#69: Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

At this time of the year, people will be writing about Christmas. Most of them. Perhaps.

Last year, at this time of the year, I wrote about politics.

So now, what's up with politics in this festive season?

Well, recently, Selangor Government has started the banning of the "1Malaysia" logo on advertisement billboards. Why?

Their reason is simple: No political party is allowed to display their logo or other related symbols in any billboards. (But this is with the exclusion of festive messages.)

The Federal Government, led by Barisan Nasional (National Frontline in English), is unhappy with the move. So, they started to scrutinise the move. They said all kinds of things: Pakatan Rakyat (People's Pact in English) is making unity among the rakyats more difficult, or Pakatan Rakyat is scared of this promotional tactic, or Pakatan Rakyat is losing their battle of stating that 1Malaysia is contributed by an Israeli company.

If I'm not mistaken, they even deny that the 1Malaysia logo is a political symbol from a political party.

But I'm sure that our "dear" Deputy Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said something like this:

"The 1Malaysia Concept is only conducted under the Barisan Nasional's umbrella."

Hmm...speaking of not being political. With this statement, we refute any claims by the Federal Government that the 1Malaysia logo is not political, and regard any denials as just plainly denials.

By the way, this logo isn't getting much appeal from the urban rakyats, especially the urban youths. Why?

In my perspective, 1Malaysia concept is nothing but rather promotional. We all can see for ourselves, and anything that is related to 1 or community activities, there will be a 1Malaysia term in front of it or replacing the normal number '1' with the 1Malaysia logo.

1Malaysia didn't achieve national unity so far. There's still the virtual gap between races, there's still the awkwardness when integrating among races.

Tragically (not), the 1Malaysia concept has now become merely a slogan, and it's really catchy to shout, but nothing is done.

So, my dear (not) Bankrupt Nation, do not waste anymore effort, time, or money to do more promotional. It's useless, they will become waste. It's not productive, it's not giving any positive results.

But of course, deep in our heart cores, we know that it is not only Najib (or maybe it isn't) that creates this concept, just as not only him (or maybe it isn't, again) that governs this country. It is of course just only a group of cabinet ministers that assist him, right? (A satirical smile here.)

Any way, we could not be spared from this festive season. Let us all just pray to Him that Malaysia will be truly a good nation one day. Merry Christmas, from the opinion department of Constantly Varying.