Malaysia is a failed state because the government services have failed. The GS fails because it is the reservoir of ‘buta gaji’. The government servants do not perform the functions expected of them. Thus at the ‘retail’ level, the policemen do not protect’ the people, and the ordinary citizens need protection from the uniformed personnel instead. At the ‘wholesale’ level where government policies are determined those who are assigned authorities to spend government funds are wasting them resulting in completed government buildings waiting to collapse, submarine refuses to submerge, and a one billion project overruns to cost 10 billion and more. Yes, it is the political masters who call the tune, in Malaysia. They can do that because the government services are not independent of political parties. Indeed more than 90% of government servants outside the teaching occupation are Malays and 90% of them are UMNO members. Consequently government services are an extension of UMNO>

The UMNO members among the government servant have only NEP mentality. They believe in the right to ‘buta gaji’ and that they are sitting in the position as though they had tendered for the right to use the power to enrich themselves. When the government servants who are supposed to ensure rule of law fail to do their job, there is no law in the country. The country has then reverted to dark ages.

It is clear that the resources available to Singapore are much less that what are available to Malaysia. It is clear that Singaporean Malays are enjoying a higher standard of living, including the fact that they live in dignity rather than fearing that Malays would disappear from the earth, like what is happening in Malaysia when the true Malays are outnumbered by pseudo-Malays, and the so-called affirmative action at the expense of the pride of the Malay community has been hijacked by the Malays who have ‘two spoonfuls of Pakistani blood. Singapore attains her current social and economic development because Singapore Government has the government service that performs their expected function. Around the world, the level of social and economic development among the countries is linked to their government services. But very few countries experience what Malaysia has gone through in destroying its government services. Malaysia started the destruction with NEP. Najib considers it more important to rescue his PM position than to turn the country around.

Najib said that 30% was the NEP target of Malays ownership of corporate sector equities. He has not said what that 30% relates. Is it the total share capital level as at 1970, even assuming it is adjusted to present value? That 30% might be based on the total equities in 1990 when the NEP was supposed to have ended, but extended to attain that 30% threshold. The 30% cannot be based on the current year, since for that to be the basis, NEP cannot end. That is because nobody knows what would the figure be the following year. The late Tun Razak stated the 30% as an indication that Malays had achieved self-reliance entry point, and no more crutches would be needed.

If the government has an indication of target, such as the 30%, there shouldb e a transparent assessment of whether that threshold has been reached. The government has not shown to be sincere in honoring the promise that the NEP has the 30% target as achievement. If it had, it would have done public accounting on the progress achieved, particularly since NEP has overrun its sunset time. Najib as DPM in late 2006 promised that the EPU would bare the basis of ownership data computation to prove ASLI wrong for stating that the 30% target had long be achieved. As PM, Najib has to honour his words. By claiming that NEP would continue without having first confirmed with hard statistics that the 30% target had not be achieved, Najib proves that he is just a bully.

Mamakthir s/o Kutty observes that May 13 was a class struggle because there were rich Chinese but not rich Malays in 1969. Obviously the Rulers of the various states were not only rich but also held position as Rulers were more superior than the few rich Chinese. Mahathir thought that the Malay Rulers did not make Malays proud. Mahathir has left unsaid that the position of Malay billionaires are more noble than Malay Rulers and so he had to use Petronas funds through NEP to make some Malays and mostly pseudo-Malays like himself super rich so that May 13 would not repeat.

Locally produced Malay graduates might believe Mahathir’s justification on his actions through NEP, particularly in making his sons billionaires. As UK trained graduates, is Najib similarly convinced?

Mahathir said that May 13 riots were a result of class struggle, and that he was not a racist. Mahathir did not say where and what he was doing on the fateful day. But TAN SRI ABDULLAH AHMAD in his speech AT THE “FROM MAY 13 TO 1MALAYSIA – THE FUTURE OF MALAYSIAN NATION BUILDING” – FORUM held at 8 PM WEDNESDAY MAY 13 2009 AT THE CIVIC CENTRE MBPJ, PETALING JAYA gave the details hours before May 13 riots took place.
Two relevant paragraphs of the speech are given below.
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2.The tragic and vicious incident need not have happened had Tun Razak’s message to Dato’ Harun Idris, the menteri besar of Selangor, reached him 30-minutes earlier or had Tan Sri David Tan Chee Khoon and Tun Lim Chong Eu spoken to Tun Razak 30 minutes earlier relaying their decision not to cooperate with DAP to form the state government of Selangor nor worked together in Perak and elsewhere. I was beside Tun Razak when he took the calls from them late past tea time on the fateful evening of 13 May. I recall clearly what Tun Razak told Harun “…the good news is you will continue to run Selangor. Chee Khoon and Chong Eu had just spoken to me that they want status quo preserved. So tell the people gathering at your house to disperse.” Harun thanked Tun and asked him to convey his gratitude to the two statesmen. Between five-to-ten minutes after that Harun rang Tun Razak to say that it was too late. As he was persuading them to disperse news reached the crowd that clashes had begun in Chow Kit Road and surroundings and beyond.

3.Tun Razak asked Harun to calm the gathering and urged him, in strong terms, to attempt his best to stop the clashes from escalating. The rest, as they say, is history. Though Harun and I were not on good political terms I must be fair. I think he did try, but by then, to no avail.
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Though nobody would expect Tun Razak to apologize to the nation for not telling Harun much earlier in the morning of May 13 to avert the incidents we certainly cannot agree that Tun Razak should have chosen to create the impression that NEP was needed as a way to explain away the riots without having to take responsibility. At the same time NEP gave him the excuse to play racial politics to the hilt to get UMNO entrenched in power.
Tun Razak promised that NEP was to be implemented for 20 years and the target of Malays participation by then in business would attain Malays’ ownership of 30% of equity share capital in corporate sector, in the country. That the 30% as a target threshold level should be based on the total equity at the end of the plan period at 1990 should be self evident. It means that NEP should end for all other sectors then, and that government funds such as the windfall gains through oil revenues should have been used to hold shares in trust for Malays. Indeed the GLC should have served the purpose. It was illogical to insist that the 30% level should be maintained at all time.
The 30% target was set without taking into consideration how it would be possible to prevent poor Malays from getting jealous of the rich Malays especially when they obtain their wealth at the expense of other Malaysians while the Malays were encouraged at the same time to become jealous of other communities who earned their wealth. It was also illogical to pretend that Malays belong to a homogeneous group of persons capable of being classified on anthropological ground as evidenced by the definition of Malays as adopted under article 160 of the constitution. A tautological classification was adopted where Malays were classified as one who practices Malay culture among the other two requirements in terms of language and religion. Thus only religion is the only clear-cut criterion and the UMNO is eying the 1.2 billion Muslims around the world as Pseudo-Malays. It certainly would be an insult to the Islamic religion if Muslims are deemed weak and require affirmative action.
NEP as formulated by Tun Razak and implemented beyond the promised period serves only the Islam religion and Muslims rather than the country.