First you need to put your name on the rolls. Otherwise you cannot vote. Being 21 merely qualifies you to vote – not the right to vote.

Not many read the blogs and not many have access to internet in the rural areas. And thats where umno’s strength lies.

I say the same thing you do…..vote for any opposition, even if it’s PAS!

Malaysia needs an alternative group capable of forming a credible government. That is the only way to keep the excesses of any political party in check. Only when they have to outdo each other to please the rakyat will they be true wakil rakyat! Otherwise with the existing ruling party, all excesses go unpunished. We dont know how much more is being swept under the carpet!

I will vote for PAS if they stand in my constituency. I say this because I personally know of cases of Indian and Chinese temples in Kelantan and Trengganu that had tried to obtain titles over the TOL lands they were built on from BN governemnts and did not succeed. But PAS gave it to them.

The mainstream press highlights the logging in Kelantan, reaches the masses, but it fails to mention the same thing happening in Trengganu, Perak, etc. All with political connections no doubt.

Here in Ipoh we have parties taking the state government to court for granting a green lung to a developer. And nobody questions how that particular land…which has been promised by the goverment (during a previous alienation exercise)to be gazetted as a green lung could end up being alienated for development.

By the way, from this case we also found out that the polo grounds, DR Park etc are all not gazetted as green luings or open spaces. This is probably done so that someone can someday make huge sums by alienating this land for development. I hope you dont have the same problems in your own areas and tamans. Dont be surprised if everything disdappears …..for a fee. As they say… Malaysia Boleh. We will soon be like Indonesia which says….Bisa Pak.

Or we could chose to be like Kerala which votes in a new government in each election. If we do the same, we can be sure that each government will expose the excesses of the previous one and take the culprits to court. That will help clean up our politics, and we get good governance.

But what you say is simply true, just express your thoughts in blogs and not really taking the right action will not help.

My statement:
Act upon it, not just tell ourselves. You know who to vote comes the next GE, so lets walk together for change. still stands and I am calling everyone of you reading Kit’s Blog to really have the heart for change and not being afraid.

This is not for ourselves but think about our future generations, what will happen to them if bn continue being racist, corruptions and non malays still treated as second class citizens, lack of University education for non malays and many more things that hurt us.

Fellow Malaysian, think hard and think very hard again.

50 years is ENOUGH
Vote For A Change
Vote For Any Opposition
Give Them A Chance To Change For A Better Malaysia
Remember bn Is A Useless Grouping Of Self Serving, Corrupt, Dictator, Power Crazy, Racist, Kris waving, etc, etc type of parties.

And with all this, by hook, (and most probably ) or by crook, BN will win at Ijok. It will be a showcase of the support for TPM and that malaysians do not vote along racial lines.

It will be a sad 50th anniversary.

a-malaysian, we are all to blame. We hide behind our computers and complain and criticise. How many of us here are willing to put our money where our mouth is? How many have voted for opposition before? Christ, how many have even bothered to vote or even register to vote?

How many are DAP or PKR or PAS members. If you feel so strongly about it, why dont we (myself included) join the opposition and do our part.

All this cheering “bravo uncle Lim”, is of not much use, if we dont do something about it.

Or else we could all wait for it to get worse, and then try to leave…..

Well, this is what freedom of expression is all about. The freedom to express our views however wrong they may be, however that is done is still freedom – with one caveat. That freedom of expression must not be at the expense of the freedom of others to express themselves.

These bouncers may shout and scream all the obscenities they like. In return you can shout your share although I do not believe you would want to do that. So long as no law is broken.

Intimidating behaviour has its effect only when one allows oneself to be intimidated. When a voter chooses not to exercise his right to vote in fear of his own personal safety, it is a choice he makes. Isn’t that what democracy is all about i.e. freedom of choice?

I think I can understand where you are going with that point, but my point is that how does anybody pick and choose who should face justice?

That is precisely the way things have been going today. The small fish get picked but the big ones let go – because their possible destabilizing effect??

We sure do not want to replace somebody who plays God with our lives with another who plays God with our lives!

It ain’t progress to replace one set of people who tell us what justice is, what we should be happy with and what we should not – and what justice is not. That would put us back where we begin i.e. on the slippery slopes to political Armageddon.

We cannot bring back the rule of law unless we bring back the rule of law.

But that’s just one issue.

I cannot speak for all you folks here but I can only speak for myself.

We cannot have a limited float of the ringgit unless we first float the ringgit. We cannot free the interest rates unless we free the interest rates. We cannot make our central bank independent of interference by MoF until we make central bank independent of all interferences. We cannot revert to meritocracy until we abandon discrimination. We cannot stem corruption unless we stem corruption and demonstrate to all and sundry i.e from the very powerful to the very least powerful e.g. the police constable patrolling our streets be they night or day, that it does not pay to be corrupt!

I expect changes where there should be changes. There should be changes in our monetary and fiscal policies to reduce M2 and stem inflation and revise the tax structure taxing the rich so that the working class could have more to spend, make corporate Malaysia pay more so that that the working class among us pay less.

‘Change’ brings with it some tension, some uncertainty and instability because that’s the nature of ‘change’. That’s what ‘change’ does.

Sometimes in the course of reconciliation, we may take the view that what is done is done, and that dredging up the past may not necessarily be the best thing to do. I wouldn’t go all out to bring corrupt leaders to justice. I may let them retire in their own community in Perth. However, I would go all out to change the way that things are done. That, my friend, is not necessarily destabilizing. The threat of instability is what the ruling elite would use.

The term “regime change” suggests that ‘change’ is forced. None of the smooth transition that you get to see. So there would necessarily be some amount of uncertainty, tension and, if not widespread social unrest, pockets of social unrest etc the effect of which will be destabilizing on the system. This is the characteristic of ‘change’ and more so in the case of ‘regime change’ since it will be externally initiated and internally resisted.

I expect to see changes in monetary and fiscal policies. I expect to see the floating of the Malaysian Ringgit. I expect to see changes in our foreign policy with none of the anti-U.S. sentiment we now hear from BN leaders. I expect to see the end of quotas and closed tenders and none of the cronyism that we now see.

I expect too to see corrupt leaders brought to justice. This includes the early retirement of certain members of the judiciary – and the prosecution of others where there is evidence of corruption.

The effect of all these changes would necessarily be destabilizing.

May I suggest all opposition parties to boycott GE. By doing so they will deprive the rakyat from getting goodies thrown in by the scum of scums. If till now the rakyat still wont wake up then they will never will coupled with the scare tactics employed by the scums. Instead of receiving rm36mil of goodies, let them be just contented with a mere rm200k worth of community hall every 5years.

Also, Anwar’s ceramah was stopped on the basis of security. Yet there was no justification in my view as to why his ceramah was the one that had to be stopped; The matter may be different if BN chose the location first, and Keadilan knowingly and purposely chose the same but if not, then BN’s ceramah should equally be stopped! Did the police is (wrongly) assume that Keadilan supporters are prone to attacking BN supporters/members – surely the same can be said about BN’s ppl!

Am I missing something here? I don’t get it.

Malay, Chinese, and indian are in united but BN are the one trying to seperate us.

Ijok please teach them a lesson, please.

Wong Chun Wai – go fly kite. Not all of us are racist thinking like you.What if Ijok people like Khalid. Who did you vote for in last election? A chinese?

May the best man stand and be elected. And win fair and square but that will be too much for BN to play fair. BN bukan JANTAN, Takut dan Kiasu!!