― Jimi Huang The Malaysian Insider March 25, 2013
MARCH 25 ― In the past few weeks, there have been many luminaries who have been promoting the continued rule of Umno and Barisan Nasional (BN). Of course, all of them come from Umno.
Let’s see, we have had Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, of course. The wise man who says Malays have to save Selangor in order to save the Malays themselves. He would say that because he has never read the Federal Constitution, which talks of the special position of the Malays.
And Tun Daim Zainuddin, Datuk Ibrahim Ali, Tan Sri Syed Hamid Albar. They all owe their positions and influence to Umno and BN. Why would they say different?
These “class acts” also all have something in common: They are part of a political system that promoted and celebrated excesses in power.
Now that they are no longer at the pinnacle of power, they have turned to advising Malaysians on what choices to make.
You can’t expect any of them to say anything different except that Umno and BN are the best for the country.
Because if anyone else takes power, these chaps are finished. We will now all that they have done while in power. That is something they don’t want us to know.
We can listen to their tall tales. Of how great Umno and BN are for Malays and Malaysians. But we should know better. These chaps are doing it for their own future, not ours.
They want to continue sleeping well at night at our expense. We can’t let that happen. For once, we need to sleep well too with the choices we make for the future of our country and fellow countrymen.