A LESSON FOR BN: Even without Psy, they came to watch Anwar, Guan Eng

Look at the throngs of multitudes that brave rain and jams to come and lend support to DSAI (Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim).

Look at the multitudes assemble on their own steam and accord – no chartered buses; no free dinners or tah-pow meals; no disbursements of sorts – they all come in droves on their own free will and time.

They come in thousands if not tens of thousands, knowing too well too that they risk attacks by gangsters who align themselves to BN. They come without minding the fact that there are no covered chairs but the bare turf to squat on for hours with the open sky for a canopy.

Sharp contrast with BN

On that same token take a look at the assemblies of civil servants and BN supporters appearing on ‘company time’ or paid-for time, donned with the huge paraphernalia of paid-for t-shirts, caps and memorabilia of the BN party symbols.

Hear the screams of sirens and see the barrage of outriders accompanying the VVIPs to the designated and rented premises where backdrops and stage preparations are picture perfect.

That is not all.

At the DSAI events you only get a make-shift plywood stage that creeks surrounded with low-end microphones. But what the audience get is to hear every statement coated in humility.

The promise and assurances, the battle cry itself is about giving back to the people what rightly belongs to all citizens. It is about reinstating justice and a corruption eradication mission.

But at the BN stages you get clarion cries of race-based ranting; religious divisiveness; drumming fears of losing out one race to another; and alarming outcries of bankrupting the country.

It is all about demonizing the opposition quarter and annihilating DSAI who is also being made to seem larger than life by the very personalities who scream not to trust DSAI.

And on the sidelines you get politically aligned media moguls spinning even more race-based and religious-divisiveness splashed on their front-pages and screaming from their prime time news.

Shift in political awareness

It does not take a college grad or one who is of a honed-professional stature to see from these ceramahs the glaring shift and political awareness amongst this nation’s citizens.

Of course, political analysts will admonish that these seas of crowds need not necessarily translate to votes for the opposition. They forget that BN too enlists busloads of civil servants and paid-for party supporters to converge by the tens of thousands.

There is more. Even the entire galvanized machinery and money at the disposal of those in power and control is already feeling the ground-shaking tremors of the voters’ sentiments.

All the ‘relief’ money and ‘goodie bags’ or ‘you help me, I help you’ gestures and promising pleas are not able to fool the rakyat’s eye of reckoning.

The Survivor & his Tormentor

Meanwhile the former PM Tun Dr Mahathir is still playing his worn record of disrepute screeching race supremacy melodies. How sad!

When ex-police chiefs and ex-military captains step forward and proclaim that they are for DSAI and the opposition coalition, then there must be even more reason to know and believe that the Malaysians are no fools to be continued to be muzzled, caged, blinkered and ploughed like a buffalo.

The era of the yoke of control, abuse and tyranny is obviously fading. The season of Mahathrism is over. In contrast we see the rise of DSAI as a proven leader able to harness the coalition despite their divergent political beliefs, and creating a formidable force that the rakyat can enlist with.

Looking back too, any Ahmad, Ah Beng or Samy will tell you that DSAI is indeed the Renaissance man. He survived the Sodomy episodes; he survived the lethal beatings in prison; he survived the many slandering and sex-traps that came raining like a hurricane, episode after episode.

But this one man survived. Therein lies the will of the people. Therein rests the spirit of the coalition. Therein lies the truth that BN wants to rid this one man at all costs. After all didn’t they say it out loud and in the open – “over our dead bodies and crushed bones”?

Hidup Malaysia!

Today DSAI is the icon of the people’s struggle to take back what rightfully belongs to them, King and country.

Today DSAI is also the beacon of hope for all those who are still helplessly trapped on the other side of the fence because of employment, service, and of course the notorious BN-fear and threats of ‘we are watching you’.

Long live Malaysia. Long live all Malaysians. Just as Mahathir butchered the old UMNO and created his own UMNO-baru, Malaysians can now bag that leadership to correct the political landscape of this nation, giving every politician a last window opportunity to serve with integrity or pay heavily the price for misdeeds.

Viva Malaysia. Thank you DSAI. The future is here and now.

MAILBAG