Mahathir’s views as reported in Malaysian Insider
[Dr M : Struggle for PM post dividing Malays empowering minorities UPDATED @ 05 14 23 PM 09-02-2013 By Zurairi AR February 09 2013 KUALA LUMPUR Feb 9 — ///–Malaysian Insider]

///Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today likened the Malay politicians in both Barisan Nasional BN and Pakatan Rakyat PR to “political beggars” saying their scramble to be prime minister has led them to plead for support from the country’s minority races.///– The author

It would appear that only the person who was not Malay but pretended to be one was entitled to be Prime Minister to make his family billionaire many times over, and other Malays including that of Bugis descent are political beggars if they offer to serve the country. Politicians plead for support from the citizens for their policies. It is only a racist would think about asking of the support only from the race he is said to be identified with. It is the racist of the worst kind who had made the statement to the effect that the interest of person not identified with him should be ignored, and worse still the people from the minority groups, implying that they are weak numerically, should be bullied. Had this been said by an unknown human, he might be thought to be stupid; but as a person who had served as Prime Minister, he is worst than dictator. He shows that he has no sense of civility, fairness, righteousness, and decency of a human. There exists the Seditious Act which forbids Malaysians making hurtful remarks to incite racial hatred among Malaysians and yet this person openly calls for racial confrontation with impunity.

///The influential Umno veteran pointed out that while these minority groups become more politically powerful the Malays were becoming increasingly divided by fighting among themselves “The majority is split into three we’re fighting among ourselves ” the former prime minister said “Umno PAS PKR all have become beggars ” He likened the situation to the strife between the Islamic sects of Sunnis and Shiites in the Arabic world which has resulted in violence and killings .///–the author

Nowhere else in the world do we hear politicians calling for the people to group together by race or religion to gain political power with the sole intention of denying the minority their legitimate right for fair treatment and assistance from the state except in Malaysia. It is most astonishing to the world that the person making such pleas comes from a former Prime Minister. It only shows he had practiced rule by law to suits his whim and fancies in a government which acted more like a gang of robbers.

Dr Mahathir also compared the disunity to how the Malays were united when they were fighting against the British rule “Back then when we were fighting the British we had political strength The Malays were united under Umno “.The British became so afraid seeing Malays united that they had to drop the Malayan Union ”

The British did not offer Independent until Tunku led a multiracial delegation to negotiate independence for Malaya.

///The former prime minister then insisted that he was not being racist but conceded that the Malays have yet to catch up in both economic and political fields I want to see if we re able to distribute our country s riches and powers fairly not that we want to grab others rights but we should get what is rightfully ours he told the crowd.///–the author

There are many billionaires who claim that they are Malays. Mamakthir maybe right that true Malays have not caught up and those pseudoMalays who masquerade as Malays have succeeded in economic fields. Indeed when a few tens of Malays who are billionaires many times over, such as Mamakthir’s son owning San Miguel brewery in the Philippines said to be worth 29 billion ringgit, other Malays really need to catch up with them. Malaysia has been practicing two-systems by race in social economic spheres since 1957 for Malays to catch up. 56 years later, only a few tens of so-called Malays jumped so high that other Malays have real problem catching up. Sadly, most of the highly successful NEWMalays are Mamaks rather than P. Ramlee type of Malays.

If Mamakthir had not changed the world-wide practice of government procurement through public tender to his negotiated contracts, his family members and cronies would not be so rich and other Malays so poor. Maybe there were insufficient Malays who can be said to be poor that he had to engineer the citizenship-for-vote scheme in Sabah. The NewMalay immigrants not only helped Mamakthir stole the election, they also make up the number of bumiputras who need help. That too forms the basis when Mamakthir talks about Malays having to catch up in economic field. Which Malays?

///Dr Mahathir repeated his calls for Malaysians to give BN a new mandate by handing a two-thirds majority to the ruling coalition in the next elections to ensure a strong government He had earlier suggested that if any citizen wishes to revoke the citizenship of any dissident parties in Malaysia they can only do so by amending the constitution. However the constitution can only be amended when two-thirds or more of the Parliament agree to the changes. If you want to amend the constitution then you need two-thirds majority.///–the author

The above shows clearly that Mamakthir believes only in parliamentary dictatorship. He needs two-third majority to silence any support and voices calling for true democracy to be practiced in the country. With that Mamakthir will have his son installed as Ayatollah PM in the country.

///Furthermore without the majority we would have a weak government which will be pushed over by the opposition leading to inappropriate decisions he told reporters.///–Mamakthir

Najib has belatedly projected an image that he cared about the living conditions of non-Malays and that must be the inappropriate decision resulting from weak government. Mamakthir wants Najib to be as discriminatory against non-Malays as he has been. Mamakthir said that Najib would lose his position if the election results for UMNO were not better than previously. Mamakthir is calling for UMNO members to put pressure on Najib to revert to UMNO racist stand which would make sure that Indians and Chinese would not support BN, and thus BN would have a reduced majority so that his son will smell the DPM position.

///Last month Dr Mahathir warned Malaysians against voting for change arguing that it will result in a weak government that will hinder economic progress He also claimed that the current government headed by Datuk Seri Najib Razak was considered weaker than previous ones.///–the Author

If the “previous one” refers to Abdullah AB who was considered useless and deserving to be replaced, then Najib being worse than AAB is due to be sacked even before he called for election. That is calling UMNO members to revolt. Najib knows now how AAB truly felt in the days when he decided not to defend his Presidency. AAB is at least a human. Why did Najib accept Mamakthir back to UMNO?
/// A weak government will in turn have to resort to meeting demands and delivering handouts in order to satisfy all parties he said When you see a government that is weak that has only a small majority then all sorts of criticism and demands will be made against them.[he said ] If there is a strong government with a two-thirds majority the government can expect full support from the parliament and from the people as well.///–Mamakthir
Mamakthir claims as always that silence is consent; whether that silence is forced onto the person does not matter. When there is two-third majority in parliament the dictator can be as corrupt as what we have seen. The people who are too scared of rule by law could only wish that the dictator would die sooner, and continue wishing the former dictator would die soon so that the country can recover sooner.