A deluge of depressing headlines
Lest anyone imagine for a moment that all this one-sided spoon feeding only began post-May 13, let me relate my first-hand schoolboy experiences of the rob Peter (read Chinese) pay Paul (read Malay) policy during my secondary school years prior to 1969.
An author said, “There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.”
Yet another wrote, “The nation is bad but not without hope. It is only helpless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.”
If I seem philosophical, it is because of an overdose of thought-provoking headlines leading up to Malaysia’s Jubilee on Sept 16.
Here’s a sampling:
“Is Malaysia truly free?”
“Reversing the clock on Malaysia”
“Sarawakians look for a fairer deal”
“Harris also failed Sabahans”
“The Chinese support BN too”
“Federal government must be genuinely inclusive”
“Where do we go from here?”
Except for the last heading, the first six were all gleaned from online publications. Don’t expect pungent political analyses from our impotent, or perhaps even emasculated, national dailies.
Life in Malaysia has never been more suffocating in the last half century than now, notwithstanding that the Infernal (sic) Security Act has been repealed.
The ISA was replaced by the no less offensive (pardon the pun) Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012 (Sosma).
Malaysians are bracing for new legislation to replace the Emergency Ordinance and the Sedition Act, if the latter is repealed as well.
Datuk Seri Najib Razak is dragging his feet on the pre-GE13 undertaking to do away with the archaic law. Meanwhile, the Sedition Act is liberally and selectively used against the opposition.
An oft-repeated joke goes like this: “One day our country will be free. Which tense is it?” “Future Impossible Tense!”
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