What is ’sabotage’?
UMNO has announced that it will punish saboteurs.
I think this goes against democratic principles as party members should be free to act. Sabotage is a just a bad word for protest.
For example, if I don’t like a leader ‘cos he says different things to different audiences, I may decide not to help out putting up party flags, if I am a party member. As a member of any political party, am I obliged to follow orders from anyone?
Let’s say I am a PKR member. Am I obliged to help out during elections? No, not really. There is no requirement in the constitution that says over the election I must be present at some location for at least X number of hours. In the spirit of democracy, if my particular branch or division leader is not particularly appealing, I don’t really have to support him.
But can I campaign on the other side to bring down the party? Will this be disloyal? It really depends how you see it. Some members may feel that by not campaigning or helping the opposition they are saving the party from such personalities. Why should they be punished? It’s a democratic freedom even within the party.
I am aware, please correct me if I’m wrong, that UMNO has a rule, fairly new, that says those who have campaigned for other parties cannot join or rejoin UMNO. Why not? People change their minds as they have more information, mature, etc. Why should being part of a party demand such extreme loyalty? Anyway, people cross parties all the time. Look at Kelantan, Ibrahim Ali was from UMNO and contested under PAS this time.
I feel it’s ridiculous to punish saboteurs. If the leadership can’t hold the party together, they should resign. Your members are telling you they rather WATCH TV than help your candidates.
If there are any saboteurs, they`ve already left the party. This a `bogey` UMNO bosses create to salvage their pride and massage their own egos.
If there ever was a saboteur it was Badawi who got UMNO deregistered. He is the one they should really go after.
Agree. Ha ha ha.
another smokescreen effect by umno gold diggers.
ngeh!!!
Jed: “Sabotage is a just a bad word for protest.”
Like “communists” and “zionists”, being the ’serve-all-purpose ‘curse words’ meant to substitute for irrational hatred from the likes of UMNO.
“Let’s say I am a PKR member. Am I obliged to help out during elections?”
If not, that means you are “mou yee hei”. But in this (UMNO) case, it’s more like an excuse or smokescreen.
Politics in its basic sense means how one relates to another person/persons. Individual right to freedom = you are free to vote whoever is the best at that time.
So by going after saboteurs BN does not understand basic politics nor do they respect indiviual rights of Malaysians.
BN so called polticians went into politics to “make money”. They are not there to “berkhidmat untuk Rakyat…BUT only to serve their self interest while still thinking they can CONN ALL MALAYSIANS ALL THE TIME”.
I’m technically a BN saboteur kekekekek…
I come from 2 generations of solid MCA stalwarts - my late grandfather and my parents.
Now I actively support the opposition (PKR, Anwar Ibrahim, yeeehah !) and managed to convince my parents to vote DAP in their constituency this time round….for the sake of their grandchildren’s future…
If they want to behead the ’saboteurs’ who really lost them the election…
Bye-bye Lingam, bye-bye wimpy Badawi, bye-bye Kerimuddin, bye-bye C4-Najib… etc
kittykat > Technically you are sacked from BN .. LOL ..but i dont think the vast majority who sabotaged give a darn 2 sens about being sacked unless they are in for the gravy train.Most if not all who put party posters , you know la which camp ,were doing it because they were PAID ! Hmmm wonder if these were among the group of members who will be sacked.