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Posted: 10 May 2013 12:05 PM PDT

Dear Malaysians,

We are calling you to join us in Healing Malaysia.

Since 2008, for 5 years our country has been split into extreme partisan blocs where we throw hurtful words at each other. This has wounded many hearts and the vibrancy of our peaceful society, thus we need to heal ourselves.

Let us focus our energy on putting back love, respect, and dignity in this country. To achieve this, we need your help. To heal our country, we need to work hand in hand, heart in heart.

We have to change from within. We have to admit our mistakes. Many of us have erred and we must admit it. We first must forgive ourselves and then we must also forgive others. This is the time to reflect and instead of looking at what others should do, look at what we can do without expecting others to change at all. We take the first step regardless.

Everyone starts with themselves.

What is Healing Malaysia?

The Healing campaign starts now with the groundwork until we reach Hari Merdeka. We must stop resending, sharing, reposting any hate mails, any racist remarks.

We must be strong and find the strength to ignore them. We may think we are helping by posting and sharing but in actual fact we become the very agent for those people who are spreading hate and hurtful words. By ignoring them, we have already won.

It takes some time for people to embrace the outcome of the 13th General Election, let us give ourselves room for this. This campaign period is approaching us and we need time to plan the impact we intend to achieve when the time arrives.

Utusan Malaysia is Now Utusan Karut

Posted: 10 May 2013 12:01 PM PDT

Utusan Malaysia has done it again. Their justification of BN's terrible performance was racial and totally divisive which does not help the nation building process at all after GE13. By singling out a race of people who decided to choose Pakatan Rakyat(PR) instead of the incumbent UMNO/BN government they have portrayed the Chinese Malaysians as ungrateful and should be dealt with in the near future.

Why the sudden interest in Chinese only? Was it because they voted overwhelmingly for PR as though none of the other races did especially in the urban areas? Or is it because the BN caretaker government spent millions on them than the other races and hoping that the Chinese would reciprocate on polling day? Either way, it is NOT right for Utusan Malaysia or Najib to single out a particular group of Malaysians for his own failure. Yes, I say it again it is Najib's own failure!

So, what does Utusan Malaysia wants to do now? Are they planning and scheming something sinister in this country of ours? Yes Utusan, it's either you are with us or against us. You have forgotten that it was the overwhelming Malaysians that voted for PR hence PR popular votes was much higher than BN for the first time in Malaysian history.

And you Utusan can't seem to take it, right? After all UMNO is your political master for the last 50 plus years and YOU have been a political tool for them as well! Utusan, you have fail to grasped what Malaysian DEMANDS are! Here are a few list to start with:-

- We want a government that looks into the interest of Malaysians and not those of the Banglas, Indons, Myanmarese, Filipinos only. One day we might have a Benggali news papers in this country and you Utusan could be out of job. Yes, I hope you will face your demise as the mainstream paper of this country soon as you have not been able to bear good fruits but instead rotten ones only! That goes to the other MSMs as well who have been spewing lies after lies to please your masters so that you and your board of directors could pamper yourself and be fed well like the cows of Bashan!

- We also want a government that is truly free from the scourge of corruption and incompetence which hinders our country from reaching our highest potential. Is it too much to ask? If yes, then go and tell your political masters they are not fit for the top job of this country in the first place.

Chinese Tsunami? Najib, Zee Kin & Tommy Thomas

Posted: 10 May 2013 11:55 AM PDT

My Prime Minister said the reason his coalition was returned on 05 May 2013 with much fewer seats than in the 2008 General Election (GE12) was a "Chinese Tsunami." Dato' Sri Haji Mohammed Tun Razak used the label Chinese Tsunami as a sound-bite for "the Chinese have abandoned Barisan Nasional (BN)."

Najib said much more, but I will restrict my discussion to the Chinese Tsunami.

Najib's comments resulted in rage-inducing headlines in Malay newspapers owned by the PM's party, the United Malays National Organization (Umno). Utusan asked "What more do Chinese People want?" Kosmo! said "Chinese Voters are 2-faced."

Najib did not denounce the views expressed by his newspapers.

The Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), the second largest component party of BN, agrees ethnically Chinese Malaysians have abandoned the MCA.

The MCA has said it will refuse all offers of cabinet positions. MCA leaders are resigning from government posts. I suppose they are doing so because they recognize their shameful performance in GE13 will cause their Umno masters to treat them even more like the puppets and conniving thieves voters perceive them to be.

The MCA is closing down several service centres. Some say the MCA is keeping its pre-election promise. Others say the MCA wants to "punish" voters who didn't support them – seemingly forgetting that many did vote for MCA candidates.

Overall, the leaders of the MCA appear to believe there has indeed been a Chinese Tsunami, in so far as this term means large numbers of Chinese voters no longer wish the MCA to represent them.

There has been an outcry in the social media (all traditional media parrot Najib) and online news portals over the race-based analysis which underlies the conclusion that the root cause of Najib's failure to deliver more seats in GE13 compared to GE12 is the loss of the Chinese votebank.

I have seen two data-based responses to Najib's claim that there has been a Chinese Tsunami. The first is contained in a Note posted by a Facebook user, Tai Zee Kin, who identifies himself as a Malaysian citizen trained in the law.

Zee Kin writes charmingly ("please do not read while driving," "face palm") and throws in technical terms and attenuated references to academic authors to show us he really has done what he claims – he once wrote an undergraduate dissertation about democracy.

Zee Kin begins with what he calls an unreliable source – which he doesn't name. He says the DAP contested in 91 % of constituencies with "high" ethnically Chinese voters. I'm unclear what he means by "high," though he alludes to ranking by ratio of Chinese voters. I suppose he's saying the DAP's GE13 strategy was to compete in areas with relatively high concentrations of Chinese voters.

Zee Kin says:

"DAP gained 10 seats for contesting in 91% (pls rebut if u have better source) highest ranked Chinese population ratio seats, and have a net GAIN of 10 seats, PKR and PAS combined running in the rest, and have net LOSE of 3 seats. I think that's what NAJIB meant by "Chinese Tsunami". he uses electoral system. then again, i didn't agree with him." (sic)

Again, I'm unclear what "high" means. I'll speculate that the DAP, like all other parties in Malaysia, recognizes the reality of race in post-colonial Malaysia ruled for 56 years by a coalition with the same race-based agenda as the colonists. Therefore the DAP considered it best to use its limited funds to compete in constituencies with a relatively large numbers of Chinese – which also happens to be urban areas. [The DAP (Democratic Action Party) is still shaking off the perception that it's primarily Chinese.]

After saying he doesn't agree with Najib, Zee Kin says if the term Tsunami is to be used, it's more useful to say it's an Urban Tsunami than to say it's a Chinese tsunami.

What I like about Zee Kin's approach is that he tries to see what straws Najib may be clutching at in order to make the Chinese Tsunami claim. And Zee Kin shows it was one straw, grown from a probably unreliable seed (source).

That was the first "data-based response." (My own post immediately after GE13 was about the Elections Commission; it was based on impressions, some of them statistical in nature, but without any actual GE13 numbers.)

The second response I've seen is by Tommy Thomas, a senior lawyer who has a reputation for acute analysis and who writes pithily.

Kredit: www.malaysia-today.net

Sabtu, 11 Mei 2013

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