///Born in Kuala Lipis, Ghazali was 88 at the time of his death in January 2010. He had a distinguished career in politics and government.

Many bigots, opportunists and self-serving leaders of today will probably dismiss those remarks on the New Economic Policy as just one man’s opinion. If they are ignorant of history, they may even question his authority.///–Stanley koh

Ghazali Shafie was the preferred candidate for the position of DPM when Hussein Onn was PM. Unfortunately Tengku Razaleigh, Ghafar Baba and Mamakthir confronted Hussein Onn to have one of the three Vice Presidents appointed DPM, and Tengku Razaleigh committed the sin in supporting Maamkthir as DPM rather than taking the position himself, and Ghafar Baba resigned from the Cabinet.
Hussein Onn was right to have chosen Ghazali’s, who would not have utilized NEP for his own wealth creation and made this a corrupt nation. But the political set up in which party positions are held by people who are artful in collusion rather that in demonstrating their capability to serve as statesmen allow opportunists to make politics the most rewarding entrepreneurship. UMNO president for the past half a century was PM, and the short cut to UMNO presidency was racism; Razak, Mamakthir and Najib proved it. To perpetuate control of the party, Mamakthir utilized government funds to buy support within the party and stayed on as PM for 22 years, and Najib would not even implement NEM as the expert group advised.

///He added: “Almost ad nauseam, it was explained that the NEP was not to make the Malay community rich but to change vocations through affirmative action. To acquire riches is the privilege of any individual and it would be contrary to the Rukunegara if the only aim was to make the Malays rich.”///–Ghazali Shafie

Mamakthir declared soon after he ousted Hussein Onn that NEP would have succeeded when he could make a Malay millionaire. To Mamakthir NEP was an opportunity to make anybody a millionaire so long as he is Malay. He declared himself 100% Malay. So his sons too are Malays, and under NEP it was the duty of the government to make his son millionaire, as Mamakthir willed it. Mamakthir has made NEP succeed 1,000 times over as his sons are billionaires.

///“There are no Malay rights since our Constitution holds dear that all persons are equal before the law and entitled to equal protection of the law without discrimination on the basis of race and religion.”
That was what the late Ghazali Shafie said in a speech at the National Unity Convention in May 2001.

He continued: “What perhaps has come to be regarded as special rights is the special position of the Malays and natives of Sabah and Sarawak under Article 153 (of the Federal Constitution). The change from ‘position’ to ‘rights’ is frightening. Who did that, I wonder?///

The distinction between special right and special position was articulated by Lee Kuan Yew in Malaysian parliament in 1964. The same opinion is held by all Malay leaders who would be able to lead the country without resorting to racism. Politicians in UMNO realized the easy ascent to position within UMNO through masquerading themselves as Champion of the race by spreading fear and hatred against other races. Mamakthir said recently in his blog that he was not able to compete with his non-Malays classmates because of the long history of Chinese culture, and he as Malay was disadvantaged. The truth was Pakistanis of the Indian subcontinent too have as long a history as China, and so he beats all Malays to be President of UMNO because he was Indian. The theory he advanced was bullshit, but it shows that even in 2010 he considered it necessary to use fear to urge Malays to support UMNO while he ensures that his son climb into UMNO leadership position.

///He added: “Let us not shift the goal posts when the field is beginning to level. This exercise at maintaining peace and stability must be kept in constant repair.”///

Actually Najib did not even bother to shift the goal post, or to honour the promise. Najib only wants to believe that it is special right that was the raison d’etes for article 153 and not special position. In any case he has engineered the whole party to safeguard the ‘special position’, pretending that they are in that position so that they maintained the special assistance. It is just like people who receive unemployment benefit would claim that they work as hobby rather than engage in gainful employment. That is how they love their ‘race’ by making the ‘race’ dishonest.

Taxidriver :
Loh, limkamput is right. Mamak is still very power-fool. This explains the Penang mamaks’s arrogance. They are hoping to oneday, like Mamakthir, be recognised as Malay muslims. But right now their status is Indian muslims.

Yes. it was my wishful thinking that Mamakthir is out of power, and better still out of this world. I am sure he can still do more harm than other UMNOputras, siding with Ibrahim and other ultra racists. He is only carrying Najib’s balls, and succeeded in influencing Najib to drop Khairy. But then was it not Najib’s first opportunity to clear those who tried to capitalize on the C4 story. Najib is appears to kowtow to Mamakthir for appointeping the nothing to show son of mamakthir who was not even UMNO youth chief. But was it not the best means to snub and hurt Khairy by appointing loser to the post eagerly hoped for by the winner of the UMNO youth position.

Kahiry should kick himself for starting the racist arrogance when his father-in-law was PM, and the grandson of Onn Jafar did not want to be outclassed as racist. That brought down AAB. To the nation’s interest Najib is worse; he is more cunning than AAB and he is smooth with slogan, wasting government tens of million ringgit just to fool those who are willing.