14 Early Warning Signs of Fascism

Fascism : a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.

1. Powerful and continuing nationalism.
Nationalism is the belief that your own country is better than all others. Our government never stop telling us that our country is the best country in the world. According to our ministers, we have the best education and welfare system in the world. All statistics, facts and peer-reviewed research which prove them wrong should be ignored.

2. Disdain for human rights.
Freedom of speech, religion and assembly are very limited in Malaysia. The Police Act of 1967 allows the Malaysian police to detain persons without warrants, and has been used especially to restrict the freedom of assembly. Other draconian acts that have been used to control the people are Sedition Act, Security Offences (Special Measures) Act and Peaceful Assembly Act.

3. Identification of enemies / scapegoats as a unifying cause.
We have one : chinese. In the last Perhimpunan Agung UMNO, many delegates made racist attacks against chinese. Chinese were accused of burning quran in Kedah. Chinese were accused of pijak kepala melayu. Chinese were accused of becoming rich on the back of illegal activities. Chinese were accused of so many horrible things. Kambing hitam siap sedia dijamah.

4. Supremacy of the military.
I have not seen this sign, yet.

5. Rampant sexism.
This sign is so obvious I don't have to comment about it here.

6. Controlled mass media.
In 2013, Malaysia was ranked 147 out of 180 nations by Reporters Without Borders in the Press Freedom Index. The Printing Presses and Publications Act makes it a crime to publish anything without a government license (that must be renewed every year by the Home Minister) and has been used to silence government critics and to ban various publications.

7. Obsession with national security.
They say, ''Musuh didalam dan diluar negara sedang bergerak secara senyap memusnahkan kedamaian dan keharmonian negara''. Then they use this silly excuse to retain Sedition Act and arrest people without trial.

8. Religion and government are intertwined.
Worse still, they misuse religion to win votes and to control people. It seems to me that most umno politicians nowadays are trying to be hero islam.

9. Corporate power is protected.
Anyone who spends at least 5 minutes a day reading newspaper knows this.

10. Labor power is suppressed.
I have not seen this sign, yet.

11. Disdain for intellectuals and the arts.
I have not seen this sign, yet.

12. Obsession with crime and punishment.
I have not seen this sign, yet.

13. Rampant cronyism and corruption.
According to a 2013 public survey in Malaysia by Transparency International, a majority of the surveyed households perceived Malaysian political parties to be highly corrupt. Business executives surveyed in the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report 2013-2014 reveal that unethical behaviours of companies constitute a disadvantage for doing business in Malaysia. Government contracts are sometimes awarded to well-connected companies, and the policies of awarding huge infrastructure projects to selected Bumiputera companies without open tender continue to exist. Malaysia's ranking in 2014 Corruption Perception Index is 50th (out of 175 countries). Worse still, Malaysia ranks third in The Economist’s crony-capitalism index after Hong Kong and Russia; signalling that the country’s riches are concentrated in the hands of a clutch of well- connected individuals.

14. Fraudulent elections.
Immigration law has been used to manipulate electoral demography. Immigrants from neighboring Philippines and Indonesia were given citizenship, together with voting rights, in order for a political party to "dominate" the state of Sabah in a controversial process referred to as Project IC. Other disgusting tactics that have been used are vote buying, misinformation, ballot stuffing, misrecording of votes, destruction or invalidation of votes and so much more!

10 out of 14 early warning signs of fascism have been seen in Malaysia. Scary, isn't it?

Fazrin Jamal

Perbezaan Orang Sweden Dengan Orang Malaysia

Jumlah penduduk sweden : 9.7 juta.
Jumlah penduduk malaysia : 31 juta.

Jumlah pemenang anugerah nobel sweden : 30 orang.
Jumlah pemenang anugerah nobel malaysia : 0 orang.

Mengapa?

Sebab orang sweden tu tak menyibuk jaga tepi kain orang lain, hebohkan benda remeh temeh, berlagak ustaz dekat fb tapi perangai sendiri macam sampah. Mereka tak terpekik terlolong macam janda meroyan depan keyboard komputer pasal orang islam pegang anjing, ucapan merry christmas, rosmah tak pakai tudung, anwar meliwat dan orang melayu dipeluk kpop.

Walaupun rakyat mereka sedikit tapi mereka sedaya upaya membantu umat manusia, memberikan kita jawapan terhadap persoalan - persoalan terbuku dan memudahkan kehidupan seharian kita dengan melakukan pelbagai kajian perubatan, kimia, fizik serta menggerakkan gerakan - gerakan hak asasi dan keamanan.

Sweden ada Electrolux, Ericsson, H&M, IKEA, Skype, Solvatten, Spotify, Nordea, Volvo, Scania dan Saab.

Malaysia ada apa? Proton yang Tun Mahathir sendiri tak pakai walaupun dia pengerusi eksekutif proton tu? Malaysia Airlines yang orang malaysia sendiri gelakkan tu? Produk Qu Puteh yang setakat popular di AJL tu?

Cuba kau cerita sikit.

Nota : Pertama sekali, status ni tak menghina malaysia yang aku sayangi ni. Ia mengkritik sikap orang kita yang dah la tak nak buat apa apa untuk negara lepas tu heboh sibukkan isu isu sampah. Kedua, jangan cuba menafi dan mengelak fakta sebab aku tersangat tahu apa benda yang kau akan jawab dekat komen dan dah bersedia dengan jawapan balas.

Fazrin Jamal

Three Differences Between Swedish Politics and Malaysian Politics

In Malaysia, there are so many race-based and religion-based political parties such as UMNO, PAS, MCA and MIC. Only muslims can be PAS member, only chinese can be MCA member and so on. In Sweden, there's no such thing. Even though there are significant percentage of Finns, Sami people and muslim immigrants these minority groups don't feel the need to form parties that mainly fighting for their rights. Kristdemokraterna (Christian Democrats Party) which sounds like a religion-based party is actually a very liberal and progressive party and if i'm not mistaken even non-christian can register as member. In Sweden, if you support social democracy you vote Sveriges Socialdemokratiska Arbetareparti, if you support swedish nationalism and social conservatism you vote Sverigedemokraterna. There's no place for race-based politics in Sweden.

In Malaysia, leaders from BN coalition always tell the rakyat to be grateful for everything the government has done for them. In contrast, swedish government never told their rakyat to be grateful because they know it's their job to build basic infrastructures, provide good education and healthcare, maintain peace in the country, reduce unemployment and protecting such values as the rule of law, justice and equal opportunity. Instead of telling their rakyat to bersyukur, cium kaki aku they say ''Thank you for voting me.''

In Sweden, they pay a very high tax rate (up to 52% the last time I checked) but the pay is still good. Sweden's GDP (PPP) per capita is $46386. They don't mind paying RM6.20 for a litre of petrol because they have a lot of money. On top of that, their politicians are mostly honest and never misuse the tax paid by the rakyat. Those taxpayer's money are not wasted on stupid projects or for politician's personal use but is used to offer free primary, secondary and tertiary education to all swedes, give monthly allowance to students, give financial aid to all unemployed people who are actively seeking job, provide universal healthcare system etc. In Malaysia, the tax rate is quite low but malaysians have no reason to feel happy because a) malaysia's minimum wage per hour is only $1.22 b) their taxpayer's money is used for many stupid projects and politician's personal use and c) unlike swedes, we have to pay for so many expensive things.

Note :
1. Actually there are many more differences that I wanna tell you but i'm tired of typing.
2. I don't hate Malaysia. This is my tanah tumpah darahku. How can I hate this wonderful country? I just hate malaysian politics and malaysian government.
3. Sweden is one of the best countries in the world and I want Malaysia to be even better.
4. Some may ask, ''Mana kau tahu Sweden tu bagus? Kau bukan pernah tinggal kat sana.'' Well, not a single palaeontologist lived 150 million years ago and they never saw dinosaurs but they know so many things about dinosaurs. Why? Because they studied dinosaur's fossils. The same goes with me. I've never been to Sweden (or any other country because i'm poor) but i've read so many news articles about swedish politics, economy, etc. If I were wrong please tell me exactly where in this status I was wrong. Don't use the stupid ''You've never been there!'' argument that some of you have used in my fb wall before.

Fazrin Jamal