Time for Yellow Shirt clowns, Bersih demos to cease
Like Bersih 4, Bersih 5 was pre-dominantly Chinese anti-government street demonstration.
(Malaysia Outlook) – The fifth edition of Bersih street demonstration was propagated with much hyped pre-publicity stunts.
But on its D-Day on Saturday Nov 19, 2016, it turned out to be a fiasco, miserably.
Bersih 5 fizzled out without any fireworks and failed to achieve its main objective.
The Yellow Shirts funfair was held to topple a legitimately appointed prime minister and his constitutionally-elected federal government.
But on Sunday, Prime Minister Najib Razak was still in the office, and even looked stronger politically than before.
The only thing that happened was that Pribumi chairman Mahathir Mohamad and his men managed to hijack yellow fest and turned it into their own political barony.
After observing the Yellow Shirt mess cock-up, one shall pray that Bersih 5 should be last of this unwarranted yellow fest.
It has been a complete nonsense and nuisance, causing disruption to peace and harmony, and businesses.
Like Bersih 4, Bersih 5 was pre-dominantly a Chinese affair, with pockets of Indians, Malays and others.
Surely Malay support is no more there for Bersih to take for granted.
After five editions, Bersih has achieved nothing except deluding the naïve anti-government lay public to wear yellow shirts and swarm the capital city once a year.
All these are done for certain politicians and political parties to grab and enjoy power by hoodwinking unwitting laymen and women.
Many are curious on whether the Yellow Shirt demonstrations were organised to solicit funds, notably from foreign funders, and to sell brand Bersih merchandise?
Isn’t it time for Bersih to close shop and stop misusing the people?
Bersih 5 was Mahathir’s project
Events at end of Saturday showed that Mahathir was indeed the orchestrator of Bersih 5.
From morning the Yellow Shirts gathered all over the city as they thought they would confront the Red Shirts in the other corner.
But the Red Shirts were strategically placed in the city only to fetter the Yellow Shirts psychologically.
Strong police presence was in the city to ensure no untoward incidents among protestors.
Whether it was a deliberate collective strategy or coincidence, the police and Red Shirts managed to confuse and stupefy the Yellow Shirts.
From one point, where they had first gathered, the Yellow revellers tried to walk to another location without actually having any sense of direction, let alone knowing their destination.
They were clueless and headless, as many Yellow Shirt leaders had been detained a day prior to the yellow fest.
Ambiga was there. But she failed to lift the dispirited crowd, which was wearing down as time goes by.
So who was the band conductor? Mahathir of course, have no doubt about it.
The moment rumours spread that Mahathir, his son Mukhriz and Pribumi president Muhyiddin Yassin would attend the protest, the Yellow Shirt crowd was abuzz with anticipation that their presence at last had something meaningful.
A message that went viral through the cyber world rallied all Yellow Shirts to walk to KLCC for a grand finale.
Prior to the message, Mahathir has just arrived at KLCC.
The Yellow Shirt community heeded to the call and walked from all over the city to KLCC, where they heard rhetoric anti-government political tirades from their leaders, and went back home.
