The 2009 Budget debate on the Ministry of Unity, Culture, Arts and Heritage last night opened up with the most unprecedented and ferocious attack by the UMNO MP for Sri Gading Datuk Mohamad Aziz on the MCA for being “biadap” and “kurang ajar”, telling PPP to “get out” of Barisan Nasional and even proposing a political alliance of the Malay leaders in Umno, Pas and Parti Keadilan Rakyat.
When I spoke (see video), there was a deliberate attempt by former Cabinet Minister and UMNO MP for Rompin, Dr. Jamaludin Jarjis and Mohamad Aziz to sabotage my speech when I touched on the “ketuanan Melayu” controversy, demanding that I withdraw my non-ex isting statement that Malays are “tuan” and the Chinese are the “hamba” – with the matter left to be verified with Hansard (verbatim parliamentary report) the next morning, which proved that Jamaludin had mischievously misled the House with the false allegation.
My question why 51 years after Merdeka, the Umno leaders are not prepared to accept the concept of “ketuanan rakyat Malaysia” was evaded completely.
As I remarked this morning, when pointing out that the Hansard proved that Jamaludin had told a lie yesterday, “ketuanan Melayu” is in fact a concept used by the UMNO leaders to enslave all Malaysians – ordinary Malays, Chinese, Indians, Kadazans and Ibans.
For context, video clip of Mohamad Aziz’s speech is available here.
#1 by simon041155 on Wednesday, 3 December 2008 - 2:53 pm
kenghuei says: “I think we should know how to differentiate special “rights” as a Malay and “dominance” over others as a Malay.”
Right on! The physically handicapped in society are given privileges like not having to queue up and stuff like that, but can we call that dominance?
But it’s like you are waylaid in a back alley and a robber comes up to you and says, “Hey, the watch you are wearing looks like the one I lost yesterday.” What then do you do?
UMNO is getting more and more unreasonable by the day, and they can no longer differentiate what is right and what is wrong. No point wasting time on them. Let the non-Malay bumiputera throw them up with their Ketuanan Melayu!
#2 by AhPek on Wednesday, 3 December 2008 - 3:23 pm
Remember Jesse Owens in the summer olympics 1936 when he got gold medals in the 100 meters,200 meters,the long jump and as part of the 4×100
relay team smashing the myth of the master race right under the nose of Hitler.Now more than 70 years down the road another race is trying to lay claim
to be the master race,only this time this master race is cluttered with many on crutches unlike the germans whose technology and inventiveness are legendary
#3 by Kelvenho on Wednesday, 3 December 2008 - 4:45 pm
I strongly believe all the non-muslims electorates will not vote for this
MP from Sri Gading in the next election. We as the silent majority should keep this type of person in the cold room for good.
#4 by seman baling on Wednesday, 3 December 2008 - 5:40 pm
saya merasakan rakyat malaysia amat memerlukan kekuatan nasionalisma. keperbagaian dalam sistem pendidikan, budaya dan agama menyebabkan masing-masing sentiasa ingin memajukan bangsa sendiri. lihatlah dinegera IRAQ, kekuatan dan kedamaian mereka hanya bergantung kepada kekuatan pemerintah bukan dari segi kekuatan rakyat. walaupun saddam husein dikatakan sebagai diktator sebagaimana kita merasakan semasa pemerintahan dr mahathir, tetapi apabila beliau tidak berkuasa lagi, mula terjadinya perang saraf yang semakin menjadi jadi dan sekiranya tidak dijaga dan dikawal dengan rapi bakal menjadi sebagaimana dengan IRAQ. bumi IRAQ mempunyai berbagai bangsa dan kaum yang kuat dengan identiti mereka sendiri. kekuatan pemerintah amat penting untuk menjamin kestabilan negara dan rakyat khususnya. oleh kerana rakyat malaysia amat mudah lupa khususnya peristiwa 13 Mei dulu. Detik hitam itu amat memberi kesan kepada rakyat yang mengalami peristiwa tersebut. Tiada siapa pun suka dengan pengalaman pahit tersebut. peristiwa pengebom jalanan bukan perkara baru dinegara jiran, sekiranya tak bendong, bakal berlaku dijalan raya negera ini, siapa lagi yang ingin mempertahankan keamanan tersebut. yang kaya bakal berhijrah ke negara lain ( sepertimana berlaku di Palestin) yang miskin bermandi darah dan air mata. pepatah melayu, kerana mulut badan binasa. wajarlah sentiasa mengawal bahasa dan nafsu keinginan dan kemarahan untuk memastikan kita masih boleh hidup tanpa rasa takut dan bimbang. kalaulah orang cina cemburu dengan kekuasaan melayu dalam politik malaysia, sama cemburunya melayu terhadap orang cina dengan kekayaan mereka. harus diingat orang melayu seperti saya lebih rela negara ini diperintah oleh kaum india atau kaum sabah dan serawak daripada orang cina kerana mereka merasa ketidaadilan yang berlaku sepertimana berlaku di pulau pinang dan singapura. kegagalan melayu bertahan di singapura menjadi titik tolak kenapa umno akan memastikan kuasa melayu akan sentiasa berasa dipuncak. adakah dap akan berlaku adil sepertimana umno berpendapat dia berlaku adil pada rakyat malaysia sekarang itu, bergantung kepada penilaian masing masing.
#5 by undergrad2 on Wednesday, 3 December 2008 - 8:20 pm
“If we are to search deeper, one will be amazed that the revenue collected by Hasil Dalam Negeri came mostly from Chinese. In other words, the Chinese are the major contribut …” ch
Why am I not amazed??
Only if you’re earning above a certain threshold you get the chance to show your patriotism and pay income tax. Those earing below the threshold are presumed patriotic.
#6 by imranj78 on Wednesday, 3 December 2008 - 10:10 pm
The connotation `ketuanan Melayu’ does not seem right to me. UMNO should not be harping on such matters as constitutionally the position of Malays, other Bumiputeras and non-Bumiputeras have already been clearly defined in the constitution and none of these can be changed unless the Malays themselves want it to be changed due to the country’s population demographics. So why waste time on such trivial concepts?
Equally, DAP should focus on more important matters and not fall into such useless confrontations. The Sultan of Selangor was right when he said recently that politicians from both sides of the political divide are bickering on trivial matters when in fact they should be looking at more important things for the betterment of the rakyat and country!
#7 by OrangRojak on Wednesday, 3 December 2008 - 11:11 pm
“Remember Jesse Owens in the summer olympics 1936 ”
Wah, you really are Ah Pek!
So … matured and still using a keyboard!
“So why waste time on such trivial concepts?” – imranj78
Because your Highnesses spent time on trivial concepts not long after Ah Pek was watching Jesse Owens. In the document that mm has posted a link to, see the end of para 163:
“The same view [...there must not be discrimination on grounds of race and creed...] was expressed by their Highnesses intheir memorandum, in which they said that they “”look forward to a time not too remote when it will become possible to eliminate Communalism as a force in the political and economic life of the country”" ”
They aspired to it, and they were right to. Communalism is a scourge in any nation. The constitution was framed by people who recorded their dissatisfaction with the ‘special status’ clauses, but what could they do? It was impossible then to declare Malaysians equals when Old Malaysians could see New Malaysians enjoying inequality. The constitution was framed with review of the unequal clauses in mind (and recorded in that document). Those reviews (did they happen?) were a missed opportunity. The special status provisions have not had their intended effect.
Anybody who desires a better, more equal Malaysia should be doing exactly what LKS is doing and pushing for what your Highnesses wanted 50 years ago: equality for all Malaysians.
#8 by Kongseemik on Thursday, 4 December 2008 - 2:31 am
Have you read the book “Animal Farm” during your childhood days? All animals are born equal but pigs are more equal than others!!!
#9 by simon041155 on Thursday, 4 December 2008 - 12:30 pm
I agree with the Rojak Seller that: “Anybody who desires a better, more equal Malaysia should be doing exactly what LKS is doing and pushing for what your Highnesses wanted 50 years ago: equality for all Malaysians.”
The crutches were supposed to be temporary to address what was then deemed to be an inequality. Now that they are more than equal, they want to twist the historical basis for it to become their birthrights so that they can continue to cling to them, LOL. No, not cling to them… once Ketuanan Melayu succeed, they will trade in their crutches for wheelchairs and ask the non-Malays to push for them. Greed knows no bound.
And I thought Islam Hadhari is a more moderate form of Islam. By the way, does anyone remember when was the last time Abdullah talked about Islam Hadhari after his landslide victory in 2004? Or did he even implement it? Looks like even an ordinary news reporter is arrested under ISA under Islam Hadhari and tolerance is at its lowest ebb.
Whatever happened to Cemerlang, Gemilang, Terbilang? We have been cheated by Abdullah log stock, and barrel. LKS was right, Abdullah forgot the fourth one: Temberang! But to me, C-G-T is just Keetualang!
#10 by One4All4One on Thursday, 4 December 2008 - 1:00 pm
When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn…
Those who are so addicted to and crave for more of “ketuanan” (whatever they meant by it or interpreted it to be, by their very own figment of imagination (( if they ever have one!)), cravings, or childish and infantile whims and fancies, should be ignored entirely and not to be taken note of even with a pinch of salt!!
The world that we live in had progressed so far ahead in terms of knowledge, sophistication, science & technology, societal and cultural developments, philosophy, psychology, even religiously, etc., etc., that such a primitive and laid back posturing and positioning through “supremacist” and ethnocentric approaches should be deemed unacceptable and a non-issue.
Let’s not allow our intelligence be further insulted by those who have not grown beyond basic reasoning and articulation.
Why waste time on issues which had been put into historical cold rooms by countries and nations (which had even much greater and profound history) but are now more keen on advancing themselves on urgent, substantive, relevant, current and futuristic matters. Matters which are more beneficial and have far-reaching impact on the progress and development of their peoples.
Why waste time on people who do not care or know what it means by basic and fundamental value systems such as equality, universalism, democracy, meritocracy and multiculturalism.
Let’s show them the way by focussing our time, resources and energies on more pertinent issues, issues which are sine qua non to the progress and advancement of all Malaysians regardless of race or creed.
Let’s move on…
#11 by w2008 on Thursday, 4 December 2008 - 1:21 pm
I agree with the Rojak too,
that: “Anybody who desires a better, more equal Malaysia should be doing exactly what LKS is doing and pushing for what your Highnesses wanted 50 years ago: equality for all Malaysians.”
It will be the biggest mistake for all non-bumi ignore the rights to pushing for what you want equlity.
We all now have read the report, so with that report we all show know there is supposed be temporary, and it can be discontinued if non-bumi non-bumi request review and find it is not suitable and injustice.
It will be the biggerst mistake for all non-bumi ignore the rights demand of the review of it.