Shame on Lim Keng Yaik & Gerakan; shame on Ong Ka Ting & MCA.

All the bonkers and puppets in the corridor of power.

“…Our politicians should get wise fast and think of creative ways to counter the situation. ”

The only wisdom and creativity that they have lies in the art of stealing. For over 30 years, they have honed the act of stealing into a fine art – and they can even pull the wool over the majority of the electorate time and again.

BTW, can anyone verify for me whether Nazri is working in a ‘big law firm’? That’s what a friend of mine said. Astonishing.

Shouldn’t it be “there is A problem with this statement”?

Irony in your ironic humour ;)
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Nazri Nazri Nazri… He’s either really that stupid or arrogant enough to think the rest of us stupid. Or both. LOL

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There is some problem in this statement. It should be “… is a living proof that only people with no intelligence can be a Minister in the Bodohland.” Hahahaha…

“Our politicians should get wise fast and think of creative ways to counter the situation. At the end of the day, it is better to return to basics, play honest and sincere and if you want to benefit yourself, do so in a way that is “win and win” for the rakyat as well because the old mendacity won’t work nowadays in the face of challenge from the Net.”

Jeff, if I may paraphrase the above; in a nutshell, honesty, humility, holiness is the best policy.

Honesty – this excludes thieves, fraudsters, con-men; UMNO out!
Humility – this excludes sexists, foul-mouthed idiots, despots,UMNO!
Holiness – this excludes racists, rapists, rabid radicals and UMNO!

Politics is but generally an art of deception not only here generally anywhere else in the sense that a politician persuades, cajoles, promises, heckles, appeals to emotions than intellect, gets his votes from his constituency and thereafter ensconces himself within the power circle to feather his nest, as fast and much as possible within period before his political fortunes turn for the worse.

So there’s a lot of bullshit and propaganda going to and fro between politicians and the people whom they rely to vote them in.

What has happened nowadays with the embracing of the Internet, blogs proliferate and seek to intercede as intermediary between politician and his supporters/voters (especially when computers reach masses in the rural areas).

Now in blogs, there is freedom of speech and freedom of thought and there are a lot of clever people out there who will question, ridicule, expose and take to task mendacious politicians and the venal and stupid policies of the government serving the privileged within the ruling class but packaged as if they were serving the interest of country and rakyat.

For once, the hitherto uninterrupted communication line of crafty politicians getting their ways of persuading their constitutency to support and vote for them is disrupted – interceded by an unwanted intemediary of bloggers who are using the Internet to intercede between elected representative/office bearers and their constitutency, exposing the mendacity and falshood of the former to their traditional supporters and fuelling a crisis in the relationship between politicians and voters. (And not just constituency – in this blog thread alone, someone here is already taking Nazri to Wikipedia for world wide broadcast of his so called ‘foibles’).

Which is why politicians are very angry at the bloggers because they threaten their rice bowl. You must understand Nazri, being ambitious and more educated, is the cleverer of the lot and has positioned himself to be keeper of their collective interest and that of his political party.

He has no choice but for so long as he is in active politics and seek to rise within the heirarchy he has to be their keeper and defend the policies of the party, the government, the power circle no matter how indefensible they may be. Society today is more matured; there are more educated critics and civil society out there using the blogs to criticise rebut and ridicule the government/politicians and as far as bloggers concerned, they take no prisoners and accept no bullshit.

Our self appointed gatekeeper defending the indefenisble is obviously stressed and lapsed to name calling (Bodoh Bodoh) because words and thoughts failed him. You take any intelligent guy with a high IQ of over 210 and he too will bungle and sound stupid having to defend the indefensible all the time in this Information Age where blogs contents are hostile against traditional bullshit of governments that they were used to getting away with.

Zainah Anwar’s advice to Nazri hits the nail on the head – “I wish our political leaders and government servants would wake up to living in the information age. There has been a seismic transformation in how people receive information and form opinions. Those with formal authority are no longer the authorities in the age of information technology. The government can no longer maintain control over what people read, hear, watch, let alone think. Mainstream journalists (over whom the government has control) are no longer the gatekeepers over what the public knows. The ability of technology to cause change is much faster than the ability of government to control change…The big losers in this age are those who hold traditional power.’

This is a damn good advice.

The proof of that is the latest encounter of the one described by RPK as having “two Muhamads in his name”. He went to Dang Wangi to lodge a police report agaisnt RPK thinking of scoring political points amongst his compadre threatened by the blogs and came away thoroughly exposed diminishing his political capital in the process….

Our politicians should get wise fast and think of creative ways to counter the situation. At the end of the day, it is better to return to basics, play honest and sincere and if you want to benefit yourself, do so in a way that is “win and win” for the rakyat as well because the old mendacity won’t work nowadays in the face of challenge from the Net. If you are looking for precedent you won’t find it because governments elsewhere in open or close societies face similar challenges from the Net.

Comparing with his predecessor Rais, this Nazri sure will do our parliament proud with his antics. Please don’t sack this guy

This is a common word used by politicians……someone called me a blind, biased and backminded racist!!!