Umno’s threats and calls to change (back to the good old days, that is)

Conspicuously present as at almost all Umno meetings: threats, threats, threats.

There are calls to go after online writers, warnings against ‘overly brave’ non-Malays, talk of the methods used by Najib’s father post-1969 to ‘restore order,’ and in Hisham’s outgoing speech, plenty of allusions that foreshadow an arrest of Anwar.

For all the Obama/KeADILan talk of change (did you see The Star headline? “Time for change” – eh! macam pernah dengar ni 😛 🙂 , the mood suggested that many in Umno wanted a change yes, but a change BACK to the good old days where they freely and gleefully tyrannised the rest of Malaysia.

Will Najib succumb to the temptation of ridding himself of the opposition the easy way? Amidst all his scandals and the devastating amount of bad press he has been getting overseas, will he seek to detract attention by doing exactly what Mahathir did, both in the late 80s and the late 90s? Will we be changing back to that definition of ’strength?’

Nobody knows what the future brings, but there are some signs out there pointing to a crackdown. Should they decide to take it big guns, medium guns, little guns or all of the above, preparations still need to be made early – no matter how illogical such actions might appear to us.

Read more at: http://jelas.info/2009/03/27/umnos-threats-and-calls-to-change-back-to-the-good-old-days-that-is/