A Plea to Pray for the Nation

My dear friends, especially those who still consider Malaysia your home, do you realize that we are at a very critical stage in the history of our nation. The events of the next 12 months will more or less determine the direction of our nation for our children's generation and their children's generation. We either become a basket case or pull back from the brink and start rebuilding again.

20/30 years of pillage and wastage under the UMNO led Govt has done almost irreversible damage. Even if there is a change of govt, the new govt may need more than a term to clean up the mess. What will even be more difficult is to change the mindset of the populace whom are addicted to subsidies and mediocrity. We must not be under any illusions that getting rid of the present govt will solve all our woes overnight. But it will be a new beginning.

However, humanly speaking it is impossible to unseat the current govt. Do you know that because of the delineation of the electoral boundaries BN needs only to win 15.4% of the popular vote by winning in all the small seats to win by a simple majority? (See here). Kapar, an opposition held seat is 7 times bigger than Putrajaya, a BN held seat. Majority of these rural and small seats are held by the BN.

The above is only one example of the non level playing field in our electoral system. Unfortunately, it was not included among those 8 demands made by Bersih. This together with Bersih's 8 areas of concern if not rectified will akin to playing a football match with the no. of players of a basketball team for the Opposition parties.

I do not believe anything will change before the next GE. As such, short of divine intervention, we will still have a govt that is going to continue to mismanage and loot the nation until it is bankrupt. We will still have a govt who will continue to make use of the public institutions such as the police, civil service, judiciary etc to remain in power and passed more draconian laws to stifle dissent. We will still have a govt who will continue to use race and religion to divide us in order to maintain its hegemony.

My dear friends, whatever your religion may be, if you believe in God, can I invite you to just spend 5 to 10 minutes a day to pray for our nation. To pray for justice and righteousness to be established from Perlis to Sabah? To pray for God fearing leaders to be raised up to serve the nation. Thank you.