Anonymous_4031: PM Najib Razak tells the Chinese folk to be "moderate" on Chap Goh Mei. Dear PM, you are barking up the wrong tree. The Chinese, just like the Indians, have been moderate for 50-odd years. You should tell Utusan Malaysia, your Umno mouthpiece, to be moderate. You should tell Perkasa, a racist NGO, to be moderate. You should tell your Malay principals in schools to be moderate.
You should tell your civil servants, who are Umno-leaning, to be moderate. You should tell your police and the FRU to be moderate; and not use tear gas and water cannons as they did in 2007 and also on June 9, 2011, to disperse the Bersih marchers. You should tell your MACC (Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission) officers to be moderate in their interrogation of Teoh Beng Hock-like witnesses.
Come on, PM, you should also tell yourself to be moderate; and not threaten people with "even if our bodies are crushed and our lives lost, we must defend Putrajaya at all costs."
Trumpet Call: How does Najib define 'moderation'? If 'moderation' means allowing and tacitly supporting the ultra-racist stand of Perkasa, then keep moderation to yourself. We don't want it. If 'moderation' means tolerating the excesses and abuse of power for personal gain, then stuff it, because we hate it to our core.
If 'moderation' means cheating at the polls, depriving the Chinese and Indians of scholarships, and robbing the poor natives in Sabah and Sarawak of their land rights, then Najib, keep the rhetoric to yourself. We know that all this is just election talk. Once the GE is over, should you win, moderation is thrown out of the window and more excesses, more abuse of power and more marginalisation of the non-Malays will take place. We cannot take this hypocrisy for another five more years.
Onyourtoes: The PM's address to the Chinese to be moderates? Look, PM, obviously you have picked the wrong crowd to address, or perhaps you should have looked at your own credential and credibility before addressing this issue. Since when were Chinese in general extremists? What did they fight for which could be deemed as extreme. Did they ever fight for things that were not stated in the constitution? Did they fight for exclusivity? Did they fight for a status to be more equal than others in this country? Fighting for equality and a rightful place (like other Malaysians) under the Malaysian sun is not extremism.
KSN: Najib, you said all races will benefit from your transformation programmes. Why did you have to say that? Because you know that the policies so far implemented did not benefit the other races and it is an admission on your part, right, Najib? Now tell the other races why they should believe you now when the other races were left out intentionally and knowingly for 30 over years?
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