Clearly the police is overstaffed to be able to assign policemen to question the students over ten hours as if they were hardcore criminals. Yet there are all kinds of crime awaiting policemen and they were not forth coming.

The Interlok is obviously not suitable as a text book, and yet Muhyiddin insisted. Is Najib asleep while the controversy ensues?

The country is terribly politicized that policemen found it necessary to defend UMNO policy as if defending their honour. Their only understanding of the matter is that UMNO is government and it is government by the Malay.

The problems of NEP was a continuation of Article 153. Had there been an advent of computer technology in the 1950s, it would be possible for the leaders then to think about making a register of those who needed special assistance instead of profiling them as in a race. Computer technology came into being in the 1960s, and correction could have been made. But Tun Razak and a different idea. Hussein Onn was weak, and Mamakthir saw the opportunity to cheat. Now Najib pretends to be on tiger’s back and so he could not climb down NEP for the fear of being eaten. Can you trust him?

///Dr Mahathir Mohamad said that Malays still need government assistance because the New Economic Policy did not achieve its goal. Even among the few successful Malay entrepreneurs, most cannot compete…///–Malaysiakini

It is as though life is a constant contest for winning prizes, and thus people must compete. Usually one views competition between two individuals on something which can be measured in a tangible way. In a boxing match the loser floors. In a 100 meter race, the winner reaches the goal post first. In an examination the scores determine winner. Even in a beauty contest where the judgement might not be objective, there is still a system to tally the score and come out with a certain winner. In a football game, there is specific way in deciding that a team wins, and get rewarded.

Competition is devoid of the meaning when comparison is made about the accumulated holdings or wealth held or owned by persons grouped by race or religion. Yet the nebulous concept of wealth held by a community became the policy objective of NEP. The government since 1970 have been demanding that 30% of all listed companies be allotted to by Malays. The government never explain how the wealth owned by, say, Daim Ibrahim, the richest Malay billionaire, would benefit people in his own kampong in Kedah. Najib announced that 51 billion units of share out of 52 billion issued to Malays under the NEP had been sold. Najib did not bother to count the wealth held by Malays which the 51 billion units of share had since been turned into, such as becoming financial assets overseas, and yet he claims that what are left do not make up the 30%. Najib being trained as economist in UK University should understand that one cannot have the cake and eat it. It is pure bullying to claim that the target had not been reached when no effort is made to account for what had been legitimately turned into as parallel assets. But then everybody in the world knows that the claim of the shortfall in NEP target is just to pretend that the government would have honoured its promise, made by none others than Najib’s late father Tun Razak who declared that NEP for twenty years. It is now 41 years and counting.

Mamakthir announced that Malays still need NEP-tongkat. He must have been very happy to make such announcement, and his audience must be proud and satisfied too. The late Tun Dr. Ismail said that Malays would voluntarily give up Article 153 of the Malaysian Constitution when they no longer need it, out of pride. Tun Ismail would have regretted that he had to declare that Malays after 54 years of being placed under the special position for needing assistance would still be requiring government care. But Mamakthir did not appear to dreadful making that pronouncement.

If there are Malays who still required government assistance based on need assessment the government should just identify them. The computer can store the details of all those who need assistance unlike the time of independence it was considered convenient to classify the needy person by race. Let us say that there are still half a million family who need help under article 153, government assistance should be provided directly to them rather than to the other 15 million who are classified with the persons needing help. The policy of affirmative action indiscriminately extended to the other 15 million persons not registered for assistance is not only uneconomical, it creates unfair competition and unjust society in addition to causing racial polarization.

The persons who attended the talk given by Mamakthir in Jitra Kedah are not the persons who needed assistance. Mamakthir would still place himself in the classification of the special position needing government assistance. They were undoubtedly very happy with the declaration that Malays still need assistance because in the name of those Malays they are again pressing for unfair advantage to be extended indefinitely. Mamakthir is popular with the Malays who want the unfair advantage to remain, forever.

Mamakthir said that he is not a racist. If one is happy and proud that his adopted race cannot progress so that he continues to have the excuse to appear a Malay hero, he can’t love his adopted race. How can one be a racist when he does not even care for the pride of the race? He only uses race as an issue to advance his interest. The correct description of him is racial opportunist.

This is an example of the police controlling the mind of Malaysians. The students have violated no law in the country, and so the police has no reason to even talk to them, let alone hold them for 10 hours. ISA is to prevent crime. Does the police suggest that returning books to school constitute crime? If so, then they are not professional. Or do they consider returning books to school is a form of political activity? If the police hauled up the students before they considered them involve themselves with political thought, then police is using ISA to interfere in politics, since there is no other law in the country which gave police the authority to hold the students for questioning. Maybe now the police are above the law.

They are all needed, all seven of them, so that there are persons to tell if others ‘chose’ to commit suicide.