Anwar may be found guilty. But let us hope that he will not be jailed but fined only. This gives a win win situation to both sides.But what is more important is for Najib to talk terms with Anwar to get rid of Tun Mahathir from the political scene because he is their common "enemy and nuissance" to both of them and "a thorn in the flesh" By disposing him out of the scene both Anwar and Najib can go their seperate ways or even get together because there is no more "dalang" in between
People know that Najib does not like to confront Mahathir if it can be avoided.And people also know that the Tun keeps sending signals to Najib that Anwar is more popular than him and that he is a threat to him as PM. as long as Anwar is around. Mahathir loves to put Anwar back into jail once again and he likes Najib to do that for him.
The Tun is a smart cooky. He is always on the "attack" since he left his premiership. This is his STRATEGY which to him is the most effective line of Defence, a typical communist strategy, for his LEGACY including his siblings. Do we not see what he is after now? A Pas member commented recently that the Tun instead of interfering with the present government should instead concentrate his activities for the "world hereafter" by becoming the "SIAK" or caretaker of the Putrajaya mosque
.
Najib should also tell the NST and Utusan NOT to kautow to Mahathir's whims and fancies. We can see these two newspapers already moving in that direction,at the expense of the current administration and people know that the key senior staff there were at one time working for and very pro the Tun. Dont't forget too that the majorshareholder of Utusan is the Tun's man.
To help rid of him from the political landscape, REVISIT the various Reports made on him to the then ACA, now MACC and the Police by Anwar Ibrahim. Should also seriously consider forming a Royal Commission to examine where Petronas money had been spent during his administration
It is HIGH time that we should learn from the Indonesians! Why are we still so naive, blind and stupid?
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
WHAT IS TUN MAHATHIR'S COMEBACK AGENDA?
If Tun Mahathir had been quiet during Pak Lah's administration, why is he getting
active again? What is his AGENDA now? Does UMNO really need him to revive the party's reputation when he has been the one who had been responsible to shape UMNO to be what it is to day? People's perception on UMNO and hence its beating in the last general election owed its genesis to his two decades of tutelage. In the last Bukit Gantang byelection a voter's remark was most telling. And UMNO should know this. And this is what the voter said and reported in the alternative media
"I wanted to vote for the BN candidate, but when I saw Dr, Mahathir campaigning for the BN I just decided to do otherwise and vote for Pakatan" See how much damage this man had inflicted on UMNO and yet UMNO members still have the audacity to look upon him as a "saviour" of sort. To all UMNO members, the clarion call is enough is enough. The Tun should be treated like an old "Koran" ie You cannot read it and neither can you throw it away. And that is the best way for UMNO. He knew too well that true Malays will not be "derhaka" or disrespect to their leaders, unlike him. Hence he is just exploiting on this Malay weakness
His agenda is simple. First, he wants his legacy to be preserved at all costs.Nothing should be done to bring out any of his skeletons from his past closet. And people know there are many. His mission is to let the rakyst take the attitude that let bygone be bygones, and Thou shall see no evil and hear no evil. Just remember nothing but all the goods he had done. Second, he wants the power that be to "protect" the business interests of all his siblings that that are publicly known and those held through "proxies" which we believe are huge and extensive. His worries are that the "proxy holders" who gave their "solemn" undertakings to him when he was in power to act as his "custodians" may renegate their words or promises. Particularly when he is no longer around.
Lately, there was a very strong and yet reliable rumour from overseas that some one very close to him bought a HAND BAG studded with diamonds for RM 500,000!! in Paris . No one in the world, except the wife or girfriend of a world reknown professional soccer player in UK has purchased such a hand bag. So the person became the number two in the world who can "afford" to buy such an expensive handbag!! That some one must have lots and lots of money to throw around. Question- where does the money from?? And for that huge amount just for a HAND BAG!! Can you imagine this can happen here in our country, when there are many people who are still living from hand to mouth every day
Relating to the "proxy" issue there was also another strong and reliable rumour that two of his siblings approached the power that be to seek help to compell a proxy holder to return some of the loots to them, because the Proxy holder pretended not to know anything!! as the Malays put it "Buat dak ye" when requested. But they did not get any help. In fact it is not the business of the power that be to GET INVOLVED OR DRAGGED into this sort of undercover activities.
So we hope you can read between the lines why his sudden comeback and why the Tun wants his continuing presence in public. Not for the sake of UMNO nor for the sake of the Nation.
active again? What is his AGENDA now? Does UMNO really need him to revive the party's reputation when he has been the one who had been responsible to shape UMNO to be what it is to day? People's perception on UMNO and hence its beating in the last general election owed its genesis to his two decades of tutelage. In the last Bukit Gantang byelection a voter's remark was most telling. And UMNO should know this. And this is what the voter said and reported in the alternative media
"I wanted to vote for the BN candidate, but when I saw Dr, Mahathir campaigning for the BN I just decided to do otherwise and vote for Pakatan" See how much damage this man had inflicted on UMNO and yet UMNO members still have the audacity to look upon him as a "saviour" of sort. To all UMNO members, the clarion call is enough is enough. The Tun should be treated like an old "Koran" ie You cannot read it and neither can you throw it away. And that is the best way for UMNO. He knew too well that true Malays will not be "derhaka" or disrespect to their leaders, unlike him. Hence he is just exploiting on this Malay weakness
His agenda is simple. First, he wants his legacy to be preserved at all costs.Nothing should be done to bring out any of his skeletons from his past closet. And people know there are many. His mission is to let the rakyst take the attitude that let bygone be bygones, and Thou shall see no evil and hear no evil. Just remember nothing but all the goods he had done. Second, he wants the power that be to "protect" the business interests of all his siblings that that are publicly known and those held through "proxies" which we believe are huge and extensive. His worries are that the "proxy holders" who gave their "solemn" undertakings to him when he was in power to act as his "custodians" may renegate their words or promises. Particularly when he is no longer around.
Lately, there was a very strong and yet reliable rumour from overseas that some one very close to him bought a HAND BAG studded with diamonds for RM 500,000!! in Paris . No one in the world, except the wife or girfriend of a world reknown professional soccer player in UK has purchased such a hand bag. So the person became the number two in the world who can "afford" to buy such an expensive handbag!! That some one must have lots and lots of money to throw around. Question- where does the money from?? And for that huge amount just for a HAND BAG!! Can you imagine this can happen here in our country, when there are many people who are still living from hand to mouth every day
Relating to the "proxy" issue there was also another strong and reliable rumour that two of his siblings approached the power that be to seek help to compell a proxy holder to return some of the loots to them, because the Proxy holder pretended not to know anything!! as the Malays put it "Buat dak ye" when requested. But they did not get any help. In fact it is not the business of the power that be to GET INVOLVED OR DRAGGED into this sort of undercover activities.
So we hope you can read between the lines why his sudden comeback and why the Tun wants his continuing presence in public. Not for the sake of UMNO nor for the sake of the Nation.
Friday, June 26, 2009
SOME AFTER THOUGHTS ON MR LEE KUAN YEW’S RECENTVISIT TO MALAYSIA
We believe that the remarks made by Tun Mahathir on Mr. Lee Kuan Yew’s eight day visit to Malaysia recently may not go well with some people here, although there are others who cheered him for such remarks.
The Tun is well known for his frankness and will call a spade a spade. Although he has left the political scene some years now and was relatively quiet after he left UMNO, he has become active again after rejoining UMNO, getting a lot of publicity both by the main stream mass and electronic media. As a result there is now emerging a pervasive feeling of sort among the public that he is well on the way to becoming very much in the mainstream of the administration and hence indirectly involved in the running of the affairs of the country again.
Such feelings prevail following his comments on current issues and occasional sarcastic remarks (sarcasm is also his trait) at the present leadership and administration. His influence is further strengthened by the fact that the Tun still retains key positions, albeit in advisory capacity in Petronas and Proton.
He has not relinquished his positions including that of the Prime Minister’s Leadership Foundation, which he should under the new Prime Minister.
He should know when his presence is no longer relevant and should not expect the Prime Minister to tell him to do so.
We all appreciate what the Tun had done for this country during his long tenure as Prime Minister, just like what the people of Indonesia did for President Suharto at one time except towards the end of his political career. We believe the Tun means well whenever his views are sought. Indeed he had been very generous with his ideas. Be that as it may we still believe that as an ex Prime Minister his proper role should be more of an elder Statesman and should not in any way try to assume or behave as if one is still at the helm or captain of the ship. To those people who had been closely watching him since 1981 when he assumed the Premiership of the country, they say we may be entering Mahathir II era.
Most if not all ex leaders of countries in the world once “retired” usually do so in the true sprit of the word. Our first Prime Minister YTM Tunku Abdul Rahman did that after he left the Government and so was our third Prime Minister, Tun Hussein Onn. And most recent our Fifth Prime Minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. In his case he even openly declared that once he leaves the Government he will not interfere nor give out any comment on the government and its leadership. Actually this is what should happen to leaders when they were no longer in power. They just leave the scene and give way to the new generation of leaders to manage the country after them. The only exception are those leaders who were ousted by the people or forced out by their own political parties.
We like Singapore and Indonesia have had leaders who remained in power for a long time, at least two decades or more. We hope such a phenomena will not happen again in our country and we believe our neighbors too will wish for the same whereby leaders will not remain too long in power because power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
The Tun is well known for his frankness and will call a spade a spade. Although he has left the political scene some years now and was relatively quiet after he left UMNO, he has become active again after rejoining UMNO, getting a lot of publicity both by the main stream mass and electronic media. As a result there is now emerging a pervasive feeling of sort among the public that he is well on the way to becoming very much in the mainstream of the administration and hence indirectly involved in the running of the affairs of the country again.
Such feelings prevail following his comments on current issues and occasional sarcastic remarks (sarcasm is also his trait) at the present leadership and administration. His influence is further strengthened by the fact that the Tun still retains key positions, albeit in advisory capacity in Petronas and Proton.
He has not relinquished his positions including that of the Prime Minister’s Leadership Foundation, which he should under the new Prime Minister.
He should know when his presence is no longer relevant and should not expect the Prime Minister to tell him to do so.
We all appreciate what the Tun had done for this country during his long tenure as Prime Minister, just like what the people of Indonesia did for President Suharto at one time except towards the end of his political career. We believe the Tun means well whenever his views are sought. Indeed he had been very generous with his ideas. Be that as it may we still believe that as an ex Prime Minister his proper role should be more of an elder Statesman and should not in any way try to assume or behave as if one is still at the helm or captain of the ship. To those people who had been closely watching him since 1981 when he assumed the Premiership of the country, they say we may be entering Mahathir II era.
Most if not all ex leaders of countries in the world once “retired” usually do so in the true sprit of the word. Our first Prime Minister YTM Tunku Abdul Rahman did that after he left the Government and so was our third Prime Minister, Tun Hussein Onn. And most recent our Fifth Prime Minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. In his case he even openly declared that once he leaves the Government he will not interfere nor give out any comment on the government and its leadership. Actually this is what should happen to leaders when they were no longer in power. They just leave the scene and give way to the new generation of leaders to manage the country after them. The only exception are those leaders who were ousted by the people or forced out by their own political parties.
We like Singapore and Indonesia have had leaders who remained in power for a long time, at least two decades or more. We hope such a phenomena will not happen again in our country and we believe our neighbors too will wish for the same whereby leaders will not remain too long in power because power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Friday, June 19, 2009
Corruption and The Anti Corruption Law
Tun Mahathir in his recent blog which was carried by the Malaysian Insider made a very pointed observation on the Anti Corruption Law in this country when he said “If the government itself is corrupt then corruption cannot be stopped. In fact corruption will spread in every direction and would become a way of life. And at this stage nothing can really be done”.
Previously he made a public apology at a political rally for his past mistakes. This time his observation on corruption is again an admission of sort that his previous administration had been plagued by corruption, in short a corrupt government.
Who could refute the fact that corruption in this country began seriously and became rampant during his administration that lasted for twenty two years?
Who can deny that corruption has permeated into almost all segments of the Malaysian society including our national institutions like the civil service, the Police and the Judiciary?
And who would disagree that to day corruption has become to large extent a way of life in this country ?
There is a famous Chinese saying:
“when a fish rots, it starts form the head and from there it spread to the rest of the body”.
This saying truly described how corruption began and developed in this country during the past two decades.
The pertinent question - is there no one who should take the full responsibility for this social disease that had inflicted the Malaysian society for that long?
Our neighbor Indonesia that went through the same experience, and even longer, is more decisive in dealing with corruption The Rakyat there were so determined to fight corruption from the lowest to the highest level of their societal hierarchy.
They even went to the extent of bringing their late President Suharto and his family members to the courts to face the law and to make them return back what rightly belonged to the Rakyat.
The rakyat knew where it all began and ended!
We should take the Tun’s observations seriously because these must have come from his inner feelings following the various financial scandals that had hit the country during his premiership in the 80’s and 90’s like the BMF, Mamimco, the Bank Negara Forex losses, the CCB, Perwaja that cost the nation billions of ringgit, not to mention the amount of wastage and excesses incurred in development projects implemented through the “direct negotiations” instead of open tender.
Just imagine if these wastage and losses did not take place we could have utilised the money for the development of our people and we could have achieved a developed nation status by now!!
All these must have begun to prick his conscience after seeing how much damage corruption had inflicted on the economy and changed people’s behaviour and values.
And yet, the effects of past corruption have by no means ended as more episodes keep on surfacing all the time even after he left the government. The Maltrade building fiasco, the Port Klang Free Zone debacle , and most recentl the Middle Ring Road scandal to name a few, went back to his time when decisions on these projects were made. And no one can deny that the root cause of all these billion ringgit of mishaps and scandals had been CORRUPTION.
We should support his proposal to amend the laws to protect whistle blowers to fight corruption.
Who knows one day the Rakyat will discover who the Father of Corruption is and be written into our history.
Previously he made a public apology at a political rally for his past mistakes. This time his observation on corruption is again an admission of sort that his previous administration had been plagued by corruption, in short a corrupt government.
Who could refute the fact that corruption in this country began seriously and became rampant during his administration that lasted for twenty two years?
Who can deny that corruption has permeated into almost all segments of the Malaysian society including our national institutions like the civil service, the Police and the Judiciary?
And who would disagree that to day corruption has become to large extent a way of life in this country ?
There is a famous Chinese saying:
“when a fish rots, it starts form the head and from there it spread to the rest of the body”.
This saying truly described how corruption began and developed in this country during the past two decades.
The pertinent question - is there no one who should take the full responsibility for this social disease that had inflicted the Malaysian society for that long?
Our neighbor Indonesia that went through the same experience, and even longer, is more decisive in dealing with corruption The Rakyat there were so determined to fight corruption from the lowest to the highest level of their societal hierarchy.
They even went to the extent of bringing their late President Suharto and his family members to the courts to face the law and to make them return back what rightly belonged to the Rakyat.
The rakyat knew where it all began and ended!
We should take the Tun’s observations seriously because these must have come from his inner feelings following the various financial scandals that had hit the country during his premiership in the 80’s and 90’s like the BMF, Mamimco, the Bank Negara Forex losses, the CCB, Perwaja that cost the nation billions of ringgit, not to mention the amount of wastage and excesses incurred in development projects implemented through the “direct negotiations” instead of open tender.
Just imagine if these wastage and losses did not take place we could have utilised the money for the development of our people and we could have achieved a developed nation status by now!!
All these must have begun to prick his conscience after seeing how much damage corruption had inflicted on the economy and changed people’s behaviour and values.
And yet, the effects of past corruption have by no means ended as more episodes keep on surfacing all the time even after he left the government. The Maltrade building fiasco, the Port Klang Free Zone debacle , and most recentl the Middle Ring Road scandal to name a few, went back to his time when decisions on these projects were made. And no one can deny that the root cause of all these billion ringgit of mishaps and scandals had been CORRUPTION.
We should support his proposal to amend the laws to protect whistle blowers to fight corruption.
Who knows one day the Rakyat will discover who the Father of Corruption is and be written into our history.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
THE RACE FOR UMNO YOUTH LEADERSHIP
Who will it be? Will it be Khairy Jamaludin or KJ as he is popularly known? He had been touted as the most likely person to win the post before. But not now, especially after his father-in-law the Prime Minister announced his exit in March next year. Instead Mukhriz is fast coming into the limelight now, already meeting his quota for the nomination, whilst the other two contenders KJ and Khir Toyo are still running behind and not there yet. With Pak Lah going into oblivion, Mukhriz has now received an extra vigor and clout from his father Tun Mahathir, who of late has been coming more and more into the public limelight.
The media seems to have more sympathy on him giving him quite ample space to say what he wants. May be the media too realizes that it has to do this now and even later under the PM in waiting Najib. That is why many people believe that Najib is basically Mahathir’s “protégé” who will not push hard for the Judiciary Reform, let alone to seek the truth on the “Lingam tape” debacle where Tun Mahathir is implicated. Mahathir is getting bolder by the day and even throwing, this time a challenge to the judiciary to prove his guilt or wrong doings, if any. He did throw a similar challenge before to the public. He knows too well that under Najib he will be safe and protected, but not under Abdullah.
Of course under Anwar he is sure to be brought to Court and prosecuted. In fact not only Mahathir but also other political leaders in the BN, like Samy Vellu. Anwar has made Reports to the Police and the ACA on Mahathir which had been lying there for years now with no action taken. So we can expect the fate of these reports more or less when Najib takes over as PM.
But what has this got to do with the UMNO Youth leadership contest?
KJ – Mukhritz is a proxy battle between Pak Lah and Mahathir or more specifically between Mahathirism and Anti Mahathirism. The battle has already started but Pak Lah’s exit has stifled this initiative somewhat. That is why he is rushing to get the THREE vital Acts, on the Judiciary, Anti Corruption and the Police get through to Parliament as these are KEY OPENERS to UNFOLD all past corrupt practices and PREVENT future corrupt activities besides ensuring Transparency, Integrity and Accountability in the administration. But unless some ONE continues persistently pushing these reforms that brought through these Acts, it is going to be business as usual.
Knowing Najib’s feeling for the Tun, that’s what we anticipate will happen eventually. Najib will not go to the extent of TREATING Mahathir as what the present Indonesian government did to the late Suharto. Come on Najib! It is not that difficult to PIN him down for his misdeeds. Just check the Petronas record. And this is one example. If you need more just see what Anwar Ibrahim had submitted to the Police and the ACA Anwar knew it all as he was Mahathir’s deputy for years when all these misdeeds were committed.
Why the people want to go after him is just to get back the public money that had been squandered during his administration through the abuse of power, nepotism and cronyism just like what Suharto did in Indonesia, no more no less. Were not these issues raised by no other person than the present Minister in the PM’s Department, Zahid Hamidi during one of the UMNO’ General Assembly where he made an indirect scotching attacks on Mahathir?! And it was during this meeting that the words CRONISM, NEPOTISM were first used to label; Mahathir’s doings. And of course Zahid was speaking on behalf of Anwar Ibrahim at that time! The result – Anwar was kicked out of UMNO and sent to jail. But Zahid survived and repented and NOW making a comeback! You see how dirty politics is. To day Zahid becomes a strong critic of Anwar who used to be his “mentor”!
Tun Mahathir wants his son to wrestle the Youth head post by all means as this will be a good stepping stone for his political future carrier. And of course he has the FINANCIAL resources to do that. And his long term mission is to put his son to become the Prime Minister one day. Only then can he be assured of the PROTECTION of his LEGACIES and most importantly his PRIVATE INTERESTS which according to grapevine stories are locked in here and overseas under various proxies.
HOW MUCH is the Tun WORTH you think? Have a guess! He is smart. What he owned or where his financial interests are located can never be traced as all ot most of them are under PROXIES. Who are these proxy holders? Everyone can guess. Those direct beneficiaries and close associates of his who became prominent corporate figures during his two decades in power! This is the BEAUTY of our proxy laws and our banking secrecy acts. People can hide behind their cloaks. Just imagine if the Banks were allowed to REVEAL who and who owns what in this country, sure HELL will let loose!!
JUST THINK the Study made by a US Research private institution that came out with the findings that over the last 30 years, the amount of CORRUPTION involve in Malaysia is US 300 billion!!. Who are the recipients of these huge sums of money? Can any political party dare make this as its MANIFESTO? At least to liberalise the provisions relating to these two issues, PROXY LAWS and BANK SECRECY LAWS?
KJ is now the underdog. And from now on he will have to behave like the business cliché “DOG EAT DOG” if he wants to survive and continue to survive politically. Or else he just retire from politics, get his MP’s pension and start some business on his own using all the money he had accumulated which presumably is a healthy sum!. At least grapevine stories had it that he made MR 100 million out of the Malayan Banking deal with Kalimullah and backed by the Second Minister of Finance Nor Yakcob who according to some source controls the WINE business in this country!!
For KJ, it is going to be a long and tiring battle because he also aspires to become the Prime Minister one day. The “MARATHON” race requires resilience not only by him but also Mukhriz. Resilience here means mental strength.
And most importantly “FINANCIAL STRENGTH”.
KJ who already started accumulating his financial resources whilst his father in law is in power, and aided by people like Kalimullah and Patrick Lim ( read the various articles in the press and most importantly the various BLOGS on this) is going to face real problem after Pak Lah’s exit. Because he will no longer have anymore ACCESS to money making. Furthermore those individuals who played the in- between or king maker roles in all these deals are leaving the scene following Pak Lah’s exit. These individuals are mercenaries of sort, and have no qualms whatsoever on what they did in this regard. After all it had happened to other people like them before who had played such roles under the previous administration. Such people come and go. So in terms of financial strength, KJ lacks far behind Mukhriz and no matter how hard KJ tries from now on, he can never beat Mukhriz on this score. Remember too the corporate leaders who were running high during Tun’s reign of power, but had remained under low profile during Pak Lah’ era, may make a come back under Najib and realign themselves with Najib . And this will be good for Mukriz too to see his father’s OLD FRIENDS rejuvenated after possibly SUFFERED IN SILENCE during Pak Lah’s time. So you may want to put your BET on the TWO. But I tell you if Mukriz wins the contest, what we have been saying about the GODFATHER is a prophecy coming true.
If all what is said comes true, then we have a dynasty of sort developing in the country’s future leadership. Whether this augers well or otherwise for the future of the nation is anybody’s guess at this time. But whatever it is, we would like to remind the young generation on one important and vital thing. Since independence and even before God has been very kind to our country. HE has blessed this country with rich natural resources and HE has spared this country from natural calamities and disasters like earthquakes, typhoons and other calamities like the outbreak of diseases and above all the ravages of civil wars of any kind, except the minor skirmishes during the May '69 riot. The country’s leadership has managed to keep our multi racial, multi religious and multicultural people to live in peace and harmony although the stability of our social fabric gets threatened from time to time by irresponsible and extremist elements in our society.
This country needs a leader who is a MODERATE in ALL aspects but FIRM and RESOLUTE. But the dilemma is that no way can such a leader emerge under a regime of “MONEY POLITICS” except from PAS possibly because of their religious commitment against Corruption. For PKR is equally doubtful. After all most of the PKR members were really UMNO splinters who supported Anwar and lost everything when Anwar fell from grace. They were all at one time RECEIPIENTS and part and parcel of the Money Politics Culture. Let me LEAVE YOU WITH THIS THOUGHT.
All these while UMNO committee members at the Branch, Divisional levels right to the top have enjoyed the politics of money patronage, as a ruling party in government. Their numbers total about 2,000 in all. They are well fed and financially wealthy. They attend the UMNO ASSEMBLY and they decided who the Prime Minister in this country.
They are warlords in their own right.. How do you expect them to change their “HABITS” when these are their source of comfort in their daily lives? Maybe if you change the RULES or put in place NEW people.
Even if you do that or manage to do that thru the various REFORMS initiated by Pak Lah, there is no GUARANTEE that they will change their habits. So think about it.
The media seems to have more sympathy on him giving him quite ample space to say what he wants. May be the media too realizes that it has to do this now and even later under the PM in waiting Najib. That is why many people believe that Najib is basically Mahathir’s “protégé” who will not push hard for the Judiciary Reform, let alone to seek the truth on the “Lingam tape” debacle where Tun Mahathir is implicated. Mahathir is getting bolder by the day and even throwing, this time a challenge to the judiciary to prove his guilt or wrong doings, if any. He did throw a similar challenge before to the public. He knows too well that under Najib he will be safe and protected, but not under Abdullah.
Of course under Anwar he is sure to be brought to Court and prosecuted. In fact not only Mahathir but also other political leaders in the BN, like Samy Vellu. Anwar has made Reports to the Police and the ACA on Mahathir which had been lying there for years now with no action taken. So we can expect the fate of these reports more or less when Najib takes over as PM.
But what has this got to do with the UMNO Youth leadership contest?
KJ – Mukhritz is a proxy battle between Pak Lah and Mahathir or more specifically between Mahathirism and Anti Mahathirism. The battle has already started but Pak Lah’s exit has stifled this initiative somewhat. That is why he is rushing to get the THREE vital Acts, on the Judiciary, Anti Corruption and the Police get through to Parliament as these are KEY OPENERS to UNFOLD all past corrupt practices and PREVENT future corrupt activities besides ensuring Transparency, Integrity and Accountability in the administration. But unless some ONE continues persistently pushing these reforms that brought through these Acts, it is going to be business as usual.
Knowing Najib’s feeling for the Tun, that’s what we anticipate will happen eventually. Najib will not go to the extent of TREATING Mahathir as what the present Indonesian government did to the late Suharto. Come on Najib! It is not that difficult to PIN him down for his misdeeds. Just check the Petronas record. And this is one example. If you need more just see what Anwar Ibrahim had submitted to the Police and the ACA Anwar knew it all as he was Mahathir’s deputy for years when all these misdeeds were committed.
Why the people want to go after him is just to get back the public money that had been squandered during his administration through the abuse of power, nepotism and cronyism just like what Suharto did in Indonesia, no more no less. Were not these issues raised by no other person than the present Minister in the PM’s Department, Zahid Hamidi during one of the UMNO’ General Assembly where he made an indirect scotching attacks on Mahathir?! And it was during this meeting that the words CRONISM, NEPOTISM were first used to label; Mahathir’s doings. And of course Zahid was speaking on behalf of Anwar Ibrahim at that time! The result – Anwar was kicked out of UMNO and sent to jail. But Zahid survived and repented and NOW making a comeback! You see how dirty politics is. To day Zahid becomes a strong critic of Anwar who used to be his “mentor”!
Tun Mahathir wants his son to wrestle the Youth head post by all means as this will be a good stepping stone for his political future carrier. And of course he has the FINANCIAL resources to do that. And his long term mission is to put his son to become the Prime Minister one day. Only then can he be assured of the PROTECTION of his LEGACIES and most importantly his PRIVATE INTERESTS which according to grapevine stories are locked in here and overseas under various proxies.
HOW MUCH is the Tun WORTH you think? Have a guess! He is smart. What he owned or where his financial interests are located can never be traced as all ot most of them are under PROXIES. Who are these proxy holders? Everyone can guess. Those direct beneficiaries and close associates of his who became prominent corporate figures during his two decades in power! This is the BEAUTY of our proxy laws and our banking secrecy acts. People can hide behind their cloaks. Just imagine if the Banks were allowed to REVEAL who and who owns what in this country, sure HELL will let loose!!
JUST THINK the Study made by a US Research private institution that came out with the findings that over the last 30 years, the amount of CORRUPTION involve in Malaysia is US 300 billion!!. Who are the recipients of these huge sums of money? Can any political party dare make this as its MANIFESTO? At least to liberalise the provisions relating to these two issues, PROXY LAWS and BANK SECRECY LAWS?
KJ is now the underdog. And from now on he will have to behave like the business cliché “DOG EAT DOG” if he wants to survive and continue to survive politically. Or else he just retire from politics, get his MP’s pension and start some business on his own using all the money he had accumulated which presumably is a healthy sum!. At least grapevine stories had it that he made MR 100 million out of the Malayan Banking deal with Kalimullah and backed by the Second Minister of Finance Nor Yakcob who according to some source controls the WINE business in this country!!
For KJ, it is going to be a long and tiring battle because he also aspires to become the Prime Minister one day. The “MARATHON” race requires resilience not only by him but also Mukhriz. Resilience here means mental strength.
And most importantly “FINANCIAL STRENGTH”.
KJ who already started accumulating his financial resources whilst his father in law is in power, and aided by people like Kalimullah and Patrick Lim ( read the various articles in the press and most importantly the various BLOGS on this) is going to face real problem after Pak Lah’s exit. Because he will no longer have anymore ACCESS to money making. Furthermore those individuals who played the in- between or king maker roles in all these deals are leaving the scene following Pak Lah’s exit. These individuals are mercenaries of sort, and have no qualms whatsoever on what they did in this regard. After all it had happened to other people like them before who had played such roles under the previous administration. Such people come and go. So in terms of financial strength, KJ lacks far behind Mukhriz and no matter how hard KJ tries from now on, he can never beat Mukhriz on this score. Remember too the corporate leaders who were running high during Tun’s reign of power, but had remained under low profile during Pak Lah’ era, may make a come back under Najib and realign themselves with Najib . And this will be good for Mukriz too to see his father’s OLD FRIENDS rejuvenated after possibly SUFFERED IN SILENCE during Pak Lah’s time. So you may want to put your BET on the TWO. But I tell you if Mukriz wins the contest, what we have been saying about the GODFATHER is a prophecy coming true.
If all what is said comes true, then we have a dynasty of sort developing in the country’s future leadership. Whether this augers well or otherwise for the future of the nation is anybody’s guess at this time. But whatever it is, we would like to remind the young generation on one important and vital thing. Since independence and even before God has been very kind to our country. HE has blessed this country with rich natural resources and HE has spared this country from natural calamities and disasters like earthquakes, typhoons and other calamities like the outbreak of diseases and above all the ravages of civil wars of any kind, except the minor skirmishes during the May '69 riot. The country’s leadership has managed to keep our multi racial, multi religious and multicultural people to live in peace and harmony although the stability of our social fabric gets threatened from time to time by irresponsible and extremist elements in our society.
This country needs a leader who is a MODERATE in ALL aspects but FIRM and RESOLUTE. But the dilemma is that no way can such a leader emerge under a regime of “MONEY POLITICS” except from PAS possibly because of their religious commitment against Corruption. For PKR is equally doubtful. After all most of the PKR members were really UMNO splinters who supported Anwar and lost everything when Anwar fell from grace. They were all at one time RECEIPIENTS and part and parcel of the Money Politics Culture. Let me LEAVE YOU WITH THIS THOUGHT.
All these while UMNO committee members at the Branch, Divisional levels right to the top have enjoyed the politics of money patronage, as a ruling party in government. Their numbers total about 2,000 in all. They are well fed and financially wealthy. They attend the UMNO ASSEMBLY and they decided who the Prime Minister in this country.
They are warlords in their own right.. How do you expect them to change their “HABITS” when these are their source of comfort in their daily lives? Maybe if you change the RULES or put in place NEW people.
Even if you do that or manage to do that thru the various REFORMS initiated by Pak Lah, there is no GUARANTEE that they will change their habits. So think about it.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
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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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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Wednesday, September 10, 2008
THE GODFATHER EXPOSED!!
UMNO’s present Divisional elections currently going on seem to indicate the atmosphere of the coming General assembly in December when national political leaders will be elected.
One UMNO branch head was shot dead; two Divisional committee members including an ADUN are facing corruption charges. There are also reports on money politics and unruly conduct like throwing punches and chairs by members at these meetings.
And of late a Divisional head defies UMNO President and his Deputy by refusing to make a public apology for making a purportedly “seditious” remark during the recent Permatang Pauh by election. Surprisingly he is getting the support of all the other Divisional Heads in the State of Penang, home of the Prime Minister and UMNO President.
Why are all these happening and who is behind it all?
Seriously, UMNO is in a total DISARRAY now. As a political party UMNO has become weak and made worst by a weak leader who just want to FOCUS on his personal matters prior to leaving the scene in June 2010. Meanwhile the country is being run on auto pilot. As a result the non Bumi component parties in the Barisan are becoming very vocal on their demands and have become to the point of being disrespectful on issues sensitive to the Malays. UMNO seems to take on all to itself with little or no regard to the other partners in the Barisan. This does not augur well with the Barisan spirit. And on top of that UMNO itself is besieged with its own internal problems.
Now Tun Mahathir wants to lick his spit by rejoining UMNO. He had expressed his intention through Muhyidin Yasin who was present at meeting in Mahathir's residence in Cyberjaya recently. The meeting was called by the Tun. Also present were Tunku Razaleigh who Mahathir endorsed to fight Pak Lah for the UMNO President. So now you see the scenario shaping up.
Tengku Razaleigh and Muhyidin will be the duo to challenge Dollah and Najib for the No 1 and No 2 positions respectively.
For UMNO youth there will be Mukhriz against Khairy.
Khir Toyo and Adnan (pic) are jokers only and just become vote spoilers.
One UMNO branch head was shot dead; two Divisional committee members including an ADUN are facing corruption charges. There are also reports on money politics and unruly conduct like throwing punches and chairs by members at these meetings.
And of late a Divisional head defies UMNO President and his Deputy by refusing to make a public apology for making a purportedly “seditious” remark during the recent Permatang Pauh by election. Surprisingly he is getting the support of all the other Divisional Heads in the State of Penang, home of the Prime Minister and UMNO President.
Why are all these happening and who is behind it all?
Seriously, UMNO is in a total DISARRAY now. As a political party UMNO has become weak and made worst by a weak leader who just want to FOCUS on his personal matters prior to leaving the scene in June 2010. Meanwhile the country is being run on auto pilot. As a result the non Bumi component parties in the Barisan are becoming very vocal on their demands and have become to the point of being disrespectful on issues sensitive to the Malays. UMNO seems to take on all to itself with little or no regard to the other partners in the Barisan. This does not augur well with the Barisan spirit. And on top of that UMNO itself is besieged with its own internal problems.
Now Tun Mahathir wants to lick his spit by rejoining UMNO. He had expressed his intention through Muhyidin Yasin who was present at meeting in Mahathir's residence in Cyberjaya recently. The meeting was called by the Tun. Also present were Tunku Razaleigh who Mahathir endorsed to fight Pak Lah for the UMNO President. So now you see the scenario shaping up.
Tengku Razaleigh and Muhyidin will be the duo to challenge Dollah and Najib for the No 1 and No 2 positions respectively.
For UMNO youth there will be Mukhriz against Khairy.
Khir Toyo and Adnan (pic) are jokers only and just become vote spoilers.
Joker 1 of 2
But the ultimate or bigger scenario is this.... If Ku Li succeeded in getting nominated for the Presidency thru the present quota system, many BELIEVE that he will win the Presidency when voting by delegates will be “secret”. At least that is how it appears. The people at large, the business community, and the foreigners know Ku Li is much better than Dollah in most respects and can count on him to lead the country. But you know this is more than what it appears on the surface.
Remember the aftermath of the 1986 UMNO election when Mahathir beat Ku Li for the president and subsequently UMNO was declared illegal. Ku Li was ostracized by Mahathir because he does not want Ku Li to lead UMNO. Now Mahathir wants Ku Li to lead UMNO and become Prime Minister. What an ABOUT TURN of events or what a paradox!!
Why Mahathir wants Ku Li to be PM? Perhaps, if Anwar becomes PM, all Mahathir’s corrupt practices in the past during his premiership if any , will be EXPOSED even more vigorously than what Pak Lah is now doing. Pak Lah is just correcting the abuses and misdeeds of Tun Mahathir no more any less. He has not SPECIFICALLY dug anything the Tun did MISUSING his power which Anwar had in fact done. In fact Anwar had made POLICE REPORTS and REPORTS to the ACA on Mahathir before, besides filing civil suits against him.
That is why Mahathir said if Anwar become the PM he will leave this country just like many of his friends did e.g Fujimori of Peru and Marcos of the Philippines. The late Suharto would have done the same thing when the arms of the law were getting closer and closer to him but was saved by his age and health. Right now the Tun does not SLEEP at night since Anwar came into Parliament.
Some say he is occasionally “URINATING IN HIS TROUSERS when someone mentioned Anwar coming to be the next PM".
But will he be SAFE under Tengku Razaleigh as PM? Ku Li had been on a “love-hate” relationship with Mahathir for years since leaving UMNO and formed Semangat 46. Yes, Tun Mahathir will be safer under Tengku Razaleigh. Mahathir knew too much on Ku Li’s alleged involvement in the Bank Bumiputra fiasco in Hong Kong that led to the murder of Jalil, the Banks’ executive and his other activities in the 70’s and early 80’s when he was so powerful. So Mahathir has got Tengku Razaleigh’s very much UNDER HIS CONTROL. So, if Ku Li tries to be funny after becoming PM he will face disastrous consequences and his premiership will be short lived.
This in a NUTSHELL is what is at stake. The entire goings on now within UMNO, among BN components and whatever manifestations we now see are being orchestrated by Mahathir and gang. You see how INFLUENTIAL he is even after retiring and out of UMNO.
The present clashes between UMNO and Gerakan in Penang and putting Dolah and Najib in the midst of it all are all the result of Mahathir’s SCHEME to embarrass Najib and Dolah so much so their CREDIBILITIES are now questioned especially by the Malays.
To Mahathir, Dolah and Najib are just his boys who can be manipulated especially when they did not obey his orders! And they are STILL ARE until to day don’t you see. So who is the GODFATHER? What is his next move between now and December and thereafter? AND don’t forget the other side of the equation ANWAR and his PAKATAN move to wrest the Government by 16 September or at some later dates?
The COUNTDOWN has begun.
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