Sunday 27 January 2008

Kesian To Our Former Colony

(Sultan of Johore and King Chulalongkorn in Singapore 1896)


I woke up 430am this morning. Running nose, body aching, body temperature 38.7 Celcius, all after the visit to San Francisco at Damansara Intan. It was cats and dogs that late noon. I must have been weaken by the rain. By the time I left Damansara Intan, the traffic was a nightmare. Nothing fear me most than to crawl along the NKVE on my way home. One of the fear instills these days are traffic jam after the rain at 6pm.

Pity, to those living in fear. I was told in America, the politicians, since the Second World War succeeded in creating fear among Americans. You hear people dig bunkers for fear of nuclear holocaust. Storing canned foods with infinite expiry date for fear of starvation. Fear of the former Soviet Union, just look at the way they potrayed the Russians as Big Huge Vicious Grizzly Bear later labelled it as Cold War. It was so effective that it reaches South East Asia shores like storm.

As a result, for many years we too live in fear as much as the American. The American propaganda machine was so successful that there are people in America who are afraid of going into the swimming pool for fear of Jaws.

As I grew up I learn that Americans love fear and addicted to it. Remember when they fear of Anthrax. The whole country postal services collapse. Well done Federal Express and DHL, your shares hits the ceiling at that time.

Now recent studies shows they have fear for Islam. After 9/11, anything with word of Islam will send shivers to the spine of the Americans. Islamic Countries to them full of people with long beard, turban, wearing dress code fit to put grenades tide to their bodies, a war machine. The fact there are large number of moderates Muslim doesnt matter. The American propagates if they don’t destroy Islam. Islam will destroy them. Let starts with Afghanistan, next Iraq, soon Syria and Iran so on and so forth.

On the whole, we don’t live in fear the way the Americans are now. Thanks to our former Prime Minister, with his sharpness and wit we laugh at Americans stupidity and arrogant foreign policy. It is well known American politician speaks of countries thousands of miles away from them without even visiting those countries.

Nevertheless today, I was very surprise when our former colony criticise us for allowing a two seater civilian plane from Koh Samui to fly over our airspace. All of the sudden they have this fear like the Americans, they close their airspace and sent two fighter jets to intercept this small plane that needed repair in the former colony. Or was it show of force. Whatever it is, I pity them.

They are living in fear like the Americans.

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