BN nearing the End?

This post can also be titled "The making of a two-party system?".. As far as Malaysian history is concerned, never before a ruling party other than Barisan Nasional has ever ruled the government of Malaysia. The alliance of UMNO, MCA and MIC has been a successful working formula since the independence day. The failure of the opposition to form an alliance due to different ideologies has make it a non-threat to the ruling parties and therefore BN always have garnered a 2/3 majority. It is not until the recent election whereby the opposition have denied the BN a 2/3 majority. The oppositions consists of PAS, PKR and DAP have decided to work together and therefore creates a formidable force against BN. Their cooperations however is hinged upon one dominant person - Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim. This alliance is still intact until today due to this one person who is holding the pact together. Remove this person, and the opposition will crumble. BN knows this and therefore you can see their strategy from the very beginning is to attack Anwar Ibrahim.

Whether this strategy will work or not, we will see in the next election in the near future. However, one good thing that came out of this is the possibility of an alternative ruling party besides BN to the citizen of Malaysia, whereby, we as the rakyat of Malaysia can choose. If the ruling party does not perform or corrupted, we can change it through the election and therefore ends a monopoly of one single political party. This perspective have never been available before due to the weak opposition pact before this. With or without Anwar Ibrahim, the opposition must be a credible force and therefore will make BN on their toe and perform at best for the nation. They should not be sitting comfortable because come the next election, they will probably loose power. This will make any ruling party after this to perform and be accountable to their action. It is a good thing for Malaysia to have. It is democracy at its best.

Najib vs BERSIH 2.0

One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it. -Unknown (quoted from Kung-Fu Panda)

This quote is taken from the movie Kung-fu Panda. In that movie, the grandmaster had a vision that his greatest enemy will escape from the prison. His disciple knowing from this immediately send someone to that prison to alert the guard and to tell them to double-up the security. However, by sending someone there, he inadvertently causes the prison break of that enemy. If he were not asked to come there, the enemy would never escape as envision by the grandmaster. Quite ironic, isn't it.

This is actually similar to where Najib is doing against the BERSIH rally. He tries everything in his power to stop this rally but inadvertently he has spurred the interest of people to participate in this rally. The crackdown on BERSIH supporter can only drew more sympathy to their cause. The media hype about this BERSIH rally is really dumbfounded. You can see it in TV, you can see it in the newspaper. Everyone knows it is going to be held in 9th July. The BERSIH organiser got free advertisement and promotion, courtesy from the government. Plus now, there is an added bonus, they got a stadium now, again courtesy from the prime minister and Yang Dipertuan Agong. The harder you try to block it, the more the real it become.

From the way I see it, BERSIH only represent the vocal minority.. But it seems that they like to think that they represent the majority voice of the rakyat. I for one, don't care at all about this rally thing, I personally think that we have a good election system compared to some of our neighbours and some parts of the world. They do have some faults, but at least there is an improvement. At least, democracy is practiced here. In the last election, the opposition managed to get five states, and still they say the election system is corrupted? Samy Vellu lost.. Shahrizat lost.. Anwar Ibrahim won... Nurul Izzah won.... this is big tycoons here.. and yet you say the election system is corrupted? If it truely is, I don't think Anwar can even win in Permatang Pauh.

So Najib.. just give this BERSIH their damn stadium to shout all they want.. In the general election, the silent majority will also have a say.. and we will say it silently through our votes....Not by shouting in a stadium.. PEACE !!