The Walk of Life

Results of the By Election held over the week-end said that Barisan won by 1725 votes out of a total of slightly over 60,000 voters! Yes a very narrow margin indeed. The breakdown of the voters racial figures showed a 85% Chinese votes for the Opposition while the Malay votes remain very much the same as before and there was a slight increase of Indian votes for Barisan.

Taking into consideration the mobilization of huge amount of resources by Barisan to win this By Election do not augur well for them. As much as RM $100 million was spent of which about RM $60 million was given out in cash! Malay and Indian voters were somewhat swayed by these cash gifts whereas the Chinese remain unmoved. I am proud of these Malaysian Chinese. Money cannot buy their hearts, they are more concerned with long lasting national issues such as corruption, injustice, equal opportunities more than immediate monetary gratification.

Due to this, the notorious Ibrahim Ali is calling on the Government not to give out the monetary offers promised during the campaigning! What a shallow person he is. By virtue of what he said, he is all for bribery! No wonder in the past there were so little development in areas that was won by the Opposition! This is not the right way to treat your own citizens. It implies that there is no freedom of choice, an abuse of human rights. Such ethnocentric practices only creates aparthied in our Malaysian society.

There were many autopsies done on the results and many critics were calling the Government to re-think and ponder on why the Malaysian Chinese are not supporting the Government! As for me entertaining the likes of Ibrahim Ali is one sure way of loosing the Chinese support. Personally I believe that it was such racists like Ibrahim Ali and a few others in the Barisan that are contributing to this flight of the Chinese votes. In addition I think the Chinese are resilient enough to fend for themselves without dole outs from the Government. The fact is nothing much has been given out free to the Chinese as compared to the Malays. As a Chinese I will say Its OK keep the money to yourself I rather earn mine the hard way then, maybe not much but I rather keep my integrity and fight for what is right and fair! The Lord will be my strength!