They shamelessly propagate fear when canvassing for votes so much so that law and morality is, more often than not, chucked out into oblivion much like Khairy Jamaluddin's political career.
According to Reader's Digest, Malaysia has the highest population of deity believers. This may be due to the fact that we have only the Lord to pray to in order to deliver us from an unbelievably high cost of living and a bleak future due to economically incompetent leaders.
Even when religion seems like a taut cable holding us down onto the stable recesses of sanity, Barisan Nasional and its 99.99% shareholder UMNO, has no qualms using religion to instill fear for the sake of preservation of power.
"People fear what they don't understand" and I think it is this fear of BN being disintegrated, quartered and buried the day immediately after they lose the general elections is the main factor that encourages BN to continue stomping on law and ethics to win.
They fear change, as with all lengthy despotic regimes who have grown accustomed to power, and it is this fear that will prove dangerous to the people.
They will use all avenues, means and justifications to cling on, and in so doing they will show obliviousness that would make even nude swimmers in San Onofre cower in shame.
So far, they have resorted to media and legal manipulation, slander, distortion of facts and threats; which are the hallmarks of desperation. And only desperate people will drive immediately to the Astana on the night of an electoral victory to be Chief Minister.
This divide and conquer scenario has been practiced for far too long. Vague clarion calls such as "1Malaysia" which is meant to confuse the Rakyat as to its actual meaning, should automatically show to learned citizens that this current government of Malaysia has no class and dignity. The creation and dependance on citizen confusion to hold on to power underlies their incompetence.
UMNO, MCA and MIC has no one else but themselves should racial divide in this country has reached at an all time high. Pretty soon we will be hearing "Chinese Unite!" calls to save whatever scant reputation is left with MCA and SUPP. I don't even want to comment on UMNO, whose "steamroller" politics has laid waste to the 'other intent' of 1Malaysia time and again.
In the recently concluded Sarawak Elections, we can see how Islam is being defaced by Barisan Nasional billboards showing limbs being amputed, and caricatured chinamen suddenly becoming towelheads. and yet none of these have been rebuked by the state Islamic authorities. So much for the self-styled 'UMNO the Defenders of Islam'!
Like it or not, change WILL come. and sooner than later. I will be the first Malay Nostradamus to foretell you that, in the wake of BN and UMNO's collapse in the next general elections, the first person to piss on BN's grave will be those from the national front themselves.
