Malaysians Say The Darndest Things!

How Najib and MCA Protects Us From Another May 13

January 24, 2008

Let’s start by asking a few simple questions. These will serve as analogies to show you whether Najib Tun Razak makes any sense.

You write a complaint against some government department, and they ignore you, then you show up at the office to make a complaint. The government officer then threatens you with a parang. Who should the police arrest?

You buy 10 apples, and it turns out all of them have worms. You bring it back to the storekeeper to exchange it, and then the storekeeper starts to chase you away with a stick and threatens to kill you. Who should the police arrest?

In both cases above, any person with common sense would agree that the police should arrest the person who is inciting violence, which are the people holding the parang and the stick.

Let’s visit this no-common-sense place called Malaysia and see how the country’s Deputy Prime Minister deals with situations like the above. He tried to defend the use of ISA on the 5 Hindraf leaders by claiming that the government has successfully averted another May 13, 1969. This is what he said, as quoted in a Malaysiakini article:
Najib: Crackdown on dissent averted racial clash

Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak today defended the government’s crackdown on dissent, including the arrest of ethnic Indian activists and suppression of street protests, saying it had averted a serious risk of racial violence.

He raised the spectre of the country’s worst race riots, when almost 200 people were killed in clashes between ethnic Chinese and Malays in May 1969.

“If the Malays of Kampung Baru come out then we have the spectre of a serious possibility of a racial clash in this country,” Najib said in an interview with AFP. The Malay enclave was one of the flashpoints of the 1969 riots.

“There were signs that they were preparing to come out so we had to tell them, ‘look, don’t make the situation any worse’,” he said.

“The government was actually taking action to prevent anything worse from happening.”

Unprecedented street protests by Indian Malaysians, which police broke up with tear gas and water cannon, opened a new faultline in Malaysia’s increasingly tense race relations last November.

Five leaders of Indian rights group Hindraf, who claim the community is the victim of discrimination at the hands of the majority Malays, are now being held without trial under tough internal security laws.

So, what this means in Malaysia is that instead of arresting or stopping the real inciters of hate and violence that Najib claimed lived in Kampung Baru, the government went ahead and arrested those the ones who were threatened on trumped up charges of being linked to a terrorist organization.

WTF??? It sure as hell does not to me. All in all, it just affirms my belief that non-Malays are continuously being kept in a state of fear of violence, because UMNO wants non-Malays to think that the Malay residents in Kampung Baru are all violent. Is that true? I always had the impression that the violence was only encouraged by UMNO people, so that they can come off as some sort of ‘pembela maruah bangsa’ or something.

As despicable as using the specter of May 13th to instill fear into people’s heart (especially those of the older generation that lived through that period), you would only think that UMNO would be the ones who would continuously harp on it. Well, sad to say, those fellas at MCA frequently use it to scare the Chinese into voting for their party. The latest guilty MCA member? No other than Chew Mei Fun, the MP for PJ Utara.

Miss Chew was quoted in the China Press on January 21st saying the following: “If there is insufficient Chinese representation in the Barisan Nasional, it is not a good thing, the Chinese community cannot afford another May 13 incident.”

The honest to god truth? I AM EFFING SPEECHLESS. How would insufficient Chinese representation in BN lead to another May 13? Is it because Miss Chew knows that BN members will start slaughtering the Chinese community? If she knows something, she had better tell us so that I can make preparations to take an extended holiday break in Haadyai, or somewhere where I will be safe.

Seriously, Miss Chew, that is what I call a cheap shot. Trying to fish for votes like that. But I have to remember that this is an MCA politician. I expect no less from her.
In a quick about turn, yesterday, China Press printed an apology for ‘misquoting’ Miss Chew. Just read this blog for the apology: China Press: It’s our fault, not Chew’s. It is worthwhile to note that the clarification by China Press if you read Chinese. Could it be a misquote? What led to the China Press reporter mis-reporting it? Did Miss Chew give the impression that she meant May 13th incident? What else could she have meant?

Whatever it is, civil society groups have already released a statement condemning Miss Chew. One wonders if civil society kept quiet, would China Press have issued an apology? The statement: Say No to the Spectre of May 13

Najib and Chew Mei Fun says the darndest things!

Just another reason why I will never vote BN: Using Scare Tactics To Gain Votes
Still think UMNO and MCA are the best bets to run this country? Think again.

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