Voiceless Majority, Vociferous minority    

If we allow our relationships to be desecrated by differences not of our own creation, our silence is a tacit support that will allow politicians, their supporters, religious groups and crass individuals to sow the seed of hatred and division.  The rejection of such parties could be supported by the news and print media who don’t need to provide them a spotlight or platform to spew their volatile and combustible neurotic views. If allowed to continue, the inevitable hostility and belligerent disposition that are fermented will eventually take lives that could have been avoided. Our respective cultures have specifically encouraged us to be people of dignity as such we are honor bound to help form and create an equitable and just society for all sundry.

Our politicians have bred and promoted fear, mistrust, racist’s agendas and religious supremacy – why vote them? We are called by our respective faiths, our families and culture to eradicate the  apparently never ending cycles of suspicion, poverty, inequality, indifference, corruption, and unnecessary deaths which seem to increase by the day.

Do we need to be in competition with our brother and sister Malay, Chinese, Indian or other ethnic groups, should we not employ dignified collaboration with the highest common principals of justice, acceptance, respect and appreciation of each person? Is this a task of such complex understanding and grievous difficulty?  Can we not speak with our hearts in a transparent and kind manner? If the majority chose to communicate behind the closed doors of our heart  on the supposition of righteous confidence about injustice and failings only in shadow and security of comfort ,we are in effect only fuelling the embers of discord and disharmony. The fact is that whiners have never been winners.

The divinity and humanity of our respective faiths which call us to address each other with humility which will surely bind us to a common trust that we speak or debate for the betterment without ill intention towards the each other. We are not of such weak constitution, disposition or spirit that negative forces can breach the good that we hold in trust.  Nothing conceived on the misrepresentation of religion, or the antiquated positions of racial supremacy and unmitigated corruption should ever drive us apart.

Each politician or leader is elected on the premise that he/she will not succumb to negative stereotypes of race, religion or culture.  An individual who represents the citizens and the common good of all must defend everyone equally.

Our ideals are born from our respective faiths and culture. If we abandon the hope of our founders to a country divided by race and religion, the cheap discount slogan of the ‘ One Malaysia’  chow kit marketing ploy or a sales pitch is well deserved.  Are we dedicated to the cause of ‘ oneness’ beyond the slogans or the banter of politics. Our freedom should be as the winds that sing across our country indivisible, we must be one as the winds are one.

We all share common cradle of aspirations and dreams as follows:

-         To enjoy the fruits of peace and security.

-         To get the highest possible education

-         To love our families in excess of our lives

-         To serve our respective communities

This is the shared hope that resides in each of us.

The nation faces an implacable enemy within the fortress of our defence; it is an enemy that is far worse than the insurgency, the colonial or Japanese occupation.  Each day there is evidence that the enemy is within our own Fathers, Mother’s sons and daughters who fall prey to the radical negatives of the worst in race and religion.   The adversities we face are threatening to break us in mind, body and soul, compartmentalising and separating us into tiny microscopic little fragments of broken glass communities that would be virtually irreparable - Do we want this ?

We do not seem to have the collective strength to fight and reject the racial policies that differentiate and divide us. There is an abject and dismissal effort to stem corruption and hold to account whoever is responsible. The talibanization  of religion has reached toxic levels that border either on stupidity, absurdity or malignity .  Our laws are written and available but the enforcement is cosmetic or selective. Civil liberties are hibernating on the longest and harshest of winters. We have exhausted tears shed for the growing number of children and women brutalized and killed by an increasing network of violence. Some of  our citizens live on the most ill conceived and outdated premise that the females are second class citizens to be subjugated. The shelf life of such ideas are used past their expiry date, especially by religious groups. It is fashionable as it appears to prosecute and cane women on the smallest conceivable misdemeanours while the men who commit the same offences, if they are to be categorized as such, would walk away with highest possible punishment being a slap on the wrist. This violation and violence  is an unprecedented criminality and abuse that is supported  and promoted at the highest levels of governance.  Only a comprehensive decomposition of decency, moronic redundancy and spineless governance , unsurprisingly  accounts and targets holders of the highest instrument of office as abusers,  supporters, negative exponents and executants on  the dignity of women.  Otherwise they would have aggressively retracted laws or restrictions against females and instituted positive legislation to empower women.  Nevertheless the conduct of shame is incontestable and shared when one knows the incendiary mouth which advocates the debasement of females is equal in guilt as the one that keeps silent.  

The voice of a few and the silence of many have sapped our strength. Should we face the inevitable reality and accept that we are unable to meet the measure and cannot see beyond the height of a tree to allow our spirits to soar.

How should we meet the many challenges and dark clouds that threaten to overwhelm and destroy us?  It is known that there never will be comfort in conflict. We must accept the simple evident fact that some conflicts though tragic are unavoidable paths of opportunistic renewal and restoration.   Brave individuals all over the world have chosen various paths and submitted  to the visible price of sacrifice, being scarred for life, suffering financial loss,  surrendering comforts, deprivation of personal freedom on the ideals of a simple prize –the advancement of a just society. The only sacrifice requested of Malaysians is that each of us will be a voice for change.

Our politics are hopelessly strangled by outdated ideas, buffoonery, bigots, cheats of every shade and colour, arrogant chameleons who need no disguise or camouflage, aging politicians who outperform porn stars, politicians who act like 800 pound gorillas, terrorist  who masquerade as respectable politicians or lecturers in advocating racial and religious supremacy.  Shame is no longer consigned to the dungeons of contempt and disrespect. The persons who ought to be shamed by the despicable conduct are basking and thriving on their sordid and soiled reputations. We are truly a land of opportunity for all manner of nincompoops, criminals, twits, and despots- It is exasperating.       

The promise of the various holy books and the wisdom of ages that we are all equal and free and entrusted to dignify this gift by improving and passing it on to the future is wishful thinking. The separate yet equal is a tried and tested philosophy that has failed consistently and we are applying it. As a result, those who lack the resolve or strength to fight , end up migrating. We have stopped looking for the questioning spirit that define our greatness. We have stopped believing that greatness lies in simplicity.  It seems a distant memory when we forget that we are all here by ancestries  through various acts of providence,  some suffered in plantations, some broke their bodies on roads and railways we travel, there were dulang washers in the tin mines,  those who  toiled in hard fields to reap grain or  tasted salt on fishing vessels for merge profits, the ones who died in defence of the land.  It was this simplicity and ordinary labour of many unknown men and women from various shades of creed, colour and cultural diversity of the collective

population that carried us to our freedom.   Yet some of the best among us are labelled ‘ Pendatangs’ .   One will never find such a label used or accepted in  America, Canada, Australia or Indonesia.  We dishonour the memory of our ancestors with acceptance by means of silence on the advocacy of  such uncouth and crude attacks . The early success of our country was founded on our forefather and mothers who worked for a better Malaysia submitting the individual differences of culture, race, religion, status and wealth to a greater good. The fact of how far we have regressed is evident in how we carve for the relationships of the past.

We must calibrate our thoughts to wiping the slate clean and renewing ourselves. We still have our lives and our spirit.  We must stop protecting the immoral investment and interest of a few. Everywhere around us we find the injury inflicted on just about every segment of society by the decadence of governance and promotion of unjust and unequal laws. We have to be bold and set the foundation right again. The bridge of relationships can be secured on some of the following:

·       We must illuminate lives with knowledge and spirituality,

·       Transform schools, colleges and universities into temples of learning and wisdom for the mind that hungers or the hand that thirst to mould clay, carve wood or paint on canvas,

·       The trees need to hear the song of the forest,

·       The  clear brooks and streams need to  feed the seas

·       The pure winds from clean skies to caress our face

·       The compassion to bind  and offer each citizen  health care benefits in excess of the norms,

·       To harness the creativity and industry of our citizens on the premise of dignified wages

·       To fill our homes with the celebration of music and dance to inspire and invoke in the souls of children and families -godliness and character,

·       We must pave the pathway of freedom and civil liberties by securing the highest attainable dignified standard for the dispensation of justice.

·       We build the security apparatus that accords layers of protection.

None of what I have expressed will be fulfilled. Each citizen must hold that the governance of our country cannot be at the expense of the common or disadvantaged to the benefit of the favoured, prosperous or titled. There should be an indivisible and immeasurable good that cuts across all invisible borders and boundaries for no other purpose than the advancement of all citizens.

Dismantle, replace or upgrade the qualification of candidates whom we elect and secure an electoral system that fearless in its pursuit is known for its impartial conduct.  Hold all officers  of public office of any rank to the sword of account.

We need to think beyond being Barisan, Pakatan or any other shade of political loyalty.

The majority of our politicians are parasites, plain imbeciles, perverts or at best individuals with twisted warped pervasive logic or ones who prostitute themselves on an institutional level with inflammatory slime.  The good ones, that unfortunately can be counted by the digits of our hands and feet are either silenced or prosecuted.   Those who are elected and have the propensity to dishonour the dignity and responsibility of the office entrusted to by religious or racial attacks must be barred for life. It is not difficult from a population of thirty million to  secure 222 parliamentarians and 576 state assembly representative who are   morally upright, intelligent and independent and as such will hear the voice of the people and serve the citizen. The fact as it is unfolding is that political parties will always be ineffective and place an ideology above the care of the citizen. The case in point here is the Selangor government’s handling of the water crisis and bible issues.  The Kelantan state Governments pursuit of Hudud.   The trust between people and a government can be restored by a bold, fearless, adventurous and imaginative approach.    

There are old ideals, derived from the wisdom of ages and convictions won not on the power of politics but by the strength of each individual through the advocacy of love, honour, friendship, freedom, loyalty, trust, compassion, simplicity, humility, kindness, hard work, which emanated from our respective families. These values that bind us can still light a path in the darkness that envelopes our beloved country.

We are guardians of these values that have been purchased by sacrifice on the altar of decency by our ancestor’s lives under various circumstances of difficulty. We must show that this country has no tolerance and acceptance for segregation by race, creed, or gender or any other ill-conceived means that will imposes negative relationship of any sort of differences. 

We must fight on every conceivable front in a non-violent and peaceful manner against those who think our humility is weakness. Our battles must be rooted on justice and mercy, if one chooses deceit, power  division, corruption, terror, or abuse of innocence, let them meet unwavering justice, if the perpetrators of injustices  chooses our hand of friendship to rewrite the dark chapters of our history, relinquishing power in submission to service of restoring   the foundations that will assist in dissolving the hatred and division – they must be accorded mercy with dignity. We must show that we are not brutes or thugs ruled by vengeance, power or force, the eloquence of our actions reside in the constructive endeavours of love as opposed to  hatred. The simple fact is our beloved country needs to heal from the rifts.

There is the simple inescapable destiny that is common in history, tyranny and evil cannot outlast or break the spirit of common good that is our inheritance. Our past and our ancestors whisper to our conscience to nurture our liberty as we would nurture our children in sacrifice. We must never be known as people who through the darkness of adversity, the deprivation of freedom behind cold prison bars, the beatings endured on marches, the cuffs that bound hands in forced supplication of prayer, the enforced silence - refused to be a voice for the voiceless, or chose to be blind to such ailments of evil in our midst. Our fears, uncertainty, and death must be banished, yes various painful defeats will visit our lives, yet our spirit must not retreat, submission or surrender in the journey or struggle for good is not an option. With the eye of our soul fixed on a cause in excess of our strength that offers the opportunity and potential to molds us as better individuals, we have the power to shape our own destiny than to accept the one set before us or fed to us on a false stockade of hopes that have been breached and seared into our memory.

The majority have been a voiceless minority while the minority have been a vociferous majority. We must ask ourselves what we are without real freedom. The cries of the disposed, the disadvantaged, the marginalised, the helpless, the ones locked in prison on account of their fight for justice,  the young and really small ones who needlessly die for lack of inadequate security, all live and die in vain.   It’s our choice, we are either a voice for change or remain as we are, mired in unforgivable uncertainty and an unfathomable silence that would be deafening.