Five years have passed, and the cycle has almost completed a turn. The 13th General Election is an imminent process that every politicians must go through whether they like it or despise it. BN receives it with appalling disgust because they knew their chances of winning is so slim they couldn't even be spared with 1/3 seat in the nation.
BN might have anticipated it. Losing 4 states (technically 3) in GE12 was definitely a big blow. Kedah, Penang and Selangor were snatched by the Opposition, while Kelantan remained stubbornly under PAS. Two major states in the country had fallen under the hands of their enemies, and now their economic gains would be significantly reduced, not to mention the amount of money they could have swindled and conned while handling major projects that involve incredibly huge sum of money.
I have to admit something - while reading politics, I don't really care much about the politician, unless he is so stupid his wish was to be remembered as a nincompoop, or his political influence is so big his wave was felt throughout the nation and across the border. Therefore the number of politicians I know is very low. Lim Guan Eng is one of those who I not only remember, but revere and admire. He revamped Penang, cleaned out the island, and made the life in Penang a living heaven. Okay - he probably should not take all the credits, some should go to the workers who took the effort to realise his transformation plan, but still he remains a political icon and is a political star in Penang that many have likened him to the "Prime Minister of Penang", and show no verbal mercy to whoever that cast aspersions on him.
BN, desperate, begins fuelling political war that increases in graduation. Slander wasn't something foreign to them, and through our experience as Malaysians, all BN could come out with is sex video (by UMNO, and incredibly all videos are of amazingly poor quality and resemble only one person) and hudud law (by MCA). MIC remains rather silent and only stood out when Indian-related matters arise, and that probably is very good for them because they have not humiliated themselves so far.
UMNO came out with sex video, and alleged that Anwar was the man in question. Interestingly, instead of approaching the police or confronting Anwar, they called for a press conference and released the sex video to the media and thus to the public. This action already showed one thing - the video was, in all ways, phoney and did not resemble Anwar. If you had evidence someone had broken the law or violated religious beliefs, the appropriate action was to approach the party concerned, not releasing it to the media. This was, in my opinion, a way UMNO severely humiliated himself.
MCA leader, Chua Soi Lek, was caught in a sex video scandal. Only this time the video is clear and he made no denying. He admitted he was the guy in the video, but then later on was promoted to be the President of MCA. Ironic, isn't it, that a guy who breaches the party's moral belief could end up becoming the chief of the party?
Utusan and The Star, each owned by UMNO and MCA, were used to circulate slanders deleterious to anyone intend to step in their way to reaching a total control over the country. UMNO was sued thrice, and for three times they lost the case. Now GE13 is drawing close, and MCA comes out with manifestation saying that "a vote for DAP is a vote for PAS", "who says DAP is good for you?" bla bla bla....This shows something - desperation. The public now well know the immerse pressure they felt because they are now teetering on the brink of political collapse. Publishing such advertisements further disgust the public, making us realise the newspapers now are no longer impartial and are simply a tool for political manipulation.
The EC's role as an independent organisation is deeply questioned when two days prior to the Nomination day, it was announced that DAP had de-registered and was no longer a legitimate party, and thus the rocket could not be used to represent the party because the party was, according to them, by law, a defunct party. It probably was a tactics by BN, it probably wasn't. But in this time I hardly could see how BN would hope that a foul play was not suspected. They immediately denied having any role - not surprising, they are dumb, but not too dumb to admitting a foul play - and urged the public to stop accusing. EC then later recognised the party as a legitimate party, but issued no black and white to DAP retracting their statement.
April 19 was the day Malaysians unite to support PAS and PKR. DAP said if rocket could not be used, the moon will be used in Peninsular Malaysia, and the eye will be selected for Borneo. Immediately everybody in facebook changed their profile picture to Ubah Bird, with PAS sign and PKR's all over their profile picture. Anger rose and peaked, and we are further disgusted by BN. You know what I think? If I can vote, and if there's only a picture of Barisan Nasional and a banana, I'll still cross the banana. I'll cross anything that has no balance on it.
Barisan Nasional should stop playing dirty. When election is coming, playing dirty is only detrimental to yourself. The rakyat now is smarter than you thought, and you should be glad because it means your education system is actually working better than you have expected. Libelling the opposition now hardly could change the people's stand, and solving anything once-sensitive issues and approving all financial helps for vernacular schools, the Chinese rights or Indian rights could fish no votes to you, because, for 55 years, the people have seen how drastic Malaysians have gone backwards and how horrible your administration is. It's time for change. Pakatan may not be a great coalition, but when you have a grade C and a grade F with you, I'll still go for the principal pass. It's still better than a complete failure.
It's time to change. Ini kalilah!
505，大家一起换政府！
