///47. Contrary to the shallow interpretations of certain quarters, the NEP posed no harm to the non-Malays. As proof, after two decades of its implementation, in 1990, the non-Malays continued to hold the largest equity in the country’s wealth, while their average household income was still the highest among the races in Malaysia.///–Najib in his UMNO GA speech

Najib considers all interpretations different to his as shallows. But the statement that NEP poses no harm to the non-Malays is not only a statement in denial it is arrogant telling non-Malays that the racial discrimination policy will remain, forever. Non-Malays who hoped that the 20-year discrimination would end, based on the promise made by Tun Razak, Najib’s late father cursed their luck that Razak had a short life, believing that Razak might honour his promise. Hearing the words from Razak’s son, they would now think that Razak’s longevity would not matter, and any non-Malay who hopes that UMNO would change its institutionalized racism are now warned. A vote for BN is a vote for the continuation of racial discrimination and the prime Minister has decreed that it poses no harm to those who smart the pain.

If NEP is not harmless to non-Malays, why should there not be a change of role between Malays and non-Malays? Let the non-Malays enjoy the 7% discount to be paid by Malays who form the majority of the population. NEP had gone for 40 years now and it is time now that there should be a role reversal among the beneficiaries and the discriminated. Having used that as an argument, and as Malaysian, I would not want unfair practices based on race.

It would be practising racism to divide the people into beneficiaries and providers, and yet Najib declare that UMNO is not racist. How could his statement that the persons who are the victims of institutionalized discrimination suffer no harm square with his call at the United Nations for moderation. Is there racist who is moderate? Maybe Najib is the best moderate of his kind who is also racist.

May be it is too difficult for Najib to understand why non-Malays are smarting the pain, or does he pretend? Maybe najib needs an example to understand. Let’s say that one takes a taxi ride, does Najib think that it is proper for the passenger to pay for taxi fare? Najib’s answer would be it depends on who the taxi driver and the passenger are. If Chinese drives, and Malays are the passengers, Najib would argue that the taxi driver also reaches the destination, and he enjoys the ride too. So it is fair that there should be no payment.

Najib mentioned that after two decades of its implementation in 1990, the non-Malays continued to hold the largest equity in the country’s wealth was proof that non-Malays suffer no harm. May be Najib thought that there was only one rich none Malay in the country and he was not affected by NEP because he was rich. If Najib was an ignorant school boy, he could be excused for being brainwashed into believing his own statement. Najib should know though there are non-Malays in the country who hold huge equity share capitals in the corporate sectors, there are other non-Malays who are in the middle class and below, and there are others around or below poverty line too. These non-Malays are barred from getting fair treatment in education opportunities or scholarships which Najib knew very well was the ladder for social mobility and for climbing out of poverty. But UMNO considers that since there were non-Malays tycoons, other non-Malays should be made to pay as if they had a share into the wealth of the tycoons. If Najib‘s skull is too thick to understand that wealth is an individual matter, and that the wealth of Daim Zainuddin would have very little to do with other Malays, he should ask to share his brother’s wealth. (Oops, I am sorry; Najib might be richer than his brothers add together!) So what good is Daims wealth to other Malays when UMNO concentrate in making billionaires out of Malays, and doctoring statistics on equity ownership to show that the target of the 30% had not been achieved?

If Najib is a true racist, and if he feels that fighting for his race includes ensuring that the wealth in the country should concentrate in the hands of Malays, he should just announce that all rich tycoons should be converted to call themselves Malays. Since Najib is happy to accept any Muslims as UMNO member, why not make rich non-Malay tycoons Malays and there is no need to waste resources doing statistics adding the wealth of the people by race. Najib would not do it, not because he is not a racist, it is because NEP would then has no excuse to remain.

///49. Another success story was the increase in the number of Malay/Bumiputera professionals. If we look into the matter, during the early part of its implementation in the 1970s, there were only about five per cent Malay and Bumiputera professionals. This had now increased to 45 per cent as a result of the NEP and its other contemporary policies.///–Najib
Malaya achieved Independence on 1957. Children entering school in 1957 would have just completed high school by 1969 when statistics showed that Malays formed 5 per cent of the professionals. So 95% are non-Malays who could very well be mainly foreigners. As Najib mentioned in his speech:” 37. After winning the fight for peace, we declared war on poverty and backwardness. As mentioned just now, this was something which should be done because in the early independence era, over 89 per cent of Malayan people were living in rural and interior areas, with high illiteracy rate, low access to education, coupled with lack of infrastructure facilities.”, non-Malay Malayans too had low access to education, and the professionals who were in the country then be mainly migrants, just like Mamakthir’s father who was a headmaster in a school in Alor Star. The fact was Mamakthir’s father was trained overseas before coming to Penang. Similarly we can expect professionals in other fields were mainly migrants since the education opportunities in pre-independence days were limited. It is to be expected too that the absolute number of professionals in 1970 might be a tenth of what it is today.

Is it Najib’s intention to say that the increase to 45 % among Malays professional is purely a result of NEP whereby the government arranged for a low passing grade for degree award? Obviously, the professionals who are qualified do not need tempering both in terms of admission to tertiary education, or substandard passing grades. Until 1987 Malaysia’s judiciary system was among the best in Common Wealth countries. There were many talented Malay judges, and they did not have NEP to facilitate their entry to the profession. To quote statistics on the number of professionals in proving the contribution to Malays attainment in the professional fields is to insult Malay professionals. The perverted system of Kulitocracy in Malaysia’s university admission and scholarship awards only allow those who do not have the aptitude for tertiary educations to hijack education facilities from the qualified and needy Malaysians born of the wrong race. The end results were the emergence of unemployable graduates who had to hide their university degree so as to apply for non-graduate jobs. UMNO gave sugar-coated poisons to Malays making them believe that the policy was for the good of the race when in fact it is their votes in the election that UMNO is after.

///80. We are not like our opponents. I give you the first example, Parti A, the post of de facto leader is not chosen along democratic lines, he is more powerful than the party’s president. My second example, Party B, a party which uses the name “democratic” but is not democratic at all. What is democratic about this party if its divisional delegates choose 20 central committee members and then the 20 members of the central committee in turn choose the party leaders? This clearly goes to show that it does not reflect the wants of the majority of the party’s members.///–Najib’s speech in UMNO GA

It is quite interesting to hear a comment like one in Pasar coming out of the mouth of none other than the Prime Minister of a country. In Asia where Asian value is practiced, women give respect to their husband, in public, and they do not want to outshine the husband even though she is holding the more important official position. There is other of course who claims a position where she is not.

As for the selection of party leader on two stages of election, it is a rule where everybody follows. There is nothing undemocratic in the election process. UMNO changes its party election procedures based on whether the President was confident about his win, and all kinds of hurdles were erected just so that the President gets elected every term. The original UMNO constitution provides that anybody can offer to stand for any elective office so long as he gets nomination from two members. Now Tengku Razaleigh, who is clearly superior to Najib, cannot get a chance to receive judgement from UMNO GA.

UMNO has a system of party hierarchy which ensures that people have a life long career in politics. Of course the sons and daughter of the powers-that-be can enjoy party connections. Najib would not be where he is if not for his father. Now sons of former UMNO warlords are eyeing his position.

///95. But this is not the case. These people, despite not being in power as yet, are already behaving like “kaduk naik junjung” (a person of lowly stature when given a high position feels as if he is a noble person and acts arrogantly). They also make empty promises easily (lidah tidak bertulang), saying that if they came into power, they would get rid of
half of the number of civil servants (in the country). What do they mean by that, do they want to get rid of 200,000 teachers? Who will teach our children?
Not all can afford to send their children to private schools.///–Najib’s speech in UMNO GA

Civil servants in Malaysia have the largest share of workforce (at 4% plus) which is twice or thrice that of other countries, such as in Thailand. The teachers might not be in excess, but the clerical work dumped to the teachers are clearly too much. That is because more civil servants create more paper work to keep themselves occupied. If the civil servants in the non-teaching occupations could be streamlined, the number of teachers might be reduced when they only concentrate on teaching. Indeed civil services expand to hire the unemployable graduates. They and other civil servants should be put to active use for the production of goods and services, not to consume government funds.

///96. And if that is not enough, they also want to terminate the services of half our doctors and nurses, whereas not all Malaysians can afford to get treatment in private hospitals. They also want to terminate the services of half of police force and army? And if that were to be the case, who should we turn to for our security and that of our family?///–Najib’s speech

There might be a need to reorganize health services in government hospitals which might result in savings of manpower who can then take up private employment. It does not mean that the people who needed government health services cannot access them. It just means that professional services are better utilized.

In the police force, at least half of the traffic police control should be reassigned, and excess police force should be terminated. It is not uncommon to see groups of policemen waving motorists to pull over at places which hardly had accident, and their presence to bother motorists serves only to keep themselves occupied, and more….

A cut on the number of arm forces staff would also reduce the need to purchase military toys to keep them occupied. That saves a lot of money on ‘negotiated professional services’ such as the purchase of the once un-submergible Scorpion submarine.

Malaysians have to protect their family; they never rely on the police force, unlike perhaps UMNO ministers. There is no security problem for the country as long as we do not raise our fist first.

///97. This is the fate that will befall us if UMNO loses its power. Who will defend Islam? Who will defend the rights and agenda of the Malays? And who can be counted upon to continue honouring our Rulers? We should try to find answers
to these questions.///–Najib

If UMNO loses power, then we should be able to recover billions of ringgit which corrupted ministers and their cronies had stolen from government coffers. We should be able to re-examine all the negotiated contracts awarded to highway concessionaires. New UMNO leaders can also get old leaders to account for the funds which belong to UMNO.

The right of every citizen in the country is assured by the constitution. There would not be the person who thinks who knows what are good for Malays and who demands that Malays behave in the way he wants. (Remember the persons who accused Malays for forgetting easily; as if Malays are indebted to him for causing the worst corruptions in the country). Malays are free then to do what they choose as their own agenda in life.

The Rulers will remain Constitutional Monarch. They have their role, but UMNO always utilizes the position of Rulers for political purposes. Remember how many times Mamakthir insulted the Rulers! Yet Najib insinuates that the common citizens are unkind to the Rulers.

Islam has 1 billion and more followers in the world. Muslims in Malaysia has only 1% of the total. Does Najib want Malays to believe UMNO is doing the work of defending Islam for the rest of Muslims in the world? Islam is larger than UMNO, and it is a joke that a giant needs a dwarf to defend it.