HOTPOT COUNTRY
When Umno politicians and legislators (remember Bung Mokhtar Radin, et al?) tell us, “leave if you don’t like it here”, perhaps one should listen to them for a change. After all, what a country… one steamy hotpot and why not let it stew in its own chillies, after which watch them screw it further and have their women suffer their handiwork? Today, racketeers run the country, the political parties, and the police department while their kids poke around the streets thieving from hapless women, and yet they can’t see that none of that happened by chance.
Here is a story of a man who got out, but not for political reasons it must be emphasised. He went to Greenland.
Rather, the point is this: train, get a skill, keep your ears to the ground, and always, always keep close to the guanxi 关系 (關係) – we’ve been through this before, remember? – and then with a little luck it is possible to make it, anywhere. qian shi bu wang, hou shi zhi shi 前事不忘，后事之师
GREENIE-LEFTIES
Ghani Ismail, fading reporting Star, aging Leftist, probably once a Marxist, now certainly an Islamist, wants us to go to the Islamic PAS party if DAP or PKR is not to our liking. Even so, he thinks there is a Red-Green alliance going, personified in persons like himself and very likely Elizabeth Wong as well. You might know what it is to be Green, religiously speaking, but what is it to be on the Left, being Red?
Here it is from a man who spent half his life living on the Left; in the very properly liberal Left. As a child, the parents of Jan Fleischhauer won’t let him eat oranges because they were grown in countries ruled by the conservative Right. Reminds you of the forbidden White garden fruits of Eden?
Reading Fleischhauer, you begin to see how the Red and the Green have anything in common: religiosity, dogma, prejudice, bigotry, intolerance and, above all, they are envious of McDonalds. The horror! The horror!
