Having given fair warning last week that I intended repeating this mantra until Malaysia’s endlessly-expected 13th general election, there’s no point in my going on apologising for the tedium of it all.
In any case, nothing I could say or do could be as terminally tedious as the thought of five more years of Barisan Nasional plunder, blunder and lies, lies, lies. And anyone still stupid or twisted enough to consider continuing to support this criminal regime richly deserves to be bored to death.

The BN should have been destroyed decades ago. In 1969, for example, for engineering the May 13 riots to ‘justify’ the toppling of Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra as prime minister in favour of Abdul Razak Hussein.
BN should have been destroyed again when Umno imploded and Dr Mahathir Mohamad employed blatant corruption, albeit euphemised then and ever since as “money politics”, to resurrect the remains as Umno Baru.
BN should have been destroyed in the 1980s in retribution for Mahathir’s crime of sacking the then Lord Chief Justice of the Federal Court, cowing the rest of the judiciary, corrupting the press and incarcerating dozens of political opponents under the ISA in his notorious so-called Ops Lalang.
BN also should have been destroyed for virtually countless crimes against Malaysia since, like the granting or more likely selling of thousands of citizenships in Sabah and elsewhere under Project IC, the fabrication of fake sodomy charges against Anwar Ibrahim and the continued corruption of every civil institution in the country, plus a great many religious institutions into the bargain.
And even in the absence of any of these crimes against the constitution, justice, civil liberties and human rights, BN should have been destroyed a thousand times over for the massive frauds and other financial crimes its members and cronies have committed – and blatantly continue to commit – against Malaysia.
So it’s a total no-brainer that, in the event that Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak ever decides it’s time to call the 13th general election, BN must finally be destroyed for once and for all. ‘Transformations’ – but nothing has changed!
Because despite Najib’s much-vaunted “transformations” of the nation, nothing whatever has changed, except for the worse!
BN is still threatening its opponents with the spectre of May 13, 1969, more than 50 years after the event through racist pressure-groups such as Perkasa and lying ‘newspapers’ like Utusan Malaysia.
And the publicly-funded propaganda movie about May 13, Tanda Putera, a production that so stinks of revisionism that it should be re-titled Tandas Putera, is being screened for selected audiences in hopes of rousing pro-BN racial sentiments.
But lately, it seems that the ghosts of crimes past, far from frightening the Malaysian people, are coming back to haunt BN.
The handling of the intrusion into Sabah by an armed force from the Philippines, far from glorifying BN as the protector of Malaysia, is being seen as the upshot of the regime’s betrayal of national sovereignty through years of granting instant citizenship to foreign Muslims in expectation of their votes.
Certainly, most Malaysians feel due sorrow and sympathy for the bereaved families of police killed by the intruders.
But there seems to be little but scorn for Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein (left), who, perhaps emboldened by the history of glorious victories he and his forces have won against unarmed demonstrators and ‘suspects’, was so criminally stupid as to first deny that the intruders were dangerous, and then try and tackle them with police instead of defence personnel.
Not that the navy, complete with its notorious Scorpene submarines, proved capable of detecting or excluding the intruders in the first place, or that the air force was able to demonstrate much effectiveness, or that the army has proven notably effective or efficient in the discharge of its duties.
Attempts by the mainstream media to turn regime zeroes into heroes have met with mixed success too, as the standard stories trotted-out about enemy atrocities committed against Malaysian forces, while deplorable if true, only serve to remind many of us of the C4 dismemberment of Altantuya Shaariibuu, the broken body of Teoh Beng Hock, and the mutilated corpse of just one of hundreds of Malaysian victims of police brutality, A Kugan.
But in a typically heavy-handed bid at damage-control by BN, journalists covering the month-long fiasco in Sabah have now been ordered by the Sabah Security Committee, chaired by BN Chief Minister Musa Aman, to refer to the group from the Philippines not as “intruders” but “terrorists”.
Hishammuddin’s fatal error
Hishammuddin, as we all recall, originally made the fatal error of claiming that as Muslims, these people, however heavily-armed, could surely mean no harm. I just can’t imagine how he could have forgotten such decidedly harmful Islamic organisations as al Qaeda, the Taliban, Jemaah Islamiyah and many others.
But now, thank goodness, Musa Aman has set the record straight by declaring that even Muslims “can be evil because of greed, power greedy, with shallow religious faith and possess animalistic character”.
Though of course this statement was referring to the terrorists, it also strikes me as an impressively apt and accurate description of the BN regime itself, in all its sanctimonious criminality. A concise and compelling summary, in short, of why BN must be destroyed.
But this self-evident fact hasn’t deterred Najib from his desperate bid to stave-off reality, or at least buy more time with yet more public money, this time in the form of a raise in salary for members of the police and armed forces.
Nor has it prevented that perennial pathological liar, Mahathir, from recently ranting to the Perkasa rabble that “our sacrifices will be in vain if Selangor cannot be saved” from the opposition.
But all such talk of “sacrifice” does for most of us is to recall the fact that Mahathir (left) and his BN cronies have grown filthy-rich through no sacrifice of their own, but on the contrary, through sacrificing the rights, liberties, protections and prosperity of ‘ordinary’ Malaysians.
Similarly, the call the other day by Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin for the people “to support the government in the defence of the nation so as to avert incidents such as the Sulu militant intrusion into Sabah” only serve to highlight the ruling regime’s criminal incompetence when it comes to the crunch.
And thus to further stress the long-evident and increasingly urgent fact that, for Malaysia to survive, and Malaysians of all races and creeds to thrive, BN must be destroyed.

DEAN JOHNS, after many years in Asia, currently lives with his Malaysian-born wife and daughter in Sydney, where he coaches and mentors writers and authors and practises as a writing therapist. Published books of his columns for Malaysiakini include ‘Mad about Malaysia’, ‘Even Madder about Malaysia’, ‘Missing Malaysia’, ‘1Malaysia.con’ and ‘Malaysia Mania’.