can turn one person against
UMNO – just one – then we are one person ahead towards our ‘brand new
beginning’. Do as I do. Go talk to one person and bring him or her into
our fold – then one by one we will slowly but surely build up our
strength and strike down UMNO and Barisan.
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