February 14, 2013
The Twin Offshoots of Mahathirism: Corruption as well as Cronyism
by Mariam Mokhtar (02-12-13) @http://www.malaysiakini.com
He (Mahathir) was a Machiavellian woman monarch who is purported to have depraved his way to a top, as well as became Malaysia's longest portion Prime Minister, though will a historians have to revise Malaysian history?
Some disagree which former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who ruled Malaysia with an iron fist for twenty-two years, should be remembered as a visionary personality as well as a tireless administrator. Others disagree as well as call him a ruthless dictator who silenced his critics as well as allowed corruption, cronyism as well as nepotism to flourish.
Today, Mahathir (left) is as divisive as ever as well as notwithstanding being retired, has managed to upstage a current Prime Minister, Najib Abdul Razak, most times during a latter's tenure.
Najib could have ordered an review formed upon Mahathir's own admission about a influx of illegal immigrants being given citizenship provided they voted for a ruling party; though Najib is some-more frightened of Mahathir. If Najib had not been weighted down by so most baggage, he could have silenced Mahathir once as well as for all.
Many Malaysian housewives have been informed with a 'Buku 555; a 4 inches by 3 inches cover in which they would jot down purchases from their travelling grocer. Mahathir is purported to have a 'Buku 555, which is worth its weight in gold; it allegedly lists a wrongdoings of his! cabinet ministers as well as cronies.
Few ministers would brave action honourably, aroused of a release of potentially explosive material which could end their domestic careers as well as jeopardise their ill-gotten fortunes.
Four decades ago, Mahathir used a Malays to serve his own domestic 
ambitions. He as well as others realised which a Malays were in low trouble. So, out came a mercantile policies which were ostensible to assistance them though which usually benefited his tighten allies as well as family members.
Now, Mahathir is again using a backwardness of a Malays to urge them to vote for BN. He used emotive language such as "The British managed to knock out Malaya without losing a single soldier," as well as which a Malay rulers had a hand in this.
If Mahathir's mental recall was not so bad, he would have remembered his story lessons as well as known which a unfamiliar invading forces had higher firepower. Perhaps a Malay rulers longed for to equivocate nonessential bloodshed. It is treasonable as well as disrespectful of Mahathir to censure a Malay rulers in this sprightly manner.
A couple of hundred years earlier, during a invasion of Malacca in 1511, a sure traders valued their trading rights some-more than their honour as well as betrayed a Malacca sultan, thus forcing him as well as his sons to shelter into a jungles as well as rush to Perak, Johor as well as Sumatra.
Last week, Mahathir accused a Malays of relinquishing their mercantile energy to non-Malays. He said, "We let immigrants take over because you do not wish to work as well as do not wish to sense to do new things you prefer to fish as well as plant padi." Ironically, most of a immigrants were brought in by Mahathir in his 'Project M'.
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It was UMNO which created this coherence enlightenment as well as it was UMNO's affirmative movement mercantile policies which done a Malay less competitive. UMNO sold them a idea which a Malays were a greatest as well as they believed which they could achieve success, without hard work.
Today, Najib has carried this trend of affirmative movement further, by giving them cash. When will a Malay become eccentric of supervision handouts?
Perhaps, Mahathir's most inhuman action is a call for a constitution to be amended, so which BERSIH co-chairperson S Ambiga can be stripped of her citizenship. She did not admit hundreds of thousands of foreigners to a shores. Mahathir did.
UMNO does not apply oneself farrago nor does it inspire fairness. It has reduced Malaysian governing body to carnal entertainment.
Najib has appeared upon radio in Chinese New Year adverts ready to go in Chinese dress as well as beating drums. In a radio advertisement, he speaks Mandarin with his son. This prompted most to switch off their radios.
At Thaipusam, because did Najib not carry a kavadi as well as get pierced? Is a Indian vote not important? Did Najib think which doling out packets of rice to a Indians was sufficient? At Christmas, because did Najib not enclose a Father Christmas dress as well as dole out his BR1M vouchers from his sack of goodies?
It is time Najib stopped treating governing body as a reality radio show. If he longed for to get a open upon his side, he should get a organisation grip upon his leadership, as well as punish a people who have been obliged for police brutality, crime as well as abuse of power.
Instead, he protects those who have been guilty. No a single has been done accountable, no a sin! gle has been sacked, as well as no a single has been shamed.
When Mahathir said which BN had to win a two-thirds majority in GE13, he was issuing a warning to Najib as well as to a larger public, especially a Malays. Najib had to remind a Opposition not to emanate disharmony should it remove a general choosing as well as yet, during press conferences, when he was asked if BN would agree to a well-spoken passing from a single to another of energy to a winner, Najib would not comment. He would just walk out as well as abruptly cancel a session.
Whatever a outcome of GE13, Mahathir already has a musical named after him, 'Tun Mahathir'. Dance routines as well as songs depict his life from his childhood to his premiership; it is some-more of a fairy story than a musical. None of a corruption, cronyism as well as nepotism which flourished under his rule, have been featured.
According to a Petronas blurb, a Twin Towers which browbeat a KL skyline have been ostensible to symbolize modernity as well as a progressive nation. They have been ostensible to be a brainchild as well as impulse of Mahathir as well as T Ananda Krishnan. The outline of a towers resembles a letter 'M' for Malaysia.
Who knows, a single day, a little sycophant might contend which a 'M' stands for Mahathir as well as they will be renamed a Mahathir Towers. How awful it would be if, each time you see a twin towers, you were reminded usually of a twin evils of crime as well as cronyism.
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