After all the excitement about some drastic changes that will take place after the Umno AGM, what one can see is that at the party’s top tier, the president's chosen men have been selected whilst at the bottom - which will be the party's vigour and energy - the opposing team has been selected.

Therefore it looks like there will be internal strife to see who can chart a clear path for the revival of Umno before the next general elections.

What can be clearly seen at these AGMs is that they fearlessly enjoy bashing the non-Malays who have no right to reply as the attorney-general would say that it is seditious and hence we would have to face the consequences. Therefore one would ask what reform or overhaul is this?

Umno can't be glorifying itself by saying that it is going to reform itself and the people are going to be awed by such reform when at the same time it bans the party organs of PAS and PKR. What glory can it assume when it wants to whack the ‘enemy’ with the enemy's hands and legs tied and a gun being pointed to its head?

One would ask what use is it to paint a picture of glory and narrate the myths of legendary folklore of the Malay warriors when they can't face the enemy on equal footing? If Umno chooses the path of autocratic rule akin to dictatorship, it is hastening its demise in the near future.

By wanting the Malays to progress in all fields of endeavor, Umno took the bold step of teaching maths and science in English but what use can that be when Umno insists on having all the restrictive laws to ensure that the Malay mind does not go beyond the boundaries that they have set? How can one improve their lot if they are not thought to think and speak without fear or favour?

Yes, one does agree that freedom has its limits but by curtailing it with threats and abuse of the laws of the land, the ability to think is not allowed to grow in the minds of the Malays. How then can progress come to them if they are not allowed to see both sides of the coin before they make a decision?

What the new Umno Youth chief has stated is very correct, and that is ‘the BN doesn't share the same dream anymore’. Coming together only at every general election and by election and threatening the people into submission by a show of force is not going to take the coalition to the next level.

By not wanting to talk about the obvious with the non-Malays is not going to draw the young - who are now the eager voters - to the BN barn unless BN is ready to shed its racial compartments and talk as Malaysians.

Umno being the leader of the coalition has to show the way and it needs to stop the pretending and start realising that the electorate demands some sincere answers from them.

The new Umno Youth supremo has also said that Pakatan Rakyat may have a better understanding amongst themselves as they are willing to overcome that barrier which Umno and its allies in the BN have yet to overcome. For a start, it would be good for the BN to at least start to address multi-racial crowds with greetings in all the major languages that exist in the country. It will make Umno and BN understand the non-Malays better but are attempts being made?

One would say no, as sincerity just does not exist in BN. As the new Youth chief puts it, they just conveniently come together for the purposes of elections and that is about it. Umno lords over every institution in the country, all of which have forgotten how to function as impartial institutions of government.

As the revered blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin had explained in his article recently, the three arms of government ie, the executive, the legislature and the judiciary plus the fourth branch which is the monarchy have now been reduced to just one powerful super entity which is the executive.

Therefore we are actually a country that practises executive supremacy as opposed to parliamentary supremacy. One would note that we teach university students about the doctrine of the separation of powers but in actual fact such a doctrine never exists in Malaysia although we think it does.

One would have expected that, at least at this Umno AGM, they would have debated on how to come up with a more multi-racial and cultural approach to be able to attract not only the Malays but also the non-Malays to the Umno fold but instead as usual, Umno AGMs will not be Umno AGMs if not tinged with racial overtones and warnings.

If this is what Umno tends to do in the next 50 years to come, then the people will show them the exit very soon. Umno still believes that all it has to do is to jail Anwar Ibrahim by some master scheme which is usually plotted in advance by a select group of individuals and the script passed to the police, the prosecutors and the judges

The Indians were awoken from their deep slumber by Hindraf and have taken that as a wake-up call in that if they continue to allow themselves to be lulled into a slumber by the Indian-based parties in the BN coalition, they will never be able to stand on the same platform as the Malays and Chinese in this country.

The Indians have realised that by closing their eyes and continuously giving the MIC nine seats in Parliament and 19 seats in the state legislatures, the community has only earned itself the title of ‘gangsters’, further alienating them from the mainstream.

Umno, knowing the weakness of Indians who are very vociferous in politics, continues to separate them by encouraging defections and splinter groups amongst them. Therefore, the way forward for the Indians is to join forces with their Malay and Chinese brethren on a same platform where one assists the other and is there for the other to help them along the way.

The East Malaysians, who still consider themselves as Sarawakian or Sabahan first as opposed to being Malaysian first, still believe that Umno -BN is the best, when it is a known fact that the latter can’t solve their problems one being the major migrant problem in Sabah which continues to be a threat to the state.

They have forgotten the fact that due to rampant corruption at the federal level, which is then extended to the state level, illegal immigrants just roam free in Sabah. The Dayaks and Ibans in Sarawak are still in the dark as to why they are not the leaders in a state in which they are the majority. For a start, we don't even see a Dayak or Iban as the chief police officer for the state of Sarawak.

Sarawak has become more like a fiefdom or even a kingdom like what Charles Brooke or Rajah Brooke enjoyed in the 1800s and Sabah has virtually become another province of the Philippines. What is the best solution for this? As what has been decided by Pakatan Rakyat, it is self- autonomous rule without interference from Kuala Lumpur.

Therefore, what one sees in the new line up for Umno is that, the last bastion of the old guard has assumed power for now and they may take this opportunity to rake in as much as they can all in the name of race, religion and royalty.

But they will have to contend with a new wave which has also been duly elected. The people have realised that if all the institutions of state have been bought over, then there is one which will supersede all and that is court of public opinion which exercises the concept of the People's Power and this, no government can withstand.