Monday, August 25, 2008

Anwar "Sai Lang"

Attendeded Anwar ceramah at Taman Tun Hussain Oon last night, one of the strongest base area for Ariff Shah. As usual, a huge crowd consists of all races. The ceramah was warmed up by speakers from Pakatan Rakyat and then Anwar. I attended a few of Anwar ceramah since he was released and found that he has been consistent in his political approach. No matter the audience are Malays, Chinese, Indian or other races, he has been talking the same thing to all, a new Malaysian political approach fair for all races. This by-election, I think Anwar has "Sai Lang" (thrown all his chips to buy the last card in poker game) in his political career. He was accused as "Pengkhianat Melayu", "Agen Cina & India" and now "Agen Yahudi & America" by the BN government. Precisely, he is playing with the fire, touching the most sensitive part of the Malays, the "Ketuanan Melayu". But, he still speak the same thing, trying hard to explain and convince the Malays the real & truth reasons of all problems happen recently and the win-win scenario if all races are fair treated. No matter you like it or not, Anwar is the only Malay leader (since Dato Oon Jaafar) at the moment that dare to market the New Economic Agenda, which fair to all races to replace the New Economic Plan, that does not really help the poor Rakyat. If he lost in this by-election, we will have to wait for another many years for another strong leader to speak out for the same political ideology. (The interesting part is, in the previous election, BN often accuse other parties like DAP and PAS used racial issues to win votes. Now, Anwar had made the 2 parties sit down and talk about national unity but BN is the one now, play with racial issues in their campaign.)

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