The VKC Led Propaganda

Last Friday, our local boot-licking columnist, V. K. Chin, decided that more propaganda is needed to please his political masters. The HINDRAF rally is yet again his focus for storytelling and it's a tale that is convincingly misleading (can this two words go together?). Perhaps he's hoping that one day he will land on the Minister of Misinformation job if he's seen as the most prominent boot-licker of his time.

When talking about spin-doctors, the Malaysian government surely has a lot of volunteers. But government boot-licker far outnumber these spin-doctors. At least we know spin-doctors are politically motivated, perhaps even understandable for the government to have such people. But for boot-licker...let's just say it irritates me to no end.

Okay...back to this wonderful tale, which I think the writer should be praised for the effort - must certainly have put in a lot of hard work on it seeing how far it now resembles from reality. Not to belittle his effort, I think that Mr. Chin should reassess his analysis on which group is actually manipulating Malaysian when he said the following:

Their pro-active stance is to counter the negativity generated by the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf), which was responsible for several illegal demonstrations in the Klang Valley recently.

Unless the majority stands up and be counted, the constructive contributions of other NGOs could be negated and the Indian agenda would then be manipulated by a very small noisy group prepared to break the law to achieve their objective.

And the writer continued to say, quite adamantly I must add, that these people - all 30,000 of them were duped into a making a protest. Duped into making a protest out of nothing apparently. Duped into thinking that the government has marginalized them with their racist policies. Duped into thinking that those Hindu temples that were bulldozed over were mere illusions conjured up by some minority group. Duped into thinking that they are all stupid. Well, actually it's just that the writer believe these people who got "duped" are stupid people. For how else would Mr. Chin justify that a person can be duped on so many things?

So, let me summarize what Mr. Chin is trying to say - he thinks and believes, without a doubt, that all 30,000 of his fellow Malaysians are dumb and don't really know how to think for themselves. If not why else would he make comments such as these?

"Those responsible for such unlicensed gatherings are good at using the gullible to support them by making all sorts of promises, financial or otherwise, they can never hope to keep.

"In response to such temptations, some of them had been misled into participating in illegal gatherings and processions, resulting in their arrest.

"The dropping of the attempted murder charge is sensible since many of them were duped into committing the offence because they were being made use of.

Putting the talk of tales aside, the HINDRAF rally was a huge success if we look at how the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) President is now saying that he'll reform his party; that a council will be formed to address so-called "Indian problems" (they are Malaysian problems by the way); and that there will be more help for the Indian community in the future, e.g. in raising the level of education.

At least the rally - regardless of it being held without the ever-elusive permit - managed to raised the amount of attention and awareness needed by the community. It really boggles the mind that the government were not aware of the problems faced by the rakyat. Or perhaps our government knew, but just didn't care enough to do much. That says a lot about MIC's performance in its supposed role in championing the "Indian needs" in the country - bad, very bad.

All that V. K. Chin knows how to do is tow the line - even if it meant issues are swept under the carpet. To him, adhering to proper channels are more important than raising awareness. He cares nothing about what happens to the community, but he certainly feel irked when people started rocking the boat. How dare they! And to stop this uncalled for "rocking of the boat", he will continue to condemn - however untruthfully - the very people who has managed to pushed the government into making the changes, which we are now seeing the government scrambling to put in place before the coming election.

Perhaps the writer should stand in the coming election under BN instead of pretending to be a journalist.