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The latest fiasco in Perak is another dark Malaysian history in the making. A state government fell caused by defections of state assemblymen voted by the rakyat. Most Malaysians are stunned by this turn of event. The world economy is on the brink of recession and now this has to happen. Causing further instability to the country’s administration certainly is not a way forward to weather the economic crisis. Typical political mentality, someone should be blamed for this fiasco, but who? Believe it or not, there are actually 3 groups to be blamed here; Pakatan Rakyat (PR), Barisan Nasional (BN) and yes, the rakyat themselves.
BN will be the easiest target since it lacks any moral authority to convince even the simplest mind of rakyat that it is serving the rakyat’s interest. The defections certainly slanted to some certain of buying-over with perks and benefits since none of the assemblymen stated that they are defecting because they believe BN is the best party to serve the rakyat. Moreover, two of the assemblymen are facing corruption charges. If they are acquitted, the whole Malaysia will just assume that is the “perks” promised by BN. Worse if they are found guilty because that will change the state government all over again. Certainly a lose-lose situation here and BN will be the laughing stock of the entire nation then. It will reflect badly on the BN leaders and their credibility has already taken the plunge as we speak. It is actually not hard to imagine the fall of the once mammoth BN in the next general election.
PR should be blamed because it opens the floodgates for defections in its plan to take over the federal government on Sept 16. Just because it doesn’t work in its favor doesn’t mean PR has the right to claim injustice this time around. As the saying goes, if you live by the sword, you will die by the sword too. A prominent blogger and a senior leader of the coalition even called for the resignation of the leaders of PR for creating this mayhem. The next question will be is this call justifiable? A captain by right should assume full responsibility when the ship he is commandeering hits an iceberg and sink. If this does not happen, it will mean that a leader that is weak and committed grave mistakes is protected merely because he is popular and powerful. This certainly reflects certain aspect of what BN is all about. PR will be dicing with hypocrisy if this happens. Do we want another BN-like entity within our midst in 10-40 years time?
The rakyat should also be blamed for this fiasco. In their haste to bring BN to its knees, they are blinded by their hatred and gave PR substantial power in Parliament without knowing what PR is all about in the first place. It is similar to the case of removing a tyrant by replacing him with another “nicely-packaged” tyrant. During the March 8 election, you could even put a deadwood under PR’s banner and it will be voted into power. The rakyat learnt the hard way when these so-called deadwoods turned traitors recently. The rakyat should open their eyes and see that most of the politicians, no matter they are PR, BN or independents, are merely self serving individuals with vested self interests. What the rakyat failed to see is these “righteous” politicians are merely tools that lost position of power in one coalition and joined the competitor hoping to get power there. In the end, the biggest loser will always be the rakyat.
The nation is indeed under siege at the moment. The stability we are craving for is certainly not in sight soon since a majority of our politicians in the Parliament and State Assembly can be a “frog” when the opportunity arises. God bless our nation.
BN will be the easiest target since it lacks any moral authority to convince even the simplest mind of rakyat that it is serving the rakyat’s interest. The defections certainly slanted to some certain of buying-over with perks and benefits since none of the assemblymen stated that they are defecting because they believe BN is the best party to serve the rakyat. Moreover, two of the assemblymen are facing corruption charges. If they are acquitted, the whole Malaysia will just assume that is the “perks” promised by BN. Worse if they are found guilty because that will change the state government all over again. Certainly a lose-lose situation here and BN will be the laughing stock of the entire nation then. It will reflect badly on the BN leaders and their credibility has already taken the plunge as we speak. It is actually not hard to imagine the fall of the once mammoth BN in the next general election.
PR should be blamed because it opens the floodgates for defections in its plan to take over the federal government on Sept 16. Just because it doesn’t work in its favor doesn’t mean PR has the right to claim injustice this time around. As the saying goes, if you live by the sword, you will die by the sword too. A prominent blogger and a senior leader of the coalition even called for the resignation of the leaders of PR for creating this mayhem. The next question will be is this call justifiable? A captain by right should assume full responsibility when the ship he is commandeering hits an iceberg and sink. If this does not happen, it will mean that a leader that is weak and committed grave mistakes is protected merely because he is popular and powerful. This certainly reflects certain aspect of what BN is all about. PR will be dicing with hypocrisy if this happens. Do we want another BN-like entity within our midst in 10-40 years time?
The rakyat should also be blamed for this fiasco. In their haste to bring BN to its knees, they are blinded by their hatred and gave PR substantial power in Parliament without knowing what PR is all about in the first place. It is similar to the case of removing a tyrant by replacing him with another “nicely-packaged” tyrant. During the March 8 election, you could even put a deadwood under PR’s banner and it will be voted into power. The rakyat learnt the hard way when these so-called deadwoods turned traitors recently. The rakyat should open their eyes and see that most of the politicians, no matter they are PR, BN or independents, are merely self serving individuals with vested self interests. What the rakyat failed to see is these “righteous” politicians are merely tools that lost position of power in one coalition and joined the competitor hoping to get power there. In the end, the biggest loser will always be the rakyat.
The nation is indeed under siege at the moment. The stability we are craving for is certainly not in sight soon since a majority of our politicians in the Parliament and State Assembly can be a “frog” when the opportunity arises. God bless our nation.
