Seems everyone else has an ulterior motive except BN and PDRM

As the days keep tolling away for the momentous ‘Moment of Truth’ - July 9, 2011, the powers that be are already clawing and gnarling their grip in office. What nightmare awaits us tomorrow is anyone’s guess.

The daily ration of all kinds of attacks on Bersih 2.0 is certainly the order of the day. The powers-that-be are already not only breathing down all sorts of threats on the rakyat, but the unfounded blatant arrests of some 30 citizens and the unfinished police order for the Bersih organizing team to report at Bukit Aman is again deliberately to put even more intimidating pressure on citizens.

The Home Minister is already barking up more threats and warnings of invoking the ISA on rally goers.

The Prime Minister of BN has also called for a fight. He prefers that the opposition have the “guts” to fight his army in the elections and not opt to ‘demonstrate’ in the streets.

Question is, is Najib the PM of BN or the nation? If he is the PM for the entire nation why is he calling for a fight with the opposition team? Is the General Election about fighting for power or appealing to the electorate in a democratic manner to vote one into power?

What is all these nonsense? Are we a democracy or a terrorist regime engaged in cavemen fights?

And anyway, Najib must be reminded like a school boy that he is not the PM of BN or UMNO. He is the PM of Malaysia and Malaysians are represented in Parliament by all political divides. The opposition is not a renegade nor is it illegal, please Mr. PM.

And Bersih 2.0 is not a “demonstration”. Is the PM so detached from reality that he still till this day does not know that Bersih 2.0 is the Malaysian citizens’ Walk for democracy?

In any case, it now appears that everyone has an ulterior motive as far as Bersih is concerned except BN. Almost laughable is one painting a picture that His Royal Highness our revered Agung has been insulted. And another bewildering allegation is that the rakyat are trying to revive communism. What is next? That the Malaysian rakyat are all acting for the Martians? Please, can we have some sensibility to prevail?

If everyone else has an ulterior motive except BN why are the BN led leaders plunging the panic button? Why run after even Bersih T-shirt sellers? Why call for fights with your opposition? Why run so sacred from Bersih that you want to desperately invoke the ISA? Why smear, slam and hammer away in your controlled media the respected and noted citizens?

Are you saying that everyone else - including the 1 million people who are interested in marching for democracy in Kuala Lumpur and the thousands more overseas are all wrong except the band of BN leaders and their milking barons?

At the rate BN is getting worked up into wanting to do battle with its own citizens, it appears that the nation has no other business to worry about except Bersih 2.0.

Mr PM, when will you come around and call for sensibility to prevail? As the PM of the country, if you allow chaos to prevail when you should be looking into ensuring that all measures are taken to tighten security and ensure a peaceful citizens’ show of ‘walk for democracy’, then it is not the opposition or Bersih organizers or the citizens marching who should be held accountable.

On the contrary as PM of a nation you, and you singularly are answerable to citizens and King for your failure to act as a PM of the nation and for acting as a mere leader of a political party – UMNO.

Citizens, do you agree or disagree or is this too much to ask of a Prime Minister?

- J. D. Lovrenciear is a reader and contributor to Malaysia Chronicle