January 24, 2013
We have been Malaysians, not Pendatangs, says my Friend, John Toh
Last week, as well as again currently we met John Toh, my dear friend (both of us have been septuagenarians watchful in a airport lounge, like a notorious octogenarian, for a spin to locate a subsequent moody to eternity) at a Royal Selangor Golf Club.
John as well as we who have been former corporate management team talked about what it was like growing up in a days when Tunku Abdul Rahman was a Prime Minister as well as how things got to this theatre of degeneration in a affairs of state after 55 years of Independence. He as well as we charge this fall of a legislative, legal as well as senior manager branches of supervision as well as a societal sadness to a single man's climb to energy in 1981 as well as his twenty-two year+ administration. Others might disagree with us. It is their right to differ as most as it is a duty to speak up.
Tun Dr.Mahathir who started his administration department with a aphorism BERSIH, CEKAP dan AMANAH contingency take full responsibility for a nation in crisis. We admired him really most since he dismissed a passion for Malaysia, though over a years, John as well as we have come to realize which he is a male spooky with power, who does not know when to let go.
Tun Dr. Mahathir has successfully brought down a Badawi administration department in 2009, as well as is right away working towards to a domestic demise of a benefaction Prime Minister. we get a impression from his difference as well as actions which he thinks he is still indispensable.
You as well as we know no a single is indispensable. Each generation will have a own leaders as well as it is a duty of a generationand certainly ca! ve as we ll as John'sto safeguard which a benefaction leaders both in a supervision as well as a Opposition discharge a nation scrupulously as well as not pester them at every opportunity.
Recently, Tun Dr. Mahathir went over a tip when he tried to obstruct a attention from his extenuation of Identity cards to both Filipinos as well as Indonesian illegals to capacitate a opinion in a 1994 Sabah state elections by blaming Tunku Abdul Rahman. He pronounced which a Tunku gave citizenships to Chinese, Indians as well as others. The Tun forgets which it was part of a Independence understanding with a British colonial government. It is nasty for Tun Dr. Mahathir to credit a male who is no longer around to defend himself. Lawyer Tommy Thomas has finished us a service when he wrote an essay upon a subject, which we put upon this blog.
Let me right away post John's e-mail with you. we betrothed him which we will share his concerns with all of you. Thank you, John. You as well as we cannot give up. As we pronounced to we today, we both have been heavily invested in Malaysia. Our young kids have been luckier than us since we have given them great preparation to capacitate them to contest anywhere in a world. We cannot right away to abandon a dream of a united Malaysia.Din Merican
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Kuala Lumpur, Jan 24, 2013
Dear Dato' Din,
It was most delightful to meet up with we after a lapse of over 40 years. A lot has happened to a particular lives in a inserted period though we am blissful to note which a fire in your belly is still burning bright. Although we was unable to meet we until now, we have been following your blog steadily as well as have kept up with a issues we saw fit to plead in a open domain generally for those who miss media support as well as in a process denied a laws of healthy justice.For this we contingency salute we in yo! ur fearl ess electioneer to help those who have been oppressed.
Co-incidentally, a really critical as well as stream issue which we find disturbing is a acknowledgement by Tun Dr. M per Tunku's act of extenuation Citizenship to over 1 million pendatangs shortly after Merdeka. While we myself am a 3rd generation Malaysian born as well as a common theme of HRH Sultan of Selangor which we became in 1954 by Operation of Law we still feel alienated by such references to Pendatangs as well as we simulate upon Tunku's action as well as ask what is a motive as well as a end outcome of a "gift of Citizenship" by a dear Tunku.
I contingency firstly declare which we am not a Member of any domestic Party or NGO though only a single of those who occur to love a Nation as well as any action which means contrariety between a people of course saddens me. we am additionally not an economist or domestic scientist.
After clearing a air, permit me to give we my layman's view upon what prompted Tunku to do what he did as well as what have been a consequences. By a time we gained Independence, Malaysia had a great happening to experience a series of "booms". First was a rubber bang in late 1940s though growth of synthetic rubber caused a rubber industry to remove a bounce in less which 2 decades. Then we had a tin bang followed by a joist bang as well as in early or mid 1970s we additionally gifted a oil as well as gas boom. With a outrageous deforestation of joist land, entrepreneurs began to plant oil palm over a logged over land as well as palm oil became a subsequent bang cause what lasts to this day.
My indicate is this. Except for a oil as well as gas sector, all a alternative booms which occurred compulsory estimable internal labor as well as business resources as well as additionally a support of great transport as well as communication infrastructure,which brings to thoughts! a princ ely institutions we had. At which time, Malayan Railways ran efficiently as well as profitably though not anymore. Telecoms, Central Electricity Board, PWD, Postal Services, Waterworks Department. were managed by many Pendatangs as well as all were means to describe reliable services to a people though not anymore.
These days we can't even drink water straight from a taps like we used to. So a dear Tunku, in his wisdom saw which in sequence to develop a country, we need to have able as well as dedicated workers in any case of where they came from as well as if anybody were to ask me how Malaysia came to be what it is today, we will tell them it is due to Tunku's foresight.
In comparison, let us demeanour at Sabah. At a indicate of fasten a Federation in 1963, Sabah was a single of a richest if not a richest State in Malaysia. Besides oil as well as gas, Sabah had outrageous joist resources plus minerals as well as a abounding volcanic dirt will let anything we put in to a belligerent grow. Sadly, today, Sabah is a single of a poorest State as well as most of a resources have been depleted.
I am not competent sufficient to allude this incident to a liquid of illegal immigrants in to a State though from a layman's perspective, we cannot totally diffuse this notion though we will leave it to a qualified experts to draw their own conclusion.
Hope we won't find a above overbearing. Lets meet shortly for a meal together. Best wishes to we as well as Family as well as May God Bless we in your endeavors.
John.
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