The Wayseer ~ Garret John LoPorto

Special thanks to L'aura Ann Giguere for alerting me to the existence of Garret John LoPorto - a hunkier and more marketing savvy version of myself! :-)

"Now you see it now you don't!"

Don't you just love it when something is "deleted" because "they" don't want you to see it... but you can still see it because of the what the Internet is???!

Well, earlier, The Star did an online survey to find out what its readers thought about the Bersih Rally planned for July 9.

They obviously felt that respondents would give it the thumbs-down lah.

NOT!!!!

When they found the results didn't pan out to what they thought it would be, they took the survey/poll offline. That is, they deleted the page! So, if you went to the poll page, you'd find this:

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Idiots! It was too late, someone had already captured the page onscreen. And here it is, the screenshot (and do note HOW MANY people voted!!!) :

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[Thanks to Pat Goh for forwarding this!]

Trapped by their own greed and stupidity!

Umno/BN, after 22 years of Mahathirism, has degenerated into a robber baron regime paralyzed by a complete failure of imagination and rendered powerless to adapt to changes in the political terrain by the sheer inertia of its own overweening arrogance and greed.

Najib Razak and his grotesque wife Rosmah Mansor were pushed into power  by 191 corrupt and inept Umno division chiefs - just as George W. Bush was muscled into the White House in 2000 - to take the flak and serve as a target of public ridicule, so that the nouveau riche Umnoputra elite could continue to rob the nation with impunity and hide the loot in numbered accounts and property investments abroad.

With their control of the law enforcement agencies, the judiciary, civil service, the armed forces and the tribal monarchies, Umno believes it can continue to misrule - by brute force if necessary - through deliberate aggravation of artificially engendered racial and religious differences.

The majority of urbanites have long woken up to Umno/BN's dirty strategies and will never again be fooled. In the rural areas where the only source of news are the mainstream media, the awakening is slightly more sluggish but inevitable. 

Mahathir and Daim Zainuddin created a financial buffer against political defeat by nurturing an ultra-rich entrepreneurial class to feed the Umno/BN electoral juggernaut (hence the lopsided contracts signed with Independent Power Producers and utility corporations privatized to political cronies). This unwholesome conspiracy between centralized government and capitalist self-interest to bamboozle the public will grind to an abrupt end when Umno/BN is booted out - and that's why we see panic breaking out in the hysterical headlines and perverse spins of crony media like Utusan Malaysia and TV3. 

It's time to draw a clear line in the sand, people. It's time to open your windows, stand on a street corner, and shout...

"We're as mad as hell and we're not going to take this anymore!"