The NATO Syndrome (UPDATED with Chinese Translation)
And how many of you signed the petition asking for Dr Wan Azizah to be given a seat to contest the coming general election? Do you know and do you care? Well, let me tell you. From the more than 13 million registered voters, less than 2,000 signed the petition. So that comes to only…hell, who cares anyway?
NO HOLDS BARRED
Raja Petra Kamarudin
The nation reeled in shock last week as private investigator P. Balasubramaniam abruptly passed away, just days before, declaring he would continue to seek justice for the murdered Altantuya Shaariibuu.
But as the shock wears off and Malaysians move on, his family is left picking up the pieces of a shattered life – a life already strained five years ago, when Balasubramaniam’s declarations regarding the prime minister forced his family to flee the country.
Now, with Balasubramaniam dead, his wife, A Santamil Selvi, and three teenaged children are stranded in Malaysia with diminishing funds and a rapidly dimming future.
Funeral expenses, education fees and mortgages are weighing heavily on the widow’s mind, who is currently homebound in accordance with Hindu tradition.
“I visited Bala’s wife last night to talk about how her family was coping – she showed me her IOUs, how she is well in debt. She has even resorted to pawning the items she owns,” Kelana Jaya MP Loh Gow Burne told reporters today.
“Unfortunately, despite Bala’s sacrifice for the country, his family is now in serious trouble.”
In a bid to keep the bereaved family afloat, Loh is now initiating a fund-raising campaign and is appealing to the public to donate any money they can spare for the widowed Santamil Selvi and her fatherless children.
“The priority is for Bala’s children to be given the opportunity to finish their education, and to ensure that someone who sacrificed all he had for the nation, would not have his family left in poverty,” said Loh.
Balasubramaniam’s lawyer, Americk Singh Sidhu, said the funds would immediately be used to help Santamil Selvi and her children return to India, where they had been residing for the past five years.
“His children must go back to India as they have been schooling there for five years. It would be too difficult for them to adapt to the school system here, especially after all the trauma they recently went through,” said Americk.
“The funds will also go towards basic requirements such as food, clothes, mortgage, education… Monthly expenditure can easily reach up to RM15,000,” he added.
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The above was what was reported one month ago on 20th March 2013. Do any of you reading this know where Bala’s family currently is? Do you know how much money was collected and are they now out of their financial predicament? Are Bala’s children back in school in Chennai?
I think a more important question to ask is: do any of you care now that Bala is no longer of any use to the ABU cause? Yes, tell me honestly, do any of you reading this know and care?
Malaysians suffer from the NATO Syndrome. Do you know that 53% of the voters are women? And do you know that the manner in which Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail was treated will have some effect on the women voters, especially the Malay women from the Malay heartland?
Yes, I bet you did not know this.
And how many of you signed the petition asking for Dr Wan Azizah to be given a seat to contest the coming general election? Do you know and do you care? Well, let me tell you. From the more than 13 million registered voters, less than 2,000 signed the petition. So that comes to only…hell, who cares anyway?
And then when the Malay women vote Umno you scream and say that the Malays are still sleeping. Really? Is it the Malays who are still sleeping or is it you who is still sleeping?
Haris Ibrahim posted this in his Blog early this morning:
A bad case of rhinitis in the early hours of Saturday morning kept me from going to the nomination centre to lend support to Arul’s candidacy in Semenyih. Later that day, tracking all the nominations and seeing so many multi-cornered fights, especially in Sabah, only served to remind me again why I am pro-rakyat, and not pro the opposition parties.
I would just like to say “welcome home Sam.” I thought I had lost you. I am glad that we still share the same doctrine — which is we are pro-rakyat and not pro-party, either ruling or opposition.
I admit that we may have different methods in trying to meet our objective but, as we say in England, there are many ways to skin a pussy, or even pricks for that matter. And we must admit that Malaysian politicians are a bunch of pricks, no doubt about that.
Well, you as an avid Qur’an believer will be very familiar with the verse ‘show me the straight path’ and ‘to you your path and to me mine’. Ultimately, our journeys are both the same — to seek the truth. And while there are many routes to the truth there is only one truth.
I trust now that Nomination Day is over and we are all awaiting Polling Day, you can reflect on the fact that God made us of different creeds on purpose, as Islam says, so that we may know one another, and that you can accept that this diversity, therefore, makes us differ in how we think and do things.
Nevertheless, as long as we can remember that we were placed on the face of this earth to serve the ummah and not the rulers, then God’s mission and vision would have been served. And that, in the final analysis, is what it is all about as we wait to take our place in the land of the dearly departed just like how our comrade Bala did recently and whom we shall all be joining in the not too distant future.
My salam to you my friend and comrade and may we accept whatever happens as takdir or God’s will, the ultimate decider of all things.
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NATO綜合症
你知道有多少人簽了讓旺姐在大選競選的請願書嗎？你知道和你關心嗎？讓我來告訴你，在馬來西亞1千3百萬選民當中，只有區區那2000人簽了那請願書。那百分比就是。。。。他奶奶的，誰想知道啊？
原文：Raja Petra Kamarudin
譯文：方宙
上個星期，人們都為私家偵探P. Balasubramaniam的突然去世感到驚訝。而在去世前不久，Bala宣佈他會繼續地為阿丹杜亞的死亡尋找公道。
但驚訝總會漸漸的逝去，馬來西亞人民也漸漸地淡忘了Bala的去世。現在他的家人正嘗試從他們破碎的生活回歸正常—-早在五年前Bala第一份指控首相的宣誓書開始他們就被迫離開大馬。
現在，隨著Bala的死亡，他的妻子A Santamil Selvi和3名孩子被迫以日漸減少的金錢在馬來西亞過上逐漸暗淡的生活。
葬禮費用，教育費和房屋貸款正往他的寡婦增添壓力。而依據興都習俗，她現在不能離家半步。
“我昨晚探訪了他的妻子，想要知道他們過得如何—-她給我看了她們的賬單，讓我知道她們的欠賬到底有多嚴重。她現在以把值錢的東西當掉來維持生活。”格那再也國會議員羅國本昨日如此對記者說。
“很不幸的，雖然說Bala為國家做出了很多犧牲，他的家庭現在過得很困難。”
爲了能讓維持這個家庭的生活，羅國本已經開始了募款活動。他懇求各界能夠多餘的錢捐出來給這家孤兒寡婦。
“。。。。這些捐款將會充作日常消費如食物，衣服，房屋貸款，教育等。。。。他們的月開銷可高達1万5千令吉。”羅國本如此表示。
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以上這篇文章是在今年3月20日寫的。你們知道現在Bala的家庭狀況如何嗎？你知道總共湊得多少錢和現在他們脫離財政困境了嗎？現在Bala的孤兒們是否已經回到印度金奈（Chennai）上學了呢？
我想更重要的問題是：現在Bala對‘只要不是巫統運動’（ABU）來講已經沒有利用價值了，你們還關心他嗎？是的，請你很誠懇的告訴我，你們現在讀著這篇文章的還關心嗎？
馬來西亞人民都患上了NATO（No Action Talk Only，只講不做）綜合症。你知道高達53%的選民都是女性嗎？你知道旺姐現在的遭遇會為馬來西亞婦女，特別是馬來人聚集區的馬來婦女，所帶來影響嗎？
我敢打賭你根本就不懂得這一些。
你知道有多少人簽了讓旺姐在大選競選的請願書嗎？你知道和你關心嗎？讓我來告訴你，在馬來西亞1千3百萬選民當中，只有區區那2000人簽了那請願書。那百分比就是。。。。他奶奶的，誰想知道啊？
当馬來婦女把票投給巫統時你在那大喊大叫說馬來人還在睡覺。真的嗎？是馬來人在睡覺還是你在睡覺？
Haris Ibrahim今早在他的博客寫到：
這個星期六早晨的鼻炎讓我無法到士毛月的提名中心為Arul打氣。稍后我看到了沙巴州如此多的多角戰，這令我想起了爲什麽我是支持人民的，而不是支持反對黨的。
我只是想說“Sam，歡迎回家”；我一度以爲我已經失去你了。我真的很高興我們還是擁有共同的理念—-我們是站在人民後面的，而不是站在政黨後面的，無論是執政黨或反對黨。
我承認爲了要達成目的我們可能有了不同的方法，但，正如英國人講的，你可以用很多方法為一只貓扒皮，當然你也可以為蠢人扒皮。而無可否認的，馬來西亞政客都是一群蠢人。
如果你相信可蘭經的話，那你肯定很熟悉“給我一條直路”和“你有你的路而我有我的”這些句子。最縂我們的目的都是一樣的—-我們在尋找真理；有很多條道路，但只有一個真理。
現在提名日已經過了，我們都在等待著選舉日的來臨。你可趁現在好好地想想上帝特地地賜予我們不同的信條，所以我們能夠彼此認識並接受我們的不同的做事與想法。
無論如何，只要我們記得我們來到地球的目的是爲了追隨ummahand而不是統治者，那我們就會保全上帝的使命。這就是所有東西的根本，而就像同志Bala一樣，我們將很快地和他在另一個世界裏會合。
我在此想要和我的朋友和同志們說聲“Salam”，希望我們都能接受即將發生的事情為‘Takdir’，或上帝，所有事情決定者，的旨意。
