So we have been told to expect a “different” display of spectacle for this year’s Merdeka Day celebrations – by armed forces and police instead of cultural performances.
Wonderful! After all, the Armed Forces and PDRM have often taken the centrestage recently, haven’t they? Is the Army gonna show us the no-engine jets and submarines? The PDRM gonna show us how they have perfected shooting and interrigation methods that caused thousands of deaths in custody? Maybe the FRU can chip in with gas and water cannons.
Maybe the MACC and Attorney General department should join and do a sketch. This video shows they have great comedy timin.
It’s not that some of us are unpatriotic. But it’s bullshit to shout “Merdeka!” when among all the problems we face in the society, we cannot have justice for those who died as innocents. Independence? Freedom? Do you feel it? I don’t.
So the governemnt will be displaying a “show of force” for the celebrations. Maybe the Rakyat should too.
One of the high profile pending case is the Inquiry into Toeh Bang Hock’s death.
While many will be waving flags watching the government shoot bullets, cannons and fly jets… some of us will wear black and bear a white flower.
WHile they pat each other’s back and claim overtime one 1 Sept, we will be heading to Shah Alam to watch the comedic circle of AG/MACC at Beng Hock’s inquiry.
There will be laughters. But it will not be funny.
So Selamat Merderka. May the force be with us, the rakyat!
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