Mahathir forgets easily (I)
By Martin Jalleh
Recently, Dr Mahathir (Dr M) reminded the younger generation, who will one day lead the nation, not to be taken in by the subtle tactics of foreigners who want to bring about neo-colonialism in the country.
He said that “foreign forces would take advantage on the basis of globalisation and liberalisation to fulfil their agenda. We are now “faced with various challenges from abroad…(and) threats from blog sites”.
He was speaking at the Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad Statesman Discussion organised by the Special Affairs Department (Jasa) of the Ministry of Information Communication and Culture (Bernama, 27.03.10).
It was one amongst the many of Dr M’s anti-re-colonisation rhetoric. Once when he was in power (in reality, he still is!) he declared that the rakyat must ensure that the BN “is returned to power with a big majority in the next general election so that the nation will be ruled by a strong Government capable of standing against any attempt by foreign powers to re-colonise the country”.
Alas, Dr M forgets very easily these days. Re-colonisation had in fact taken place in 1981 when he became PM. He had donned the mantle of British supremacy and with his Executive supremacy even outdid the white colonial master in many ways during the 22 years that followed!
Dr M and his cohorts who once detested the oppressive laws of the British, brandished a gamut of harsh executive powers during his reign which were deeply and undeniably derivative of authoritarian colonialism.
Many laws left behind by the British were amended and made even more draconian to contain, cripple and crush legitimate dissent by citizens and the Opposition. There were countless examples of this.
British “propaganda” was replaced by a powerful broadcast media owned by the Government and allied companies, and regulated by the Broadcasting Act, 1987, which gives the Information Minister vast powers of control and manipulation.
The Sedition Act (1948) was a British law used to stifle Malay nationalists (especially those in UMNO, a party born two years before the Act came to be). The Act was amended and made use of by Dr for selective prosecution of political opponents and to protect UMNO.
The Internal Security Act (ISA) (1960), a relic of colonialism, meant to combat the then communists, was amended more than 20 times to make it more repressive than the original. Its powers were abused to protect the “security” of Umno. Known as ‘white terror’, the ISA was and is still used by Malaysians on Malaysians.
The Printing Presses and Publications Act (1984) originated from the Printing Press Act (1948). Amended in 1987 by Dr M’s regime to exclude judicial review of the Executive’s action vis-a-vis publications it served as a stranglehold on the press and opposition publications.
The Official Secrets Act (OSA) (1972) was based on the British OSA of 1911. Amended in 1986 to provide for mandatory jail sentences, Dr M used it to reinforce the cult of secrecy and to hide his many misdeeds. It resulted in self-censorship by the press.
The Police Act (1963) was amended in 1967, 1981 and 1987 to enhance the wide array of police powers, thus making the constitutional right of assembly absolutely “irrelevant”. The late Tunku Abdul Rahman died a disillusioned man on seeing his independent Malaysia reduced to, in his very own words, a “Police State” by Dr M.
Even the Special Branch was a creation of Britain in 1887. It was meant as a direct response to Irish anarchist terrorism. It was perfected by the Malaysian police to “trace”, threaten, torture and “turn over” political dissidents, an infamous fact glaringly highlighted during the first sodomy trial of Anwar Ibrahim whom Dr M was bent on getting rid of!
Every trick and treachery by Dr M during his 22 years as PM – “divide-and-rule”, purveying a “culture of fear” or creating a “siege mentality”, manipulating ethnic and religious fears, trotting out a bogey – were tools of British Colonialism. Now the supposed “Statesman” tells the young to be wary of re-colonisation!
Alas, how can UMNO “re-invent” itself when its leaders who were the once-oppressed have now become the oppressors? As it happened to the all-powerful supreme British Empire, the day will come when the sun will set on UMNO….
(30 March 2010)
What’s in a name? that which we call a snake
By any other name would smell as evil
People have to remember that Mahathir is NOT malay – in terms of spirit, values, he is definitely NOT Malay. He was more of a colonial master than the entire British empire ever was. The British whatever their exploitation may be, never polluted the souls and spirit of the Malays. Can’t say the same for Mahathir.
After the race-card and religion-card, Dr. Mahathir now wants to play the re-colonisation card.
Yes, indeed, the Malays n nonMalays colonised by an Indian-turned-Malay MMK
Enough is enough
Come GE13 may the People’s Power do its stuff
Vote in PR for the betterment of the nation
To liberate the people from the re-colonisation
To derail BN/Umno’s gravy train
For BN to become the opposition where it should remain
How not to re-colonise ?
The whole world is screaming “globalisation”, “transparency”, “competition”. UMNO has been told that if you listen to all these, you become irrelevant and you die. Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, the New Economic Model seeks to regenerate a new means of sucking money from the rakyat.
Globalisation will kill all the consumers of NEP drugs. It is nature’s way of attending the state of equlibrium. Bodohland is heading for self-destruction. Good-by in advance.
He has written this:
“Has Terrorism succeeded!”
http://chedet.co.cc/chedetblog/2010/03/has-terrorism-succeeded.html
Comment: yes and it’s jokingly a truth recently even in Malaysia!
“Alas, Dr M forgets very easily these days. Re-colonisation had in fact taken place in 1981 when he became PM. He had donned the mantle of British supremacy and with his Executive supremacy even outdid the white colonial master in many ways during the 22 years that followed!”
How very true…we are now colonised by a Kerala Mamak with INDIAN DNA….calling himself a MELAYU!!
Melayu have a flat nose lah, no?
In Bolehland, we have bunch of:
1) Mamathir, a disguised Malay
2) Bakkuthir, rip off business
3) Bakkuteh, delicious & authentic dish of Port Klang pork spare ribs
5) Satay, delicious & tasty skewers grill genuinely with spicy peanut sauces
6) Teh Tarik, genuine way to cool down hot tea…
7) Teh & Kopi, daily energizer
8) Teh Susu, typical tea with milk
9) Batik garments, typical Bolehland fashions..
10) Lorong Teh Ah Kau, name of small passageways
In fact, every BN/UMNO policy has been thiring badly with bunch of upside-downs. BN/UMNO has been thiring over decades, 22 years under Mamathir, still no enough!!!??? They still thiring us, rakyat, into their sh*t holes. They thir all our hard-earned $$$ into their pockets… They thir us so as to be billionaires and millionaires. Every multi-billion or million dollar project, they thir it apart with remarkable failures and exhaustible corruptions. They thir one project after another to become wealthy….
In Bolehland, you need to thir in order to be rich quick! Bolehland motto, “Who wants to be Billionaire or Millionaire? Join BN/UMNO to thir more money…. Whatever the government business is just thiring…
Ya! Apu-nana… Thir… thir… thir… Eventually, the entire nation would be thired apart badly bunch of suckers!!!!
Question is why the genuine melayu in the first place allowed and now still treating mamak with indian DNA to calling himself a melayu ? I think most of the top political and civil posts are held by melayu of some indian or pakistani DNA,right ? Look at Sabah and Sarawak,most of these so-called melayu manipulated the real melayu/bumis rights, taking the profits meant for them and are laughing all the way to the banks. Can the real melayu also accept any chinese ,KMD and dayak/Iban as “melayu” when he/she embraces Islam ?.
Tun Dr Mahathir, Tun Abdullah Badawi..Ling Liong Sik..Lim Kheng Yeik…Ong KT, Ong TK, Samy Vellu and many more had stepped down….our Beloved Statesman… Tun Dr. Mahathir stepped down as Prime Minister on October 31st 2003…People were happy during his 22-years as Prime Minister…Neither his son nor daughter in law held special positions in the cabinet/party while he was in power….Unlike, Penang CM who contested in Kota Melaka at a very young age (mid 20s)…. Mukhriz got the chance to contest when he was already 44 ……Obviously there was no short cut for him to excel…..It’s about time that LKS should stand for something valuable…resign from DAP and make way for liberal, tolerant and young leader to replace him…Do you think he still remember what happened during 1999 GE….
Sadly there r ppl so happy 2 b colonised by an Indian-turned-Malay MMK, who transformed his sons into billionaire n millionaire
Typical of classic colonists – divide n rule, squeeze dry d massses 2 enrich their own family members
Godfather, now that a large oil field has been found in the waters of this country, it is all the more important to ensure that UMNO/BN be removed from power.
Otherwise, we’ll have a re-run of Malaysia which ran for the last fifty over years!!!
Aging MMK has mellowed, he hoped MCA members will accept d erection of CSL as their president n put d sex scandal behind them
Wooh, what a liberal change of perception, semua pun boleh, M’sia boleh
cintanegara: “Tun Dr Mahathir, Tun Abdullah Badawi..Ling Liong Sik..Lim Kheng Yeik…Ong KT, Ong TK, Samy Vellu and many more had stepped down….”
Actually Ong TK was only voted out of his party’s presidency and has not totally retired yet.
As for Samy Vellu, he still (stubbornly) remains as his party president despite being voted out of his constituency in GE12…
cintanegara: “our Beloved Statesman… Tun Dr. Mahathir stepped down as Prime Minister on October 31st 2003…People were happy during his 22-years as Prime Minister…”
Not everyone was happy and that included the old doctor’s own nephew who criticised his own uncle in his book ‘The Unmaking Of Malaysia’… (mentioned this somewhere earlier)
cintanegara: “Neither his son nor daughter in law held special positions in the cabinet/party while he was in power….”
… when and if they had neither the interest nor the capability at that time…
cintanegara: “Unlike, Penang CM who contested in Kota Melaka at a very young age (mid 20s)…. Mukhriz got the chance to contest when he was already 44 ……Obviously there was no short cut for him to excel…..”
Some go into politics earlier, and some go in later, but it still does not rule out that the old doctor’s influence still carries weight although he’s no longer in office…
cintanegara: “It’s about time that LKS should stand for something valuable…resign from DAP and make way for liberal, tolerant and young leader to replace him…”
Isn’t YB LKS already making a stand for something politically valuable?
Is he going to simply let something like old age get in the way?
His old pal, Karpal, had not let being wheelchair-bound get in his way despite being sent death threats, or being tried for sedition, or being accosted and harassed by Umno Youth members within the compound of the Parliament building itself.
Shouldn’t LKS be left to decide for himself?
cintanegara: “Do you think he still remember what happened during 1999 GE….”
From the postings in his blog, YB LKS does not appear to have any memory problems…
Mahathir is the dirtiest….most corrupted….double headed snake..politicians you can ever get in Malaysia.
You can imagine what was Malaysia under him as PM….and on going…by Najib.
Mahathir is a racists……yet a MAMAK….proclaiming himself…shamelessly…Melayu…fighting for Melayu only.
There is no doubt in my mind…a vast majority of Malaysians ..including majority Muslims…hates the sight of him.
Face thick as an onion skin….and why not….he encouraged corruptions and love by those who are rich ….with no work done.
The issue is how many Malays really enjoy a good and rich life…under him through corruptions?
The fact is…Malays have become the haves and have not….and the ignored.
Whatever little goodwill and good report Tun M still enjoys with a small fraction of Malaysians is now totally incinerated in a combustion of his own doing with the fires of PERKASA. And now ‘what little good he has done will be interred with his bones’, to paraphrase Shakespeare, ‘the evil that he does will live after him’.
So sad, so very sad. Such a sorry end for a smart man who has lent his genius to evil machinations.
So sad, so very sad that his hypocrisy is now a stark-naked panorama before a watching Malaysian population, East and West.
So sad, so very sad that his legacy will now be consigned to the dustbins of history where worms devour and the stench is revoltingly repulsive.
Now no has-been like him should be dignified with further press and panegyric that he once manoeuvred to lift himself on a pedestal.
Now all the kings horses and all the kings men could not put humpty-dumpty together again.
The projects envisaged by the Mamak are the real colonizers of this nation. Everyone of them was designed to ensure the proponents would contniue to have a strangle hold on the average malaysians for more than a generation. the losses suffered through those hare-brain projects are part of the $500 billions mentioned by RPK. The PKFZ is only one; just look into PTP, Westports, Perwaja, Proton; all these are designed to burden the avaerage Malaysians whose majority are the Bumis. Dig into the records and you will find the real truth. Somehow , they seem rather satisfied being F….D by those means. I just wonder WHY???
He will soon be declared as the “Father of Destruction” after Bodohland is bankrutpted by his disciples.