Rudyard Kipling"
āWhen you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldierā
General Douglas MacArthur"
āWe are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.ā
āIt is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.ā āOld soldiers never die; they just fade away.
āThe soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.ā
āMay God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .ā āThe object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
āNobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
āIt is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
To sustain this government, theDAP not only have to eat loads of manure but also
put on a smiley face lest they spook the Malays and screw up Harapanās
chances, allowing PN and the deep Islamic state to further their goal of
turning this country into a theocracy.
When the great dictator
goes on about how the Chinese built towns and cities and all that stuff,
the reality is that the plutocratic Chinese class and the political
class of the MCA were a part of it.
This would mean when the MCA
was enjoying the support of the Chinese community, they were getting
things done not only for their Malay overlords but also for the
country.
Meanwhile,
the DAP was demonising them as running dogs and nuance and subtlety,
anathema to partisan politics, were thrown out the window.
Look at how the DAP handled the Tunku Abdul Rahman University Collegeissue or how arrogantly Lim Guan Eng said, āYour time is up, your time is overā.
When
Lim was debating (Former MCA president) Chua Soi Lek back in the day,
he said: āWe should not bow to fate and have the right to equality. We
should not kneel and beg. We should be brave enough to stand and ask for
it.ā
Remember what Dr Mahathir Mohamad said when Lim was finance minister: "So, how come he is said to be the one with the power? He had no power."
Learning fast
The DAP learnt fast that dealing
with Malay power structures on a federal level and a bureaucracy that
is, in essence, an extension of a political party (Umno) is complex and
requires stratagems and rhetoric.
Which
is in total opposition to the egalitarian ideas that the DAP tells its
base is the foundation of a new Malaysia. Non-Malay political parties
have this delusion that they are independent operators. They are not.
They
are, in reality, proxies for Malay power structures, with varying
degrees of public and private influence within Malay hegemons. To
believe otherwise would be delusional.
When
it comes to racial politics, minorities squabbling for the political
interests of majoritarian stakeholders is painful to watch.
Malays
from either side of the political divide sometimes can meet halfway on
those politically-designed issues of race and religion.
Throw in
culture, and you have Malay power structures at war, but not tearing
each otherās eyes out like the non-Malay component parties do to gain
political power for their Malay overlords.
Test for DAP supporters
The
DAPās cult-like followers will be tested in the upcoming state
elections. As I have argued many times before, the only party in Harapan
with a stable base is the DAP.
The test will be if the DAP can ensure that their supporters come out and vote for former enemies.
When
I get Umno people who stopped communicating with me and ask me to relay
information to DAP operatives that their supporters need to support
this unity government in the state polls, you know you have gone deep
down the rabbit hole.
I mean, look at Anthony Lokeās response to the question of an apology.
DAP secretary-general Anthony Loke
He was diplomatic and non-confrontational. Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, meanwhile, looked as though he just wanted to ignore this nonsense.
I know this is politically incorrect, but the only people who could advocate for a secular Malaysia are the Non-Malays.
If
you are Malay and you advocated for such, you would be sanctioned by
the state. Do not seek help from Non-Malay political operatives because
they do not want to spook their Malay partners.
No help
If you were non-Malay and believed in needs-based policies, you would get no help from the political mainstream.
If
you were a Malay who thought this or felt that affirmative action
policies were immoral, you would likely end up like Wan Saiful Wan Jan
and join Bersatu.
So there is no natural avenue for genuine
change, but more importantly, there is no support even amongst the
so-called moderate Malaysians for any of that.
These days my
thinking is that the only reason to vote for these charlatans, as
opposed to the religious extremists' charlatans, is that it slows down
the eventual destination of failed statehood.
All evidence, from
partisan fervour to policy decisions by BN, Harapan and Perikatan
Nasional, point to the reality that their voting bases are more
comfortable backing autocratic ideas often cloaked in pragmatism rather
than democratic ones.
