MCA and Gerakan Mute

Utusan Malaysia has been taking a a href="http://tonypua.blogspot.com/2009/08/utusan-kills-1malaysia.html"scorched earth policy/a to destroy whatever credibility and worth that's left of Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak's call for '1Malaysia'. And they are doing so with impunity, a href="http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/malaysia/34778-muhyiddin-warns-of-traitors-to-the-malay-race-"backed by all UMNO top leaders/a such as the Deputy Prime Minister himself, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and the UMNO Youth Chief "a href="http://tonypua.blogspot.com/2009/08/khairy-shows-true-colours-again.html"reform but not reformed/a" Khairy Jamaluddin.br /br /We are not surprised at the severe backlash from the UMNO politicians who finds their source of patronage and livelihood seriously threatened by the so called '1Malaysia'.br /br /What is possibly more interesting perhaps, is the fact that the 2 major component parties - MCA and Gerakan have remained completely mute to the racist agenda being perpetrated by UMNO and its mouthpiece to stir up racial sentiments. This is no different from the UMNO General Assembly of 2006 when the 'ketuanan Melayu' fever reached its peak with current UMNO vice-president Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein unsheathed his keris, and delagates howled for blood.br /br /It was a point of no return for MCA and Gerakan from then onwards culminating in the disastrous results in the March 2008 general elections. For a short period of time, it had appeared that these 2 parties learnt their lessons. But such courage to stand up to UMNO has been short-lived.br /br /In fact, while Gerakan was plotting its future last year, many had called for the party to withdraw from Barisan Nasional. But it's top leaders, Tan Sri Koh Tsu Koon and his cohort wanted to "stay in power". They had a href="http://www.thenutgraph.com/stay-or-go"advised their grassroots/a back in Sept last year:br /blockquote"We will also observe whether Umno is going to reinvent itself during its December 2008 annual general assembly. Within the next few months, we are going to fight for the reform of the BN. Only if reforms don’t happen will we start to consider withdrawing," says Chang./blockquoteNow, nearly a year down the road, it cannot be clearer that all the talk of reform in UMNO is a href="http://tonypua.blogspot.com/2009/08/najib-great-speeches-empty-rhetoric.html"pure shadow-play/a. Nothing have changed. If anything, it has gotten more vicious, with all sorts of a href="http://tonypua.blogspot.com/2009/08/two-face-najib.html"evil, ficticious and malicious allegations/a thrown at the opposition.br /br /So, MCA and Gerakan, why aren't you saying anything? Will you quit and hope to survive or will you stay to see through the nail in the coffin for your respective parties?div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37045477-6562911324388160120?l=tonypua.blogspot.com'//div

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