In the Proclamation of Independence in 1957, the Father of Independence declared: I Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra....do hereby proclaim and declare on behalf of the people that… the Federation (of Malaya)...is and with God’s blessing shall be forever a sovereign democratic and independent State founded upon the principles of liberty and justice and ever seeking the welfare and happiness of its people and the maintenance of a just peace among all nations.

If our beloved Tunku were alive, he would be heart-broken to see that dream in tatters. Malaysia is an undemocratic state with neither liberty nor justice, where the people are in turmoil and dangerously polarized in race and religion.

The nation has never descended so low in its history.