Now is the time to seriously consider change, to reverse course before it’s too late and we hit bottom.

Vote for change this time.

kk

It was a yes in 99′.

It was a yes in 04′

And come 2008, certainly a yes.

50 years of UMNO-BN, I have had enough of racist policies, rampant corruption, abuses of power i.e. ISA and etc. UMNO-BN have been getting more arrogant over the last few years, and coupled with poor management of our country’s resources, things have been looking shitty.

I certainly have no problems in giving the Opposition a try for 5 years. If they are no good or if Nat Tan goes out and buy a World World 1 submarine for RM800 million, we just change the government in 5 years. This is what true democracy is all about. We, the rakyat is the boss. Service no good, we change our leaders.

Some of my friends have said things like the Opposition are untested or not ready to form the government. I will say this, UMNO-BN is sure tested alright and we know what we are gonna get if we vote them in again.

If we are happy to be divided as malays, chinese, indians dan lain lain, the UMNO-BN is your choice.

If we are happy with a corrupt regime, then UMNO-BN is your choice.

If we are happy with our current education system & standards with our universities being ranked in the 200s, then UMNO-BN is your choice.

If we are happy with an ‘enterprising police force’, again UMNO-BN is your choice.

If we are happy with a poor public service sector, UMNO-BN again la.

If we are happy with this ISA detention without trial thingy, certainly UMNO-BN is the right choice.

But for me, I want better than the above offered by UMNO-BN. I want a free and truly democratic Malaysia for all Malaysians (not malays, chinese, indians dan lain lain). And true, the Opposition dont have the experience to run the country … but taking intoaccount, the current situation of our country now, I am willing to take that risk after reading and hearing out the Opposition. I think there are better leaders in the Opposition than the Bung Mokhtars, Zakaria Deros or Zams from UMNO-BN.

This coming election I believe would be our last chance to save this country. Give UMNO-BN another 5 years, I doubt Malaysia can survive another round of mismanagement and plunder. I dread for the day when I find 1USD = RM10 or something to that extend.

With the election round the corner, there will be promises made by UMNO-BN. Lets see if we, Malaysians can overcome such lies and see the bigger picture and vote for change.

Our future, it is up to us.

As far as I’m concerned PAS and UMNO/BN are all but the same now. Any distinction between them has vanished since UMNO decided it needed to move to the fundamentalist right to hold on to the conservative Malay vote. With this in mind, if I were you I would either vote for an opposition candidate, or not vote at all/spoil my vote. (The latter is still preferable to voting BN, after all – I encourage most people skeptical of the opposition to at least do this.)

Nat:

Aiya, I’m getting a bit tired of PKR’s policy proposals which don’t have any concrete proposals. :p I know it’s hard to come up with very concrete ideas without information, but the DAP managed to do it – assuming PKR has people of equal calibre, how come they haven’t managed to put out an alternative budget or alternative economic plan? The New Economic Agenda and the New Deal are more position papers than policy papers – very vague numbers, ambiguous statements. More than half of them is nothing more than criticism of the government’s current policies, the other half being vague, good-sounding ideas, but stillborn ideas.

Wouldn’t it be more useful to analyse EVERY PARTY’s stand on different policies, so we can make up our minds? I’d be pretty resistant to vote* for the Opposition just because they are the Opposition since I have no idea what they actually stand for. DAP seems OK, but I’d never want PAS, for example. (No matter how un-backwater Kelantan seems to be, I would NEVER support a party whose head is extremely misogynistic.)

Where are the actual policy analyses? Why is this a Gov vs Opposition thing? Why is voting for an Independent such a longshot? How do we get to choose who we are voting for? I’ve been looking for a simple table on who stands for what, and I have not found any.

* If I could even vote in the first place. I was born in JB, been here all my 22 years of life, and I am still NOT a citizen. Would any of the parties care?