I refer to the Malaysiakini report BN manifesto: Security, peace, prosperity.

The BN manifesto promises ‘Security, peace and prosperity’. Security over the last three years has deteriorated significantly with a police review saying that crime has gone up by 30%. The crimes against our peace-loving citizens are getting more gruesome and ugly with young innocent girls missing without a trace, brutal rapes and senseless murders. Old ladies fall and die as a result of snatch thieves.

If over the last three years we have experienced a rapid deterioration in our safety, why should I trust this BN government with security for another five years? It has a bad track record in this area.

Peace. It is most disturbing that an individual could have been blown up and her records of entering the country made to disappear gangland style. She was blown up by explosives made available only to a special unit under the police.

How is it then that the bodyguards of the deputy prime minister are implicated in this murder and for what motive? Is this what Abdullah Ahmad Badawi’s government promises as peace? Would we then be able to see more of this? Is this BN’s idea of ‘peace’? Greater racial tension and creeping Islamisation causing other races and religions to launch a series of lawsuits against the government?

The rising inflation rate, falling exports and declining foreign direct investment only suggest that we are not doing well economically. How can we have prospered in the last four years when real inflation has affected all of us but salaries have not changed and jobs and contracts are harder to come by?

I am not sure which country the PM lives in but the last four years, ask any businessman (a real businessman, not those useless cronies who circle Putrajaya for handouts) and they will say that business has been slow. Corruption in the government and among civil servants remains high. In short, while the rest of Asia is gaining momentum and re-engineering, we are bickering among ourselves over race and special privilege issues.

Sorry Mr PM. You have failed miserably in these areas and I do not see why any of us can trust you again what with poorer security, worsened peace and dwindling prosperity. That is the BN’s track record.