What do you readers of this blog who are lawyers think of the statement? Can it be considered “incitement of racial tension” and therefore can be prosecuted in a Malaysian court of law?

To site just a very simple but absolutely divisive subject as example, take the pig! I will not need to say much about how a Malay (who is Muslim, because there are increasingly Malays who are NOT Muslim) views the pig but man, for the Chinese the pig reigns supreme! It is the centre piece at a traditional Chinese wedding! No self-respecting Chinese would miss out on this utterly tempting, absolutely delicious roast pig! Nowadays, it tends to be a bit lean but who gives a hoot as long as we get to sink our teeth into a delectable morsel. And it is also indispensible at a traditional Chinese funeral. For the very same reasons but I suppose in reverse. Nonetheless, it gets EATEN!

So, from cradle to grave, we have a special role and place for this animal in the Chinese culture. But always, it ends up in the stomach!

And the keris? Well, when you have the keris held up and someone says ‘bath Chinese blood with it,’ then held up again, and someone else says ‘when will it be used’ and then held up yet again in defiance to ‘desensitise non-Malays,’ if you are Chinese, you probably have this feeling like…you would LOVE to chop the freaking roast pig up and eat it!

It is kinda Chinese thingy - slaughter >> roast >> chop >> eat!

If you could imagine for a moment - squeal, squeal >> sizzle, sizzle >> chop, chop >> yum, yum!

But I don’t imagine you could. The GREAT DIVIDE!

The body language, tone and the highly charged environment are some of the important factors to determine the real intention.

I refer to never ending stories on Hishamuddin and Keris. What is it with Keris that riles the Chinese and Indians ( the way one Chinese Assembly Hall along Jln Maharajalela with its reminder or rather deception on closure of a Chinese school in Damansara several years ago riles the Malays).

Keris holds a special place in Malay customs. Malay Rulers kiss Keris during coronation. Keris signifies courage, sovereignty, chivalry, passion among others. Keris itself is immortalised as a logo in UMNO flag.

Upset because Hishamuddin held it in UMNO General Assembly? Was it because of his passionate speech?. I followed his speech. I had not heard him saying Keris to be used against non Malays.

Perhaps readers may not remember that PM himself in the very same assembly reminded Malay delegates that “Keadilan untuk semua”, meaning while promoting the interests of the Malays, Malays must upheld the spirit of justice to other races.

Is that what UMNO has been doing?. It had not taken everything before even when it had ample chances to do so. It still allowed non Malay candidates in Malay majority areas.

It amused me when Star or New Strait Times reported that it was one reason why UMNO lost votes. Maybe. But these newspapers never reported that one of the main reason why Tan Chai Ho lost in Bandar Tun Razak is due to the fact that Malays are upset over the Chinese Assembly Hall building in Jln Maharajalela lying about closure of a Chinese School.

But you brought up a few good points about all the illegal activities, the tax evasion, not even knowing how to fill the form etc.

So, you want PR in Penang, Perak, Selangor and FT to come down hard on these tax skippers, DVD peddlars and other unsavoury characters? I’m with you as long as you haven’t ever patronised the roadside hawker who doesn’t pay his tax (most don’t even know how to fill the form as you say) and if you have never bought a single copy of pirated CD, VCD or DVD.

A clean-up of this country is good. Let’s focus on obliterating the BN, UMNO, MCA, MIC and Gerakan crap instead. Once that is done, the positive results will pour forth and cascade down to the grassroots anyway.

Do u know how much CASH these roadside scrapper earn per month, if the food is great, well, without tax, they can earn better than a factory manager. If the food is not great, they shud close shop and seek refuge as beggars.

keris >> sheath >> durex >> coconuts >> bocor >> drink blood >> made in China! >> ‘Chinese superiority’ >> ‘Chinese hegemony’ and soon, on this train of thought, >> Chinese global domination!

to all our Malay brethren reading this, anthropologically speaking, if we regress sufficiently in this discussion, we will end up in Yunnan.

But going forward from what’s happening today, I think Yunnan is irrelevant, there’s no such thing as ‘Chinese superiority’ and ‘Chinese global domination’ is light years away - not until the Elephants and the Donkeys collapse under the weight of their own regressive politics.

So, the reality today is, the Chinese hawker scrapping a living by the roadside is as much betrayed by BN and MCA as is the Malay and the Indian respectively by BN/UMNO and BN/MCA.

I don’t see this Chinese hawker and thousands more Malaysian Chinese thinking ‘Chinese superiority’ nor ‘Chinese global domination.’ Instead, they are more worried about the rise in cost of wheat, rice and ice! And how to make it from one day to another - just like our Malay and Indian brethren.

Which is why Kerishamuddin’s abusive display at the UMNO GA hurt so many non-Malays, especially Chinese.

At the expense of all the Rakyat future infrastructure. All these funds used to channel to BN state are now finding its way thru legal loopholes into “Bakti” or formal party.

We Malaysian are stupid enough to allow the BN govt. to use Rakyat tax money to regain BN agendas. BN managed to channel out successfully funds which is suppose for the state, and also convinced 55 NGOs pig head to interfere with state govt. affairs.

Those NGOs are supposed to boycott the Federal govt. for stopping future project for the good of society and picket the govt. for channeling out the funds due to legal loopholes, instead to go and interfere with state affair which i illegal. Whoever the 55 NGOs pig head leader, shame on you and your filthy family to knock ur table and support it.

Whoever the 55 NGOs head please give name, and address, the red paint are ready for ANTI NGO movement to take action.

He will be like Koh Tsu Koon who remained clinged to his party, ah pek gila sure give that advise. “Why must resign!” Why must show the world u lost?” don’t be stupid! ah pek gila keng aik sure told him like tat. With his brain, Tsu Koon is smart enuff to said, oh i offer to resign and quit all my post within Gerakan, but it is the Gerakan members who beg him to stay. :o) What Penangites can do? spank me? wakaa… stupid penangites

1. sheath over Kerishamuddin’s head (his head is filled with hot blood, no brain matter). It aptly represents the state of affairs with the UMNO leadership today anyway.

2. keris up Kerishamuddin’s posterior orifice (it will help clear his head of arrogance, and all the crap that’s stuffed him up)

3. keris through Kerishamuddin’s left ear and exiting his right ear (this will remind all UMNO members that when the head is empty, it almost always is a fatal condition)

4. keris stabbed through Kerishamuddin’s unnaturally extended tongue (long tongue, many lies; keris through tongue = pennance)

5. double keris strikes into Kerishamuddin’s eyes (another reminder to all UMNO members that they still have not truely seen and therefore, they fall miserably short in understanding why BN and UMNO lost GE12. ‘Kerishamuddin’s eyes’ because HE pulled the wool over their eyes at the UMNO GA when he stood in a unsheated phallic thrust with the keris in hand…like an imbecile)

Who says the keris needs to be removed from the UMNO Logo?

Today, we live in the ERA of REINVENTION. Give NEW meaning to the keris in the UMNO logo! Just ensure the meaning conveyed and perceiver’s takeout are POSITIVE!

Like my 5 proposals - very positive!

It was a bitter lesson for the brandisher and his party and the episode was now etched in the history of the party and the country as a blemish rather than glorification. A bitter pill that would leave the bitter after-taste in their mouth for a long long time to come.

Well, the same can be the “message to DAP”. Look at it positively, not that DAP has done “much wrong” but definitely much room for improvement, and this is a good message to all political parties, not just to UMNO.

read my take on my blog…

Shiok Guy

We need real work not talk and talk and talk , just like their old days and their old ways not shy at all, cheated the people and now blame the people for not electing them.
Damn thick skin and stubborn, bee end get lost and let the new malaysian malaysia begin.

In the real scenario, they have used OSA, ISA, middle fingers, mat rempits, 5% cheaper houses, JPA scholarships, university courses, Gov contracts and Gov funding.

UMNO must go and have to go. We need to throw away the curry puff if the filling is tainted or poisoned.

you are clever…whether RM, USD, SD, AUD, UK Sterling OR blood…the Chinese have more

your mind does think ahead of most other people…this country with its current crop of “leaders” will choke the country sooner or later…unless changes for the better could happen sooner rather than later!

If they interested to drink chinese blood in Malaysia which many chinese businessmen in M’sia has experienced this, it is OK provided they do a good job in returning back the wealth to the general chinese community, but these suckers keep them in Australia, like what Mr. Taib is doing.

That Keris is to remind the Malay, if they don’t work hard, they will become irrelevant one day. Even they work hard, they can’t compete with China, because in China even at higher cost, but the labor cost is cheap, and there are plenty of ppl. wanted the job.

Now the Malays are suffering more because all the infrastructure for their conveniences are been cancelled or delayed, so that later it will cost higher to build, there’s nothing that can bring down the material cost if you the country has lost it’s fundamental principle to develop the infrastructure.

Infrastructure = Foreigner Investment + Inflow of Foreigner Funds

I can’t really understand what you are trying to convey here about the bocor condom laa….

anyway you like it, whether come every month or daily its up to you laa…even shallow-minded, uneducated and low-class ministers can insult women in parliament using the bocor analogy, it wouldn’t surprise me a layman would use it as well.

And whether AAB will use tax money to inquire those so called keris wielders or not also doesn’t matter - WHAT matters most is that the Chinese dare to speak up - which is our right to!

I doubt the Malay would keep quiet if some foolish uneducated Chinese would say that “The Chinese broadsword shall devour the flesh and blood of Malays!”.

What have the Chinese done to Malays to deserve such fanatical treatment? And now you are saying we must just keep quiet and let the past be the past? On what grounds?

Duh!

cheng on soo, apology from the one who said ” to soak/bathe his kris in chinese blood ” . Well that apology will only be forthcomming “IF” the chinese were offended by that statement !!

Now to prove that the chinese were indeed offended by that statement you will need to BEG AAB so that he will lend you his BIG DEAF ears. He will probably set up a Royal Commission at the expense of the tax payers and do nothing about it once the report is out.

maybe we can just sheathe the keris on the flag with a condom, so it doesnt look so dangerous !

not bath…”drink chinese blood” laaa the keris want

Many would take issue with that.

How is it a symbol of defense – is it used to ward off attacks? A weapon by definition is a weapon, which whether used by Hang Tuah, Hang Jebat or the Pirates of Sulu, it had always been ultimately (when push comes to shove) an offensive weapon of attack, to maim, injure and kill the opponent in combat! The best defensive weapon is your pair of legs, running away with the keris…..The keris is wavy precisely because it is intended to inflict a painful mortal and fatal wound : once thrust into flesh & bones, it cannot be extricated by just pulling it out.

According to Langkawi’s legend, a fair maiden known as Mashuri, unjustly accused of adultery more than 200 years ago, was executed and with her dying breath, cursed the island so that it would remain barren for seven generations – the weapon of her execution was a special keris by which she bled white blood , which some believe signifies her innocence.

To me UMNO’s logo of two keris(es) crossing/cutting each other is symbolic of internecine intra-party feuds, fights conflict and power struggles afflicting UMNO [eg. UMNO Ultras coup d’ tat against Tunku, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s earlier conflicts with Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, then Anwar Inrahim and now Pak Lah not to mention the subterranean tensions between Najib group and the premier’s group] especially when the keris, as was conventionally used, was a weapon of violent fights, bloodshed and duels to the finish as that between traditional folklore heroes Hang Tuah’s and Hang Jebat’s keris(es).

It might have been different if instead of two keris(es) crisscrossing in duel, the logo shows only one keris tucked inside its sheath, which, in Eastern philosophic traditions, whether Tantric or the Taoist Ying & Yang, might well symbolize cosmic as well as party’s harmony.

DAP’s logo is ok – only one “Rocket”, with 4 boosters for one directional drive and support, to push it to the higher political firmament and stratosphere of modern, dynamic and progressive society or organisation against a white background of (supposedly) purity and incorruptibility. And it is not even a phallic symbol - long and pointed though the rocket’s shape may be - because it is pointed one way – upwards, unlike the thrusts and parry, forward and pull back of the keris – somemore in the basence of its sheath!

It is strange that when one uses logo to symbolize an identity or an attribute, not enough thought is given to how the objects chosen as symbols are normally used and their context of usage.