Lynas and the 2013 Elections

Hmm... Why?

Mommies are angry!

The people are angry!

It has been awhile since I last wrote an article. Typical life messes had limited my time in doing one of the things that I enjoy doing the most, writing. Of course, I’ll always try my best to express my words on paper whenever I can. The elections are coming soon here in Malaysia. It is said that the poling day would be on the 5th of May. Rumors are that the current ruling government is going down for sure this time and it is quite apparent that the government itself knows it too. They seemed desperate, trying all sorts of tactics to win the hearts of the people. The heat is up, flags from all parties are erected everywhere, and the politicians are at war once again.

We Sabahans are angry!

Beautiful, and yes, very angry as well!

The problem with Lynas had been ongoing for quite a long time and the march of many angry citizens never did bring much attention towards the issue. The government just couldn’t care less. Now that the elections are near, they are suddenly interested in the matter. The opposition had been trying their best to use this issue to their advantage. I came upon a post from facebook that was very interesting, it’s some sort of a question. It goes like this, “Australia is 23.3 times bigger than Malaysia and yet there aren’t any spaces to dispose of the waste materials?”

Where is this? They are angry!

Weird guy is angry!

No doubt that the people of Kuantan who are all fired up will definitely cast their votes in favor of the opposition candidates who have pledged to shut down the processing plant. Residents are outraged because of the poor water pressure during peak hours and sometimes water supplies are cut off without a proper announcement. Does BN think the people of Kuantan stupid? Aren’t there any efforts put into this by the government to get in some votes from the people? Well even if they did, it wouldn’t make much difference anyway. They were doomed from the start when they agreed to allow Lynas to build that pollution machine on our homeland. They knew those votes, those that they thought will always remain theirs, will be lost once Lynas starts construction, and they did it anyway.

So what do we do when the government does this? We try to make a change. How do we make a change? We do our part to stop the ones who started destroying our home. We stop the government. If you love the environment, I say we vote for the opposition. Clean up or go home Lynas!