7th Rangers: General election: Destroy Umno for the betterment of Malaysia - With Umno out of the way, it will be possible to bring back the old Malaysia that respects the rights of all By P Ramakrishnan - 6 Oct 2022
Fighting Seventh
The Fighting Rangers On War, Politics and Burning Issues
Rudyard Kipling"
“When 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 soldier”
General Douglas MacArthur"
“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .” “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
“Nobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“It 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."
General election: Destroy Umno for the betterment of Malaysia - With Umno out of the way, it will be possible to bring back the old Malaysia that respects the rights of all By P Ramakrishnan - 6 Oct 2022
Monday, October 10, 2022
Aliran : Umno has never been as vulnerable over the last 70-over years as it is today. It had been the only dominant and domineering political party Malaysia had experienced. Its hold over Malaysia and its power to rule as it wished and pleased used to be absolute and unchallenged.
Fortunately for Malaysia, all that has clearly changed for now. Umno
only has 37 MPs out of the total of 222 or 16.7% of the august
legislative chamber.
Glaringly, Umno’s grip on power is slipping.
And it is desperate to cling on to power and reclaim its former eminence
and dominance, come what may. It is so desperate that it has lost its
balance, its rationality and its sanity; it is pushing for an early
election that is vehemently opposed by all thinking and well-meaning
Malaysians because the risks involved during the monsoon period can be
horrendous.
Umno has thrived in creating fear among the Malays and
planting suspicion in their minds that their future and fortune will be
taken away by the non-Malays, especially the Chinese, if they don’t
rally behind Umno. Another weapon it has used very effectively is
religion. It has been drumming into the Malays that the Christians are
about to Christianise Malaysia.
Umno has very successfully
destroyed our unity and harmony that was the hallmark of our nation
during the time of our beloved Tunku Abdul Rahman – the halcyon days of
tolerance and accommodation.