APRIL 21 ― If this is the way its gonna be, so be it. F*** the whole idea of idealism and changing things for the better. This town is going to the dogs. Literally. Cant open your mouth except to praise the dear leader or carry him on your back while cheering his refusal to answer the simplest of questions. Maybe the whole stream of consciousness beat generation gonzo Hunter Thompson Joyce Kerouac bull**** is the only way to go in this land of fools. So I feel the worst for the cartoonist dude. If he was gonna be arrested it should have been for poor wit and grammar not fricking sedition and that too nine times. Overkill much? Then you have this army of sycophants coming out of the woodwork to call one old man gods gift to the country and another army cheering for a guy whose only redeeming quality seems to be keeping silent. Whose winning you ask? Certainly not the guys who come at the thought of chopping body parts or the doctors who will temporarily stop being doctors so they can butcher fellow humans. Not the guy in Sungai Buloh prison for an act he may or may not have committed but certainly not one that would be criminal if we weren’t the worst kind of hypocrites. And certainly not you or me having to fork out bloody GST at every step for things I didn’t even know could be taxed, like the kopi o I am drinking right now. But ill tell you who is winning. The fat chinaman whose smirk urgently needs to be wiped out like yesterday and all the sleazy guys loitering in Putrajaya producing stress balls that distress everybody who is not laughing through their tears at another few million ringgit down the goddamn toilet. All the people getting soft loans which clearly never have to be repaid all the new entrepreneurs who can only innovate new ways to scam the softest target of all the government of whatever money is left in the evaporating gravy train. Imbecilic fat cops who suddenly seem to have unlimited powers and mediums to make people wear purple. Custodians of race religion and royalty who can.not.never.ever be criticised on the pain of unlimited jail time while they use the very same things to create divisions between us and fling terms like pendatangs and ketuanan. Basically everybody on the other side of the line of those who have been silenced. And one more thing I am afraid bloody afraid of all the same things all normal people are of losing family respect money and time in exchange for the freedom to shoot my freaking mouth off. But my loathing for those that have put me in this situation in this instance has overcome my fear. So screw you to generals and gerrymandering despots everywhere who seize power live it up and tell us that they are only in power because the people requested it and need it and cannot imagine a life without them at the top therefore are given only the news and views that our tiny little minds can take and of course cannot even imagine our rulers to be anything less than perfect and the ones that do are malcontents who must be exterminated like vermin. Screw you to those who think a world class education policy is one that produces generations of unquestioning sheep happy to live on the margins of financial intellectual and physical poverty and still be grateful for the occasional brim like crumbs thrown at them every once in a while. And what about cabbies the falling ringgit the impossibility of buying a house anywhere within a gazillion miles of KL and non existent traffic rules and snatch thieves and duit kopi and lazy bureaucrats and censorship and the IS bogeyman and MH370?
Dunno, but I am feeling distinctly better.
*This is the personal opinion of the columnist.
