The title of this post is similar to the caption of a poster that adorned the wall in the reception area of the law firm that I chambered at in 1990 and later worked as a legal assistant for a number of years, and was later made a partner.
Below that caption was a picture of Bapa Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman.
Regrettably, I cannot recall the full text that appeared in the poster, as a quote from Tunku.
Tunku was of course referring to the events that followed the disgraceful fiasco that the UMNO elections of 1987 was, when Dr M pipped Ku Li to the presidency by a majority of 43 votes, in an election that the losing party alleged was rigged.
The losing team went to court to have the elections declared null and void and, as it turned out, the High Court declared UMNO to be an illegal entity given the existence then, of unregistered branches.
The order of the High Court effectively severed the jugular vein of UMNO.
UMNO was rendered dead!
Dr M’s solution?
He registered UMNO Baru, which is the present day entity everyone calls UMNO, minus the ‘Baru’.
The decision of the High Court was appealed to the Supreme Court.
If the appeal succeeded, it would mean that the original UMNO would be resurrected.
This would then mean the end for Dr M as, by the terms of the constitution of the original UMNO, Dr M having already joined a new party, to wit, UMNO Baru, his membership in the original UMNO would ipso facto terminate.
Dr M could not allow this to happen.
In the Supreme Court, Tun Salleh, it seems, was minded to fix the UMNO appeal to be heard by a full bench of the Supreme Court.
This was bad news for Dr M.
The more judges sitting to hear the appeal, the more difficult to fix the outcome of the same.
That was why Tun Salleh had to go.
So that UMNO would remain dead and buried.
Tunku was clear in his mind that Dr M, for his own selfish reasons, had dealt the fatal blow on the UMNO that was formed in 1946.
I thought you might want to be appraised of this perspective given the take by Rocky that it was Ku Li who caused the big UMNO split two decades ago.
UMNO was split when the party when to the polls in 1987.
There was a already a Team A and a Team B.
UMNO was already split by then.
The narrow margin of Dr M’s victory is a reflection of the extent of the divide that already existed within the membership of UMNO.
Should Ku Li be blamed for this?
Or was there a revolt within the party against the leadership of Dr M? And should this, then, be rightly seen as the cause of the divide?
If you want a lit bit more background to this, have a read from wikipedia HERE .
koolgeek
March 4, 2009
i guess it doesn’t matter in the present day context.
umno baru or lama, fake or original… it is a monster out of control now. having planted all their men in every single institution in Msia, Dr M has successfully dismantled all the check and balances. just look at the police.
he still claims his system was the best (yeah, when it works for him!) and blames every rot on Badawi.
umno has to be dismantled for the sake of the nation.
moreincome
March 4, 2009
More than 15 years ago, when everything TDM touched turned to gold, I told my wife that this PM had done a lot of good for the country, and a lot more worse things. The net result would be that our children would curse him.
I never thought that this cursing would come in my lifetime.
Only God and TDM knows what is in his heart, but as a Muslim he has to face his Maker, and I hope he does so with a clear conscience. For his deeds and for the structure he left behind.
storm62
March 4, 2009
umno baru or umno lama doesn’t matter…the real matter is to bury umno and make umno disappear.
siapa bunuh umno?
greed and power crazy politicians kills umno. they create their own funeral. the Rakyat will bury them soon…thats for sure. AL_FATIHAH UMNO!!!
DAP man
March 4, 2009
In case Rocky has forgotten or pretending to play dumb,let me remind him that Pak Lah was also a member of Team B, together with Musa Hitam, Razaleigh and Rais Yatim. So was Sharir Samad, the Minister turned dohbi turned Minister.
They went round the country condemning Mahathir and Razaleigh declaring that he would never, if if he dies and is resurrected join UMNO Baru.
Razaleigh actually won the contest but he was cheated by the incumbents.
Paul Warren
March 4, 2009
No siree, it is spin doctors like Rocky who “bunuh UMNO”! It is wordsmiths such as him that get the people to lose focus on the wrong that is happening.
It is spin masters who make sure, by their careful and friendly articulation infest your mind like how termites work their magic on the timber of your beautiful homes. You think all is wonderful until your roof comes tumbling down. Until then spin masters keep the outsides looking good and strong.
And I thought blogging was about writing the truth. MSM is where you spin the facts as you see it. MSM is where you report. But blogging is for truth and honesty. Spin masters are contaminating blogosphere. Rocky get out of here.
timmy
March 4, 2009
Hi Haris,
I hope we all can start a campaign to push TRH as PM.
With Anwar 30+ MPs at hand (still in BN), plus PR, we can push for a vote of confidence for TRH to become PM.
He is the only one man in BN that will listen to the rakyat. PR can’t take over now, but they can help to ensure the nation is in good hands.
This is going to be like the T’ganu coup, where we hope the Agong will reject Najib, and appoint TRH who commands the majority in the Parliament.
Since he is from UMNO, there’s going to be minimum backlash. Since he is a royal, there’s going to be hard for Najib and co. to retaliate against TRH.
What do you think?
Penang Voter
March 4, 2009
Old UMNO = UNITED MALAYS NATIONAL ORGANIZATION
New UMNO = UNTUK MONYET NO OTAK
Anonymous
March 4, 2009
Anonymous Says:
History will repeat itself the most corrupted of all call Nargis will helm UMNO to oblivion.
Beware of the Nargis & UMNO underhand deceits, fithy lies and dirty tactics which must be exposed so that they will be shunned by all Rakyats in order to be thrown out in the next GE.
The Era of Anarchy has just begun in the coming Premiership of Nargis, the most corrupted of all corrupters, all Malaysians beware that they, Nargis & UMNO, will spend Government Money to buy Chaos in order to impose Dictatorial Government without election or after they have lost the Election in GE 13, we have all learnt from Perak Government’s takeover by deceit and by force of using the Police Force which could be bought and the Assemblymen who were bought either with money or in kind like no case in court for their corruptions’ cases pending trials if they defect from Pakatan and of course the sole DAP betrayer could be bought with a great sum of money as Nargis knew and as well as the betrayer that she could never be elected ever again in Jelapang and of course the pension sum must be huge including allowance for her permanent retirement for making a betrayal to Pakatan for short term benefiting of Nargis?
There must be a good reason for the Sultan well learned in law and also once holding the highest office in Supreme Court took a lowly decision in support of the most corrupted Politician call Nargis, Peem in awaiting. No offence intended to the Sultan who was highly regarded until just now only, it is either he has been threatened with some secret files on him held by Nargis, or like all the other froggies that had been lured by huge sums of money offered by the most greedy of Corrupters called Nargis who used the nation’s coffers as his own kitty bank. Knowing very well that Nargis would not last the next GE, this is the best opportunity to make some good cash funds for keeps as the next Government under PKR will be clean and righteous for the God, King, People and Country.
Not realizing that Corruptions breed even more Corruptions and this is the vicious circle and the people of Perak are ones who would suffer in the long run and they will not forget what a Sultan they have had. If Narjis and UMNO is in Power it is most likely that the nation’s coffers would be decimated and there will be nothing left for our Children’s Children, therefore make sure the UMNO along with all their goons are thrown out the next election.
God bless you the people of Malaysia
Ismandy Hamza
March 4, 2009
Who cares about the rotten party anymore?
Party belacan. Party rojak. Everything is halal for them as long as it serves their leaders’ purpose of clinging on to power forever.
That is their ultimate goal without due respect for the opposition parties which also have their duties to perform to the nation and its people.
Just don’t pay to much attention to Umno as they themselves know that they are weak now.
So they turned to physcological warfare to try and turn the tables and made it looks as if the PR camp is in disarray.
On the part of the PR itself, better brace for worse as what had transpired lately, is just the tip of the iceberg.
And bottomline, it is the people themselves who are holding the last nail to Umno’s coffin.
They should play the biggest role in seeing that Umno meets the end of the line and be buried forever without ever being given the slightest chance to ever recover.
As we all can see there is no way for the PR to rule the country legally, as ‘all the relevant authorities concerned’ are kneeling down to Umno’s feet and demands.
Its that plain simple. Not hard to make a conclusion on Malaysian politics.
The more rhetoric ideas you have on following the rules and regulation, the more that one is going to see darkness at the end of the tunnel.
And this will only makes one even more sick and disappointed with the authorities for being bias and supporting Umno in whatever decisions made.
So PR better watch out and what better way to defeat Umno than to study their weaknesses. Only then, probably one can see daylight and the beginning of a new era for Malaysia.
yh
March 4, 2009
mahatir is responsible for the present state of affairs. a total disregard for the constitution just to preserve the power. his student has learned well and expect more of the same from the PM2B.
Ex Neutral
March 4, 2009
umno baru or lama doesn’t make a difference, after the next GE there will be no more umno. They really think they bloody own the country.And when they are gone, I’ll thank the putras for it.
abdul
March 4, 2009
Both umno baru or lama no longer relevant…the current umno now is umno barua
telanbara
March 4, 2009
I am an UMNO member for life but now I am ashamed to say that. Most of my friends will frown whenever the topic of UMNO crops up. It goes to show how disgustful UMNO is now. So now I am a member of Orang-orang Kurang Upaya – not that I am physically impaired, no, but ‘kurang upaya’ untuk melawan UMNO. The whole system is under their control, you just cannot do anything to them until perhaps at GE13.
Deksi
March 4, 2009
Mahathir was facing roadblocks from ultra pure Malay UMNO leaders. Racist remarks about Mahathir’s ancestry first appeared at that time, from within UMNO. Razaleigh, the Tunku’s people, Johor UMNO were leading the accusations about Mahathir’s racial “unsuitability” to lead the Malays.
There was also the Anglophile Malay aristocracy and the English educated Malay Civil Service elite who also did not like Mahathir’s anti British stance and Mahathir’s independent thinking. Asians especially Malays were not supposed to be capable of thinking for themselves.
Finally there was just simple jealousy amongst the Malay elite towards a half caste Malay Prime Minister who was saying things which they could not understand.
Just when they were overcoming the intricacies of stengahs, gin tonics and single malt whiskeys here came a PM who was talking about cars, highways, expressways, aerotrains and other such things which they did not even know was relevant.
Salleh Abbas, a village boy from Terengganu, rose to Lord President and had visions of himself as the Lord Denning of the Malays. He too could not stomach an upstart PM like Mahathir, who did not fit the mould of a laid back, easy going Prime Minister in the likes of Hussein Onn, Tun Razak and especially Tunku A Rahman.
Mahathir was an iconoclast – a person who had to go around breaking many idols which held the Malays down. White man worship, beras secupak takkan jadi segantang mentality, ini bukan tempat kita, kenapa nak susah sangat etc were among the obstacles Dr Mahathir faced.
Bear this in mind.
menatwork
March 5, 2009
Blatant remarks all you could offer. Point of reference Wikipidea ( a lopsided report ). Liar Doctrine IF YOU CANT CONVINCE THEM, CONFUSE THEM what you have been subscribing all this while, both Mr Harris & RPK alike.
TDM have done what time demanded of him during his tenure, put forward infrastructure development. Whats yr forte ?? Creating a new label Anak Bangsa M’sia ? All of you Dream on & go on critisizing ….he has served his country.
LChuah
March 5, 2009
Actually the name does matter, for the present UMNO Baru people often talk about their “long” history and seek legitimacy from that association. It would be great if Pakatan, and all non-BN Malaysians, call UMNO Baru by its proper name. Let’s do it from now on.
aku anak malaysia!
March 5, 2009
UMNO bunuh UMNO lah Rocky! Itu pun nak orang ajar.. blame here blame there..
Next question is, Siapa Bunuh Rocky’s Bru?
ROCKY SENDIRI LAH!!
artchan
March 5, 2009
Tun Mamak started it….taxi minister, mongolian minister, syed al blur, sleepy head. frothy mouth, kris wielding maniacs and the like and incompetent half past six present leaders will kill it slowly..and when it is dead…everyone past and present leaders will blame everyone except themselves.
anna brella
March 5, 2009
And I am prepared to take a very high stakes bet that Dr M must have had the luck of the devil himself on his side during that UMNO leadership crisis in 1988.
Because had Sultan Azlan Shah of Perak been the Yang di-Pertuan Agong at that crucial time instead of the Sultan of Johor (from 26 April 1984 – 25 April 1989) Dr M would NOT have been able/allowed to do that hatchet job on Tun Salleh Abas, and wield that devastating death-blow against Malaysia’s Supreme Court which reduced its once independent might to its present-day powerless dependent replacement, the so-called “palace of justice”(?) now subsumed into the premises of the Executive’s Palace at Putrajaya.
“Imagine Power To The People” John Lennon.
flyer168
March 5, 2009
Dear Haris,
– Sad to see this great nation Malaysia administered by the British Tuans, then handed over to the Malaysian TUANS under Bapa Malaysia Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra & his Malaysian cabinet of TRUE TUANS managing the system of Wesminster style Democracy & with the Rule of Law in 1957,
– getting “Hijacked & Betrayed” by the “Elite UMNO Ketetuanan BEGGARS” in 1969….some of those are still “Alive, Kicking & Mentoring ALL the New Ketetuanan Beggar Wannabes.”
– To be a Public figure, one must be established, sincere, honest, credible, transparent & above board – should be opened to scrutinization like in the US.
Many of our Leaders today have “skeletons” of their past in their closets (some have their family’s baggages as well!), so how can they be “Honourable” to carry out their duties diligently without “Fear or favour”, even after taking an “Oath” to the King/Sultan/the nation & rayaat.”
With their “Gutter Politics & Law of the Jungle” ala “Kindergarten style”….
Ultimately they will “Buckle” under pressure.
Desperate People, at Desperate Times, will RESORT to Desperate Henious Actions even if it means “Outdoing & Destroying” their “Honourable Family Legacy”, their own “MALAY MUSLIM HADHARI” party “UMNO” beyond “Redemption”, their component BN party, their Own Kind, this country & its Many People !
Remember “What goes round, will come round to these Desperate UMNO Ketetuanan Beggars” SOON.
Even our 4th PM Mahathir feels SAD ……Sad for him to now “Witness”….
But this is “Devine Intervention” at work to “Hear” this once “Great” man…..
“Lamenting” NOW on the “Re-cycle of his Own Legacy” that he “Initiated” 22 years ago has become the “UMNO Ketetuanan Monster” that it is now !
All our prayers to God Almighty seeking “Truth, Justice, Freedom & Equality” will be answered.
Every new day will be another “New Revelation” to reveal the “Truth” in its Self Destruct motion towards its “Demise”.
Just give them enough rope to “Hang” themselves at every turn in their “Final” chapter.
Devine Inervention works Wonders against the “Oppressors.”
storm62
March 5, 2009
siapa bunuh UMNO? who the hell cares…as long as their DEAD!…best is that they kill themselves otherwise Rakyat Malaysia will KILL them come GE13.
AL-FATIHAH UMNO!!!
Pratamad
March 5, 2009
Siapa bunuh UMNO? Bukan bisnes saya. Tetapi sekarang, siapa akan bunuh Malaysia? Ya, ini bisnes semua anak bangsa Malaysia.
For all his selfish reasons, Dr M destroyed much of the institutions in Malaysia, and planted the seeds for the disaster looming in Apr (actually already).
seetanggang
March 5, 2009
This is all related to transferring of the failed SEO’s to private operators, who had made fully used of the monopolistic power of government’s backed institutions for hefty profits.
Why hadn’t they re-organized the SEO’s for the benefit of all Malays. If the transition to privatizations of SEO’s didn’t happen probably our society isn’t so divided like what it is today.
Good Bless Malaysia, the homes of Malays, and Bungalows of Non Malays.
matt
March 6, 2009
Bro remember the keralian wanted to show that he was more malay than the actual malay,this keralian snake is the guy who has made this vicious party into what it is today-U MUST NOT OPPOSE.
anna brella
March 7, 2009
It is usually the case, isn’t it?, that the monsters you create, deliberately or unwittingly, have a natural tendency to turn around and destroy you.
So I guess the easy peasy trick is to learn how not to create monsters that will then turn around and destroy you.
Perhaps that was too simple (or maybe too tricky) a lesson for someone of Dr M’s supposedly great visonary calibre to learn.
I neer fail to find it tiresomely amusing when I see the same old mode of hubris and history repeating itself over and over and over……..again.
“Imagine Power To The People” John Lennon.
arah
March 14, 2009
DrM has planted the seed of evil and distruction. He will reap what he sow.
He is so worried of PAS that he changed the Malays Constituents. What happened in Perak proved DrM formula is a failure.
May Allah forgive him and forgive all of us.
Ghifari X
March 18, 2009
BN/UMNO Execrable, attempts a clean-up yet the puss keeps surfacing. This is a corps that needs amputation after all; the anti-bodies are all dead even the operating courts Ops! theater is infested with insanities’. Here’s the remedy: MIC has to be chopped off, PPP warrant some serious dosage of antiseptic and viral flushing and the MCA beginning with its tongue eye ears and testicles could do with some strict bandaging and isolation least they burst into a smelly and violent mucus as they normally do come every GA. As for UMNO quarantine without exception, don’t even announce it, and decapitate this syndrome like scabies and anything (One) near IT. We got rid of polio TB typhoid but dengue and UMNO are as stubborn as any plague, worst than the ravages during a civil war. This BN corps exudes as Dr M returns to his practice, this time gloves off as everyone is definitely infected-there goes the understatement-Infected you said? I have no sympathy. BN/UMNO must never mutate not in this life.