Umno/BN is Malaysia’s black hole

Let me make myself perfectly clear here. I’m not talking ‘black hole’ in terms of cruel and suffocating imprisonment as in ‘black hole of Calcutta’, despite the fact that the Umno/BN gang has a way of cramming its critics and opponents into the black holes of its lock-ups and jails.

Nor, of course, am I stooping so low as to characterise the Umno/BN regime as a black hole in the anatomical sense, however deserving of such scatological description that this bunch of bums and its coterie of chums in business and commerce and the Malaysian mainstream media undeniably is.

Instead I’m using ‘black hole’ in its strictly astronomical sense, to make the point that, while teams of scientists have been straining their talents and stretching the limits of their telescopic technologies to try and penetrate the dark mysteries of black spots in distant galaxies, one of these all-engulfing monsters has been here right under their noses, greedily gobbling-up what’s left of Malaysia.