First it’s the blatant use of the police. The police is everywhere and they seem to serve the interest of the BN all the time. They issue permits for “ceramah” but out of 15, only 3 goes to Pakatan. The rest was issued to BN.
Then we see the SPR. Ever coming up with new regulations, but everytime the rules are meant to make life harder for Pakatan Rakyat. Not to mention, the SPR chief seems to blame Pakatan on everything that BN seems to do as well like putting up flags and banners before nomination.
Now, we see that the calmest of all politicians in Malaysia, Mr Muhyiddin Yaasin, call upon the voters of Bukit Gantang to slaughter YB Nizar for his insubordination against the Sultan of Perak. I mean what could drive a calm and compose man to utter such emotional words like “slaughter” like so.
We also saw the illegal MB, Zambry (and trust me, there’s more than one reason why he is illegal), losing his temper to Nizar because the local imam asked Nizar to lead Maghrib and Isya prayers in which Muhyiddin, Ismail Saffian and the illegal MB himself is in attendance. So much so, the illegal MB told Nizar that whatever Nizar was able to do, he could do it too. But the problem is, o illegal MB, no one has invited you to do what Nizar did.
We also saw how on the nomination day, the Pakatan crowd easily outnumbered the BN crowd 10 to 1. I mean, the BN crowd was so small, I almost thought that this is a General Election rather than a by-election. I have never seen such a small BN crowd before. What’s even worse, every single Pakatan supporter who turned out that day came at their own accord without any form of material gratification, not like their BN’s counterparts.
My sources tells me that UMNO/BN is faced with an even bigger problem now that rival factions in local UMNO are beginning to expose a possible sex scandal involving the BN candidate. Details of the accusation is not clear to me, but apparently banners like the one shown below is being put up in certain places in Bukit Gantang.
To top that off, whisper campaign against the BN candidate involving his record as a government servant is also being spread around the Bukit Gantang area.
Also, a source tells me that vote buying is not as effective as it used to be among the Malays. While money and other rewards are taken and kept, the voters will vote according to their conscience. But, I really hope this information is true.
Also, UMNO is throwing in Dr. Mahathir into the ring as a final toss of the dice. It’s their last hope of garnering more than 50% of the Malay votes as they know their hopes among the non-malay votes is getting weaker by the day. It is hoped that Dr. Mahathir’s aura will attract more Malay votes than they did in 2008.
No Room for Over-Confidence
Still, BN controls the media, the entire state and federal government machinery, the police and the army, an unlimited amount of funds etc. Plus they have a great Get Out The Voters (GOTV) program. So, they are still a force to be reckoned with. So, until the last vote is counted, we have to be on the alert. With such fate falling upon BN, they are bound to deploy all the dirty tactics they can. We, therefore, must be able to overcome them
Tulang Besi @ Malaysia Waves
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