var comments = {"total":"11","items":[{"id":"14646","storyid":"114120","author":"Azmil Tayeb","userid":"1828","date":"1254587325","content":"The only way to rid the country of ethnicization of politics is to completely dismantle BN and its component parties and rebuild it from ground up with cosmopolitan politics as its raison d'etre. Now it's simply too late for inoculation. What BN needs is a major heart transplant surgery and an extensive chemo-therapy to rid itself of all the destructive cancerous elements. PR is a great example of what Malaysian politics should be like in the future. Consociationalism (a political science term for ethnic-based political system) is out-moded and simply ineffective in the long run to create harmony in a multi-racial country. A more diverse political party system that is based on equal citizenship is what we sorely need here in Malaysia.","icon":"![\"usericon\"](\"http:\/\/comments.malaysiakini.com\/images\/defaulticon.jpg?1255191301\")
"},{"id":"14607","storyid":"114120","author":"Thinking Jack","userid":"33875","date":"1254566904","content":"How to inoculate Malaysia against racial politics? Too late too inoculate, we are already dying of the disease!","icon":""},{"id":"14573","storyid":"114120","author":"kgen","userid":"48188","date":"1254554049","content":"Tengku Razaleigh can start to put his philosophy into practice by leaving Umno and joining PR. Otherwise it is just empty ranting without wanting to take action. He is still a member of one of the most racist parties in Malaysia.","icon":""},{"id":"14558","storyid":"114120","author":"KSS","userid":"2062","date":"1254545540","content":"\"Thus, the party, parliament, the judiciary, the civil service, the financial institutions and the media became concentrated in the hands of the prime minister\". Premier Mahathir was literally a dictator and he initiated and implemented most of the discriminatory ethnoreligious apartheid policies(a self explanatory term coined by Forbes). New recruitment to the public sevice was confined almost entirely to the Malays resulting in the complete \"ethnic clensing\" of several areas of the public service as the retiring non-malays were replaced by only malays. Nothing much has changed under Najib's 1Malysia as can be seen from a recent letter to Malaysiakini which complains that of the 30 posts for a University of Malaya job, 29 posts were given to Malays and 1 to a Chinese.","icon":""},{"id":"14549","storyid":"114120","author":"BARRISTER AT LAW","userid":"5671","date":"1254541625","content":"Why does anyone even listen to this man. He and many like him seem to be self styled \"statesmen\" ruling from the arm chair of loose opinions. This man was in office before and he is by all accounts a failed leader. His Royalist priorities and leanings and the total absence of a proper grasp of a national strategy or direction - apart from wanting to be PM. As a young man I attended a creamah of his in the Civic Centre in PJ which was a joint effort with DAP. He was fierce in his criticism of the infrastructure developments in the country, he questioned their necessity, he mocked FDI, he claimed that they did not produce a multiplier effect, he asserted that we should not go into areas where there were already established players in the western world etc. By the skin of our teeth we were spared from his leadership in a fateful election in 1987.","icon":""},{"id":"14539","storyid":"114120","author":"Richard Chang","userid":"36940","date":"1254534878","content":"So why doesn't he quit the party that has been the driving force behind the ethnicization of politics in Malaysia? It all sounds academic otherwise.","icon":""},{"id":"14509","storyid":"114120","author":"gibran","userid":"25132","date":"1254521208","content":"I guess when you are on the other side of the fence you talk logically. Once are part of BN,s ruling elite you fall into the system and automatically become a racist. I bet if you are in the cabinet today, you would be talking differently. Umno continues to run the country the way they choose, with little regard to public opinion. They very well know the public want change in the sense- return the rule of law, independent judiciary, eradicate corruption and doing away with ethnocentric politics. As sincere as you may be, Ku Li I think you can start by advocating a race relations acts.","icon":""},{"id":"14491","storyid":"114120","author":"Shah","userid":"4391","date":"1254504517","content":"what ever is said by tengku is the norm of a modern civilised ,cultured,democratic soceity,which will eventually boost the economy , morale,foreign investment, but the BeeN warlords pea sized brains cannot accept these proposals, Is there a political will to effect change, with your proposal , i feel you are with the WRONG company of the UMENO goons,","icon":""},{"id":"14490","storyid":"114120","author":"dood","userid":"33011","date":"1254504434","content":"I've a simpler solution: Get rid of UMNO\/BN. Then we can start the process of healing and reforming the country.","icon":""},{"id":"14489","storyid":"114120","author":"Shah","userid":"4391","date":"1254504423","content":"what ever is said by tengku is the norm of a modern civilised ,cultured,democratic soceity,which will eventually boost the economy , morale,foreign investment, but the BeeN warlords pea sized brains cannot accept these proposals, Is there a political will to effect change, with your proposal , i feel you are in the company of the UMENO goons,","icon":""},{"id":"14480","storyid":"114120","author":"Vikram","userid":"68457","date":"1254501793","content":"Good suggestions Ku-Li","icon":""}]};