After that big demo, in the spirit of Demo-KERASi, I show you both sides of the coin on why Malaysians prefer to demo instead of working on their farms:
1) The anti-demo argument - mine here is too shallow - by someone intellectually superior - A.Kadir Jasin, former big cheese of NST group.
2) The pro-demo argument, by another intellectually-superior person, the former Bar Council president (from Fudzail's blog) - Yeo Yang Poh.
The anti-demo crowd (you can trawl cyberspace for arguments by others) seem to say that 'We are the Silent Majority, and we don't like these demos because it caused havoc to the country and our family outings, and make businessmen lose money.'
The pro-demo crowd is hitting at the government and its injustices including the ISA. Like 'I don't care about short term inconveniences such as traffic jams, I am fighting for the Future of the country and our children'.
In Singapore
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You know what?
The Singgies can't say the word "demo" without the secret police listening in, so they did it another way.
When there was a huge $$$ scandal involving the biggest charity in Singapore, National Kidney Foundation (NKF) - see wiki details - Singaporeans did not go to the streets to bring down the CEO and shame the government.
They did what civilised people with no balls did. They went to cyberspace and signed a petition!
There is this website called PetitionOnline.com.
43,000-plus Singaporeans signed that NKF thing - each has to put his name, email address and comments. An amazing number in a country like Temasek where people usually don't have balls to stand up against the government, and are proud to say they ain't got no balls but they got lots of cash and the latest Beemer.
This is just to show you that there is another way out to 'shame' the government (any government), if you feel they did wrong, that is.
Just like chedet.cc shamed the Malaysian government with his poll on PPSMI - the teaching of math and science in English - this is another way out perhaps to let off anger. A safe way for everyone. The secret police can't jolly well knock on 43,000 doors (Though in Singapore, errrr, maybe they could.....)
Of course, as I said before, the Malaysian opposition guys want to shout Reformasi on the streets and look like Saladins about to conquer Jerusalem. They don't want to be pussies shouting in stadiums or signing in cyberspace.
They want to appear in CNN, BBC and AlJazeera, showing KL in smoke, mayhem and shit.
Ummi tibai Anwar dua beranak sekali gus
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saya sedang mulakan kempen: Saya dikhianati Anwar
tujuanny abagi menangkis saman yang ditujukan kepada Utusan Melayu dan Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin
kalau kita semua kata kita dikhianati sudah tentu saman beliau akan dibuang kes kerana ianya bukan fitnah lagi, ianya adalah sentimen rakyat
untuk lebih lanjut dan untuk mengambil logo sila ke
http://kitaanakmelayu.blogspot.com/2009/08/aku-dikhianati-anwar.html
Bro Reme,
When i read you no 1) (second para), i had the impression that The Scribe had called your argument shallow. Using words 'by someone intellectually superior' gives indication that you're having a spite of sort... :-)
Anon,
dei! don't trouble Trouble, until Trouble troubles u.
The Scribe doesn't know me and vice versa, so there is no 'spite' to talk about. his arguments on this issue ARE much better than mine.
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