///15. Bagi mereka ini generasi akan datang akan kutuk mereka apabila orang Melayu di Malaysia sudah jadi seperti orang Melayu di Singapura di mana mereka menjadi “hamba” kepada kaum-kaum lain. Inilah nasib yang menunggu orang Melayu kerana lebih sedia disogok daripada mempertahan dan memelihara kuasa bangsa.///–TDM 2 December 2008 http://test.chedet.com/che_det/2008/12/mac-2009.html#more

TDM claims that Malay Singaporeans are “hamba” or slaves to other races in Singapore. If Malay Singaporeans who are treated equally in all aspects and who are free to participate equally in all sphere of life in Singapore are slaves to other communities, how should TDM describe non-Malays in Malaysia who face institutionalized discriminations sponsored by the government?

When he was interviewed by Aljazeera TV recently, TDM justified the continuation of NEP because there are still Malay drivers employed by Chinese tycoons, and that there are Malay shoeshine boys hawking on the street. A person befitting his status as a former prime minister would have presented a relevance response whether the Malays had attained the target of NEP, namely 30% in the ownership of equity share capital in corporate sector. TDM’s answer reflects his deep seated racist belief that Malays is superior to non-Malays and they should not serve as drivers to Chinese. Is he different from the Nazis? As though to plan for such justifications, TDM during his reign tacitly agreed to Project M in facilitating the arrival of a million plus foreigners into Sabah, and to become NEWMalays. That demonstrates that UMNO and its leaders were not willing to honour the agreement on the termination of the racist discriminating policies, and he was happy to display such arrogance for the world to see.

TDM wants Malays who can be fooled to believe that Malays in Singapore are backward compared to the so-called Malays in Malaysia. Singaporean Malays are capable of looking after themselves without any life support system, unlike Malays in Malaysia who are said to be still dependent on the government for survival. It is the quality of Malays citizens which were of concern to UMNO leaders who sought the understanding of the leaders of non-Malay communities to provide for special assistance envisaged under Article 153 of the constitution, for a period of 15 years and subject to review. The Malay leaders at Independence would have loved to see the days when Malays here are as capable as Malays in Singapore, and in words of the late Tun Dr. Ismail, they will be willingly forgo the protection under Article 153, out of pride. The current crop of UMNO leaders care not for the pride of Malay community and insisted that NEP should continue. The NEWMalays in power do not really feel the pride of the race which they claim to belong for the benefits that the classification offered, and would like to continue to exploit NEP to their advantage at the expense of the public.

Malays are seen to dominate positions in government services, teaching posts in universities and companies financed by the government. They might be judged to be more successful than Malays in Singapore, collectively. That was made possible because of the political power and it is this aspect which TDM might be thinking that Malays in Malaysia are tuan, and Malays in Singapore are ‘hamba’. But is the dominance of Malays in civil services and universities good for the country? It is true that to those individuals who are under qualified for the jobs in government or universities, their employment bring them benefits. Of the 12,000 university lecturers, some 93 % were Malays. At least a third of them, 4,000 in total are second best, and would not be so employed if not for the racist policies. These 4,000 could have contributed more to the society if they had been absorbed into positions which they can play a better role with their experience and capability. They would not have prevented people who are more suited to handle university teaching and thus benefit the students directly. That is the crux of problems, besides the perverted admission policies which have sent the ranking of local universities into a free fall.

Governments in UK, Singapore, Hong Kong and India for example recruit the best into their civil services. But in Malaysia, there is no guarantee of the quality of its government employees. The government sector since NEP has its peculiar meritocracy process to promote Malays over non-Malays. It has now mastered the art of promoting people through who you know rather than what you know, competing only among Malays. Since the day of negotiated tender initiated by TDM, positions in government service bring to the incumbents pecuniary benefits not unlike what UMNO party positions avail to the politicians. The thousands of important government posts make these families rich. No doubt TDM considers the few thousands Malay civil servants making use of their positions to enrich themselves are the pride of the Malay community. Hence corruption is institutionalized, and is not against the law of the land.

The government claims that NEP has succeeded in creating a large number of Malay middle class families. That is disparaging to the capability of Malays as a race. With or without NEP, the persons who are able to make it to the universities would have arrived. The government could have provided study loans to those who had the aptitude for university educations, and scholarships to outstanding scholars. Those who were not suitable could have been trained at vocational schools and colleges. NEP only served to push through those who were not suitable for tertiary education, like the 60,000 unemployable graduates, and prevented those non-Malays who had the aptitude for university education but could not make it to local universities, and were unable to afford overseas education. How we waste human resources for racist reasons.

It is clear that NEP exerts a huge cost to non-Malays. Do Malays get the benefits without any cost? UMNO claims that NEP is like free lunch. But a comparison between the living standards between Malaysia and Singapore might help to settle whether Malays in Malaysia are better off than Malays in Singapore.

The per capita GDP of Singapore is about five times that of Malaysia. When the price level of the two countries are taken into account, Singaporeans would still have on average three times the purchasing power of Malaysians consuming goods and services in their respective countries. When both Malaysians and Singaporeans are outside their respective countries, Singaporeans would have five times the purchasing power of Malaysians, like the ratio of their per capita GDP to Malaysians.

Singapore has no natural resources other than their location and yet her government has been able to provide an environment for its people to earn 5 times, on per capita basis, the income to Malaysians. Had the natural resources that are available to Malaysia been put to proper use by a government as incorruptible and efficient as Singapore, Malaysia would have generated a per capita level as high as in Singapore if not higher. Malaysians would be five times richer than what we are today. Malaysians have forgone four times its purchasing power because of UMNO racist policies.

Why then would TDM say that it would be unfortunate for Malays in Malaysia to become Malays of Singapore? In the first place, NEP with its perverted implementation have made Malays believe that they needed only to vote correctly from time to time, their livelihood would be taken care of. The government is their keeper. They cannot be as capable as Singaporean Malays, individually. It is not an issue of whether they choose and wanted to be, but a matter of whether they have the capability to be Singaporean Malays. TDM wanted the racist policies to remain status quo, so that he could continue to rule through his son when his natural life expires. TDM is not able to appreciate the sufferings of the low income level of Malaysians; he considers those sufferings adequately compensated by the pride of having some super rich individuals in the community. More importantly, the success of Singapore reflects his failure and he would naturally wish to mould the mindset of the people to think the worse of Singapore, and thus Malays living there.

At the recent interview with Aljazeera TDM claimed, in response to a question from a viewer whether he should not call himself Indian, that he was Malay. The host of the programme reminded TDM that it was a question of his blood lineage. TDM insisted that he was Malay, and that he followed Malay customs. Malay customs had the cardinal rule to be respectful of the Malay Rulers. The action TDM took in 1992 in amending the constitution and removing the immunity of Rulers proves that he did not follow Malay customs. It would appear that TDM was not concern whether he lived up to be Malay, but he wanted to be known as Malay. He needed the classification as Malay to enjoy the power as PM for 22 years. He wants millions of Malays to enjoy the sense of pride, while he enjoyed the actual power. That explains why TDM chooses to call Malays in Singapore ‘hamba’ to other races because MM Lee Kuan Yew declared that to spare the incumbent the dilemma of being torn from the love of Singapore and the feeling for the Malays across the causeway, a non-Malay should hold the position of the Chief of Armed Forces in Singapore. TDM is trying to underline the importance of a position to the community rather that the importance of the right person carrying out the responsibities of the position.

TDM had his time destroying the country and his sins are well recorded. He now wants his son to continue with the destruction process, and more importantly to make non-Malays NEWMalays to alleviate his pains of not being able to reconnect with his Indian roots. For that he had to destroy those on the path of his son; one happens to be the son-in-law of AAB. Consequently, AAB had to bear the brunt of TDM’s attack. To be sure, the son-in-law of AAB deserves a spank.
Having utilized public funds for education at Oxford, he should have led the way on how a noble role politics are meant for the country. He chose to claim that Malays in Penang were marginalized when he knew very well that there are outliers to every issue. That started the events that brought AAB down from his power.

TDM is complaining that AAB is campaigning for candidates in UMNO election whom TDM did not support. AAB is less dangerous to the country for doing nothing than TDM and his for whatever they plan, particularly in dividing the country by race. True Malays are dwindling in proportion. But the NEWMalays are seen to be more vocal about ketuanan Melayu. Strange! It is NEP! The followings say it all.

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///According to PSM’s Nasir, the implementation of the NEP which focused on one race soon gave currency to the ketuanan Melayu rhetoric. But he says ketuanan Melayu is just a red herring. “Name me one Malay who is a pure Malay. There is virtually none — all Malays are mixed-blood to some degree.”
Rather, Umno’s outbursts can be seen as the increasingly desperate acts of a party frustrated by its loss of power, he argues. “Umno is frustrated by its losses during the general election, and continues to use race and religion to divert the anger of poor Malays,” adds Nasir.
“Because as so-called leaders of the Malays, Umno has failed. It has not even been able to help poor Malays and Malay entrepreneurs,” he asserts. Therefore, the ketuanan Melayu rhetoric conveniently redirects the frustration and anger of disenfranchised Malay Malaysians towards other races. Herein lies the danger of Umno’s rhetoric, says Nasir.
“In times of economic difficulty, the ketuanan Melayu rhetoric will likely give rise to fascist tendencies. When people are feeling the pinch and they are frustrated, you just need to cucuk them and then they’ll meletup. Umno knows this only too well,” he says.

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