{"id":1823,"date":"2012-03-05T12:19:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T04:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=1823"},"modified":"2013-02-20T16:27:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T08:27:38","slug":"is-soi-lek-being-dishonest-or-is-najib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/is-soi-lek-being-dishonest-or-is-najib\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Soi Lek being dishonest or is Najib?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The message of the MCA President Datuk Seri Chua Soil Lek in his debate with DAP Secretary-General and Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng on Saturday 18th February 2011 was his canard to Chinese voters warning that \u201cA vote for DAP is a vote for PAS\u201d resulting in an Islamic state and hudud Islamic laws.<\/p>\n

Barely 24 hours later yesterday, the Prime Minister and UMNO President Datuk Seri Najib Razak decided to emulate the MCA President\u2019s political chicanery and mendacity, producing his duly modified canard to Malay voters warning \u00a0that \u201cA vote for PAS is a vote for DAP\u201d resulting in a \u201canti-Malay, anti-Islam and anti-Malay Rulers\u201d future for Malaysia \u2013 and which can only mean no Islamic State and no hudud Islamic laws!<\/p>\n

This is a disgraceful episode Malaysians must never forget, especially in the forthcoming 13th General Elections which holds out the possibility for the first time in the 54-year history of our nation of effecting a change of government at the national level.<\/p>\n

Imagine the sheer political insanity of a Barisan Nasional campaign where MCA warns Chinese voters that \u201cA vote for DAP is a vote for PAS\u201d in the sense that DAP will just be a stooge of PAS while UMNO warns Malay voters that \u201cA vote for PAS is a vote for DAP\u201d in the sense that PAS will be a puppet of DAP!<\/p>\n

And horror of horrors, Barisan Nasional leaders do not see the sheer illogicality, insanity and even idiocy of such a campaign line!<\/p>\n

No sane, rational and responsible political coalition would have used such diametrically conflicting canards \u2013 mutually cancelling each other out \u2013 with MCA warning Chinese voters that \u201cA vote for DAP is a vote for PAS\u201d while UMNO warns Malay voters the diametric opposite that \u201cA vote for PAS is a vote for DAP\u201d with the clearly explicit threat that Chinese or Malay rights would be sacrificed in each scenario!<\/p>\n

Malaysians are seeing Barisan Nasional political chicanery, mendacity and bankrupticy of the first order.<\/p>\n

But even more serious, this marked another important milestone in the Najib premiership \u2013 that in less than three years, the sixth Prime Minister of Malaysia has \u201cgiven up the ghost\u201d on his signature 1Malaysia policy to create a Malaysia where Malaysians regard themselves as Malaysians first and their race, religion, region or socio-economic status second.<\/p>\n

The racist, irresponsible and dishonest Barisan Nasional propaganda, warning the Chinese that \u201cA vote for DAP is a vote for PAS\u201d and the Malay voters that \u201cA vote for PAS is a vote for DAP\u201d, is a total affront to the concept of 1Malaysia and Najib\u2019s preachings calling on the moderates of the world to unite against extremists everywhere!<\/p>\n

It stands as a testimony to the hypocrisy and bankruptcy of Barisan Nasional politics, where the\u00a0basic thrusts of UMNO and MCA election campaigns are based on lies and falsehoods, and what is worse, sheer nonsense and illogicality which mutually cancels each other out.<\/p>\n

In contrast, PKR, PAS and DAP offer a common message to all Malaysians to unite as Malaysians to save Malaysia from the corruption, abuses of power, injustices and racialism of UMNO\/BN rule. -The R0cket<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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