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Dr Toh says, "because of parties like Umno, MCA and MIC that are too keen to continue protecting the interests of their own ethnic groups"

Well, if that is how he sees UMNO, MCA and MIC, then I think he must have been dreaming all this while of sleeping through his tenure in politics with Gerakan.

These parties use as their excuse the racial community they purportedly represent and have hijacked for themselves as their baby. In so doing they have in the name of their race grabed power for the few leaders and of course access to immesurable wealth.

To for one moment think that these parties represent the races their party names carry would be a gross injustice.

Just start with changing the mindset.

Before used to call the brits 'tuan'. Why do so too today with all those ministers, YBs, tan sris and datuks? They're not the brits, are they, so why put on subservient airs to them? Get away from the master-servant complex. Get it right - they are the servants, the rakyat are the masters. Apply the same politeness to everyone. As an update, you can include the judges too.

Second, if you attend one of those ceremonies where speeches are made - the moment anyone starts with a long salutation, raise a heckle and tell him/her to get on with it. And if the minister fluffs in his, get up and walk out.

Third, if you're the ceo and the minister has just graced your event, save the money for the ad to thank him/her; if you need to spend, donate it as company charity to the poor. Otherwise you'll be advertising your company as a ball-carrying enterprise; no brains, to boot.

Fourth, if you write a letter to the govt, just get to the point. Don't plead. If they're ready to blow whistleblowers, pleading won't save the innocents too.

The more we show we are supplicant, the worse it will become. All govt people are elected to provide a service, not elected to be idolized, sucked up to, coat-tailed for future deals.

If half get the right mindset, the other half will start to get the message.

You know, after millions of comments all over the place, the commandments etched in blood and stone all come back to the same thing - do the right thing.

We have to change the mindset - because - after taking these first simple steps, the next big thing is passive resistance.

Just boycott every bullshitting event they arrange. They can't get to you if you close yourself from the propaganda. If more and more do this, the rest will notice. Show them by turning off the tv or radio when their faces or voice come on. When they come a-knocking before election, close the door and windows. If they proffer a sewing machine, use it to zip up their lips. Or stitch a wig. Save this country from a fate worse than the last bubonic plague epidemic.

Once your nerve endings have been rendered insensate from all the crap they have been bombarded with all these years, you will finally find peace in the sublime world of depoliticization.

Just ask - what has local politics done for you and this country all these fifty years?

Just name out heart-stopping thing that money can't buy. Plus thirty percent for deals below a hundred million, and eighty, above.

Once that clarity of mind is achieved, the third and final phase is to vote them out.

No matter what happens between now and election day, be assured they will do their damnest to soothe your pride, ego, frayed nerves.

You wonder why - until at KLIA you see a big limousine with a menteri badge. The proton perdana that's supposed to be standard for them has been quietly and slyly replaced with the latest and biggest from Stuttgart.

Who pays for that, even if on lease? Them?

Don't talk about Perth, Tropicana, Damansara Heights, London sprees, perks and privileges. Waste of time. You already know.

Change the mindset from master-servant to servant-master.

Depoliticize everything that had curtailed your mind.

Vote them out.

No point talking about the past we crave, the present we hate, and the future we fear.

Just surgically move in concert to remove all those blobs of tumours.

Have a change of mind; it's healthy. After all, what have we to lose? We only live twice. And one is a dream.

Sad thing is, most of these in the 'in crowd' only see it fit to speak truthfully on the way out. Not when they are in their prime, when their bread and butter sizzled along with their comrades'. Wouldn't blame them though. The moment the mouth is opened the foot (either his own or someone else's) is stuffed in it. Or he gets the boot. Standing alone outside doesn't do anyone any good either. Nobody listens. The harvest is great, the labor too limited.

Right on, L C Teh,
On the way out, Gerakan veteran Dr Toh dared to lament the difficulties of bringing changes within the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition and conceded that he may have failed to make Malaysia "more open and democratic".
Or in Harry Lee’s words – “
When Malaysian “Chinese and Indians …treat them as their citizens, they can equal us and even do better than us and we would be happy to rejoin them”
Many have missed his remarks over this issue on his recent interview. This was his explicit and impossible condition. The BN government under UMNO dominant absolute control has such a strangle hold on the Malaysian Chinese and Indians that even after many rebirths, Harry Lee will never have the chance to come back to Malaysia. More details at:

http://powerpresent.blogspot.com/2007/10/pipe-dream-lee-kuan-yew-rejoin-malaysia.html

Some just talk, talk and continue talking sense ...outside the system.

Some has decided to join the system and "reformed from within...and got burnt" from both sides.

Some has embraced the opposition trying to force changes for better...

All of the above are the constructive forces attempting an up-hill battle to dismantle the corrupted and decaying system. They should not be seen as enemy to each other and should see common foe in the racist, ultra-religious and ulta conservetive groups as well as thoese opportunists within and without the ruling coalition for without either on of the reform agenda will never light.

So. let's not trying to discredit and destroy each other to the benefits of the very enemies that we are supposed to get rid of.

That is what Dr. Toh has been trying to say, I think.