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Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Sir Winston Churchill

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PM Abdullah has acknowledged on his return from Egypt that “What is important is that the government has to be fair to all because if we concentrate only on one group, others will complain. "We have to be fair in giving out opportunities to ensure the whole country develops and everyone can live in a peaceful, safe and harmonious country."

So is Abdullah admitting that he has been UNFAIR all along and was not practicing what he preaches?

His latest threats on the use of ISA was condemned by the Bar council as high handedness & use of force to solve problems. More details:
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Very well put. A different perspective to look at Abdullah leadership is:

(1) A newcomer normally enjoys the benefit of the doubt by the people, especially if he does not come to power by force.

(2) Further amplifying the effect above is the fact that his predecessor was in power for so long with iron-grip. Such condition of hopelessness suddenly gives people strong hope, perhaps too strong a hope without justification by track record.

(3) Abdullah started his term practically creating a smoke screen that a new dawn has arrived. This is those empty promises that you have described.

(4) Enjoying the fruits from his predecessor, the media is controlled more tightly under Abdullah, or even "adjusted" to suit his spin agenda. Hence the lingering effect of "nice guy".

One good way to summerise the situation is by looking at good old Chinese history. The emperor would live deeper and deeper into his grand palace, becoming distant from the people, while the eunuchs would grab powers like nobody's business. It's not at all difficult to identify who the eunuchs are today. See the similarities? :-)

The Merdeka survey shouts that the rakyat want this govt checked and balanced.

Yet the PM's SIL had outwardly said he needed to draw blind-eyes for his forthcoming actions based on just his personal relationship with the PM's daughter, third tried. In a clear case of unchecked power-mongering, Khairy is therefore snubbing the main request of the rakyat. In fact one remembers it was he who had first threatened the lawyers' march before his FIL said anything so that people can only conclude the CEO of this govt is just parroting for policy the ranting of a kid born in the Middle East with no experience of the suffering of the rakyat he intends to rule in the future.

What kind of a future will that be then for everyone in this country when they can thumb at you in broad daylight by threatening to use the ISA at their whim and fancy the moment you try to draw attention to the plight and injustice faced by the rakyat that you had tried to bring to their attention only to be snubbed by inelegant silence all the time in the past?

What kind of a future does governance of this country hold for using its media to paint a hunky-dory picture of the country's economy only for you to see today the arrival of riots even before 2020, now slyly extended to 2057, that spell out clearly the inequities by economic marginalization of an entire race?

Khairy and his sidekicks talk about the Malay Agenda just as Mahathir wrote about the Malay Dilemma.

What about the poor Indians, the poor Chinese, the poor Kadazans? Don't they too deserve some agendas and dilemmas beyond the soothing empty promises of a halfbaked imam?

A leader is weak if he threatens his people without first going to the ground to meet them and ask them what is really wrong.

A leader is weak if he doesn't enforce a viable system of integrity on his own administration when its comes to complaints and requests submitted by the people they are paid to serve.

A leader is weak if he has to seek solace in the simplistic findings of a survey just so to assuage his own lingering doubts that surely when there has been three rallies in three months, things really aren't as great as he wants to make it out to be in his own mind.

A leader is weak if he is seen not to have said a single word against his own SIL for making racist and vexatious remarks contributive to the racial harmony that he himself appears to hold so dearly, leaving it to others to make general suggestive statements, all the more indigestible because ALL those remarks had only emanated from one race.

A leader is weak when he tries to show that it is only necessary for might to be right in order to run a country.

A leader is weak when he lets his underlinks use a past performance of having achieved majority win to hide the need for an open investigation into whether that 'majority' was won fairly or not in the first place.

A leader is weak if he lets the spectre of another may-13 to be raised by one race taint the perception of a rally by another without going to the root cause of rallies, grievances, problems and issues, all coming back again and again BECAUSE they have been constantly neglected. And where is the Umno program to teach the Malays not to be racial? Is Malaysia already the South Africa of Asia?

A leader is weak when he can only take the position of "for us or against us" when in the first place, 'us' is only limited to a group of power-mongers whose record of mismanagement and corruption is for all to see.

A leader is weak when his only response is to label anyone who disagrees with his govt's stand as being opposition-based equal to anti-national, as if his people have the monopoly to define what is 'national'.

A leader is weak when he in doing that also hypocritically says constructive criticism is invited. Like when has there been any constructive response in reply?

There are deep-rooted problems in our country; in leaving the Indians born in this country to their fate of being racially profiled as misfits, the Umno govt is practising malignant neglect. If it can appear to be sensitised by the hardships faced by the Malays, how can it fail to be sensitized by the hardships faced by the Indians and others? If it says there're jobs aplenty for the Indians that needn't go to the foreign workers, how can it reconcile that a Malaysian Indian will have to swallow pride of citizenship to take up a job his fellow Malay won't take because to do so would be to appear degraded before everyone else? Including the Indonesians.

The Hindraf movement was strategic. Its leadership knows the request for British compensation would not be honoured. For one, it would by its magnitude and those that would follow from other countries bankrupt the british isles. Its sheer bravura was to attract international limelight. It was also couched on the reason of indenturing re: enslavement. That was also smart. If Umno had tried to stonewall that reason, Umno would have been labelled a hypocrite since against the British was its own sloganeering grist. And if MIC had said even one whisper against it, MIC would instantly wear the badge of dishonor to the Indian community for defending the British. Thus, the resurrection of the spirit of Gandhi. Passive resistance almost it became but for the provocations that could not be obscured by the teargas, that instead now has become the visual fest of all in youtube and other hosts of a democratic society with common law and hallowed enlightened statesmanship thrown to the jackals of officialdom. And certainly, which consulate would have an officer present on a Sunday morning in sleepy KL?

A leader is weak if he doesn't even read the memo and then make public his comments on its contents, trying to satisfy the world instead by just labelling the rally as being politically-motivated. They in turn can say the same of his statements.

The day it is enough for just might to be right is the day what this nation is all about will go into the twilight.

The only salutary conclusion out of this Hindraf movement should be apparent to everyone - and Umno should be kuat-kuat congratulated for its magnificent, and some will add munificent, achievement.

That achievement is MIC doing such a splendid job in suppressing the grievances of the Indian commonfolks. Hats and wigs off, real PR geniuses there.

If the people have been suffering, whichever their race or faith or economic circumstance, come off those airconded and plush S280s, walk off the planks from the yachts, step down the aluminium ladders of the private jets, open the hatches of the soyuzes, and do after sixty eight years of indeterminate existence the fcukking right thing for once.

There is only one statement that summarised AAB .....OVER PROMISED BUT UNDER DELIVER.

The problems with our government are there, its only that they (the fat cats) are too complacent to deal with the problem.

Ummm, reality check, ITS A HUGE problem. Like seeing the mosquito across the ocean horizon, yet the elephant in your living room you can't see.

Such is the categorizing of problems as The Inconvenient Truth. You know its there but, you just pretend not to see it.

As the poll shown, people are still not comfortable or convince that the opposition alliance is able to manage the country well. One can argue that the opposition was never giving a chance to show their capability.

However, most people, especially the Chinese, are more conservative and 'realistic' / practical in such a way that they don't want to lose the minimum peace and living place that they have. The opposition should have demonstrated their readiness to lead and manage this country by establishing multiple functional groups or NGOs that would help or replace the existing ministry when they are given the mandate to lead the country.

For example, a functional group or NGO that focuses on good policy for transportation, learning the good practices in transportation in other countries etc. Those poeple should be somewhat knowledgable in transportation to make the right call in drafting new policy. As many functional groups should be formed as possible to replace existing ministries which have been well-known of non-efficient or corrupted.

Unless the opposition alliance builds and demonstrates its strength and readiness to replace existing BN alliance, the people have no choice but to choose the well-known corrupted BN government because at the very least we are more well informed of the risk that we have; compared to a totally unknown, theoretical and no track history's alternative government.

The opposition alliance should have asked itself very hard why the people still elect the corrupted govenrment and what it could do to replace that.

Let's hope that Malaysia can wait to see a more matured opposition alliance.