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Friday 29 June 2012

UMNO's con-porate game and KKK Politics


We shall refrain from jumping the gun to make an analysis of the FGV listing. It’s too early. But usually the shape of things to come would have been settled in the first few hours after the bell rung. The margin will likely settle between 50 sen to RM1.00. 
The bell tolled sweetly for the market players, but will be sounding bitter for FELDA settlers and FELDA workers. It’s CEO, the man who lost RM 120 million when he was heading Golden Hope, said, it was not bad. If he holds 2 million shares, of course it is not bad. If he had unloaded his stock yesterday, he would have pocketed RM RM1.6 million. The FELDA settler- holder of 810 shares, got a little under RM 500. 
Not bad for the CEO, horrifying for the person who was jumping up and down 2 weeks ago, insisting that Najib is a messiah. Never in the history of Malaysia, has so many accolades given to one man in so short a time. But the greatest description that will forever stick to him will read- here lies Optimus Prime, the great Malaysian Transformer. 
Now even FELDA is the new transformation instrument!
After 56 years of toiling the soil, each FELDA settler ends up making around RM 500, while the bloodsuckers and leeches riding on their backs and butt ramming them, made big money. For every 100,000 shares, the owners made around 85,000. The suited jerk with 1 million shares who unloaded them in a flash yesterday, made RM 850k. That guy would have probably sashayed into one of the exclusive clubs in KL yesterday, opened up his Dom Perignon, Chateau Margaux or Chateau Petrus to wash down his wagyu beef. Those who unloaded their 50,000 shares made RM40k plus, feasted on Satay Kajang with teh tarik but will claim they are dining at Shahrizat’s meatworks. 
The people showing childish exuberance at the stock exchange yesterday, making hand gestures `urging’ the FGV stock to rise, were, as we can guess NOT FELDA folks. They were all dressed in their finest suits. Their ladies and consorts bedecked with jewelry up to the armpits. But that would be ok- because why can’t Malay ladies adorn themselves with the finest of jewelries if the Chinese nyonyas can? Moreover, they have saved money from when they were infants, knowing when they get older and fatter, they want to order diamond rings from Messrs. Jacob of New York. 
Those making money were all those who bought or were given large quantity of FGV stocks. They were not even `linked’ to FELDA people in any way. Mukhriz Mahathir was busy last week allocating huge chunks of FGV stock to cronies. He will collect later when making a bid for higher positions in the UMNO hierarchy.

The Najib camp is aware that the knives and meat cleavers are already sharpened for him. This is the kind of thing that he is most aware of- because the UMNO world is a world full of plots and counter plots. They are only good at scheming and evil machinations. 
The recent outburst by Herr oberleutnant (senior lieutenant) Mohamad Abdul Aziz from Sri Gading division of the United Munafik National Organization must not be seen as an isolated incident. Although of his own making, it’s the type of mental premature ejaculations typical of UMNO drones. DAP is not responsible for this oberleutnant’s stupidity. 
The chickens have finally come home to roost. Now we know what stuff is UMNO made of. The true character of a person and in this case, an organization is revealed in times of difficulty. UMNO is in such troubled times, the worms are coming out of the woodwork. UMNO has never had to resort and stooped to the lowest of street politics.  It’s an indicator of the quality of people who has risen within the corrupt system of UMNO.
I thought it has degenerated into a lowly peddler of smut VCD or the installer of hidden cameras inside toilets; I was wrong- it has gone from bad to worse. It has whored itself!
Already, it has consorted itself to shadowy organizations such as Perkasa and Pekida and associated itself to various martial groups. It’s behaving like a whore that it is.  To the drowning person, a piece of floating vegetation is a life-saver. UMNO hangs on to every avenue it thinks can save the party. 
The UMNO president or perhaps we may now have to call him the Imperial Wizard has gone to grace a hovel in Keningau, Sabah.   Under normal times, the dwelling would only merit some cursory attention from the welfare officer; but this time, the big Kahuna of the chief welfare officer has come to town. He wants to showcase his visit to the hovel as his absolute commitment to raising the welfare of people. In other words, in Sabah the land of the instantly minted Malaysian citizens, he does a very desperate attempt to show that he is a man of the people. 
You know that he is so farcical when he has to even officiate the opening of a public toilet in Kampung Ubai in Pekan.  
He is all things to all people. His bizarre quietness over the paranoid reaction of certain Malaysians over the alleged involvement of some Singapore diplomats as observers to the Bersih 3.0 event and his equally muffled stance when extreme Malay elements called for the hanging of Ambiga, demonstrate that he wants to secure also the allegiance of right wing extremists in his party. He will do anything to cling on to power and will even do a Dr Faustus.  
Sometimes the expression when the rubber hits the road, the true character of a person is revealed is used. Her Oberleutnant Mohamed Abdul Aziz must be a distinguished member of the KKK- Malaysian chapter. With the hang Ambiga incident, he has now revealed himself from being an officer in the Malaysian Nazi Party to some office bearer in the KKK-Malaysian Chapter. 
We do not yet know what position he occupies after the Imperial Wizard. He may be the Imperial Kludd or chaplain or the Imperial Kaliff or just a recruiter to UMNO’s true brand of right wing politics. Or he may be a Kligrapp, the secretary who articulates the beliefs of his Klansmen. Indeed he may be one when he suggested Amibiga be hanged. 
Today Ambiga, tomorrow it could be anyone of us- Malays, Chinese and Indians or anyone who stands opposite UMNO’s king and country. Let all Malaysian Indians in Malaysia cast UMNO out of their system.
You have to give it to the UMNO people- the scum finally surfaces to the top. The pattern finally emerges- those bigots and empty headed windbags are finally overwhelming the sane UMNO members. 
The best thing to do for the UMNO laymen is to abandon these bigots and cerebrally challenged people and migrate over to the enlightened side.  UMNO is fast becoming the homegrown version of the KKK which is out to lynch those who have different ideas and opposing views. This serves to prove once and for all, the intolerance and bigotry of UMNO itself. 
What are we to make of UMNO when its leadership is bereft of people with quality including the greatest flip-flopper of them all- the UMNO president? There’s not a squeak from him when a member of his Klan asked for the lynching of Ambiga. 
So the man who thinks he can say with impunity `let’s hang Ambiga’ without others noticing it, is gravely mistaken. This isn’t a case of a simple faux pas- it’s a calculated statement that has exposed UMNO’s inherent right wing racism. It’s the racism reminiscent of the KKK going after Negroes to hang them. 
What are we to do with this kind of people? It’s best to leave them to their own devices. Otherwise, we will contract the same mental disease if we engage them. Don’t agree? Retract their citizenship! Don’t agree? Hang them! Don’t agree? Jail them! This is the quality representative of the current UMNO. Do we entrust this nation of ours in the hands of imbecilic populist politicians? 
How can Dr Mahathir be mistaken about the nature of the current UMNO beast? He can’t because, he himself created the UMNO Frankenstein. And so now he laments- the rejects remain in UMNO. The clever has joined PAS. The intelligent has migrated to PKR. The smart people have joined DAP. UMNO is left with the miscreants typically represented by the Mohamad Abdul Azizs in this country. 
We, the people are tyrannized and oppressed by people pouring out the filth that is supposed to exit from the opening at the posterior, now coming out from the mouths. 
How can we blame Dr Mahathir when he says UMNO is rotten to the core? He is proximate enough to the UMNO people to smell their soiled breath. Therefore if we want to be safe, let us all resolve to reject UMNO and embrace the politics of Pakatan Rakyat. 
No one can do any worse than what UMNO has done.

33 comments:

Anonymous,  29 June 2012 at 09:03  

Dear Dato Sak

Dr Ooi Kee Beng asked a few years ago whether UMNO Baru will turn fascist or whether it will learn from the Guomindang (Kuomintang)of Taiwan and truly reform itself and move towards the political centre.

It looks more and more like the former everyday!

Phua Kai Lit

bruno,  29 June 2012 at 10:22  

Dato,now that the FGVH IPO dust has settled,the settlers who sold their shares yesterday can only count five pieces of bills if they are in 100 ringgit bills.If they want to count more they have to change them into 500 singles.

Whereas the Umnoputras and their lackeys can count big demoninations of RM 100 bills from wheelbarrows.Now finally the Felda settlers have woken up to realised that they no longer have control over their land which they have toiled for the last fifty years.

And all for a meagre RM500.Luckily Najib was smart in promising them RM15,000 or else this morning the Felda makchiks would have marched into Sri Perdana brooms in hand to chased Najib into the Klang river.

The settlers now realised that they have been humped from the behind and paid with their own money.For this free ride Umno will surely lose some of the seats in the Felda schemes.

dukuhead 29 June 2012 at 13:22  

hehe, a very funny and tragically honest post

Melayu Baru,  29 June 2012 at 15:12  

Assalamualaikum Dato' Sak,

One issue that I would like to point out is that even within the UMNO senior management, they does not believe the lies they tell the masses anymore.

Case in point - an acquaintance of mine is a Ketua Bahagian in one of the important constituency in Malaysia. A seat currently held by UMNO.

He related to a group of friends (primarily linked with UMNO) that he was giving a speech extolling the virtues of the government of the day, BN and UMNO. After the speech, he was approached by SB. He was asked - Dato', very good speech. But I am wondering why do you smile a lot during the speech?"

He answered the SB - "Sebab saya happy kerajaan banyak buat jasa untuk rakyat"

The truth, he reserves for this crowd - "I smiled because I know these are all lies and I am trying to sell it to these masses"

Head nodding all around. From UMNO crowds. From that point onwards, there's more and more discussion centered around that point.

This jives with the story I related years ago when I started commenting in your blog - Another Ketua Bahagian (was an important figure in DPPM) who commented with UMNO ways - "Kalau macam ni cara UMNO, jahanam Melayu"

(And for those who didnt get to know the end of the story, it goes like this - When the same guy was asked "Dato', if you know Melayu jahanam, why are you still in UMNO?"

The answer revealed the mindset

"Eh, esok melayu jahanam anak bini aku nak makan apa?")

There you go.

These people doesnt even believe their lies anymore.

Look at the cyber troopers lament during NFC, PTPTN loan turnaround and many other flip flops. If you troll around UMNO-centric websites, you can almost see these people throwing up their hands in the air with the decision of their leaders.

There's so much icing you can put on a piping hot piece of s*it.

But again, there are people who choose to live in parallel universe where the world is rosy. Or they got sucked into reality distortion field when they are with their own kinds.

This is how probably some people believed satay kajang is meatworks (technically, correct). They are the one who took the blue pills, and ended up believing what they want to believe. Live in fantasy, friend. For you are only lying to yourself, and got deeper every time bits and pieces are exposed.

The rest of us, took the red pills, and woke up realizing there reality. There's a lot of hard work, and what each of us do to help others take the red pill will liberalize us from this misery.

Truth, will set us free. Con jobs, will be exposed.

Melayu Baru

Anonymous,  29 June 2012 at 16:09  

Dato'

Dr M just announced that he wants his son Mukhriz installed as the next Kedah Menteri besar. It seems to Mamak Kutty that he possesses the 'divine power' to make or break someone.

Salam.

Anonymous,  29 June 2012 at 16:46  

Under Dr M, THE CITIZENS were made to pay private taxes to the cronies such as IPP's, toll roads, privatised water works etc.
But now, the poor farmers are stripped naked and robbed in broad daylight. It has gone from bad to worse.
And to protect the robber barons, they have decided to use their cronies to takemover government owned assets such as KTM and Penang port before being kicked out of office.

Anonymous,  29 June 2012 at 17:30  

I wish this article is translated to BM so that all Malaysians can read it. The only hope for Malaysia to rescue from the bigots and corrupt politicians is a strong mass media, which continues to expose the filth and evil of the people in power. In short, we need a strong 2-party system and responsible mass media to ensure check and balance, and hold the guilty to account. God saves Malaysia!

ahmed 29 June 2012 at 18:05  

Salam. Very English indeed. You have dug all out of your English vocbulary. Indeed you hate the doings of UMNO and those who are associated with it. It is a shame that nearly 50% of malays are with UMNO or the likes of it. No matter what.
If you want to convert, it is a life long journey. Things do not happen overnight. Hold your anger. In the rage that you are , when you loose your cool, it is you who looks like need to be consoled. Take care.

CYC,  29 June 2012 at 20:13  

UMNOputras keep bashing the Indian wherever the opportunity arise when in actual fact they were harassed like donkeys by an Indian kutty. What an irony..... lol

bruno,  29 June 2012 at 22:01  

Dato,if you ask me I will tell you that the FGVH counter is deadwood (no action).For a company with billions of shares,most of the shares are locked up with cornerstones,GLC's and state gomens.

Watching the action on the trading on FGVH,one can definitely see that a few GLC's are supporting the price.For a share over RM5.00 the movements is limited to only 1 cent,with prices stuck at a certain price for a certain period of time.

And volume is down tremendously from the first day.That only means that those shares that were sold on the first day has landed at the laps of the GLC's.There is no evidence of active participation of international(orang putihs) funds.They shunned deadwood counters.Soon all the shares of the Felda will be owned by only GLC's,corneratones,state gomens and cronies.

ajibodo,  29 June 2012 at 22:15  

why can't these people understand??? making money out of the stock is one thing, but controlling the agro-business market is more critical??? dreyfuss and bunge ltd is in controlled of the world's agro-business. oiii bodo!!! wake up la

Anonymous,  29 June 2012 at 22:56  

It now becomes clear to Malaysians that Tun Razak had two big deals on his mind. There could be some others. But the two are 1.The Felda Settlers land and produce 2. Sarawak Oil fields (known to have existed even in the late 1800's from comments of adventurers memoirs in gutenberg.org)

Considering Felda settlers predicament, they have always been designed to lose considering the gomen grip on product marketing and the sheer weight of Felda Inc in the the GLC. Putting two and two together, the potential produces of the land and the strangle-hold gomen would unleash all ways and always could make a sob a knight.

With the help of the the 'experienced 29-year' old constitutional expert from a country that didn't know much of a constitutional history, Daim, UMNO and/or other interests sealed Malaysia's fate when the Sarawak emergency later laid out the red carpet to roll out the barrels from the oilfields.

Would it be too much coincidence that May 13 had to happen? The rest was for the wolves to set in though Bank Bumiputra caused some hiccups. But we're not at all surprised that the Auditor Jalil was half heartedly revered by the establishment for uncovering what we are now suffering from - abhorrenty purulent corruption that feeds unrelentlessly.

But Tun Razak's dream came true - Najib is now Prime Minister, at least for the time being. Somewhere along the way, he was shnooked. And a bad dream turn to ashes.

Get real ...there was never any big deal for "Melayuness" or sovereignity of the Malays or the glory of WWW 1 plate or all those fairy tales. It was just sheer blunt and brutal greed...the 1percenters' history.

Unlike Mahathir Mohamad who had said he couldn't care two hoots what history will say, you know better. History is not dumb Professor Kengkangs oral froth.

When you deliver that piece of paper, that vote, this GE13 you will make your story. Not Razak's nor Mahathir's nor Najib's nor some spooks.

Then it matters it is part of your story...you came this way...you need no oral froth or praise for your life will have been life's story... not some mumbo jumbo of some fake and spooky enchantment.

Come hell or high water, make that vote!

bruno,  30 June 2012 at 02:09  

Soon it will be the big boys(GLC's) and gals(GLC's)playing masak-masak among themselves,as there will be no one else to play with anymore at the FGVH counter.

Lok1,  30 June 2012 at 03:09  

Dear Dato Sak,Was just wondering out loud why you call your blog Sak AK47,
well as some will know that the ruggedness of the AK47 against the flimsy M16A1,which I had to use during my PFF days was so sensitive
I'd would have like to use the AK but then our Govt thought better politics if they were to use M16A1 Now that write-up of yours is the AK47 going full blast n what a fantastic sound it makes,a real personal killing machine.Well Done Dato.Bravo2,say it as it is.

Anonymous,  30 June 2012 at 04:03  

Great article as always Dato! please keep up the good work - hopefully you'll be able to contest in the next GE as we need adun like you if we want to progress :)

Anonymous,  30 June 2012 at 11:48  

Kita tunggu komen QD kerana Sakmongkol banyak mngenakan dia dalam posting ni. Sedih ke dia lepas terkinja-kinja untung sikit hari tu?

joehancl/PRAY, it works,  30 June 2012 at 12:07  

Truly GE13 is a crossroad. Take the wrong one Malaysia will be in dire straits.

Anonymous,  30 June 2012 at 13:04  

Bapa borek anak rentek!

Anonymous,  30 June 2012 at 13:18  

DATO,BRILLIANTLY WRITTEN.nOTHING IS FURTHER FR D TRUTH.THAT YB HU CALLS 4 AMBIGA'S HANGING IS OF ILL BRED.ITS A SHAME WE HVE SUCH BIGOTS/RACIST IN OUR EXECUTIVE SYSTEMS.MALU MANA NAK LETAK MUKA.EVERYONE KNW'S IF HE IS FR PAKATAN DAH LAMA KENA ISA.UMNO IS D ONE HU SUCKS THEIR OWN RACE TO KINGDOM COME.TERANG2 CASE FELDA'S LISTING...CMON WAKE UP U SO CALLED BUMI

Anonymous,  30 June 2012 at 13:48  

A very small % had plenty to gain from decades of bad gross mismanagement.

Until there is a huge crisis eg. high unemployment or country goes bankrupt, the majority will NOT wake up.

yelper,  30 June 2012 at 16:15  

Bolehland is among record-breakers for continuous rule:
- Colorado Party of Uruguay - 91 years up to 1959.
- Colorado Party of Paraguay - 62 years up to 2008.
- Kuomintng Party of Taiwan - 52 years up to 2000.
- Congress Party of India (in multiple incarnations) - 49 years up to 1996.
- PAP of Singapore and Alliance/BN (in mutiple incarnations) of Bolehland - 55 years as of 2012.

Safhamas,  30 June 2012 at 19:34  

Whoa there Dato'!Hold your horses Dato'.....marah betoi nampak? Cool down, relax..no need to blow your top over those clueless, racists, irritating nincompoops.

You have make your point, let's focus on our main objective....kick-out those sons of a leaking french-cap!

Anonymous,  30 June 2012 at 21:52  

29 June 2012 18:05,

the flair for writing in English is acquired, how to compete on par at international level, tak kan lah it is exclusive for the umno lama and baru elites or in a decade the indons ??

bruno,  30 June 2012 at 23:33  

Dato,now that the FGVH IPO has come and gone,I have to say we have to take our hats off to the two big boys(EPF and PNB) for having such a well behaved public listing.Well behaved in a sense that trading in the bids and offers are within a couple of cents never seen in IPO's before.No frantic and frenzied speculative trading at all.

The stronghands(big boys)have the upperhand and has total control of the cornered stock as the majority of shares are in lockdown and GLC's.So the next best thing next week onwards,for them is to let the share prices drift slowly towards the RM5 level,to buy up most of the shares in the public's hands if there is any left.

That way with most of the public's shares in their hands,they have the advantage for one final push to all time highs(RM6.5-RM8)before the GE.With the cornerstones in lock down and the selling public who has no more shares to sell,the big boys and gals can play with themselves all they like.

This is a game of political survival at all costs for them and not for financial gains,as they can recoup their losses if they retain federal power later.And anyway the GE will be over before the cornerstoners shares become unlocked.Therefore they can let the shares tanked before the six months locked period is over.And the cornerstoners will be stuck in the stocks for a longer period of time(5-10yrs)

My best guess is this will be the best strategy for them.The way they are buying the shares says so.A couple of big boys in total controll of a cornered stock.

bruno,  1 July 2012 at 04:19  

Dato,taking many things into consideration,the Felda listing,the EFC and the US presidential elections,I think that the GE will most probably be called sometime between August 15th-Oct 15th.My personal opinion is the GE will be held not later than Oct 15th 2012.

Anonymous,  1 July 2012 at 08:05  

Dato, keep on writing, and hit hard at the greedy feudal ogres.

"For evil to succeed all that is necessary is for good men to do nothing" - Lord Kagan

Best wishes from a PAS supporter.

Charon the Ferryman,  1 July 2012 at 08:12  

"I will never cease to laugh when I see them again, one after the other naked on my boat, without their purple robes, without their turbans, their money and their golden beds"

nick 1 July 2012 at 09:09  

Your definition of UMNO as United Munafiks National Organization sounds true and correct enough to fully describe UMNO's real face and behavior however in my opinion, the correct and more accurate description of UMNO is nothing short of an organized lynch mob populated by self serving hypocrites. Yes, to me UMNO is nothing more and nothing less than a mob of hypocrites banding together for the explicit purpose of fulfilling their own individual selfish aim, lust and greed. In short we handed our country to the very people who would destroy it, all to satisfy their lust and greed.

And for 3 decades or more, Malaysia was rule NOT by a collection of decent law abiding citizens acting according to the rule of law, following the strict path of constitutional government and above all, conscientiously observing the rights of humanity and citizenship. Indeed, we were and still are ruled by a mob of hypocrites that are principle-less, untrustworthy and above all loyal to no one but to themselves. That is the true meaning of hypocrites and we had the misfortune of electing into government a group of people committed and firm believer of the hypocrite way of life and faith. In short, we, Malaysian elected a mob who cares nothing for the nation but for the power to rule and for the trappings that comes with absolute power.

Nothing last forever, not the darkness of unconsciousness and not the bliss of ignorance. The dawn of realization and comprehension of consciousness although it shines upon us slowly and reluctantly, it is nonetheless an inescapable fact and a basic element of sentient existence. After decades of darkness and comatose, we finally as a nation, woke up from our coma and embraced the truth of our existence and being. We finally understand that we are not like UMNO. We understand that our conscience is not the same with UMNO's and most importantly, we understand that those who does not share our belief, our principle and our conscience CANNOT be our leader, CANNOT be our government and of course CANNOT be a true Malaysian. AND from that realization and comprehension, we gave birth to ABU and as a child our ambition, hope and future, it gave us back our purpose in life, our unity in nationhood and above all our belief in a democratic nationhood called Malaysia. It is a new beginning that doesn't include UMNO. And any beginning that doesn't includes UMNO IS a good beginning! MalaysiaN - UMNO = ABU therefore ABU = New Malaysia!

Nick

Anonymous,  1 July 2012 at 10:02  

Dr.M now is echoing Shanon Ahmad's SHIT. How much denial you tried, no truth can escape anyone's attention.

Anonymous,  1 July 2012 at 10:32  

United Munafik National Organization? ha..ha or it can also be Untuk Melayu No Otak or Untuk Masuk Neraka Otomatik. Can it???

Anonymous,  1 July 2012 at 13:19  

Prof Shanon Ahmad's SHIT
haha... had to hide its cover from my elderly family members while curi-curi reading it while on vacation. If he were alive, he would have been a comrade in Bersih. A true , humble patriotic intelek Melayu ! must read it again to lepas marah.

Anonymous,  2 July 2012 at 01:26  

Pegi makan di gerai tadi dengor orang cakap Bank dah hentam kredit squeeze utk personal loan, tapi hanya untuk kakitangan kera jaan aje!!!

Gula gula nampak untuk kera-kera jaan! ?

Anonymous,  5 July 2012 at 18:07  

By Harris Ibrahim.
Dear Mahathir,
Malaysian Insider reports that you had "defended the social contract, the so-called unwritten agreement between the Malays and the non-Malays during independence, by affirming that without the agreement, Malaysia would not have been formed".

They quoted you :
"If there was no social contract, the terms and conditions of allowing citizenship to non-Malays would have not taken place.One million outsiders were given citizenships at the time."

Now, this quote from you got me curious. Let me tell you why.

I conferred with my aunt, who confirmed that my maternal great grandfather, Eliathamby, of whom I've written previously in a posting entitled "The land that my forefathers helped build", would have left Ceylon and arrived in what is now West Malaysia, around 1870. He died well before the conclusion of that social contract that you spoke of, so my great grandfather would not have come within those 'one million outsiders' who acquired citizenship at the time of independence in 1957.

My maternal grandfather, Vellupillay T. Williams, never lived to see the formation of Malaya so he, too, did not make up the'one million outsiders'.

Enough of my family tree. Let's look at yours. I got this from a blog, Malaysiana:
Perhaps, the most famous Malayalee to land in George Town was Iskandar Kutty, a merchant who married a Johor-Riau wife Siti Hawa Iskandar. They became the proud parents of Alor Star's top public school Sultan Abdul Hamid College 's founder-principal and Kedah's royal educator Datuk Mohamad Iskandar.

Mohamad was the school teacher of Tunku Abdul Rahman. He and his wife Datin Wan Tempawan Wan Hanafi from the Kedah Bendahara's (Prime Minister's) clan, were the proud parents of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia's Father of Modernisation and fourth Prime Minister.

And this from Malaysia Today: Born in December 20, 1925, Dr Mahathir hailed from the state of Kedah, at the capital of Alor Star, whose father was a school teacher. His father was Indian who migrated from Kerala, who married a malay lady and sold banana fritters during the second world war. His early education was through vernacular school and at the Sultan Abdul Hamid College in the city.

My question, then, Doc, firstly is whether your father was amongst the'one million outsiders'?

And when did you become 'Malay', Doc?

When did you move from being a son of an Indian who migrated from Kerala to a Malay?
Not that I care, but when?

Speaking of Malay, do you remember your "Malay Dilemma", Doc? Do you remember what you said about the problem of inbreeding amongst the Malay community, and that whole business of genes? Back then, who had heard of this thing called DNA?

Who had ever imagined that science would one day make it possible for all of us to trace our genealogy?

Guess what, Doc? It seems, based on all this new DNA scientific knowledge, that there's no such thing as a Malay race.
It would seem that you've gone from being a son of anIndian who migrated from Keralato a 'does not exist'.


IS HE A GREAT LEADER?
YOUR VERDICT IS AS GOOD AS MINE.

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