The Great eCONomic Transformation Program: Enrich Ourselves, Impoverish the Rest!

If Malays have had enough of Mahathir and his cabal, there is only one way to end it. Replace all the vassals subservient to Mahathir. Both the top two posts in UMNO must be replaced. Najib and Muhyidin must be replaced. The entire leadership obligated to Mahathir and his gang must also be replaced.

This is necessary to stop the rot the two and UMNO they lead is making. Najibs’s economic policies will be a continuation of Mahathir’s enrich- a- few-cronies policy. Pity the rural Malays for not knowing while they eat and excrete bricks, Najib has enriched people like the Tan Kay Hock of George Kent( Chinese) and the owner of the new digital cable TV, ABNexcess- K Eswaran( Indian). MMCC has just given a license to ABNxcess with more than 500 cable TV channels to operate. It has more to offer than T. Ananda Krishnan’s ASTRO and HyppTv owned by Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM). Enter the dark prince (no pun intended)- Tan Sri Keneth Eswaran.

Maybe those business tentacles are allowed to grow in exchange for Najib’s impending nod for Syed Mokhtar to acquire PLUS. Such is the destiny of the Malays.

Mahathir’s only overriding objective is to ensure he and his cronies business of milking Malaysia continues. Positioning a weak leadership is instrumental in his game plan. He likes it when a leader of this country thinks like him.  Enrich themselves and impoverish the rest.

Once Mahathir’s stooges are removed, then maybe we will have an UMNO which can probably regain qualified trust and allegiance from Malays. I hope the UMNOnistas understand this argument. UMNO is relevant to Malays only in so far as they serve the latter’s purpose and that is, in so far as UMNO is able to champion the Malays’ justifiable interests. The simple rule that we must learn and re-learn if we must, is that our support for any political groupings is a qualified support. That is the way it must be.

Who appears to champion the Malays? Mahathir remains the central figure. Najib fails in that aspect. He became Malay only since 1976. To Malays, Najib is seen as weak. If Mahathir changes his mind and says that Najib should not be challenged as UMNO president that is because Mahathir actually wants a weak leader. Mahathir and his cronies will find it tougher if Malaysia is led by an assertive and independent minded leader.

A weak leader in the person of Najib is actually what Mahathir wants. That would serve Mahathir’s economic interests because such a leader is easily cowed and compromised. With Najib helming the country in the manner he is presently doing, Mahathir will still remain the overlord. That is why Mahathir changed his mind.

But I am sure, as soon as Najib left the Perdana Foudation Building from where Mahathir lords over the realm, his advisers and minders would have cautioned Najib not to trust Mahathir. But Najib being Najib, he will remain impervious to advice and caution. Why should he care? He just had a sex dream after meeting Dr Mahathir and it’s not up to his minions to stop the thrill.

So there is no mystery when it was reported that Najib was relieved after meeting with Dr Mahathir. Najib had to see Mahathir not because the latter stated that the top two posts in UMNO should not be contested. He had to meet the man who can walk on water to beg Mahathir for a reprieve. When in Germany, it was reported that Mahathir stated that Najib must resign. So Najib went to meet up the man who still runs Malaysia for a reprieve.

The Malay is deceived if he thinks Mahathir thinks of Malay interest first. He does not want the country to be in firm hands. If he has to scorch the Malaysian earth to remain in power, he will do so. Mahathir sees as mere strategic advantage in a game of thrones to make out the Chinese with a 24% support base, as the evil threat to Malay politics.

Mahathir ignores the fact that in the history of Malay politics, tumultuous events have always been caused by the clash of Malay political factions competing and going to war with each other to gain sovereignty over the ruled. The Chinese, with no desire to intrude into Malay politics and cultural setting, have always been used as pawns by the chess masters.

The real truth is that Mahathir has always been anti Malay in the sense that he despises all the Malays who don’t share his macabre methods.

He is now thinking more about whether Syed Mokhtar can get PLUS . Syed Mokhtar has already got the business to  construct the Kuala Kedah Jetty courtesy of the son of Mahathir. If Syed Mokhtar defaults over more than the RM34 billion debts his companies owe, the country will be in financial ruin. And we must NOT forget about the gargantuan debt owned by YTL. YTL has more debts than Syed Mokhtar but the Chinaman has managed to remain below the radar screen. YTL hides their debt by entertaining Mahathir with shows by Pavarotti or Andrea Bocelli.

Mahathir is more interested to vest control over oil and gas acreage with Ananda Krishnan. Mahathir is more interested to stop Anwar Ibrahim becoming PM at all costs.

Mahathir definitely isn’t interested to see whether the ordinary Malay can earn a decent living with a decent income, with a decent home and decent education.