By C C Pung
Justice of Peace
My language skills are limited.
‘Fucked up’ is my best description of Sabah politics.
The fucked-up-ness is illustrated in the departure of two parties – SAPP and Star – from the socalled GRS coalition whose acronym is probably better off representing something else.
With the two departures which, like Malaysia’s favourite judicial acronym DNAA, GRS is living in a corpse.
I’ve long lost count of the strange fellows sleeping in GRS’ political bed and can’t fathom its belief system.
Having watched how Sabah came out of the White men’s colonial era and lived through years of colonialism by a people call Malayans who share my own skin colour, I thought we were done being naive and stupid, and that we were on the road to self determination, or autonomy, or any of those terms which turned out to be politically correct incorrect to the brown coolonialists and the nincompoop class in Sabah.
Cut the crap. Sabah is for Sabahans.
Why not?
AI tells me that the Romans built better roads than Malaysia where a Malayan PhD claimed that Malays taught the Chinese some knowledge eons ago.
Sabahans are not perfact.
But nothing can make me believe that we can’t run our own affairs without a species with a set of limbs like us and brains that consistently demonstrated mediocrity.
Yes, Sabah has all the reasons to rally behind the idea that we should be free from Malaya.
If the struggles of Palestians against Israel resonted with the Malayan power that be, why couldn’t they relate to the frustrations of the Sabahans.
The Palestians are occupied people.
Sabahans are a partner with Malaya in this country.
But we have been treated like were occupied.
No bombs ever fell on us, but our resources are stolen anyway
. We in Sabah have since time immemorial lived together, no race nor religion barrier, Muslims ate in non halal shops, churches are built next to mosques.
Now, Malayan big wigs demand we draw religious lines.
Non halal notices aren’t enough.
You are either Halal Certified or a ‘No Go’ zone.
That’s oppressing.
I lived through a period when satay stalls thrived at Chinese-run kedai kopi because non Muslim customers could drink beer, which went well with fragrant bbq satay.
That’s no more.
Quietly, some must be moving to ban alcohol, like they did in Negeri Sembilan state.
I’m not fond of alcohol. I like satay.
I hope that one push comes to shove, an Orang Sabah like me will be consulted.
Sabah for Sabahans. F off if you don’t think so.
