Metaphorically speaking, if the country and its citizens can be seen as an individual, us individual citizens can be seen as aspects of the country. Thus here’s an offering of a blessing to our speedy recovery. Both in our minds and in our hearts. Both individually and between groups. So relationships can be healed and transformed into nurturing, supportive and cooperative relationship. As a single entity called Malaysia, we synergise and flourish.

Were you not disturbed when Speaker Sivakumar was violently pulled out of the Assembly?

Were you disturbed when my friends and I, all in black, drank kopi-O last night at a Old Town White Coffee restaurant to celebrate a friend’s birthday?

What rule did the five poor guys from the event organizer company in Ipoh break by setting up a big balloon that they must be arrested by police for sedition?

What rule did the police not break when they arrested five lawyers attending to the request of their detained clients?

If the people who see BLACK are indeed a minority, why should the majority feel disturbed? If they are instead the majority, how many arrests must be made to please the “silent” minority?

Yes a few are not grateful and always create problem. I hope they should understand that we are also citizens of this country and would like to enjoy living here. We are also intellectuals and are able to differentiate between the right and wrong. We also understand that this country has rules and regulations. If you break the rule, then you will be penalised. If you are not happy with the government, then vote against it in the next election. At the same time we should respect others who do not share our view.

But please understand that none of us can monopolise the truth, although the truth will always prevail. In conclusion, don’t break the rule as it will disturb the harmony of this silent majority.

It’s also spread by MACC who can act on the slightest whiff of corruption on opposition politicians but cannot smell the stench from BN politicians.

It’s also spread by the biased judiciary which does not even bother to appear fair and impartial now.

No doubt the AG who cannot hear the cries of justice for Kugan but goes after Karpal Singh, Ronnie Liu, Tian Chua and RPK on flimsy charges is also a disease vector.

Malaysia has changed. Civil society is coalescing into demands for better governance and more democratic rights and attempts to put a lid on this creates a pressure cooker which eventually blows off the lid.

And I don’t think labeling this as ‘political dissent’ is entirely correct, basically because such dissent was always around since the time of Tunku Abdul Rahman.

If the 1Malaysia policy is to succeed, it needs to know to live with the viruses and develop an immunity to such things. That can only be found through regaining credibility, something that none of the government members are doing just yet.

Civil protest is fine but is it really effective? The real enemy we are all dealing with here is something more nebulous, not so much a person or a party but human greed for power, wealth and wrong values.

1BlackMsia is today aimed at BN but tomorrow it could be Pakatan Rakyat that may well fall victim to these values. Turn the guns and pressure on these two rival parties and you may see more sympathy from the rakyat who is quite fed up with the current crop of ineffective and big-talking politicians.

Having said that, I share your concerns about Msia’s perilous journey to democracy.

Mr Wong, you’ve earned your badge of honour. Your creativity in naming this an epidemic is also unsurpassed. More mangosteens?