Dr M, time to put a sick cow to sleep!
January 30, 2008
In a Malaysiakini report entitled ‘Let’s clean up BN and UMNO : Dr M’ , the former PM is reported to have said, “I’m trying to promote a cleansing of the (coalition) by the people because it seems that it is not possible (for BN to cleanse itself)…There is no hope that Umno can clean itself from within. Everything is controlled now. Any contrary view (that party members) make would be contained.”
Doc, I’m afraid it’s too late. The corruption, cronyism and nepotism has spread too far.
But then, you would know this. You engineered most of it in your time.
January 30, 2008 at 11:00 pm
My thougts exactly Haris!
January 30, 2008 at 11:35 pm
bravo Dr M.u r on our side_makkal sakhti
January 31, 2008 at 12:00 am
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The Indians are off to a very good start. They might not be well off but at least they have grasped the very idea on how to “manipulate” the “elected servants (mp)” of the country.
To carry this idea a step further into G.E. would meant that the Indians would be the first to be dubbed the “smart voters.”
People should know by now that SCREWING the people has always been bn’s policies enforced via the myth of race and religion.
If mic can screw the Indians so can umno the Malays and mca and gerakan the Chinese
Because
Mic mca gerakan and umno are bound by the same policies.
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January 31, 2008 at 12:19 am
hear hear, haris has spoken. good for u lah. my thoughts exactly
January 31, 2008 at 12:26 am
This is good old vintage mahatir.
Have faith Haris, nothing is ever too late.
Everything starts with a small step.
January 31, 2008 at 1:20 am
Dear Remo,
Do u think that mahathir is an angel? he is the absolute cause of current state of affairs in the country. The fundamental pillars supporting the institution of democracy in the country first showed its sign of crack in the early years of his regime, somewhere after 1985. The essence of democratic institution began its waning since the sacking of Tun Salleh Abas.
The doctrine of separation of powers lost its novelty. There was no check and balance. He was controlling both the executive and the judiciary. Ironically he determined the chief justice for the country…vk lingam’s video clip case tells the whole world on mahathir’s controlled/corrupted regime.
He made hundreds of constitutional amendments both at party and parliament levels to maintain his clout. It was during his regime the highest level of public and private scandals involving money,sex and gratifications were taking place and are spilling over now. Many more to be exposed… I believe so.
All the government enforcement agencies were corrupted to the core. Why did he allow this corruptive and destructive culture to flourish? Today he is talking about money politics and ethical leadership…only god knows what is in store for the future of this country.
He is the one who introduced the “termite culture or TM culture into the very fabrics of the Malaysian Society. I believe you know what termites do for their living!!! Externally everything looks fine but internally everything is eaten-up to rot and eventually collapse.
That is what exactly happening in this country now. Just wait until 2020… you will see a nation that is not developed but one that is entering into a journey of self-incrimination and self-annihilation. The ruling politicians in this country has gone bankrupt of altruistic values, good faith and virtuous beliefs and the fate of this country is left in their hands.
Now, I hope at least you understand who are the angels and who are the devils. Hopefully makkal sakthi can contribute towards the determination of a better future for this country with the passage of time. See you…
January 31, 2008 at 2:14 am
Its utterly comical that Dr.M should say this, he still thinks those screwed can still be screwed again, perhaps rightfully so, there is still cowardice for those screwed to do more and bring the BN to its knees.
January 31, 2008 at 3:13 am
If Mahathir Mohamed were to do penance over 99 lifetimes for the damage he has wrought upon our country, it would still not be enough to cleanse him of his multitude of sins.
I cannot think of any other single individual who has singlehandedly done more harm to Malaysia than he.
For what’s remaining of his present lifetime, I ask nothing more of Mahathir Mohamed than to stay away and inflict upon us his public presence no longer.
Realise at least this, erstwhile Doctor: “Your rank hypocrisy makes us sick and thanks to you, decent healthcare is a luxury Malaysians today can ill-afford.”
Please go potter in your garden and keep your contagion to your self.
January 31, 2008 at 8:39 am
Dr M did the ground work, the foundation he made too strong on coorruption, cronyism, nepotism. Why he complain now?
January 31, 2008 at 8:54 am
u can’t blame TUN MAHATHIR.he cannot remember that he is the source of many of our problems today.now he puts the blame on badawi for not doing a good job.SMART OR FOOLISH either way u cannot fool the people all the time
January 31, 2008 at 9:47 am
It was indeed laughable that he wants to “promote cleansing of the party” when he had for years allowed the rot to set in. His other pronouncement that it is “impossible for the Opposition to win more seats than BN, to form a government” fits in nicely with what the opposition has always claimed that the “elections” have been rigged, not physically in the voting but the gerrymandering that has been in place all along for a BN perpetual stay in power.
And his confirmation (from NST) of “mindset of the Malays is such that even if you put a piece of log (to represent the party) they will vote for it..” shows that the Malay votes have all along “been blind” to that extent either for PAS or for UMNO.
His latest Book “Mahathir’s Selected Letters to World Leaders.” is an incomplete one (“censored)” as it was reported that many other letters (being sensitive) have been embargoed by the Government - prevented from being from being published to cause embarrassment to existing living personalities.
More details, pics &a Video Clip at
Go H E R E
January 31, 2008 at 11:30 am
Bro Haris, you are so right. TDM did engineer this whole damn thing during his time in office. Whatever right that he tries to do now for all the wrongs that he created, will never be enough. When he suggested to the voters to vote out the corrupted BN MPs, he must have meant the whole lot.
January 31, 2008 at 11:32 am
Right on Haris! Helen, couldn’t agree with you more!!
January 31, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Don’t expect he will ever admit to contributing to today’s malaise. But I will not shoo him away if he is volunteering to lend a hand in achieving civil society’s agenda. After all he used us. Its about time he paid back the debt. Of course he should not be allowed to taint civil society’s agenda by his presence at the same time. I wouldn’t want to see guns aimed at him conveniently widening their range to civil society as well.
Fact is there is this huge population out there that relies for its news, opinions and world views only on Berita Harian and Utusan Melayu. All of civil society comments and views does not get into that. But Mahathir’s might. For once, it might just be possible to get a whole lot of people a view that is opposite to the one propagated by the ruling elite.
Is that alone enough to raise a doubt in the minds of that readership? Well, I can hope.
One thing Mahathir needs to know, albeit a little too late, is that the constitution was written on the assumption that we shall have all kinds of leaders. Good ones, bad ones, sleeping ones too. It contained all of them to a certain kind of conduct what ever their power. When he started mucking around with the constitution just to make his rule palatable and convenient to him, he completely forgot that he too will die one day and a new leader will take his place unbeholden to him. Well, thank God, Mahathir sees this happen in his life time.
January 31, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Too late, Dr M, too late. Too late to cover up your dark deeds by blaming the Badawi administration.
How I had wished, when you were in your hospital bed in IJN recuperating, that you would do the decent thing - repent and admit all the wrongs you had done towards this nation and its people, all too numerous to enumerate here.
True repentance would have led you to speak the truth at the VK Lingam session, would have caused you to open up and apologise and attempt to make things right, would have been medicine for this suffering nation. But you did not.
True repentance means you are willing to do all that it takes to undo the harm you caused. But you are not.
Your selective amnesia is so you. Some people say your performance before the Royal Commission was vintage Dr M. I say it was wastage. You wasted a great moment where you could have helped expose the truth. You chose self-preservation instead.
Why complain and condemn BN now, Dr M? You were their best teacher and they were ready pupils to emulate your ways.
So, Dr M, leave the affairs of this nation to others. Sit in your armchair, think of your deeds and sing this song dedicated to you to the tune of ‘I Started A Joke’.
I started the rot
That sent this nation crumbling
But I wouldn’t see
That the rot was in me.
I took all the power
And had the nation crying
But I didn’t care
That my rule was unfair.
I started it all
Caused all this mess
And people had less
But I, I’m on my throne
I don’t care two hoots
I can go it alone.
I’ve started a scheme
That’ll make you want me back
A pity you can’t see
That Malaysia needs me.
January 31, 2008 at 2:18 pm
Mahathir?!? Never Forget!:
“His father was a schoolteacher of Indian(hahaha!) origin, having migrated from the state of Kerala, while his mother was a Malay; Mahathir generally associates himself with a Malay ethnic identity.” - Wikipedia
“Far from abandoning the Internal Security Act which allows for arrest without warrant and detention without trial, Mahathir has used it more often against his political foes than his predecessors ever did. Far from expanding freedom of expression and press, he has diminished both. His excessive political dominance and press control increasingly make elections meaningless. The older generation of Malaysian leaders feared the direction the country would take under Mahathir. Hussein Onn (Mahathir’s predecessor as prime minister) never ceased to wonder if he had done the right thing in appointing Mahathir as his deputy. If the older leaders were apprehensive, the younger generation of politicians –particularly in the ruling United Malays National Organization (UMNO) –appear to be seduced by the fast development of money politics, as well as of the economy, and have been less clear-sighted. Yet even at the height of his authoritarian powers, Marcos could never impose the political and mental uniformity which Mahathir is apparently now able to command. Yet, even at the height of his authoritarian powers, Suharto could never expect the Indonesian press to be as completely docile as the Malaysian press has now become. Perhaps Malaysian politicians fear that Mahathir may use the Internal Security Act against them. Perhaps they now believe what they read in the Mahathir-controlled press. Perhaps they are intellectually intimidated by the pro-Mahathir think-tanks which rationalize his every move. Whatever the reason, not a single major UMNO figure utters any dissent as Mahathir moves one step too far, blatantly using the supine press to defame his dismissed deputy, and to condemn him in advance of any trial. Similarly, there are no rumblings within the ruling party when Mahathir imposes capital controls and seeks Malaysian secession from the ebbs and flows of the globalization process. It all suggests the sad, and even terrifying prospect that Mahathir has succeeded, much more than Marcos or Suharto ever did, in creating the sycophantic state wherein personal dictatorship can so easily grow and flourish. The last time this correspondent met Tun Tan Siew Sin, the former Malaysian finance minister, who had first instituted Malaysia’s adherence to market forces, he bemoaned Mahathir’s rise to power because he was “a dictator who will do untold harm to this country.” “In the last election he fought before he died, the late lamented Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia’s beloved first Prime Minister, fought alongside the opposition he had long disdained in order to end what he saw as the Mahathir dictatorship.”
Like all dictators, Mahathir will not go quietly or quickly. Southeast Asia’s economic crisis continues because he has come to believe in his own infallibility, and because no one has talked back to him for far too long. The (crisis) will not end unless Malaysia’s younger leaders gather together the inner strength to tell Mahathir bluntly and forcefully that it is time to depart. Belatedly Anwar tried to talk back –but Mahathir forced him out rather than the reverse.” - (Excerpt) The Many-Faceted Dictatorship of Mahathir, HARVEY STOCKWIN, Times of India
“Wan Azizah said Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad’s hold on power was slipping fast, but she wanted him voted out of office rather than ousted violently. She described Dr Mahathir as ‘a once respected prime minister who has lost all sense of perspective, all sense of right and wrong and all sense of reality’. ‘(He) now rules not by popular approval but (with) an iron fist, using the institutions of government to destroy any and all challenges to his increasingly slippery hold on power,’ she added. Dr Mahathir and his National Front coalition hold four-fifths of the seats in parliament, which must be dissolved by June next year. Wan Azizah said Mrs Aquino and the people of the Philippines had shown that a dictator could be overthrown ‘if the masses draw a line in the sand and say enough, no more’.” - (Excerpt) Mahathir’s ‘iron fist rule’, BBC
January 31, 2008 at 4:27 pm
This man has the gall to now preach about good governance, clean elections etc etc.
What is even more surprising is the fact that some people (even bloggers) seem to giving prominence to his preaching. Where does anyone get off supporting him for his holier than thou statements. Are we suffering from amnesia??
Let us not forget that the mess that this lovely country is in was largely caused during his tenure as PM. The independance of almost every institution (including the judiciary) was dismantled during his premiership. He did all that just to stay in power. Like Faridah said, he missed a golden oppurtunity to repent and tell the world (what most of us already knew anyway)the kind of scheming that went on in the appointment and elevation of judges. He could have in so many words apologised for his role in creating the impotent judiciary that we have today. It would not have undone all the damage he had caused, but he could have to some extent redeemed himself.
Why on earth are we now extolling his virtues. We should be castigating him for what he did. We must never let him forget he was responsible for screwing up this country.
January 31, 2008 at 5:32 pm
No denial that the old man did alot of not so good things to the nation and created quite a few Mr Hydes along the way. Condemnation is in order here.
But the issue is he is still around and still wants to play. So how do we fit him into the game plan?.
I am no fan of the old man but would agree with Paul Warren and remo. Civil society needs all the help that it can get to get its agenda moving. Here is a man, the so called architect of all the problems we are facing, coming out to voice his disgust and anger on the injustices that are now confronting the country.
Why is he doing all this? I don’t know. Maybe he now have a much clearer view of what he has created and is trying to undo some of the wrongs which he has done. Frankly, the country will be even worse off if he keeps quiet or side with the home team.
It’s still not too late for the game is still in play and the visitors will need all the help it can get to at least give a good account of itself.
aiyamanaboleh,
I don’t trust this old man to try to undo the wrongs he has inflicted on this nation.
Period.
January 31, 2008 at 6:43 pm
To my mind his outbursts are just about politics and what he perceives as attempts to destroy HIS legacy. He bred and encouraged corruption in UMNO and all levels of government and it was fitting that it was corruption that put paid to his attempts to become an UMNO delegate. His vintage performance at the Royal Commission of Inquiry, only adds to the belief that he has no plans of undoing the damage that he caused.
He is not voicing his disgust and anger on the injustices that are now confronting the country rather he is voicing his disgust and anger on the injustices that he perceives are confronting HIM.
January 31, 2008 at 10:11 pm
demo cracy is the bludgeoining of the fools by the fools for the fools………….
February 1, 2008 at 2:58 pm
How hypocritical can this man get. Thanks to him,our nation is now a failed state and he has the cheek to…… I can’t even mention his name , cause his name makes me want to puke.
February 1, 2008 at 3:05 pm
We will not forgive him for what he has done to the state of Sabah. He has given the state away to foreigners just to wrest power from the then PBS opposition. That’s democracy “the old man” style.
February 2, 2008 at 12:22 am
If Umno is to start cleaning up, the first thing to do is to charge Mahathir for massive corruption and massive abuse of power.
Only when Mahathir is in Jail then only Malaysia can clean up all the mess that we have.
Mahathis is the source and cause of all things wrong in Malaysia.