UNUSUAL ANALYSIS ON THE REAL AND UNKNOWN FACTORS AND REASONS FOR THE OUTCOME OF THE GENERAL ELECTION, 2018 – PART II.
Even those institutions and their supporters did not
realize this and they can never ever realize it, even when there have been acts
by some individuals to belittle the Raja-Raja and Islam themselves, with so few
of them having forced to pay for their misdeeds by the courts.
Unfortunately,
if the Pakatan government does not realize this and knows how to solve the
problem I have posed, they too would face similar backlash in the five years
they are in power and the worst effects will be seen in the next Fifteenth
General Election that is due in 2021 or earlier.
Not only
that most of the anti-social behaviors of the average Malaysians including road
rage and inconsiderate and illegal parking and the littering in public places
and not properly using public facilities and not conducting oneselves with
others, can be attributed to what RTM and the other televisions stations had
been doing all this while.
Unfortunately,
all there were expressed more dramatically in the political and
pseudo-political discourses that one sees in the social media and other private
and public platforms, including street protests organized by the loose Bersih
group.
And this
is what most, if not all Malaysians saw as the ultimate form of anger that many
Malaysians then had, which grew out of them through the contribution and
encouragement of the television stations, with their executives and producers
realizing it, even if they read this in this analysis.
4. KHAIRY JAMALUDDIN AND PEMUDA UMNO LEAVING THE STREETS BARE FOR
BERSIH TO TAKE OVER FOR AMERICAN-STYLE STREET THEATER AND ENTERTAINMENT.
The Bersih protests that had been
held over the last few years before the
last general election happened
when the streets that Pemuda Umno
had wrest control were left by
them.
This happened when the new Ketua
Pemuda or Youth Chief,
Khairy Jamaluddin who wanted to put a new face for the
youth section of Umno, to be more liberal and not to take issues to the
streets.
Little did he realize that the
could spell the end of Pemuda Umno,
as we knew it, and the ‘angry young men’ who had passion
for his their ideals, too, became a thing of the past.
Bersih appeared, and soon enough,
those who had backed
Pemuda Umno, too, started to support Bersih and whatever
they stood for, even when they are vague and oftentimes, raised irrelevant
issues, with their copycat
slogans that had been spouted by other groups
in America
Yet,
Pemuda Umno did not do anything to arrest the problem
they had created for themselves
to stop such display of crass ‘street
theater’ by Bersih and their
supporters.
5. HOW THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA AND ROYAL MALAYSIAN POLICE (PDRM)
ACTUALLY HELPED BY BEING THEIR ‘PROMOTERS’!
Ironically, it was the mainstream
media and also PDRM that had
indirectly (or directly) helped
to promote Bersih and the protests they
were organizing by giving them
wide coverage.
This
was done by purpose or not, but the truth the then
Inspector-General of Police (IGP)
and the other senior officers of Bukit Aman had gone out of their way to ensure
that the protests were
given wide publicity, by
pretending they were against them!
6 REPEALING
THE ACTS ON THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS AND OF ASSEMBLY, AND FINALLY THE
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY ACT (ISA).
The act of repealing the laws against illegal assembly
and also the publications Acts, had in fact also encouraged some Malaysians to
take advantage of the freedoms that had been given to them to the extent that
the then government could not envisage the disadvantage that they had given to
themselves.
This had
empowered those who were bent on creating mischief and to create more
unnecessary theater to become more crass, the end results of which promote
‘Leftist’ sentiments amongst those who now knew they would not be severely
punished, as it was seen as a sign of maturity many absent-mindedly thought,
and it was something that they were proud of, as such sentiments too had been
cultivated and encouraged by the television stations and media in many ways,
all of which are unknown to them.
In other
words, RTM and the private television stations and mainstream media, including
those newspapers which were said and charged for being too biased for the BN
government then, were in fact, supporting the opposition then, and who caused
BN to lose big in GE15 that their own executives were not aware of.
The last
straw was the repealing of the International Security Act or ISA, which created
some individuals who sprung at many public forums to promote their own versions
of things including the expression of views that were once considered to be
unheard of.
American-style
ambush journalism, too, helped their cause in many ways, and most of it can be
blamed on the newspaper editors who encouraged the sharing of views from such
people.
7. 1MDB AND OTHER DISTRACTING ISSUES AND NOT REAL ISSUES THAT
CAUSED UMNO AND BN TO FALL.
1MDB is the poor man’s WMD.
The
major issues that some political parties and NGOs and other
groups aligned to the Left, had
been harping, were all minor ones that
could have been swiped off if
those acts and other institutions of the then
government and mass media,
especially Utusan and RTM and the other
television stations had not been
changed.
These issues could be easily
stopped even before they could
become issues of significance for even the worst critics
of the government to further dwell on, in ceramahs or other public forums that
could never have been allowed to happen in the first place, including in the
social media and internet.
But
they had allowed the regular speakers in ceramahs and
Facebook and social media outlets
something that they could further add,
for pure entertainment, and to
belittle the status quo of Umno and BN
and the federal and state
government then and their leaders, who only
managed to take things for
granted until the issues attained some measure
of scandals and controversies
that needed to be solved in order to ‘save
the country’.
And instead of charging any
country with WMD that the
country did not have any means of attaining it, the 1MDB
charge would be sufficient to cause the collapse of any government. 1MDB
therefore is the poor man’s WMD.
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