The BN federal government in Malaysia often trumpets to the public

about its so-called principle of consensus when dealing with the

various issues facing the country.

The BN also loudly and endlessly trumpets that the government will
not harm the economic prospects of the people even as it sought to
enlarge Malay economic power through both transparent and opaque
( non-transparent ) measures.

The BN paramount leader(s) also declared that minority interests

will not be bullied or sidelined even as the majority interests
are given free reign.

The recent and continuing clamour about the integrated pig farm
project in Kg Tumbuk near Sepang, Selangor give the big lie to all
the above "principles" of the BN government in Malaysia.

The BN government has tried to whip up deep emotion among the public
by using politicians, who incidentally have an axe to grind after
the shameful loss of Selangor to the opposition, and the pro-BN mass
media.

After these guys seem to have become exhausted or bored with the
subject, the BN government is now turning to the national TV
channels to continue ramming forth the highly emotional tirade
against the proposed project, perhaps hoping that some village
toughs, suitably aroused, will take the law into their own hands
and thereby inject the necessary fear into the common people.

The winner will of course be BN.

The present course of events has to be seen from the BN's view.
Selangor, the jewel in the crown, is now under the control of the
opposition, and a large part of the blame must be squarely put on
the shoulders of the pig-consuming voters, a.k.a. the Chinese
community. Therefore it is proper for the BN to mount a political
offensive that can only be described as one that directly targets
that community and that community alone.

Pig farming is an economic activity that does not involve the

Muslim Malay community and therefore the Malay economic clout is
not disadvantaged in any manner at all. Why should the BN leaders
try to even rob the others of something that the community has no
interests in ?

The proposed project is an integrated farm that is intended to be

operated using the latest technology from Germany. Therefore the
BN government should ensure that it exactly does that, and not
do what current discrete individually-owned pig farms do, polluting
the environment. The environmental pollution has been a longstanding
problem that successive BN state governments have failed to solve.

A well-run ultra-modern farm that is also well-supervised and never

neglected by the environmental watchdogs will not pollute the areas
surrounding the farm as alleged by the propaganda Goebbels in the
BN government. Such a farm will also serve as a model for all others
in the rest of the country and therefore eliminating obsolete farms
will become highly desirable.
As such, the BN is clearly cruel and irresponsible AND unprincipled
to mount a propaganda tirade against the project, the more so, when
it has been made clear that the money involved will come solely from
the Chinese community, and no funds from the government will be needed.
The BN has given out huge gargantuan funds to others and yet people
prefer to not talk about it. Where is the fairness or "consent" that
the BN always talks about ?

The practices carried out by the BN in governing the country can only
be described as deceitful if not outright discriminatory in nature.
Political power is supreme, yes, but What a shame, exchanging truth
and principles for political power. Dig your own grave, fine, but do
not dig one for others.