I’m Not Feeling It.
I’m getting a little anxious right now. I’m just not feeling the love. I’m not feeling the solidarity. I cannot “Walk With Us“. I think there’s something wrong with me. I trawled through the news sites and the socio-pundekpunditry blogs. I feel the peer pressure to unite even if I’m just a “junior blogger”, and not even one of them retiree bloggers that Mr. Ooi asserts are those “who command the powerful good old English — ingredients for articulate communicators …“. But I cannot.
All I feel is the hypocrisy. All is see is that the Walk With Us guys are “penembak curi” and that Mr. Ooi, esq. has not only refused to vilify them for being snipers, but is actually pointing people to that blog. I see the mealy-mouth, wishy-washy reasoning being accepted as self-evident truth. Giving analysis on prejudice and subjudice … peh! A conspiracy under every rock, stone and arse … peh! Oi dudes! You think you so smart, come out and play lah. You got so big cojones to analyse this, analyse that, but no cojones to say who you are. Peh!
Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not “walking with” the Riong Four and NSTP. Nor am I for the two defendants. I just think that since the plaintiffs seem to think that they have been aggrieved in some way — exactly what way, though, has not been made public — then within the law, they have every right to seek redress. And the defendants have every right to defend themselves. Making the assumption that we live in a civil society (granted, not all Malaysians believe that), then this is only right and proper. If the law is being used this way, then we should let it run its course. If the law gets subverted in any way, then we fight.
I get uncomfortable with the whole Bloggers Unite!, Walk With Us thing because sometimes it seems to run too close to looking like mob mentality.
I sometimes get the feeling that the same people who think that the PM and his government are populated by people who dig holes in the ground to bury their heads in are doing the same thing themselves.
Bloggers Disunite!