baseless rumour

Early Saturday morning, I received a "rumour" SMS as below from a friend who probably received that from another friend and so on and so on. This is how rumour spread in this technology age, and it is very efficient and fast.

For those who dont understand mandarin, this is what the SMS says...

Anwar has successfully persuaded Sabah's 29 MPs to join the Opposition.

23rd March is the day that Pak Lah have to step down.

At that time, probably the 513 incident will happen again.

Remember to stack rice and food. (pass on the sms to person you care about)

At times, I understand that we need to be paranoid about things, even Intel's Andy Groove once said before that "Only the paranoid will survice" and many intelliers look up to that quote.

BUT!!! There are times also that we need to use our BRAIN to process the facts that being presented to us before jump straight into paranoia, right?

Another blame is, some Malaysian has been taught to be the receiver end of everything, to be an obedient and polite follower at work and at politic, all thanks to the education system or the whole good old country's system. I believe is time to wake up a little bit, and this is the main point I want to make with this post.

I mean, if you think properly about the wording that used in the SMS, do you think that Anwar is the kind of person that like to/will PERSUADE other MPs, especially from the rivals? He dont PERSUADE MPs. He (as well as any other elected MPs) only serve or probably PERSUADE the RAKYAT(people), this is what I believe.

For the 12th General Election Parliament's result, BN won 140 seats while opposition took 82 seats. If there is indeed 29 MPs "jump" from BN to opposition, BN will have 111 seats while opposition with 111 seats as well. It is something like 50-50 shared. At glance, it is a very beautiful number of 29 that make this new composition, but it is unlikely to have such a 50-50 split (but not impossible, only with a very slim chance). This alone has put a question mark to the SMS before you jump into conclusion to stack for food, right?

29 MPs from Sabah??? For cold hard fact, please look up SPR website for the 12th General Election Parliament's result here. There is only 25 Parliament seats allocated for Sabah, where 24 won by BN and only 1 won by DAP. Obviously the number is incorrect.

Undeniably, there are news (not rumour) about negotiation between Opposition and MPs from BN who want to join the opposition, but now obviously some 'evil' parties trying manipulate the agenda for their own benefits.

513? It is something scary in the mind of many Malaysian. It is something that almost everyone wants to avoid and fear of. This alone is evident enough that everyone will make their best effort to contain such incident from happening again. Malaysian are more mature now, dont underestimate people's INTELLIGENCE!!! So, to those 'evil' parties, DONT SIMPLY hang the term "513" besides your mouth for everything, because you just simply making a fool of yourself at times!

Lastly, why these 'evil' parties want to do such thing at first? PROBABLY they hope that such rumours will cause chaos in food supply chain, causing declaration of State of Emergency (darurat) in some states, and follow by another re-election for another chance to regain control in those states. There is another POSSIBILITY that strain in food supply chain will mark up prices or boost sales, making certain people filthy rich. Am just presenting a couple of PROBABLE causes. You do the rest of the thinking. Time to think and not just keep on receiving only.