Sunday, May 5, 2013

There is no such thing as not voting ...



The following is a famous statement written by the German pastor Martin Niemoller (1892-1984). It is about the silence and sloth of German intellectuals following the Nazis' rise to power and the subsequent purging of their chosen targets, group after group. Simply because they did nothing, and kept silence, let Nazis, one by one, killing them violently.

It reminds me about how we Malaysian, also inaction and keep silence,  about this corrupted and abusing Government, for the last 56 years!

Simply we remained silent, and not to speak out, so we are abused for 56 years! Time to wake up ... 
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When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
because I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
because I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
because I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
because I wasn’t a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.

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"If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don't bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible reason to stay at home grumbling and watching TV on polling day.
By all means stay home if you want, but don't bullshit yourself that you're not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote."

                ----  the late David Foster Wallace, a writer.
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Enough is enough, so this is the time, in kali lah!!! Change, is the ONLY choice, 改朝換代....

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