50 Year of Fragile and Brittle Reminder

In a PREPARED speech, Prime Minister Abdullah said while the Malays were the driving force behind the push for independence, they DECIDED to work with the Chinese and Indians as they realised that such a co-operation is the ONLY WAY to ensure victory against the British.

"The rebellion of the Straits Chinese was the signal that the push for Independence was for ALL races," PM recalled history.

Admitting that race relations were still fragile and brittle, Abdullah urged all Malaysians to mend fences and unite, or the country would face a bleak future. Abdullah said history was a good teacher and Malaysians should learn from what had happened in the past in order to move forward.

"One weakness that we have is that the present generation (of leadership) does not share the spirit of independence," Abdullah said. "We must unite as Malaysians to take the world."

Great words used by the Prime Minister! It's motivating and morally uplifting, but the spirit of these words must be wholly shared by all, not just the others while exceptions made within UMNO itself (as observed at the recent general assembly).

The denial of the elementary protections and benefits by our system of mutual forbearances to any class of citizens willing to accept the corresponding restrictions had offended the principles of morality and justice to which our leaders in our modern society pays, at the rate, lip service.

Every Malaysians, except those rhetorical leaders at the UMNO general assembly, could have agreed to the spirit as enunciated by our leader, and every Malaysian should be prepared to unite as one Bangsa Malaysia - Malaysia for the Malaysians. But unity is often marred by the very essence of all the political speeches made by those leaders who shouted prejudices that puts fear unto others, while attempting to seek capricious wealth and extreme rights by means of bigotry, at the expense of natural justice and the stability of government by the people, and for the people.

Justice is the application of the rules that consists in taking seriously the notion that what is to be applied to a multiplicity of different persons is the same general rule, undeflected by prejudice, interest or caprice.

The distinction between "what are RIGHTS" and "what RIGHTS ought to be" must be kept separate as it might caused rift that do more harm than good, without counting the cost to society. The associated cost is the risk that the centrally organized power may well be used for the oppression of of the minorities including some within the majority by way of exceptions and ultra distinctions. With a governmental system that is narrow and exclusive, and of which is run in the interests of the dominant group, it had been made continually more repressive and unstable with the latent threat of upheaval. Legal validity to iniquitous rules and claims of rights had been made as law and this offers no disguise for the choice between evils. For those oppressed, there are nothing in the system to command their loyalty and only things to fear. They are the system victims.

The stability of the nation depends upon the influence of both the accepted social morality and the wider moral ideals and these influences enter into law through legislation and legislative decision-making based on the precepts of a dominant group. At such, the legislative systems and good government depends upon such types of correspondence with morality.

A good governmental system must rest on a sense of moral obligation or on the conviction of the moral value of the system, since it does not and cannot rest on mere power of man from the dominant over men of the suppressed. It is pointless to point out a social obligation if the speaker whose organization have conclusive reasons to urge against fulfilling it. There is indeed no reason why those who accept the authority of the system and who had been oppressed, should not examine their conscience and decide that, morally they ought not to accept it, except for the fact of brutal coercion by the dominant power. It is therefore important that the natural fact of approximate equality between men is of crucial importance in the efficacy of the system of government that is envisaged within the notion made by the Prime Minister yesterday.