MCA new President Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai should pluck up the courage not to bow down to UMNO but listen to outgoing Sarawak Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud’s advice that whoever succeeds him must strive to keep Umno and its brand of racially divisive politics out of the state.
The new MCA leadership has signalled that there is no change in MCA’s complete submissiveness to UMNO, following MCA deputy president Datuk Wee Ka Siong call to DAP Member of Parliament for Seputeh Teresa Kok to apologise over the latter’s Chinese New Year (CNY) video clip. Wee Ka Siong has betrayed Malaysians and the Chinese Community by calling for Teresa Kok to apologise not for some wrongdoing but to submit and appease the extremists and racists in UMNO
DAP does not need MCA to give such advice but will ask Teresa Kok to apologise if she indeed had poked fun at the Sulu terrorist intrusion in Lahad Datu, Sabah, last year. However nothing was mentioned in the video clip about the Sulu incident. If the UMNO racists and their MCA apologists had seen the video clip it was clearly directed at the kidnap-murder of Taiwanese tourists in Sabah.
Instead of watching the video to seek the truth, both UMNO and MCA have distorted it to racialise the issue to divide Malaysians so that they can divert attention from the price hikes by BN on petrol, sugar, TNB power tariffs and motor insurance premiums. It is MCA and BN that should apologise to all Malaysians for the price hikes and also the drop in the value of Malaysian ringgit as seen by the record low of RM 2.62 to each Singapore dollar.
Instead of demanding that action be taken against those who want to slap a woman by offering a cash reward, MCA has once again turned its back on the Chinese community and the principles of logic, reason and fairplay by demanding that Teresa Kok for apologising for something she did not do wrong. If MCA claims that it is representing the Chinese community in Malaysia, has Wee done a poll that records that this is the wishes and consensus of the Chinese community?
MCA has shown its complete disconnect from the aspirations of the Chinese community who want justice, truth, freedom and democracy like all other Malaysians and are firmly opposed to discrimination, violence and oppression of fundamental human rights.