DAP’s Malaysian Dream
On the 9th of January 2016, I had the good fortune of attending the historic Pakatan Harapan’s leadership conference of which the common policy framework (CPF) in the form of the Pakatan Harapan Agreement was signed and launched.
Pakatan Harapan must be strong, united and steadfast to win the mother of all elections, i.e GE 14. UMNO is so desperate now that they are joining forces with PAS to deceive Malaysians, especially the Malays in order to continue with their hegemony by attempting to break Pakatan Harapan’s unity.
Power has corrupted UMNO absolutely. Now, they have reached a stage whereby they don’t care whether you perceived them to be bad or not. They don’t care because they have experienced a systemic metamorphosis from a rotten government into a bad government and finally into a wicked government.
A wicked government abhors opposition. They treat opposition like enemies. Instead of engaging the opposition with healthy debates, a wicked government uses national resources (i.e tax payers’ monies) to manipulate the mass media. Look at The Star, NST, Utusan, TV3 and RTM’s selective reporting. They are like the government’s mouthpieces.
A wicked government uses dirty tricks like 3 Rs (Religion, Race and Rulers) to cause disunity among the Rakyat. A wicked government will use all dirty tactics in order to perpetuate their evil rule. A wicked government will even betray their own race in order to hold on to power. Now, UMNO and PAS have joined forces to repeat a lie that DAP is a Chinese party. They repeat the lie that DAP is anti-Malay and anti-Islam. They repeat the lie that in the event Barisan loses the next General Elections, the Malays would lose power. This is what UMNO is trying to repeat ad nauseam to make the Rakyat believe a lie to be the truth. The Goebbels’ effect: repeat a lie many times until it becomes the truth.
Based on statistics given by Lim Kit Siang in his speech made in Seremban on the 10th of January 2015 at the ADUN (YB P. Guna) Senawang’s dinner, he said that from 1970 until 2000, the demographics of Malaysia has shown that the population of Malays have increased from 44% to 55 %; Chinese dropped from 34 % to 24 % and Indians dropped from 19 % to 7 %. Kit also said that there were 114 Malay-majority seats out of 162 parliamentary constituencies in the peninsula. The rest comprised 22 Chinese-majority seats and 29 mixed seats and there are no Indian-majority seat. Based on the above statistics, how can the Malays lose power in this country?
Further, there were more Malay MPs after Pakatan’s resurgence. It is imperative that the Pakatan Harapan do not fall into their trap by not fielding DAP’s Malay candidates in Malay strongholds.
The lies perpetrated by UMNO and PAS are intended to deceive the Malays. It is a dangerous and wicked tactic. It is not only insulting to the intelligence of the Malays, it is insulting the Malays in general. If these lies are believed then they would do a great disservice to the Malays.
Before this, Najib alleged that the government lost the perception war on 1MDB. He claimed that the Rakyat only believed the lies about 1MDB and not the truth.
Now, Najib’s New Year’s message or latest lie is that 1MDB is not an issue anymore. 1MDB issue is now settled. Does any right thinking Malaysian agree? Where’s the money? Who gave the money? Where did the money go? What was the motive of the so called donor(s)? How many people ‘donated’ the money? Where is the remainder of the money? These questions are bombinating in every right thinking Malaysian’s mind now. The 1MDB issue is definitely not settled. We need to repeat this question, ad nauseam until we receive an answer: “Where is the RM2.6 billion?”
How do we counter such wicked arguments that DAP is anti Malay or anti Islam ? Since day one, DAP swore to be the party for all races, i.e. Malays, Chinese, Indians, Kadazans, Ibans, etc. We need to effectively respond to their wicked campaign by repeating ad nauseam, our commitment to be a party for all, regardless of race, religion and region. We need to arm ourselves with the facts and figures to allay fears that the DAP’s resurgence would result in a loss of Malay political power. This is the best way to counter such campaign. This is DAP’s Malaysian dream. For all races and religion!
Nicole Tan Lee Koon
DAP Wanita National Executive Committee (NEC) member
DAP Negeri Sembilan State Committee
