Monday, April 16, 2018

Constantly lying

#UndiRosak is about sending a message, not about ‘change’

By Hafidz Bharom

Our rights as voters is to just not vote for them or spoil our votes to make them change within themselves.




I thank Chew Jian Li for clarifying his gender in his letter, “A spoilt vote will not bring you the change you want”.

I remained neutral in my letter to his earlier reply, to keep from giving offence by using the wrong pronouns. I am honoured that he has read up my pieces on waste-to-energy technology in Malaysia, which I still support.

I am sorry to hear about your mother’s business, but yes, I still back the GST rather than the SST.

That being said, I wonder whether Chew thinks only one side is offering “dedak” or animal feed – an offensive word coined by Dr Mahathir Mohamed himself to describe direct transfers of welfare by this government which was done in lieu of granting blanket subsidies in the form of the 1Malaysia People’s Aid (BR1M).

For those unfamiliar, BR1M is similar to the implementation of Bolsa Familia in Brazil.

Now, the problem with Pakatan Harapan in this instance, after calling it bribery (as labelled by Azmin Ali in December 2016), after Mahathir called it dedak (June 2016), is that it decided to continue the programme.

That hypocrisy is self-evident. So, if we disbelieve in giving dedak and bribery as these two labelled it, and they themselves have U-turned from this decision as per their manifesto, do you actually believe they have changed?

Let us not forget, Mahathir was a fellow who wanted to remove Ambiga Sreenivasan’s citizenship over Bersih (Feb 2013), which led to DAP leader S Ramakrishnan calling to revoke his citizenship over “Project IC” (Feb 2013).


There are a million and one contradictions to Mahathir that are somehow being whitewashed right now – the latest one is him denying even owning The Loaf which just shut down, as if we couldn’t just access the Companies Commission and show him lying.


Latest: Mahathir informed Singapore Straits Times he owned The Loaf, and tried to sell his lifestyle bakery and bistro in order to raise funds for the 14th general election.


This is the biggest problem with our former prime minister – he lies too much. From saying he “never abused the ISA”, to saying, “he wants to continue tolls” and then backtracking in the PH manifesto, to only apologising for using a certain word due to backlash and fear of losing the Malaysian Indian vote.

While Chew is correct that I’ve omitted mentioning Mahathir, it’s because I don’t see him as the saviour Chew does.

After all, Chew forgets the multiple failed projects of Mahathir such as the Plaza Rakyat, the Bank Negara Forex loss, Perwaja Steel, BMF Holdings which even Lim Kit Siang wrote a book against it and is now mum about it, independent power producers (IPP) with jacked up prices, MISC, the Bakun Dam project and many more.


Plus, I do believe Chew forgets that PKFZ was done during Mahathir’s time. It started in 2002.

Of course, for PH altogether, there’s also backtracking on free education and yet offering “free EPL” and the lack of funding a shadow cabinet, but let’s not go there.

For sure I’m unhappy with Barisan Nasional as well, but while you are focused on the racial and the loss of billions, along with the rape of the environment for natural resources, mine is again on the economic side.

For example – I’m none too keen about microcredit schemes, nor am I keen on having RM500 million allocated to fund Integrated Building Systems (IBS) when we already have such factories in place.

At the same time, yes, I’m critical of giving money to Felda settlers in the form of a RM7,500 grant for every hectare for replanting – which happens in 20-year cycles, and settlers should have focused on saving for that. What happened there?

Now, Chew, allow me to correct one misinformed belief of yours. #UndiRosak won’t just be an issue with PH, but also an issue for BN as well. The only difference is PH supporters are more vocal on social media – yet many do not understand this.

Consider the following – just recently Wangsa Maju Umno rallied against the seat landing in MCA’s hands. What do you think would happen if this continues? Surely, the BN people might not vote for their own candidate by boycotting the election altogether or doing what we advocate in spoiling their votes.



Thus, those of us keen to spoil our votes will keep saying this – our votes will favour nobody, not PAS, not BN, not PH. They will have to win without our votes and rely on the other voters. If they fail to even convince other people to vote for them, that is their problem, not ours.

This is our right in democracy and if Chew believes we need political maturity in this nation, then this will either drag all political parties to do so, or they can disregard it and continue to watch the growing disinterest among voters in continuing elections.

And let us be frank, everyday Malaysians are at the mercy of political parties in which we have no direct say who should be the candidates in state assembly, in Parliament or even as prime minister – the way it works in Malaysia is that these are all in the hands of political parties.

Thus, if political parties want to continue being little fiefdoms of keeping the same old, same old leaders who have lost general elections time and time again, that is their right – our rights as voters is to just not vote for them or spoil our votes to make them change within themselves.

Finally, I would like to just clarify with Chew one final point – #UndiRosak is not about change, it’s about sending a message.


We voters are sick of the hypocrisy of all sides of the political divide. We are sick of the easiness of all sides to just turn the cheek in order to try and win the election. We are sick of old fossils dominating politics while the young and talented leaders are denied their chance to lead.

If the only “change” that PH can market is letting a constantly lying 93-year-old former prime minister to take centre stage rather than their own leaders who have toiled for 20 years denouncing him, then they don’t deserve my vote.




As for wanting their victory, I stand by my statement on a certain “Live” video – I can wait another five to 10 years until they fix themselves up.

I will reconsider my vote when they grow up in 2023, but for this year, I believe many more will spoil their votes out of the disappointment with both sides unable to cater to our needs and wants thoroughly, either by economic policies or even structural reformation.

16 comments:

  1. "dedak” or animal feed – an offensive word coined by Dr Mahathir Mohamed himself to describe direct transfers of welfare by this government......that is Bull...and Hafidz is resorting to lying.

    The term dedak was coined for unattributable funds suspected to be from derived from illegally siphoned 1MDB cash that was being liberally splashed around the Malaysian environment , to buy off the support for BNumno of various political beggars.

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  2. To spoil votes in order for cheating najib to rule forever.

    Kaytee can fuck himself

    Same battleplans and expecting miracle.

    I got an idea. Kaytee can crucify himself.

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  3. Methink, this #undirosak is a double edged sword yet to show it's real effects whether to BN or to PH until the election is over and counted based on %voter turnout and Spoilt votes.

    Which level of ignorance are the majority of #undirosak proponents, is more important in order to establish it as a significant level of threat.

    We have two types of ignorance: circumstantial and selective. Selective ignorance must always be treated as the enemy and never trusted.

    We cannot expect a Kalahari bushman to know how to trade stocks nor can we expect a NY stock trader to know how survive in the Kalahari desert. Both can learn over time and if the need arises to perform what is unknown and seemingly unnatural to them. This is circumstantial ignorance.

    Selective ignorance is when one has the capability to learn and the opportunity to learn and yet no action or effort is made to learn and so change behaviour. There are those, for example, who wear it as a badge of honour that they still do not know how to use a computer. What these individuals choose to ignore is that they are surrounded by computers.
    They are only interested in what is good for them now. They are not interested in the long term as they already know that their defence of “it's not my fault” has worked, does work and will always work regardless of what evidence to the contrary they have witnessed. They will never admit it is their what they choose not to know that has the greatest impact on them and those around them.

    So, what level of ignorance behavior are the majority of #undirosak proponents?

    It looks like, the majority are having selective ignorance, does it not?

    As for PH worried about #undirosak be the ultimate weapon to deny them victory, lets look at it objectively. I say this because Sun Tzu says:

    "If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; If you know Heaven and know Earth, you may make your victory complete."

    And how do you do that?


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    1. No time to read your whole statement......Need to save my precious brain cell

      Double edge sword.......More like stupidity and idiocy

      Like the brits climbed up the trenches and marched very slowly towards the enemy

      I strongly suggest you watch blackadder goes forth over and over again.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rblfKREj50o

      I don't mind ktemoc says that he is captain blackadder. Always try escape from battle......hahahahaha

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    2. Whilst I have no plans to #Undirosak, I won't say its selective ignorance on their part but instead is their expression of their disillusionment especially with Pakatan parties over their acceptance of their former arch enemy Mahathir and his Pribumi party into the Pakatan fold and especially with Mahathir being made chairman.

      Many of the #Undirosak people were part of the Reformasi movement and Anwar loyalists and I believe also DAP loyalist who feel a sense of betrayal, whilst the leadership of Pakatan parties regard the alliance with Mahathir and Pribumi as a necessary strategic alliance to have a decent chance to beat BN and win control of the federal government.

      Of course by their #Undirosak action, they could well be denying the Pakatan parties a chance of winning, especially marginal seats, so they could de-facto be aiding the BN. However, I have heard that some BN voters are also considering #Undirosak because they don't like Najib or are upset with something but do not want to vote for Pakatan parties.

      In a war situation, an overzealous private lying in ambush may decide to fire at the enemy before the squad commander gives the order to fire when the enemy is in the most vulnerable position, thus alerting the enemy of their presence too soon and by doing so jeopardising the safety of his own comrades and in doing so de-facto aids the enemy.

      Anyway, I really would like to see the number of spoilt votes in GE14, since this will reveal how effective social media campaigns such as #Undirosak really are and how big this #Undirosak movement really is.

      On another note, I love your statement:-
      "Selective ignorance is when one has the capability to learn and the opportunity to learn and yet no action or effort is made to learn and so change behaviour. There are those, for example, who wear it as a badge of honour that they still do not know how to use a computer."

      I know some people who know WhatsApp backwards and claim to "have learned computer" when they don't even know how to check their own e-mail or write a letter on computer and when I offer to teach them for free, they give all kinds of excuses as to why they can't.

      Using a computer for office work involves more than just knowing the technical aspects but also knowing the clerical/secretarial aspects such as knowing how to store attachments in correspondingly name folders, by subject and so forth, which actually is common sense.

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    3. Aiyoh! PH supporters only thinks of battles without forming alliances and turning Nature around to be your ally.

      #undirosak is a threat with most of the people having selective ignorance. But there are about equal numbers of both PH and BN supporters in them.

      If I were to say, PH needs to populate those #undirosak proponents with more BN supporters than PH supporters, would that help?

      For, as #undirosak virus keeps spreading among whichever party supporters, victory belongs to those who knows how to turn weakness to strength.

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    4. Again disillusion leading to more years of tyranical rule under najib. Not otak rosak kah.....

      Fuck u cheebye la. This is not a game of cards. This is our life we are talking about. Seriously, i will tell maryam lee

      Get married and be housewife. Better

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  4. To say they only send out a message, are not influencing or asking for any change is really naïve. Everyone who care about this country will tell you, there is no time to waste, this GE 14 if we don’t make it we hope to at least to make it close to a “2-party system”. To do that we need everyone, including those #OtakRosak to cross against the PH’s logo come GE14. While so many have worked so hard, sacrificing so much to try to achieve the change, these naïve irresponsible cried babies canvass for more people to join them to sabotage the effort of those who have sacrificed. They have their right to spoil their votes but they have no right to spoil so many people hard-worked dream.

    Claiming also not happy with BN, in the heart yearning for change but doing nothing, just “wishing the system to change merely by sending out a message?” What a bunch of losers or is it God owes them a living mentality?

    Not happy with BN but doing a #UndiRosak will surely help to entrench BN’s rule and making it difficult to even close the gap to achieve a 2-party system, let alone winning the GE14. By then hope they’ll remember what they said now that “it’s not their problem!”. Oh! he also said he can wait another 5 to 10 years! Hope by then he won’t need to supplement with a 2nd job as suggested by Ahmad Maslan!

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    1. we don't like UMNO because of Mahathir, his rule, policies, projects and his cronies, and now you want us to vote for him as PM?

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    2. So u like pinklips bcoz of umno?

      Since u don't like mamak, then stay put in Oz. We don't need no shit-stirrer!

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    3. I have already u ck....never ever mention the scottish play. He did nong nong time ago and he nearly get his kukuciao cutoff

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    4. If they cannot bring themselves to vote either BN or Pakatan, how about voting for a third party such as PAS, PRM, PSM, Rajah Bomoh or an independent then? After all, there will be plenty more choices in most seats this time round. At least that's not #Undirosak.

      Also, yes Malaysia does not have a two-party system, instead we have a an over 20 party system, with 13 in BN, 4 in Pakatan, PAS, PSM, PRM, Rajah Bomoh and some other more obscure parties, plus independents.

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  5. Sorry sorry sorry......on close observation

    cheebye kaytee is more like that fucking Captain Darling in Blackadder Goes Forth

    How I wish I can torture kaytee that way

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu6YFBQOB3c

    I love every moment if I have chance in laying hands on kaytee

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    1. everyone, please ignore and / or tolerate looes74 - he's a bit off his rocker. A Malaysian (from Perak) who chose to be a Sing and lives sometimes in the UK, he's in short, MA,. wakakaka

      a secret, he likes to fellate Din Merican, wakakaka again

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    2. Sinkies should worry about their own politics lah. Have they resolve the LKY house dispute or did Lee Junior laid down the ISA threat on his siblings?

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    3. Watch very carefully captain darling. You truly fit the bill. Cheebye kaytee

      Me....captain blackadder takes pleasure in torturing u if i am able to

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