Our Dear PM admitted his side’s defeat, and blamed it on the loss of war at cyberspace. Honestly, I do not share the same view. As far as I heard, I’d seen and I remembered, his alliance party BN employed and set up a cyber-troop to counter the criticism from the bloggers and writers on alternative news media. The trace is blatantly obvious, and until I refused to categorize those writers as mere supporters. Sometimes I felt they had overdone such things, forcefully feeding people with all the parties’ statements, propaganda comics and essays. They seemed just know how to copy and paste and spread around the same stuffs, but lack of involvement and commitment in debating, especially debate with real substance! Just take a look at www.thefreemedia.com, you could immediately spot the existence of such employed ‘cyber troops’ (this website is in mandarin, so, behind those employed writers the boss most likely to be MCA or Gerakan). Yes, cyber troops from UMNO side also intruded website like Malaysia-today.net, causing a lot of troubles for Raja Petra Kamarudin (the webmaster) to delete the offensive spam comments day by day.
Don’t forget that, in fact BN launched an interactive and definitely professional website for campaigning and canvassing votes. There is also one whole day BN spent on advertisement at MSN live messenger… judging on that scale of money they threw in, they still don’t get the effect or result they want, so what goes wrong? Is it just because BN lost cyber war, or because BN lost the arguments or ideology to capture the voters’ heart and mind, that caused Malaysia’s political tsunami?
Those statements that PM made 2 days ago, it demonstrates that he is still live in denial, and tried so hard to find a scapegoat to dump his excuse to explain his disastrous ‘victory’ to fend off the increasing critics within his party upon calling him to step down. Pak Lah's action is just as 'clever' as Dr. Mahathir and his ally to point all the blames on him. Maybe blaming each other is UMNO party's culture, i don't know. I just know that somebody still hasn’t changed and learned from mistakes. Now, the political game is still on. The current internal rife (and later), just display how much BN politicians concern about their own political survival and influence, party ranking and position, instead of showing their care about people’s interest. This is how BN politicians lost touch with people, and lost big in election.
Talking about theFreeMedia.com
Well, as far as the discussions in the forum website go, I don’t deny that even opposition supporters have to learn to engage their arguments in a constructive and intellectual way. Personally I plead to people who are using those websites: Show more maturity in thinking, so the experience of reading the discussion will make readers feel worthwhile to spend the time there and learning from each other. You know, so many years had gone by, the Free Media which was created even earlier than Malaysiakini Chinese version, the users/readers there are not seen improving much. I don’t know why, are Malaysians or just Chinese like to do personal attack or labeling or smearing when comes to discuss certain topics? On the contrary, when I compare The Free Media to Malaysia-today.net, the discussion area in latter website shows more substances, reveals more rational and mature thinking. Why do I feel this way, I don’t know why. Just disappointed, why can’t they put their points nicely to discuss, perhaps to persuade people to buy your ideas, instead of going all out to personal attack certain people or party? What is the use, as if what you did will win the argument? I just don’t see the point.
That’s why I always advocate debating in public space. One must learn how to speak up his/her mind to contribute to the benefits of constructive pluralistic society. Defending freedom of expression is not just merely a slogan or a lame excuse for refusing to get yourself improving. Don’t tell me that you are ‘grassroot’ voice, so that you are allowed to use foul and derogative language. Stop that. I’m insulted, whoever the target of the speaker/writer is.
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