By J. D. Lovrenciear
The minority-polled BN led government head, Honorable Prime
Minister Najib is in need of some serious coaching on the meaning of ‘perception’.
Unfortunately, all the money spent on his foreign consultaning outfit, APCO, hasonly landed him with yet another
wrong ‘perception’ of the 51% of Malaysian's perception. The fact that he lambasted Malaysians in Indonesia for their
flawed perception that foreign nationals voted in the nation’s GE-13 deserves a
free lesson.
To begin with, ‘perception’ cannot be deemed as ‘deception’. On the contrary, perception is all about
discernment, insight and wisdom. Gestalt psychology informs that perception results from
human ability or inclination or ordained nature to identify patterns. It is
influenced by expectations, needs, unconscious ideas, values and conflicts.
So Honorable Prime Minister of minority votes-polled
government, if your BN has lost the on-line media “war” – as you have claimed,
it is not because the majority 51% of voters have fallen victim to deception
from the opposition PR faction. They the discerning rakyat had made an
assessment of the many untruths, un-forthcoming answers and unending attacks on
the rakyat.
They
the 51% of the voting population had needs and
expectations that were ignored despite repeated pleas to your office.
The call
for dialogue on free and fair elections is just one such example. The
post-GE 13 concerns over highly questionable ralities was another. The need to
answer and find the many missing puzzles to the world-unprecedented murder of
the Mongolian national is another.
The cases of corruption; the lack of transparency
and questionable accountability – all of these and many more examples can also
be found on the blog of Zorro-unmasked (June 4, 2013 postings). The fact that there is a revealing RCI on ICs for foreign
nationals by the thousands in Sabah – is that not true? The 218 custodial deaths since 2000, are these fiction? What about the role of MACC
in so far as the deaths of Teoh
Hock Beng and Ahmad Sarbani Mohamed go? Have you seen to speedy justice?
What about the Ministry of Defence paying one sole Malaysian
RM500 million – all for securing the purchase of a controversial submarine? And
why is a sole individual entrusted with top security purchases that have far
reaching implications to national security, King and country?
What about the US$283 billion reported by The Guardian (UK)
to have been transferred out of Malaysia to tax havens from 1970 – 2010? The toll operators have collected RM20 billion and the
licensing continues with your political party led government’s protection does
it not?
What about past sins like:
- The BMF Financial scandal that punctured a RM3.2
billion hole in the rakyat’s wealth of nation.
- Maminco scandal to the tune of RM1.6 billion
and still no answers.
- forex losses’ scandal of RM 30 billion; the
Perwaja Steel scandal of RM 2.56 billion; Bank Islam losses and bailouts at a
cost of RM 700 million.
- PKFZ sacndal winds down despite a RM 12
billion scandal sticking with it; The Sime Darby losses of RM 964 million.
- build a stadium in Terengganu for a tune of
RM 292 million and it collapses but who pays for its all?
- In recent times we were laughing at the moo-story
or better remembered as ‘Cowgate Malaysia’ costing us a scandalous RM 250
million; and the two-times bailout of our national carrier costing RM 7.9
billion.
And how about the string of strange
prices for common things – unless of course if you say the Auditor General is
also lying or susceptible to your version of perception, i.e. deception:
·
Mindef paying RM1,146 for a Technical pen that
is priced in the marketplace at RM160.
·
Buying a car-jack of RM50 for RM1,664 by the
Youth and sports Ministry.
·
Paying RM 2.5 million to pensioners who are all
well dead and gone.
·
150 kg of sugar cost the MARA Training Centre a
whooping RM 25,500.
·
RM 270 million for advertising by the Tourism
Ministry.
·
Night binoculars valued at RM1,940 but costing the
Marine authorities RM 56,350.
·
TNB spending RM 770,000 to supply power to a
single house.
There is more in Zorro-unmasked list of grievous sins by
your leadership. You may want to re-vist the blog and not dismiss it as
opposition propaganda too. Now, when the rakyat get nothing but pin drop silence and
absolute disregard to all these concerns that the rakyat are well informed of,
where would you expect their ‘perception’ to anchor?
Please stop belittling the discernment, insight and wisdom
of the 51% of the rakyat – if not all 60% who in all likelihood voted for the
opposition. Yes, that’s the perception. But you cannot blame the rakyat. Take a
deep long and hard look within your party barracks. Do not forget that perception is influenced by expectations,
needs, values and conflicts. So you did not lose the on-line war. You had to
pay the right price in this new age transformation tide for change. And please
do not come crying home that the media distorted your message.
Perhaps the 22nd of June 2013 should nail the
coffin and send home the true meaning of perception. That again is the general
perception of the rakyat – not a deception of the opposition My Honorable Prime
Minister.
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