What is national distress?
When we are invaded.
When nature disaster strike; something huge like the Asian Tsunami.
When food crisis strike; not just temporarily shortage of sugar or cooking oil… but when people started to feel the hunger because of food shortage.
When hyperinflation… not when people are chatting in Starbucks on how expensive our fuel is, but when people can’t even afford a cup of coffee in mamak stall.
When people are started losing jobs and couldn’t find new jobs. When unemployment is largely due to lack of jobs and not because of the poor qualities (and some laziness) of our young graduates.
When the police and armed forces are becoming thugs. This is the one hanging on borderline… but set aside a few political cases, the police are still doing their job to fight crimes. Remember this, some of them are risking their lives to protect ours.
When democracy is irrelevant. Don’t tell me that our democracy is dead… we are given the rights to vote, and despite not being perfectly fair, we do have the power to determine which parties and people we want to form our government.
If Malaysia is in distress, what should we call other countries like Philippines or India? For name sake I don’t even think the likes of Philippines and India are in distress yet, let alone Malaysia?
Some Malaysians are just too pampered these days… distress? WTF.
agree with u bro!! ;)
i dunt like the act of flying our nation’s flag upside down!! ;)
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If we are all the times in Malaysia, we almost do not know what is happening to the world other than the selected news that we received and to some the internet news. But the question is whether those news really represent the fraction of the world’s news or some fabricated news that we almost believe as the gospel truth. As I have traveled to almost all part of the world, by comparison, our country is still the best place on earth. Talking about national distress, are we really in DISTRESS?
My personal view is that we are not at the critical stage yet. But if something is not immediately done perhaps we are moving towards that. My belief stands from the present political scenarios in the country. I know part of political game that one politician is attacking one another on the opposite camp. Whether coincidental or otherwise the arrest of DSAI on sodomy case appears to be parts of political strategy. But if it is true, than the advisor to the political campaign is not careful enough to adopt this kind of strategy. The masses is getting bored with this sort of tactic and the anger is directed towards the government. The loss of many BN seats in the large GE to me is mainly due to the boring advertisement on TV calling
voters to support BN.
Malaysia at present is having weak leadership and some leaders are believed to be corrupted not only at the political branches of BN but also at the cabinet level. Things can be corrected if the PM is having support from clean leadership who always focus on the wellbeing of the people rather than their own well being.
If there were to be a change of leadership from BN to PKR, the change is not because people is supporting PKR but mainly people wants something different and is bored with the present scenarios.
I always pray whoever takeover the government, do it for the well being of the rakyat and we can save our country from DISTRESS!