Broery Marantika and Sharifah Aini: Seiring Sejalan

PINGING ON PATRIOTISM NOW!

SBY wants a peaceful solution or a headline starkly portrays, a caption that arrives from nowhere and in parallel with showcasing a truly troubled situation or more like a war that all want to avoid. But wait a minute or was there any indication towards a belligerent encounter in the first place? There wasn’t any, why the hullabaloo then and from nowhere apparently. There were some flag burning and shit slinging but are we going into battle for that? Or when was the initial call or the battle cry first sounded? A forward looking and great thinker once said that Patriotism and the likes are the last or the main refuge of the scum of the earth. And a group of people and of the same are playing on similar notion, so what can we make of them except that they are the scourge of the universe and together with the evil agenda behind their surreptitiously planned: initiative its not the good of all that they are designing! Umco wants to alarm the people into earnestly supporting them because of an impending war with a close neighbor! What bullshit and a logistical and tactical nightmare to go fight a state that has millions of her subject legally or illegally entrenched inside one’s own backyard and the potential enemy operatives are everywhere- towns, cities, jungles and plantations! When things are not hunky dory that umco wants to invoke war but a virtual one and in the immediate aftermath of jibby’s whisper – whisper to SBY, if only to make believe one of such. Of course SBY would comply, what’s there to lose but everything to gain for him. His people will still send money home and that helps the economy a lot. Furthermore a ruling party in a neighboring land asks for assistance even though a bit cloak and dagger but far from harmful and for dramatics only. Should the administration be the PR and it asks the same from The President, he would also agree as the little happenings are quite part and parcel of International Relations. Yet things must not be allowed to go overboard or else there could be, an International crises to handle. Just consternation that umco still wants to bluff the rakyat but people can now read through their actions and pretty much whatever blueprints they put forward, concurrently, comes back at them and splat - right in their faces! They are just too desperate that they even call people other than their ilk dirty and a hotshot from their consociation asks people to trust him when he says that his party is still relevant!