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Nauseating and disgusting, Ahmad Shabery?

It is good that Multimedia and Communications Minister Ahmad Shabery Cheek finally described the video produced by DAP opposition member of parliament Teresa Kok as “nauseating and disgusting” .

I must congratulate the minister for being one of the first few to realise how the rakyat feel about the current government which he represents.

Let me give just a few examples what is really ‘nauseating and disgusting’.

When Dr Mahathir Mohamad was asked by a journalist about the toll charges, he told her, “ Kalau tak nak bayar tol, baliklah ke kampung ” (If you do not want to pay toll, go and live in the kampung).

This was the quality of answer given to journalists in this country by a prime minister. Fast forward, the quality of responses has not changed very much.

When the results of the 13th general election were announced, Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak himself had called it the Chinese tsunami, which he said had caused Umno Baru to lose a number of seats including Malay-majority seats such as Pasir Mas and Shah Alam.

Umno’s newspaper, Utusan Malaysia , also blamed it on the Chinese tsunami. Tell you what, YB Ahmad Shabery, this is what is nauseating.

What is more disgusting when the rakyat complained about price hikes and Najib tried to ‘kangkung’-rify (clarify) his statement that he was not ridiculing the rakyat, but merely saying that he loves to eat kangkung. When a bunch of young demonstrators stuffed kangkung into the mouth of Najib on a poster, the police were instructed to investigate the case under defamation and sedition.

When the rakyat went to the streets on New Year's Eve, the Turun leader, Mohd Azan Safar was depicted by Biro Tata Negara as being an ungrateful Malay. Despite Malaysia being a democratic nation, and Azan had merely expressed his discontentment against the price hikes affecting him and his family, this was not tolerated by the Umno-led government.

When The Heat , a local publication, tried to highlight the posh lifestyles of Najib and his wife, Rosmah Mansor, even The Heat was taken off the shelf for over one month . Is this not nauseating?

Several years ago, when the government was promoting Malaysia, My Second Home, an old couple from Europe was arrested by Islamic religious department enforcement officers at their residence in Langkawi for khalwat. This, despite the fact that they were an old couple who was legally married. As a result of the embarrassment caused by the department, the couple decided to leave the country permanently.

Blaming the Christians and Jews

When the Malays in this country are not united under the Umno banner, Jakim had blamed it on the Christians and Jews. Such a stupid remark is most nauseating, because it is simply unpalatable to think that 10 percent of the country’s population, where two-third are in fact living in Sabah and Sarawak who had voted for Barisan Nasional, could be a threat to the 60 percent majority!

When Selangor Islamic Affairs Council (Mais) president, Mohamad Adzib Mohd Isa took up a half-page advertisement in an English daily to defend the Selangor Islamic Affairs Department’s (Jais) raid on the office of the Bible Society of Malaysia, when the rest of the world condemned the raid, this was most disgusting.

I can go on and on, and the list is endless, but I guess it is no point of listing them down one by

one, but it suffices for me to say that allowing Barisan Nasional to remain in power for nearly 60 years is our biggest mistake as a nation. When they continue to deliver policies that are nauseating and disgusting, how can they expect that the people would vote for them ever again?


STEPHEN NG is a chemist by training. He dealt with printing ink, paint and emulsion polymer for 15 years before becoming a freelance writer.

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