Can hard-core corruption, the Altantuya murder & collapsing buildings be mere PERCEPTION?

The minority-polled BN-led government head, Honorable Prime Minister Najib is in need of some serious coaching on the meaning of ‘perception’. Unfortunately, all the money spent on his foreign consulting outfit, APCO, hasonly landed him with yet another wrong ‘perception’ of the 51% of Malaysian's perception.

The fact that he lambasted Malaysians in Indonesia for their flawed perception that foreign nationals voted in the nation’s GE-13 deserves a free lesson.

To begin with, ‘perception’ cannot be deemed as ‘deception’. On the contrary, perception is all about discernment, insight and wisdom.

Gestalt psychology informs that perception results from human ability or inclination or ordained nature to identify patterns. It is influenced by expectations, needs, unconscious ideas, values and conflicts.

So Honorable Prime Minister of minority votes-polled government, if your BN has lost the on-line media “war” – as you have claimed, it is not because the majority 51% of voters have fallen victim to deception from the opposition PR faction. They the discerning rakyat had made an assessment of the many untruths, un-forthcoming answers and unending attacks on the rakyat.

The rakyat's analysis

They the 51% of the voting population had needs and expectations that were ignored despite repeated pleas to your office. The call for dialogue on free and fair elections is just one such example. The post-GE 13 concerns over highly questionable realities was another.

The need to answer and find the many missing puzzles to the world-unprecedented murder of the Mongolian national is another.

The cases of corruption; the lack of transparency and questionable accountability – all of these and many more examples can also be found on the blog of Zorro-unmasked (June 4, 2013 postings).

The fact that there is a revealing RCI on ICs for foreign nationals by the thousands in Sabah – is that not true?

The 218 custodial deaths since 2000, are these fiction?

What about the role of MACC in so far as the deaths of Teoh Hock Beng and Ahmad Sarbani Mohamed go? Have you seen to speedy justice?

What about the Ministry of Defence paying one sole Malaysian RM500 million – all for securing the purchase of a controversial submarine? And why is a sole individual entrusted with top security purchases that have far reaching implications to national security, King and country?

What about the US$283 billion reported by The Guardian (UK) to have been transferred out of Malaysia to tax havens from 1970 – 2010?

The toll operators have collected RM20 billion and the licensing continues with your political party led government’s protection does it not?

What about past sins like:

The BMF Financial scandal that punctured a RM3.2 billion hole in the rakyat’s wealth of nation.

Maminco scandal to the tune of RM1.6 billion and still no answers.

The forex losses’ scandal of RM 30 billion; the Perwaja Steel scandal of RM 2.56 billion; Bank Islam losses and bailouts at a cost of RM 700 million.

PKFZ scandal winds down despite a RM 12 billion scandal sticking with it; The Sime Darby losses of RM 964 million.

Building a stadium in Terengganu for a tune of RM 292 million and it collapses but who pays for its all?

Auditor's report also a perception?

In recent times we were laughing at the moo-story or better remembered as ‘Cowgate Malaysia’ costing us a scandalous RM 250 million; and the two-times bailout of our national carrier costing RM 7.9 billion.

And how about the string of strange prices for common things – unless of course if you say the Auditor General is also lying or susceptible to your version of perception, i.e. deception:

>  Mindef paying RM1,146 for a Technical pen that is priced in the marketplace at RM160.

>  Buying a car-jack of RM50 for RM1,664 by the Youth and sports Ministry.

>  Paying RM 2.5 million to pensioners who are all well dead and go

> 150 kg of sugar cost the MARA Training Centre a whooping RM 25,500.

> RM 270 million for advertising by the Tourism Ministry.

> Night binoculars valued at RM1,940 but costing the Marine authorities RM 56,350.

> TNB spending RM 770,000 to supply power to a single house.

There is more in the Zorro-unmasked list of grievous sins by your leadership. You may want to re-vist the blog and not dismiss it as opposition propaganda too.

Stop blaming the rakyat - look at yourself & your colleagues

Now, when the rakyat get nothing but pin drop silence and absolute disregard to all these concerns that the rakyat are well informed of, where would you expect their ‘perception’ to anchor?

Please stop belittling the discernment, insight and wisdom of the 51% of the rakyat – if not all 60% who in all likelihood voted for the opposition. Yes, that’s the perception. But you cannot blame the rakyat. Take a deep long and hard look within your party barracks.

Do not forget that perception is influenced by expectations, needs, values and conflicts. So you did not lose the on-line war. You had to pay the right price in this new age transformation tide for change. And please do not come crying home that the media distorted your message.

Perhaps the 22nd of June 2013 should nail the coffin and send home the true meaning of perception. That again is the general perception of the rakyat – not a deception of the opposition My Honorable Prime Minister.

MAILBAG