The Future of Pakatan Rakyat

Is there a future for Pakatan Rakyat?

The results of the 12th General Election catapulted PR into instant prominence. It deprived BN of the 2/3 majority in the Parliament and dethroned BN in four States namely Penang, Perak, Selangor and Trengganu.

PR did not do too well in East Malaysia at that time. If it could secure half the Parliamentary seats at the next General Election and maintain its results in the above four States, BN power would be gravely undermined. It might even lose the corridor of Power.

Perak was rather unfortunate in that its power was usurped by BN through foul and unethical manoeuvring and buying over of three DAP MPs. The President of the Perak State Assembly was clearly kidnaped and locked up in a room nearby while the BN took the stage to overthrow the PR State Government. Despite the disputes were referred to the High Court, it was quite apparent that the judge(s) who heard the case(s) was/were obviously biased and did not interpret the laws and regulations governing the organisation and administration of the State Assemblies in the country.

The aftermath spoke of the ire and wrath of the Perakians after the usurpation. They will not so easily forget the foul play nor will they be too forgiving when it comes to politics. The Perakians will make sure that the BN will never see the light of day at the next general election.

How did PR perform in those States they govern? As far as Penang, Selangor and Kelantan are concerned, I must say they do pretty well given the time they took over the respective governments. I must give top marks to Penang seeing the social projects that it had introduced so far. Selangor is embroiled in tussles with the BN over Shabas take-over, interreligious disputes, defiling and torching of placews of worship, corruption cases etc. Kelantan is quite uneventful while nothing can be said at this point for Perak as it never really got started before the debacle came down hard on PR.

What can PR learn from the past two years concerning the candidates it fielded in the 12th GE and won. While many were excellent candidates in terms of contribution, hardwork and enthusiasm, there are some black sheep that have tarnished the image of PR. There are of course some turncoats and traitors who would sell their souls for money. Hence, the leadership must pay particular attention to selection of candidates for any federal and states elecdtions.

One glaring weakness within PR is volunteering too much of its plans and projects to to the public before they were finalised. They must discuss these matters secretly and ensure that the component parties are involved. All parties must agree to a certain plan of action before it is released to the public for its information.

Interparty dissension and disputes are likely to destroy PR. Hence all party leaders must take note that they do not go into the open to voice their disagreements. Disagreements and misunderstanding have to be thrashed out within the party. This strategy is important if PR is to survive the next election.

Future PR leaders must keep abreast with the social economic changes and adapt themselves thereto. The swing is towards a competent, accountable and transparent government that cares for the welfare and development of her human capital.

Best of luck to PR

UMNO Subjugation & Suppression Policy

Ever since the May 13, 1969 racial riot, Malaysia has never been the same. The aftermath saw the formation of the National Operation Council headed by our late PM Tun Abdul Razak who was then the Deputy PM to Allahyaham YAM Tunku Abdul Rahman.

When Tunku appeared on TV in the evening of 13 May, 1969, he was in tears when he announced that the racial riot had broken out. His dreams to turn Malaysia into a peaceful and harmonious country was completely shattered. Never did the Tunku at any point in time ever expect that a racial riot would happen or take place in the country. All the while he thought that the people and the leaders of the Alliance were happy, tolerant and were prepared in concert to work together towards a better tomorrow for the people's children and children's children. That was his main reason to struggle for Merdeka.

I remember a curfew was soon proclaimed. The military was having a field day shooting those who broke the curfew. Many innocent died and property was gutted in fire in and around Kampung Baru. Numerous vehicles were overturned and torched. Corpses were seen lying the streets around the Chow Kit and Ipoh Road area as well as spotted flowing down the Klang River.

An analysis of the cause of the riot was conducted and much blame was attributed to the opposition party for its unruly it over jubilant victory procession which provoked the Malays and those supporters for the Alliance Coalition.

The British colonialist was blamed for its divide and rule policy with respect to vocation - Malays relegated to the padi fields and farms, Indians to the mines and railways while the Chinese to the business sector. As a result, the Malays remain subjugated and impverished.

The NEP was propounded with a view to eradicate poverty and address the economic imbalance among the Malays. The objectives of the NEP were noble but somehow in the course of three decades or so, UMNO became avaricious and found out that wealth was so easily realised through the corruption path. They found that majority of the Malays were poor and were unable to compete with the other races. Hence, many give-away policies were fomulated to help the Malays succeed in business, in education, in loans and scholarships, in lowering the entrance criteria for entry into public universities, issuance of APs, conception of GLCs and secured control in practically all the sectors of business, industries, civil, police, military. para-military and essential service sectors. Then, the non-Malay organisations were forced to offer 30% of their corporate equities to the Malays; many of the government services were privatised into the hands of the UMNO cronies. In addition, projects were proffered to the Malays without tender being called. In an ruthless manner to address the corporate sector, successful non-Malay run companies and public companies were acquired through public funds.

While the above multi-pronged actions were taken, the UMNOputras made use of Islam to control the Malay masses by introducing policies to compel compliance through punitive intimidation. Meanwhile, the islamisation and malayisation processes came into play. Many unkoranic policies and practices were introduced so that many found little space for exercising their freedom and rights as enshrined int the constitution. This mainly caused many Malays who graduated from abroad to stay back and refuse to return to serve the Government. Many did not even pay back their loans.

UMNO now try at all cost to maintain and perpetuate its power base as long as it is possible to govern the country. It must have realised without which, the leaders and cronies will not be able to gain access into plundering, siphoning and squandering the country resources.

The NEP has failed miserably because UMNO has failed to implement the main thrust of the NEP fairly, objectively and equitably. There is nobody to blame except the standtofish and corrupt UMNO leadership.

Power. UMNO has, abuse of which is and has been profusely blatant to the point of corruption. It makes use of all GLCs and national resources to corrupt the Malay masses by giving them the impression that without UMNO, they would lose everything.

Now some of the UMNO lackeys are now advocating Ketuanan Melayu and calling the other races pendatang and trying to justify their legitimacy to be the princes of the soil and robbing the resources of the country at their whims and fancies. It relaxes the importation of Indonesians, Bangladeshis and those from the middle east countries by the millions with a view to dilute the demographic ratio of the non-malays in the country. There were granted PR and given the blue identity cards. This practice is indeed "traitorous" and "anti-national".

The only way out now for UMNO is to subjugate the opposition and those who support the opposition parties through the draconian ISA. Besides, they apply the suppression strategy to the Malays through stiffer religious regulations and practices to leave Islam. Besides, it makes apostasy a crime for all other religions attempting to convert muslims away from Islam.

Subjugation and suppression cannot last for long. The truth must come out and the people must be set free to determine their lives. UMNO will continue to suppress the non-Malays through its discrimatory social economic policies. It will continue to stall the thousands of non-Malay applications for citizenship and permanent residency status. They will continue to discriminate the non-Malays from pursuing their desired courses in the public universities, the award of scholarships or study loans, employment promotional prospect in the civil, police and miliary services, business opportunities and government projects. It will rather give the projects to foreign companies than to local non-Malay firms who have the capabilites and competencies.

Let us see what wil happen to UMNO. The people must be prepared to effect a change of government. Look at Penang, Kelantan and Selangor and see what the Pakatan Rakyat have acheived during their terms of office.

Let us gauge the PR performance before casting our votes wisely.

Who Are the Traitors or Anti-nationals

Recently FELDA performance and its financial reserves were questioned by the opposition members in the Parliament. The BN through UMNO did not admit that the Oil Palm Giant was not doing well. Its reserves have taken a serious dive. The PM took a swipe at the Opposition MPs and criticised them for questioning the financial position and performance of FELDA. Its reserve had substantially plummetted. But our PM was not prepared to admit the state of affairs of FELDA and maintained that it was doing well and that it was financially sound. He branded the critiques as traitors or anti-nationals.

I am not too sure whether the PM knew what he was talking about. I just wonder who were the traitors and or anti-nationals of the country. Those who exposed the position of FELDA or those who plundered and squandered the reserves of FELDA?

According to reports, FELDA reserved had dwindled down by as much as RM3 billion and coupled with the losses reported in Sime Darby, the total sum squandered came to RM5 billion. Should not those who are responsible directly and indirectly be held liable for 'the disappearance of such huge sum of money'. Should not the public have the right to know where the money had gone?

For such a huge sum of money to disappear in thin air, there must be personalities behind the alleged 'looting' which was akin and tantamount to a breach of fiduciary duty and trust.

Is what Malay supremacy all about? To shut the mouths of the non-Malays in the name and under the notional pretext of Malay special rights and privileges so that those leaders at the helm may be given a free hand to squander and plunder the national resources? There is no such right in the constitution that provides any political party or persons to abuse such privilege, trust and power to steal from the country's resources!

If this is not the underlying reason, then what is?

Let the pundits realise that to claim supreme over all the other races carries with it a great responsibility. Political leaders who were elected by the people of Malaysia owe them a great duty of trust. If they spurn this trust then they must be held liable and accountable for such serious breach. If need be, they must face the music and be prosecuted. All their unexplained wealth shall be confiscated and be channelled back to the public treasury.

If the MACC, Police, AG Chamaber and the Judiciary were to act according to their respective objectives and functions, they would be able to curb extremism and help the country to promote peace and harmony among the citizens of the country.

The traitors are also those who try to change history of the past so that the present and future generations may not know what had taken place in the past. Besides, they try to distort the cause of history and reinvent it to their favorable advantage. This will not help in nation building let alone foster the sense of belonging and national integration. Lies do not pay.

Please do not point the finger at the non-Malays. They are not the real traitors. The traitors are the UMNOputras who foment and continue to foment inter-racial and interreligious dissension and disharmony in the country so that they could achieve their evil and sinister policy and design of divide and rule.

In this way, they could exert their insiduous racial supremacy over the other tribes and races in the country. They must remember that this country does not belong to the Malays alone. Other races have a stake in the country as well.   Most of the the so-called Malays, mind you, are all pendatang attempting to milk the resources of the country. They are no different in background from the non-Malays who migrated here from the north and elsewhere.

To contain and check the evil design of UMNO/BN. let all non-Malays reject this evil UMNO design. Let us rally together and vote wisely and throw the extremists out of the State Assemblies as well as the Parliament. We all have a duty to save the nation from decadence and disintegration brought about by the selfish, avaricious, corrupt and ruthless UMNO putras who merely care about their own pockets and not those of the other races.

My Views on Malay Supremacy

This subject has been in the air for some years. Of late, there tends to be a proliferation of discussion and debate not only in the BN controlled media but also the blogsites of many bigotted politicians.

In my view those Malay who talk about supremacy of the Malays do not seem to know what they are talking about. They appear to have an inherent inferiority complex, lack of self confidence and self-reliance.

Those who are well educated and possess the necessary survival skills do not need to nor have the neecd to harp on Malay supremacy.

Many Malays that I know have great self-respect for themselves and they do and integrate well with the community in which they live. They talk rationally and sensibly and they have the necessary communication skills. Most of them have written and spoken proficiency of the Malay and Englsih languages. Some were able to master and carry themselves well in Mandarin.

By being successsful in society, that itself earns and assure them the supremacy of respect from the people they work and interact with. There is no need to demand for racial or ethnic supremacy. Racial supremacy should never be taken for granted. It is not something that is there. It has to be worked for. No civilisation was ever formed or founded on the premise of granted supremacy.

I read often the racist remarks of one Ibrahim Ali, obviously a notorious member of UMNO. But this bloke has been getting away from murder and and often escape detention under the ISA for making racialistically provocative statements that hurt the feeling of the non-Malays. This extremist ought to be stopped or else he would destroy what Najib stood for. And, he is indeed a misfit and an embarrassment to the BN Government. I am sad to say that at this juncture of social economic development in Malaysia, we have moronic leaders like Ibrahim Ali who tried to score points by arousing the rakyat. I just pray that the rakyat will show him the exit at the coming 13th General Election.

What more do the Malays want? They are in control of practicially all the essential ministries, agencies, civil service, armed forces, the police, the customs, the judiaciary, immigration, palm oil industry, banking, utility companies, every licensing authority, scholarship, entrance to public universities, GLCs and quasi-government bodies and many of the big corporate giants like Sime Darby, Guthrie, PNB, Dunlop, Golden Hope, Petronas, mining sector etc. What else is there left for the non-Malays.

For all the above resources that the Malays have amassed through UMNO, some of the leaders still insist they want more and even to the extent of asking the non-Malays to get lost from the country. What sort of leaders are these?

Majority of the non-Malays possess one thing in common; that is, their moral courage to survive, industry, ingenuity and positive attitude to succeed against all odds. This is what they make them supreme even though they are so blatantly being discriminated against in terms of business opportunities and every known human endeavours.

For sure they will never go around provoking their neighbours into hating one another. If the non-Malays who are so economically disadvantaged can pride themselves of their achievements and successes with heads high up, that itself is their satisfaction and fulfillment. Definitely, they do not surive on handouts!

Supremacy, they certainly do not need; but they will continue their utmost to contribute positively to the economic development and progress of the nation. The national success is their pride of achievement.

Given the opportunities and help from the Government, they will even attain greater heights. Try them if you so will.

So extremists, please do not harp on Malay supremacy. It is a slogan that shows the avaricious and simpletonical tendency and character of the Malay race, if there is one.

Your supremacy will manifest if only you attain your success through your own efforts and not through bail-outs, corruption, abuse of power by resorting to political persecution of the opposition members.

Malay First, Malaysian Second

Tan Sri Muyiddin ought to be taken out of the cabinet and be stripped of his position as the Deputy Prime Minister for not complying with the express 1 Malaysia policy enunciated by our PM Datuk Seri Najib.

No sooner had the 1 Malaysia concept announced by Najib than Muyiddin surprised the nation by uttering that he considered himself a Malay first and Malaysian second. He must be an embarrassment to Najib.

The most astounding part was that Najib accepted and agreed to the explanation of Muyiddin! I believe deep inside his heart Najib might want to strangle Muyiddin alive if he ever had a chance for throwing a spanner into his long term political strategy of winning the lost Malay and Non-Malay support and votes.

By uttering such a racist remark, Muyiddin merely showed not only his shallowness in his foresight but also his political immaturity and imbecility. Such racist remark at this juncture might cause the UMNO and BN to suffer the consequences in the coming 13th General Election.

For Malaysia to move forward, politicians have to change their mind set and paradigm. They have to revisit their past and existing socio-economic policies and examine their relevance in present days' context. If they fail to do that, then I foresee that they will be doomed and vaporised in the next election.

The Government of the day must ensure that there is justice in her administration and ensure that the citizens be given fair treatment in all respects.

It must be realised that the country belongs to each and every citizen of the country. The resources must be shared fairly and equitalbly among the several races and tribes in the country. Discrimination must be avoided if the government wishes to see a favorable wind of change blowing in her direction.

Majority of the people feel that they are capable to compete on their own feet. They do not need economic clutches anymore. By continuing to spoonfeed the Malay masses, the Government is not going to help them toward competing in a global market.
Ultimately, more and more people of Malaysia will suffer at the avaricious hands of the few politicians at the top.

Petronas can no longer hide its profits under the skirt of the PM. The citizens have a right to know where its profits go. All the revenues and profits of GLCs must be accounted for to the public. The profits must be plowed back for the benefit and welfare of the masses.

Another sore point is the lack of transparency of the UMNO/BN leaders. A lot of money has been channeled out into the pockets of some top leaders through over-pricing of projects, unaccounted give-away and overseas investments!

Don't anyone ever think that the masses are still sleeping. Many are just controlling themselves until the appropriate time when they will initiate actions and their plans that will surprise many of the UMNOputras. And the day is nigh when UMNO and BN coalition will disappear from the political scene.

The recent suspension of the four MPs merely indicates that the BN government is very intolerant of the opposition's criticisms. The sensible questions to be addressed should be:

1) Did the UMNO/BN Government actually engage an international Israeli PR company
to come out with the 1 Malaysia Policy?

2) Was the 1 Malaysia concept patterned alongside the 1 Israel concept?

3) If so, why did the Malaysian Government engage that Israeli firm to undertake
the task of formulating the 1 Malaysia concept?

4) Even if it was so, was it wrong to admit that the Government did engage the
Israeli firm to undertake the project?

An admission would have solved all the problem and put the opposition criticisms to rest. So there is no necessary to waste the precious Parliament's time and subject the four MPs to disciplinary actions and supension for six months.

Water Cannons and Tear Gas Grenades

Last Sunday 5 December 2010 saw the quiet demonstration staged by concerned Selangorians near the National Mosque and the old Railway Station against the heartless and exorbitant water tariff increases proposed by Syabas, a private company which took over the Selangor State's Water Authority a couple of years back.

Many people protested against the privatisation of the Selangor Water Authority then but it just went into deaf ears of the UMNO/BN putras who were more interested in lining their own pockets rather than trying to save for the low income rakyat.

In my view, the tariff rates are already high considering the muddy and filty water that comes out of our taps at home or office. In my office, I pay a flat rate of RM39.00 per month even though I use less than 3 units of water a month. The rate is indeed monstrously high and beyond any rationale.

Syabas has not perfomred a syabas duty to the people of Selangor. In the first instance, such essential utility should never be privatised.But because of greed, our Tun MM went ahead against all odds to get the water department privatised - this is indeed a great travesty of justice to the people of Selangor. Many of their children will not forget his great name even when he is gone for this sinister decision of his. He will not die in peace nor with a peace of mind.

The people of Selangor have every right to access the YDP for his assistance and attention to the great injustice against his subjects. But instead the peaceful demonstrators were greeted with water cannon and tear gas bombs being hurled at them. The commotion was caused and of course the blame was attributed to the opposition parties.

This high-handed action of the Federal Reserve Unit and Police Force ought to be condemned. If the people having a deeply-seated grievance cannot ventilate it in the public, what can they do? Keep mum, envelope it within his heart and pray that the problem will hope against hope go away the next day?

These are really guys with cow dung in their heads. They do not have brains and therefore cannot think between right and wrong. They have been reduced to humanoids.

The Selangor Government is not happy with the way Syabas is milking the people of Selangor. It wants to take back the water administration from the private company created by the UMNO/BN putras to enrich themselves.

If I may say so, all the GLCs and the privatised companies are now legally transformed into vehicles to siphon out their revenue for their own use. Through this means, they have milked billions of ringgits from the people of Malaysia.

Hence, the people of Malaysia must wake up and do their duty to vote wisely at the coming 13th general election. Every citizen who has a concern and love for the ccuntry must do his or her part in voting the UMNO/BN coalition out of the Parliament and State Assemblies.

We must effect a wind of change that is so tsunamic that it will efface the UMNO and MN from the surface of our motherland.

Sign of Weakness

I am surprised as well as flabbergasted at the way our PM warned the attendees of the BN Convention last weekend and stirring up the UMNO ruffians to protect at all cost Putrajaya from falling into the hands of the Pakatan Rakyat in the coming general election.

Our Najib must realise that BN brand of politic is no longer working well in the country because it had injured and will continue to injure the non-Malays who put in so much efforts in contributing toward builing up the country to find that they are not getting the benefits from their hard labour. Instead they are being derogated as pendatang, disloyal elements and ingratiates.

The non-Malays have been very patient during the past three decades by not fighting for their rights and privileges as citizens of the country. They sacrificed for their Malay brethren and sisters who enjoyed preferential treatment from the Government departments and agencies who deliberately distorted the constitution and policy of the Government in their enforcement which discriminated against the non-Malays children in terms of scholarship, being offered preferred courses in local universities, education loans and business opportunities.

As I said before I cannot bring myself to trust those leaders with three pointed eyes. This featural characteristic speaks volumes of the type of person our PM is - cannot be trusted and relied upon.

Why should our PM worried about the outcome of the coming general election. The election commission has been gerrymandering for the UMNO/BN parties for all these years by coming out with ridiculous policies in connection with the election machinery. First to go must in my opionion is the postal votes, which much be abolished. All those in the police, armed forces or para-military organisations must serve notice to the Election Commission of the change of addresses. They shall after the notification be obliged to vote at the consituacy nearist to their camp or place of abode.

I cannot fathom why our PM is feeling so diffident that Putrajaya would lose out to the Opposition! He has no confidence at all as to the prospect of UMNO and BN. The power of the people will get rid of them through the ballot and not the barrel.

BY uttering rubbish and expecting the rakyat to accept it is too presumptious and make him look like an ass. Why should he worry whether PKR or DAP or PAS takes control of Putrajaya. Is not Putrajaya being built from taxes of the people and resources of the country.

The PM must realise that Putrajaya belongs to the people and not the Malay along. The PM utterance merely display and reveal his insincerity, childishness and intellectual bankrupcy. He just does not seem to know the sense of time.

We need to tell the UMNO/BN scumbags that we mean business. We need a change of Government so that to prevent and arrest the process of rot taking place before our eyes.

Unless we do this, we will end up as the losers. Tell UMNO/BN, "enough is enough."

Cow Dung In The Brain

For a minister in the Prime Minister's Department, Dato' Nazri to describe those leaders advocating for "Ketuanan Melayu" or "Malay Supremacy" as having cow dung in their head was certainly unprecedented. The outburst was indeed hard hitting, provocative and inflammatory. He further criticised these extremists for not knowing what they were uttering about.

The term Malay Supremacy refers to the head of states - the sultans in particular. By fighting for Malay Supremacy that they are actually and indirecty fighting to perpetuate the status quo of the Malay Rulers of certain states in the country.

The New Economy Policy which was aimed at elevating the status of the Malays and Bumiputras back fired. The policy was supposed to eradicate the general poverty among the poor and to ensure equitable distribution of wealth among the people of Malaysia, but somehow unfortunately though after three decades, the Malays still remain backward. It benefited only the handful of UMNO sycophantic cronies.

After the last general election, UMNO and BN undertook to reassess the impact of the NEP, identify the weaknesses and formulate a new policy to please the masses. They came out with the New Economic Model (NEM) which is aimed at transforming the country into a high income economy such that the average income of the general factory worker may be raised from RM700.00 as high as RM3000.00 per month or RM36,000.00 per annum.

To raise the average income of the worker from RM700.00 to RM3000.00 per month is not going to be an easy task. How is the Government going to increase the income level if she is not making an effort to raise the standard of college and university education? Is the Government going to continue her free distribution of the national resources to these UMNOputras?

The manufacturing processes have to be replaced by modern and better machineries that are capable of increasing productive capacities. With high technological advancement, we may attain this goal.

Perhaps we may need to pull bigoted guys like Ibrahim Ali behind bars under the ISA, otherwise we will never be able to achieve the NEM objectives.

Success in human development and national advancement depends on the hardwork of every citizen where wealth, skills and knowledge acquisition is concerned. Spoonfeeding has proven to be a failure during the past three decades. To move forward, the country must face reality of the day. UMNO cannot hijack the country resources for the Malays only through the gradual islamisation process.

We need a Government of integrity that is founded on competence, accountability and transparency in managing the country incorruptibily, fairly and efficiently.