Cakap cakap...the tide has turned!

The tide has turned and for most of us there is reason to hope. Much has happened since the elections of 2008. Through their own folly and arrogance UMNO has inflicted upon itself too much harm and wounds too deep and debilitating to allow it to survive another battle like the one they had in 2008. We are ahead not because we control the Government and all the power to do good or evil at its disposal nor do we have the unlimited funds at UMNO’s disposal. Not because we have the resources of the country at our disposal to bolster our effort at improving the lot of our countrymen nor do we have the means to improve our country’s economy through good governance. All this is at the disposal of Barisan Nasional to abuse – and abuse it they did! And now it has come to this. The tide has turned!

And Barisan Nasional knows it. No longer will they like Nero, play the fiddle while Rome burns. No longer will they simply impose upon us the tyranny of greed and power to satisfy their own personal needs. No… those times are gone. Today they continue to do these things but only under cover of night, in stealth or through ways and means we are still to discover – but discover them we will. With defeat staring in their face we now hear contrition and words of regret uttered too late.

• UMNO cannot ‘action’ anymore.
• UMNO must change.
• UMNO can change.
• UMNO must carry out reforms.
• UMNO is at the crossroad!

Well let me tell UMNO this. You are no longer at the crossroad! More then at anytime in its history UMNO now understands that it is now on the path to despair and utter hopelessness…some even say extinction! They better pray that they will have the wisdom to accept that even now UMNO will never the same again and make themselves ready to live with the UMNO post the next general elections. At best an effective opposition – at worst what MIC and MCA are to the ethnic group they represent now. Ineffective, irrelevant and unable to be anything more then a pale shadow of what it was in its hey day – a poor imitation of being champions of the ethnic group they represent.

And while UMNO tries to sets it course towards self-preservation, for Pakatan Rakyat the future it has invented for itself holds many promises. For Pakatan Rakyat the future will be better tomorrow and will continue to be better if they seize the moment – carpe diem! I have seen the future and it holds many wonderful promises for all of us. Respect, dignity and hope for the people.

We must never allow the future to be a return to the past as we know it under Barisan Nasional! The future is here now. We see it now with an UMNO in retreat. An UMNO no longer arrogant or ignorant of the peoples wishes.

But to get to the future that we want we must finish with the present. Finish with UMNO and Barisan Nasional. Finish with corrupt politicians, with money politics, with nepotism and with all the negativity that UMNO and Barisan Nasional has forced upon us. Our responsibility is not to see into the future or even to predict it. We need to work now in order to enable a future that we want. Only then can we have that future where we proper and the endless evil presence of over 50 years of UMNO will be over!

"The future is purchased by the present." - Dr Samuel Johnson.