Wake up, vote Pakatan
It is time for the rakyat to give Pakatan at least three terms in governing. After all, BN has been given the mandate to govern for over half a century.
So far according to ground reports obtained from friends of this columnist, there is no clear indication yet whether events such as BN’s Perak power-grab or the Bersih rally in July last year will be enough to stir the imagination of the majority of the voters and shake them out of their stupor in order for them to vote in the opposition.
Selena Tay, Free Malaysia Today
An absent-minded professor was late for his lecture. He jumped into a cab and shouted, “Hurry! At top speed!” As the cab sped along, he realised that he hadn’t told the driver where to go, so he shouted, “Do you know where I want to go?” “No, sir,” said the cabbie “but I’m driving as fast as I can.”
The above anecdote was quoted from page 177 of the book “One Minute Nonsense” written by the late Father Anthony de Mello, a Catholic Jesuit priest from India and it exemplifies perfectly the sorry state the Barisan Nasional federal government is in – on autopilot mode. Nonetheless, many of the citizens of Malaysia can also be said to be in an equal state of stupor.
Much has been said, much has been written, much has happened since the previous general election in March 2008 till now and yet there are still many Malaysians in a stupor with regards to the politics and economics of this nation. Even some of those who have access to the internet have difficulty in changing their mindset. There is a Chinese proverb which says: ‘It is easier to move mountains than to change a person’s character.” How true this is!
And it is those citizens and voters who are still asleep who will bring disaster to the nation as they continue to vote in the rogue regime which continues to plunder the wealth of the nation. There are many Malaysians who think that BN can do no wrong and the opposition can do no right. Is this the result of political apathy? Or the comfort zone syndrome – “as long as I can earn a living, I don’t care what else is happening in the country?” At the end of the day, the rogue regime will continue to win in the polls but this time if they do win, the results will bring nothing but calamity to the rakyat
So far according to ground reports obtained from friends of this columnist, there is no clear indication yet whether events such as BN’s Perak power-grab or the Bersih rally in July last year will be enough to stir the imagination of the majority of the voters and shake them out of their stupor in order for them to vote in the opposition.
What BN has failed to solve
That is the reason why Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak is cunningly delaying the polls. He is hoping that the rakyat will forget about the Bersih rally, the Perak-grab, Teoh Beng Hock’s death plus other failures of the BN government.
Be that as it may, here is a list of a few of the problems that the incumbent government has failed to solve:
