Friday, September 5, 2008

What Can I Do ?

I joined UMNO in 1997 as a member. From 1997 until now, only once i attended a cawangan meeting. I didn't even know who leads the cawangan from then till now. But during GE, i always vote for BN except in 2008.
I believe there are so many members of UMNO alike. They only registered once and later on chose to forget about it. Like me, we just wanted to be followers not leaders. We just want to see, hear but will never speak.
Recently UMNO wanted to do a clean up on their member list. I wonder how are they going to do it. If they are checking thru the opposition parties list, that will not be accurate. Those members alike will not take the hassle to write resignation letters. The best possible way is to contact the member individually. These will determine whether they would like to continue to be a member or not.
The question is does UMNO have the guts to do it? The numbers could be surprising and an embarassment to declare.
For me, i know what i should do .... because all the while i have nothing to loose.

Media Truth

"Hold strongly to the principle of truth as the credibility of an institution depends on it" said Dato Seri Abdullah Badawi, the PM.
Media truth and freedom of the press do not exist anywhere in this world. There always be bias in media reporting as long as human being do the reporting.
Media are controlled by their owner/shareholder/stakeholder which always takes side.
Mainstream media usually support the government of the day and the dominant political parties. So it is always expected to see NST or Utusan or The Star or TV3 etc reporting the way they do now.
Same goes to Harakah, Rocket, Siasah, Malaysia Today etc...Will Rocket reports bad things about LKS?Will Siasah call DSAI as a traitor?Will Harakah condemn Hadi about his political fatwa?
Well, that's how it was. Its a matter of setting the agenda and upholding the hegemony.