We need humility. We need honesty. We need moral decency anchored in our souls. We need courage. We need a commitment to the millions more who are yet to be born in this nation. We need to know now, in the wake of this aircraft disaster that has global impact, that Malaysia cannot be all that “Boleh”. We need to accept that corruption is our biggest enemy. We need to know that political hegemony has enslaved the nation. We need to re-discover that all the cries of ‘Balik India” and “Balik Cina” and “pendatang” labels that have been generously hogging inside the august house of democracy – Parliament, are all the evidences of a nation that is going seriously wrong. We know now that our police investigations are not up to the 21stcentury mark which the prime minister himself attested recently. We know now that our military is suspect of capability. We know too now that our leaders cannot deliver world-class presentations to the global audience when tested to the core. We also know now that our defense machinery is not a standard to be paraded – as in the case of a submarine that cannot be any help. If this aircraft disaster does not awaken Malaysians then certainly nothing would. We will remain as the proverbial frog in the slow cooking pot. The real enemy of this nation is not the opposition. The real culprit is not the citizens. The real problem is not the Bersih rallies. It is this “Malaysia Boleh” propaganda that has reduced the nation to a state where many nations now will know we are not all that “Boleh” after all. Now Malaysians will have to come together and ask: What is this “Malaysia Bolih” that we have been screaming our lungs out all these thirty over years? - J. D. Lovrenciear @ Malaysia Chronicle
Posted on: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 11:32:12 +0000
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