People say every newly born child they are like white pieces of cloth. You have to give them colors and blend the colors to create a beautiful result of artwork.
But what happens when you decide to make a change and turn your country's flag with new colors and design just because you hate the current design just because you think it totally looks like other politician party's flag? Does that make a sense to you?
I say NO. Yes, a BIG NO.
When it comes to politic, it's never a clean matter. It will start with a joke and ends up with loads of disgusting interpretations, regardless of what party you are/support. MP Manoharan may thinks that he has great plan for Malaysia's future. But I say he has other miss-leading ideas towards the nation. Frankly speaking, who is Mr. Manoharan? Before, I don't know who he is until I read it on a few online news that this-so-called MP was disgusted with Malaysia's flag (you may 'google' about this and will find it hot on the net). He intended to change it if their-so-called coalition wins in next GE. So when he said that, does that mean he wants to change to constitution too? I personally think that he should think what he want to say before he voices out his opinions or ideas. He just brings disgrace to his party and yes, to all other Malaysians.
The current government may have loads of flaws, but it's still minimal compared to the damages that were done by the PR coalition in few states they have conquered. However, I must say that the current government has now realizes their mistakes, stained by their own members and MPs. I didn't say all of them give shames to BN (and UMNO as well), but who else to blame when people starts to switch sides. Even worse, to 'like' what-ever-nonsense-statement by e.g. MP Manoharan and MP Mohamad Sabu.
I can't deny all these statements are results from what we call today as a cheap publicity. Why? Because they attract attentions of others very fast, which in less than 24 hours, they will gain 50k likes on their Facebook Fanpage, from an unknown to a well-known populist. Funny? Well, that's a reality. And within 1 hour, it will be a headline to all online news, with every reasons, speculations and motives. It will likely read by thousands of youngsters who are the biggest population on the net. So to speak, youngsters in the new era are of course open-minded, outspoken, and brave. But let no forget a few facts, they are also naïve, immature, emotional, and easily influenced (I may speak about myself by saying this!). Remember that I shared with you about white piece of cloth earlier? What I'm trying to say is that, a simple statement like what he did gave such a big impact to the youngsters too, as he was to say, "We can change anything we don't like even if it's super nonsense because we have our-so-called-rights". If you have lots of time enough, make you little research and please open any political pages through you Facebook's account and you will realize how many of them are 17-25 years old young adults. Some are very nice but some are very very very rude, with this and that kind of swearing, bad words and such.
So maybe this is a new era of a new Malaysian's flag will lead to?
Well, I just want to wish him luck, because I know, just because there a few 'likes' on his statement at his Facebook page, doesn't mean Malaysians and youngsters as well will be easily influenced with this.