Generally the Chinese, Indian and Malays in Kuala Lumpur are living happily with the existence of one another here while majority having the same sentiments about daily life. It gets divided when talking about Government policy, ISA, religion and politics when it involves an UMNO supporter who would in a split second changed into a different personality.
It seems that everything that anyone points out to UMNO, it would be regarded as a racial issue;
(a) Nik Aziz can vouch this with his statement,
(b) Teoh Beng Hock's death have now been linked to racial sensitivity,
(c) the teaching of Science and Mathematics have also been linked to racial,
(d) Najib's removal of 30% bumiputra quota is also racial,
(e) ...... and God knows what else.
Pewaris and Magaran supports ISA for Malay rights and DPM agreeing to this. How would 1Malaysia to become a reality if racism is the priority of the day not with majority Malaysians but the UMNO led Government!
Very interestingly, a newspaper reported "Lone pro-ISA man makes it to palace" only for the police to come out blaring "Lone pro-ISA supporter did not hand memorandum to Palace". Whether we called it a news spin or directed by "higher authorities" someone is telling a lie.
Can we trust the Mageran representative in this?
“As long as Barisan Nasional is leading the government, the ISA will not be abolished,” Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz told reporters in Kota Kinabalu, in an immediate reaction to the rally in the capital city.
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Najib himself is now facing a struggle within to uphold Malay rights within UMNO now with a more declining support.
Datuk Hishamuddin Hussein, Malaysian Home Minister says in a TV phone interview with Al Jazeera on 01 August 2009,
“…. not as bad as we had anticipated it to be but unfortunately there were those who exploited the situation for whatever reason in which case the police has to do whatever they had to do ..”
Al-Jazeera : You said it was not as bad as you had expected it to be, why re-act with this kind of force firing tear gas, using water cannons?
“this is the reaction caused by a small group of people and we didn’t know ummmm….the extent which they will go in regards to the street riots which they had planned and we must understand that the Government has made it very clear from the beginning that we are going to repeal the law, the act that we are talking about and there was also another group of protesters that were in support of the ISA. The position of the police and the position of the Government is to ensure that nothing untoward happen with intention from certain group which want to exploit the situation especially the opposition political reason.”
Al-Jazeera : Minister, if there was also a rally in support of the ISA, Internal Security Act, was that illegal too or you allowed it to go ahead?
“No, I made it very clear that as far as those who are for and against, as the Government is reviewing the Act, (sigh) there is no necessity to actually have a gathering of this nature.”
Al-Jazeera : Mr Minister, do you think this Act is unfair as you are reviewing it, do you think it’s unfair as it does give you the authority, the chance to lock up those simply disagree with you?
“No, we are not using the Act to lock them up, I mean there are other laws which we are using to charge or detain those that are involved or what happened today. Now that is the very reason we feel that the acts need to be reviewed.”
Would UMNO Malays change and be competitive in the actual world instead of them staying in their realist world? It would take some 20 years if the change were to happen unless the 13th General Election decides otherwise.
Malaysians are now seeing Najib's administration is a much clearer picture post 100 days.
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