In Malaysia, the rights of any race must not be taken away.
DAP National Deputy Chairman and MP for Kepong Dr Tan Seng Giaw reiterates that the rights of all races must be protected and that no one or no race can rob the rights of other races.
Dr Tan said so as part of his speech during the debate on the Royal Address in the House on 13 Mei, 2008.
The cyclone disaster in Myanma and the earthquake in China caused severe loss of lives. Malaysia express her sympathy and condolences for people of the two countries. We extend our help.
In the present parliamentary session, we welcome the 99 new members to the House. Hitherto, some have made meaningful speeches, showing their potential.
After the March 8, 2008 general elections, the House has been boisterous. During the elections, each party portrayed its policies. After the people have made their decision, all parties must be able to work together to develop the nation.
Gunung Tahan sama didaki,
Sungai Pahang sama direnang;
Jikalau semua bersatu hati,
Kerja yang payah menjadi senang.
UMNO champions the rights, custom and history of Malays; MCA cries out about the rights and education of Chinese and MIC spells out the rights and citizenships of Indians. They use tonggan, the big wok placed above a hole in the ground. Tonggan UMNO, MCA, MIC and other component parties of the National Front (BN) cooks racial issues to work up the feeling of various races. But, this type of cooking utensil is no longer practical. The emergence of China and India is changing the scenario. Now, we are using microwave and other modern cooking utensils. Our aim is to attain a developed nation status by 2020.
We must avoid brandishing the keris during party conventions; the Education Minister recognises that this is not the right thing to do. All races have rights in politics, economy, health, agriculture and so forth. There should not be any race that would usurp the rights of other races. The poor and the weak must be protected, irrespective of race and religion. We must always try our best to narrow the gap, whether it is wealth, digital or region, with courage and commitment.
Dr Tan Seng Giaw
posted by Tan Seng Giaw @ 5/14/2008 11:35:00 AM
3 Comments:
I, on second thoughts, may have been out foxed by the wily and mighty Tun Mahatir. I think I must give Tun Mahatir more credit than I have does so far. I have to consider that he was shrewd enough to survive 22 years as President of UMNO so he must know moret than I give him credit for.
How about looking at the big picture, LIKE MAHATIR NOW SEE THE ERRORS OF HIS PREVIOUS LIFE AS PRESIDENT OF UMNO, and now would like to correct it for the good of Malaysia ? This is one way of looking at the issue. Therefore ask yourself the question, “IF I WERE MAHATIR WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORATNT THING THAT I HAVE TO DO TO PUT MALAYSIA ON THE WORLD MAP ? DO I WANT A MALAYSIA THAT IS DIVIDED & FOR EVER FIGHTING ONE FACTION AGAINST ANOTHER OR DO I WANT A MALAYSIA THAT IS UNITED AND PEACEFUL; with all the races living side by side and in harmony, like the Malaysia of the OLD DAYS when Malays, Indians & Chinese mixing as friends and neighbours ? I like to use a turn of phrase that Mahatir often uses to denigrate Australia; COLOUR BAR ! Is it good for Malaysia to have a system of COLOUR BAR ? I don’t think so but that is what Ketuaan Malayu means ! Therefore since Mahatir is so disapproving of COLOUR BAR, will he not want to do away with colour bar ?
Therefore looking at all these issues that Mahatir will not approve is it therefore not conceivable that Mahatir want to change these evils that dogs our society ? In the perpetration of all these evils WHAT IS IT THAT PERPETUATES THESE PROBLEMS ? It is in truth the perpetuation of the single problem THE PROBLEM OF WHAT REALLY DIVIDES THE PEOPLE & CITIZENS OF MALAYSIA; THE EXISTENCE OF THE IDEA OF KETUAAN MELAYU. Therefore for me to see this as a problem, what will make this evil cancer go away ? This cancer will only go away if those who lead UMNO will also go away and how to achgieve this, IS TO WEAKEN UMNO SO THAT THIS CANCER CANNOT FIND SUPPORT.
I believe this is the objective of Tun Mahatir in doing all he can and did to weaken UMNO. The Malaysian political scene today has destroyed the obvious dominance of UMNO. That is the truth on the ground whether the leadership of UMNO will accept it or not; Malay dominance is gone for good ! The rationale for this opinion is simple maths. Malays = 68%, Chinese = 24% (swinging voters) and Indians = 8% but Malay voters is divided into 2 camps that reduces their vote bank to 34%. No matter what the Malays do they will not be able to dilute the Chinese swing votes, because the Chinese do not trust MCA and rightly so. The Chinese must never ever trust MCA again because for 50 years MCA was in fact UMNO side kick, bloody Malay cock suckers !
Mahatir quits UMNO !
It is indeed sad to read so many fawning accolades that Tun Mahatir is such a great leader and such like. It just shows how blinkered you Malays are; you just do not have vision and you are so naïve that you do not fully appreciate your own predicament. Has Mahatir been a good and caring leader ? This generation of Malays will say that he is, but it will be history that will judge Mahatir as the most self serving and selfish leader, who has no clue what he was doing. I am Chinese living in Australia and it does not worry me too much to say what is best said without any fear or embellishment; just say it as it is.
Mahatir created an illusion that Malays benefited by his one sided pervasion of the Constitution; but I will not go into that area because there is no useful purpose to state what is obvious(too much energy wasted ). Let me ask you was HITLER a great leader ? From your reaction you Malays will say, “YES”. Hitler too had the German people fawning after him as their FEURER Sounds like the word “father”, yes Hitler was the father to the German people, but was he a good leader ?
I see a direct comparison between Hitler and Mahatir, they both created the myth that the Jews and the Chinese are suck the blood of the Malays and the Aryan German people. I am fully convinced that Mahatir had learned a great deal from both Goerbels and Hitler; this comparison is uncanny ! The question that I want to ask is “IF IT WERE IN THE POWER OF MAHATIR TO GAS 5 MILLION CHINESE WILL MAHATIR HESITATE ? I will ask the Malays, if it were in your power to gas 8 million Chinese, will you do it ? I say without hesitation that you would ! Malaysia and UMNO has called the tragedy of May 13th a “RIOT” but it is in scale cruelty and destructiveness a pogrom and in the history of Nazism, there was a similar pogrom called the Crystalnach (crystal night) and it also marked the beginning of the extermination of the Jews. The same sort of discrimination against the Jews are today practiced on the non Malays only it is justified by that grossly misunderstood social contract. There was never ever been any social contract and I say it as my own understanding of this bullshit social contract, when did the UMNO ever implemented any social contract; it was a case of the Malays taking it all for themselves ! Can Chinese go and obtain a Banking license ? Can Chinese go and obtain a government contract without a Malays holding 51% equity in the tendering company ? The Chinese has to put up 100% money capital and expertise and GET ONLY 49% OF WHAT IS LEFT AFTER THE MALAY CHAIRMAN HAS GRABED 60% OF THE PROFITS. THIS WAS EXACTLY THE SITUATION THAT EXISTED UNDER HITLER AND IT STILL EXIST IN MALAYSIA.
Mahatir had perverted the system and polarized Malaysia, on the one side Malays and on the other side, the Chinese. Among the Chinese, those who can leave Malaysia for better climes. It will not be in this generation that you Malays will see Mahatir for what he really is. Mahatir wanted to be another Robert Mugabe, a 94 year old man still clinging on to power; WHAT FOR ? I had said it once that Mahatir appointed the weakest of his Ministers AAB to be his successor because Mahatir wanted to control AAB like a puppet on a string, but from the very first days of that fateful election AAB had uncoupled Mahatir from Aab’s influence. That was when trouble started.
The reason why I say that Mahatir will be judge by history as the most retarding force that held back the progress of the Malay people is because he created the myth of the
Chinese being the EXPLOITERS of the Malays and in so doing HE WON OVER CONTROL OF THE MALAYS. This too was how Hitler controlled the German people by creating the myth of the superior Aryan race that saw the Jews as the sub-human and to do what they wanted with the Jews.
The full rigors of Mahatirs exploitation of the weakness of the Malays cannot be assessed today (can’t see the forest for the trees), but reading a few of the comments from some Malays, we can see that this truth is creeping out and very soon it will be a flood. Let me discuss this aspect of the debate by questions rather than answers. Why and to what purpose is it beneficial for the Malays to retard and BLOCK the progress of the Chinese ? If a Chinese becomes rich by his own sweat and hard work and business talent, HOW DO YOU MALAYS EQUATE THIS PERFORMANCE TO EXPLOITATION ? Is this to be viewed as a zero sum equation, ie if the Chinese makes a profit then it must also mean that the Malay will not make any profit ? How can that argument hold when we all know that the Malays are not in business as the Chinese are ? This deals with the issues relating to obtaining licenses to do business.
Mahatir by giving all scholarships to Malays and to those Malays who are connected reduced the selection of Malay scholars to a very small clique, hence the best Malays are kept out of these scholarships. Those who graduated under this system of patronage graduate as useless “pen-pushers”, who can only gain work in the government services. Billions are wasted training nothing but graduates who can only work as clerks. This patronage did not develop a class of competent entrepreneurs and therefore for 50 years Malaysia has been producing too many incompetent GENERALS and not enough soldiers.
This was the legacy of the Mahatir years; years that develop nothing that is worth mentioning as his contribution towards developing a competitive Malaysian society. YES YOU MALAYS TAKE ALL BUT CAME OUT WITH NOTHING.
There is one other point that I want to raise, which is that Mahatir ploy to undermine ABB will fizzle out like a wet cracker ! Mahatir is naïve because only an incumbent can win supporters; a retired PM is like a retired GENERAL, nobody listens to a retired general because one just cannot get anything from a retired general ! Another word, I do not believe that Tengku Li can benefit from the rumblings within UMNO because ABB is the incumbent and power resides in the incumbent.
--- On Wed, 6/11/08, Brian Retna wrote:
From: Brian Retna
Subject: Solar Powered Parking Meters
To: fazleena@thestar.com.my
Cc: editor@malaysiakini.com.my
Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2008, 8:49 PM
Dear Fazleena,
I refer to the article you wrote in todays Star (12th June) in Starmetro column,
on the above mentioned matter.
My name is Brian Retna ,from Worldwide Park who also was one of the DBKL tenderers for the supply of the similar type of equipment for Wilayah Persekutuan.
After reading todays article which you've covered , i wish to inquire further on who were the installers and operators who got the job , as we felt that we were cheated in not given the exact information wanted by DBKL.
I also intend to bring this matter up to Pakatan Rakyat , especially DAP which are handling most of the city problems.
Just for your info , you mentioned that DBKL will pay RM1.50 a day for each parking lot, that means according to the contract in the Tender Exercise that covers 30,000 parking lots in the city , it translates into RM 45,000.00 a day or RM 1.35 Million a month or RM 16.2 Million a year. !!!
In your sub column you wrote that..
Quote from Datuk AB Hakim Borhan said "" There is no cost on the part of DBDL but we have an installer and operators for the parking system""
How is that ? It does not makes sense from the above figures, which i believe the Contract period is for 5 years ( 60 months) which works out ??? close to a whopping RM100 Million!!!
Knowing these facts i hope you will pursue the other issue stronly which you mentioned on Datuks "" study trip "" - I certainlly feel the rakyat will want to know why the Federal Territories Ministry , Putrajaya Corporation and DBKL had to use taxpayers money for what purpose instead of he submitting a report to the cabinet! Which Cabinet! when he should be answering to the public !
I know that you're only a reporter which i would like to thank you for covering this topic.
Kindly assist in the follow up and follow thru.,
Your assisstance is much appreciated and i gurantee that this will be a HOT ! topic for you to cover as it involves about 1 million car owners in the city with already having to fork out money in petrol increase and now this!!! DAILY EXPENSES!!
Regards
Brian
Director
Worldwide Park
012-288-8803
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