The Impotence of Being Earnest

Change is good. Change for the better even better.

But a change to the past where feudalism rules and where people swing to support the royalty and their decisions on our behalf plus their perceived infallibity is no change at all.

It is the impotence of being earnest for change without any idea or aim or objective or target but change itself.

Consider Terengganu, Perak, Perlis and Penang.

Everyone in the four states have been earnest to make changes but have shown the impotence of such changes.

Terengganu is in for a showdown between the palace and the proletariat and in Perak, the new Menteri Besar looks set to be a palace pawn as is possibly the case in Perlis.

While those who claim to be liberals and can live without the NEP are upset with Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng for his strident pronouncement of doing away with parts of the NEP that lead to corruption, cronyism for a particular community but ensure a fair and transparent system for all.

Apart from the completely unnecessary scrapping of summonses and fines in Penang and Perlis together with Selangor doing away with charges for the first 20 cubic metres of water for households.

Its populism gone amok. And again, the impotence of being earnest.

The Siber Party of Malaysia (M) does not agree with such moves at the various states. We want a break from the past, a break from populism but a break towards a Malaysia with Malaysians finally independent after 50 years of independence.

We owe nothing to the palace or the politicians. We owe it to ourselves to have a government of the people, by the people and for the people.

Not for state rulers to decide on some whimsy to appoint their pawns or for politicians on some fancy to scrap fines or rates. We want substance not just sweet nothings like placebos to placate us.

We want - to borrow the words of Zaid Ibrahim - them to do the job, not keep the job!