{"id":977,"date":"2007-11-11T06:52:52","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T06:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=977"},"modified":"2007-11-11T06:52:52","modified_gmt":"2007-11-11T06:52:52","slug":"vote-for-cleanliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=977","title":{"rendered":"Vote For Cleanliness!"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nI’m all for peace and harmony.<\/p>\n

However, when you’re having dinner at a mamak near Paul’s Place and it gets raided and you get sent to a lockup too, you know that there’s something wrong with the people in authority.<\/p>\n

When you get police knocking on your door and you so unfortunately know someone and you become the scapegoat suspect, you know you’re screwed<\/s> the system is screwed (and it will screw you too).<\/p>\n

Now if you’ve committed an offense, like driving under the influence of alcohol, and you get off with a lighter fine<\/i>, that is corruption which does not seem so bad compared to people who have not done anything wrong who are thrown into deeper shit.<\/p>\n

I’m a registered voter and I will vote.<\/b> Even if the average apathetic Malaysian thinks there is no point, that everyone else thinks peace<\/i>, I think that the people in authority should not be complacent.<\/p>\n

“Why bother? Not like it will change anything.<\/i>”<\/p>\n

It’s that attitude that does not change anything.<\/b><\/p>\n

I hope that the crowd who showed up for the Bersih Rally<\/a> and braved the rain, chemical or otherwise, and the smoke, (from cars? Unlikely…) will do their duty. Shift the statistics. Show them that we care about where we’re going.<\/p>\n

Azira<\/a> and Su Ann<\/a>, you guys are my heroes.<\/p>\n

A question though: How does anybody know the true number of people who showed up? 100<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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