
I had a brief discussion with one of my old Indian guard, who is also a retired TNB technician.
He told me he has some friends living in Kampung Buah Pala. To my surprise, he did not also support his own clans, and calling them naive and cow-headed!
As an outsider, he saw what we could see, that the kampung folks had been abducted, seduced and ultimately cowed into trusting the cheap politicians - Hindraf, MIC and Gerakan goons....!
When the Developer had offered up to an irresistible compensation scheme even the middle class people are dreaming for, a terrace house which easily worth more than 250K in Penang, they are claiming that it would be too small to accommodate their 3-generation family members, or their extended family members - and rejected the offer! To my astonishment, why didn't they also ask for a multi-level house for their cows and poultry?! It will be difficult for the outsiders and the public at large not to think of their unquenchable greed which is, ultimately, going to drag them into the deeper quagmire of loosing everything, in the eyes of law!
The racist politicians in the guise of their venerable leaders, together with the lackeys, the Resident Association's vice-secretary have been telling them that they are the gifted minority, and they deserve more for their land!
And their land? A Trust Deed allowed them to dwell in the land some many decades ago, which had also been long enough lapsed, could possibly give them the rights to the title?!
Probably only the ex-CM KTK knows the answer. Thus bringing all the herds of cows and poultry to his high mansion and let the cows be grazed with the Taiwan grass in the compound, is one way to demand for justice, and a fair deal, and also, the right thing to do!
They should have now realized, they are the hill billies, the uneducated hoi-pollois they are easily being manipulated and enticed to behave like the cows of ignorant and demeanor - bull-headed! Flaying on the LGE Government is pot shot, the real culprit is the one who sanctioned and approved the sales of land, who is KTK of Gerakan, should be reprimanded!
They are in utter predicament, most of them, of didn't exploit the opportunity to amicably sit down and negotiate with the Developer, also the State Government. They are in the state of panicking and lost direction. Only the so-called RA still remains the lackeys of the politicians and play solo! Of course, they have own a handful of tough nuts or hardcore members whom they are goofy heads, thinking that the land they stay belongs to their great grandfathers! They are totally law-blind and illiterate. Such a pity!
Come Sept 1st, it will be the last day where most probably all the cows will have to be delivered to the slaughter house for meat. No more cows' milk mixed with sap of Buah Pala (nutmeg) in future!
I always maintain my stand - to only sympathize with the women and the children! The pictures of the journalists' creation had attested - only the poor old ladies and the children were on the front line, latched their arms, cried in hysteria and even had fainted some - the children missed their classes and had silly placards clued to their back, behaved mischievously like those we use to see in Botanical Garden..blah..blah...all the charades!
Come back to the issue, after taking a detour - the men of Kg Buah Pala are born cowherds! They are bullish, yeas, but 有勇无 谋 (lack of wisdom)! They are typical cowherds. They must know the rules to be the typical cowherds - first, they should not be swollen headed like the 阿么里肯 (American) cowboys who thought they could chase after the Red Indians! They are the black indians here in Bolehland, they are being chased!
For politics needs double heads, no ordinary cowherds can handle! The rule is - once they are cowherds, they are cowherds! And if they do wish to be generational cowherds, meaning, leading a perpetual cowherd's life, they would have to shift to another pastureland at the Country side so as the cows can graze, the cowherds and the families can graze, lives will only be peaceful!
Kampung Buah Pala doesn't belong to them anymore, the fact which is undeniable, unless there is any miracle! The lush of pasture there is going to dry up or to be rolled under the tar in the soonest time!
Politics is no profession of the cowherds. It's too tough for them. It's the prerogative of the fork-tongue double head vipers! Like the many depraved politicians or their goons - spiteful and venomous!
In politics, the politicians are the cowherds, the villagers are the political cows!
God bless the villagers of KBP and may all the naivety and foolishness be pardoned!