The national power nap

Here's what you get in the aftermath of Nov 10:
The Prime Minister is in denial. The Minister in the Prime Minister's Department and the ill-informed Information Minister are being their typical irrational selves. Pahang's Umno chief and Menteri Besar is now asking for swift use of the ISA. The general response from the other side has been bitter and vindictive. Poor Malaysiakini, a lone domestic voice among the dunes of MSM-propagated lies.

It's clear this govt refuses to acknowledge the Message sent this past Saturday. Instead it mocks. It dishes out more venom. It believes it can subvert this show of dissatisfaction by either ignoring it or thumbing its nose at the whole idea in the hope that it dies a typical worn-out death. Oh yeah?

We must make this govt listen.

Make it listen hard and act no less. The key, however, is to do it without causing hardship to innocent parties. i'm not advocating another rally anytime soon because there's high chance another show will be met with merciless action on the part of the police.

i'm advocating an action where no brutal police force can be meted because it's so widespread; harmless yet potent in point. i'm advocating the power of the individual rumbling in unison to become a power of the masses. All this without so much as lifting a finger.

So how about this? Let's shut down Malaysia. In an act of mourning and prayer, let's shut it down by consensus and as a mark of protest over the pathetic response from this govt.

For half an hour - a pregnant half an hour - let's together put this country to sleep. Stop working, stop eating, stop driving, stop studying. Just stop. Even individual policefolk can participate - after all, there's no more Dataran Merdeka to be cordoned. Unions can shut down their buses, delivery trucks, newspapers, banks, etc. Lawyers can request for an adjournment, architects a brief stop-work order. All activities except those that involve life-safety and personal security.

Half-an-hour is not going to hurt the economy, not going to make a student go dumb, and certainly not starve a person to death. But half-an-hour - synchronised across the country in all fields - will speak a lot. And if it's still met with impunity and indignation on the govt's part, we shall shut down longer the next time.

If enough concerned citizens in their various capacities across the country take part in this movement - and the signs are there are - we would have sent a huge message to the ruling party. It would show them that we the people own this country. Not them. Never them. They serve us. And they better start with electoral reforms. Like now.

i'd suggest that Bersih again take the lead. Pick a date, set a time, spread the word. Spread it in style. Let's go into a self-induced coma.

Make this the one snooze the PM will never ever forget.