What is our Ex-PM Doing

Our Ex-PM Tun Dr Mahathir Mohd is doing our country a great disservice. He is becoming more racialistic than when he was the premier of Malaysia.

Look at what he had done for the Malays through the unjust and unfair implementation of the NEP. Is he proud to see his countrymen who have been 'lamed' by the serious dependency mentality that he had successfully created by his selfish attitude of subjugating the Malays at the expense of the non-Malays during his regime that lasted more than two decades.

When I looked back, I felt that our Tun was not really helping the Malay masses. First he must bear in mind that he can never erase his roots as an Indian. He said that he is now a Malay and not a Mamak in accordance with the Constitution which he craftily amended to achieve his own ulterior motive. The other hidden and hideous motive for the amendment is to legalise all the pendatangs as Malays so as to deliberately increase the percentage of the Malay population so as to perpetuate his power craze and avarice.

Why are we still dividing the people who have fought for independence together, the communists, the Japanese invaders and worked hard for the progress and economic development of the country?

We should be proud to call ourselves as Malaysians rather than Malays, Chinese, Kadazans, Muruts or Dayaks. We should not discard the habit or practice of identifying ourselves as Malaysian Malay, Malaysian Chinese or Malaysian Indian.

The BN/UMNO Government introduced the NEP to eradicate poverty of all the races regardless of race and to eliminate identification of race with their vocations. But obviously, they have miserably failed. Instead, they have created a Frankenstein race out of their greed for power and their impatience for getting rich through grafts and without having to work hard for it.

Tun had served his term and he was one PM who had served the country for more than two decades. He retired in the nick of time when the majority of the citizens in the country was against his excesses, dictatorial leadership and high degree of intolerance for any threat to his premiership. Although he had contributed to the nation infrastructurally, he had also made many socio-economic blunders. He created the GLCs in an attempt to create entrepreneurs out of the Malays by continuing to bail them out with interminable fund injection when they failed and sustained losses. He plundered the EPF, the workers' sweat, to boost up the tin price and lost miserably as a result and put a death knell on the tin-mining indusstry. Besides, he abused his power to make use of Petronas's funds to build the twin towers and Putrajaya and rescuing the illing and mal-managed MAS.

In trying to bring about literacy amongst the Malays, he created a chasm and schism between the Malays and the non-Malays by depriving the latter of scholarships even though they were more than qualified and from pursuing their desired courses for which they applied. As such many non-Malay parents have to work extremely hard to enrol them in private colleges and universities.

In terms of employment within the public sector, the non-Malays have been discriminated against in terms of promotions. As such many were so disenchanted that they left the civil, police and military services. Tun was most successful in creating a highly bloated civil service which comprises almost 95% Malays who are mostly incompetent, lackadaisical and inefficient besides being corrupt.

The country has reached a danger level - being high on the corruption index, low in the tertiary education standards, high on the unemployed and unemployable graduates, low in their productivity index etc. Besides, the UMNO/BN coalition is tolerating the thousands and millions of foreign workers from 3rd world countries from whom we cannnot emulate or learn to improve our way of life or work habits or work skills. We are now being influenced by these people who will soon with the corrupt and nonchalent DBKL officers displace the locals into the woods. Look at Jalan Majid India, Chow Kit Road area, Petaling Streets and all the food courts. Please look at the racial displacement of the locals from the agricultural, industrial and construction sectors. What is the percentage of locals being employed in these sectors? Tun must bear responsibility for this social engineering blunder in an attempt to create a master Malay race with a serious clutch and dependency mentality for hand-out

Religion is like opium for the soul. An over-emphasis will stiffle interlectual growth and national growth. Look at what the religious bodies are doing - coming out with stifling fatwas that contribute to negative and unproductive human performance. The Malays are at the cross-road of a dilemma according to the pontifications of Syed Ali in his book, "Things in Common".

Tun if I may advise, you should act and behave like a elder statesman rather than behaving like one fanning the racial hatred of one race against the other. Give a chance to the present PM to develop his own style of leadership which is being stymied by your constant and controversial political rhetorics.

Can you be more positive for the country sake?