The Virtue of Selfishness

Ayn Rand was right! Ethics is not a mystic fantasy - nor a social convention - nor a dispensable, subjective luxury.

Ethic is an objective necessity of man's survival - not by the grace of the supernatural nor of your neighbors nor of your whims, but by the grace of reality and the nature of life.

This applies to political realities.

PAS vice-president Datuk Husam Musa said although there was no formal pact with the DAP, the Islamist party decided to offer a exco post in the Kedah state cabinet to the DAP. “It is our way of schowing our gratitude for their support to the loose coalition and also the support that PAS had received from the Chinese,” Husam said.

However, Mentri Besar and state PAS commissioner Azizan Abdul Razak did not include a DAP representative in the state exco list despite party vice-president Datuk Husam Musa saying otherwise.

Kedah sole DAP representative Lee Guan Aik who won the Kota Darul Aman seat said his nomination was dropped because the state PKR objected.

There are only one reason that can be observed: PKR do not want to give any of those Exco Seats agreed earlier between PKR-PAS to DAP and expect PAS to sacrifice one from their agreed allotment. PAS sees it the same way; so DAP got nothing.

This is the first sign of love for power and greed within the BR; it is insidious and contagious. There is lack of selflessness and lack of virtue. Power is afterall the name of the game in politics and political might.

Datuk Husam, have you got any idea?

I hope the DAP Chinese would be gracious enough to let a Malay be MB of Perak. The MB post can be nothing if he doesn't gets the support from his Exco members and DAP will be occupying the majority in the Exco. It is ideal for a minority in a coalition to be made the MB or CM just like the Japanese political system; that way, the power of the majority can be exercised to remove that man if he is incompetent or had failed to perform.

Minorities rights can only be protected by the people who holds the majority in a community or political system. In England and Europe and America, you hear of the White MPs defending the rights of the Blacks in Parliament and even in football. In Malaysia we hear of UMNO who is the majority of the various races threatening the minorities with the Keris and still claimed that they didn't. In Kelantan, we hear of PAS leaders who openly declare that they would defend any Chinese if they are attacked by any Malays of which, the Malays in Kelantan would never thought of doing so as they treat the Chinese as their own.

Why can't the DAP Penang and Lim Guan Eng openly declare that they would help all those poor and needy Malays in Penang without reservation, and would expose any threats from the rich Malays who seeks political patronages and handouts, thereby depriving the poor and needy Malays of their benefits? If every state leaders would openly declare that they would defend and protect the minorities in every aspects, then those paranoias and phobias of the various races would subside into oblivion. This would then give rise to the beginning of a one and only Bangsa Malaysia.