MIC's tactic in keeping their votes

I mentioned this in an earlier post where a group of students were threatened by MIC members for doing a survey in an estate in the Ijok constituency. Malaysiakini has the report:

Shock for students conducting poll survey
Wong Yeen Fern
Apr 23, 07 2:15pm

The youth-based Youth for Change (Y4C) came up against aggressive response while conducting an election-related survey at an estate near Ijok, where a by-election will take place on Saturday.

The group, which had conducted similar surveys in Ijok town and Bukit Badong, was attempting to get the views of Tuan Mee Estate workers as to whether they were receiving sufficient information about the by-election.

However, the 40 students led by convener Lee Khai Loon, were threatened with trouble if they did not stop “disturbing” the workers.



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It is no wonder the poor Indian Malaysians in the various estates seem to continue voting for MIC/BN considering the very short end of the stick they've been getting all this while. If they are openly threatened attempting to find out the other side of the story, or if other people are being threatened attempting to tell the other side of the story, why would we think these Indian voters would have voted otherwise? If we continue letting this politics of threat and violence to continue we can be sure our Indian Malaysian citizens such as the ones in the estates will continue to suffer abject poverty, and have no options other than the lies being perpetuated by these MIC thugs. Azly Rahman in his Malaysiakini column today attempts to describe more on this disturbing and dangerous trend. Malaysians of all races and political persuasion really have to ask themselves if this is the kind of "leaders" we want in our society, and if we really do trust them with the wellbeing of this nation.