we was reminded of a witticism upon politicians which "we cling to a sparse thieves though elect a good ones to office" when we read Dr Mahathir Mohamad's explain in his blog which a Chinese (and Indians) have been a real masters of a country.
Specifically, he wrote which "Because they (the Malays) have been peaceful to share their nation with alternative races, a competition from a older civilised world of some-more than 4,000 years as well as who have been some-more successful, as such currently whatever they have right divided is additionally being taken divided from them".
As election day approaches, this line of argument is being rehashed. We can expect some-more of this competition baiting by Dr Mahathir as well as his kind in Umno as well as PEMUDA when they have been addressing Malay voters.
Of course, this rehashing will take upon brand new permutations such as "the PKR as well as PAS have been selling out a rights of a Malays" or "the DAP is really a dayang master pulling a strings of a Pakatan coalition".
What is important is not to get indignant or sojourn silent though to rebut it with facts, total as well as arguments.
Political idiocy
For Dr Mahathir to accuse a Chinese of being a real masters of a nation is really a tallness of domestic idiocy. If we want to go by racial perception, it would appear to everyone which Malays browbeat in each globe of life in a country.
They form a infancy in Parliament, judiciary, army as well as police, a MACC as well ! as all a lternative important domestic bodies. In a socio-economic as well as educational sphere, they carry out all a major banks solely for Public Bank, a GLCs, Petronas, open universities, polite service, etc.
Any Chinese or orang putih wanting to do commercial operation has to obeisance to a Malays for licences as well as permits. Moreover, Malay businesses carry out some of a monopolies such as water, electricity, toll roads, etc. where it is so easy for them to have some-more increase by only augmenting a price.
Even a richest as well as most powerful Chinese as well as Indians such as Robert Kuok, Ananda Krishna, Tony Fernandez, Vincent Tan as well as others have been completely during a mercy of a Malays if they want to do commercial operation in Malaysia.
It's Umno-BN which has called all a shots
But let's not go by uncomplicated perception. The undoubted actuality is which a real masters of a nation have been a Umno-led Barisan Nasional, which has ruled Malays as well as Malaysia for over 55 years.
During which period, Dr Mahathir as prime apportion was a undisputed series one man. He changed a country's constitution as well as laws; sent his domestic opponents into jail or oblivion; singlehandedly undermined a judiciary; as well as put a time as well as our time back to safeguard which we would all arise up an hour earlier.
He even took upon a most inviolate of Malay institutions a Sultanate by reducing a management of Malay rulers.
Dr Mahathir additionally controlled as well as manipulated a country's purse strings. His monetary care of a nation have left an memorable black symbol upon a country's mercantile as well as monetary fortunes.
First, he done a pass decisions upon mercantile white elephants as well as scandals such as Proton, Bakun Dam, Putrajaya, as well as Perwaja. The final resulted in a loss of RM2.6 billion.
Dr Mahathir himself has! certifi ed publicly in 2002 in a discourse with Malaysians in London which a loss could have been as most as RM10 billion due to possible misappropriation of funds.
Mother of all scandals
The mother of all monetary scandals took place during Dr Mahathir's time. This was a forex losses incurred by Bank Negara's speculative currency trading which cost us over RM50 billion.
The second result was a disease of privatization he inflicted upon a country. A devoted fan of Margaret Thatcher, Dr Mahathir pursued privatization of telecommunications, utilities, airlines as well as alternative open sectors as well as services with a vengeance.
But he lacked a British premier's caution as well as astuteness as well as closed both eyes to a leakages as well as abuses which accompanied a privatization programme.
Dr Mahathir can be considered to be a godfather of a category of capitalist cronies which has cornered most of a country's resources as well as who, together with Umno/Barisan, have been a undisputed masters of a resources of Malaysia. These large time tycoons contain of most Chinese though they have been a multiracial cast as well as embody an augmenting series of Malay businessmen.
Today, Dr Mahathir blames a Chinese for working hard as well as enjoying a fruits of their labour. He is hostile of a Chinese center as well as top classes living in high end housing estates as well as owning a lion's share of urban property.
He himself lives in a gated community as well as is conjectural to own numerous properties though he laments for a most Malays living in squatter houses.
But who has been obliged for this situation?
No shun for you, Dr M
Dr Mahathir needs to look during himself in a mirror. He has consumed our petro dollars upon his projects of extraneous loftiness as well as his adore of cronies, most of whom he has helpe! d with e xpensive bailouts. He could have solved a plight of hundreds of thousands of squatters by regulating treasury supports upon them instead of his house pet projects.
If he had invested a money wisely in ability merger for a immature Malays as well as in open housing as well as urban infrastructure for all Malaysians, especially needy as well as honourable Malays, a racial mercantile order will surely not be so conspicuous.
Dr Mahathir still does not want to go divided from a centre stage. He wants to sojourn in it because he knows which a BN has to say power if he is not to be done answerable for a racial, domestic as well as mercantile mess which he was obliged for as well as left behind as his main legacy.
The border of his recklessness can be seen in his speeches aimed during shoring up Malay await by claiming which a Chinese have been a real masters of Malaysia.
But as a Malaysian observant goes, his talk has no walk!
MAILBAG
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