During a round of teh tarik and other concoctions that will surely contribute to diabetes in the future, a mate of mine asked me..."How can you say that you are not a patriot and yet you love this country and her people?"
well mate,let me tell you why...the ruling class and establishment has been using "patriotism" to make the masses become more obedient and follow all of their oppressing policies,rules and laws..whoever who does not "kow-tow" to them is a "traitor" and deemed to be "un-patriotic"...
for example the united states declared "war on terror" after 911..the country was divided by this.. there are pro-war and anti-war individuals and groups....the anti-war people were deemed un-patriotic and un-american just because they are against the policy of the establishment...
back closer to home..i think most of you are familiar with the legend of hang tuah and hang jebat... to put it simply hang tuah is a patriot while hang jebat loves his country and her people and that's why he goes against the tyrant sultan and stage a coup...like he said.."raja adil raja disembah, raja zalim raja disanggah.."(the translation of this qoute can be found at wikipedia)..
hang jebat rebelled after the sultan decreed that hang tuah was to be executed because he was found guilty fooling around with one of the sultan's concubine (a slander that was spread by hang tuah's enemies in the palace itself...)..jebat who thought tuah was dead rebelled and ran amok..he killed all of tuah's enemies and took the palace by force...because tuah was dead,nobody can stop jebat..at this time the sultan regretted executing tuah..
at the end of the story hang tuah killed hang jebat after the sultan found out that hang tuah was still alive after all and ordered him to kill jebat..although hang tuah considers hang jebat his "brother" because as a patriot he must follow the sultan orders...
people who love their country and fight to protect or liberate often found themselves taken by the angel of death too early...just like che guevara, hang jebat and burhanuddin al-helmy(just to name a few)...if they live they will live the hard life often mistreated and forgotten...such individual is Allahyarhamah Shamsiah Fakeh who died just 3 days ago...although we share different ideologies and believes.. i have the deepest sense of respect towards her because the freedom that i am enjoying now is the result of her struggle...
I hope every Malaysian loves their own country and her people...Let's us all EMBRACE MALAYSIANA...
well mate,let me tell you why...the ruling class and establishment has been using "patriotism" to make the masses become more obedient and follow all of their oppressing policies,rules and laws..whoever who does not "kow-tow" to them is a "traitor" and deemed to be "un-patriotic"...
for example the united states declared "war on terror" after 911..the country was divided by this.. there are pro-war and anti-war individuals and groups....the anti-war people were deemed un-patriotic and un-american just because they are against the policy of the establishment...
back closer to home..i think most of you are familiar with the legend of hang tuah and hang jebat... to put it simply hang tuah is a patriot while hang jebat loves his country and her people and that's why he goes against the tyrant sultan and stage a coup...like he said.."raja adil raja disembah, raja zalim raja disanggah.."(the translation of this qoute can be found at wikipedia)..
hang jebat rebelled after the sultan decreed that hang tuah was to be executed because he was found guilty fooling around with one of the sultan's concubine (a slander that was spread by hang tuah's enemies in the palace itself...)..jebat who thought tuah was dead rebelled and ran amok..he killed all of tuah's enemies and took the palace by force...because tuah was dead,nobody can stop jebat..at this time the sultan regretted executing tuah..
at the end of the story hang tuah killed hang jebat after the sultan found out that hang tuah was still alive after all and ordered him to kill jebat..although hang tuah considers hang jebat his "brother" because as a patriot he must follow the sultan orders...
people who love their country and fight to protect or liberate often found themselves taken by the angel of death too early...just like che guevara, hang jebat and burhanuddin al-helmy(just to name a few)...if they live they will live the hard life often mistreated and forgotten...such individual is Allahyarhamah Shamsiah Fakeh who died just 3 days ago...although we share different ideologies and believes.. i have the deepest sense of respect towards her because the freedom that i am enjoying now is the result of her struggle...
I hope every Malaysian loves their own country and her people...Let's us all EMBRACE MALAYSIANA...
1 comment:
aku jd tertarik dgn kisah tuah n jebat!
mmg btol org yg menentang authority dilabel unpatriotic, tp adakah authority itu sendiri betol sebetolnye?
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