Give us Bread, Give us Liberty to Choose

One of the most famous cry of the French Revolution was the Parisians cry "Give us Bread", which was a precursor to all of France's demand to the throne to "Give us Liberty".

True to BolehLand's sickness, ills and woes that everything on and above this Tanah Melayu is being politicised, it has now come to the bread and butter or rather the roti (bread) issue. Even the bread we buy is being made into a racial issue? See story here.

Why on earth are we fighting over bread and who makes it? Isn't it about freedom of choice and capitalism if you have the means, be it monetary or money-gets-all or think white flour is going to give you the greenbacks, you go and bake your loaf and sell it? And consumers can choose what brand bread they want to buy?

Of course the ever sensitive halal issue gets in the way in almost every merchandise you use. Read merchandise, not activity, where the latter a lot of haram or illegal money laundering, corruption are being exchanged but these don't cause as much distress and sensitivity, than say the flour if it was sourced from a crony or from a non halal owner!!!

Let's hope the source of this allegation is discovered and we can safely eat our bread in peace, or, why should it matter at all if the bread is halal? Why the heck are we going racists over white or brown or even wholemeal bread?

If the base ingredient is being disputed, there is more far reaching consequences to this rumour. Simply because flour is the basis of so many of what we consume!!!

So will we get food manufacturers coming up with assurances that their products are halal and sourced from halal companies that are not politically controlled huh?

One thing for sure this bread war reveals is the kind of polices that are being perpetuated in BolehLand. Boycotting of products from cronies of a government is nothing new. BolehLand is expert in boycotting products of those who we deemed have wrong a religion, race and even language. No not the nation because many ordinary folks don't subscribe to government's foreign policy actions anyway.

We boycott the Brits, the Yanks, and every so often remind being reminded how anti Semite we are boycotting the Jews ie. Israel. Now the rumour to boycott this bread because the producer is a crony of the ruling government or supposedly not buying from a non halal flour producer is a continuation of our national boycott policy.

Political parties have always used the boycott card to rally public support against their opponents. It goes right to the supposedly businesses that the political parties have their visible or invisible hand in.

In the case of BolehLand, if we are going to carry the boycott to its letter and given the case of the visible hand of the ruling political parties in almost every business in BolehLand, if Sarawak is an example to choose from, ordinary folks will be left to only surviving on fresh air and sunshine!!!

Even if we want to boycott the locally produced car, the imported ones are all AP tainted with cronies well connected to the ruling government! So what are you left with trying to buy? If you want to travel on public transport, the cronies are behind the wheels too? Even the road you walk on, some cronies had a hand building it?

So it's not the bread alone if one wants to boycott that will give us liberty from cronyism. You'd literally have to boycott the whole of Tanah Melayu right?

The only people profiting from this rumour is probably the agencies producing the ads and the MSmedia advertising the denials!!! Oh now the rumour mongering net gets cast wider right? Such is BolehLand, hah!

Scene at mamak shop if the flour cronyism rumour is perpetuated.

Patron: What roti canai do you have?

Mamak: We have the pure UMNO, or if you prefer the Barisan National and we also serve the Pakatan roti canai!

Patron: Wow cool name?

Mamak: No sir, it's named after the companies which supplied the flour, oil, gas, salt, yeast, sugar and the migrant worker

Patron: One teh tarik please.

Mamak: The kurang UMNO, Barisan Nasional or Pakatan supplied sugar and susu (milk)?

Patron: Pakatan teh tarik but kurang or better no NFC susu please

Mamak: Sorry we don't have NFC susu only the burger and beef kurma sir

Mamak shouting: Satu canai Pakatan dan teh tarik Pakatan tapi kurang manis gula BN. No NFC kurma kua.