My thoughts on the aftermath of ...

What would happen to you if you make trouble, whether on the football field, or in school, or anywhere else as long as what you do is construed as trouble. You will be punished, won't you ? Related by no less a person than the PM of Malaysia himself, we are informed that this Anwar fellow has been causing trouble for years - during the tenureship of at least 4 Prime Ministers. We are also told that the recent demonstration on July 2011 in Kuala Lumpur is masterminded by Anwar. Why then is Anwar not arrested since, apparently, he has been making troubles from as far back as in the 1980s. Why then is he allowed freedom of movement to go overseas and license to speak vociferously against the present government with no action taken against him when he comes back. Why is then no action against him ? Why is he not apprehended ? It makes us wonder whether those in authorities are scared of "international" repercussions, as though by apprehending Anwar Ibrahim, the country may suffer a boycott of our exports, chiefly palm oil and electriconic (my word) goods. The trouble is ever since Mahathir left the government in 2003, the administration seem to be powerless to act against dissent and those who continuosly questions the constitution on Malay rights, the Sultan's sovereignity.

The KL traders, numbering about 5,000 are complaining that they lost about RM 100,000,000 in business due to demonstration on July 9th. What loss of business ? The takings or profits were merely deferred to the next day or to the days after. The money they stand to make is not forever gone but merely postponed. It's simply like a public holiday on that Saturday. The RM 20,000 per day that each trader makes on the average is too much. That's the trouble with the business people in KL; all they think is money, with never a thought to the plight of other people in the villages and small towns in the country.

Just imagine, today I read somewhere that taxi drivers are complaining about loss of business on the day of the demonstration. Serves them right. This is one of the groups of businessmen I love to hear of their plight. For years, the taxi drivers of Kuala Lumpur have taken tourists and local folks alike for a "ride", charging them at exorbitant prices, never using the meter, never bothering to ply their taxis along the roads, always parking their taxis under shades and making idle gossips instead of using their taxis to pick up passengers, always giving reasons for not picking up passengers because of traffic jams, rain, the distances to the destinations are too short, and so on. Sometimes the reasons are too incredulous.

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