December 6, 2011
The Origins of Racism as great as Corruption in Malaysia
Written by Nawawi Mohamad, Malaysia Chronicle
Many of us might have asked when as great as why did a secular groups in Malaysia start as great as who is to blame? Obviously, a secular divide did not exist in aged Malaya, where a opposite races could live together in peace in a kampongs (villages) as great as tiny towns. Now, it seems which you have been forever during a brink of secular tragedy or even secular war. In fact, jihad (holy war) has been declared multiform times by a UMNO-linked PERKASA opposite a Christians as great as a Chinese.
We should additionally ask why a-still-young-nation with all a potential to be moneyed could so quickly face impending bankruptcy. Also, what has happened to patriotism; did it burn out or was it never unequivocally instilled in to a hearts? To find out, you have to go behind in history.
The starting point
When UMNO was formed, a late Onn Jaafar who was a single of a categorical founders as great as who was
a afterwards president, had to leave a celebration given a organisation of brand brand brand brand brand new faces disagreed as great as fought with him over a domestic direction to be taken. They insisted their ideas were better than his as great as this inevitably led to a changes in policies, rules as great as objectives.
Whereas Onn was some-more for uniting a Malays from all walks of life, with a Chinese, Indians as great as alternative migrants unde! rneath a single organsation, as great as afterwards jointly onslaught for independence, a organisation of UMNO leaders led by a late Tunku Abdul Rahman was some-more meddlesome in assembly a qualifying terms set by a British for achieving autonomy no matter how onerous.
The thought of a Non-communal domestic party
Onn Jaafar a grandfather of current Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein had indeed been farsighted as great as visionary; he felt a need for secular peace as great as a non-communal domestic celebration was a best approach to secure a moneyed future for Malaya. No disbelief a British did emanate a Malayan Union comprising all races with equal rights, as great as even widely separated a powers of a Malay rulers, though a British were not unequivocally sincere during all.
The British did not unequivocally want Malayans to be united as one, similar to in Onn's vision. Neither did a British unequivocally want a Malayan Union to succeed. So a Malays were led in to rejecting a Malayan Union, paving a approach for a dissolution.
Had a British been sincere, they would have backed Onn's idea. Instead a British upheld Tunku when he was inaugurated a brand brand brand brand brand new UMNO president after Onn resigned. Onn had to quit after unwell to garner a majority await from a representatives upon his multiracial prophesy after his speech in a UMNO General Assembly in Kuala Lumpur in Aug 1951 backfired. The Malays have never been united given then.
The thought of Non-communal domestic celebration still lives on
But did Onn Jaafar unequivocally have so tiny support? The answer is no, he had a await of a Malays all over a republic as great as during a weed base level. In actuality when Tunku attempted to conduct UMNO, he found out which many of a people were not wakeful which Onn had left a party. The staff manning a UMNO offices were additionally reluctant to work with Tunku as they still upheld Onn. In a end! , Tunku had to desert a aged UMNO office bearers as great as emanate a brand brand brand brand brand new set-up, appointing his own people to conduct a celebration as great as a activities.
Further proof of a British ill-intent was when they told a Malayan entourage negotiating for autonomy consisting of UMNO, MCA as great as MIC which Malaya could not be given autonomy given a 3 vital races were not united! Onn's multiracial proposal was a best as great as it still is as great as a British additionally knew that. Yet, they managed to convince a Malayan representatives to determine upon an Alliance with UMNO, MCA as great as MIC a colonize members.
To their discredit, all 3 of them fell for it. Presumably this had been outlined by a British for Tunku to implement.
UMNO unsuccessful us from a start
Here UMNO has to illustrate unsuccessful twice; Firstly, to combine a Malays as great as consolidate their domestic energy as great as losing a event to combine a assorted races underneath a single non-communal party. Secondly to unequivocally lead a some-more meaningful struggle. Unlike a alternative loyal eccentric struggles seen all over a world, UMNO usually "negotiated" for a 'walkover' from a British.
UMNO might disagree which it was a ingenuity of their leaders which helped Malayans benefit autonomy though bloodshed. This is not true! There was indeed a lot of bloodshed though not amongst a UMNO people. What about a onslaught led by alternative groups as great as individuals? Let us additionally not dont think about which during this duration there were many alternative groups as great as people struggling as great as fighting for autonomy as great as with a unavoidable bloodshed. We were not sensitive about their onslaught as if a Alliance was a usually a single who struggled. PAS deputy president Mat Sabu had exposed this biased story for us. Besides a Communists, there were many others from all a races.
Nations which experienced, endured ! as great as managed to overcome all obstacles heading to a loyal clarity of autonomy have been usually of a opposite breed. The onslaught instills genuine nationalism as great as their adults unequivocally value what they have completed unlike Malaysians too, who need to be lured to fly a Jalur Gemilang roughly any time you try to applaud a National Day.
In a end, a UMNO-BN celebration of a 31st Aug National Day has spin something of a mediocre, wasteful, as great as meaningless effort, though zeal as great as substance, though a genuine feeling of nationalism during all. The annual procession is usually for show as a series of people flying a Jalur Gemilang keeps dwindling year after year till a series of road vehicles flying a inhabitant flag can even be counted upon a fingers. The inhabitant day celebrations have been usually being looked forward to by a Mat Rempits as great as a like, together with their bohsias.
UMNO as great as Malaysia underneath Tunku Abdul Rahman: Going Nowhere
Malaysia underneath Tunku was not unequivocally independent, it had to rely upon a British as great as they were some-more than peaceful to maintain their support, mainly due to mercantile reasons. The British had invested so many in Malaya in plantation, mining, banking, media as great as education. Furthermore, Malaya was a single of a growing markets for everything English.
After gaining independence, a Tunku was not means to unequivocally achieve anything some-more substantial. He was not even means to defeat a ragtag Communists, as great as Malaysia was still backward in any clarity of a word. The young democracy as great as brand brand brand brand brand new republic was usually during a infancy as great as though any awake policy, objecti! ves, pro phesy as great as actions although there were a small arrange of localized mercantile activities in a towns, as great as secular peace in a kampongs.
With a Communists still active not usually in a jungles though additionally in a civic areas as great as their ideology spreading in a University of Malaya, genuine peace as great as unity as a republic were not attained during his reign. Even Singapore was separated from Malaysia. The manage to buy was not doing great given Malaysia was some-more upon a commodity-based economy, as great as during a mercy of a British who tranquil prices as great as a traffic itself.
At this theatre of a republic building, Malaysians had zero to applaud or cheer about. There was zero to hold upon to, nor was there a clarity of belonging. Not usually were a business, financial as great as income still underneath a British, a Supreme Court was additionally in Britain. Nothing estimable belonged to Malaysia. The Malays in particular had zero except for a tiny plots of land in a kampongs as great as a Malay rulers to be unapproachable of. Tunku did not have any genuine plans for a Malays notwithstanding UMNO being supposed a United Malays National Organization..
Racism during Tunku's period
The Tunku fell in to a trap set by a British when a secular shaped Alliance was formed. He had not done sufficient to set any plain foundation for a republic as great as he realized as great late how frail a secular peace was when after a 1969 ubiquitous election. The Gerakan as great as DAP had celebrated their wins with a victory parade in KL upon 12th May 1969. Then UMNO led a opposite march a subsequent day, as great as this is when a secular demonstration well known as a barbarous May thirteen secular riots erupted. May thirteen additionally led to Abdul Razak Hussein receiving over a nation's leadership.
But was it unequivocally a secular riot? Were both a Gerakan as great as DAP unequivocally so insensitive to a domestic! inciden t which they organized a march as great as unsuccessful to control their members? The Alliance managed to win 77 out of 140 seats in Parliament; UMNO still hold power. Furthermore it was unequivocally engaging to note which Malay antithesis parties saw a pointy enlarge in votes in a peninsula, taking flight drastically from about 15% in 1964 to 25% in 1969. UMNO did not have a full await of a Malays as great as assumingly a Malays did not determine entirely with UMNO even then!
UMNO underneath Razak: His inaction led to a subsequent theatre of failure
Razak, a father of current Prime Minister Najib Razak, was utterly courteous as great as managed to 
bring about a small changes. He proposed a process of republic building by introducing a word "pembangunan" which is development. For this, he was in a future bestowed a pretension of "Bapa Pembangunan". After a barbarous May thirteen secular riot, he introduced a New Economic Policy (NEP) which had great as great as noble intentions although it was miserably abused to a core in after years.
The NEP was meant to re-engineer a wealth of a society, encompassing education, business opportunities, employment as great as preferences to exterminate misery amongst a complete race as great as across all secular boundaries. But UMNO leaders took value of this process to fatten their coffers withdrawal both a Malays as great as alternative poor Malaysians to go upon being deprived of all which were dictated for them. We can obviously see as great as assimilate a incident now.
Razak additionally empowered FELDA (which was shaped by a British in 1956 for their own reasons) to aggressively embark upon opening brand brand brand brand brand new land schemes as great as making Malays do something to ascent as great as urge t! hemselve s. The FELDA story is still maturation now.
As a Malays were earning a small extra income, Tabung Haji ( a brainchild of Professor Ungku Aziz) was shaped to inculcate a habit of savings for a stormy days as great as to assistance save sufficient income to perform a haj. Sad to say, as has been reported, Tabung Haji was not protected from a dirty hands either.
The siphoning of income which you see now, a unethical polite servants as great as their abuse of energy as great as unchecked crime additionally proposed during Razak's premiership. He was not means to closely guard all a things which he had implemented.
One glaring e.g. is a construction of a wooden houses for a FELDA settlers. But instead of houses, a settlers got what were fundamentally usually pieces of sawn wood nailed together with a small arrange of thatch to protect a inhabitants from a elements of nature. Yes, a 'house' was usually a shed. These houses can still be seen in a FELDA settlements as a sworn statement to a rapine of a allocations by unethical groups of people.
This was a beginning of a money-making schemes, as great as those in UMNO saw a doors opening to all a golden opportunities which had never existed for them before. The supervision officials as great found a event as great as took what they could as great as as many as they could.
When RISDA was shaped to assistance a rubber tiny holders, they were supposing with giveaway fertilizers, weed poison as great as alternative incentives similar to a income to keep a rubber plantation transparent of all alternative plants, shrubs as great as tiny trees. This was to guarantee improved rubber production, easy maintenance, haven as great as forestall a rubber plantation to be any form of hideouts for vermin, furious animals as great as a communists.
While they were supposed to be given a items giveaway of charge, a officials still demanded income from a tiny holders as great as a estimable amount of a fertilizers as great as poisons went in! to a wr ong hands as great as were in a future sole to a hardware shops to be re-sold to others. The money-making schemes were carried out plainly to a border a RISDA emblem upon a sacks could be obviously seen. Yet, a authorities did zero to stop a corruption.
Almost all a projects awarded to a UMNO-putras during this duration was executed as Ali Baba schemes withdrawal a UMNOputras with usually 5 percent of a distinction which was as great little. Since they were not genuine businessmen, they spent extravagantly inside of a few months accomplished all their gains. Thus some-more projects had to be given out to fulfill their lust. The Ali Baba business direction began here.
It was a same with alternative supervision projects as great as procurements. The instant noodles granted as army allotment were paid by a Ministry of Defense during RM0.65 per packet whilst a marketplace price was usually RM0.25 each.
The Police as great as a Army were additionally in a universe of their own with giveaway cigarettes, cheap alcohol, partying in their messes. They were oblivious to their surroundings. The Police were so callous in their duties which a IGP was shot dead indicate blank by two assailants upon a motorbike when his car halted during a undiluted road upon his approach to a office.
The inefficient polite servants were rapt with so many tasks in their offices. Hospitals as great as healing staff were few in numbers, as great as a school teachers were a many respectable organisation of people in multitude then. But unfortunately not anymore now.
The Biro Siasatan Negara (National Bureau of Investigation) was operational though they did nothing. At this stage, a UMNO supervision abandoned all a notice signs of obvious corruption, injustice of supports as great as pilferage. As such, a subsequent theatre of disaster was unavoidable as great as some-more so underneath Hussein Onn, who was Razak's brother in law.
First outrageous liaison underneath Tun Hussein Onn
Hussein Onn was similar to Abdullah Badawi. He was not means to fit in to Razak's shoes. Hussein Onn left a republic upon auto-pilot. Thus, some-more crime as great as indiscretion widespread all over a republic together with to Sabah as great as Sarawak which had outrageous amounts of natural resources especially timber.
Sandakan in Sabah once hold a universe record of a top numbers of millionaires (from a greedy uproar as great as crime of a timber industry) per square mile. Sabah is right away though a virgin timberland except during a inhabitant reserve. This as great will not be spared for prolonged as great as Sabahans still sojourn poor today.
The initial outrageous liaison for UMNO which was a RM2.5 billion waste by Bank Bumiputera Malaysia Bhd, which began in 1976 with a unconditionally owned Bumiputera Malaysia Finance (BMF) lending income to property developer Carrian Group in Hong Kong. The mess unfolded in1983 kicked off a Umno rapine tradition upon a outrageous scale.
You see, no a single was punished for a crime. UMNO leaders condoned such disturbance creating a fashion which when a single is a clever UMNO man as great as with correct connection, a single can get away scot-free. The bailout tradition as great began from this indicate on. Since Malaysia was upon auto-pilot, a typical adults had to survive upon their own.
Mahathir: All forms of disaster as great as a sad lack of vision
This was a unequivocally engaging duration for UMNO. There were failures galore all as great as any form of 
failure which could happen did happen. There was a single after an additional disaster during all levels of supervision to assimilate a bulk of a situation, from stripping a Malay rulers of their powers, regulating a full force of a ISA upon a opposition, breaking up UMNO, looting a nation's funds, antagonizing a West, full-scale bailouts of cronies, destroying a firmness of a police as great as law to being a dictator. Obviously, this resulted in resentment throughout a complete multitude heading to a formation of Pakatan Rakyat.
Mahathir was a a single who pennyless a inhabitant piggy bank, blazing a route to pure supervision borrowings. He unsuccessful to provide sufficient supports for stormy days. Many of his supporters boasted which he was important for his vision, though time has proven which Mahathir in actuality lacked it. He lacked prophesy simply given he was not means to see beyond himself.
Mahathir unsuccessful to assimilate a fundamental mercantile cycle as great as be prepared for contingent downturns. He knew Lee Kuan Yew had special supports to be used underneath a energy of a President. But Mahathir siphoned out a usually genuine supports you had in PETRONAS, to illustrate even a once abounding PETRONAS has to borrow income now.
The Police underneath Mahathir was for many of a time operative for him as great as not many for a rakyat. The police was used to defeat a opposition, harass individuals, put people in prison regulating a ISA as great as determining a many suitable time for a ubiquitous election. Crime was tall given a PDRM was rapt with UMNO as great as Mahathir. Lawyers were well known to be unethical though it was during his time which a law system was incited in to disorder as great as judges could be plainly bought, to illustrate finale a firmness of a complete law as great as sequence of a country.
Mahathir additionally unsuccessful to uphold a monarchy by stripping a Malay rulers of their powers. The Malays have mislaid their final cita! del of p ride as great as for a rest of a Malaysians a final citadel of justice, as can be seen in a awkward in front of of a Sultan of Perak being manipulated by UMNO in a Perak energy squeeze of 2009. The Perak Sultan sanctioned UMNO's coup d'etat, whilst a Agong usually had sufficient energy to acknowledge BERSIH as legitimate, whilst a Sultan of Selangor had to fool around protected in a JAIS -DUMC box with UMNO respirating down his neck.
Mahathir in his attempt to have Malaysia a grown republic by 2020, unsuccessful to guarantee a republic from being plundered by refusing to forestall as great as take movement opposite hurtful people. This could be given he was himself a conspirator in some, if not many of a fiascos. The Tajuddin Ramli-MAS liaison is an e.g. as great as a living sworn statement to a failures of a Mahathir-era, whilst a RM12.5billion PKFZ liaison is still unfolding.
Mahathir additionally unsuccessful to see a unhandy capacity of Badawi as great as a hopeless Najib who both have no genuine capability of their own. Nonetheless, a single cannot spin behind time or erase a a single after an additional failures Mahathir caused. In any case, he was ready to pass a rod to Abdullah Badawi by 2003.
Badawi sleeping away
Badawi was not means to fit in a shoes of Dr. Mahathir. He attempted to undo multiform of questionable projects proposed by Mahathir. But even this, he fumbled as great as bungled.
Badawi attempted to emanate a small mercantile corridors, have a small whim slogans similar to operative together with him as great as Islam Hadhari, which he himself found formidable to explain. Till now, a questions ring: what have been a corridors, a slogans as great as Islam Hadhari unequivocally all labout?
The manage to buy became l! ow as gr eat as to spur expansion Malaysia had to borrow some-more money. He was means to emanate a small clarity of mercantile activities though usually for a elections.Fortunately for him though unfortunately for a rakyat, he had a fourth floor goons headed by his beloved son-in-law, Khairy Jamaludin who done things worse.
Our republic was in jeopardy given it was being managed by a twenty-something de-facto Prime Minister. Although Khairy was an Oxford graduate, he was not savvy sufficient to run a republic many to a disgust of Mahathir. Both a republic as great as UMNO have been right away in disarray. A classical e.g. of a Khairy deal gone awry is a disaster of a Shahrizat-linked Gemas NFC debacle.
Badawi did form a MACC though for what? They have been usually a same people from a Anti Corruption Agency (ACA) in opposite uniform.
Free for all, squeeze what you can right away underneath Najib
Najib is prolonged upon ideas though short upon action, to illustrate has no formula to show. Basically, this is due to his ideas being copycats of alternative systems, such as a Pakatan's Buku Jingga or mercantile blueprint.
But initial of all given he was not inaugurated to his post as great as his picture was tarnished by a useless as great as unsinkable Scorpene submarines which additionally led to a murder of Mongolian inhabitant Altantuya Shaaribuu. Possibly influenced by his mischievous wife, Najib motionless initial as great as inaugural to restore his image.
He engaged APCO as great as FBC Media for a full scale picture makeover, spending during least RM55 million of tax-payers' income for costly propaganda to glorify himself, his supervision as great as his policies as great as carrying it screened upon international channels similar to CNN, CNBC as great as BBC. This is complete stupidity of a top level as great as Najib has unsuccessful miserably.
To repair a repairs to his image, Najib should have rectified a mistakes as great as ! not try to varnish them as great as incurring further blunders in a process. There is unequivocally no indicate in putting upon thick have up during a day when everybody can see a thick covering of 'paint as great as powder'.
Transformation programs which go nowhere
Then Najib went upon to try to renovate multiform vital things though he unsuccessful to see what a causes were which led to past failures. All a sounds as great as lecture of his Economic Transformation Program might have seem rather impressive to a layman, though what have been a formula so far? Unfortunately you have not been means to feel great about anything which Najib as great as his ETP people have announced.
His categorical showpieces have been a 6 National Key Results Areas (NKRA), twelve National Key Economic Areas (NKEA) all part of his Economic Transformation Program. On November 23, Bernama reported which Najib underlined 6 tall impact programs to progress a expansion of a Small as great as Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to 8.7 by 2020 but, what about right away or subsequent year?
The mercantile policies which a UMNO-BN supervision underneath Najib have been undertaken though show no improvement in a economy. Thus, until now, it has been 'nothing for zero Najibnomics'.
As for Najib's Political Transformation Program, it has proven to be a farce heavy upon proclamations as great as full of doublespeak as in a brand new Peaceful Assembly Bill, which actually restricts a leisure as great as not grant larger approved space as he had promised.
Old day to day die hard
Even during this unequivocally vicious juncture, in a final path to a "Mother of all Elections", UMNO still continues to award contracts though following a correct procedures. At benefaction there have been multiform projects underneath a assorted ministries which have been allocated to their cronies as great as when a time comes, by offshoot or by crook, these projects wil! l come t o light either UMNO-BN wins a GE-13 or not. So as great will all a money-making schemes planned with rhythmical secrecy, a PKFZ scandal, a Scorpene liaison as great as a Gemas NFC debacle.
The Najib supervision has additionally told a rakyat which it will not be involved in financing a mega-projects he has announced; they have been often underneath a Private Financing Initiatives (PFI), he assures. But you were not told which a Umno cronies will have to borrow from a banks as great as nothing of a transparent disposed in isolation banks would ever lend them any money.
The in isolation banks know which these projects have been usually money-making schemes though any guarantee of success as great as will in a future need bailouts. Thus all a burden of financing has been given to Bank Pembangunan, a supervision bank, with income from a government. Still a income will be taken from a already depleting EPF as great as Tabung Haji or borrowed somewhere as great as bringing Malaysia closer to becoming an additional Greece.
Chaos during a ministries
The Ministry of Defense has set a devise moving for a squeeze of brand brand brand brand brand new fighter planes from Russia as reported in a defense magazine though Dr. Ahmad Zahid Hamidi denied this recently. The ministry will additionally go upon with a building of a exorbitantly costly naval ships as great as boats.
The Ministry of Education has embarked upon building multiform campuses in Perlis as great as Pahang as great as even a HUKM pediatric hospital in KL as great as being awarded to their cronies.
The Ministry of Transport has already approved a KVMRT project, a Integrated Transport Terminal in Subang Jaya with an additional starting to be in Gombak as great as in Melaka as great as as you all know Malaysia Airports Holding Bhd has a giveaway hand to impose any charges upon passengers as great as complete a KLIA2 tour during whatever cost.
The Ministry of Agriculture will in ! a future bail out a unsuccessful Gemas NFC plan as great as a greedy rice bowl "National Rice Bowl" plan in Sarawak will get some-more income a small to be reinvested as great as a rest pocketed.
The Ministry of Finance will go upon paying a PKFZ thieves as great as go upon dumping some-more income in to MAS notwithstanding a supposed win-win share barter with AirAsia as MAS has already voiced RM400 in waste recently. PETRONAS has been set to bail out TNB by interesting a gas cost.
The Ministry of Tourism as great have their money-making schemes by assorted announcement projects, whilst a Ministry of Information uses FINAS by a loans as great as grants issued for film productions as great as a injustice of FINAS assets for a small successful individuals.The alternative ministries as great have their problems as great as these could be suggested later.
Enough is enough
Najib has incited Malaysia backwards by not perplexing to reject a wrong doings of UMNO-BN. Where his father was as great busy, Najib's problem might be given he has his own scandals; to illustrate a shift of supervision is a usually loyal means of saving this country. The brand new UMNO AGM showed a republic a party's loyal colors; a racists/fascist bent as great as a actuality which it had no genuine agenda for a country.
So after tracking by a 6 Prime Ministers, all of whom came from UMNO, it is transparent a celebration is a cause, a categorical ingredient, a catalyst as great as a categorical component of all a failures which have befallen a nation.
We have had sufficient as great as sufficient is enough!
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