NO ELECTORAL REFORMS – NO ELECTION!

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In the Proclamation of Independence, the Father of Independence said in a one-sentence proclamation:

“Now in the name of God the Compassionate, the Merciful, I Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra …..…., the Prime Minister of the Federation of Malaya with the concurrence and approval of Their Highnesses the Rulers of the Malay States do hereby proclaim and declare on behalf of the people of the Federation of Malaya that as from ……..… the Federation comprising ……....is and with God’s blessing shall be forever a sovereign democratic and independent State founded upon the principles of liberty and justice and ever seeking the welfare and happiness of its people and the maintenance of a just peace among all nations.”

Fifty years after independence, if our beloved Tunku is alive today, he would be a heart-broken old man. For instead of a democratic State founded on the principles of liberty and justice where the people are living in unity and happiness, Malaysia is now an undemocratic State with neither liberty nor justice where the people are in turmoil and dangerously polarized in race and religion – more than ever in our history.

The state of this nation has never descended so low.

STATE OF THE NATION BAD

Our democratic institutions are in tatters, as exemplified by the unprecedented arrogance of power displayed in recent days in crushing the fundamental constitutional rights of peaceful citizens through the police force acting in cohort with the attorney general’s chambers and the courts. These three bodies, which are heavily corrupted as revealed in recent scandals and investigations, are increasingly identified as the triumvirate of oppression serving the illegitimate political interests of the ruling power. more...