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GE13: How BN lost the battle of perception

Posted: 15 May 2013 01:30 PM PDT

For the 13th GE, the Opposition set out a strategy of portraying BN administration as a corrupt, evil, racist and inept government while seeking to position and elevate PR as Apostles of good governance, anti-racism, anti-corruption, democracy, equality and human rights. To support their campaign, PR came up with the catchy war cry of "UBAH" and the grammatically awkward and incorrect "Ini Kali lah".

FMT LETTER: From Calvin Sankaran, via e-mail

To an objective and intelligent observer of our divisive and highly charged political scenario, the result of our 13th General Election wouldn't have come as a surprise. The deep fault lines across ethnic lines, the anti-establishment mood prevalent among the educated urban populace and political leaning of social media-influenced youths were all there to see even to amateur watchers of the Malaysian sociopolitical landscape.

Even without the benefit of opinion surveys and statistical analysis, the mood of the electorate was quite easily discernable and election result predictable. The real surprise was to see the surprise expressed by the leaders and strategists of the ruling coalition of Barisan Nasional (BN) over the result.

So what had contributed to the worst ever result for BN? Was this due BN's internal problems and weaknesses or contributed by externally-driven factors? As with most problems in life and business, it is my belief this result was a combination of a complex mix of both internal and external factors. However, it is also true that the root causes can be categorisCalvin Sankaraned to a few key reasons and a long list of minor ones.

In analysing and searching for key root causes, we need to look at the demographics of groups that BN had received lowest level of support – the Chinese, urban middle/upper middle class and the youths. Based on my analysis the root causes for lower level of support from these demographics can be pinpointed to two key reasons. One – Pakatan's highly damaging political campaign and two, BN's lack of effective strategies and countermeasures to respond to and neutralise this Pakatan's hate propaganda.

German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck had famously defined politics as the art of the possible. While this was probably true 300 years ago, however in this Age of Information, politics is the War of Perception.

It doesn't matter how you have performed, the core principles and philosophy you believe in, your capability and capacity to deliver promises, personal and party credibility or even the rationality and deliverability of your manifesto. The only thing that matters is the perception about you that exists in the minds of the masses.

If you succeed in implanting a positive perception of you, from then onward you own the electorate's collective psyche. For they will only see and hear what they want to see and hear – irrespective of the persuasiveness of argument and the strengths of facts to the contrary. To these people, truth is defined as news reports and facts that confirms and reinforces the pre-existing perception that has been deeply ingrained into their consciousness. Anything that doesn't is automatically rejected as propaganda and lies.

That many Malaysians, including those from highly educated and upper middle class background, were completely taken in by PR's campaign and voted for the Opposition is an excellent illustration that politics is indeed the War of Perception.

So how did PR managed to infiltrate such completely false notions into the collective psyche of these voters? The strategy and tactics of Pakatan in waging this War of Perception are not difficult to analyse or understand for these have been deployed, tested, fine-tuned and proven in numerous political battlefields by political master strategists such as Hitler, Goebbels, Lenin, Stalin, Osama Bin Laden and Machiavelli.

To implant negative perception of BN in the minds of electorate, PR propagandists spread lies and half-lies and made outrageous, vicious charges to inflame emotions and propagate hatred. It was irrelevant these accusations and rumors were irrational or completely unsupported by reason or facts. What mattered was the constant and consistent barrage of attack using simple but repetitive lines of attack – BN as euphemism for corruption, racism and mismanagement.

This initially started in the PR-owned or friendly news portals where these accusations were machine gunned on daily and non stop basis. Knowing that most people only skim the headlines and do not bother to read the contents, these news portals skillfully presented news with highly misleading headlines while burying the truth deep into the stories.

The fundamental journalistic and ethical principle of presenting both sides of story was completely ignored. Even when presented with denials by BN, their statements were published late, given low prominence and/or placed in such way that it was easy for readers to miss it.

The latest and most sinister mode of attack is the use of social media – truly the Wild, Wild West frontier of the Internet – and the mobile network (SMS/MMS/WhatsApp). Some of the most vicious and dangerous accusations and rumours were spread via Social Media and SMS/MMS/WhatsApp.

Another interesting aspect of Pakatan's campaign is the extensive outsourcing of political hate campaign to (ostensibly independent) NGOs to accord a semblance of respectability and deniability in case things go wrong. Many of these NGOs are either closely allied or formed solely to further Pakatan's political objectives.

No sane person would consider NGOs such as Bersih, ABU, Bar Council, Merdeka Center, REFSA, NIAT, Pemantau, SMM, ANAK, Tindak Malaysia, CIJ, Himpunan Hijau, WAMI, Aliran, Penang Watch, NIAT, MoCS, KOMAS, SABM, MIBA, Suaram, etc., as even remotely independent or objective.

Posted: 15 May 2013 12:58 PM PDT

PY Wong

Election Commission's Ajaran Sesat is seen from the way it is prepared to mislead the rakyat about the use of indelible ink. Here is the response from PY Wong (for the Chinese press, 黄炳耀), founder of Tindak Malaysia:

It was reported by The Malaysian Insider (http://bit.ly/TMIIndelibleInk) that EC Chairman Abdul Aziz had announced in Dec 2011 that the EC would use silver nitrate indelible ink for the general elections. Indonesian Election Watchdog, ANFREL, stated that silver nitrate up to 4% concentration was safe and that Indonesia spent US 2.7 million to buy 1,149,890 bottles of indelible ink for 574,945 polling stations (2 bottles per station) in the Indonesian Presidential Election, 2009. http://bit.ly/1011c46

ANFREL Bangkok explained that the indelible ink needed 30 seconds to dry and can last up to 4 days. http://bit.ly/AnfrelBKKIndelibleInk Then India's EC on 29th Sept 2011 warned that ink used on voters will be easily removable if poor quality indelible ink is used. http://bit.ly/IndelibleInkIndianEC

Silver nitrate will stain the skin and the nail, making the stain indelible. While the stain on the skin commonly last up to 3 days, depending on the concentration of silver nitrate used, the stain on the nail will last until the nail grows out. We invite the public to examine their nails to see if there is any stain there. If not, you know that silver nitrate was not used as promised. Then what ink did the EC really use?

The function of the indelible ink is a check to prevent double voting. Because there are concerns that advanced voters vote more than once using their police/military authority cards and their personal Identity Cards, the indelible ink is to alert the Election Commission clerks and the polling agents of people voting twice.

In most countries, ink is applied after voting. We recommended this repeatedly to the EC. This is in contrast to the EC's insistence on marking before voting. This will create risk of dirtying the voting slips thereby delaying the voting process and creating confusion as to the validity of the ballot paper. Now that we have found that the ink was not indelible as promised, the EC has come up with all sorts of excuses:

It doesn't matter. The voter will not be able to vote twice in the same polling station.

But the worry was never about voting twice in the same polling station. No voter is that stupid. The worry is about a voter using another MyKad to vote elsewhere undetected because the ink on the finger has been removed.

Now here's an even more ridiculous excuse by the Deputy EC Chairman. http://bit.ly/TheStarIndelibleInk Their audacity is incredible!

"The people must understand that we were using indelible ink for the first time, and surely there would have been shortcomings. We appointed a well-known company to produce the ink for GE13.
"Some 250,000 bottles of indelible ink were booked two months before GE13,'' he said.

That is 10 bottles per station! Five times the quantity used by Indonesia. It is outrageous that after years reminding them to have an open procurement process to avoid problems, they got into the exact problems we feared – indelible ink that did not work and purchased at horrendous cost. This cannot be allowed to go on!

Tindak Malaysia demands that the Election Commission chairman and his team resign en bloc to allow a total revamp of the Election Commission.

To mislead the people and squander millions of Ringgit (more than RM 6 million) of public funds to procure 'indelible' ink that cannot serve its function as indelible ink is, we believe, a criminal breach of trust. A number of police reports have been lodged against the Election Commission, and Tindak Malaysia hereby urge the Royal Malaysia Police and the MACC to investigate Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof (chairman), Wan Ahmad Wan Omar (deputy chairman) and Kamaruddin Baria (secretary)

Tindak Malaysia also urge the EC to explain why the ink could be removed so easily instead of pointing fingers on the public for proving that the ink is removable. For once, can the EC come clean? Did they use indelible ink or not?

Cadangan Memperkukuhkan Sokongan Cina

Posted: 15 May 2013 12:41 PM PDT

Berilah nafas baru ke atas sokongan komuniti Cina dangan penubuhan parti baru, Parti Tionghua Baru.

Fariq Islam

Kepada Y.B. PM yang dihormati,

Salam 1Malaysia. Selamat menubuhkan kabinet baru.

Apa yang nyata berlainan sekarang ialah ketandusan perwakilan Cina dalam kabinet baru. Ini bukannya satu gejala yang sihat. Keengganan MCA dan Gerakan mengambil bahagian dalam pentadbiran BN membawa risiko besar, bahawa BN kehilangan sokongan Cina yang kian tipis sekaligus.

MCA banyak silap percaturan. Dalam PRU 13, MCA bukan sekadar hilang sokongan Cina, malah Melayu juga tidak sanggup bersabar dengan kata-kata yang tergantung pada bibir Dr. Chua itu, ANTI-HUDUD. Dr. Chua ini bukan sahaja "menjual" hak-hak Cina, malah menyebabkan kemarahan Melayu, yang ramainya juga penyokong BN. Maafkan sajalah kalau saya sebut dia sebagai si maksiat, yang paling berdosa dalam sejarah kepemimpinan BN mahupun MCA. Kini pulak, dia hendak "menghukum" Cina kerana enggan memberi undi kepada MCA! Apakah ini semangat demokrasi? Sampai bilakah MCA akan insaf? Cina memang pandai berniaga, tetapi dalam soal politik, memang pada tahap kurang matang.

Pada hemat saya, kalau MCA begitu degil enggan mendengar nasihat PM, biarkanlah sahaja. Berilah nafas baru ke atas sokongan komuniti Cina dangan penubuhan parti baru, Parti Tionghua Baru. Masukkan ahli-ahli MCA yang menang dalam PRU 13 ke dalamnya. Tarik juga ahli-ahli Gerakan kaum Cina yang menang dalam PRU 13 ke dalamnya. Ambil kesempatan untuk mendorong ahli-ahli DAP dan PKR kaum Cina melompat parti. Peruntukkanlah semua kerusi DUN dan parlimen kepada Parti Tionghua Baru. Jangan BN dibebani dengan MCA yang "koyak"!

Yang ikhlas,

Fariq Islam

Kredit: www.malaysia-today.net

Khamis, 16 Mei 2013

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