So was it a Chinese Tsunami?

 

If it wasn’t a Chinese Tsunami that brought PR to almost victory, could we ask the question differently? Who saved BN from the jaws of defeat? It certainly wasn’t the Chinese was it?

Saravanan Forever 

Before the elections, the Chinese were going rabid about change. It was clear in the run up to the election; Pakatan supporters, dominated by Chinese were in an uncompromising mood. Their drive for “Ubah … Ini Kalilah” was beyond reasons. One can’t talk to them with justified reasons. They were simply not listening. They didn’t want to listen. They had made up their minds.

They were unmoved no matter how much one exposed flaws, shortcomings and wrongdoings of Pakatan. If PR had actually won the GE, you could be very sure the Chinese will be first in line to claim the credit for dethroning BN. But alas PR did not win and so the Chinese are now cowardly hiding behind a shield of a so called ‘Malaysian Tsunami’. Baling batu sembunyi tangan?

So if it wasn’t a Chinese Tsunami that brought PR to almost victory, could we ask the question differently? Who saved BN from the jaws of defeat? It certainly wasn’t the Chinese was it?

So the Chinese are upset that the elections were not fair. Really, the first elections in the history of Malaysian General Elections that was not fair? Chinese traditionally have been leveraging their interests between MCA and DAP since the 1960’s. On one hand they arm the DAP to make the noise and on the other hand they receive the goodies from the MCA. It was a perfect balance for their trade and political interests. Except that MCA then used to win unfairly in the elections too by the same methods employed by BN as they do now. The Chinese didn’t complain then, so why now? By the way, the Chinese ignored the fact that the recent DAP’s AGM elections were tainted by a lot of claims of cheating. Many delegates were not invited so that certain leaders could be elected. I guess it is selective persecution by the Chinese community. To date there are no calls by them for a re-election, no black facebooks, and no upside down flags flown.

So they now claim it was urban versus rural. Let’s hear a comment made by someone. “In traditional Malay areas, BN did extremely well and PKR got votes mainly from PAS and PKR party members”. It comes from an important ally within PR, none other than PSM sec general Arutchelvan. So there you have it. The urban areas were won massively because of the effect of almost 90% Chinese swing towards PR compounded with at best Malay votes from traditional PAS and PKR members.

So was there cheating involved that attributed to PR losing the Semenyih and Kota Damansara seats? There is deafening silence here. In these seats the true PR colours is there for all to see. Cheating, bullying, racism, greed all on poor old PSM, their supposed ally. With friends like these, who need enemies?

What was so entertaining was to see Anwar come out at 5pm or so on Election Day with a statement that PR had already won. At 5pm? Perhaps Datuk Ambiga will need to do an enquiry on this, which is of course if she is non partisan. So many facebook photos of poor Bangla boys at supposed polling booths. Were they on a suicide mission in the presence of an 83% voting turnout? Did anyone ask if these photos or video clips had any authencity as they had questioned the Anwar, Mustapha Ali photos? Then there was this supposed black out that shook the country with alarm. I experience blackouts at least once a fortnight in my area. It affects my business as well as my convenience. I certainly could share some of that warm nationwide concern of this isolated black out.

So it’s unfair that PR got the popular vote and still lost. Wait a minute, was this because UMNO had craftily done delineation exercises carving out the constituencies to favour the rural kampongs at the expense of the urban cities and was it not under Anwar Ibrahim’s watch? Come to think of it Anwar went through almost 3 GEs without a whisper of a complaint of any cheating or irregularities then. Now that PR has gained 53% of the popular vote against 46% for BN in Semenanjung Malaysia and yet BN cheated? How is it so? Why couldn’t they have cheated on the popular vote too?

Today it is very clear that PR is nothing but a Chinese dominated coalition party supplemented with traditional Malay supporters of PAS and PKR. Anwar Ibrahim could be considered as a Chinese leader. In fact Lim Kit Siang had to step down and offered the Opposition Leader title to Anwar. Even during the election campaign period it was so obvious that the rallies were held in traditional Chinese majority areas and attended by majority Chinese. It did not at all reflect the true demographic percentage of Malaysians. It is about time the Chinese own up to their loyalties and not chicken out and hide under an absurd ‘Malaysian Tsunami’ coined term.