Showing posts with label MCA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MCA. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Apakah Bezanya Perkasa, Dong Jiao Zong Dan Hindraf?


Bagi jurublog, helah-helah sedemikian amnya cakap karut yang diadukkan dengan cebisan kebenaran. Antara yang menyakitkan hati adalah lontaran cemuhan kepada Perkasa sebagai kumpulan pendesak Melayu. Apakah salah Perkasa wujud untuk mendesak supaya hak-hak orang Melayu dipelihara? Apakah bezanya Perkasa dengan Dong Jiao Zong? Tidakkah Dong Jiao Zong sama ekstremis dalam tuntutannya, malah ada yang mengatakan ia lebih ekstrim lagi!


Saya juga berasa cukup terhina apabila diberitahu pengundi Cina amnya mahukan isu-isu peringkat nasional ditangani sebelum sedia menyokong semula BN. Apa, bangsa lain tidak begitu 'maju' ke? Adakah PKR terbukti berupaya menangani isu-isu pembangunan ekonomi, perkauman dan sebagainya? Mana ada buktinya di Selangor! Yang adapun bukti, adalah bagaimana Pakatan Selangor masih gagap dan tak habis-habis menuduh BN atas segala kepincangan usaha kerajaannya.

Yang saya boleh percaya sikit pun adalah kekecewaan kaum Cina terhadap usaha kerajaan menangani rasuah, yang ternyata masih ada kepincangan. Pengamal rasuah mahupun mereka yang mengambil kesempatan dari ketirisan usaha kerajaan harus dihalang dari terus mengecapi nikmat duit rakyat. Contohnya, Datuk Zaid Ibrahim yang kaya-raya berlebihan akibat terlalu banyak mengaut untuk dari DEB patut ditolak! Tapi eh, eh, kaum Cina mahu pula mengundinya!

Apa lagi isu nasional? Kalau kaum Cina benar-benar mahukan isu nasional yang dianggap penting kepada mereka ditangani, kenapakah mereka tidak memberikan kekuatan menerusi sokongan jitu mereka kepada BN semata-mata untuk memberi muka kepada pemimpin politik mereka? Ini tidak, lari begitu banyak undi Cina dari BN, sehingga kini, relevan tidaknya MCA dan Gerakan di dalam BN menjadi persoalan! Malah, tak hairanlah sekiranya kaum Cina hilang kerusi kabinet kelak!

Sepatutnya, pemimpin, pemikir dan pengulas kaum Cina harus mengaku sahaja yang penolakan BN di Hulu Selangor kerana pendapat yang menular di kalangan masyarakat tersebut bahawa lemahnya BN membawa keuntungan. Keuntungan kepada siapa? ... Fenomena ini tidak lain dari yang dilihat di Kelantan; kesukaran BN merampas negeri tersebut berkait dengan pendapat yang wang pembangunan akan terus dicurah selagi BN berusaha untuk merampas kembali negeri tersebut.

Jadi helah lainnya semua sekadar helah sahaja, kerana kan malu bagi kaum Cina sekiranya pemikiran sedemikian jelas terdedah kepada kaum Melayu, India dan yang lain akan kebenaran di sebalik kecenderungan pengundi di Hulu Selangor? Tetapi ahli politik dan pemimpin BN harus menerima ini sebagai suatu realiti. Mungkinkah kerana ini, kaum Cina akan melihat perubahan sikap dari kerajaan DS Najib yang sebelum ini kuat berusaha menarik hati masyarakat tersebut?

Wallahualam... bagi jurublog adalah kelaku sebegini oleh mana-mana kaum di Malaysia tidak boleh diterima-pakai, bukan sahaja atas dasar 1Malaysia, tetapi dari segi sopan-santun antara kita. Mungkin sudah masanya para pemimpin Cina, dari memberi helah, mengingatkan masyarakatnya akan sejarah. Tak perlu tinjau jauh ke prinsip jusoli, tetapi ke PRU 1990 dan 1999 sudah memadai. Pada masa itu, pemimpin Cina cukup berpengaruh kerana kaum mereka kuat menyokong BN.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Searching For MCA's Soul... Part 2... The Loser, The Disgraced And The Boy Scout...

It has been difficult to fathom how things have come to pass at MCA. From a near ideal appearance of potency in leadership (no pun intended) by the combination of the youthful DS Ong Tee Keat and experienced DS Chua Soi Lek as President and Deputy respectively, augemented with characters such as DS Liow Tiong Lai and DS Ng Yen Yen as VPs, it looked to be ready to recover from the devastation of PRU 12. It is hence unfortunate to see things come to pass as they have.

Now DS Ong Tee Keat is being challenged for the Presidency by the man he succeeded, TS Ong Ka Ting, the man who shouldered the responsibility for the massive losses incurred by the MCA at PRU 12. This presents a particular quandry for MCA. Many would agree that what MCA needs now is a leader who can unite the party, something that DS Ong Tee Keat had patently failed to do. It is no wonder then that we find him trailing in the polls despite being the incumbent!

However, few insiders will really agree that TS Ong Ka Ting is the ideal replacement as President. OK, so, there is all this rhetoric about how he is still 'respected' in the party. Nevertheless, many in the party would quietly agree that it was TS Ong and his brother's manuevering of MCA candidates that shares part of the blame, with Pak Lah's weak leadership, for creating a pre-election rift in the MCA leading to the subsequent Chinese electorate's rejection of BN and MCA.

For MCA, this leaves the party with only one other choice to unite the party, the 'Hollier Than Thou' DS Chua Soi Lek! However, this is a man that, having being caught with his pants down, remain unrepentant! OK, so, if he needed care only of the moral sensitivities of his more forgiving core Chinese constituemts, he may be fine, but as a senior BN leader, DS Chua has to be a morally acceptable to all religions and creeds... and he wants to be THE Chinese leader for ALL Malaysians!

And so, MCA is now left to choose as their President, an Election Loser, a Disgraced Poltician and a Boy Scout! Boy Scout? Well, everyone knows that what redeems DS Ong Tee Keat to the Rakyat in general is his apparent steadfast course in resolving the Port Klang Free trade Zone (PKFZ) issue, including bringing all the corrupt involved to book! That the MCA Youth Chief, somewhat implicated in the scandal, is opposed to DS Ong adds further spice to it.

Unfortunately, the Rakyat's sympathy towards DS Ong Tee Keat is not in line with political reality. You see, DS Ong, being a 'Boy Scout', has been rather naive in his years in power. There is an attempt to 'reform' MCA being pursued whilst he's been its president. The effort may have started as something else, but at least at present, the aim is to make MCA a 'true' political party, divorced from special interest groups, such as not just triads, but also business and education...

... hold on, MCA not representing Chinese business and education groups? What the...? So, what's the point of the MCA then!? Hello, putting aside that a political party not tied to 'special interests' is an oxymoron... how is it even conceivable that the MCA would not be working hand-in-hand with Chinese NGOs and 'special interest' groups like in the past? Kicking out any triad influences is OK, but surely cutting off Dong Jiao Song would be political suicide... oh... DS Ong...

In addition to all the mess described above, it seems no one serious about who leads the MCA in the long term is really focussed on the 28 March MCA Presidential elections. This is because, whoever becomes President this time around will only hold the post for 1 year, following which there will be another election, where... jeng, jeng, jeng... the TRUE PRESIDENT of MCA that will lead the charge into PRU 13 will emerge...

So if we don't focus on the next MCA President, should we be focussing on the candidates for Deputy then? One candidate has already declared his rival should really be running for President! Perhaps DS Liow simply being cautious when running for Deputy? Perhaps DS Liow is continuing to take advice from his mentor and some time protector, TS Lim Ah Lek? Perhaps knowing what a mess this election will be, TS Ong Ka Ting was asked to contest to protect DS Liow?

Whatever it is that is really happening behind the scenes, to an outsider, even an informed one, it appears MCA is still lost. Ironically, I believe TS Lim Ah Lek himself should take over the MCA rather than leave it to TS Ong simply to protect his protege of unproven worthiness. If it is only for 1 year, why not? Else, the second irony is, perhaps DS Chua Soi Lek is the best choice after all! Disgraced to some, perhaps, but at least he's neither as divisive nor a puppet President.

Monday, March 08, 2010

Searching For MCA's Soul...

I get confused about my party UMNO, often-times, but have to say, MCA's recent turmoil beats PKR's mess even! At least PKR is not confused about who leads it... its President right? No... its Advisor... eh? How can? Both are busy with PKR Advisor's case now, so is it the Deputy President? What, that socialist? No la, PKR is now run by the VP who's the husband of the party Advisor's ex-ehm-ehm... eh? Aiya, confuse la! Let's focus back on MCA!

Well, the MCA of today would be is a GREAT example on how too much democracy is NOT a good thing. Here we have a party that was synonymous with 'big business', which should be securing the Chinese cake from erosion under the New Economic Model. On top of that, its President, from being a champion of chair throwing youths of the past, survived recent failure in cyberspace, to have evolved into a champion against corruption by his handling of the PKFZ issue.

Instead of charging along strongly into the future, we have with MCA a party that is exercising democratic destruction in all its pride and glory! OK, it must be admitted, the handling of Holier Than Thou 'strong'man DS Dr Chua Soi Lek could have been better in the past, but the 'peace plan' seemed to be working. DS Dr Chua was having the time of his life grinding DS Liow Tiong Lai's political reputation into the ground by ridicule... in open press as well!

Now, everyone has to wait and seewhat is to become of the MCA. And whilst many may smack their lips at the weeks of headlines sure to showcase myriad twist and turns that is also part of over-democracy's crass appeal, I lament. I kinda liked the Ong Tee Kiat - Chua Soi Lek Combo. It felt right somehow for the Chinese. A younger reformist partnering with an old-guard grassroots man. The resolution of the PKFZ scandal would have been the beginning of many things...

Which then leads to the question... is PKFZ the reason why OTK's leadership has always been on shaky ground? Is PKFZ or its beneficiaries the real killers of MCA? And when the dust settles after the 28 March MCA AGM, after its orgy of over-democracy, would MCA be left stronger? Or would 'democracy' leave MCA an empty shell... still searching for its soul?

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