YOURSAY ‘Mahathir and his faction are ready to pounce on Najib.’
Change or risk being changed, Najib warned
Kingfisher: Veteran journalist A Kadir Jasin gives one the impression that he has dug out his speaking notes of some 30 to 40 years ago and has forsaken logic to the reality of Umno having virtually singlehandedly led the nation since Independence.
In bemoaning the inadequacy of not giving and doing more for the Malays, he seems to be totally unmindful of the huge deficit in equitable distribution of wealth even among them, especially in the last 25 years of Umno's leadership.
Not a word from the veteran about the need to foster and mobilise the multi-ethnic talent and vibrancy that have been suppressed for some time in order to adhere to the continuing requests of his kind.
Not a word in support of promoting and distributing development to the various communities. Not a word in promoting fundamental rights that has been the cornerstone of socio-economic growth worldwide. What a convoluted mess in logic.
Pemerhati: More racist drivel from Kadir Jasin, who is probably acting as former PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s spokesman.
To stay in power Mahathir destroyed the independence of all the major institutions in the country.
The enforcement agencies and the judiciary do not act independently but are under the control of Umno and they use oppressive and outdated laws like the Sedition Act to unfairly prosecute and jail the talented and upright opposition members who criticise and reveal the crooked activities of the big-time Umno thieves like Mahathir, Abdul Taib Mahmud and PM Najib Razak.
In an effort to endear itself to the majority Malays, Umno has almost completely filled the public and education sectors with a lot of incompetent and under-qualified Malays even though very much better non-Malays are available.
A large number of Malays of very low caliber, who normally would not get admitted into the universities, enter these institutions through the ‘matrikulasi’ system and get degrees. The competitive private sector thus shuns them.
Oriole: Indeed, more tired racial rhetoric from a newsman who should know better.
Is Kadir Jasin aware that the plight of poor Malays is the plight of poor Indians, poor Chinese, poor Orang Asli and Orang Asal, poor Chittys, poor Eurasians, poor others who do not fit this silly rigid categories birthed under the colonial system at independence?
Enough already, Kadir Jasin. While you trot out the same old rhetoric that should have been put to rest, the poor commit suicide or quietly starve. And starvation has no silly racial boundaries.
Kangkong Mahal: Kadir Jasin, as former editor for a once reputable newspaper, I am surprised that you are taking a racial approach to the entire situation. But then, when you hang out with a Kerala man who is not sure of his roots, who can blame you.
P Dev Anand Pillai: What is the use of continuously reminding the reminded? The damage has been done, we are now left to figure out what to do with all the products of an education system that had been politicised just to keep a certain class of people in power.
You can't butt-graft a grown tree now.
Relevancy: Reading the article by Kadir Jasin, one has to ask as to what the focus of his criticism is and what prioritisation is to be expected for the issues he raised?
What kind of resources involved and budget to get them done? Also, is it going to be what is supposed to be yours is yours and what is supposed to for others is also yours? It is like wanting the cake and wanting to eat it all too.
There is a misplaced unity message in what he has to say.
Anonymous #44199885: This constant talking about "us" and "them", the "Malays" and “non-Malays", the "Muslims" and the "non-Muslims" display the clear extremist mentality of vocal politicians in Umno.
They are not about building a long-lasting Malaysian society. To them, the more fragmented Malaysian society becomes, the better; the more the prejudice in people, the better.
Umno goes against the very grain of its founder Onn Jaafar, i.e, a united Malaysia. A great man cast aside by souls who fail to see the big picture.
Indonesia, on the other hand. displays nationalistic fervour even though it has a society as diverse as Malaysia. They will be a great nation and we a small nation and getting smaller.
Leo: Kadir Jasin is wrong. It was the natives of Sabah and Sarawak that gave BN its victory in GE13.
Yes, stop all discrimination against the minorities of East Malaysia. Otherwise, BN will lose their ‘fixed deposits’ in GE14.
Mushiro: Kadir Jasin is flexing his muscles and trying to dictate terms on behalf of Mahathir just before the Umno GA (general assembly). This means that Mahathir and his faction are ready to pounce on Najib.
This political game to highlight Najib's weaknesses and greed seems to cover Mahathir’s earlier bigger weaknesses and greed. None of these Umno leaders are interested in the welfare of the Malays or the country - it is just their greed for power and personal gain.
And if Kadir Jasin is not aware, the Umno GA since Mahathir's era is always about praises, leader worshiping, apple polishing and off-coloured jokes... and that perpetual Umno ‘traitor, enemy no 1 and sodomist Anwar Ibrahim’. Will it be any different this year?
Wsoi: I think this is part of a plan to oust Najib. If Najib can’t read this, it will be the end of him. If Najib wants to continue as PM, he has to counter all the propaganda created by his enemies within Umno to affirm his party position.
If he concedes to Mahathir’s request, Najib will be forced out. Indeed, the day the government started to use Sedition Act to charge the opposition, Najib has fallen into Mahathir’s trap.
After 57-year misrule, Umno has failed the Malays
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