Bigots, cronies, tyrants and thugs

Religious bigots and feudalists, Umno and its business cronies, Malay supremacist and their secret spies and Trojan horses are all coming together.

COMMENT

Umno is marshalling all the reactionary forces in this country to put down the majority.

Religious bigots represented by the likes of Hasan Alis, Zulkifli Nordins and the racial bigots represented by the Ibrahim Alis.

Their running dogs are now resorting to (i) attacks on the person, and (ii) patronising comments.

A specter is indeed haunting our country — the specter of Malaysians reclaiming lost rights.

All the powers of the corrupt government have entered into an unholy alliance to exorcise this specter.

Religious bigots and feudalists, Umno and its business cronies, Malay supremacist and their secret spies and Trojan horses are all coming together.

The specter that is coming back is the specter of Dr Mahathir Mohamad and his ilk. It’s bulldozing over us.

Post-independence, this country was tugging along on the road of democracy and was doing fine.

It was a slow process as Malaysians underwent a period of growing pains.

Frankly, we have just begun to learn the dynamics of democracy. Suffrage means people acquire rights to self-determination.

Participatory democracy meant, they can define their being and determine their future instead of having their lives run by dictates and central command of a society structured on feudalism – a paramount master and his cabal at the top, enslaving the rest.

Malays are beginning to free themselves from being defined and determined by their feudal masters.

Power corrupts
This is no longer the age of command society where your wish becomes a command to me. Everything must be decided to a set of rules.

We are moving away from a central command society to a modern one embracing democracy.

We could have matured into a better society faster save for the route being suddenly and rudely interrupted by the emergence of Mahathir.

From then onwards, it wasn’t tugging along but ‘thug-ging’ along. The thugs and the brown-shirts have taken over.

At this stage, it was the general demand for quick and determined government action that became the dominating element.

The democratic process is slow in allowing for such desired results.

Then, it is the man or the party who seems strong and resolute enough to get things done in a jiffy who exercises the greatest appeal.

Mahathir furnished society with the qualities it demanded. Mahathir began with good intentions for he was admittedly a good man.

But power corrupts and as the saying goes; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The writer is a former Umno state assemblyman and is now a DAP man. He is a FMT columnist.