Silent majority?... Fucking ask me first lah.

Apparently you and I, and all our relatives, friends, colleagues and classmates - plus all the relatives, friends, colleagues and classmates of all our relatives, friends, colleagues and classmates - had a meeting with Pak Lah recently and told him that we didn't want street demonstrations.

All the measures taken against illegal demonstrations are in line with what the people want, the prime minister said.

Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said this message was conveyed to him by representatives from 365 non-governmental organisations.

"The silent majority has spoken, this is what the NGOs told me. The rakyat do not like demonstrations. Peace is what the rakyat values."

Street protests, Abdullah said, disrupted economic activity. - NST and similarly, on Malaysiakini

Well, was that really the message we converyed? Indeed, did we say anything at all?

The concept of silent majority is mercurial. It's a fact that our physical human limitations (there is a limit to how much information we can handle at one time) and technological limitations (we don't have a tool where everyone can express themselves simultaneously and everyone can comprehend everything expressed by everyone else) dictate that only a minority can logically speak and be heard at any one time by the rest. Therefore, the rest automatically become the 'silent' majority.

Therefore, when the PM heard and acted on the 'demands' of the silent majority, there are only 2 possibilities.

1. The PM held a national referendum last week, but you and I obviously missed the memo or something.

2. Those who spoke to the PM are not the silent majority. By virtue that they made themselves heard and the fact that you and I didn't know they had spoken our behalf and on behalf of all our relatives, friends, colleagues and classmates - they can be no other than the 'vocal' minority.

So, PM, the next time you do something asked by the silent majority, you'd better fucking ask me first. Delay No More!