UMNO should take a more pro-active role in defeating scepticalism.

It is a sad state, the outlook for Malaysian Blogsphere is grim indeed. Hardly even 2 weeks after Nathaniel's arrest now this. I am indeed worried that perhaps a state of emergency would be called for in the event of an uprising where the government can no longer contain servo after servo of fire from the inquisitive rakyat. Here I say rakyat because Malaysian Bloggers are essentially citizens of this country.

I am not predicting a turn of events like bloodshed and racial uproar but it would be a shame if something like that were to happen in the near future just because some members of the public expresses dismay over the current state of socio-politics in the country through blogs and other online means. Many should have anticipated that with globalisation come this sort of pressure.

A few if not many have predicted that the challenges with opening our doors to the world is to keep what we have. Indeed it is a challenge. Now how does a ruling coalition control such instances? Political parties can't fight the 24 million odd voices of the rakyat that gave them the power in the first place.

So how far does in this case UMNO need to go before realizing that instead of footing one person and the next with court letters and warrants of arrest that all this while they should combat such sharp allegations and bad publicity with the same weapons that disgruntled people and parties feel of their tenure of governance? It makes simple sense doesn't it? Why is it so hard to fathom such a simple tactic? Instead using force which will only incite fear not respect, why not beat them at their own game using the same tools?

So, even if this falls through to UMNO's favour what would that make of us? Will we be coined as rebels out and out? Are we gonna be forced by the government to conform to political ploys that do not benefit the people's interest? Makes me wonder if is this really democracy in the best practice or in fact a form of iron fisted dictatorship. I have a lot of questions that needs to be answered. And I bet all of you out there has some questions of your own too. So...what is UMNO going to do? What is UMNO going to do? Push comes the shove someone might just rise and fight back. When that happens, I hope it will be short and sweet. Wait...I think even that is too much to ask for.