Divide and misrule Is Najib feeling insecure or is there a real chance for an Egypt blow-up here?

What happened in Tunisia and Egypt could well occur in Malaysia if the warning given by the Prime Ministeris taken seriously. If it cannot happen, why then the warning?
People do not take to the streets for no apparent reason, more so if over a million take part in the demonstrations. When people cannot tolerate the suffering any longer, they do not need to be instigated to go against the government.

The warning given by the Prime Minister is totally uncalled for, unless it is because he feels insecure, he is not leading the country on the right path, or he is unable to contain the vast corruption nor is he able to abide by the rule of law.

Malaysians will not overthrow a corrupt and incompetent ruling government through street demonstration but through the ballot box. But here the Prime Minister must assure the rakyat that the General Election will be carried out fairly and on a level playing field. The PM must also retract his statement that umno is willing for '... crushed bodies and lost lives' to take place in order to defend Putrajaya.

Unless the PM is running the country the way other dictators are running theirs, there should be no worries about Malaysians taking to the streets to usurp his power.

The PM should stop talking about his 1Malaysia, one big family, our family spirit, fair and just policy to provide ample opportunities for every citizen and the country's wealth to be equitably distributed rhetoric when racism, corruption, NEP, ketuanan melayu, ISA, PPPA, OSA, partisan duties of the EC, MACC, PDRM, questionable Judicial decisions are all still solidly entrenched in the ruling government's policies.

My advice to the PM is this: start the walk and put into action all your talk of the past two years.You need not fear losing power if you do the right thing.

But holding on to power using undemocratic means will surely see the fate of this country following the fate of Tunisia and Egypt.

Can Malaysia ever go the way of Egypt, or of Tunisia, where entrenched regimes have been deposed or look as though they soon will be? And the answer of course is 'No'. For one thing, unlike Egypt, and other parts of the Arab world which are witnessing a groundswell of turmoil, Malaysia's Guided democracy where governments are routinely voted out of office by the electorate. When you can kick an unpopular government out in the next election, what need of a revolution?
However - what with endless scams and rampant corruption having become the disorder of the day - many are beginning to question whether Malaysia is in fact a democracy or a kleptocracy, a government of thieves, disguised as a democracy. Changes of government don't help when all governments, past and present, of whatever professed ideological hue or stripe they be, are seen to be equally corrupt and unable, or unwilling, to provide efficient and effective governance.
Wouldn't such a situation merit a political and social earthquake as Egypt is currently witnessing? No, in Malaysia it wouldn't. And it doesn't. Because malaysa is different from Egypt not only in that we are supposed to be a democracy but, more importantly, because as a polity we are far more internally divided than is Egypt, or almost any other country you care to name. In Egypt, Muslim and Christian, men and women, the educated middle class and illiterate labourers have banded together with the single-point agenda of toppling Hosni Mubarak. In its diversity, Malaysia can never have such focused unity.
Malaysia's much-vaunted ethnic, religious, social and political diversity is both a boon and a bane. Our pluralism has saved us - barring aberrations such as MAHATHIR's Emergency Lalang- from the clutches of free press: we are just too many and too different from each other to be susceptible to overt dictatorial regimentation. However, by the same token we are also susceptible to the covert dictatorship of a cynical and exploitative political class which has made a mockery of democracy.
Despite its surface differences, Malaysia's entrenched political class is a model of underlying unity: it is united in perpetuating its power at any cost. The people of Malaysia, on the other hand, you and me, are divided along economic, social, religious, linguistic, regional and many other faultlines too numerous to count. These differences have over the years been emphasised and exploited by the political class which has created its own captive vote banks based on caste, creed, language, regional identity, economic status and other real or imagined divisions that separate us from each other. The British taught our political class that the secret of gaining and holding on to power lay in the policy of divide and rule. After Independence, our UMNOPUTRAS 
have bettered the instruction of our colonial masters. Escalating regional chauvinism flexes its muscles  
In Egypt, it is Hosni Mubarak and representatives of his repressive regime, who are seen to be the enemy. In scam-ridden, criminally misgoverned India, our divided polity is too programmed to be paranoid about the supposed enemy within - the neighbour who belongs to a different caste, or religion, or speaks a different language - to identify a common foe in our corrupt netas and babus.
Egypt can revolt. Thanks to our politically-inspired divisiveness, it seems that MALAYSIA is destined to remain merely revolting.