1 Malaysia

Yesterday, July 23 2009, Penang witnessed some incidents which clearly gave the lie to the claim by the Malaysian authorities that the 1malaysia concept is supported wholeheartedly by all strata of society in the country. A group of disaffected BN politicians and their minions went to the Komtar complex and started a disturbance right in the area facing Jalan Ria. This area houses a bank, a post office and several goldsmith shops and is in front of the Prangin Mall shopping centre. A lot of visitors and tourists normally pass through this area and the disturbance was totally uncalled for. At the time of the 'incident' the morning crowd was mostly composed of tourists or bank and government employees. The BN politicians or ruffians shouted and shoved and some of them threw punches at one or two people. The behaviour of these people clearly was to send a message to everyone, including the tourists and visitors that there was actually no government at all in Penang and anyone could simply do anything they liked. Moreover, these ruffians from the BN were out to prove that they were above the law and the police in Penang were subservient to them, or at the very least, their masters at the BN group HQ. However, the Penang police finally got to subdue the lawlessness and ruffianly behaviour and took them away. There was a large crowd of people at the police station at Jalan Patani in the afternoon. People were milling around inside and outside the compound of the police station on the exit to Jalan Dato Kramat. Again, Jalan Dato Kramat is a very busy section leading to the town centre and naturally this kind of situation would only project the picture that there was little or no authority on the island. People could generally do what they liked and act as they pleased. 1malaysia ? The PM should go to Penang and enquire how could a situation like yesterday came to take place. 1malaysia ?? Looks more like Penang (and the rest of the country) could go the way of either Sri Lanka or Pakistan or even Iraq in the next ten years. Nothing really that could remotely resemble even any little thing connected to the 1malaysia concept. Or is it that the 1malaysia concept is like a bag of hot air made to give BN politicians a temporary feel-good feeling, much like what a heroin addict gets after a direct vein shot and nothing more. In that case, the people, especially the people of Penang are being clearly led by the nose, or by the noose strung around the nostrils. No wonder the people of Penang rejected all the corrupt BN clowns last March '08. The government owes the people an explanation; How come the media and the Information Ministry keep churning out non-stop singing and praising of the 1malaysia concept while on the ground, BN goons and political apparatchiks go round pumping their fists ??? Does all that represent the real or true meaning of the 1malaysia

concept ? ? The government must now give a clear answer !! ambiguity should be accepted or tolerated.

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The people do not want the so-called 1malaysia concept to carry multiple meanings. Neither do they want different people to give different interpretations. The people definitely do not want to return to the days of the previous failed administration where diverse groups of people and politicians took on self-appointed role(s) of guiding lights for the nation. The people are beginning to feel confused by the 1malaysia concept. Does this concept resemble the 'civilisation' concept of the notso-recent past ??? The 'civilisation' concept that allowed people to organise street marches hurling abuse and threats and giving away free kicks and punches ??? The scene yesterday in Penang suspiciously showed that the 1malaysia concept was not very much different from the now very discredited civilisation concept. In fact, it looked very much as if the 1malaysia concept is nothing more than a recycled version of the earlier one. The conclusion for the people is that the 1malaysia concept is just one of them recycled garbage. Seeing what took place yesterday in Penang, especially on Jalan Ria and Jalan Dato Kramat, only helped to reinforce that view. Perhaps it is time for the authorities to stop all the sloganeering and bullshitting and instead do some real work. After all, the fat wages and salaries are being paid via money collected from the people !!!! Stop wasting time and precious money !!!! Stop boasting to the foreign press that the country is a model for this and that. Yesterday did not give any impression that Malaysia was any kind of any model at all. Wake up and smell the reality. The BN should cut to the chase and tackle all the problems faced by the nation and not continue trying to raise a fake feel-good atmosphere all round. It will not work. The country right now has to grapple with so many serious problems. Just name anything bad and we have it right now. Human trafficking, bribery, syndicates dealing in smuggling and counterfeiting, drug labs, murders and homicides, vice rings, carjacking, kidnapping, shortages of sugar, fluor, price hikes, fare increases, A H1N1, and a thousand other more ailments and issues. The BN government must wake up now. Before it is too late and the country starts to walk down the same road as Colombo, Islamabad or Baghdad. Do not let the innocent suffer. Please !! Please do not let the innocent suffer. Forget 1malaysia. Do the elbow grease instead.