Be careful with your sound bytes! You may get your wish though not the kind you expect.

“Hidup Melayu! Hidup UMNO!” – who said these words?

If you want to understand how successful UMNOrites have been all these fifty years in identifying Malay interest with UMNO, think about what you would say when you next want somebody to buy toothpaste for you.

“Get me Colgate!” I’m assuming of course that you brush your teeth.

y can’t we have chinese or tamil schools in US ?
Any rules against having a school tat teaches in another language ?
It could be a private school rite ? Btw, let’s look at the fundamental motivations behind a chinese or tamil school. It is the need and desire to educate the children of their mother tongue and culture. This can be done even without a chinese or tamil vernacular schools. Of coz, whether this is effective or not remains a question but the option is there.

As for the ppl in the US ghettos ? Have u seen our own version of the ghettos ? Most of the ppl in these ghettos are from a main race African Americans, Hispanics etc etc… it is not becoz the system discriminates against them (at least not legally and institutionalized) .. it is mostly due to history of the race itself (the African Americans were once slaves, remember?) or endemic problems within the communities (drug abuse, gangsterisms etc).

The prob wif Msia and the biggest difference between Msia and US, are:

In USA, things that are not correct will never be alright and allowed to made part of law. The press and the society will make sure of tat..
In Msia, anything goes and anything oso boleh as long as you have the proper political connections and power…

It’s the institutionalization of improper practices and fundamentally wrong policies in the government, security forces and the society itself tat really pissed off true Msians and disappointed many others to the point of frustrations …

I have been reading your blog for quite a while but this is the first time I am posting a comment. So, hello to you and all the others. I am 46, and husband of one wife, and father of 4 children.

Your short story about the ‘smart’ Indian lad in an American school is a good diversion. But seriously, the story reminds me of something desperately wrong with many of our fellow citizens. Many, like the Indian boy in the story, are able to give the answers in a rote manner without the slightest idea of the SPIRIT and CONVICTION that accompany those words.

For example, those words of Patrick Henry, “… give me liberty, or give me death.’ O, if only the boy knows a little of the spirit and conviction of the man who uttered those words.

Patrick said these words, “Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”

Many in ‘chains’ and ‘slavery’ are able to give rote answers. Many graduates from our high schools scored A for their Moral paper but are without moral fibre. They can recite the Rukun Negara fluently without grasping the sense and momentous principles enshrined in it. They are only indoctrinated with the sound bytes… and not the SENSE and PRINCIPLES. Aesop had said, “Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.” The same go with very many the poly-tick-seances who are already in ‘chain’ and slavery’ to their political boss.

The same Patrick also said, “Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.”

With many of our fellow citizens still so addicted to lollypop politic, many would prefer to live in chains and slavery as long as they have lollypop to suck, instead of fighting for liberty for all.

“Liberty means responsibility. That’s why most men dread it.” –George Bernard Shaw

We need men with moral integrity and steely conviction like you and Karpal… May your tribe increase in these perilous times.

fellow patriot
penang

Errr… can you have chinese or tamil schools in US? I mean will their state education board recognise chinese and tamil schools? How about a national holiday during CNY and Deepavali there?

The last time I was in the States was back in 2004. I went to NYC for a meeting. You should see who is living in the ghettos i.e. blacks. What happened to the American dream?? I see mostly blacks in the ghettos and whites in Hampton Beach.

The freedom to do bad things…??

Mexicans, Indians from India (second to Mexicans in ranking). together with Chinese from China, Vietnamese, Filipinos and El Salvadorians and Cubans make up just about 45% of total immigrants for the FY 2001. But in terms of rate of population growth, the Latinos despite their high rate of population growth are overtaken by Asians who make up only 4% of total population but registers a change in rate of population growth of some 40%.

What you refer to as ‘American Indians’ are more respectfully referred to as ‘native’ Americans – because they are natives in this country which came to be populated by Caucasians from Western Europe. As natives the U.S. government gives them special treatment and special privileges.

Nobody refers today to native Americans as Red Indians unless you have seen too many John Wayne movies. John Wayne by the way was a red neck from the south. Hollywood stereotyped the native Americans as being barbaric and uncivilized – just the way they stereotype today the Mexicans as being stupid.

Nothing can be further from the truth.

That is correct. More correctly, the red Indians are known as American Indians. People from India are usually referred to as Asians or South Asians. If citizens they can be called Indian Americans (to differentiate from Pakistani Americans, etc).

That joke is most likely written by an Asian Indian on an ego trip disparaging the American kids. Don’t be mistaken that American kids are stupid. They just have better things to do with their time than to be forced by their parents to memorise every words in the dictionary or historical dates.

I heard that in US, when you say Indians, they usually refer to the red Indians.

And it is very racist to have a title here that includes “Indian”, Chinese or Malay.

sokong! Do it!

And Chandrashekhar said quietly, “George Bush, Iraq , 2005.”

Also said by me, Melbourne Australia, yesterday, in response to Machap and Ijok result. FYI.

anyway, wat abt the so-called busloads of phantom voters ?

BN won by a margin of 1,850 …
to be honest it won’t be hard to truck in or bus in several hundreds and make up the rest by just replacing a few ballot boxes …

I m not making any allegations here but stating my suspicions …

http://www.malaysiakini.tv/mkini/?vid=1049

Anyway, take a break and have a good rest before the major battle ahead … :-)