Oon Yeoh publishing an e-mail from our beloved prime minister addressed to the whole spectrum of the Rakyat. But that e-mail is his "dream"; he dream that one day, our Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi would send this e-mail to every Malaysian.
I would like to publish here the same message here and hope that day will come when our beloved prime minister would actually send us one.
‘To: Malaysian voters
From: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Dear fellow Malaysians,
Thank you for voting Barisan Nasional back into power. It is with great honour that I will serve you for another term. I want to share with you what I plan to do in the next four or five years to fulfill your aspirations for the country.
You used your votes to send me a message – a message that I didn't hear earlier, but which I hear now, loud and clear. Yes, it was a wake up call for me and a rude awakening for all of us at BN. We must never take the Malaysian public for granted.
One of the loudest things I hear from you is "No more arrogant, inflammatory and racist rhetoric". I admit several of my outspoken ministers and yes, even my own son-in-law, have said things that hurt the feelings of many segments of our society, especially the non-Malays. I should have rebuked them immediately but I didn't.
I didn't share their views, I'm sure you know that, but I was complacent in thinking such comments would eventually blow over. Little did I realize that many of you had actually taken them to heart. As a prime minister for all Malaysians, I should have been more sensitive. The next time any Umno leaders say things that are out of line, I guarantee you I will slap them down straight away. And if they don't apologise for the hurt they cause, I will ask them to resign whatever posts they hold in the party or the government. That is how seriously I take the matter.
I was mistaken in thinking that Malaysians would be content and grateful just to have peace and security in this country. But after 50 years, Malaysia has grown up. We are becoming a developed nation. Peace and security is not enough. Economic development is not enough. The people want and deserve civil liberties.
As such, I am going to take steps to honour not just the law but also the spirit of the Constitution which guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. That means getting rid of the Printing Presses and Publications Act. In addition, all government parties will be required to divest itself of ownership in news media companies. I know this means opening myself and my government to critical articles by journalists but that's what free speech is all about. And I accept that.
People will no longer need to apply for a permit from the police to peacefully assemble and even to protest. Of course if they make a nuisance of themselves or become rowdy, law enforcement officers will have to do their job to ensure public safety. But your right to peacefully assemble will be respected.
I am going to get rid of the dreaded Internal Security Act and the Kamunting detention facility will be torn down and converted into some new commercial development. To be honest with you, I didn't want to detain those five Hindraf guys without trial. It's against my nature to do such things. But alas, I listened to advisors who been giving me wrong advice. They will be freed, as will other ISA detainees, but if there is evidence against any of them, they will be charged and have their day in court.
Speaking of courts, I will be asking the King to set up a new Royal Commission of Inquiry and this time, the terms of reference will extend all the way back to the controversial sacking of Salleh Abbas. Many learned lawyers have highlighted that it was that incident which started the rot in our judiciary. I know we might be opening a can of worms but let the law take its course. I am determined to repair our judiciary.
The Official Secrets Act will also be removed and replaced by the Freedom of Information Act. People rightly view the OSA as an impediment to catching crooks within the government. In contrast, a Freedom of Information Act will help us catch those crooks. When you first elected me, I was known as Mr Clean. Nobody calls me that now but by the time my second term ends, that's what you'll be calling me again. Just wait and see.
Last but not least – and I've really saved the best for last – I am going to initiate something that will end communal politics once and for all. Umno will soon stand for the United Malaysian National Organization and all component parties in the BN will be invited to merge with the old Umno that we can become one big multiracial party. Also, the NEP will stand for Newest Economic Policy that will help all Malaysians regardless of race. Take that, Anwar!
None of the things I've mentioned is going to be easy to implement. There will be resistance like you wouldn't believe. But if I am going to regain the trust you first gave to me four years ago, I will have to earn it the hard way – by not just talking the talk but walking the walk.
Last time around I asked you to work with me. This time, watch me work for you, to build a better Malaysia that you deserve.
Humbly,
Pak Lah'
Source: Malaysiakini: You've got mail - from Pak Lah by Oon Yeoh.
You used your votes to send me a message – a message that I didn't hear earlier, but which I hear now, loud and clear. Yes, it was a wake up call for me and a rude awakening for all of us at BN. We must never take the Malaysian public for granted.
One of the loudest things I hear from you is "No more arrogant, inflammatory and racist rhetoric". I admit several of my outspoken ministers and yes, even my own son-in-law, have said things that hurt the feelings of many segments of our society, especially the non-Malays. I should have rebuked them immediately but I didn't.
I didn't share their views, I'm sure you know that, but I was complacent in thinking such comments would eventually blow over. Little did I realize that many of you had actually taken them to heart. As a prime minister for all Malaysians, I should have been more sensitive. The next time any Umno leaders say things that are out of line, I guarantee you I will slap them down straight away. And if they don't apologise for the hurt they cause, I will ask them to resign whatever posts they hold in the party or the government. That is how seriously I take the matter.
I was mistaken in thinking that Malaysians would be content and grateful just to have peace and security in this country. But after 50 years, Malaysia has grown up. We are becoming a developed nation. Peace and security is not enough. Economic development is not enough. The people want and deserve civil liberties.
As such, I am going to take steps to honour not just the law but also the spirit of the Constitution which guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. That means getting rid of the Printing Presses and Publications Act. In addition, all government parties will be required to divest itself of ownership in news media companies. I know this means opening myself and my government to critical articles by journalists but that's what free speech is all about. And I accept that.
People will no longer need to apply for a permit from the police to peacefully assemble and even to protest. Of course if they make a nuisance of themselves or become rowdy, law enforcement officers will have to do their job to ensure public safety. But your right to peacefully assemble will be respected.
I am going to get rid of the dreaded Internal Security Act and the Kamunting detention facility will be torn down and converted into some new commercial development. To be honest with you, I didn't want to detain those five Hindraf guys without trial. It's against my nature to do such things. But alas, I listened to advisors who been giving me wrong advice. They will be freed, as will other ISA detainees, but if there is evidence against any of them, they will be charged and have their day in court.
Speaking of courts, I will be asking the King to set up a new Royal Commission of Inquiry and this time, the terms of reference will extend all the way back to the controversial sacking of Salleh Abbas. Many learned lawyers have highlighted that it was that incident which started the rot in our judiciary. I know we might be opening a can of worms but let the law take its course. I am determined to repair our judiciary.
The Official Secrets Act will also be removed and replaced by the Freedom of Information Act. People rightly view the OSA as an impediment to catching crooks within the government. In contrast, a Freedom of Information Act will help us catch those crooks. When you first elected me, I was known as Mr Clean. Nobody calls me that now but by the time my second term ends, that's what you'll be calling me again. Just wait and see.
Last but not least – and I've really saved the best for last – I am going to initiate something that will end communal politics once and for all. Umno will soon stand for the United Malaysian National Organization and all component parties in the BN will be invited to merge with the old Umno that we can become one big multiracial party. Also, the NEP will stand for Newest Economic Policy that will help all Malaysians regardless of race. Take that, Anwar!
None of the things I've mentioned is going to be easy to implement. There will be resistance like you wouldn't believe. But if I am going to regain the trust you first gave to me four years ago, I will have to earn it the hard way – by not just talking the talk but walking the walk.
Last time around I asked you to work with me. This time, watch me work for you, to build a better Malaysia that you deserve.
Humbly,
Pak Lah'
Source: Malaysiakini: You've got mail - from Pak Lah by Oon Yeoh.
All Malaysians, Please pray that this e-mail will truly come from our prime minister.
It is the hope of most, if not all, Malaysians that we would one day be a truly Malaysian - a Bangsa Malaysia;that day, all Malaysians, every citizen, will be identified as one and only Bangsa Malaysia.
But do we believe that this day will come? The sun may have to rise from the West.
In Selangor, it is believed the palace had asked the coalition parties to take a second look at the exco list submitted to the sultan. Yesterday morning, a DAP delegation, comprising Teresa Kok, Ronnie Liu and Au Yong Hian Wah, met Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah at Istana Bukit Kayangan in Shah Alam. There was no official comment on what was discussed but it was believed to have also touched on the deputy Mentri Besar's post and exco line-up.
In the initial line-up, the four names put forward by DAP were all Chinese -- Kok (Kinrara), Teng Chang Khim (Sg Pinang), Liu (Pandamaran) and Au Yong (Seri Kembangan). Two of the PKR candidates were also non-Malays -- a Chinese and an Indian. With this, six of the 10-member executive council would be non-Malays.
It is learned that the palace wanted to maintain the previous ratio of six Malays and four non-Malays but an even ratio of five each is now acceptable.
(Source: NSTP: Deadlock in formula for Selangor exco)In the initial line-up, the four names put forward by DAP were all Chinese -- Kok (Kinrara), Teng Chang Khim (Sg Pinang), Liu (Pandamaran) and Au Yong (Seri Kembangan). Two of the PKR candidates were also non-Malays -- a Chinese and an Indian. With this, six of the 10-member executive council would be non-Malays.
It is learned that the palace wanted to maintain the previous ratio of six Malays and four non-Malays but an even ratio of five each is now acceptable.
Even the palace looks at us Malaysians with a racial lens; Umno looks at all others with only one lens -Malays Malaysian or non-Malays Malaysians.
Datuk Ong Ka Chuan, Perak MCA chief and Housing and Local Government Minister, said DAP had cheated the Perak Chinese voters as a PAS state assemblyman was sworn in as the Perak Mentri Besar. Ong said Mohammad Nizar’s appointment went against the wishes of voters, especially non-Muslims.“Having a mentri besar from PAS creates fear among non-Muslims. This also creates political instability,” Ong said.
Ong also said that the Chinese in Perak voted for DAP to uphold justice and change for the better but the opposite seemed to have happened.
Ong also said that the Chinese in Perak voted for DAP to uphold justice and change for the better but the opposite seemed to have happened.
(Source: TheStar Online: Ong: Perak voters cheated)
MCA is a component party of Barisan Nasional. They blamed DAP for accepting a Malay to be Mentri Besar of Perak. Nizar was selected by the Sultan of Perak but Barisan Nasional said it is against the wishes of the people of Perak. And UMNO called on the Sultan of Selangor not to appoint a Chinese deputy MB who is a non-Muslim. Isn't it contradictory? MCA is BN; Umno is BN; BN speaks with double-tongue?
Gerakan adviser Datuk Seri Dr Lim Keng Yaik has also condemned the Perak DAP. Lim Keng Yaik today slammed the Perak DAP leadership for opportunistically forming an alliance with hardline Islamic party PAS and agreeing to the appointment of a PAS Mentri Besar."What they have done over the last five days (since Sunday) was to pass the buck to the sultan. This is very bad on their part. The DAP has chosen (Muhammad) Nizar (Jamaluddin) from Pas and they now want to throw the blame of the reaction of the Chinese (community) on the Sultan. They nominated the Pas menteri besar and the DAP is now pulling wool over the ordinary people's eyes by trying to pass the buck which was the most unfair thing to the ruler... shows that they have no respect for the ruler," he told reporters.
Dr Lim said while Sultan Azlan Shah had the power to approve a ruling government and the appointment of the menteri besar, it was the DAP that had originally decided that Pas be given the menteri besar's post. When asked if he was privy to any insider information regarding his claim that DAP had intended from day one for Pas to become Perak menteri besar, Dr Lim merely said that his statement was based on information received from his sources. (Press reports however show that this is not correct. It was Pas which had on Sunday announced its nominee for the MB's post without consultation with the DAP.)
"DAP has sold its soul by supporting Pas. The masterminds the two cousins (Ngeh and Ngah). They are the power-seekers in the DAP. DAP will have to take total responsibility for this fiasco. One way out for DAP now is to honorably step aside and make way for BN with 28 state seats to become the minority government of Perak," said the fired-up Gerakan adviser.
(Source: NSTP: PERAK FIASCO: Lim blasts DAP for making use of palace & from TheStar:
Keng Yaik lashes out at Perak’s incoming government)
Hello Mr Lim Keng Yaik, make way for BN to form minority govt of Perak? and will any Chinese be MB or deputy MB of Perak? What the fuck are you talking about?
For the last 50 years, we can never hear of any consideration by BN or Umno about appointing a deputy MB from the other races in any of the eleven states of Malaysia (exception is the chief minister post of Penang and Sabah); what more if we are talking about an non-Malay MB.
Gerakan is also a component party of Barisan Nasional. They too speak against what Umno is demonstrating in Selangor. The Barisan Rakyat coalition of PAS-PKR-DAP can accept a Chinese or an Indian as deputy MB; Umno cannot; and Gerakan and MCA is preaching that DAP should insist on a Chinese MB. Why can't they tell Umno? Why can't they stand up on this principles and challenge Umno to accept a deputy MB or deputy Prime Minister? They can't; even MIC and all the other parties in the BN can't. They can only talk about others; they spit at others face, but the saliva and mucus falls on their own eye. They can't face up and uphold this principles. Yet they talk as if they are capable. They are bastardians.
Dr Lim said while Sultan Azlan Shah had the power to approve a ruling government and the appointment of the menteri besar, it was the DAP that had originally decided that Pas be given the menteri besar's post. When asked if he was privy to any insider information regarding his claim that DAP had intended from day one for Pas to become Perak menteri besar, Dr Lim merely said that his statement was based on information received from his sources. (Press reports however show that this is not correct. It was Pas which had on Sunday announced its nominee for the MB's post without consultation with the DAP.)
"DAP has sold its soul by supporting Pas. The masterminds the two cousins (Ngeh and Ngah). They are the power-seekers in the DAP. DAP will have to take total responsibility for this fiasco. One way out for DAP now is to honorably step aside and make way for BN with 28 state seats to become the minority government of Perak," said the fired-up Gerakan adviser.
(Source: NSTP: PERAK FIASCO: Lim blasts DAP for making use of palace & from TheStar:
Keng Yaik lashes out at Perak’s incoming government)
Hello Mr Lim Keng Yaik, make way for BN to form minority govt of Perak? and will any Chinese be MB or deputy MB of Perak? What the fuck are you talking about?
For the last 50 years, we can never hear of any consideration by BN or Umno about appointing a deputy MB from the other races in any of the eleven states of Malaysia (exception is the chief minister post of Penang and Sabah); what more if we are talking about an non-Malay MB.
Gerakan is also a component party of Barisan Nasional. They too speak against what Umno is demonstrating in Selangor. The Barisan Rakyat coalition of PAS-PKR-DAP can accept a Chinese or an Indian as deputy MB; Umno cannot; and Gerakan and MCA is preaching that DAP should insist on a Chinese MB. Why can't they tell Umno? Why can't they stand up on this principles and challenge Umno to accept a deputy MB or deputy Prime Minister? They can't; even MIC and all the other parties in the BN can't. They can only talk about others; they spit at others face, but the saliva and mucus falls on their own eye. They can't face up and uphold this principles. Yet they talk as if they are capable. They are bastardians.
24 comments:
If the BN parties continue with their racial slant, the GE13 will be their last.
Either thier spin doctors have recommended to take this racist approach or they have not regrouped yet.
Wrong strategy and it will be difficult to correct later on - the blogs have a bad habit of chronicling all that is said and done.
Purple Haze,
BN will always be racist; Within BN are individual party trying to represent each race - Malay, Chinese & Indians, that is, Umno, MCA and MIC. Each of these parties must project themselves as the protector of their race; and as such, they have to spent in tongues.
asked these 2 money grabbing holier-than-thou politicians to look at the mirror first before opening their foul mouth. hey, how many pieces of lands and timber concessions were alienated at below market value to you two arseholes? dare to declare? working for chinese? WTF, more to enrich yourself.
Good to dream. Dream gives hope for better things to come. But looking at the turmoil now, I dont think the dream email will materialise.
Good to dream. Dream gives hope for better things to come. But looking at the turmoil now, I dont think the dream email will materialise.
we just have to pray hard that it will materialise one day. BN is arrogant to admit its own lost recently ,so how we expect that this will happen one day. Abolish ISA and OSA will be a hard task but a dream come true for every malaysian.
malaysia boleh kah?
This is motives driven racism. They are relevant only if racism thrives. Msia is definitely better off without them.
From UMNO to PKR hegemony?
http://unwantedcitizen.blogspot.com/2008/03/from-umno-to-pkr-hegemony.html
ignore this 'ah pek siao' (mad old man - this hokkien name i heard it coming from PKR chief in penang, zahrain) LKY lah! he always talk too much one.
all BN parties are sore losers. they are now taking every opportunity to attack DAP/PKR/PAS. go fly your kites, you kids!!!
Now that dr lim speak. Gosh! And he talk about something that AGAINST the constitution, even it is about state constitutions.
Well, I am not surprise. In the pass, Gerakan and MCA are support umno to change the country constitution countless time. Till Malaysian dare not to speak about the Malaysia constitution in front of foreigner, because we don't know how many clause inside the constitution still "preserve". ;)
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And about the PAS, it is unlikely a threat. Human feels threatens when they know little about each other.
50 years of cultural stagnation, BN has build barrier for the conversation. Perhaps with the cooperate-competition among the 5 BR states, PAS are able to show something to eliminate the threatening feels from non-muslim.
Nice word, Mave, "Bastardians". Hits nail right on the head and the nail is the last on their coffin. In some ways the Gerakan is worse than the MCA because it's a NIAKONG pretender although both are unreformable TUNASINGS.
Let the count down for their NIAMAH self-destruct sequence begins! May their infamy be complete.
Wishful thinking. Sorry to pour cold water but people, please look at the personalities that Pak Lah annointed into the Cabinet. These are his support base.
They do not look like people who will go for the changes listed above. Some actually uttered the very statements which made the rest of us unhapppy and become very concerned about our futures in Malaysia.
His political support now is at his weakest. He has no clout as he did before, which he squandered.
To make the BN monster turn around, it needs a leader who can win the people's trust - it is not easy to leave racial trenches and walk into unknown minefields. The poor PM is struggling at this moment in time! Any wrong move and he will be out.
Internal politics is breathing down his neck. He will be more concerned with his own political survival in the coming months.
Keeping the government in power and running it needs a delicate balance now. No more majority stampedes / arrogance!
Gukita,
I agree that only with dreams is there hope for betterment. The dream may not come.
Nesh's Bru,
The BN is not only arrogant; they are selfish and greedy and power crazy.
Lucia,
We can't ignore it as Gerakan and MCA is part of BN, the ruling govt.
Moo_t,
You are right. For as long as people are suppressed and oppressed, the internal resentment grows.
Wits0,
Niakong? What's that?
Jefus,
The political landscape have change; there's a paradigm shift now.
"Last time around I asked you to work with me. This time, watch me work for you"
Too late, you lying old bugger. umno EGM on May 11 will see you tossed out onto the street
Niakong = ya grandfather! LOL!
As I have voiced out last week those Chinese BN leaders and YBs who denounced DAP for betraying the Chinese voters because they did not object to the appointment of a Malay MB should be banished from Perak by HRH The Sultan of Perak.
When you first elected him, he was known as Mr Clean. As the days went rolling by, he became known as Mr Bapa Mertua and then Mr NEP... now he's simply known as Mr Has-Been-Who-Might-Have-Been
Was he even clean in his younger days when, because of race, that he became the boss of the Public Service Dept. in the late sixties on an islamic studies degree ticket? Or did he mot also practice kin/race nepotism to gain political influence through pulling in ppl with inadequate academic/school qualification, using kulitfication for appointments instead?
Wow, what a load of crap. Can we really trust Sleepy? Of course not. All he want to do is sleep.
Wits0,
Thanks; now I learn a new word.
Constant Drama,
He's not sleeping; he says it's deep thought; so close eyes lah.
Stupid only. If the MCA buggers know what the Perak people want, they won't be voted out lor..
Helen,
You got a good point. But MCA won't learn.
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