UMNO Youth and Utusan Malaysia are hypocrites and practice double-standards
Utusan Malaysia and Umno Youth continues to play with the fire of racism and lies to further divide the nation with walls of hatred and fear, by questioning the approval of a Chinese language film ‘The New Village’ that they alleged glorifies communism. Both criticised the film as twisting historical facts and inciting the people by glorifying the Malayan Communist Party as heroes whilst the British colonialists, the army and police are enemies and 'bad people' that needed to be destroyed.
I do not wish to comment on the film as I have not seen it. However the question for Utusan Malaysia and UMNO Youth is that if both are sincere in opposing communism, why then did they not oppose Malaysia establishing close diplomatic relations with communist countries like China, Cuba and Vietnam. At no time did both criticise former Inspector General of Police Tan Sri Rahim Nor for signing a peace agreement on behalf of Malaysia with the Communist Party of Malaya on 2 December 1989.
Further why are both silent when Minister of Youth and Sports Khairy Jamaluddin, in his capacity as BN Youth chairman, announced the setting up of a permanent secretariat on October 12 2009 to strengthen ties between Barisan Nasional Youth and the Communist Youth League of China (CYL). Clearly both UMNO Youth and Utusan Malaysia are hypocrites and practice double-standards for failing to ask for action against BN Youth Chairman Khairy Jamaludin for glorifying communism by forming an alliance between BN Youth and the Communist Youth League of China(CYL).
Khairy Jamaluddin had said that the permanent secretariat would facilitate continuous bilateral programmes to promote a stronger bond between the two entities. This is not a government to government relationship but party to party direct linkage. And yet no action is taken when Khairy knowingly, consciously and intentionally establishes a direct linkage through a permanent secretariat with the CYL.
If both Utusan Malaysia and UMNO Youth are still so worried about communists hiding under our beds, then both need not go very far but should put their sights on Khairy Jamaludin and BN Youth for forging a direct relationship with the CYL. Utusan Malaysia and UMNO Youth are relying on their old playbook by recycling the 3D tactics of denial of their own communist links, dirty tactics to scare Malaysians of a communist conspiracy and deception to link non-Malays or opponents of BN with communists.
Such desperate 3D tactics can no longer work because the people do not want to live in the dark. The 51% popular vote won by PR in the recent general elections and BN’s loss of the popular vote for the first time in history, proves that people yearn to live in the light with human dignity, integrity, freedom of information, truth, justice and democracy.
