In my ‘Strategising ABU’post, I said :
“We’ve done our homework, and identified the vulnerable BN seats that can be taken and the vulnerable opposition seats that need to be defended.
In Malaya, Sabah and Sarawak.
For obvious reasons, I’m not going to detail those seats I’ve just mentioned.
Suffice to say that, if we can prise those vulnerable seats away from BN, and successfully defend the existing opposition seats, we should take Putrajaya with a total of 141 seats.
Now, I want to clarify here that by ‘we’, I do not mean Pakatan Rakyat.
I mean the 3 Pakatan parties, working cohesively with the many other non-BN parties in Malaya, Sabah and Sarawak.
And us, the rakyat”.
And in my “Plan B a no brainer” post, I shared with you the latest intelligence information that we have.
“In Malaya ( what most of you call Semenanjung ), the support for BN and the opposition is split almost right down the middle.
50-50.
What’s very clear is the Chinese vote is solidly behind the move for change.
In Sarawak, BN still has a slight advantage.
Sabah, though, is increasingly becoming the key to who will take Putrajaya post the 13th GE, with Jeffery’s STAR gaining ground daily with its Borneo Agenda, which is resonating with the people of Sabah.
More on what’s going on in Sabah in one of my forthcoming posts.
Recent reports, though, indicate that the Malay sentiment, both in the rural and urban areas, may be swinging back to UMNO, owing to the daily dose of lies and race/religion spin they get through Utusan and TV3 about the possible loss of Malay political dominance, about the danger of the ascendancy of DAP, and thereby the Chinese, if Pakatan comes to power, and this whole business of the hudud.
In my “ABUing Malaya, Sabah and Sarawak” post, I shared with all of you that the ABU secretariat was working on several efforts and initiatives that will require the involvement of all of you.
Finally, in three short sentences in my “Will RPK make sense of these for us?” post, I alluded to the work all of us will have to throw ourselves into in ABU phase 2.
“We are now in phase 2.
A media war is underway to outreach to the Malay heartlands, to the police and the armed forces.
And to deliver a chilling warning to the new Mykad holders”.
For the last two weeks, a motley crew of taxi drivers, who I fondly and proudly refer to as the ABU Taxi Brigade, have been taking a short message to foreigners who travel in their cabs : show up at polling stations on polling day during PRU13 and be prepared for dire consequences. The rakyat are no longer prepared to be cheated at the polls.
This is the same message we delivered to the kampung folk in our ABU ceramah in January and February.
If you see foreigners queuing up to get into the polling stations, get them out, by whatever means.
During this same 2 week period, we soft launched our ABU publicity blitz.
And over the last weekend, I traveled through the north through to the central region, to lay the ground work for our publicity blitz. This week, we will reach out to the east and the south.
What then follows is the launch of our BALIK KAMPUNG BAWA BERITA BENAR campaign.
First issue we are taking out to the kampung folk : MENGAPA HARGA BARANG NAIK?
This issue is affecting 80% of the nation.
ABU pamphlets to explain this are going out.
A special message to the military and police is also going out, to urge them to side with the rakyat.
Here is how you can involve yourself in these efforts.
The ABU website is up. Please don’t expect something fanciful. You can access it HERE. Its work in progress.
We want you fully involved in the ongoing publicity blitz.
Here’s how.
Click on the ABU stickers thumbnail on the left and a 6 on one pager, in PDF, opens.
Print a 100 copies.
More if you are really inspired.
Don’t bother cutting them into six separate stickers.
Get a can or a tin of glue, head out with a team of friends, and ABUkan public walls.
Please don’t get caught, though.
And when you’re done with this blitz, get ready to help with the MENGAPA HARGA BARANG NAIK? campaign.
Remember the pamphlets that are going out to the kampung?
Click on the cartoon and a PDF version of the pamphlet will open.
Print a 100 copies. Colour, or black and white, it does not matter.
Yes, more if you are determined to help get the truth to the rakyat.
How to fold it into neat pamphlets?
Go HERE for help.
You are going to BALIK KAMPUNG for the Raya holidays?
BAWA BERITA BENAR.
Take these pamphlets and distribute them to friends and relatives.
This is probably the best Raya gift you can ever give them.
The truth!
All these material are already up on the ABU website. Do go to the site and see for yourself.
I’ll alert you once the material for the military and police personnel are up on the website. Please do the same as I hope you will now do with the MENGAPA HARGA BARANG NAIK? pamphlet.
People, this war against UMNO / BN cannot be won without you.
Please, the time for talking, for commenting here and on other sites, is over.
We have a war to win.
And a nation to take back.
For the anak Bangsa Malaysia long marginalised and left to rot.
Do it for them.
sunwayopal
August 2, 2012
Finally we are getting somewhere!!!
ANYTHING BUT UMNO!!!
For a while we were thinking as though AA or DSAi or PKR were the enemy.
I’ll b the first to admit, these guys are not perfect and we the rakyat deserve better.
But compare with people from UMNO, MCA and MIC, DSAI and AA are 1000 million times better!!!
sunwayopal
Annie Ooi
August 2, 2012
Great, man, great.
Lluuung
August 2, 2012
To ALL AnakBangsaMalaysia,
We can also bring a clear master copy to a friendly photocopy shop n easily print out hundreds of copies,they will b more than happy to give You a hand with a discount.
For BERSIH 3 my friends in d shop keep some copies to help distribute, volunteered to print more when the need arises.
Who knows the next customer may even ask to print another 100 copies for his own distribution!
BRAVO ABU !!!
Well done HARIS ! ALL D BEST TO HARISnABU
baronvonchesto
August 2, 2012
Haris. Im against the idea of simply sticking ABU stickers everywhere. Its vandalism and defacement of public property. We hate it when Ah Longs stick their stickers everywhere.. lets not be just like them! besides simply sticking ABU ABU everywhere isnt gona accomplish much. Its gona make the converted smile and make the pro-UMNO throw a fit, nice perhaps but itd be an act of style without substance.
The balik kampung pamphlets are awesome though.
Bro,
Please, we are at war.
This strategy has been thought through.
Please support us on this.
Marge
August 2, 2012
Stick it over the ahlong stickers!
baronvonchesto
August 2, 2012
Your right Haris. We are at war. A war for the hearts and minds of people. I dont see this as furthering our cause, nay I think it may be detrimental. I have no problems breaking evil laws, (though I have no idea if there are laws against vandalism in bolehland) but I cannot condone an action which I think only gives us a bad name. I see it backfiring as to the fence sitters and and those currently in the opposite camp the plastering of ABU all over town does nothing to say WHY they should ABU, but rather could paint the movement in a bad light eg: What if we stick ABU at a petrol station, and then it gets the petrol station owner in to trouble (quite possible). We can stick this on OUR property, but not other people’s property or public property.
Sorry Haris I cannot find it in me to support the ABU sticker initiative. I think in some small sense it goes against some of the very reasons we are ABU.
Sedih
August 5, 2012
baronvonchesto,
The final outcome matters the most in any wars. Imagine a changed government, there wont even be so many ah longs in town under the protection of the police force! Thats the future we’re fighting towards.
allonboardtheabuwagon
August 2, 2012
u got it man……
Dan
August 2, 2012
Sam
I’m not saying you should be afraid, but be ready that they will come after you when ABU stickers are everywhere.
I’m going to distribute the pamphlets to mailboxes next week when I am back in PJ. I am thinking of those low cost flats in between midvalley and Bangsar. Any more suggestion in Klang Valley? As I prefer to go to “marginal” constituents where the pamphlets would have more impact, not places like PJ Utara and PJ Selatan.
Dan,
I am ready if that should come.
You’re on the right track bro.
Target areas where you expect people are just too impoverished to have access to the internet
Tun Puteh
August 2, 2012
Baronvoncesto, the idea is to carry the psychological war to them. (1) Vigilance, my friend, vigilance against foreigners in our voting booths. (2) Paste as many ABU signs as we can all over the place. Saturate the flyers. (3) Tell the kampung folk the truth.
Our ringgit is really shrinking by the day. Against the US dollar, against the British pound, against even the Euro, against the Singapore dollar, against the Thai baht and even against the Chinese renminbi.
Prices will escalate once the election is over unless we vote Opposition to stem the tide.
Our fiscal policies have been found wanting. No nation can afford to run deficit budgets for decades and expect the people not to pay the price.
shakuntala
August 2, 2012
Brilliant and noble Haris…your efforts for our Nation!!!
Besides…and besides, isn’t all this costing such a lot of money……..where and how may we, the Rakyat chip in?
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No matter how small, how little, how insignificant. Ready to rally round you,ABU, for the sake of our flag,our dignity as a People, so that we may be truly and finally be proud, to be Malaysian!
“Ask, what you can do for your country.” , was said so long ago.
shakuntala,
Appeal for help in funding going out soon.
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francis bondumar
August 2, 2012
Thanks brother Haris, do believe the rural folks will open up.
Malaysianatheart
August 2, 2012
Ahhh …. so finally you guys are actually doing something! Shoot man! What took you guys so long??!! Right, printer on …. off I go ..!!
ALVIN
August 2, 2012
This strategy will work. It worked for the CHINESE in CHINA during MAO ‘s time.It is litterally, ” the writing is on the wall ” saying.The messengers should fan out and overwhelm the people with the right info . I am confident it will succeed.
We Stand Together
August 2, 2012
You sure have a way with words, even when UMNO and Barisan is spreading misinformation about filthy communists in the ranks of the opposition and civil society.
sampalee
August 3, 2012
I have voted against BN in all previous GE. This time round,I dislike party that play on hatred.
We are not fighting a foreign power .Why can’t we just promote the need of good governance.I also would not support slogan like anything but PR
If it is hatred we sow it will be hatred we reap.This is one of the set back of democracy
We Stand Together
August 4, 2012
This is not hatred, sampalee. Don’t get it twisted.
This is just the determination to KICK BN out of Putrajaya.
Thinkingman
August 3, 2012
Haris please becareful I fear you are know seen as the spearhead for this war campaign and run the wrath of Putrajaya. Please have Plans A, B and C in case you are summoned to Bukit Aman.
Bill
August 3, 2012
Go big on FB just like Bersih That’s the way to mobilize the young to your campaign
shakuntala
August 3, 2012
It is not actually for a war in the bloody sense that we are rooting for, it is a war of words to give the People a simple message, that they can be the instruments of a new Government and help it start afresh, that the People have the power with their hearts and minds to bring about change,change for ALL of us, change for the better,which is so necessary, and so futuristic……..
So in a sense, this war is artful…..
Stephen Tan Ban Cheng
August 3, 2012
Haris, all those converted must be committed to change. They will then be the CATALYSTS OF CHANGE. It is not going to be easy, my friends. That is why the commitment is needed.
I have been there in the late 1960s. I know what I am talking about. Commitment and sacrifice.
P Kler
August 3, 2012
I worry about the targeting of foreigners-just brings out the worst in people. Who is qualified to claim someone’s IC is ill-gotten? I live overseas, I know what it feels like to be blamed for everything. This will bring nothing but trouble. A war it may be but I know you sincerely believe that the ends do not always justify the means. Otherwise you will be applauding Anwar’s frog campaign.
This will lead to even more xenophobia is an already xenophobic nation. When i go back I get mistaken for a foreigner all the time. If I was lining up on polling day, would I have to contend with an over-enthusiastic ‘I’ll take the law into my hands and be judge, jury and executioner’ ABU ‘observer’ who thinks I am a govt sponsored cheat?
This is just plain wrong. I do not support this. We could end up with lynchings. And when ABU gets blamed for it, it would be well deserved.
P Kler,
Your point is noted. I will give serious thought to what you have said.
Thank you
We Stand Together
August 3, 2012
“If I was lining up on polling day, would I have to contend with an over-enthusiastic ‘I’ll take the law into my hands and be judge, jury and executioner’ ABU ‘observer’ who thinks I am a govt sponsored cheat?”
Under election law nobody but the SPR agents can stop a person from voting on voting day. The penalties are quite severe. It would be good to make this aware to opposition supporters so that they can act within the framework of existing laws instead of breaking them.
Sheila Pakiam
August 3, 2012
Same thought about targeting foreigners as being unfair/unkind Haris. How about another poster campaign addressing the needs of foreign workers something of what Irene is doing and get their support instead. They can also vote ABU. That would be GREAT wouldn’t it? Take care Bro. God is with us. Truth will triumph. That is what 2012 is about…
“We do not fight against any creed, any religion.
We do not fight against any form of government.
We do not fight against any social class.
We do not fight against any nation or civilisation.
We are fighting division, unconsciousness, ignorance, inertia and falsehood.”
The Mother
Paul Yeo
August 3, 2012
Then who will give me the next RM500? Next election you get UMNO lah, I need the money to buy new pots and pans for my Pork Noodle shop lah. Please please please…. preeeety please… beg you to let BN win for another terms.
Malaysian
August 3, 2012
Talking about new Mykad holders, here’s an interesting comment from an anonymous in Zorro’ Unmasked blog:
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Anonymous said…
This is what I have just received from a friend. The large scale issuing of I/C’s and passports by the govt shows that it does not trust the existing Malay majority to support them anymore. Otherwise, why use foreigners? We will soon be ruled by Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Talibans soon. Please pass on to your Malay friends.
Dear Dr. *** ,
I believe that my experience yesterday would be of interest to you. I have disseminated the message below to friends in a separate mail.
I returned from Hong Kong on flight MH 073 on 17th July 2012 which landed in KLIA at about 6.15pm. Disembarkation and baggage clearance was prompt with no hassles.
When I arrived at the Immigration “autogate” there was a queue. There was no officer in the immigration booth manning the gates.
I noted about seven Pakistani nationals; all in their national costumes, hogging all the autogates. They were struggling to put their passports in the passport reader and get their fingerprints verified.
The Malaysians in the queue started commenting in loud voices:
– “This lane is for Malaysian Passports only”
– “Please join the other queue for foreign passports” etc.
Some, thinking that they were foreign workers, got impatient and spoke with raised voices:
– “ Barisan ini untuk Passport Malaysia”
– “Tolong pergi ke kaunter international passport” etc.
These gentlemen stood firm; oblivious to the comments, speaking in their native language and giving instructions to each other on how to use the reader. As more Malaysians arrived, the queue got longer.
I broke out of the queue and checked the passports – and they ALL had Malaysian Passports. On enquiring, they responded in broken English that they had just arrived on flight PK 894 from Peshawar. All the Malaysians in the queue were shocked.
Disgusted, I walked to the Priority Counter, (I had a Priority Pass) got clearance and asked the Immigration Officer how these people had obtained their Malaysian passports. He gave me a guilty smile. He also organised for an officer to help clear the line at the “autogate”.
On leaving, I asked the Customs Officer the same question and his response was “Ini Biasa”.
I have heard a lot about foreigners with Malaysian IC’s getting treatment in our Government Hospitals. A discussion with doctors; especially those manning the Emergency Wards, will confirm this fact. However, my experience yesterday confirms that something is drastically wrong in the implementation of policies in our country.
I will leave it to right thinking Malaysians to form an opinion on my experience yesterday.
Regards,
******
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August 1, 2012 10:31 PM
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We should pass it on to ALL Malaysians to let them know that BN has sold our nation to foreigners.
Sandokan
August 3, 2012
Get a real program on, to educate people. Threatening foreigners in taxicabs ? Plastering staircases at food courts ? Vandalizing courtrooms ? This is juvenile political masturbation, to make yourself feel good and *look * powerful. Stop diluting the people’s minds Mr Haris. You’re losing the plot.
We Stand Together
August 4, 2012
Haters will hate.
LOL
sampalee
August 4, 2012
Determination to hate is worse than plain hatred.RPK is proven right.I have voted against BN in every GE which I took part and my motto is may the best candidate win.There is no default or hobson.s choice involved.Hatred can be retionalised by those whose grey matter are affected by hatred,Like RPK say,Did’nt I say so.
We Stand Together
August 4, 2012
I think that you have been traumatically bonded to RPK and UMNO.
Looes74
August 4, 2012
Frankly one legal beaver in din merican commented rpk of being a nut case who makes a living by spinning stories & look at the results at the end of his spinnings.
Frankly I don’t bother about rpk bowel movement. Isn’t he proven dead wrong in supporting lib dem in uk? The third force! It’s become a joke when clegg playing poodle to Cameron. One of the famous policy that has been the undoing of lib dem is tuition fee
Seriously, your own thoughts matter most for yourself. Starting use your f brain
We Stand Together
August 4, 2012
Hmmm. Not hating bullies and oppressors. There is a phrase for that.
It’s called Stockholm Syndrome.
We Stand Together
August 4, 2012
There could be another explanation also: “traumatic bonding”
“strong emotional ties that develop between two persons where one person intermittently harasses, beats, threatens, abuses, or intimidates the other.”
^ Source: Dutton, D.G and Painter, S.L. (1981) Traumatic Bonding: the development of emotional attachments in battered women and other relationships of intermittent abuse. Victimology: An International Journal, 1(4), pp. 139-155
alan newman, new zealand
August 4, 2012
We see too clearly from a neutral & democratic New Zealand. BN/UMNO will LOSE BIG. For those low lives & criminals, God’ s nemesis will prevail. Look at Gaddafi , then Assad, when Syrians wanted fair & free elections, Assad said there were foreign terrorists wanting to topple the Gov’t… now he kills them. Gaddafi and Assad weren’t even democratically elected! Just like your PM – handed down from Daddy! KL has been sucking Sarawak & Sabah’s blood. What development? Even watching from afar, we have reached the brink now: We call the most horrific curse on those criminals. The people’s power, the people’s day will come.
alan newman, new zealand
August 4, 2012
Even in far-away, neutral New Zealand we are boiling mad, your BN Gov’t is outrageously crooked and dishonest, & for how many decades now! GOSH! Horrific plunder and robbery, skinning & fleecing the whole country. eg Taib in Sarawak, holding 3 supreme portfolios of Chief Minstr, Finance Minstr & Planning & Resources Minister, plundering for 31 yrs. Your PM pretends nothing’s there…..now he revenges on Rafizi for the NFC cows, even after 3 murders: Ross Boyert (Taib’s former US aide), Manser (native & rainforest activist) & Altantuyaa (Scorpene $$ claimant), & after BN lost over RM300billion in 55 yrs. Yr PM flies a new RM200m plane & Taib rides Rolls Royce. In NZ our PM flies 2nd Class; here Taito P Field, an MP was jailed for a few years for corruption (using Thai immigrants to paint his houses). How long would yr Dr MM, Najib, Taib all the BN/UMNO/PBB cronies, MACC, Police chiefs last in a democratic country like NZ, Aus, UK, US or Canada before going to jail? 1 mth? You elected yr Gov’t to serve you, how can you tolerate them for another day!
Sedih
August 6, 2012
If only more Malaysians share your knowledge and sentiment, alan.
You do know more about Malaysia than her own citizens. Sigh.
Tidak Konfius
September 7, 2012
Saya ada buat kajian lebih 300 barang2 di Tesco, Mydin, Giant dan 99 Speedmart. Takde kesempatan lagi untuk Carrefour. List tu belum complete.
Tapi saya ada buat summary list membandingkan semua harga barang untuk lebih 20 barang dan dapat berjimat RM40 untuk 20 barang. List barang2 tu boleh download kat http://www.konfius.com
Sebenarnya list ni utk mak saya dan saya harap dapat update list ni setiap minggu walaupun dalam kesibukan bekerja.
Ini youtube link untuk kempen kesedaran pengguna malaysia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mCdL0sIXk0