What Should We Do Now?
By Tekak Mendalam
When the ruling junta collectively decided to let loose those brain-deficient For Rough Use personnel on the Rakyat, it meant that they are forcibly turning this previously democratic country into a police state. Make no mistake about that. As per pre-Mandela South Africa, we are closely falling headlong into lawlessness where witnesses are somehow coaxed into thinking that they can fly off tall buildings and outspoken activists go missing, where roadblocks are put up for no apparent reasons except to intimidate and people detained without trial at the stroke of the pen.
Welcome to Bolehland where the King can be totally ignored and defied, not that they are doing themselves any favor by siding with the same bunch of klansmen who are overtly undermining their self-respect and dignity. But then again, what can one expect from the same group of ceremonial leaders who bred a Lord President who conveniently forgets the Rule of Law? “What HRH promised you and what we previously agreed upon are two different thing”, so said the leader of the “my-wife-looks-like-shit” clan. “We promised you a stadium…in (drum roll please) Tim-buk-three”…on (more drum rolls) the 39th day of this month (not the 9th). Why isn’t the AG screaming lèse majesté now?
For those optimists who thought that this stadium thing was going to happen, sorry to burst your sanguine bubble. Mr. Crooked Shaft has already finished polishing his tool and having it wiped clean with a single Kleenex, his cousin is in no position to deter him from waving it around a bit, especially with his own personal lioness looking on. “Merdeka Stadium”? Kakakakaka. Never gonna happen. Once Mr. Crooked Shaft uttered the words “Illegal Organization”, it was never going to happen, as the ruling junta cannot be seen to be collaborating with an illegal organization, as it will legitimize it. How can an organization
remain legal for so long but become illegal just days prior to its rally?
So, ultimately it has to be a street rally after all and out comes the water cannons, tear gas, guns, batons and shields. What’s the use of maintaining a fat police force in a corrupt police state if you do not use it once in a while as a tour de force? Throw in a bit of red shirts to stir up the concoction a bit and we could have a curfew or two, not that it will matter as our country is legally still in a state of emergency (from the communist threat that evaporated four decades ago). Fortunately this did not eventuate as the 200+ red shirts correctly determined that their chances of even a pyrrhic victory against 100,000+ yellow shirts are rather “slim”, so to speak. Henceforth, with a white Estima following suit, these “patriots” were forced to merely distributing their extra “no-show” T-shirts to anybody who wants them, including migrant workers (regardless of whether these people are illegals or not). Pity it does not possess good water retention properties, as I really need a good piece of rag
to wipe my car with after it has been naturally cleaned by the heavens at zero cost.
Even the faithfuls were forced out of their place of worship (does a Muslim need to seek official permission from the authorities to enter a mosque?).
As of last count, over 1,400 people, or less than 2% of the total attendees, have been detained with one unreported death. What? No local media reports on the man who died
after being hit on the head by a tear gas canister? Neither is there any local media report on the five tear gas canisters lobbed into Tung Shin Hospital? But then again, my eyes could have been simply playing tricks with me due to the sting from the gas fog swirling all around the atmosphere within my vicinity. Additionally, as of late yesterday, none of the 1,400 people could seek bail (or be allowed legal counsel) as they could be charged under the EO, which means that the junta can legally claim that they utilized over RM10 million a day to feed these poor misled souls in their forthcoming budget – RM14,000 to feed them two meals (each) and RM9,986,000 total delivery cost per day.
There weren’t 100,000+ people attending the rally yesterday? So the propaganda begins in earnest now with the junta getting a few of their pet rodents to testify that the total attendance were hardly 6,000 strong. Hypothetically speaking, if the junta mobilized 1,000 For Rough Use personnel, then the ratio would be 1:6 except that anyone there or anyone viewing the news on television would visibly see that the ratio of 1 For Rough Use personnel against 6 Rakyats is clearly misleading. So, either there were less For Rough Use personnel or there were more marchers, or that the people can’t count, are cockeyed or unaware that a lot of the marchers were wearing invisible cloaks. (We already have phantom voters, what’s wrong with having phantom marchers as well?)
What is this rally all about anyway? For those sleeping beauties that haven’t been kissed awake, it is all about Free and Fair elections, and what is so wrong about it that the entire police force were mobilized? Nothing, except to the party that profits from it being otherwise, and that is why you don’t see or hear any of the coalition parties squeak, perhaps merely the 14th coalition member PIC with the Carlsberg bottle caps on his epaulettes (on direct instruction from his masters) with the rest as quiet as church mice fearing their ultimate demise in the next general election.
And how are we going to ensure that?
