Wednesday, May 2, 2012

The cheating basterds (note the spelling please) — by Sakmongkol AK47


The cheating basterds (note the spelling please) — Sakmongkol AK47

April 26, 2012
APRIL 26 — Once again I have borrowed the ideas of Walla quite liberally. He is that good. It’s an honour to be able to share his thinking. Readers owe him a great debt. By now I hope many will realise that he is an intellectual powerhouse.
However manner you describe your hallucinations of the BN win, glorious or otherwise, the rakyat who know have already concluded BN is going to cheat on polling day. You are free to describe Najib as our glorious leader. All the North Korean leaders — the Kim family — were described in similar manner too.
As Edmund Blackadder says, we will win on issues, on personalities. But most important we will cheat. Look at how an important Bill concerning elections was pushed at such blitzkrieg speed recently. How apt to describe the speed by which it was pushed. It reminds you of Hitler-like machinations that are coming out from the innards of a bankrupt and reactionary BN party led by the Umno lying machine. And they stink precisely because they are treasonous!
An important safeguard to cheating has been the ability of a candidate to position his or her election agent and polling agent. These respectively function to check on issuance of polling papers and to observe vote counting and tallies. Parliament sat up to the wee hours of the morning to evict these provisions. Why?
That is why I have been saying in my ceramahs, BN has another component party in its stable — parti Suruhanjaya Pilihanraya Malaysia (PSPM) — to win the elections at all cost.
If a candidate’s representatives cannot observe what is going on inside the polling and counting stations, it will be like turning off the lights again in order to present opportunities to switch, discard, replace or spoil the votes.
In the last general election, there were at least 35 marginal seats which could have gone either way. Who can tell today whether those that had gone to Barisan had actually been majority votes for Pakatan in which case the opposition could have won such a number as to call for postponement in the passing of that election Bill?
Add the other unfair tricks like gerrymandering the constituency borders, arm-twisting the civil service and armed forces, paying election inducements, blackmailing voters with promises of future development, double-tracked postal voting, Polaroid citizenships for foreigners, moving voters en-masse from one site to another, persuading students to change their addresses, creating more phantom voters than even Aragon can take, and creating two different voter databases — has Google map replaced Malaysia with Zimbabwe?
Umno and its newest running dog are planning to cheat the rakyat in this GE13. The chairman of PSPM says we have the cleanest voter database. Which database Tan Sri? Parliament passed the removal of provision for candidate agents. Why?
The answer: it’s cheating. And cheating is not fair.
That’s why the students want free education. Because they saw with their own eyes how Umno is just breaking all the rules and erasing the debts of its own cronies, past and present, with a promissory note to those of the future as well.  And this same Umno has for its puppet the DBKL and Home Ministry which say they are just following the rules.
Yes, rules for me are not the same as rules for you.
The world has changed. Your mee goreng was selling at RM3.60 a plate. It’s now RM4.50 at least. Yet the CPI they go by wraps you in comfort that inflation is minimal. Hello kitty, CPI is obsolete in Malababwe-land. Malaysia combined with Zimbabwe, courtesy of Ajib Gor.
Brother, mee goreng is made of flour, oil, veges and egg. These form CPI items. These have all gone up in prices. So why is inflation still that low? The biggest increase is labour. A particular type of labour — one that is imported ahead of our minimum wage policy. So it is processing cost which has added inflation to household bills. Processing includes rental, ringgit weakening and social costs magnified by promises of high-income economies built on dubious data charted on Powerpoint produced by those who wear Bally’s who have never seen the inside of an empty paper-strewn factory before all their white-starched lives.
And that is the only apex the present government has to offer you. Construction pre-wired to cronies at inflated rates and hot-air balloons at your next Jom Heboh carnival.
What is beneath that apex? Ministers who are next to useless. They are racists and supremacists who break us up and polarise the society we and all subsequent generations must co-live in mutual harmony and co-operation. Simpletons and dullards who are so far down in their economic lives that the moment a wad of small-time cash is flashed before their eyes, they will gladly do any bidding of those who are already cashing out of this country.
And let’s not forget the denialists who will say white when everything is already as black as the calculating pupils in their eyes. And on these six bunches of jokers the fate of the great Malaysian nation depends? — sakmongkol.blogspot.com
* Sakmongkol AK47 is the nom de plume of Datuk Mohd Ariff Sabri Abdul Aziz. He was Pulau Manis assemblyman (2004-2008).

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