2 years ago, I remember it was the first time that Bersih
Rally 2.0 was organized. I remember being vocal about how much I DISAGREE with
it. I thought that these participants were “not being grateful enough” with THE
PEACE that Malaysia has for so long. Yeah, exactly. I even wrote a post about
it if you guys remember. I explained why I thought that BERSIH should never be organized. I thought
that since when that a rally can change something. I thought that people have
better procedure. Anything, but the
rally. I was mostly concerned about innocent citizens who gonna get in trouble,
or even hurt, if sthing went wrong.
TODAY, I am so ashamed of myself for whatever I said,
whatever I commented – even though I thought that I was at least, doing it for
PEACE, but I realized that I was just one of those who was lazy to know much,
not informative enough and ignorant about the real scene of the politics in
Malaysia. Today, the more I find out, after a number of doubts and prejudices,
I come to evaluate that, we Malaysians, deserve more than just this peace. We
Malaysians, are in dire need for CHANGES. Without a way for these changes
to happen, most of us might never find out what A BETTER NATION can Malaysia
be.
I don’t have to say one by one, why I am saying this. But I
tell you, judging from the Fb posts that I saw on other people’s walls, I know
that some of them were still like who I was 2 years ago. They were wrongly
informed, or not sufficiently informed or just simply not wanting to know more,
thinking that what they have now is Good Enough, and thinking about the risk of
changing to a new government might just lead the nation to destruction. O yeah,
been there. Done that.
I don’t know about the rest of the states in Malaysia. Maybe
you guys have a different view. I am a Sabahan. I come from a land where even
tourists talk about the richness of our land. Not just from the culture, the
various of tribes living together, also our natural resources – anyone with
such knowledge will easily label is as the THE RICHEST STATE in Malaysia, if not
the second. Then look again at the
statistic of poverty – and there we go again. The last statistic that I saw was
Sabah being the number one state with the most hardcore poor citizens. Doesn’t
that sound peculiar? What, we only get 5% of our oil? Fine, but I thought, that
comes with a security that Sabah is be taken care of, since the federal is
taking 95% of our oil. I don’t need the statistic to see that yes, Sabahans are
left behind. The rural areas of Sabah are totally poor, they don’t even have
proper water supply and electricity. For
so many years, nobody cares about them. Just because they are from secluded
areas, the Ybs are making It an EXCUSE that “it takes time” to bring
development to these places. Oh, they are not educated, they won’t “BARK” loud
enough for anybody to hear to bring shame to any of these People’s
Representatives . YEAH, and that takes them 55 years and they still have not
reached those areas. 55 freaking years, you people. Now, you want to talk about
Peace? When we speak of Peace, we often compare our countries to others that
are more unfortunate. This way, of course, we will always look like we are
luckier. We have something to eat, and they don’t. They listen to the attack missels
and bombs everywhere, and we don’t. It’s not wrong to count our blessings.
But we are talking about Malaysia. We
are a blessed country. And this happens to be the biggest challenge for the
rulers to try and share the blessings with the people. It happened before when
we started to develop, we would be thankful for anything that were given to us.
The world has grown older. The people can’t help but learn and then know more
and to know how truly blessed we are. Anything less that we get from this
blessing, start to be seen as MISUSE of power. When we get too rich, we can’t
handle the richness with wisdom.
Suddenly it’s NOT about the people anymore. It’s about staying in POWER for
generations, and do whatever it takes , even if they have to step and kill
their human values. The IC Project in Sabah really really hurts me to the bone.
Since I was in secondary school, I’ve been seeing illegals in every part of the
town. After so many years, finally I got to learn that the Ics were given to
illegals who are Muslim, and condition was they need to vote for Barisan
Nasional. Sabah, being a country with majority non-Muslims, after they rob our
oil, now they are robbing our land and trying to dethrone us from our native
rights on this land. My heart is crying everytime I think about how cruel they
are to us. Yeah, and THIS PEACE that we were talking about, it was the only
thing left to close our eyes and live to see another day.
When finally the Lahad Datu Incident, which became the
nightmare of the Sabahans – finally the siren was ringing. Ringing to wake us
ALL UP, what they have done to us has finally backfired. We have been keeping
terrorists among us, and ask the ruler again, If They Care enough for us now
that our lives are threatened. If it’s not for General Election which why they still need us to give
them majority to form the government, we have no assurance if our lives are
valuable enough for them after everything that they have done to us. And here
comes another question, DO WE SABAHANS HAVE THE VOICE FOR SABAH, anymore? With
at least 500k Ics were given in Mahathir era just so they can beat the majority
of the natives who prefers the local party to rule the state. PBS finally lost
and now they have stopped fighting for the natives, as long as their positions
in the government are secured.
This is what we get after 50 years. Whoever is ruling for
this long and still promising us this and that like they used to do it for the
past 12 elections, don’t you wonder why have they not done it for the past 10
years or 20 years from their 50 years of
power. Suddenly those promises didn’t mean anything anymore because our PAINS
ARE REAL, and if you rule for 50 years and still we end up with this pain, THIS
IS WHY WE NEED TO SEE CHANGES. Not because we are not grateful, but these
people cannot continue wronging the people
when God gives us so much resources and blessings to be shared among
us. These people can’t just continue
making this country their own playground, where they can do whatever they want
and making the people the robots who can’t do much but nod.
Especially for the Sabahans who are Christians, after so
many years we are taught that Malaysia is a a democratic country and we have
freedom of religions, and after centuries of people using Allah to address the
Almighty; even before the existence of Islam, never that it happened in
anywhere else of the world that finally the word is banned for the Christians
in this country. I was again, badly shocked by how terribly poor things can
become under a weak government. Suddenly we feel so alone and dissed – after our
wealth is robbed, and then our land, and now they are trying to hurt us again
by telling us what we can and what we can’t do in our religion. In fact my dear
Muslim friends, if you are reading this. Would you even want to change your
religion, or get confused by the malay
Bible, just because of the word Allah? This is totally illogical in my rational
mind, knowing that you have a strong root in your religion. You certainly can
differentiate, because of your deep understanding on the way of teachings,
which is why you totally believe that it’s the religion for you. Do you understand why we think this is totally
unacceptable? To my surprise, the other religions claim that they also use this
world in their holy books, they are curious if they are going to get banned
too? You certainly will be angry if people think that you are threatened by our
strong faith in God, that now you have
to tell us to NOT use the word that you
use to call your God. Why do this? Why we can respect your religion and how to
praise your God, and you can’t do the same to us? We do not hurt anybody. The
people ARE NOT STUPID and DON’T MAKE THEM LOOK STUPID that as if they can’t think for themselves –
and as if they follow the religion on weak ground that even seeing the same
word from other religion’s book will make them change their religion. OH MY
GOODNESS. Bless us our LORD!!
Last but not least, it doesn’t take a genius to guess, why
the coming election on 5th May is a Phenomenon to this country.
After 50 years of silence, it’s the first time that THE PEOPLE finally have the
courage to SPEAK their heart out. WE WANT CHANGES. For those who are afraid
that this country will turn upside down because of the change of government,
Tell you what, This country is ALREADY upside down. YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE.
This Opposition that we have now has been there for so long. They are the ones
who highlight every mistakes that the government has been doing – and yeah, if
you start talking about ANWAR and his sodomy cases, I TELL YOU WHAT – This is
not about ANWAR IBRAHIM, THIS IS NOT ABOUT NAJIB RAZAK, NOR MAHATHIR MOHAMAD,
They can have their sets of crimes which the only Judge is GOD. But here, I am talking as a rakyat, I only
want the best for my land, my people. We
want to see something better to be done for Malaysia. And the government now
has done their 50 years of chances to do it all. IT’S TIME TO LET THE OTHER ONE
SHOW THEIR WORTH. If Barisan Nasional claims to be FIGHTING FOR THE PEOPLE, LET
THE ELECTION RUN IN JUSTICE. You have had your 50 years, you can stand giving
them just 5 years to prove that we Malaysians DESERVE better. PROVE TO US, BARISAN NASIONAL, THAT RAKYAT IS YOUR
PRIORITY. GIVE US THE CHANCE TO SEE A NEW AND BETTER MALAYSIA. YOU WILL BE
REMEMBERED FOR THIS ONE DEED THAT YOU DO TO US. At least, people like me will
still thank you for that. Please give way to Justice. Save this one last value
for us. DO IT FOR THE SAKE OF THIS COUNTRY.
God, let the voice of the people of true Malaysians
determine the next ruler of our country. Allow us to do something for the
betterment of this lovely land that you bless us with.
5th May 2013 - Lets do our part, people. Go and cast your vote. It's the most we can do, and the rest, leave it to the hands who created us. He listens to our prayer. For this we know, it's gonna be among the biggest phenomenon ever in our country. God willing. Amen.
5th May 2013 - Lets do our part, people. Go and cast your vote. It's the most we can do, and the rest, leave it to the hands who created us. He listens to our prayer. For this we know, it's gonna be among the biggest phenomenon ever in our country. God willing. Amen.
