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Dr M’s legacy for all the world to see
March 21, 2014
FMT LETTER: From Stephen Ng, via e-mail
So, Dr Mahathir Mohamad, in his recent lecture at University Malaya wants to be remembered as the man who helped one percent of the country’s population become super-rich, while Najib Abdul Razak, his blue eye boy will be the Prime Minister who is impoverishing the middle- and lower-income group through his drastic subsidies cut and GST?
Mahathir must not forget his squabble with Australian Prime Minister, Paul Keating in his early years as a prime minister. Keating had called him the ‘recalcitrant’, a word that many Malaysians initially took offence to in the early 90s. He was also snubbed by the US Vice President Al-Gore within the same decade. It cannot be that a national leader should come under the criticism of two world leaders.
Looking back, Mahathir was indeed the recalcitrant who has destroyed Malaysia. After nearly 60 years as a nation, we are still fighting who has the right over the use of the word ‘Allah’, and whether the State Enactments were meant to restrictvthe freedom of non-Muslims to use the so-called Islamic word or merely to protect the shallow-faith of Muslims from being easily influenced by words in the way people who are not Muslims.
We are still fighting over race and religion. With the Biro Tata Negara (BTN) that was introduced during his time, many of the people in his generation have been brainwashed that they cannot think beyond the coconut shell that they have found themselves in.
Mahathir said that it was not cronyism, but we as a nation, need the rich people. While it is true that there are some who have become philanthropists, and they deserve the respect from the people, there are others who are hoarding the limelight for the wrong reasons.
Recently, the son of Rosmah Mansor from her first marriage was in the limelight bringing shame to the country. At the same time, a British judge said that a Malaysian couple is clogging precious court time trying to contest a divorce in England. We can go on and on with a 101 examples but I’d like to remind Mahathir of his trip to Mozambique.
In Mozambique, Malaysians have a bad name. The then Southern Bank went on a delegation led by Dr Mahathir himself. It started a branch office there, which subsequently had to be closed down, with many Mozambicans felt they were cheated of their life’s savings!
Not to mention the Perwaja failure which cost the country billions of Ringgit, Mahathir was supposed to start another Proton factory in Mozambique,with his one ‘mega’ dreams to expand into the African market, but until today, Proton cars are still rare in that part of the world. This is what has happened to our country’s coffers over the entire period when he was prime minister.
Shame on Mahathir! His 22 years as prime minister has failed to build up the talents in the country to be able to handle the most difficult crisis. This is exactly what we are seeing in the past two weeks. Since the MH370 aircraft went missing, the country has come under heavy criticisms from within (both politicians and ordinary men on the street) as well as harsh condemnation from people who understand the airline industry well.
As rakyat, when we read these stories from the international media, one thing is sure: We have totally lost our confidence in our present cabinet and the ruling coalition. As one celebrated Malaysian author puts it: “Confidence in our leadership is brittle, and it takes little for frustrations to boil over.”
In my opinion, Barisan Nasional has long overstayed the Malaysian hospitality, and God is fair, He will make sure that our leaders reap what they sow. If the same people continue to lead the country, it will go through one crisis after another until a new Government sanctioned by the rakyat takes over.
Throughout the entire period, Najib was more interested with his chicken talk, rather than to take charge of the search and rescue (SAR) efforts. He is giving more time to talk about a RM1 a bird ‘cock-and-bull’ story than to try to recover the missing aircraft with 239 people on board. In the spiritual sense, I guess, Najib does not even realise that the blood of these people are on his head.
Just before he kicks the bucket, Mahathir should realise that the Australians are the people who came to our aid to fight the Communists during the Emergency. Now, with the missing MH370, it is also the Australians who are working around the clock to help relocate the missing aircraft although it was the Malaysian maverick who antagonised Australia on a number of occasions during his tenure as prime minister.
As one looks back, Malaysia has been in the bad books of the international media because of a long history of bad relationships caused by Dr Mahathir Mohamad himself that his successor, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was trying to mend.