Call to Bloggers to "Strike"

To Strike as in "To Stop Writing Posts". NO, NO, NO!

It's because of mainly the dereliction of duty of the mainstream media that THE NEW MEDIA, hich encompasses Blogging, found, continues to find, a niche of Readers who have given up of relying on the traditional media for information and news, rational views and meaningful discourse.

Indeed, it has been generally acknowledged, including by the present Government leaders from lowdown UMNO branch chairmen to the UMNO President, the Bloggers were a force that influenced the huge "swing" from the Barisan Nasional to the Opposition parties in the March 8, 2008 General Elections. Yes, the Fifth Estate thrived, will continue to thrive, precisely because the Fourth Estate basically failed in its role to be an independen channle or force in checking the excesses of the Executive, The Legislature dominated by BN, which also saw a emasculated Judiciary that had lost the confidence of the people it was supposed to serve justice in the courts of law.

And Bloggers had, are and will continue to play a crucial role in the Malaysian scheme of things. I rest, but my Blog writes will continue.

"No Strike," to mGf Rockybru, what has got into Thee?

Fellow Bloggers, don't fall for the Trap set by GEICs like ****Wong Chun Wai, apologist for his Master's Voice at MCA, and those at the NST and Utusan Malaysia, APs to their UMNO Masters' Voice.

Stay Alert, Stay Independent, Stay Relevant

Most Important of Awe,

Continue to Blog!

**** His "Sick, Tired and Fed-up" post made me sick, and almost casued me to puke -- luckily my CON BF was not taken yet. Nyet to some of his balls-carrying "fans" whose emissions rival their idol-GEIC double datuk's emission sounding so highly moral and righteous ...SEE IF YOU DETECT THE STENCH! >>>http://chunwai08.blogspot.com/2008/07/sick-tired-and-fed-up.html


1.38AM
Sundae, July 6, 2008
Desi's dae of rumination, quite capitalist indulgence in a few hours
of CONTINENTAL BREAKfast, 'quick, three laters of Skippy on french toast, no cap!', butt capuchino for this chinoserie, alrite!

IT'S UP TO YOU

Barbra Streisand sings:)


You can say what you got to say
Wherever you go, baby
I will find a way
I'm ready to go
anywhere you choose
It's up to you
You decide if I live or die
Wherever you go, baby
So will I
I'm ready to accept
your point of view
It's up to you
And there's something
about that way
You smile
Every touch leaves me helpless
Every moment drives me wild
I never saw the cause that made
[ Find more Lyrics at www.mp3lyrics.org/srt ]
You lie
I never said goodbye...inside
You can go where you got to go
Wherever you lead, baby
I will follow
I'm ready to be all
you want me to
It's up to you
And I walk in the dark and the
Candle burns
Out of place, your
face is missing
Come the day you return
My love on hold
This moment stops in time
The reason and the rhyme
Inside
You can go where you got to go
Where you lead, baby
I will follow
I'm ready to be all
you want me to

It's up to you


UPDATEd 10.38AM: My Esteemed Readers, Bloggers like Nathaniel Tan provide excellent reading which you normally don't get from the MSM, so that's another GOoD Reason while Bloggers should not strike! Mayhaps, when the funnies get thee down, take a hiatus, and if you win some at the Bursa Malaysia in a sliding market, go to Haiti for a VK-tion, don't bring any lawyer a-Long. Desi-OK-lah!:) Now surf to www.cpiasia.org and nore, there is a special section called BLOGGERS BUZZ!

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The Army is on our streets - What will you do in Malaysia’s hour of need?
Bloggers Buzz
Written by Nathaniel Tan
Sunday, 06 July 2008 07:52

By Nathaniel Tan

July 5, 2008

Some days, we feel that all the good fights have been fought; that all the important struggles are over and left to history. Some days, we feel like we are mere spectators in the great river of destiny.

Not this day.

Musa threatened the use of the army to “maintain public order,” and this day, he made good on the promise. Joint police and army exercises have already been spotted throughout the Klang Valley, ahead of tomorrow’s Perhimpunan Rakyat.

The men with big guns have arrived, poised perhaps to inflict on Malaysia its own Tiananmen.

I quote Adama via Shawn:

There’s a reason we separate military and the police: o­ne fights the enemy of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.

This is not a joke.

I spent my university years charting how failed states, especially in Africa, descended into brutal chaos.

I studied in careful detail the processes which started from corruption and theft - where greedy leaders learnt perfect lessons from their former colonial masters - slowly evolved into suspension of civil liberties, witch hunts, threats, and finally the desperate maintenance of power via the barrel of a gun.

Before long, all semblence of democracy, human rights, or basic decency and rights to life disappear. Places like Zimbabwe or Burma were not always as they are now; through insidious manipulation and an obsession with maintaining power at all costs, men have turned countries with vast resources and potential into wastelands of injustice and suffering.

A crucial crossroads in a descent to such wastelands is the question of how we deal with men who hold guns. Let me repeat:

There’s a reason we separate military and the police: o­ne fights the enemy of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.

Any government that fails to adhere to this principle, or begins to adopt anything resembling a loose attitude towards this separation, has lost all claim to the term ‘civilised.’

We no longer need to imagine whether it may ever happen here. Today, army personnel were already spotted surveying the streets of Petaling Jaya, a bankrupt attempt to instill fear into a populace that those in power hope will cower themselves into submission.

Today, the powers that be say to you, the rakyat: “We are willing to use a very big stick to keep you in your place. We don’t care about your votes, we don’t care about your rights, we don’t care about your welfare.

“If you do not keep your place, we will have you shot. By professionals.”

The first step towards Saddam’s Iraq, Idi Amin’s Uganda, Hitler’s Germany; wastelands of injustice and suffering.

What are you going to do about it?

Throught history, good men and women have resisted tyranny.

We talk about Gandhi and Martin Luther King as if they were saints who lived in the parallel universe of history.

Nonsense. Gandhi and Martin Luther King were mere humans like you and me. Tomorrow, we will be called to do what they did: Resist. And resist peacefully.

In honesty, I’ve grown weary of demonstrations. Of tear gas, water cannons and men in helmets with sticks. Tomorrow, we may get a few M-16’s thrown into the mix.

But now is not the time for weariness to be our watchword. Let us choose instead for our watchwords vigilance and vigour.

Let it never be said that when tyranny reared its ugly head, that you and I sat idly by and watched our integrity disappear on television.

Let us resist.

Let us leave behind just for a day our cynicism, our disillusionment, our despair.

Let us draw the line here, and no further.

Tomorrow, at the Kelana Jaya stadium at 10am, we will not be cowered by men with guns. We will not let our society fall victim to oppression, and lose forever all that Malaysia holds dear.

We will sacrifice our quiet Sunday morning to stand together to uphold justice, unity, and peaceful Sunday mornings for the children who will come after us.

We will resist.