June 14, 2012
Mahathir upon Democracy
by Christopher Fernandez@www.freemalaysiatoday.com
Former Prime Minister (Tun) Dr Mahathir Mohamad has never unsuccessful to express his views not usually for the good of Malaysians though additionally for the ubiquitous community.
His ultimate rambling was the speech he delivered during the University Santo Tomas' special convocation in Manila upon June 11.Reported by The Star, Mahathir ventured to speak about "practising democracy with limits".
According to the report, the former Premier stated that "democracy can usually work when people understand its limitations". He additionally stated that "when people think usually of the leisure that democracy brings as well as know nothing of the implied responsibilities, democracy will not bring the benefits it promises".
Mahathir asked: "Why has democracy not delivered the good hold up you had approaching of it?"His answer was that "it is impossible for the people to order themselves. There have been as well many of them as well as they cannot establish upon anything. A supervision of the people, by the people as well as for the people will result in the stalemate, in no supervision during all, in anarchy".
This is because he asserts that "instead of usurpation the failures of democracy, we
should have the little adjustments as well as sacrifice the little of the liberalism of democracy so you may remove something from the system".
He admitted freely that Malaysia is not the magnanimous democracy.Perhaps the inevitable good! s of age ing have caused Mahathir to remove his clarity of sharpness because, unwittingly, he has let the cat out of the bag upon how the Barisan Nasional supervision practises democracy.
This is usually reliable what the better sensitive as well as prepared Malaysians have long believed that the BN supervision has been busily tinkering as well as skewering the principles of parliamentary democracy in this republic to fit the whims as well as fancies of the powers-that-be as well as not the people.
Mahathir's assertion is shocking. It is an admission of shame that Malaysia was governed not as the magnanimous democracy in suitability with the Federal Constitution though by the deception of what he conditions as "implied responsibilities".
No check as well as balance
Implied responsibilities during the Mahathir system of administration simply mean to make use of whatever draconian laws required to overpower dissent as well as stamp the will as well as pleasure of the leaders upon the people.
Malaysia, therefore, underneath the order of the BN supervision has fared no better than governments ruled by despots. Even the Federal Constitution was nice to fit the liking of the BN supervision to ensure there will be probably no check as well as change upon what the powers-that-be do in this country.
By not practising open as well as magnanimous democracy, as well as by opting to tinker with the routine as well as practices of democracy, Malaysia has unsuccessful to imitate as well as follow the tenets as well as obligations of the Federal Constitution as drawn up by the founding fathers of the nation.
By practising the pale imitation of democracy as well as hoping to be endorsed by the world as the approved country, many Malaysians who were not part of th! e politi cian-crony-sycophant sequence unsuccessful to pullulate as well as suffered most wrongdoing.
These intolerable admissions of Mahathir have been sufficient to indicate that democracy was manipulated as well as compromised to fit the origination of the minority chosen that right away exists in this country.
It should confirm the suspicions of many that this can of worms will open up the lot more wriggly, creepy sum of how Malaysia has been governed as opposed to what you all along believed.
If in the past Malaysians all along believed that their votes counted, they have been right away in for the bold shock. The electoral processes of the past ubiquitous elections in the republic for someday have been the farce as well as the cause of most disbelief as well as suspicion.
The routine of tinkering with democracy had ensured that the Mahathir system of administration prospered during the responsibility of democracy.
This reinforced Mahathir's long-held belief, that he right away openly confesses, that the people of Malaysia cannot as well as have been incompetent to order themselves even by their inaugurated representatives in Parliament as well as the State Legislative Assemblies.
Parliament as well as the state assemblies merely existed as the equates to to an end for Mahathir as well as his supporters during his duration of administration contrary to the idea as well as expectations of Malaysians.
The Way Forward
If review in context, as well as understood clearly, what the former budding apportion is reporting is that Malaysians cannot confirm for themselves what they want. This equates to it is better for people like Mahathir to confirm for Malaysians as well as to establish his will for them.
This fundamentally has been the BN's character of governance given the ouster of Tunku Abdul Rahman, the founding father of Malaysia as well as the signatory of the Federal Constitution.
In the routine ! of stamp ing his will as well as authority, the will of the people was dejected as well as it was fundamentally "Mahathir's Malaysia" all the way, where he ruled with impunity as well as in the routine fueled crime as well as cronyism as the approach forward for the nation.
Unfortunately, this meant the origination of the ruling chosen whilst the rest of the republic toiled to ensure the masters sat flattering as well as lived well.
In gripping with the character of tyrannical governments, many Malaysians suffered most tyranny as well as hardship whilst sure numbers fled the republic to find refuge for themselves as well as their families in greener pastures.
By the strong confession of Mahathir's character of administration as well as his beliefs in democracy, Malaysians should be prepared in the entrance 13th ubiquitous choosing to endorse the supervision that is peaceful to utterly revive civil liberties in the country.
This is the usually approach Malaysians of all walks of hold up will be able to suffer as well as bite "The Good Life" as the Americans do, as well as that is additionally enshrined in our really own Malaysian constitution.
The approach forward for Malaysia is to obey countries that uncover visible as well as transparent evidence where "The Good Life" is not just the constitutional statement though where it is witnessed as the reality.
Christopher Fernandez is the social critic as well as commentator.
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