Mr Lee Kuan Yew had a vision for Malaysia and most of you Malays will say, how dare he take upon himself to have a vision for Malaysia ? Who is LKY ? This is really the wrong attitude because at that time LKY was a Malaysian Chinese and as a Malaysian he had every right to want the best for Malaysia. My opinion is that the attitude of the Malays is at the root of all the evil that has befallen them; you Malays want to believe that you are bigger and better than what you actually are. What is so great for the Malays to think of themselves as superior to all the other races ? Do we Chinese & Indians clamor for “SPECIAL PRIVILEGES” absolutely not, as a matter of fact special privileges are the needs of the HANDICAPED; in Australia only the aboriginals enjoy government privileges and exactly just like you Malays, they never ever STOP ASKING FOR MORE. This is the culture of dependency, the hand out are never enough. If our founding fathers had LKY’s vision and Singapore & Malaysia are one nation, then today’s Malaysia will be able to stand on their “hinny” as a developed nation and have a standard of living that is today EVEN HIGHER THAN THAT OF AUSTRALIA. Why do you therefore criticize LKY ?

Instead you Malays went the easy way and grabbed with all hands the way of Special Privileges and today Malaysia is just Eh..Eh.. 3rd world. Hey ! Hisshamuddin you can wave your Kris all you like that act of childishness was one of the defining act that drowned the fortunes of the BN. Even your UMNO people found your actions repulsive ! I believe it was an act of God that imprinted your image of a CRAZED UMNO FANATIC that seared into the minds of the voters. HEY ! Hishamuddin you look the image of that NAZI poster boy.

There is no denying that race politics has great appeal to the political scoundrel world over, but to those who find it convenient to practice it and Malaysia is just such a country, let them bear in mind that such practices anathema to the rest of the developed world and that eventually the world will reject them as uncouth and uncivilized; but then what do the Malays care because as a nation you Malays are impervious to insults and scorn. In this context, I like to quote an example from a programme aired by our Australia SBS TV. It was an undercover TV investigation into the Hindoo slaughter of a village of Muslims in the state of UTTARPREDESH; more than 200 Muslims were butchered by their neighbours of Hindoos. The police denied any knowledge that it happened, so did the Chief Minister of the state, and even the leaders of the criminal perpetrators confessed inadvertently on TV had denied it. The complicity involved all the hindoos at every level of government. This was so disgusting that I just turned the TV off. It reminded me of my own experience in my dealing with a judge who illegally buried my wife’s petition in the graveyard of the appeal process, while there was nothing that could justify the criminal behavior of this judge. I will come to KL to expose after the Beijing Olympics. THIS IS WHAT MALAYSIA IS ALL ABOUT, NO ETHICS, NO MORALS, AND WORST OF ALL NO KNOWLEDGE.

S’pore’s founding history has proved otherwise! The history of his manipulations with the Chinese Socialists & the closing down of the (old) Nanyang University, contributed by the Chinese Malayan publics, were cases to be noted.

LKY was/is a political screwball - one with only ONE vision - & bulldozed THAT vision through-&-through by all means.

That vision is what HE himself & only himself considered is right, period! The only ‘unfortunate’ thing about that vision is that HE has been proved RIGHT!

His early version of Malaysia for Malaysian & the subsequent founding of S’pore bear witness to this character.

The part of the ” Lee Kuan Yew attributes Singapore’s success to “superior” Confucian values,..” is again an art to play along with the political wind.

Just remember that during that time interval ” Confucian values ” are the talks of the political circuits around the world. Japan, S Korea, Taiwan & S’pore are all in the prime of economical wealths, though NOT in political senses! The only thing that THESE countries share is this ” Confucian values “!

How much ‘Chineseness’ can one attributes to Japanese & S Korean? Just talk to these two country’s citizen will bring out the truth! So where’s superiority of ‘this Chinese race’?

LKY played along with the trend to bring the relevancy of S’pore into the worldwide economic picture - so that S’pore remains on the radar of the investments from the West!

To LKY S’pore is EVERYTHING, period.

Dr Bakri has been played by the sub-consciousness of the Malay. To be more correct ALL Malaysian Malay has this particular dislike of LKY, whether logically or illogically! To the Malaysian Malay LKY is a born enemy of the race, period. AND this has somehow spilled over to DAP, with the help of umno bigots.

Hopefully with the new generation of Malaysian, after GE12, the Malay Malaysian will get over this inherent phobia.

What LKY did, do & say are S’pore’s issues. Malaysian should look toward that as pieces of comments by an outsider.

We’re Malaysian & if it so happened that LKY is a Chinese by race, so what? He was part of the Malaysia history, so what?

Be focus & aim at the right directions for the country to move forward. Dont be boggled down by the old issues of race & religion.

As it is, Malaysia is losing regional economic developments with an alarming pace, with the like of Vietnam & Thailand catching up fast. Or are we at the end of the day still going to play the successes of these two late comers for their ‘Chinesesness’?

I believe in one wise and ancient saying that nothing comes from nothing; and no matter how clever you are you just cannot pump up hot air and expect it to remain the same all the time, what goes up must eventually come down. The BN government have for the last 50 years been about shaving off a percentage of all government generated contracts and franchises for their own selfish benefit; I would go as far as to say that about 25% of all government contracts have been shaved off and pass on as waste due to corruption. Grandiose projects are thought up that are not of any urgency or requirement are implemented merely because the bigger they are the more the politicians can shave off for themselves. Looking at the second bridge project for Penang I can only say that this is another white elephant that will costs the state several billion ringgit and the shave off will make another crony very rich.

I have been back to KL and the huge highway that runs through KL to Penang must have costs several billions, and from my observation there is no urgency for such a huge project, Penang is a sea port and Penang could have a first class air-port to improve much needed infrastructure, but instead you plan to put in a billion dollar second bridge project; where is the need for such a project ?

In KL the hugely expensive FREEWAY does not merit the expenditure because it has not loosened up traffic at all, there are still very long traffic chock points that were there before the highway was put in use as it is now when it is in use. These projects were built merely to benefit those in power. To give them the opportunity to collect toll and to shave off a percentage of the contract sum. The BN government has wasted billions upon billions over the past 50 years. Compare the returns on investment between Singapore and Malaysia and you can see what they have and how they have put their investment dollars to good use. Malaysia wasted their billions upon billions of their ringgit merely to profit a few in the government. While Singapore has invested billions of dollars towards building up one of the world’s finest educational system and a world renown R & D facilities, Malaysia is still “clomping” along at bullock-cart speed; there is just no comparison, a case of cheese and chalk. Singapore has catapulted into the front ranks of a 21st century economy, while Malaysia is still chugging along at a leisurely “kampong” pace.

I have forever said that Malaysia had the good fortune to discover oil at the time that I left Malaysia, and that discovery of oil saved Malaysia from becoming a case of a SUDAN OR AFGHANISTAN. Malaysia has no manufacturing to speak off. What is passed off as manufacturing in Malaysia is nothing more than mere assembly of discarded Japanese technology as eg. The assembly of the Mitsubishi that passes for the Proton. Yes Malaysia bought the British Lotus and what profitability has it generated ? Look at the Malaysian icon of cheap flights, like Asia Airlines a success story, but it was bought by Fernandes for 1 ringgit and turned around. The Malaysian government lost billions in that project only to be turned around by a non Malay. There are hundreds of other similar examples, that proves the rule that AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IS A WASTE OF SCARCE RESOURCES; it did not really benefit the Malays because all the projects that were supported by Affirmative action went into huge losses and they did not benefit Malaysia in any meaningful way.

The Malays ought to by now at least by trial and error, realize that it takes a certain type of individual to become an entrepreneur and one can say by a rule of thump that a Malay is not likely to be one.

Penang is an excellent test bed for Malaysia (and by that I mean the BN government) to find a more effective model for development than just sticking to a failed model that is hooked on affirmative action that has gone on for the last 50 years. I agree with DAP that the NEP needs to be scraped because Penang is mainly Chinese, may I guess about 75% Chinese ? Therefore, 75% of the population will not need affirmative action (are there 25% Malays in Penang ? ) In the case of Penang therefore, may I suggest that CM Lim Guan Eng need not take any step back from what he has declared, that he will scrap the NEP(I think he will scrap it too ). My suggestion is for the CM to implement a public announcement of all the good stuff eg. Government contracts up for tender and scholarships and jobs in government.
My suggestion is that if qualified Malays win any government contracts by fair tender then government assistance may be available to the successful Malay contractor to complete the project. This model is built on the foundation that merit is the basis of success and that if the Malay candidate has merit but not sufficient means to complete his project, the government will render assistance to him. This system will therefore remove the “Malay Sultan syndrome”; the Chinese dubbed this the Malai Wong system, whereby the China-man enlist a Malay as the chairman and under his name takes on a government contract and pays off the Malay chairman a percentage of the contract but the whole project is managed by the Chinese. This system has gone on ever since the first days of Merdeka and it is the greatest indictment of the failure of Malaysia’s failed affirmative action. Let us be blunt about it, if the Malay is not able or qualified to take the job then where is the common sense for taking him on ? His inadequacy only blow up the costs of the project and this has gone on forever.

I can say that I speak for most Chinese that we do not object and for that matter we had never ever objected to a fair and equitably administered affirmative action, meaning that this assistance are given justly to deserving cases of Malays who need assistances to progress. We Chinese only object to the wastage brought on by nepotism and corruption. If affirmative action only benefits an elite then the Malays will never progress to the point when they will not need any assistance. This is our objection. That being the case CM Lim can experiment with a system that will ultimately create a class of Malay entrepreneurs that will draw level with the other races. What CM Lim has said is just common sense and good thinking. We Chinese do not need any affirmative action.

On the issue of the award of scholarships and government jobs, if I remember rightly, there is provision in the original Malaysian Constitution that mandates a ratio of 3 : 1 in other words, a 25% places reserved for non-Malays; but this provision had been perverted by those administer the government to give ALL THE PLACES to the Malays. All we need do is to revert to the original Malaysian Constitution and enforce that provision according to the law. We need to name the successful candidates in the press, like the publication of the HSC results. Who are the Malays and who are the non-Malays to show transparency and just administration of the required affirmative action. I believe that transparency is the key and it applies even in the case of the Malays.

If you want to have a better future for our children in Malaysia, do your part by signing the on-line petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/RCER2008/petition.html

This is one of the way (non-violence) to bring our message to the Government.

Don’t just sit there, stand up and be counted!

Why do we need to reform the Election Commission?

1) Gerrymandering. The discrepancy between number of voters in voting areas is too great. The smallest parliamentary seat (Federal Territory, Putrajaya) has only 6,608 voters while the parliamentary seat for Kapar in Selangor has 112,224 voters. What this means is that one vote in the Putrajaya parliamentary constituency is equivalent to 17 votes in the Kapar constituency.

2) Phantom voters. A common tactic is to ‘buy’ the identity card of the voters. Party members from the ruling parties will then vote on the voters’ behalf. Random checking of a person’s identity must be conducted using those finger print checking device (like the bank use). Any voting done on another person’s identity must be made a serious offence under the election law.

3) Postal votes. The rules on postal voting must be reviewed, tightened and amended. The current rule favours the ruling party as the armed forces personnel and policemen who vote by ‘postal voting’ would obviously not jeopardize their career or promotion prospect by voting for the opposition. Voting under postal voting is not secret as it is under the watchful eyes of the senior officers. Christina Liew of DAP (Api-Api) lost due to postal votes. The ruling party has control of 250,000 postal votes!

4) Spoiled votes. How do we define spoiled votes. It is very easy to turn good votes into spoiled votes (by adding one more x to the ballot paper). Are spoiled votes being verified and watched over by the party representatives? In marginal areas in which the winning margin is razor thin, the so-called spoiled votes need to be scrutinized.