Malaysian Bloggers to Opposition Parties: "We DEMAND Performance and Action on Principles"

From Malaysiakini: Read Here article by Dean Johns

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"... The much-maligned bloggers of Malaysia have put their hearts, souls, blood, sweat and tears into opening the nation’s eyes to the lies of the (BN) government and its media.

They’ll mercilessly punish lapses by their elected members into other BN-style evils like corruption, rent-seeking and fraud.

As they demonstrated last week (against Kit Siang's comments- click here ), they’ve a visceral aversion to racism, power-tripping and arrogance, and they’ll purge their own representatives of any signs of such evils.

They know that a DAP, PKR and PAS coalition - or better still a super-party - they call Barisan Rakyat, is their best and brightest hope.

And they’ll do everything in their considerable power to ensure that it gets and keeps its shit together...."
-Dean Johns

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Dean Johns

"... (Malaysian) bloggosphere almost went into melt-down with outrage (last week), decrying Lim Kit Siang’s declaration that he and DAP colleagues would boycott the swearing-in of PAS secretary Mohamad Nizar Jamaludin as Perak’s new menteri besar.

.... thousands of bloggers and commentators vented their feelings about what most saw as Kit Siang's betrayal of their visions for Barisan Rakyat.

Kit Siang has apologised to the Sultan for his threat to boycott the ceremony, Nizar has been installed as MB of Perak and stunned the gathering by speaking some Chinese, and everything’s hunky-dory.

Or it will be as long as this new state government and its fellow Barisan Rakyat administrations in Selangor, Penang, Perlis and Kelantan start performing.

As revealed in the outcry against Kit Siang's apparent intransigence, the BR voters have very high expectations of the people they’ve elected to represent them.

Most have voted for principles, not parties, and they’re passionate in their desire to see their principles upheld, in the vicious ‘real world’ of Malaysian politics.

They’re craving what they’ve been denied by BN for half a century; government for all the people by all the people. Government that’s clean, transparent, just and even-handed.

And now they’ve finally seen that it’s achievable, they’re seizing the opportunity with both hands.

As they demonstrated last week, they’ve a visceral aversion to racism, power-tripping and arrogance, and they’ll purge their own representatives of any signs of such evils.

And they’ll mercilessly punish lapses by their elected members into other BN-style evils like corruption, rent-seeking and fraud.

The much-maligned bloggers of Malaysia have put their hearts, souls, blood, sweat and tears into opening the nation’s eyes to the lies of the government and its media, and now their sights are set on a win for democracy in the next general election.

They know as well as you and I do that Umno/BN is a lost cause for reform. They know that a DAP, PKR and PAS coalition - or better still a super-party - they call Barisan Rakyat is their best and brightest hope.

And they’ll do everything in their considerable power to ensure that it gets and keeps its shit together.