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| There is a lot of work to be done in the area of social justice, education for multiculturalism, and development for the people, by the people, for the people. There is also a lot of people that must be brought to justice – those who have been for decades protected by a corrupt regime. The rakyat is demanding to see such process of justice executed. Dr. Azly Rahman
"We've lost, we've lost" --Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, quoted in Malaysiakini, March 9 2008 Kesilapan besar Abdullah antaranya walaupun beliau mempunyai anggota Majlis Tertinggi Umno dan Kabinet sebagai penasihat utamanya, namun beliau tidak mengambil pandangan mereka kerana dilaporkan beliau pernah berkata I trust the young one. --- Harakah Daily.Net, March 9, 2008 Are you surprised by (ISA detainee) M Manoharan's victory? Has Umno become irrelevant? -- Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysikini interview, March 9, 2008 Malaysia's 12th. General Election must now be a possible topic of a hundred Ph.D dissertations. It is about a revolution of a country trapped in the excesses of hypermodernity. The revolution was aided by the power of cybernetics and the daulat of the rakyat. It was fueled by the ruling regime's abuse of the ideological state apparatuses. It was also a rude awakening for a leader snoozing in Sleepy Hollow. While one slept, the rakyat engineered a usurpation—a quiet and unique revolution. On March 9, 2008 many must have exclaimed these: "What a tsunami of a win". "Malaysians did the Obama!", "We have taken the giant leap forward." "Thirteen days that shook Malaya" the headline should be. "Secure the state documents." "We need to begin a chapter in which transparency and accountability rules." "This is a victory of Radical Marhaenism – and ethnogenesis (birth of a new culture) of hopefully a more sober and sensible Malaysia ready to work together regardless of race, color, creed, national origin." What next? There is a lot of work to be done in the area of social justice, education for multiculturalism, and development for the people, by the people, for the people. There is also a lot of people that must be brought to justice – those who have been for decades protected by a corrupt regime. The rakyat is demanding to see such process of justice executed. We have seen so much violation of the UN Declaration and Charter of Human Rights of 1946 of which Malaysia is one of the signatories. We have seen many who voiced their opinion on matters of social justice and freedom thrown into jail and detained without trial for as along as the old regime likes. We have seen, especially since the Abdullah administration the rise of Malay politicians whose leit motif is arrogance and perpetuation of dangerous divisive politics. Back to the Malaysian Revolution of 2008. It is like the storming of the Bastille. Malaysians saw the fall of the four states and the rise of a new 'cybernetic' fourth estate. The broadcast media of the old regime gave way to the new, subaltern media of the revolutionary forces. There was no need to storm and take over Angkasapuri. Revolutionary ideals and notions of social justice were disseminated far fast, far, and wide through the Internet. Bloggers, columnists, members of MUD (Multiuser Domains), street artists, intellectuals, social activists, and the man and woman on the street were the revolutionary soldiers. The process began since the beginning of the last General Election – the one that saw the old regime's landslide win. Now, we have a tsunami. A specter haunted Malaya. The hegemony of the ruling party have made many skeptical of such a miraculous win. "Materials, machinery, and media", as the eminent anthropologist turned politician Syed Husin Ali would say, 'is the foundation of authoritarianism and hegemony'. But I would add another one 'mind' and how it is controlled as a both a disabling and enabling factor in the tsunami of a win in this decisive election. The mind of Malaysians have quietly processed what constitutes truth and justice. Silently the revolution was already underway; revolution of the mind aided by digital communication technologies spearheaded by bloggers that evolved into "blogo-ticians" inclusive. The victory of Jeff Ooi and Elizabeth Wong attested to the rise of the 'blogotician' What an analysis to made in Malaysia's most exciting and mind-boggling general election. We are tasting a mandate of heaven and seeing truth and justice allying with those that patiently seeks. We saw virtue, instead of vultures being voted in. Newer paradigm The people of Penang, Kedah, Perak, and Selangor will now be shifting to a new paradigm. Tanjung II is now a reality. Lim Kit Siang's dream has come true. Kedah, home of Universiti Utara Malaysia will need to be in smart partnership and make intellectual adjustments to a new paradigm as well. The university faculty will need to read The Blue Ocean Strategy to exist in harmony with the new Kedah's ruling party. This is exciting for many. Any progressive change is exciting, as long as the revolution is a peaceful one. Any effort to free the universities from the shackles of political domination is good. Selangor, the advanced state will move a new level of sophistication but one founded upon sustainable development the meets the needs of the people. The same goes with the paradigm of development in Perak. We are seeing a new dawn of changes if we continue to work for the total alleviation of poverty, improving the intellectual climate of the universities, and working towards true religious and racial harmony. Kelantan's prayers against the takeover of Barisan Nasional was answered. Some say that truth and justice will always be allies of the righteous. Essentially, Man proposes, God disposes. Not even a regime's control of the mind, machinery, media, and materials could stop a "mandate of heaven" from running its natural course. Not even phantom voters nor candidates yelling "when "Qiamat'/Armageddon comes only the Dacing/scales of the Barisan Nasional remains standing" can win. For Muslims this is a blasphemous statement to the max; blasphemy even to the roughest and foul-mouthed of all the Mat Rempits! Who would imagine that Nurrul Izah would beat Shahrizat Jalil, Zainuddin Maidin would lose, bloggers Jeff Ooi, Elizabeth Wong, and Tony Phua would have a field day. What is amazing—who would believe that even an ISA detainee would also win! Or check this out—the amateur videographer of the famed 'correct.. correct.. correct' soap opera, would also win. PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim managed to successfully get the progressive parties and interest groups to harness their energy into making this giant leap. It is hard work. It is a mind game. It was an endgame for the old regime. The old regime made a wrong move. Full credit goes to Malaysians of all walks of life. They are the real winners and they are not to be betrayed. Their children need a better life, through education as a means for social, economic, moral, ethical, and intellectual progress. The are much more intelligent now after fifty years of independence. But for the National Front in this fateful revolution, what is its lesson before dying? Divine intervention? It is all these, that Divine Justice intervened, amongst many factors, against:
The next step for the four new states is to work phase out the vestiges of the old regime and to document what did not work during the reign of the old regime. How did the process of underdevelopment of the rakyat happen in those decades? Documents need to be secured and analyzed to prove what went wrong and how we must move forward based on the principles of total accountability. The new states Each state run by the new order of governance must showcase what an ethical just system look like and how the creativity and problem solving skills of the rakyat ought to be developed in order to teach us what development based on needs relative comfort means instead of one based on greed and conspicuous consumption. The latter has destroyed this nation. The latter was the trademark of the old regime – one that need to be destroyed. The new regime need to bring power abusers to justice! That would be an honor to the rakyat who voted them into power. The universities need to be freed, the education system need to radically improved, good health care plans made affordable, the Mat Rempits and Alongs stopped from being reproduced, cultural pride restored through schooling that improves higher-order thinking skills, poverty eliminated, the independence of the judiciary restored. Each child is a Harvard, Columbia, Cambridge, or even Oxford material. Each child is a gift—not a utility to be cleverly abused in the form of Mat and Minah Rempits. The party's over but The revolution continues. Malaysians must make Malaysian Malaysia a reality. This revolution is made possible by the daulat of the rakyat -- the Makkal Shakti of Malaysia's Radical Marhaenism, conceived by many Shao Lin masters and one whose zeal transmitted through cyberspace! Comments (13)  ... written by JohnQ, March 11, 2008 00:21:53 My VOTE counted. We felt great to be in this revolutionised country, once again! We, the poor and the non elite, felt liberated. THANK YOU RPK and all MT contributors and bloggers, PKR, DSAI, LKS, LGE, DAP,Raja Nazrin, Tian Chua, and etc etc etc...... Many thanks from our heart. Proved to the rest of others states and people that you could managed well on the 5 states won and win confidence from them to form the next gov in 2013 where 2 party system is evolved then. report abuse disagree 0 agree 16 ... written by hiro, March 11, 2008 01:13:23 I have this peculiar observation to make: Many Malaysians both in Malaysia as well as abroad woke up to a beautiful reality in Malaysia on Sunday, realising that finally their Malay compatriots have decided to break from voting along racial lines, bringing about sea change in Malaysian politics. For once, the minorities feel proud to call themselves Malaysians again. There is certainly cause for celebration, but the mainstream media is not even allowing this feeling of euphoria to sink in, instead they have chosen to concentrate on the unenviable task of forming and running governments, and there are already soothsayers such as discredited Chandra Muzaffar who is short of cursing PKR to fail. And then we bloggers are already too eager to provide our counsels because we don't want the Opposition to screw up and deny the chance of taking the reigns of Federal Government in the next 5 years. But I think we are all humans. It's been gruelling months for almost everyone involved. Perhaps before we start work in earnest, we should give ourselves a slap on the back and say well done, and celebrate a little, albeit relatively quietly. No bragging or name calling allowed, just cheering for a finally functional democracy. Otherwise, there will be burnout. Not good to burnout even before the job of governing and the job of oversight starts. Anyway, been writing a bit since yesterday. Happy reading  http://hiroblog2007.blogspot.com/ report abuse disagree 1 agree 17 ... written by Chuang Tze, March 11, 2008 03:04:40 Call this The Great Awakening of Malaysia - The RAKYAT of Malaysia has finally woken up to the truth about the BN, and in one voice, regardless of race, religion, gender, or age, expressed our total disappointment and disillusionment with the BN, and finally said "Enough is enough !" My fingers are all sore typing out many messages and comments the last week on both the Internet and SMSes on my mobile in support for the BR, and although it was hard work achieving what the BARISAN RAKYAT has achieved, this is no time to rest on our laurels !! The WORK has only just begun ... Let's work hard and cheerfully towards a BR Govt. in 2013 !! Let us put the BN out to pasture once and for all in 2013 !! We need to keep that objective in mind these next 5 years ! report abuse disagree 0 agree 19 ... written by renoir, March 11, 2008 03:34:30 >the Malaysian Revolution of 2008. It is like the storming of the Bastille. Malaysians saw the fall of the four states and the rise of a new 'cybernetic' fourth estate. The broadcast media of the old regime gave way to the new, subaltern media of the revolutionary forces. There was no need to storm and take over Angkasapuri. Revolutionary ideals and notions of social justice were disseminated far fast, far, and wide through the Internet.]] Interesting. I thought along the same lines in my posting to M-T(below), when the results came in the early hours of the morning: --Sometime ago, irritated with an article from a "mainstream" paper, I said that in going for so many seats, PKR will make history if successful, and be known for courage if it failed. Tonight, it made history. With the benefit of hindsight, it appears that if all parties had been as courageous as PKR, the Opposition might just take over the government! For, more than any party manifesto, such dramatic change of voter sentiments was probably caused more by anti-government feelings than by pro-Opposition leanings. The rakyat simply have enough of the kurang ajar people they meet at all levels of government. They're tired of living in a swamp of coarseness, of gross inefficiency at the bottom and keris-waving barbarity at the top. They want accountability, not promises that were never meant to be kept. They want honesty, integrity - the old-fashion values that typified their gentle culture. They're aghast with injustices, with the obscene flaunting of wealth and privilege when millions of fellow citizens are slogging away to put food on the table. BN had thought that the people are malleable, that they could be easily bribed, intimidated, and coerced. Tonight, the people proved to be otherwise. The ceramahs were important: they were direct ways of interfacing with the rakyat. It's unlikely that any Opposition leader had said anything the rakyat didn't already know. But it was good to be confirmed what was in their hearts. And even though they needed no convincing, it must have been great hearing the same thoughts from charismatic leaders such as Anwar and Lim Kit Siang. But, as we stand back and look at what transpired, we can see clearly two persons most responsible for tonight's extraordinary events. One is AAB, who like Sergeant "I hear nothing, I see nothing, I know nothing" Schultz of Hogan's Heroes, has somehow always let events control him instead of the other way around. The other is none other than RPK, whose fearless stance towards injustice and irrationality has given rise to a blog that's the finest expression of dialogism. Here people can say and debate all kinds of ideas, good and bad and in-between, and become more thoughtful as a result. As happened during the time of Voltaire and Rousseau, ideas began to spread from towns to kampungs, from salespersons to mee-sellers, from children to parents, and achieved a multiplier effect. Centuries ago, such ideas helped start the French Revolution. Today, they form the beginning of a people's movement. These are times that stir our souls. report abuse disagree 0 agree 11 ... written by Jos, March 11, 2008 11:58:42 Most important and urgent ... Barisan Alternatif p[rogressive member from BN should amend our Federal Constitution of Malaysia ... 1. make a new definition of Malay ..... 2. equal treatment for all religions and race ... no special treatment to Malay ... and also no more "supremacy" of Malay ... 3. abolish ISA .. 4. abolish "shariah" law ... 5. new political party regulation ... political party should be established by ideology .. not by "race" .. 6. more freedom of press and media ... 7. separation of religion with state ... religion should be under a "private" domain ... We have to make .... "Malaysia for All Malaysians" ... report abuse disagree 4 agree 11 ... written by omarkhayyam, March 11, 2008 20:28:23 Doc, with d winds of change sweeping like a tsunami ..... we need more malaysian like you back to contribute to nation building in a global way .... think it over doc ...... god bless u cheers report abuse disagree 0 agree 3 ... written by SUV, March 12, 2008 10:47:00 yes,doc..a revolution indeed..dis is just the begining..lot's ignorance needs to be wiped out. report abuse disagree 0 agree 0 ... written by Dr Azly Rahman, March 12, 2008 11:14:36 You guys out there are the ones equally responsible for the revolution! We have initiated a culture of dialogue on even the most sensitive matters, as defined by the old regime. Indeed these few years of what we have been doing have been an education for critical consciousness for our readers. Thanks to our Shao Lin master Raja Petra for allowing our ideas to be hosted in this forum. We have become like a French 'salon'; our discussions foundationed upon civility. We have become 'educators for peace and justice' in our own special way,out of our sincerity to see the nation prosper and live an ethical life. Our work must continue. I maintain that it is a unique revolution in recent times. No blood shed, not a single shot fired. It is sudden, unexpected, silent, but a revolution that is evolving (what a contradiction). It was an 'implosion-revolution'. I will explore this idea in a longer article. Yes, indeed this is the best time for Malaysians abroad to come home and enrich the lives of people without fear or favour. Would be great to meet you folks in person. You folks are the real 'cyber troopers'. Keep up your good work as a 'warrior class'. report abuse disagree 0 agree 8 ... written by Uncorruptible, March 12, 2008 22:13:14 Yes, our very own REVOLUTION !!! The Philipinos overthrew Marcos. The Indonesians did away with Suharto. We did away (almost) with barisan nasional! Malaysians pat yourselves in the back. report abuse disagree 0 agree 5 ... written by Sagaladoola, March 13, 2008 13:04:20 Dr. Azly, Thank you for the articles. Great work. Keep on writing. Regards, http://sagaladoola.blogspot.com report abuse disagree 0 agree 4 ... written by educationist, March 14, 2008 21:45:53 Yes, it is a revolution, no less. But the opposition , in particular the DAP is squandering away the peoples' goodwill by their squabbling and insensitive pronouncements. Well, RPK has served them the yellow card and at the moment , we the voters can only keep count and made our voices heard. But 5 years passes quickly and we'll hold them to account if they do not make sure the roots of a more civil and democractic society have flourished by then. report abuse disagree 0 agree 2 ... written by CJ7, April 01, 2008 11:28:31 THINK IS TIME TO GET TO D GROUND BN OR OPPOSITION, THE RAKYAT WANTS U TO WORK FOR CHANGES.....LOOK AT OUR MSC POLICIES FOR EXAMPLE, FULL OF SCAM, ON ONE HAND GRANT U PIONEER STATUS, ON THE OTHER FORCE U TO RELOCATE TO 5 FIGURES RENTAL AREA...MAY BE OWN BY THE GUY WHO CREATED MSC.....CHANGE DUN COME WHAT KINDA REVOLUTION WE TALKING ABOUT report abuse disagree 0 agree 0 Write comment This content has been locked. You can no longer post any comment. You must be logged in to a comment. Please register if you do not have an account yet. |
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People like you,RPK,etc are the ones who give hope that we are ONE immaterial of physical attributes and spiritual inclination.
Guess a great nation has been clenched from the jaws of death, now let's work it to where it should have long been - AT THE VERY TOP.
HOPE now, we are ALL MALAYSIANS - all are first class passengers.