SKY Counters George Chan – on a lazy Malaysian Sunday!
By Sim Kwang Yang (Hornbill Unleashed)
The public political conversation in Sarawak can only be described as primitive at best. How I know it! I was engaged in frontline politics for nearly 20 years in Bandar Kuching, trying to elevate the level of political narrative in my home state. It was near impossible, because the media was all closed, and the weight of the Internet had yet to be felt.
Thanks to the Internet, I can read the Borneo Post online everyday these days. Living in Cheras on the edge of Kuala Lumpur as I do, it is my way of touching base with my home state, so to speak.
On June 5, in a story headlined Pakatan Rakyat cannot bring progress, this is what I read about what George Chan has to say.
“Sarawakians should not disappoint themselves by believing that the so-called Pakatan Rakyat (PR) government, which has been pre-occupied with internal squabbles, can bring about progress to the nation.
“In giving this advice yesterday, Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) president Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Dr George Chan stressed that the state needed stability and a peaceful environment for development and progress.
“It is evident that in Peninsular Malaysia, we have seen many incidents where Pakatan Rakyat is too occupied with its political gimmicks and demonstrations to gain political mileage.’
This is the sort of mindless mind-numbing monologic harangue from Sarawak top politicians one reads on the Borneo Post daily. The sad thing is that there are actually mindless voters who believe in this sort of inane rhetoric.
Read more at: http://hornbillunleashed.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/1686/#more-1686
