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Hi Jeff...

All the very best in your campaign.

Thought you should know that your blog often has the Illegal Operation. operation aborted error message these days...

Also think you should post your MayBank details at the top of the blog together with the Pay pal option to make it easier for ppl to contribute.

Best regards
Natasha

keep us posted on the amount collected just in case we can help you meet your target. obviously you have set yourself a dateline for the collection so for those of us monitoring your situation could you tell us the target date to finish the collection so that you can start spending.

Jeff

Good luck in your campaign.

Regards,

zuk4kulim.blogspot.com

Well, a (Malaysian)
commentator on my blog said that Malaysian men care about money a lot more than they care about sex. And reading your last several posts, it would be hard to disagree.

Men of Malaysia: is this true? Or do you really need an Indonesian earthquake to make your world move? Come on defend yourselves!

Dear Jeff,

Just as I am very much keen to support the DAP cause, I am also saddened by the latest developments surrounding its developments.

Like many ppl I know of, none has been supportive of BN and would definitely love a change. As with most Malaysians, we are fed up of corruption and mismanagement of the country. However, the opposition parties do not appear to be any better.

I was not too supportive of the idea of having outsiders fielding in as candidates when current DAP MPs serving their constituencies were doing their job well. The problem is further compounded by Fong Po Kuan's intention of not contesting. It appears that ppl are beginning to lose hope on DAP. DAP has lost a very good MP and not forgetting other good past candidates like Wee Choo Keong and etc.

I would love to see you contesting in your very own homeground which is Subang Jaya and pitting against current incumbent, Lee Hwa Beng. After all, you were also instrumental in developing the USJ website portal and well known among your neighbours. But in Penang, I dont think the same can be said. You may be a well known blogger, but it takes one to be charismatic and well-liked at grassroot level in order to win the hearts and minds of the people. Jeff, have you actually gone down to the street level and get to know the people?

DAP has lost good leaders and it is always the same people like Lim Kit Siang, Karpal Singh, Lim Guan Eng and etc running the show. Jeff, please tell me why I should continue support DAP cause and I will pledge my monies to you.

thomas,

I believe there are times when, even in doubt, we still have to put our faith in our fellow men to do a job which alone, none of us can pull through. Squabbles aside, the people on whom we can place our hopes for a change need our support. I don't see why we should deny them that chance now.

thomas,

I believe there are times when, even in doubt, we still have to put our faith in our fellow men to do a job which alone, none of us can pull through. Squabbles aside, the people on whom we can place our hopes for a change need our support. I don't see why we should deny them that chance now.

It is very true that oppositions are not that strong either. That is why if you are smart, the only words you can entice others to vote for you is stronger opposition yield better transparencies yada yada yada - that is all.

Nothing really substantial can be highlighted about the opposition strength.

But once the opposition get the strength ie given more seats, the oppositions must prove themselves to citizens - and hopefully they will emerge stronger and stronger. And that is the only way for better Malaysia (politically speaking) to emerge IMHO.

D: 'Barisan set a long waiting period so that dissent will dissipate before polling day.

It knows its propaganda machine will outlast those of the opposition.

It has some resources under its sleeves. It is not above using phantom votes, peer pressure, demagogueries, conscience-pricking, re-delineations, and plain vote buying.

When faced with such tactics, how does david fight goliath?

In the old days, you pray for luck and hit the giant with one slingshot.

Today, that slingshot needs to have multiple warheads.

Alone, each david will be like a wheelbarrow before the onslaught of a division of nazi tiger tanks.

But collectively - if you make the right strategic thrust - a conglomeration of davids can knock the wind out of big goliath.

The first and most important thing to have in order to win is to accept defeat upfront.

Then you will have nothing to lose after that.

Once you have settled goliath is going to win again, you can then unfettered by any doubts or lack of confidence proceed to hit where it hurts the most - because you have nothing to lose anymore.

Your mission then, should you choose to accept it, is to deny Barisan its old majority by such a margin it will wake up that the rakyat want check-and-balance.

Notice that they have never said 'check-and-balance' anywhere before and they will never say it anywhere in the future because they know that's what will control them - an institutional framework that insures and guarantees that voted power from the people won't be misused for their own interpreted glory, whether of party or selves.

So, vote to deny them the majority that makes them arrogant and paternalistic. For those umno-diehards, that means help umno save itself from the outside. It has ingested too much rich food and needs some strong laxative. X in the Opposition box marks the prescription.

Remember while taking their money that a government is the servant of the people. The people are not servants of the government. Get that completely clear in your presently addled brains.

Second, notice their tactic of trying to be nice to you so near to election day. Suddenly they can list seven issues for the Indians. But a few days later they can haul up people who just want to present roses to this PM. Kononnya was the word.

Then a few days later, one umno chief told the Indians to be self-sufficient and independent.

As you look out your window and see the indian man bicycle by carrying a metal pot and some rags to go around the estate washing peoples' cars just as he has been doing every day for the past seven years, you wonder who has not been self-sufficient. You also wonder if that umno chief had asked his own people to be self-sufficient and independent too. After all, if one wants to be fair, just botox.

Soon enough, you stop asking questions. You decide enough is enough. You vote for the Opposition, regardless who, regardless what, even regardless why, and certainly, regardless whether there's some fracas coming out or not. After all, so-what? Your mission, remember, is not about what's happening in the Opposition. It's about cutting Barisan down to size so that it can serve you more honestly.

And once you realise Barisan's tactic to soothe and disarm your resistance, you wake up like from some narcotised dream and see reality before you.

You suddenly become aware how this PM can trump our competitiveness and valiantly tell us not to compare Malaysia with Singapore like apple to orange, and a few pages later, a respected think-tank asks worrying questions based on facts about how our FDI has been shrinking while those of other notably resource-poor countries have been explodingly growing.

Who is spinning, and who is real? You decide with your respective X.

The third thing is the Indian vote. It was more or less a given in the past elections that they will go to Barisan. Stop drinking toddy and vote Opposition now.

It is so important that all the Indian votes go to the Opposition this round, no matter who, because yours will be the one to check the imbalance in the voting system, and thence the imbalance in the way opportunities and govt support have been distributed.

They said that some indians have been helped yet we read that one indian student without a father has to work in a coffee shop because he was denied a scholarship despite passing with straight As. They showed how Chinese students thank the govt for giving them scholarships - but note - and note carefully - it was because each of them has had to appeal and beg from the govt through its barisan party.

In other words, they are using power to make you beg for what you have already universally earned independent of ANY govt, proposition or opposition.

Meanwhile you have already seen how they give their own the best scholarships to study overseas with illimitable extensions, even when these come from rich families. That's NEP for you.

And then they talk about the prosperous Chinese and how they create jobs, pay taxes etc: two-in-one, one notes. To the Chinese, this sounds nice, especially after four years of being made the punching bags of Umno for every fault under the sun; that's one; but it also raises the ante, for if the Chinese are seen not to support Barisan, it would put the blame on them before the eyes of the entire populace, especially those in Umno. Which will therefore reinforce even more their need to cohere as a community. Which in turn will bring back all those punches again and again after the election. That's two. And that's why either way, the Chinese are again made two-in-one fall guys. Remember the last time so many of the Chinese votes went to them and what did they get in return? From the very heartland of Umno - "when are you going to use 'it'?"

The fourth thing is Sabah and Sarawak. Something must be done in those states to wake them up. Remember up till now no one except those who refused to turn up for the investigation can tell you how many illegal foreign immigrants have been given mykads and papers. Probably in exchange for votes. And how many locals have been denied simple documents for so long that the deprivation has prevented them from even having a primary school education until they are already adults?

The fifth thing are the urban poor. This govt can say it subsidizes this and that but if it has been running the economy well and practising frugality against flagrant govt expenditures, and that doesn't just include screwdrivers, it wouldn't have to be in a position to subsidize citizens who have become marginalized by their own inability to self-earn more. A sad and warped education system added to a value-static job market in a semi-monotonic economy is extremely unhelpful to creating deep potential for more income. If this is not so, ask those countries which have less to no resources and find out why they have succeeded. You already know the answers.

In days to come, inflation will eat more into what the urban poor can no longer afford last month and the best this govt can say is 'change your lifestyle' or 'every country except Brunei suffers'. Tell them to return that US100 million submarine paid-off, stop those crazy ideas like draping the pyramids of the pharaohs, and all those crazy things like millions spent on banners and slush funds for votes. That will show some earnestness. Any audit of where the campaign money is coming from and where it will be leaked to? Any? Just like toll collections - bottomless pits.

The sixth thing is this idea called the protest vote. A protest vote is a vote for the Opposition to protest the present Barisan govt. The X is marked to vote for the Opposition member. It is not a defaced or faulty vote. You put in that protest vote with no second thought, no dithering, no consideration, and no weighing of anything. You erase from your mind the smiles of the Barisan candidates and members, the back-slapping, promises, speeches, what-not. It is as though all that propaganda and make-you-feel-better tactics have gone through your fingers like water. It's a real psychological humdinger. They have no answer for it. This tactic provides david with the knockout slingshot. Every voter becomes a faceless unit acting on his or her accord independently. There's no historical baggage or sense of gratitude to carry. It's just about collectively working to deliver checks-and-balance against a goliath gone on the rampage, trampling down the rights of individuals and communities, and the potential of this nation.

Think about it, from our kampungs and flats, we cannot see what's happening in Perth, London, Geneva, Labuan, even Putrajaya.

When a voter puts in his or her protest vote independently without considering who else is doing what, you may just well get a total which will knock out the Barisan candidate. That's the beauty of these surprises. Particularly if delivered by people within the civil services, and in the heartlands.

The seventh thing is to have a target. Say, 100 Opposition members in parliament and a healthy number in each and all states. Just print their pictures on one side and their messages and issues about the present govt on the reverse side of the A4 sized paper. For some five sens, you get your message through to each household in the language they read, hand-delivered house to house a day or two before elections. State a website where those 100 names and faces will be shown against the map of this country. Fix face, fix target, walk, and connect. The rest is up to them.

That's all i want to say.'

E: 'humm, i wonder what Neil has to say about this.'

D: 'half-seriously, i think he's had enough of us A, B, C, D...we keep arguing with him. I suspect he's become a socialist.'

E: 'wait until he meets Z. Z can sell snow to eskimos.'

One for all, all for one. This reminds me of my favorite Arch Enemy's song -- Nemesis. :-)

Good luck Jeff!

- yc

Jeff, could you take a look at the file bn106.pdf available from the http://bn106.4shared.com site?

Please give us a comment on the validity of the 106 items.

Thanks !