The Origins of UMNO's Fascism.

What is happening now?

Just a short one before shooting off to the DAP National Congress 14^th December at One City Convention Centre, Subang Jaya.

It’s easy to detect the dictatorial tendencies during the 2014 UMNO General Assembly. The UMNO led government is reviving the sedition act- which it will use mostly to silence its critics; the belligerent and bellicose talks that emanated from the assembly will be used as an expression of the will of the people, thereby giving UMNO the reason to apply draconian laws on our citizens.

The recent UMNO general assembly demonstrated once again that UMNO is a party of mobs inciting people to break order and law. There is always one who shouts the loudest above the din- his name is Najib Tun Razak and he is the leader of the mob party. The hallmarks of a mob parry are the twisting of truth, stirring of passions, demonising opponents and relying on propagandistic narrations in place of ideas that move people.

UMNO is no longer believable among the better informed masses, the urban dwellers who read alternative information. Instead UMNO  appeals to the least informed and weakest minded members of the public. Their base consist of akademi fantasia moms, the jom heboh crowd, struggling actresses who join PUTERI UMNO, Utusan Malaysia and Gila2 readers, welfare recipients, and heads-up-their-asses government rich and new rich by way of licenses and APs and gifted projects, ,Bangsar Shopping Complex loafers  and of course the government workers who can never be laid off. It’s easier to round up these people by frightening them about assault on race, religion and regent.

The promise of a smaller government that Najib made was a farce. Instead, Najib hasn’t lost any opportunity to expand the tentacles of government to strangle the lives of the people. The UMNO led government is a menace to individual freedom. By individual freedom we don’t mean the freedom to do anything as we please- that’s a disingenuous way to disarm our arguments offered by UMNO couch potatoes and feeble minded drones. By individual freedom we mean free from the coercion of others. The greatest threat to such freedom is of course a panic stricken government.

A panic stricken government acts on mob impulses. A mob as we know is an irrational, childlike, often violent and martial-spirited organism. It is always looking out for a fight. It derives its energy from the group of regimented minds. The mob is motivated by messianic goals (crush all those who threaten race, religion and Regent), the promise of instant gratification, adrenaline-pumping exhortations. What’s more adrenaline pumping that to put blame of our miseries on others?

The mob creates mayhem, chaos and destruction providing the leaders of the mob an excuse to stay in power. That was what took place during the UMNO General Assembly of 2014. UMNO and Najib want to stay in power to plunder, deceive and bully the nation.

Clearly UMNO is in a state of panic. It will not admit nor can we force UMNO to admit it. It’s no use hiding its insecurities behind swashbuckling shouts and combative words. Maybe the UMNO cannon fodders have forgotten that BN got only 47% of the popular votes which meant they lost the people’s trust. What saved them were technicalities, malrepresented constituencies and massive cheating. Increasingly UMNO can only rely on Malay votes that are fed with fears and tales of threats.

The new voters voting for the first time in the next GE, are not likely to vote UMNO. They no longer find UMNO believable. What took place during the UMNO Assembly of 2014 has fortified voters angst against UMNO. So much so, the DPM is on record saying that if there is a 2% vote swing to the opposition, BN will sent packing off from Puratajya. Let us make Muhyidin’s fear a reality by vying BN out in the next GE14.

The generation Y( why, why , why) who will vote for the first time in GE14 won’t vote UMNO. This is not only because the young is by nature adventurous and sometimes rebellious, but also because they have acquired a higher level of social consciousness. This is caused in part by the explosion of information via the internet and also the result of personal education.

The higher level of social consciousness has produced one profound realization and revelation; the younger generation is now more conscious that no one community or race in Malaysia can fight for its rights in isolation; because once we subscribe to that concept, we are forever at loggerheads and collision. Instead, there is now a realization that any one community’s fight for rights must be part of a larger universal right belonging to the individual and the citizen of this country.

We all know the inalienable right to live , have freedom and pursue happiness. Politically this is translated as every citizen’s right to be governed by a good government founded on the principles of the rule of law, dispensing policies that are fair, just and democratic. We all have the right to have a government led by the ablest Malaysians, dedicated and committed to social justice.