‘A house built on greed cannot long endure.' - Edward Abbey (Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast)

COMMENT You are not one of us. Corollary to that, we decide if you are one of us. For the past couple of decades, this has been Umno's mantra. A couple of incidents this past week highlight this proposition.

Like most right thinking Malaysians, I watched with dismay the exchange between law student KS Bavani and that harridan, Sharifah Zohra Jabeen Syed Shah Miskin. If you ever wonder why it is that BN types like Sharifah like to remind "us" to leave if we are unhappy with how this country is run, look no further than the royal commission of inquiry on immigrants in Sabah.

What is slowly being unearthed in this commission is that constitutionally-created Malays and rent-a-voters ensure that Malaysia is well stocked with an electorate where subservience instead of any genuine sense of belonging is of paramount importance. Think of it as the Stepford Citizens...