var comments = {"total":"31","items":[{"id":"28376","storyid":"118167","author":"wisdom8","userid":"32882","date":"1259384752","content":"MALAYSIA BOLEH.His name should be engraved on the front cover of The Malaysia Book of Records.He should be remembered for putting Malaysia on the world map.As long as he is happy please dont disturb him.No pain no gain.People from the Malabar coast are considered a genius in India.They hold the political and think tank of the Goverment in India.Let the people suffer but he made sure when he was there his brain was working 24 hours.Never mind the white elephants he left behind and the many dopes he put behind bars.When Saddam Hussein does not like you he makes a David Copperfield out of you.He is still active today.If he is appointed adviser in Kedah,he is going to creat another BN mess.He is slowly become senile and losing memory.Unless he takes a good rest,he has to call up his buddy LKY for help.Both are senile.YTMTAR said,Life in this world is short.Let us make use of our lives in the pursuit of happiness and not trouble.","icon":"<img alt=\"usericon\" src=\"http:\/\/comments.malaysiakini.com\/images\/defaulticon.jpg?1259989203\" height=\"40\" width=\"40\" \/>"},{"id":"27780","storyid":"118167","author":"brainless","userid":"30826","date":"1259152609","content":"The biggest hypocrite i've ever known is non other than mahathir mohamad. He does'nt even merit the title DR. to me. I don't even fancy what he had done to the malaysian economy....any tom, dick or harry could have done better at the amount of money used. What is there to be proud of...proton saga, sepang f1...etc, at what costs. As far Sabah is concerned, look at the presence of \"acquired citizenship\" thru dubious means by the thousands. Our brothers n sisters in semanajung might not know this but as far as i am concerned Sabah was given to the dogs during his tenure....fleeced Sabah's wealth thru petronas, huge land given to cronies and left sabah fend for itself from drug syndicates, illegal immigrants, gambling dens,citizenship scams, manipulate state leadership....and the list goes on. He will have a lot to answer in the next world...and that should not be very long.","icon":"<img alt=\"usericon\" src=\"http:\/\/comments.malaysiakini.com\/images\/defaulticon.jpg?1259989203\" height=\"40\" width=\"40\" \/>"},{"id":"27759","storyid":"118167","author":"amos","userid":"987","date":"1259148434","content":"The Judiciary should also take the blame for letting this tyrant run loose for 20 years when he plundered the billions.","icon":"<img alt=\"usericon\" src=\"http:\/\/comments.malaysiakini.com\/images\/defaulticon.jpg?1259989203\" height=\"40\" width=\"40\" \/>"},{"id":"27659","storyid":"118167","author":"FG","userid":"26891","date":"1259130009","content":"\"So sad that a person with so much power to do good for millions in the country ... .\"\n\nBecause he did not do the good that he could have done. Just like Pontius Pilate, at that very moment in time, when history afforded him the chance that no living man had or would ever be given again, to change the inevitable. He faltered.","icon":"<img alt=\"usericon\" src=\"http:\/\/comments.malaysiakini.com\/images\/defaulticon.jpg?1259989203\" height=\"40\" width=\"40\" \/>"},{"id":"27570","storyid":"118167","author":"Kama Mustaffa","userid":"40206","date":"1259094143","content":"Whatever he did to Anwar Ibrahim is unforgivable. Same as those DPM before him, Tan Sri Musa, Tengku Razaleigh and Allahyarham Ghaffar Baba..., Mahathir is a dictator that has led Malaysia into a haven of corruption and cronyism.\n\nLook at Proton. A product that supposed to have made Malaysians enjoy cars at cheaper price, only to find that the price of cars go up and up, just to ensure its monopoly within the country in order to feed UMNO's cronies.\n\n The car that was supposed to be a Malaysian export is now nothing but a disgrace when it repeatedly fails to win the overseas market, only to find that it has to sell off at cheaper price , far far cheaper than that of what Malaysian pays. This situation ONLY happens in Malaysia. A country that suffocate its own citizens for its own product.\n\nMalaysians wake up. BN is a trash government, made out of trash and comprises of nothing but trash, like all trash, rubbish is what comes out of it, either when running a project or running a busines","icon":"<img alt=\"usericon\" src=\"http:\/\/comments.malaysiakini.com\/images\/defaulticon.jpg?1259989203\" height=\"40\" width=\"40\" \/>"},{"id":"27551","storyid":"118167","author":"Sivadas bBalakrishnan","userid":"18367","date":"1259079230","content":"Mahathir doesn't deserve the \"Statesman\" title as he has never been one. Not only did he destroy democracy in this country, the sorry state of a whole generation of Malays, so dependent of subsidy and government projects is the result of spoon feeding. he did so to make the malays happy only to swap for votes to stay in power.\n\nHe has robbed the poor malays of their integrity so that he can stay in power. To continue doing this he allowed corruption in his cabinet. The end result... everybody was happy making money for themselves and left the malays to rot. However, fiery speeches are often offered by the ministers to drum up the feelings of the malays to enable to continue robbing the country, the malays and non-malays of their money. My malay brothers unfortunately fell for these tricks and have paid a heavy penalty for it and are continuing to pay. I urge my malay brothers to stand up against these actions by BN to regain their integrity.\n\nObserver...........","icon":"<img alt=\"usericon\" src=\"http:\/\/comments.malaysiakini.com\/images\/defaulticon.jpg?1259989203\" height=\"40\" width=\"40\" \/>"},{"id":"27548","storyid":"118167","author":"cala","userid":"35315","date":"1259078894","content":"Chuath. Come to think of it, Mahathir is not that bad compared to Mao. Mao destroyed all forms of institutions. Schools were closed; doctors were sent to far away villages while leaving patients died of slow deaths etc. Million died during the Cultural Revolution. What about Mahathir? First. Mahathir only tampers with social institutions (police, judiciary, EC, AG, MACC etc) so much so that they can no longer function independent of UMNO. Second. He has a chance to be regarded as a statesman if only he keeps to the original concept of NEP. Too bad he twists it for his own selfish end and so only his cohorts are being taken care of. Third. In case you forget, history can remember him as an exponent in the practice of the art of \u201cselective memory\u201d. But I admire you (Chuath). In a sentence, you are able to put things in proper perspective.","icon":"<img alt=\"usericon\" src=\"http:\/\/comments.malaysiakini.com\/images\/defaulticon.jpg?1259989203\" height=\"40\" width=\"40\" \/>"},{"id":"27498","storyid":"118167","author":"gibran","userid":"25132","date":"1259070114","content":"Mahathir is not a Malay nationalist, he is just a bigot with fascist ideologies. Most facist\/nazi leaders usually start with  marginalizing the minorities in their countries and once they have eliminated them - their on kind becomes the next victims. If you look at countries like burma today, nazi germany, idi amin,s uganda they all followed the same trend. They first marginalize the minorities and then victimized their own kind. Mahathir is no different.","icon":"<img alt=\"usericon\" src=\"http:\/\/comments.malaysiakini.com\/images\/defaulticon.jpg?1259989203\" height=\"40\" width=\"40\" \/>"},{"id":"27419","storyid":"118167","author":"mammen","userid":"74824","date":"1259051106","content":"Mind you....' Democratic India '...is a proud nation which applies diplomacy when dealing with friends and foes.. not foolish arrogance.... of course with the flaws that comes with democracy. Pls. watch CNN, BBC, ALJAZZERRA, ABC...... Under Mahathir...ours was ' Dictator Malaysia ' .....where is the comparison????","icon":"<img alt=\"usericon\" src=\"http:\/\/comments.malaysiakini.com\/images\/defaulticon.jpg?1259989203\" height=\"40\" width=\"40\" \/>"},{"id":"27413","storyid":"118167","author":"Jaghannathun","userid":"76015","date":"1259049344","content":"Was given a fair chance to bring this lovely country to be the best, but instead enriched his famly and cronies and he got confused along the line.His best of friends are now his worst enemies. He ask for it and he just got it.","icon":"<img alt=\"usericon\" src=\"http:\/\/comments.malaysiakini.com\/images\/defaulticon.jpg?1259989203\" height=\"40\" width=\"40\" \/>"},{"id":"27394","storyid":"118167","author":"Frankie Tan","userid":"68411","date":"1259045659","content":"Dr M is a despot during his time..sadly what he sow is what we are reaping now","icon":"<img alt=\"usericon\" src=\"http:\/\/comments.malaysiakini.com\/images\/defaulticon.jpg?1259989203\" height=\"40\" width=\"40\" \/>"},{"id":"27381","storyid":"118167","author":"Bobby Chin","userid":"33642","date":"1259040605","content":"Nik Aziz's son in-law stepped down only few weeks after complaint. But how Mahathir's and Abdullah's sons and sons in-law respond after so much public complaints for years? Death silence and business as usual as if nothing happen. Government continue to bail them out during recession and made them into multi millionaires or may be billionaires by now. That's what different between PAS and UMNO. UMNO talk No.1, action nothing to be seen.","icon":"<img alt=\"usericon\" src=\"http:\/\/comments.malaysiakini.com\/images\/defaulticon.jpg?1259989203\" height=\"40\" width=\"40\" \/>"},{"id":"27377","storyid":"118167","author":"Playfair","userid":"1463","date":"1259040248","content":"Keep it up Fair as TDM needs sycophants and a toady like you to stir the sh..t. It is your ilk that kept him in power, massaging his ego and worshiping his infallibility. But we are not buying this spin anymore and your vehemence betrays fears that your days are numbered and you know it.","icon":"<img alt=\"usericon\" src=\"http:\/\/comments.malaysiakini.com\/images\/defaulticon.jpg?1259989203\" height=\"40\" width=\"40\" \/>"},{"id":"27373","storyid":"118167","author":"rocky","userid":"61438","date":"1259039423","content":"off course the man will disagree. he can make no mistake. Just look at how he talks about money politics when actual fact money politics came about and grew to what it is now under his leadership! now he take a holier than thou attitude and blames Pak Lah etc when he could have stopped it. Same goes for UMNO quota system. if beneficial for him, it is ok but not for others. he screwed up so many things in Malaysia and we are now paying for it and to top it off, we have now got HP6 leaders who are dumb unlike mahatir and they ahve no clue how to bring this country forward except to enrich themselves","icon":"<img alt=\"usericon\" src=\"http:\/\/comments.malaysiakini.com\/images\/defaulticon.jpg?1259989203\" height=\"40\" width=\"40\" \/>"},{"id":"27371","storyid":"118167","author":"SunShine1","userid":"75105","date":"1259037727","content":"Wonder why some of you are so proud of Dr M.....Yes he did Malaysia proud BUT he could have done much better.He created Proton,highway,Twin tower,KLIA ,privatisation...however in these process he singularly created poverty amongst us ( malay,chinese,indian,kadazan etc etc) poorer with toll,expensive n useless car etc etc using the taxpayer money,petroluem money and singularly destroy the judiciary and encourage widespread corruption. Yes he did uplift the Malay...just a few of his cronies at the expense of many malay who live in cramped apartments and suffered daily hardship. In short he could have done much better but he does nothing good in reality.So stop talking of democracy..U bigot","icon":"<img alt=\"usericon\" src=\"http:\/\/comments.malaysiakini.com\/images\/icon\/icon_75105.jpg?1259989203\" height=\"40\" width=\"40\" \/>"},{"id":"27367","storyid":"118167","author":"wan husmi","userid":"31430","date":"1259036280","content":"Dear Equaliser.. Dr. M not a Malay nationalist. He's not even a Malay. He is a UMNO nationalist. \n\nMany Malays suffer during his regime as well.","icon":"<img alt=\"usericon\" src=\"http:\/\/comments.malaysiakini.com\/images\/defaulticon.jpg?1259989203\" height=\"40\" width=\"40\" \/>"},{"id":"27360","storyid":"118167","author":"karrlos","userid":"36920","date":"1259034824","content":"yes mr fair, did't mahathir teach you to address someone as mr.well the outcome of elections is not predicable and whats makes you think that bn will rule forever with regards to what happen in japan","icon":"<img alt=\"usericon\" src=\"http:\/\/comments.malaysiakini.com\/images\/defaulticon.jpg?1259989203\" height=\"40\" width=\"40\" \/>"},{"id":"27359","storyid":"118167","author":"FG","userid":"26891","date":"1259034165","content":"Public Office is a THANKLESS job. If you did anything good or achieved anything for the country, then good on you. You did your job. Thank you very much. (After all, you have already got far more than your fair year-end bonus.) That does not, however, give you the right to defile the democratic pillars of this nation. It does not give you the right to be repressive and tyrannical. It certainly does not give you the right to super-enrich a few of your henchmen, or the right to misuse laws and public institutions to supress some others.","icon":"<img alt=\"usericon\" src=\"http:\/\/comments.malaysiakini.com\/images\/defaulticon.jpg?1259989203\" height=\"40\" width=\"40\" \/>"},{"id":"27356","storyid":"118167","author":"Pete","userid":"43508","date":"1259033845","content":"Something you Dreamers should know, and that in every society, and including the so called ' Free societies \" there is corruption, and this is why the world faced a crisis. Of course I would not deny that in his haste to make this country and the Malays a better lot , there was rampant corruption, and hey , a lot of them are now PKR members. Check on our glorified Selangor MB, only he dares not call Toyo corrupted, and he knows why. He and many are beneficiaries of TDMM's policies. Next GE , we must put this guys out, and I support Najib to do it, and the best part is , the majority of malaysians will also do it. Bet on that !!! We have to rid ourselves of these Hypocrites, and we will see organic change within the Government, true change, not the change of the PKR , all bull, just see the happenings in PKR, you all know that. Where is savior Zaid, ran to hide and play games, no guts to stand up and fight for so called freedom. Scared he will be finished.","icon":"<img alt=\"usericon\" src=\"http:\/\/comments.malaysiakini.com\/images\/defaulticon.jpg?1259989203\" height=\"40\" width=\"40\" \/>"},{"id":"27355","storyid":"118167","author":"Pete","userid":"43508","date":"1259033363","content":"Hey Karrios, you are in Dreamland, that is why you think that next GE PKR will run Putrajaya. It is people like you that divide Malaysia and then blame it on People like TDMM. He lifted the Malays out of abject poverty, maids, Drivers and so on , and he now makes them a proud race. But the Malays forget their roots, and how this man singlehandedly gave them hope. Now we have people like you , how glad I am he had Ops Lalang, and many more , that made sure the Aryan race, a grouping of people who had plans to derails his mission. This Aryan race ruled before , and he brought them down, or else you would be serving them too. I thank God I have Malay rulers than this grouping of Aryans, as least under the malays, I prospered, but my father was not so lucky, he died a broken and poor man, he did not have a chance that Mahatir provided for many others. So now I will fight guys like you to stop them coming back.","icon":"<img alt=\"usericon\" src=\"http:\/\/comments.malaysiakini.com\/images\/defaulticon.jpg?1259989203\" height=\"40\" width=\"40\" \/>"},{"id":"27348","storyid":"118167","author":"T C Koh","userid":"21378","date":"1259032354","content":"And 'thank you' for propagating corruptions, in the name of malaysia boleh.","icon":"<img alt=\"usericon\" src=\"http:\/\/comments.malaysiakini.com\/images\/defaulticon.jpg?1259989203\" height=\"40\" width=\"40\" \/>"},{"id":"27344","storyid":"118167","author":"Lee Heng Soon","userid":"74724","date":"1259031630","content":"I don't think he is a sincere man in his heart. God will judge on his final day.","icon":"<img alt=\"usericon\" src=\"http:\/\/comments.malaysiakini.com\/images\/defaulticon.jpg?1259989203\" height=\"40\" width=\"40\" \/>"},{"id":"27338","storyid":"118167","author":"karrlos","userid":"36920","date":"1259030871","content":"to mr fair and erica you are not in touch with reality","icon":"<img alt=\"usericon\" src=\"http:\/\/comments.malaysiakini.com\/images\/defaulticon.jpg?1259989203\" height=\"40\" width=\"40\" \/>"},{"id":"27334","storyid":"118167","author":"Erica","userid":"75874","date":"1259029318","content":"I don't know how you see this guy (DR.M) but i do appreciate him...I see in a positive side and you in the other side. No need to mad at me, this is only my own opinion.","icon":"<img alt=\"usericon\" src=\"http:\/\/comments.malaysiakini.com\/images\/defaulticon.jpg?1259989203\" height=\"40\" width=\"40\" \/>"},{"id":"27329","storyid":"118167","author":"JusticeNow","userid":"46873","date":"1259028652","content":"One day, hopefully, the majority Malay will realise that the One person who is causing their hardship and misery is Mahathir....his egocentric national car project, destructive manipulation, psychopathic leadership has caused the high cost of transportation and housing, the 2 major cost that suffers every Malaysian's cost of living especially the majority Malay....","icon":"<img alt=\"usericon\" src=\"http:\/\/comments.malaysiakini.com\/images\/defaulticon.jpg?1259989203\" height=\"40\" width=\"40\" \/>"}]};