BTN is gangrenous, must be removed totally
YOURSAY ‘Or else political health and wellbeing of nation will be negatively impacted.’
No need to disband BTN, says MCA sec-gen
Old timer:
MCA secretary-general Ong Ka Chuan, the non-Malays and non-Muslims have been discriminated so badly because of policies formulated by officials brainwashed in National Civics Bureau
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BTN) courses, and yet you have to say it should be retained.
Who is doing the tweaking? The narrow minded officials who attended the BTN courses? How much tweaking do you think they will do?
No wonder MCA has lost all the support of the Chinese community. Time MCA ' ta pao ' (pack up). MCA will be buried in the next election. Just you wait, Mr Ong.
Ipohcrite: You can't tweak something like the BTN, which has become gangrenous. You take it out, totally. In medical lingo, I believe it is called amputation. Otherwise, the political health and wellbeing of the entire nation will be negatively impacted.
Anonymous$&@?: This is proof why MCA leaders are labeled as eunuchs. With incriminating evidence that BTN is propagating racist sentiments on its website, MCA doesn't even have the balls to stand up to tell BTN off. How do you expect MCA to defend the Chinese then?
MCA deserves to be wiped out in the next GE. As expected MCA is just a lap dog for Umno. They will never bite the hand that feeds them.
Jimmy: Who are you to ask Umno (the government) to amend the syllabus or use a different approach in BTN? in the eyes of Umno, you are nobody. Even if they agree to your suggestions, who is going to monitor if they are really making a change?
I would suggest mobile phones be allowed to be used in BTN courses so that everything can be recorded.
Firestone: The MCA president promised to issue an official statement on the party's stand on hudud. But till today there’s nothing. Must have been scolded by big brother Umno?
Restless: Ong, from the last GE the results are so telling on how much the population supports your party. MCA criticises DAP so much for their hudud stance and the working relationship with PAS, but at least DAP is gutsy enough to sever ties with PAS.
Compare that with your party’s reluctance or fear, to not even mention severing ties with Umno. Your reps can't even stand up and be counted on, for the Chinese you are representing. How compromising your statement is on the BTN issue.
Anonymous_1371458513: Ong, do you know that those who attend BTN (only Muslims) are taught to hate non-Muslims including you?
Wg321: Something is really wrong with MCA. The thinking of MCA does not sync with the aspirations of the Chinese especially of Generation Y. There is a total disconnect between these MCA dinosaurs and the younger generation of Chinese.
Senior: Racism on one hand…truly Asia on the other?
Appum: Ong, what nonsense are you telling us now? What has MCA done for us so far, when you allow such organisations to operate under your nose when MCA is part of the government? Ever brought such issues up to the cabinet?
Maybe you did but your Umno boss just doesn't hear you fellows. What has MCA done to allow the ratio of the civil service to decline from about 30 - 40 percent of non-bumiputera employees during the 50s to 70s?
You all were quiet like church mice under the dictatorship of former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad when he encouraged racism. If BTN now needs a "tweak" why didn't you do it before that leaked video came up?
Don't tell me your MCA intelligence, supposed to work inside the coalition, was not aware of such happenings. Many other features in the civil service are not right today. What has MCA done, even together with MIC, and all the other parties of the BN coalition?
You are all led by the Umno boss by the nose, that's all. Where is the "consensus", the "sharing of power" tag of the BN?
Tentarik: This guy must be sleeping all these years, just woke up and talked nonsense, not aware of the damage BTN has done to the people and nation. He has no guts to speak the truth, typical of MCA, no brains and no balls.
Hmmmmmmmm: There should not even be a course to indoctrinate anybody in the first place. Whether the course is racist or not, is immaterial.
Kuasa Rakyat: MCA? If Umno says okay, they say okay. If Umno says no-okay, they say no-okay. That's MCA.
The Analyser: Proof beyond any doubt that the Chinese are no better than the Malays when it comes to human rights and respect. Repression and control are an integral part of the Malaysian mind stemming directly from innate insecurity.
Onlooker: BTN is not just for pen-pushing civil servants. Teachers and students going overseas on scholarships are also required to attend. To ensure the whole programme remains secret, participants are not allowed to take in anything that can record the proceedings, nor may they take out any of the course materials.
Clongviews: After so long why are you suggesting tweaking? The name already stinks. There should be a whole new setup with the objective of inculcating and instilling the concept/ideals of a multi-racial and multi-religious/cultural Malaysian society. The programme should be open to all.
Alipak: He is looking after his self-interest rather than that of the rakyat. Perhaps it’s time for MCA and other racial parties to disband beside the BTN.
Gotcha: MCA, I wonder if you all had ever listened to what was being said at these sessions. Think before you say anything if you have not heard or seen or attended these sessions. Trying to make yourself appear as a good boy, is making yourself silly.
The Reaper: if the government is sincere, disband it and give it a new name, hire new people and refocus on what Ong says. Too much bad news on this BTN.
P.Dev Anand Pillai: It is all a matter of survival, for the Chinese, they need the Malays to indirectly control the levers of economic power in the country. Therefore what is some racial degradation in the form of continuous insults through some propaganda programme for those who are in the civil service?
It is just to enforce the doctrine of supremacy. As long as the levers can be controlled behind the scenes, these people simply don't care.
Sleepy: On this serious matter, you don't rectify or prolong the issue; you stop it.
Basically: Ong, just let MCA pay for BTN's budget out of your own pockets. I do not wish my tax money to be spent on insulting me and my brothers.
Hearty Malaysian: Ong, it is obviously for political survival you are compromising your stance to tolerate BTN despite its track record of spreading narrow, apartheid ideology.
There is no need to dissolve BTN but an urgent need to dissolve the BN government. MCA is irrelevant to the nation due to such compromising stances.
Tommy: Hahaha…and MCA is still wondering why the Chinese have abandoned them.
hplooi: Ong, BTN in any form should be scrapped or disbanded. By right, promoting national unity starts from the school by having a syllabus of "all-inclusiveness-with-diversity".
Why should a separate government agency be established with copious funding to do this?
No democratic country in the world has a special agency for inculcating patriotism. Only "socialist-dictators" such as the Nazis (national-socialist) and the communists (dictatorship of the proletariat/peasant) have had such programmes.
Intheair: MCA is saying a vulture can be turned into a dove.
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