Ah, Richard, what a brave and opportune thing to say. If by chance it become fortuitous for us in the country who feels like you to do so, do you think we would not want it to be so? We have DAP (all other so-called opposition parties are just window dressings for their own agendas and not Malaysia) who seems to be the most consistent party to challenge the government and yet cannot do much to cause any significant change in the running of the country.

Yes, we have grousers, opposers, freedom fighters and such like. To date, what do they have to show for their efforts. The government, like it or not, has used the means and resources at their beck and call, to kerb, thwart, cajole, coax, frustrate and even subvert any efforts to bring the country’s state of governance to a credible state which can be believed to be open, transparent and even progressive.

Not only is the country reverting to a third world mentality (thanks to TDM for always comparing us to having progressed tremendously in the light of genocidal nations like Rwanda, Ethopia, Sudan. Did and do any one of our leaders dare to compare our progress with countries like even our closer neighbour?), our country is being brought down by the quagmire of corruption, intolerance (it’ll get worse,you’ll see), and the continued marginalisation, affirmative actions and multiple careless standards applied on its citizens.

With or without the two third majority, so long as the governance is based on lack of integration of the various races into Malaysians per se, instead of bumiputeras and non-bumiputeras, there will never be a Malaysia of the kind true Malaysians dream of. Don’t spit in the wind. The rot has been created and has grown so pervasive that it will end in a situation as black as civil strife before there will be any chance our government will concede to rule the land for the people and by the people. Even then, who can tell what draconian measures will be employ to continue with affirmative actions, so long as they will serve the politicians who couldn’t care less what the nation becomes so long as they can continue to plunder the country’s economic resource for their own life styles.

Lose your breath and vent your frustration to excite a state of good governance as much as anyone wishes – it will still be the bumiputeras (who are they anyway) against the non-bumiputeras. And tragically, that’s how our politicians want it to stay status quo.

Malaysia for Malaysians is a lost cause. Nobody really believes it any longer. We continue to cause mosquito bites that irritate rather than cause any real change in our state of affairs for a country that’s gone to the dogs. Tun Hussien was apprehensive about his successor. And he was right. Malaysia died the day Tun Hussien handed over the reins. R.I.P. and fantasise on.

It’s all very good to go on harping on the same old tune that BN is corrupt to the core and hence will never be able to govern the country towards real progress and maturity. It’s all very well to say let’s not vote BN in the next election. But where do we go from there? Well your guess is as good as mine.

Any alternative government will be just as bad if not worse. Richard’s words “to abandon the edict that it is better to vote for the devil that I know rather than the devil that I don’t Know.” actually is no more than semantics. We are all so exposed to rhetorics and cliches without any solid form / plan / course of action(s) to counter the decomposition of the country’s diseased body, that whatever we opt to do will actually come to naught. Even though I will apologise for being pessimistic, I do not have anything to be optimistic about what will happen even when there is a change in the government.

The bigger question is do we, in the country, have such a big man with a big heart and a big hand to deal with the rot. We do not have a Mandela who can bring SA out of apartheid. Neither do we have a people who, defeated in argument and power, have the will to want to forge a Malaysia that will be freed of its shackles of affirmative actions. The government under the BN has never ever thought it wiser and more productive to teach those they want to bring up, to fish. Instead, the BN government only wants to continue ladling their proteges’ plates with not only fish but cooked ones as well. In that way, the BN government ensures loyalty, insurance and adherence to staying in power. And power to the BN is not power to do more for the country but to continue with the lifestyles of the rich and powerful.

Our intellect and elite have long taken the softer road after being bashed about for so long. Their sane and sensible voices have been silenced in one way or another such that, now and again, one might hear a brief short sigh of disaffection. And as one commentator said a thousand years from now the legacy left for determination will be spat at. Three cheers for TDM. At least he’ll make his mark. But Malaysia and Malaysians? – who cares!!!

Probably, Indo-China, before its fragmentation, during the road to self-government, then a dark period of genocidal cleansing, and finally a wake-up call to move on to a better life following the opening up of China – all these historical lessons – may be a lesson for BN to look into and learn in all its earnestness before Malaysia head down the same road before finally we can come out of the third / fourth world thos. I continue to spit into the wind even though I’ve told everyone else not to. Ah, the irony of it all.

By the way, did anyone read about the qualifications of our Ministers and those of the Singaporean Government? It’s lilltle wonder we are dealing with such immaturity coming from the so-called leaders of Malaysia. But you have to give them credit for being very good at spelling R-I-N-G-G-I-T even when there is no such word spelt K-A-N-T-O-U, a word they make up for the main activity they are expert in.