///Which brings to question the entire value system that is being practised. It has nothing to do with religion or race. These people’s values are guiding them to believe that they are right.///–Black Swan

One would have believed that a person who profess a certain religion would have accepted the teachings of the religion. Indeed religion teaches value, apart from promising to lead the people to where they should go, based on their performance in life, after life.

So the value one practices should have to do with the religion; unless the person is seen to be practising the religion but is not religious.

In a democracy, the people offer their services to serve others. They are chosen based mainly on what they promise to do for others, and they have to demonstrate that they are capable to do so. What they promise would mean delivery of the values the people treasure. But the value system which the people adopt can change.

When the people merely practice the teaching of religions, they put value on virtues, as are taught in schools. But that values have to be acquired by the persons concerned just like one gains benefits from doing exercise. But politicians find the short-cut to make the electorates treasure values that they could offer.

UMNO politicians started to make the Malays feel the fear of losing its identity, and thus unity became an important value to the Malay community. It was not that Malays had anything to fear about the race disappearing under the sun. But by threatening the risk, Malay voters vote UMNO in general elections. With number, they were able to ensure that UMNO returns to power all the time.

The Malays are peaceful by nature. But some others non-Malays who had the qualifications under article 160 of Malaysian constitution to masquerade as Malay saw it an opportunity to build on Malay unity to enrich a group of people whose wealth are at his command, to perpetuate his rule. By claiming that the objective of NEP was to create Malay millionaires, he was able to change the system of public tender as have been the norm of government procurement, to negotiated tender. With that change, the person who is most powerful effectively put public funds as his kitty. It has become legal to transfer public funds into private pockets. It is then simple to use public funds to buy political support. Now the persons who belong to the powerful party in government chase after power, and with power comes wealth. Soon, power and wealth becomes chicken and egg. But money stays when power is gone, and thus money becomes the most important value. When end justifies the means corruption becomes institutionalized.

Funny thing though the person who started the mother of all corruptions is able to condemn UMNO for presiding over the government which tolerates corruption. Yet UMNO politicians say that the statement was made out of love for UMNO. He must have meant it for UMNO Bahru, as the person who condemns the present UMNO killed the original UMNO.

The present UMNO leaders only value money. Else how would a Wanita chief dare to divert project funds to by condominium. Oh, she was not aware about what was done by the husband. They might not sleep on the same bed!