March 2, 2013
Time to Clean Up the Mahathir Mess
by Mariam Mokhtar @ http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com
GE-13 is your possibility to stop the carve-up of the nation before there is zero left, upon that to reconstruct Malaysia.Mariam Mokhtar
Very couple of homes have the plumbing complement as efficient as Dr Mahathir Mohamad's memory, that can turn upon as well as off similar to the prohibited H2O tap.
On Febraury 25, Mahathir denied claims that he had shabby PETRONAS to award contracts to any of his children. He subsequently turned his madness upon Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim, his former Deputy, as well as accused him of nepotism as well as cronyism.
"Anwar Ibrahim accused me, as PETRONAS advisor, of having been involved in awarding PETRONAS contracts to my children. For Anwar, this is the normal use if he's in power. When he held the post of Deputy Prime Minister as well as Finance Minister, he awarded so most contracts to his domestic supporters as well as family members."
Are you to understand that Mahathir did not give his friends, Ananda Krishnan, Syed al-Bukhary as well as Vincent Tan the leg up in the commercial operation world of Malaysia?
Mahathir wrote in his blog that "The ministry, during an UMNO assembly, had presented the names of those awarded with contracts during his tenure. Included in the list were the names of Anwar's supporters as well as family members. None of my children's names were ever listed."
Why is Mahathir claiming the dignified tall belligerent now that his nightmarish legacy has been exposed? If the allegations have been true, why did he, as PM during th! e time, not put the stop to such practices?
Mahathir claimed that he was kept out of the preference creation process as well as pronounced that he only knew about the PETRONAS contracts after they had been awarded. He expressed his willingness to swear in the mosque as well as upon the Quran.
People should not slur the sacrament by irreverence upon the Quran. Swearing upon the Quran proves nothing. Only those without the demur would introduce such acts. Or was Mahathir simply playing to the crowd as well as appealing to the most elementary minded, regressive Muslims?
Soon after the Sabah Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) started, Mahathir told the press discussion that he had offering citizenship to bootleg immigrants in exchange for their voting rights.
The snub of the rakyat forced him in to the corner as well as he attempted to blame the Tunku Abdul Rahman. One of the criteria that the British imposed, in exchange for independence, was that all Malayans who were in the nation should be since citizenship.
Tunku did not give citizenship it for votes; Mahathir did. Tunku played by the rules; Mahathir observes no rules though instead invents them according to his whim.
Sociopathic disorder
Mahathir then attempted to blame Anwar for 'Project M', claiming that Anwar had acted upon his own. Everyone else, though Mahathir is responsible. Perhaps, this is the sign of the deep-seated sociopathic disorder.
Yesterday, the former ISA detainee as well as UMNO member, Siti Aminah Mahmud (left) told reporters that she had volunteered to help the late Sabah UMNO chief Mustapha Harun secure feat for UMNO in Sabah.
Mustapha had allegedly told her that he was ordered by Mahathir to emanate ICs to encampment chiefs throughout Sabah who would g! ive them to Filipinos as well as Indonesians.
According to Siti, papers were processed within the month after she had collected information as well as fingerprints from remote villages, where she would additionally distribute as well as collect forms for the National Registration Department.
Over the four year period, 1990 to 1994, she was infrequently in Sabah twice the week for this task as well as according to her, no reduction than half the million foreigners had been processed. Another unsettling detail was that zero of the 100 people with whom she worked, were NRD staff.
She said, "The areas with the highest numbers were Tawau, Sandakan, Lahad Datu as well as Kota Kinabalu, as well as areas during the Tawau-Indonesia border. Another area was Semporna. Many were since there since most Filipinos were there."
Today, the mess that Mahathir proposed has combined the nightmare for Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak; though Najib is out of his abyss as leader. His supervision deported one sole Australian senator, Nick Xenophon since he was "a threat to national security" though welcomed 100 armed as well as uniformed militants in to Sabah.
In his blog, Mahathir compared the diagnosis Xenophon perceived with the reception the accumulation of despots might embrace in America. He wrote "Incidentally President Mugabe of Zimbabwe as well as President Bashir of Sudan would be arrested if they were to revisit the US What happened to YB Xenophon of Australia is nothing."
Mugabe is Mahathir's good crony as well as they have most in usual democracy, fair fool around as well as probity have been not tall upon the list of their priorities. Bashir is wanted for crimes opposite humanity, violent death as well as war crimes, in Darfur. Who needs enemies with friends similar to Mugabe as well as Bashir?
Yesterday, the Sulu militants who have been holed-up in Lahad Datu dismissed notice shots. The wife of the Sulu Sultan claimed that the group were there for the picnic. Were th! ey sport game?
Lahad Datu takeover
PERKASA as well as the usual group who saunter about showing off their silat skills during UMNO conferences have been not often silent. Is it since the invaders have been Muslim as well as considered "friendly"?
Does this meant that Talibans or alternative militant Muslims from Africa or Yemen would additionally be acquire here? Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein looks comical, wearing wrap-around shades, peering through long lens binoculars. He looks similar to he is twitching (bird-watching).
The non-existent leadership of the Defence Minister, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, is explanation to UMNO Perak that he is not able of being Menteri Besar, the post he once coveted.
UMNO Ministers continually goes selling for expensive armaments, that the nation does not need. These armaments have been so expensive, since the arrogant commissions have been needed to account the UMNO election war-chest.
If you buy sophisticated weaponry, you must be prepared to spend the large amount of money upon gangling parts as well as maintenance. Unfortunately, you have the sundry arms depot from the multitude of countries. This presents the logistical nightmare to those who must say the weaponry.
On February 15, the lift in one of the 10 level apartment blocks during the Lumut naval bottom plunged to the belligerent murdering the housewife. If the lift can fail, despite most safety features, the upkeep of the weaponry will additionally have been slap-dash.
Perhaps, the miss of! ganglin g parts as well as upkeep prevented the state-of-the-art ships, submarines as well as jets from detecting the couple of speed boats in the Sulu "invasion".
Almost each alternative week, you hear of buildings as well as structures collapsing despite the reward price being charged for their construction.
GE-13 is your possibility to stop the carve-up of the nation before there is zero left, upon that to reconstruct Malaysia.
Mariam Mokhtar is the FMT columnist.
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