There is a terrible decay occuring in our system. This decay shows itself up in so many ways. The latest situation which warrants this comment is about the increasing crime rate in the country. The crime situation that we see is really only the tip of the iceberg of our system. And the police are trying to blow that tip off every now and then with a spate of encounter killings. The ice below that tip just comes up afterwards every time and replaces the blown off tip without any effort. So, what has been achieved. The iceberg only keeps getting bigger.
Hindraf is and has always been at the forefront of things. Our analysis of the social and political situation and the conclusions we come to are the same conclusions that the larger sections of our society come to, only later. Take the way we focused on UMNO as the main protagonist in the Malaysian political scene just before the 12GE – when everyone else was running scared of confronting the giant. Everyone after that then jumped on the bandwagon in targeting UMNO..
Then after PR took over in four States, the conclusion that we came to, that there is really no substantial difference between PR and BN policies as far as the working people are concerned, was an early one, within a year of its taking over. Then we have others getting on to that band wagon now. Yong Teck Lee, Jeffrey Kitingan from Sabah to name two significant personalities, and now even pro-PR political analysts are beginning to reluctantly admit it.
Uthayakumar has been saying for several years now that the Police are the ones really running this country. Najib tries to keep the people mollified with his histrionics while Musa Hassan manages the real power that runs the country. Take Hitler, take Saddam Hussein, now take the Myanmarese Junta . They are all just raw versions of what is happening in Malaysia. The people have to realize this very soon. More and more people are coming to this awareness. But the racial angle to all this hubris makes it more difficult for all to see what is happening clearly.
In the last thirty days at least 10 suspects have been brutally killed by the police. In today’s Utusan the PDRM issued an explanation. They say, the police had no choice. I say this is the usual police lie. They say the police did it in self defence. I say show me the police dead. They say that this kind of killing will teach other potential criminals a lesson. I say this does not make any sense as the crime rate has not gone down. They say that if the police hesitated and the suspects shot back that could harm the bystanders. I say, so how many times have the suspects shot back and how many bystanders have been hurt? They say that if a policeman is killed they will not be sung as heroes. I say, if they were killed honorably, surely we will sing them as heroes. Not when they act worse than the criminals they are supposed to protect us from. Then they say why do we question these police actions for such questioning will hurt the morale of the police. I say the only thing that I know that will hurt the morale of the police is a reduction of their incomes. They do not care two hoots about all this questioning. They know they reign supreme..
You may in turn ask me - why am I standing up for these terrible criminals. Where is my sense of rectitude. Let me first say, that even if they are criminals, they are citizens of this country, only wayward citizens. They are victims of the system in more ways than one. Killing them off is no answer. What we need is a real problem solving approach. What we need is to understand the sources of this phenomenon of crime. As what the Malay elite keep repeating about the suicide bombing Islamic terrorists – we need to understand the root causes, we need to understand the root causes, they say. They ask why would anybody want to kill themselves by blowing themselves up. They keep repeating this in the media, in International Fora, everywhere. What we need is something similar here at home.
But that is far from happening here.
Most of the suspected criminals are Indians. This logic of looking for the root cause doesn’t apply here with the Indians in Malaysia. The Indian criminals and suspects are to be shot like dogs. They deserve no better. This is a way of hastening the process of self destruction of a community – a way of killing it off without trying. At the lower sections of Indian society this self destruct process is well under way. It is indeed gathering momentum – as evidenced by the many deteriorating social indicators. Now who is taking this up for a solution? Who will protest that nothing is being done?
Do we simply allow it to happen and beg and plead for a solution. Haven’t we done enough of that for the last half century. What has been the outcome, an acceleration of this deterioration –that’s all. That is all, that strategy can get. We have to change our tack now. We have to change strategy to really change this situation.
We need now a strong voice to change this state of affairs. And we need to demand it as a fundamental right, only we are asking it half a century late. If we want a real say in determining our destinies, and if our fundamental rights are to be guaranteed, then we have to fight to get it. We have to coalesce under one big umbrella to struggle for what is ours. We need to put in place a government that will give us all a say in determining our destinies. We have to learn how decadent this system really is from every single episode such as the recent encounter killings and equip ourselves to do the needful to bring about change, when the time comes. We have not to be taken in by the lies that the mass media carries. We are not to be taken in by the promises that politicians repeat every general election and every by election.
Hindraf/HRP offers that umbrella. How many of you can see this. How many of you are willing to subscribe to this. If we want change, we have to make it happen. It is not going to happen by itself. We, in Hindraf/HRP have signed up to lead change. If you want real change come join us. Only through uniting under an umbrella that truly represents the wishes of the Indian people can we hope to gain control over our destiny. The alternative scenario is a tragedy waiting to happen.
There is no other way.
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