MCA Trying To Hide Its Ineffectiveness In Improving The Livelihood Of The People And Complete Failure To Prevent Rising Costs As Shown By The 20 Cents Increase In RON 97 Petrol To RM2.90 Per Liter
Former Wanita chief Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz’s rejection of Utusan Malaysia and Perkasa’s 1 Melayu, 1 Bumi movement because it will threaten Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s 1 Malaysia is not echoed by other top UMNO leaders. In fact, Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin has refused to disagree with the 1Melayu,1 bumi movement or even repeat Najib’s evasive answer of it being a only personal opinion of Utusan Malaysia’s editors.
DAP regrets that instead of mounting a campaign against Utusan Malaysia provocative, extremist and dangerous ideology, MCA Deputy President Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai has chosen instead to label DAP as real racists. What happened to MCA’s previous loud calls to boycott Utusan?
Has this latest MCA boycott campaign quietly fizzled out because of fear of Muhyiddin warnings that boycotting Utusan Malaysia could risk muzzling the voice of the Malay community as Utusan represented the voice of the Malays? It is inconceivable that a newspaper that endorses hatred, violence, racial dominance or supremacy and wants to celebrate the bloody May 13 tragedy that killed innocent Malaysians as a holy day, can represent the voice of the Malays.
No one is surprised that MCA has once again shown that it would do UMNO’s bidding by abandoning its proposed boycott Utusan campaign and obediently heed the “advice” given by Muhyiddin. However, it is surprising that MCA has instead decided to launch into a ferocious and rabid attack on DAP as the real racists. Clearly MCA feels that DAP is easier to bully than Utusan Malaysia a classic case of fearing the wicked and bullying the good.
MCA has no right to label DAP as racists when DAP is a multi-racial party fighting for all Malaysians regardless of race, religion, gender or even political affiliation. This is proven by PR’s good governance and record of treating all equally. Instead it is MCA and UMNO that are the real racists for fighting only for the Chinese or only for the Malays respectively.
There is no need for MCA to use the “empty fortress” strategm by threatening and frightening the Chinese voters to vote for MCA or else there will be no Chinese representation in government. MCA hopes to claw back popular support by using this “empty fortress” strategy to force the Chinese community to turn and run away from DAP.
MCA can easily regain lost popular support if MCA dares to fight the injustices, abuses of power and corruption perpetrated by UMNO. Sadly MCA has chosen to submit to UMNO’s dominance and play UMNO’s racial game of divide and rule. How can Liow Tiong Lai claim that this historic decision is a democratic one when it strikes against the basic democratic right of the voters to choose freely without fear of favour?
MCA is trying to distract attention from its ineffectiveness to improve the livelihood of the people and complete failure to prevent rising costs as shown by the 20 cents increase in RON 97 petrol to RM2.90 per liter.
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民主行动党秘书长兼巴眼区国会议员林冠英于2011年5月5日在吉隆坡发表声明：
RON97汽油价格又上调20仙至每公升2令吉90仙，马华还想掩饰自己没有能力改善人民生活水平、也完全没有能力阻止物价上涨的事实。
前巫统妇女组主席丹斯里拉菲达阿兹拒绝《马来西亚前锋报》和土著权威组织倡导的“一个马来人，一个土著”运动，因为这将威胁首相拿督斯里纳吉的“一个马来西亚”，证明其他巫统领袖并不响应。事实上，副首相丹斯里慕尤丁不愿反对“一个马来人，一个土著”，甚至像纳吉那样逃避问题，指说这只是《马来西亚前锋报》编辑的个人意见。
马华没有针对《前锋报》这种煽动性、极端和危险的意识形态发起反对运动，其署理主席拿督廖中莱反而将行动党标签为真正的种族主义者，行动党对此感到遗憾。马华之前大声说要抵制《前锋报》有何下文？
马华最近抵制《前锋报》 的运动已经不了了之？因为他们害怕慕尤丁所发出的警告，后者曾说《前锋报》代表马来人的声音，因此抵制这份报纸可能会因压抑马来社群的声音而有风险。这是不可思议的，《前锋报》宣导仇恨、暴力、种族至上和霸权，它甚至要庆祝许多无辜马来西亚人被杀害的“血腥513”，将之列为神圣的日子，这种报纸竟然可以代表马来人的声音。
对于马华再次服从巫统的命令和慕尤丁的劝告，放弃抵制《前锋报》，没有人会感到惊讶。 不过，马华反而指行动党是真正的种族主义，决定对行动党发动穷凶极恶的攻击，却是出乎意料的。很明显地，马华欺善怕恶，觉得行动党比《前锋报》好欺负。
马华没有资格将行动党标签为种族主义者，行动党是多元种族政党，不分种族、宗教、性别或政治背景为全国人民而斗争。这已经从民联的良好施政和公平对待各族的记录可以证明。相反地，马华和巫统才是种族主义者，因为马华只为华人而斗争、巫统只为马来人而斗争。
马华也没有必要摆“空城计”，用这种“不投马华就没有华裔代表”的策略来吓唬及威胁华裔选民。马华希望通过“空城计”逼使华社远离行动党，让马华赢回一点支持率。
如果马华敢敢地反对巫统所做着的不公义、贪污滥权之事，马华可以轻易地挽回支持率。可惜，马华选择屈服于巫统至上的淫威，并玩弄巫统“分而治之”的种族游戏。廖中莱怎么可以说这项历史性的决定是民主的决定？它完全违背“选民无畏无惧地投票”的民主原则。
RON97汽油价格又上调20仙至每公升2令吉90仙，马华还想转移视线，企图掩饰自己没有能力改善人民生活水平、也完全没有能力阻止物价上涨的事实。
林冠英