Mahathir, UMNO and the Fall of the Malays

We must clap on Dr Mahathir. Encourage him. Dr Mahathir has turned out to be UMNO’s worse enemy. Whatever he says now are poison to UMNO. It is as though he is UMNO president. He is the only one who cares more about UMNO. Najib is not. He is busy promoting himself. Najib travels north, the party travels south. Najib, the present UMNO president is haplessly lost. It must be true then, what Tun Daim told me last year- that Najib hasn’t got what  it takes to lead UMNO , what more the country.

As to whether he can lead UMNO- that is immaterial to us. We just don’t want an incapable leader to lead this country to ruins. UMNO has structured this country around debt. During lean or good times, UMNO just doesn’t care. It continues to spend beyond the country’s means. UMNO alone is responsible for the looting and pillage of this country. Corruption is endemic under UMNO rule. Failed projects belonging to cronies are bailed out. UMNO plots and conspires with others to plunder this country.

Mahathir is wrong- it’s not despite of these but because of these, we reject UMNO.

As Mahathir continues to dole out unsolicited advice and wisdom, he is actually exposing Najib as a useless and clueless UMNO leader. Don’t the other UMNO leaders see this? Or are they actually wishing to see the exit of Najib and what Dr Mahathir sees as the root cause of UMNO’s impotence- the exit of Rosmah Mansor. It’s no secret that Mahathir blames Rosmah Mansor entirely for what is happening to UMNO.

One, two, three, four

Satu, dua tiga empat

Rsomah Mansor handbag dan cincin besor

Rakyat Malaysia, apa dapat?

What the rakyat gets is rising cost of living. The price of daily essentials has been increasing at alarming rate. A few years ago, a kilo of Tenggiri costs RM14. Now it costs RM40 per kilo. Ikan Merah costs RM46 per kilo. Students who stayed in hostels were always complaining for having to eat rubber fish. That’s what the rakyat dapat.

Actually we don’t care what these people do- but don’t insult our intelligence by dragging Malays as a whole into UMNO’s sea of problems. The people are not responsible for that. Even as UMNO lies on its deathbed, Mahathir blames the Malays for its impending demise. He is always that- a crass bullying autocrat. Theres something strange about Mahathir and the Malays he scolds. He must be a sadist who enjoys inflicting pain on the Malays. The Malays must be masochists who enjoy going through the pain inflicted upon them by Mahathir. Only sadistic Malays support Mahathir.

What is happening to UMNO, it does unto itself. It alone is responsible for its misfortunes and other Malays are not responsible for them.

Mahathir and najib and the rest of UMNO can continue to entangle themselves in their own web of deceit and lies. That is good news to us.  As to the role of Mahathir, it will validate what we have been saying before; when Pak lah won the biggest mandate in UMNO’s history in 2004, the feat was achievable because, in truth, people were celebrating the exit of Mahathir. Now that Mahathir appears to play the role as UMNO’s chief spokesperson, thereby relegating the present UMNO president to a supporting role, history will repeat itself. So, please UMNO, give Mahathir larger space so that UMNO’s exit will become expeditious.

There’s a corrupted version of Parkinson’s laws at work here- as Mahathir expands, Najib shrinks. We like this law because we are a law abiding people.

Mahathir seems to be doing all of UMNO’s work now. He calls UMNO leaders to his Perdana Foundation and lectures them. At the end of these lectures during which he unleashes his doomsday prognoses, he demands undertakings and forced out promises from the attendees. Promise they will vote for UMNO and BN. Next he will be calling Malay business leaders for the same reasons. He tells them, if UMNO loses, their salad days and that halcyon era will be over.

In his lectures he pours scorn on Pak Lah and Rosmah Mansor. These are the root causes of UMNO’s present troubles, says the Doctor in the House.

What is to be done? His message is clear- continue to blame Pak lah so as to prevent people from looking into his own record and demonize Rosmah mansor. As regards Rosmah Mansor, that’s professional courtesy- one demon acknowledging another. Rosmah Mansor can’t be ejected without also ejecting her husband, the present UMNO president and PM. Mahathir says in not so many words- Najib is a political invertebrate easily given to a false sense of grandeur and falling victim to his own self hype.

What has UMNO done? It has led this country where Malays become beggars in their own country. UMNO has led this country where it was able to create a few Malay millionaires and even billionaires who can compete without government assistance. He says we must continue to support UMNO in order to see these things continue. Can we repeat them? (1) UMNO creates Malay beggars. (2) UMNO creates a small select group of supper rich Malays while 80% of the rest are able to meet ends meet or are poor.

Those are the things we don’t want to continue. They stop when we reject UMNO. Our agenda is simple. To kick out the corrupt government and its corrupt leaders.

We can’t allow Dr Mahathir’s statements and warped logic to go unanswered. Marginalized Malays will be beggars in their own country. So, in order to avoid that, reasons Mahathir, Malays must support UMNO. Mahathir is indeed unparalleled when giving unnerving comments to UMNO.

Is the condition of Malays the result of policies carried out by PAS, PKR and DAP? Or is the lot the Malays imagined by Mahathir due to their predestined DNA. Malays are therefore deservedly consigned to become the dregs of society.

The bitter truth is Malays become what they are because they accept the way UMNO defines them to be. Malays can’t exist outside of UMNO’s patronage. They were, are and will be because they have allowed themselves to be enslaved by UMNO. For most of their lives, from the 20^th century, Malays have lived under the rule of UMNO. May I remind my Malay brothers, what the thinker Zaaba said a long time ago regarding the lot of Malays;

Thus, the present living conditions of the Malays is due to the fact……they have been enslaved and repressed and oppressed and brutaised at the hands of their rulers- i.e. rulers cpmprsing of their own kind. .

Zaaba wrote those lines in 1927 and his views have proven to be prophetic indeed.