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Date Posted: 20:29:39 09/24/06 Sun
Author: Mahathir Mohammad (Look after your own rice bowls)
Subject: Mahathir hits out at MM Lee's comments on Chinese
In reply to: Mahathir Mohammad 's message, "Mahathir hits out at MM Lee's comments on Chinese" on 20:28:29 09/24/06 Sun

karl said...
My dear Malaysian friends,

malay or non malay and bumis and non-bumis. Listen to me carefully and I'm going to be honest about what I'm going to say. As a SINGAPOREAN malay I'm very proud to be a SINGAPOREAN. Unlike Malaysian malay, we MELAYU SINGAPORE need to work hard to get what we want to be. It's not true that if some of you still think that no MELAYU in the Military, Its not true that the MELAYU(S) never made it to UNI, (I'm one of them). There are nothing compare to all of you, which you guys are being categories for being bumi and non bumi.... as for us Singaporean ... we are singaporean and therefore all of us are bumis.

Once again I want to make myself clear that I'm proud being a Singaporean MELAYU !!!!!!!!!! Bukan mengampu atau membodek.. But like what we malays always say... DIMANA LANGIT DIPIJAK DISITU LANGIT KUJUNJUNG...

MAJULAH SINGAPURA

Monday, September 25, 2006 12:14:09 AM
karl said...
MALUNYA AKU..... KORANG TAK MALU KE

Monday, September 25, 2006 12:17:30 AM
Anti-Corruption guy said...
Kepada Saudara NEXXXTPM:

Salam and May Peace Be Upon You.

I thought that I highlighted to you that your comments on MT are entirely unacceptable.....You are really a disgrace to US MALAYS. As I have said in my previous post, your statements are bordering on being a criminal similar along the lines of the Nazis. Please stop being a bigot because right now as I'm starting to think it has something to do with your upbringing.

If you can't resist spewing your verbal diarrhoea then please go to the 'Swimming Pool' section.

Good luck in your next post.


Selamat Berpuasa Saudara NexxtPM.

Monday, September 25, 2006 12:32:41 AM
Shahidan said...
It seems MOST bloggers on the MT site suffer from an inability to discuss serious issues rationally. Every issue under discussion is seen through racial lenses and crudely argued from that perspective. If such moronic race-hate mongering is allowed to become the dominant discourse among our citizens, I fear May 13th may seem like a tea party in the aftermath of what could be brought about by this mindset. We all owe it to ourselves to tackle many of the national problems through robust rational arguments. In opposing restrictions on our democratic rights and civil liberties, as many of these bloggers seem to demand, our objective must surely be to encourage the flowering of rational debate.

Lee Kuan Yew's comments referred to in the wire services lend further proof to the fact that he is a frustrated racist who was denied a larger stage to act out his Anglophilia upon Singapore's expulsion from Malaysia. His racist references to the genetic superiority of the Chinese have been debunked by scholars all over the world.

Those Malaysians who hero worship this repressor and consider his ideas on the Chinese attributes of being harder working and smarter than the natives may want to explain why China, their homeland, has been one of the poorest nations on earth for the past 200 years. Did the Chinese people not work hard then? Did the genetic attributes referred to by Lee happen only in the last few decades when the Chinese economy has begun to boom along its coastal regions and were all Chinese lazy opium smokers, as described by western writers, in the past? And if the Chinese were so intellectually superior how come small European countries could defeat it - as they did Indonesia, Malaysia and Indochina -and colonise it and carve it out among themselves? And how come before China's revolution, which wrested national sovereignty for its people, the Chinese were treated like dogs when the parks in Shanghai had big notices declaring 'No dogs or Chinese allowed'?

The answers to these questions cannot be understood in the the racist rantings of Lee Kuan Yew, but can only be understood in the context of the anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist struggles of the peoples of Asia to carve out their own destinies. In a word, the answers lie not in genetics but in sociology and economics. Had it not been for China's revolution, China would not have been able to lift some 300 million people out of abject poverty in the last couple of decades.

China is only too well aware of Lee Kuan Yew's role in making Singapore a cog in the US 'containtment of China' policy. It has become a naval platform for the US Navy. As a littoral state in the Malacca Straits, the US finds Singapore's support for its proposed military intrusion in this choke point, on the pretext of combating potential terrorism, most welcome. The rewards for sucking up to the US includes prioritising Singapore as an investment destination and elevating the leader of this tiny population into an Asian 'statesman'. Never mind that he violates every democratic principle in the book: no tolerance for any opposition, the closing down with impunity of any newspaper that dares to criticize big brother Lee and his PAP cronies, the imprisoning without trial of trade union leaders, student leaders and even religious and NGO activists, not to mention trumped up charges against opposition leaders who are bankrupted by politically appointed judges. Principles which we are reminded daily by the US and British leadership for going to war in Iraq seem irrelevant in this crony's fiefdom. Meanwhile, Bush never tires haranguing China's leaders for lacking in this department.

If LKY is so clever, how come he plays lap dog to Bush and Blair? Is it any wonder the Chinese see Lee Kuan Yew and his Junior as running dogs of the US. The Chinese consider Malaysia a more important friend because of our South-South pro-China stance against the West.

Finally, just a couple of points on the economic performance of Malaysia and Singapore. As anyone who has a basic grasp of political economy will explain, the defining characteristic of a third world economy is its rural sector with a large peasant population which is engaged in activities yielding low value and productivity. In contrast, the urban sector is defined by its high value output of industrial goods and services and leading on to knowledge-based activities.

At the point of independence, Malaysia had all the attributes of a developing agricultural economy with policies aimed at transiting into industrialisation through import- substitution and modernising its rural sector. Singapore had none of the problems associated with having a lagging rural economic sector. Lee Kuan Yew's book 'From Third World To First World' is, therefore, itself a fraud because it never had the transition problems of a Third World economy. As a city-state which tolerated no alternative views and wa allied with the West in all the major international conflicts of the era, including the US war of aggression against Vietnam,, it was able to embark on its capital formation journey unimpeded.

As the brain drain began to be seriously felt in the last couple of decades, it must be acknowledged Singapore has adapted itself to the challenge by welcoming talent from everywhere. Many aggrieved Malaysians who have been denied scholarships or jobs have been lapped up by Singapore. Herein, Malaysian leaders need to rethink and change course in some of their policies by bringing in greater flexibility and fairness. It is tantamount to shooting ourselves in the foot when we deny our talent the support they so badly need. I refer particularly to scholarships and loans to needy students regardless of race. They are the potential brainpower that will be taking the nation to the next level of growth and developemnt. I am reminded of the 14-year old Chinese student from Seremban several years ago, who, at that age, was already dabbling in Newtonian maths. The father, himself a maths teacher, had been running from agency to agency to secure a scholarship, but to no avail. I believe he was eventually given a sholarship by the States. Such inexplicably stupid decisions have been made hundreds of times over and need to be urgently addressed. Singapore's bureaucracy is also much more responsive to the needs of its people. We can learn from them on that score. For a start, we must get tough on discipline in the bureaucracy to ensure efficiency and on-time product delivery.

We have many things going for us in Malaysia. We should be brutally critical about our shortcomings with a view to overcoming them. The continued racial slurs by bloggers is getting stale, tiresome and boring and does not contribute positively to the discourse.

Monday, September 25, 2006 1:28:21 AM
d_BigFoot said...
Better to call a spade a spade

Kim Quek

......
Lee Kuan Yew’s comments have understandably riled many Malaysian leaders particularly those in the ruling coalition, but he should also have struck resonance among many who have silently put up with these unjust policies all these years.

As for the great silent majority in this country, they should now ponder what would serve their interests best: to save face by angrily rebutting Lee Kuan Yew or to stare at the ugly truth bravely and institute changes that will put the nation on the right path?....

Right on, Kim, you go girl! You've spoken the thoughts of many.

And to those who feel the same but voiced differently to "save face" or to "keep their jobs", these are unprincipled men, perhaps taking the path of "dying in quiet desperation" is a better alternative. To do otherwise, you're not acting in the best interest of the country, in the long run.

Monday, September 25, 2006 10:20:19 AM
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