Fly "Jalur Gemilang" Call - No Takers.
Deputy Information Minister Datuk Ahmad Zahid Hamidi is disappointed with the cool response from motorists to the campaign to fly the Jalur Gemilang flag on their vehicles. "The number of vehicles on the road flying the Jalur Gemilang is still small. A small Jalur Gemilang is not expensive. Don't just hope to get it free. "We celebrate the National Day once a year and I call upon the people to fly the Jalur Gemilang to show that we appreciate the country's independence," he told reporters here.
Of course Zahid Hamidi is absolutely right when he says that the response to the call to fly the national flag is very poor. However I disagree with the reasons he attributes to this 'cool reception' from the public. The people neither consider the flag as an expensive purchase nor are they expecting to get one for free in order to display it.
The reluctance to raise the flag has also nothing to do with anyone's patriotism. It merely reflects the national mood, which going by what is happening these days, ranges from despondency to total despair. The people have lost the confidence they had a few years ago in themselves and the nation's ability to weather all storms and still come out tops.
With Dr Mahathir queering the pitch and spooking the average Malaysian every second day and Pak Lah looking as indecisive as always, how can we be expected to rejoice on our national day? The extra burden of the fuel hike, the electricity tariff rate increase, higher prices of all essential commodities and a dozen other major and minor irritants in our daily lives have sapped our energies and left us wondering how to cope in the near future. This is therefore the wrong time to urge someone to fly the flag; and to accuse the citizen of being unpatriotic is adding salt to the wound.
I personally think that words such as patriotism shouldn't be simply bandied about. How patriotic is a corrupt politician who bilks hundreds of millions? Chances are that this very crook may fly multiple flags on all his ill-gotten properties and vehicles. Is he patriotic? Government ministers and other political leaders must understand what is really meant by the national mood and the reasons for such a souring of this mood. Please don't make a federal case out of this subject. The more you force the issue the more disappointed you will be.
Of course Zahid Hamidi is absolutely right when he says that the response to the call to fly the national flag is very poor. However I disagree with the reasons he attributes to this 'cool reception' from the public. The people neither consider the flag as an expensive purchase nor are they expecting to get one for free in order to display it.
The reluctance to raise the flag has also nothing to do with anyone's patriotism. It merely reflects the national mood, which going by what is happening these days, ranges from despondency to total despair. The people have lost the confidence they had a few years ago in themselves and the nation's ability to weather all storms and still come out tops.
With Dr Mahathir queering the pitch and spooking the average Malaysian every second day and Pak Lah looking as indecisive as always, how can we be expected to rejoice on our national day? The extra burden of the fuel hike, the electricity tariff rate increase, higher prices of all essential commodities and a dozen other major and minor irritants in our daily lives have sapped our energies and left us wondering how to cope in the near future. This is therefore the wrong time to urge someone to fly the flag; and to accuse the citizen of being unpatriotic is adding salt to the wound.
I personally think that words such as patriotism shouldn't be simply bandied about. How patriotic is a corrupt politician who bilks hundreds of millions? Chances are that this very crook may fly multiple flags on all his ill-gotten properties and vehicles. Is he patriotic? Government ministers and other political leaders must understand what is really meant by the national mood and the reasons for such a souring of this mood. Please don't make a federal case out of this subject. The more you force the issue the more disappointed you will be.
posted by The Malaysian. at 8/21/2006 03:17:00 PM
10 Comments:
If only my friend knew his address.
You see, he loves to sh*t on the house porch of people like ZAM and his deputy!
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