Kit Siang is perplexing to fibre the noose around Mahathir's neck. Why?
I am not interested in removing abounding or vital the hold up of luxury. What we have right away is far some-more than we had hoped for when we was forgetful as the student. we am grateful to Allah for what we have as great as for provident me to live this long. we am ready to go when my time comes. we am conscious which all which we have will not accompany me to the grave.
Mahathir Mohamad, 2012 June
A male dies usually once. His genocide competence be the have the difference pithy as Mount Tai or light as the feather. It all depends upon the reason for which he dies. The most appropriate of men die to equivocate flaw to their forbears; the subsequent most appropriate to equivocate flaw to their persons; the subsequent to equivocate flaw to their dignity; the subsequent to equivocate flaw to their word.
Sima Qian (c.145 86BC) in Letter to Ren'an
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Xiaode addresses the Honourable Mahathir Mohamad
Lim Kit Siang's veiled threat conflicting we was additionally specific: open up investigations in to the Bank Negara's forex waste incurred in between 1992 as great as 1993. It contains zero else. And the sums, we contingency admit, areastronomical given generally Malaysia'srelatively low financial station globally.
In an American university, the segment of the macroeconomics march (ECN 160B) is dedicated to guidance the doctrine from which forex trade: governments have no commercial operation to be in business. In your time, your income market trade was upon tip of other shameful financial c! onduct, speculating upon forward tin contracts, for example. Remember Maminco? Guthrie? Sime Darby?
Given this past, Kit Siang's hazard was substantially conceived not upon the spur, the singular night, his conduct resting alone upon the pillow. For sure, they contingency have talked about it, heads nodding as they sell records about you.
If any of which is true, thenyour reply to Kit Siang -that you're as purify as the whistle xiaode regrets to say, misses the point. It has little or zero to do with shame or innocence.
To additionally contend we have been usually fearful of charges fabricated conflicting you, we have been tacitly conceding which this has been the normal in Malaysian polity. And it is; face it.
Therefore, Kit Siang's fundamental basis in his hazard couldn't have been about abuse or crime of authority nor could it be specific to the forex waste only. Why? Because Anwar's own palm in the event is additionally severely tainted.
Recall, sir, Anwar alien in to Malaysia American tall finance, Paul Wolfowitz, as great as he desired those fancy financial derivatives in which the Bank Negara argent forward contracts were usually the singular of those things which impressed him as great as which he would have favourite even if he wasn't but delay involved: deals which do the 1 billion ringgit paper trade upon the behind of the 2 dollar company.
Remember Nick Leeson who in 1992-94 (same time as Anwar) mislaid the entire capital base of Barings PLC after some-more than USD800 million in derivativetrading waste usually subsequent door, Singapore. Those were trades which even the bank's house of directors couldn't understand. From people similar to Leeson,Anwarlearned the Orwellian newspeak phrase, 'paper loss'. But, he was the kampung Malay with the large ego who wanted to stir as great as get upon in the universe similar to dozens of others we attempted nurturing.
Even though you've usually the plumber's believe of economics! as grea t as ubiquitous finance, those Leeson type of deals ought to, intuitively, alert you. They usually do not have clarity but, still, we substantially couldn't care less given American 'financial engineering', sold by the similar to of Lehman Brothers as great as Merrill Lynch, got what we wish with income the Treasury didn't nonetheless have. They got we roads, airports, power plants, Twin Towers, Putrajaya, Hicom, Perwaja.
Also stop Anwar was financial apportion during the time, as great as some-more than anybody, even yourself, he brought in as great as fostered an entire western, commercial, Wolfowitz kind of financial enlightenment which altered the approach Malaysia done money, financial projects, conduct banking services, as great as in creating debt. Growing rubber trees as great as mining tin competence not be voluptuous as great as illusory though those were honest, decent work. You utterly abandoned these qualities as great as went with Anwar instead.
Xiaode regrets to have to remind we of this unfortunate past. But it helps to give context to Kit Siang's resurrecting the forex debacle as great as which little show they had in Penang talking about the Bank Negara Gang of Four, Anwar excluded of course. If it isn't solely about we what afterwards was his hazard about?
Very probably, it is multi-angled.
At an individual, personal level, it is about removing even. It is about what we had put Kit Siang through over the years. And not usually him though additionally his entire family. Anwar, for sure, thinks the same. So as great Nik Aziz.
Sino reliable enlightenment informs the Chinese to regularly allow your enemies an shun track once cornered . That's for the great reason which won't be elaborated.
You weren't usually the conflicting receiving no prisoners. Your annihilating the enemy surpassed the ruthlessness when it done no eminence in between the enemy as great as the friends, people who competence usually be onlookers or bystanders comp! elled to take sides given of old, family, personal or professional loyalties. Remember Salleh Abbas? You went over him as great as the whole Bench got it.
Although Kit Siang's hazard was nebulous as great as superficial (in your abuse of power as great as generally monetary corruption), we immediately jumped in to the defence as if we have been already upon trial. Here, in your own words:
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I had regularly been clever not to abuse the power.
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I have not taken anything which is not mine.
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I didn't allow my children to do commercial operation with the Government.
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Except for Mirzan, my children did not get any scholarships.
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Whatever income we right away have is from savings.
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My salaries were not big.
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I am not interested in removing abounding or vital the hold up of luxury.
If we recall, the nearby exact same things were pronounced by Anwar Ibrahim when he stood in the wharf conflicting the set of sodomy as great as crime charges. That is, your government couldn't find the single, dirtysen upon him which had been stolen.
But which wasn't the point, was it?
Now, if we knew that, if Anwar additionally knew, as great as if Kit Siang knew, why afterwards did we go upon as great as upon with which infantile, suave mollification perplexing to composed the looming spook of yourself station in the wharf as great as before the whole nation of judges?
The truth? You really wish to know the truth?
You were toadying for apurpose. And it is this:you have been perplexing to get upon the right side of the amiability called Malaysians. The Chinese call this 'right side', qingbai, literally transparent white.
No God can assistance we right away though usually people: Malaysians. If people as the collective can move down Gaddafi as great as Mubarak, they could additionally have saved them as well. Or they could save y! ou. And this is the problem, isn't it? Will they, the people, or will they not lift the finger in your name?
If you're not confident people will, afterwards surely we contingency ask why?
While as PM we mostly spoke, upon the the singular hand, about bringing pride to the Malays, about building towering Malays, about how refined the people they are. Yet those speeches as great as difference interpret to the conflicting formula in your personal actions (Anwar's treatment, the monarchy, Tunku Abdul Rahman) as great as in your open deeds (forex, Tajudin et al). The list goes upon as great as on.
Then, upon the other hand, we malign the Chinese for no great reason during all -pitting the Malays conflicting them as great as job them names.
This code of politics, if we still do not know it, had bred dual generations of bigots (Ibrahim Ali, Apanama, Hannah Yeoh), after which they were recast as great as tutored in to fascists (Anas Anus Zubedy, Lim Guan Eng, Pure Shiite) under the 'vision' propagandize curriculum of Anwar Ibrahim who you, unfortunately, done preparation apportion in 1986. Anwar et al are, xiaode is sorry to say, your creatures.
In sum, your failure begins once we tainted the prolonged amiable story of Chinese-Malay relations, upon the behind of which we afterwards rose to the in front of as budding minister. Once in in front of the same process is applied. You spin to persons similar to Anwar so as to hoist up the shining, pedestal model of the clever, modern Malay no longer tied to rivers as great as padi fields. Francis Yeoh, Christian, Anglophile as great as utterly during contingency with being Malaysian, was your contrasting thought of an Anwar conflicting number between theChinese.
Umno's Nazri, your party mate, was usually half right when he once called we the Father of Racism in Malaysia. You're the Father of Bigotry.
!Again st this credentials generally given we have been the liability to Umno Barisan right away has to be concerned about the outcome of your track record upon the electoral performance. Tell us, therefore, how have been the people unless we do not count Chinese as the Malaysian people to rise up in your defence conflicting Pakatan?
But not to worry, sir.
Kit Siang's hazard is pivoted upon the assumption Pakatan takes Putrajaya. He is being overly confident as great as conceited. He assumes the Chinese chauvinists (the non-Francis Yeoh types), so mostly derided by you, won't come together to give Najib Razak the chance, thereby saving we from any further humiliation.
All which says which whilst Anwar et al have been starting to have the entrance elections the referendum upon Najib as great as Umno, they, regulating the same brush to connect you,will spin their campaigns in to an indictment conflicting your person. Kit Siang will go around the country to contend this: for those who wish Mahathir investigated for past sins, opinion Pakatan.
Should which happen, what shall we do?
Xiaode bows to you.
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(Because the minute as an essay form is the same, the earlier post addressed to Najib is reproduced below, additionally for some-more aged purposes in between dual budding ministers, their personality characters as great as their politics.)
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Xiaodi addresses the Honourable Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak
Xiaodi brings we fraternal greetings in the name of the forefathers as great as in secure friendship in betw! een the peoples, the Melayu as great as the Chinese.
Before proceeding, apologies have been in sequence for this is the law -especially for the audacity as great as the impudence to have to move this memorial to we in such the manner. Xiaodi has no great deeds to be entitled any privileges, even to be honourable of the hearing. But, as Sima Qian has great advised, "A male has usually the singular death. That genocide competence be as pithy as Mount Tai, or it competence be as light as the goose feather. It all depends upon the approach he uses it. "
Some time not prolonged ago when Wen Jiabao visited he asked to host the dinner in your honour as great as afterwards forsaken this request: would we be so kind as to move your mom along.
You're right to consider the Chinese have the long, prolonged mental recall as great as they generally remember the great deed as great as feel compelled, until eternity, to pay off the gratitude. Your father was, of course, the commencement source of which mental recall which will continue the subsequent ten generations as great as beyond.
This low clarity of high regard stems, paradoxically it seems, from the Chinese apostate perspective of the world.
But, still, it creates clarity if the singular were to demeanour during the association closely as great as bypass the interpretation, hold by bigots, which the Chinese have been extremist all given they, in their commercial operation dealings, for example, prefer the close-knit familiarity as great as confidence of any other. This is additionally to suggest which the Chinese do not certitude simply as great as their loyalties have to be earned any of which couldn't have anything to do with skin colour though the man's arrangement of impression in difference as great as suited by deeds.
You have travelled as great as seen most so we contingency know what all which means.
Scepticism has, as we would say, the "downside". Since the Chinese owes few loyalties ext! ernal th e family, it creates for being the politician to the Chinese which most harder, whether Malay or Chinese. The DAP, for example, did not arrive during the benefaction pivotal indicate upon the behind of the Chinese opinion until almost 40 years later.
This singular actuality alone has profound implications, inspiring the little misconceptions which have to be debunked as great as uninstructed if Barisan is to to move ahead in the entrance ubiquitous elections.
Only dual would be cited, but elaboration. Myth 1: The Chinese opinion is the confederation opinion upon racial lines. Myth 2: Treating problems dear to the Chinese as issues of competition (education for example) rsther than than of probity as great as fairness.
In counterbalance to those assertions is the MCA consult which Chua Soi Lek says show the Chinese, similar to Malays as great as Indians, to regularly return to their 'ethnic cocoons'.
On the surface, this end appears loyal maybe given ethnicity in consult forms is interpretedly primarily upon skin colour terms. But the Chinese see competition as formed by reliable enlightenment included in which have been impression as great as particular values. That is to additionally contend ethics surprise an ethnicity: for example, the Chinese generally sees as great as decider the person upon comment of such as great as such the conduct or attitude.
Likewise the Chinese perception of the Melayu, as great as this is pivoted upon the known set of values, Islamic in Malaysia, but eminence whether this competence be agreeable or not agreeable. Christians would contend any values sourced external the bible or the Church is not agreeable; they have been instead the pathway to damnation. The Chinese have no such concept, as great as they oppose it.
Instead of contradictions, Chua's claims of the MCA consult reaffirms instead the Chinese distrustfu! l worldv iew: be cautious with loyalties, certitude the familiar as great as the proven, be clever with the difference of strangers.
Extrapolate from this worldview is the operation of ramifications inspiring how we as great as your domestic colleagues competence approach the Chinese electorate.
1. Visit them as the crony seeking friendship. This is some-more effective than visiting as the budding apportion bringing cheques to schools given the complaint for the Chinese after taking of the cheques is which their votes won't co-ordinate with the debt repayment. Those have been dual opposite things. Friends do not give away income for no reason so which the action casts suspicion rsther than than win trust. Moreover as great as this is similarly critical income for Chinese schools is Chua Soi Lek's job, not the Malay's even if budding minister. Go to their temples as great as schools, enter their homes as great as their villages as great as enquire about their welfare. Even but promises, those visits would be great enough given that's what friends do.
2. Visit them as the Malay, the conduct of the Malay kingdom seeking the collaboration with the Chinese race as great as not their acquiescence. Malaysia is many nations under the singular flag. Your station says most about mutual respect which is demonstrated as sincerity as great as honesty if you, sir, wear the Malay baju. This external entrance reflects who as great as what we have been internally, but the make-belief which we merely wish Chinese favours by wearing red clothes or by giving away angpows. The Chinese, similar to Malays, similar to yourself, value genuineness given it is the foundation for the durability relationship entrance generally from the person opposite from those we visit. The DAP Anglophile women wearing shawls in to mosque competence stir Malays, though the Chinese see them intuitively as phoneys.
3. Visit them as the open central of the little station inside of the Chinese village as great as not ! as an Um no Malay or Barisan politician. The Chinese perspective of the Malay open central is severely disabled by the bequest which the singular does not need to elaborate. This is something to overcome, though it is not an improbable task as great as the Chinese have the prolonged story in entrance to regard the open official. The junzi category is the top order. He is fair-minded, given to reason, never arbitrary as great as is well-informed by the set of humanistic ethics which supercede as great as is improved than any despotic duplicate of the law.
4. Visit them as MCA's domestic family not as the partner given the latter infers the bequest of unequal relationships. Kinship says instead which your interest in the Chinese village stems from your old, family holds with the MCA which, for whatever reason in the past, had been unable to do the best. You have been there upon the aloft authority as great as by virtue of your patrimonial ties with other bodies or institutions inside of which we have influence.
In this minute as great as this is borrowing from Sima Qian again xiaodi has not been means entirely to communicate what is in the mind, though xiaodi has attempted to lay onward the crude outline, sick voiced as it has been.
With low respect, xiaodi bows to you.
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