Mahathir Mohamad might have been a obliged as well as well-respected healing alloy behind in a 1940s. But his decision to enter a made at home ravel has - it's protected to say - turned out to be a sheer calamity for a nation as a whole.
Mahathir could have confirmed his great reputation as a doctor, though his name is right away ruined, forever compared with a Twin Towers of corruption as well as cronyism, his only condolence being maybe a personal resources which he as well as his sons managed to amass when he was during a culmination of his authoritarian rule.
And a most pathetic thing about this aged male is which he had a choice to become possibly a statesman or a rascal, though he has clearly opted to be remembered as a demented veteran who refuses to believe a world around him has changed.
By any standards, Mahathir was an intelligent male among his contemporaries. Even Lee Kuan Yew found him a difficult bulb to crack.
Lee is an selected member of a aged anglophile propagandize who could easily allude to a important British judge to clear his own autocratic governance, though was confronted with extensive difficulties in articulating his thoughts with a masses in Singapore's early days as an independent state. But Mahathir, himself from a top drawer of his time, was often means to return to a grassroots as wel! l as awa ken populist sentiment for his own means when a going got tough.
Which makes it all a some-more tragic which a alloy has right away become demented in his own house. With Barisan Nasional appearing to remove energy sooner or later, he is vital in great fright of his own misdeeds as well as transgressions being laid unclothed unde! r a Ma laysian sun. Had Mahathir been a moral as well as just-minded leader, he would not have to shudder constantly during a scenario of an alternative government, for his rightness would sojourn intact, come what may.
But firmness is precisely what a alloy is short of. To pre-empt intensity change of government, he is right away working openly to allegation both a Bersih movement as well as a opposition by fasten a government's chorus of vilification.
In fact, he is almost a lead singer!
Admittedly, Mahathir, who is single-handedly obliged for a wearing away of a Malaysian law does not see eye to eye with a Bar Council. The bad blood, however, came only from a alloy himself as he tried to 'fix' a judges as he did his own patients in Alor Star. His antacid remarks which a Bar Council has become a made at home celebration thus only reveal his ineptitude in bargain a role of a authorised fraternity.
Hence, it was a good fortune which a colonial administrationallegedly deniedhim a scholarship to read law in London!
Instead of hurling hollow accusations during a Bar Council, Mahathir should have a goodness to admit as most as 90 percent of a judges, high-ranking police officers as well as "mainstream" reporters - especially those fromRTM, TV3, Utusan Malaysia, Berita Harian, The Starand theNew Straits Times- actu ally assimilated Umno as well as became his underlings after 1988.
Speaking t! ruth to power
No, a Bar Council is not partisan. It only so happens which a stream supervision is some-more often than not found to be upon a wrong side of a law, as well as our lawyers have been duty-bound to scold it. A Singaporean counsel once told me how much she wished her colleagues behind home would have a courage to speak law to energy like most of her Malaysian counterparts. This time upon a Bersih 3.0 rally, a Malaysian Bar Council has again proven her right, of which I am in truth proud.
And Mahathir consistently refuses to accept a simple fact which Malaysians have opposite made at home identifications as legitimate citizens. As distant as he sees it, any one who votes for a opposition is a bad Malaysian as well as reduction worthy, nonetheless he ought to be told which not all who vote for Pas have been eremite "fanatics" as well as those who opt for a DAP have been Chinese "chauvinists". They simply wish a supervision which is reduction corrupt, some-more honest as well as knows its limits.
My parents, for one, voted initial theBarisan Sosialis Rakyat Malayaand then PAS via their lives, as well as did which have them racists or eremite bigots? And how would "racists" like my relatives have selected PAS over possibly a MCA or a Chinese-dominated Gerakan in a initial place? Can a alloy see a abject miss of proof in his view?
Simply put, Mahathir is right away so overly suspicious as well as held up with surpassing angst which he has mislaid all his senses, bent only upon poisoning a minds of a Malays - young as well as aged alike - with his race-centric rhetoric. Instead of championing larger transparency, open accountability as well as made at home integrity, he is going upon an incorrigible electioneer opposite any one who simply wants! to have Malaysia a improved nation to live in.
Which, in retrospect, was maybe a reason because he was rejected by a colonial administration, for Mahathir only beats a British during their own game: order as well as rule which is.
Mahathir could have confirmed his great reputation as a doctor, though his name is right away ruined, forever compared with a Twin Towers of corruption as well as cronyism, his only condolence being maybe a personal resources which he as well as his sons managed to amass when he was during a culmination of his authoritarian rule.
And a most pathetic thing about this aged male is which he had a choice to become possibly a statesman or a rascal, though he has clearly opted to be remembered as a demented veteran who refuses to believe a world around him has changed.
By any standards, Mahathir was an intelligent male among his contemporaries. Even Lee Kuan Yew found him a difficult bulb to crack.Lee is an selected member of a aged anglophile propagandize who could easily allude to a important British judge to clear his own autocratic governance, though was confronted with extensive difficulties in articulating his thoughts with a masses in Singapore's early days as an independent state. But Mahathir, himself from a top drawer of his time, was often means to return to a grassroots as wel! l as awa ken populist sentiment for his own means when a going got tough.
Which makes it all a some-more tragic which a alloy has right away become demented in his own house. With Barisan Nasional appearing to remove energy sooner or later, he is vital in great fright of his own misdeeds as well as transgressions being laid unclothed unde! r a Ma laysian sun. Had Mahathir been a moral as well as just-minded leader, he would not have to shudder constantly during a scenario of an alternative government, for his rightness would sojourn intact, come what may.
But firmness is precisely what a alloy is short of. To pre-empt intensity change of government, he is right away working openly to allegation both a Bersih movement as well as a opposition by fasten a government's chorus of vilification.
In fact, he is almost a lead singer!
Admittedly, Mahathir, who is single-handedly obliged for a wearing away of a Malaysian law does not see eye to eye with a Bar Council. The bad blood, however, came only from a alloy himself as he tried to 'fix' a judges as he did his own patients in Alor Star. His antacid remarks which a Bar Council has become a made at home celebration thus only reveal his ineptitude in bargain a role of a authorised fraternity.Hence, it was a good fortune which a colonial administrationallegedly deniedhim a scholarship to read law in London!
Instead of hurling hollow accusations during a Bar Council, Mahathir should have a goodness to admit as most as 90 percent of a judges, high-ranking police officers as well as "mainstream" reporters - especially those fromRTM, TV3, Utusan Malaysia, Berita Harian, The Starand theNew Straits Times- actu ally assimilated Umno as well as became his underlings after 1988.
Speaking t! ruth to power
No, a Bar Council is not partisan. It only so happens which a stream supervision is some-more often than not found to be upon a wrong side of a law, as well as our lawyers have been duty-bound to scold it. A Singaporean counsel once told me how much she wished her colleagues behind home would have a courage to speak law to energy like most of her Malaysian counterparts. This time upon a Bersih 3.0 rally, a Malaysian Bar Council has again proven her right, of which I am in truth proud.
And Mahathir consistently refuses to accept a simple fact which Malaysians have opposite made at home identifications as legitimate citizens. As distant as he sees it, any one who votes for a opposition is a bad Malaysian as well as reduction worthy, nonetheless he ought to be told which not all who vote for Pas have been eremite "fanatics" as well as those who opt for a DAP have been Chinese "chauvinists". They simply wish a supervision which is reduction corrupt, some-more honest as well as knows its limits.
My parents, for one, voted initial theBarisan Sosialis Rakyat Malayaand then PAS via their lives, as well as did which have them racists or eremite bigots? And how would "racists" like my relatives have selected PAS over possibly a MCA or a Chinese-dominated Gerakan in a initial place? Can a alloy see a abject miss of proof in his view?
Simply put, Mahathir is right away so overly suspicious as well as held up with surpassing angst which he has mislaid all his senses, bent only upon poisoning a minds of a Malays - young as well as aged alike - with his race-centric rhetoric. Instead of championing larger transparency, open accountability as well as made at home integrity, he is going upon an incorrigible electioneer opposite any one who simply wants! to have Malaysia a improved nation to live in.
Which, in retrospect, was maybe a reason because he was rejected by a colonial administration, for Mahathir only beats a British during their own game: order as well as rule which is.
JOSH HONG complicated politics during London Metropolitan University as well as a School of Oriental as well as African Studies, University of London. A penetrating watcher of made at home as well as international politics, he longs for a day when Malaysians will learn as well as master a art of self-mockery, as well as enjoy life to a full in spite of politicians.
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