DAY OF RECKONING

In my previous postings, I have dealt with specific issues on contemporary political issues. I believe the time has come for ALL Malaysians to brace themselves on what sort of political and power structure they want for the future in this country. Whatever One’s wishes, here are the basic REALITIES that every citizen must come to terms with and faithfully accept And behind all these will be ISSUES that will continue to DOMINATE and prevail in our multi racial society that must be addressed and CORRECTED in order to maintain peace and harmony and hence National Unity for the survival of this nation.


WHAT ARE THE REALITIES IN MALAYSIA TODAY?

The Malays and other Bumiputra group are and will continue to be the DOMINANT group in this country for many many years to come. It could be forever as they constitute no less than 65% of the total population between now and 2020 and this percentage will increase further till 2030 and will stabilize at that level thereafter. How can we achieve political and social stability and finally national unity when they as a group OWN and CONTROL only 20% of the country’s wealth?

The Malays will never ALLOW and TOLERATE a Prime Minister or a Menteri Besar who is not a Malay and a Muslim in areas or States where they are in a majority. Again this is nothing UNUSUAL If the Chinese or Indians constitute the majority of Malaysia’s population, to day they will feel and behave the same way – they want Leaders who are of their OWN race. This is not being RACIST. It is a REALITY of human nature. The Malays, the Chinese or the Indians will be more comfortable to have a LEADER of their own race. This is what is implanted INSIDE THE HEART of every Malay, Chinese or Indian. Of course, openly, they say they won’t mind whoever is the Prime Minister or the MB as long as he or she is fair to all. BUT deep INSIDE there is an inborn PREFERENCE and DESIRE for one’s own race. Within this context a LEADER who claims to champion for the rights and welfare of people other than his OWN RACE is a HYPOCRIT be it Malay, Chinese, Indian, Kadazan or Iban. No one in Malaysia can become like Mahatma Gandhi who at the time of India’s independence wanted Ali Jinnah to be the first Prime Minster, to prevent India being divided into Hindu India and Muslim India when the REALITY is that the majority of India’s population are Hindus and hence a Muslim can NEVER be the Prime Minister of the new Independent India. Anyone who saw the academy award winning movie Gandhi will understand what I mean when you see Jawaharlal Nehru’ reaction when Mahatma Gandhi put that suggestion across. And as we know Gandhi did not get his wish, India was divided and Pakistan was born. The rest is history.


Racial politics or Politicks based on racial lines can never be eradicated in Malaysia’s political life as it has always been and will continue to be for many years to come. This is again another REALITY. Unless of course there is massive inter marriages taking place by the millions each year! among the races so that after one or two generations or more the main ethnic races will disappear - which is a Utopian Dream? The Malays will always remain as Malays, the Chinese as Chinese and Indians as Indians. There will be no such race as Melachin (Malay Chinese or Chinese Malay) or Malindo (Malay Indian or Indian Malay which can only come through intermarriages, and hence total ASSIMILATION. What we are after is not ASSIMILATION but NATIONAL INTEGRATION and hence there is and will forever be Malaysians that include all the races in this country


The WEALTH DISTRIBUTION in this country is SKEWED in favour of the Chinese and does not reflect the POPULATION COMPOSITION of the country at all. The Chinese who had been long in business control and monopolize almost all lines of business activities. Although there had been some restructuring achieved, the identification of race with economic function is still dominant in present Malaysia’s economic and social landscape even after two decades of social engineering under the New Economic Policy

Whilst the Chinese continue their dominance in the economic and business spheres, the DISPARITY in INCOME DISTRIBUTION between the Malays and the Chinese is widening and amongst the Malays the INCOME DISTRIBUTION is also widening i.e. between the SUPER RICH Malays and the VERY POOR Malays. So we have TWO very unhealthy and dangerous TRENDS going simultaneously in our society. But as a countervailing force a relatively large middle class has emerged over the last 30 years especially amongst the Malays. This has to some extent provided a “BUFFER” of sort against any form of extremism by any section of the society. It is a PLUS point for us in terms of SOCIAL STABILITY. But of late this stability is beginning to be threatened and exacerbated by political squabbles.


UMNO AND THE MALAY DILEMMA

The LEADER or PRIME MINISTER of this country and the Menteri Besar of the State must be from the DOMINANT race in this case the Malays because the Malays and other Bumiputra groups will constitute the MAJORITY voters for many years to come.. UMNO has been the main political party for the Malays before and after Independence although there is PAS which is gaining strength to attract more Malays and of late Party Keadilan Rakyat.

The Malays as the majority race are now divided in terms of their political loyalty. UMNO which hitherto used to be the dominant party for the Malays is being challenged by PAS and PKR. The declining supports by the Malays towards UMNO are due to various factors but amongst the key ones which we believe will take a LONG TIME to BE CORRECTED are as follows

- UMNO has become over the last TWO DECADES or so an elitist party for the rich and famous, for the corporate and business people, the high middle income class, the budding contractors and middlemen and the UMNOPUTRA, no longer representing the vast majority of the Malay populace both in the rural areas and in squatter or low income urban areas where they are still economically and socially far behind compared to the Chinese
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- The Malays ‘ PERCEPTION of UMNO has radically changed after the last two decades when UMNO was under Tun Mahathir’s stewardship .During that time those in UMNO or those who want to join UMNO has only ONE OVERRIDING objective to accumulate wealth and to become rich and NOT to SERVE the rakyat. Only through UMNO you can become rich quickly without hard work and sweat because it is accomplished by the PRINCIPLE who you know and NOT by what you know Hence we have a new nomenclature OKB “Orang Kaya Baru” for the NEWLY RICH which was created by this System often refered to as CRONYSM, NEPOTISM. For anyone to be successful one must come within the AMBIT or CIRCLE of UMNO politics IF you are OUTSIDE, forget it no matter how good you are!! . The PROOF is in front of your eyes – present and past Wakil Rakyat and ADUNs and those who are closely linked with UMNO or UMNO linked companies or individuals and hence the terminology GLC or “Government linked companies” is an offshoot of this. The real living PROOF is TUN DAIM and TUN MAHATHIR. No one knows how much each of them is WORTH? But if we use SUHARTO or MARCOS as a benchmark, we should have a fair idea their Net Worth
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- UMNO does not have Leaders or able to produce leaders during Mahathir’s era “ UMNO KETANDUSAN PEMIMPIN YANG DI SEGANI dan BUKAN DI GERUNI , YANG IKHLAS DAN BUKAN BERMAIN RASUAH BERKHIDMAT UNTUK BANGSA DAN NEGARA DAN BUKAN UNTUK PERUT SENDIRI AHLI KELUARGA DAN SAUDARA MARA ATAU SAHABAT HANDAI Those leaders under his tutelage are characterized by “rakus” “ materialistic” ‘selfish and Machiavellian” The PROOF – again in front of your EYES. Tell me who amongst top UMNO leaders at present are FREE from SCANDALS and CORRUPTION. Each and almost every one of them has been TAINTED in one way or the other and each one has a “STORY” behind them. In short UMNO leaders today do not have the MORAL FIBRE nor the INTELLECTUAL CALIBRE of leaders of yester years like Tun Razak, Tun Dr, Ismail,. Aziz Ishak Tun Saadon Zubir, Dato’Sulaiman Abd Rahman and Datuk Harun to name a few. Look at UMNO present leaders now
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- Pak Lah –the PM. Mr. Nice Guy. He is SINCERE to put THINGS RIGHT. But he is TOO MUCH being controlled by his son in law and his own son on grounds of POLITICS and BUSINESS His involvement with certain INDIVIDUALS in business had become talk of the town He relied TOO MUCH on the Fourth Floor boys the so called OXBRIDGE experts. They may be good on paper but NAÏVE in everything else. Pak Lah’s strong reliance on them had been FATAL and CATASTROPHIC that led to his own down fall not only within UMNO but as the PM as manifested by the March 8th election. . Pak Lah should have learnt from Tun Razak HOW to PICK his people to advise and help him. But of course GOOD JUDGEMENT comes only from GOOD AND CAPABLE LEADERS. Grapevine stories had it that his EXIT PLAN by Jun 2010 is to pave the way to SORT out his family businesses given the massive commitments that had been made on the BASIS that he would continue to be the PM at his pleasure. So he needs this minimum time and I tell you he would not budge not for any reason but this. Yes he can use other reasons to justify his time exit like seeing the REFORM on the Judiciary, strengthening the ACA etc but these are mere COINCIDENCE now. The real reason is more personal. Again this is human nature. After all Mahathir did the same thing- making sure that ALL HIS SIBLINGS and their businesses are taken care of and what ever PROBLEMS they still have like Bank Borrowing etc are all RESOLVED in one way or another through write-offs and the like so that they will not be DISTURBED and continue with their businesses when the Tun is no longer the PM
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- Najib – he is a pedigree with very good family background, very capable and intelligent. But now his image is tarnished somewhat by the Altantuya debacle AND like other UMNO leaders there are also SIDE STORIES relating to his own WEAKNESS with the opposite sex which his political enemies are ever ready to expose when the time comes! Especially Anwar Ibrahim The other minus for Najib is that HE WILL NOT be as COMMITTED as Abdullah to FIGHT corruption, TO DIG INTO PAST MISDEEDS of the previous administration, to GO ALL OUT to improve the judiciary especially in seeing THRU the LINGAM TAPE debacle. to its logical conclusions whereby the NAMES mentioned in the tape will be PROSECUTED without FEAR or FAVOUR under the various Acts that had been mentioned
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- Muhyidin Yassin - He is becoming a maverick of late out of FRUSTRATION not for anything else. He too has SIDE STORIES ready to be told especially during his days as MB of Johor relating to various land deals which Anwar is too familiar. Grapevine stories had it that he also had extramural activities. But this is common amongst UMNO stalwarts anyway with all the scandal stories.
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- The Malays are in real DILEMMA. To turn to UMNO, they are faced with these sorts of leaders and the other leaders down the ladder are no different and even worse. Look at Rahim Thamby Chik who wants to make a comeback of sort. or Muhammad Taib who is made a Minister despite his previous history .Tengku Adnan is mentioned in the Lingam Tape, Khir Toyo is known to everyone in Selangor for his corruption. Look at Nor Yacob coming from nowhere was made the de facto Minister of Finance because Pak Lah just does not have the time. This man was partly responsible for the billion lost in forex dealings by Bank Negara in the 80’s and the late Governor Jaffar Hussein had to take the rap. Nor Yacok left Bank Negara for a while but called back by Mahathir as his Advisor!!. Talk to any senior ex Bank negara staff, they will tell you all about this man. The MB’s and other Ministers are all below par, NO CALIBRE WHY? The good ONES in UMNO had been pushed aside or ostracized by MAHATHIR during his 22 years in power.Mahathir cannot stand people who are better than him and who can think independently. All that is left are either YES MAN who can’t think for themselves or are inherently useless. It only shows how desperate and critical for UMNO to day in terms of having LEADERS with impeccable INTEGRITY AND INTELLECTUAL PROWESS. But whatever it is UMNO leaders during Mahathir time by any stretch of imagination had a GOOD TIME for MORE THAN TWO DECADES. Those who had retired had made their piles and become very well off in RETIREMENT and you can see all of them be it ADUN, Wakil Rakyat. EXCO, MB Ministers etc. AND the PRESENT LEADERS will for sure CONTINUE with this CULTURE unless they are damn stupid not to. So where do the Malays go now? To Pakatan Rakyat?? As an alternative??
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YES to PAKATAN, not that they love Pakatan that much BUT they have no choice but to go for the lesser DEVIL. This was what happened on March 8th General election. Surprisingly, based on a random survey privately undertaken MOST ordinary Malaysians RIGHT NOW are prepared to let PAKATAN run this country even more so with SQUABBLES within UMNO and within BN currently going on unabated. They just want TO GIVE PAKATAN A CHANCE. If they don’t perform and deliver, as they say we can always revert back to BN at the next General Election in 2013 And THIS FEELING is very prevalent and is INCREASING in intensity by the day.


What are PAKATAN STRENGTHS? Can they do what BN cannot do? We believe Pakatan can have a major IMPACT in preventing corruption and RESOLUTE in punishing those who were corrupt previously. Case in point is the LINGAM TAPE. The Pakatan Government will not compromise on the need to establish TRUTH on this ISSUE but we feel the BN would! Simply because most if not ALL UMNO leaders to day live in “glass houses” Now with Zaid the de facto Law Minister resigning it will only reinforce NOT to get at the TRUTH. Pakatan will be more committed towards TRANSPARENCY and ACCOUNTABILITY and will be RESOLUTE in dealing with the MISDEEDS under Tun Mahathir’s Administration, even to the extent of GETTING BACK the PEOPLE”S MONEY that had been misused through the ABUSE of power. The Pakatan government will do like what the present Indonesian Government has done or doing towards the late President Suharto regime and including his family. And there will no holds barred because PAKATAN leaders do not live in glass houses- not involved in CORRUPTION.. NO T YET any way!! .They can go to the maximum limit of their endurance to investigate and punish the wrong doers. without FEAR or FAVOUR ,

Remember the ESTIMATE made by an American Research Organization that the amount of money spent through CORRUPTION in Malaysia over the last 30 years comes to 300 billion Dollars. Who are the RECEIPIENTS of these HUGE sums of money and WHERE is the money STASHED? What happened in Malaysia is no different to what had happened in Indonesia during Suharto regime and in the Philippines during Marcos’s time We believe the move to recover at least some amount of this money. This RECOVERY PROGRAMME is one of the top Agenda by the Pakatan should they come to power. And for sure this will send COLD SWEAT and SHUDDERS into the spines of those involved. who are still around even though they may have KEPT their ill gotten gains abroad!

Tun Mahathir’s sudden interest to come back to UMNO when Pak Lah is still around is quite baffling. But did you realize as soon the Tun announced his intention after Mahyidin’s announcement, one by one other UMNO leaders join the CHOROUS welcoming him back! What does this signify? Many of UMNO leaders and stalwarts in Government to day are still Mahathir’s men. Pak Lah did not replace many of Mahathir’s cabinet members. Of course they don’t show their true colors under Pak Lah. But now we know who and who are with Pak Lah and who are not. This is politics where you have no permanent friends or enemies The Tun believes that under Najib he will be more or less PROTECTED or will not be PROSECUTED. Under Pak Lah is 50-50 but under Anwar it is as sure as hell!! This is what the TUN feared most and of course if that happens ALL that he had built or accomplished will come to zero. Deep in his heart this might happen should Anwar becomes the PM .There is no VALID reason for the Tun who had RETIRED from political life to continue MEDDLING with the affairs of the State EXCEPT for this deep FEAR. Because if it can happen to Suharto, Marcos, Fujumori and even Mugabe his good friend FOLLOWING a CHANGE of government it can also happen to him. Only God knows ant only time will tell. Let us all wait and see what the ENDING looks like


THE GODFATHER REVISITED


WE should know the real ARCHITECT responsible to shape UMNO into what it is to day and the PROBLEMS created as a consequence. Who introduced the quota system into UMNO’s election? Who inculcated the “rakus” and “materialistic” and “greed” culture into UMNO? Who planted the seeds of CORRUPTION in our society which has now become ingrained in our CULTURE? When does “Money Politics” find its place and get entrenched in UMNO? Only after 1982. Unfortunately, the DIRECT BENEFICIARIES of the SYSTEM (those 1,000 over UMNO members who attend the PerhimpunanAgung every year) do not see or even realize how their party UMNO had been TRANSFORMED simply because they all have become BLIND and LOST in their OWN WORLD of FANTASY, MATERIALISM and POWER, doing wrong things for the right reasons with the ENDS always justifies the MEANS. Only some enlightened ordinary UMNO members amongst the 2 to 3 million of them are aware how their PARTY had been transformed, but being no entities or small fries they are HELPLESS to do anything under the Draconian System of Mahathirism. If the Malays are still not CONSCIOUS (INSAF) and failed to UNDERSTAND all this, then they are just doomed. “MAHATHIRISM” and all its manifestations should be a real watershed in the history of this nation and to the history of UMNO in particular. Under his iron fist hands he developed the system so SUBTLY throughout the decades hoodwinking everyone but only become CONSCIOUS of its GRAVE CONSEQUENCES when the System’s began to show its ugly face when past MISDEEDS were uncovered and unfolded as time goes on leaving the present leaders to carry the cans as they say and to deal with them.

JUST PONDER AND THINK FOR A MOMENT ON WHAT HAD BEEN SAID HERE . Will meet you at the next posting




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