and forfeit the right to cari makan and try save enough to migrate? and get a one way ticket to Simpang Renggam detention centre or worse yet revoked citizenship for being unpatriotic in the eyes of those in power?
This is after all an autocratic sort of asian country. Criticism of any kind is branded as an act of a traitor against the country. An act of a thankless immigrant whos been granted the privilleage to cari makan as well as enrich "them".
Protests wont work in this country, at this point of time, in these circumstances. Things have got to be so rotten, and only then possibly will the mass rise up in numbers. Only then will the silent majority act. I'd probably be dead by then.
Come to think of it, when ruling party Ministers themselves dont have the right to present a memo to the PM, when ruling MPs cant even vote based on what is right and wrong, when civil servants are almost always the servant of such rulers and yet be little emperors in their own right, what chance has the normal men and women on the street have?
Getting people to rise now? Bloody hell. I cant even get people to voice opinions or present alternate views or criticize in academic and professional seminars ive organised or attended. A few months back, i even directly hit out at the attendees of a seminar on this "tidak-apa" attitude amongst us malaysians, and asians generally. 99% of the people are content to just listen and read and go back to their normal routine. And true enough, nobody reacted to my comments.(maybe they were pissed off by my comments)
And so, thats why i say, the discontent lot have to be content with waiting impatiently for the day when it gets rotten to the core, or die, whichever comes first, for things to possibly change for the better.
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wahhh whole post dedicated to my comment.
The problem is generally people are just content or rather not discontent enough. Probably that's why uprising and demonstrations only happen in poorer countries where the impoverished have nothing to lose.
The other thing also in Malaysia is that politics and business are closely linked. So how to bite the hand that feeds you?
No wonder everyone, even the bumis, are thinking of migrating abroad or at least hope that their kids would.
"No wonder everyone, even the bumis, are thinking of migrating...."
I think you meant..".., even the non-crony bumis, are thinking of migrating..."
:D those who have been benefiting would have no reason to migrate, why turn away the hand that feeds you! (Unless theyve made a few hundred million, and think its safter to cash out and move out before the hand shifts to another beneficiary)
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