N
ajib UP YOURS! You call yourself our Perdana Menteri? Our Leader? Or are you a sheep that follows the flock? From as long as I can remember you have been a follower ….…no, not a dedicated follower of noble ideals or lofty beliefs…but a follower that takes his position at the back of the herd. Never having the courage to be in the front line. Never ever being the first to embrace what would be the right thing to do because to do so would leave you alone without the insidious comforts of those you crave to have around you…those like minded cowards who seek the comfort of the herd.
ajib UP YOURS! You call yourself our Perdana Menteri? Our Leader? Or are you a sheep that follows the flock? From as long as I can remember you have been a follower ….…no, not a dedicated follower of noble ideals or lofty beliefs…but a follower that takes his position at the back of the herd. Never having the courage to be in the front line. Never ever being the first to embrace what would be the right thing to do because to do so would leave you alone without the insidious comforts of those you crave to have around you…those like minded cowards who seek the comfort of the herd.You will never understand that to be a leader you must lead. You must stand-alone at times because you have listened to your heart and understood the need to go against the grain because that was needed to be done for the people and for the good of Malaysia.
You Najib have always waited to see whose side would win before you jump towards the direction of who ever is winning….if the winner is for Ketuanan Melayu – then you are for Ketuanan Melayu. If the winner is going to be Mahathir that is where we will find you. Now what if the winner after the 13th General Election is Pakatan Rakyat? Where will you be? Or are you going to declare yourself to have always been a closeted Pakatan Rakyat operative? Huh!
Now again we see you for what you really are! Running towards any direction that will give you shelter, comfort and a belief that you will survive this UMNO assembly and live to fight the 13th general election. And the direction you perceived will save you is to stand before your UMNO altar and “warn of 'crushed bodies', 'lost lives', 'ethnic cleansing' if status quo is not kept!”
by Wong Choon Mei, Malaysia Chronicle
In a speech that is bound to raise the already high political-temperature in the country and drive investors further away, Prime Minister Najib Razak used violent language in his opening address to his UMNO party, vowing to defend their five-decade stranglehold on the federal government even if it meant crushed bodies and lost lives.
“This is the most shocking and irresponsible statement to come from a PM although many of us in the opposition have been warning of a major showdown. But it also brings to the fore the fact that Najib is not as confident as he pretends to be. In fact, he is desperate because the chances are very high that UMNO-BN will lose,” PAS central committee member Nizar Jamaluddin told Malaysia Chronicle.
At the 61st UMNO annual assembly, Najib – who is the party president – was cheered by members as he led them through reverberating shouts of Hidup UMNO (the Malay equivalent ofLong Live UMNO) three times. UMNO pundits had actually been expecting a slightly cooler reaction with many members waiting to grill Najib for his 1Malaysia plan, tepid performance and recent flip-flops over a series of political and economic issues.
“Even if our bodies are crushed and our lives lost, brothers and sisters, whatever happens, we must defend Putrajaya,” Malaysiakini reported Najib as saying. Putrajaya is Malaysia’s administrative capital.
Racial cleansing
In his hour-long speech, Najib even warned of the possibility of ‘racial cleansing’ such as in Rwanda and Bosnia if unnamed parties continued to challenge and debate the preferential status now enjoyed by the Malays.
Some of the Pakatan Rakyat leaders who recently and openly debunked UMNO’s claim of special rights include PKR’s Nurul Izzah Anwar, who created a mini-tsunami in the country with her Malaysia or Malaysaja series of articles. She has challenged Najib, former premier Mahathir Mohamad and ultra-Malay rights group PERKASA chief Ibrahim Ali to public debates, which all three men have shunned.
Malaysia’s federal constitution does not state that Malays have special rights or rights that are above the other ethnic groups. However, there are clear provisions that the Malay community is entitled to special positions in the economic and educational sectors.
Nonetheless, this is not the way Najib or UMNO sees it. They insist that any interpretation other than theirs is an affront to Malay supremacy, although many in the community do not agree with such a stance as it smacks of oppression and racism. Nevertheless, racial supremacy has been the traditional tool used by UMNO to tie the Malay community to it.
“What I am saying is not surprising. In the 20th century, we have seen cases of punishment without trial in the United States, the holocaust tragedy in Europe, the slaughter of Palestinians in the Middle East and the ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Rwanda. Imagine, what is the outcome, if every generation of Malaysians question the social contract which were agreed upon by their forefathers,” said Najib.
by Wong Choon Mei, Malaysia Chronicle
In a speech that is bound to raise the already high political-temperature in the country and drive investors further away, Prime Minister Najib Razak used violent language in his opening address to his UMNO party, vowing to defend their five-decade stranglehold on the federal government even if it meant crushed bodies and lost lives.
“This is the most shocking and irresponsible statement to come from a PM although many of us in the opposition have been warning of a major showdown. But it also brings to the fore the fact that Najib is not as confident as he pretends to be. In fact, he is desperate because the chances are very high that UMNO-BN will lose,” PAS central committee member Nizar Jamaluddin told Malaysia Chronicle.
At the 61st UMNO annual assembly, Najib – who is the party president – was cheered by members as he led them through reverberating shouts of Hidup UMNO (the Malay equivalent ofLong Live UMNO) three times. UMNO pundits had actually been expecting a slightly cooler reaction with many members waiting to grill Najib for his 1Malaysia plan, tepid performance and recent flip-flops over a series of political and economic issues.
“Even if our bodies are crushed and our lives lost, brothers and sisters, whatever happens, we must defend Putrajaya,” Malaysiakini reported Najib as saying. Putrajaya is Malaysia’s administrative capital.
Racial cleansing
In his hour-long speech, Najib even warned of the possibility of ‘racial cleansing’ such as in Rwanda and Bosnia if unnamed parties continued to challenge and debate the preferential status now enjoyed by the Malays.
Some of the Pakatan Rakyat leaders who recently and openly debunked UMNO’s claim of special rights include PKR’s Nurul Izzah Anwar, who created a mini-tsunami in the country with her Malaysia or Malaysaja series of articles. She has challenged Najib, former premier Mahathir Mohamad and ultra-Malay rights group PERKASA chief Ibrahim Ali to public debates, which all three men have shunned.
Malaysia’s federal constitution does not state that Malays have special rights or rights that are above the other ethnic groups. However, there are clear provisions that the Malay community is entitled to special positions in the economic and educational sectors.
Nonetheless, this is not the way Najib or UMNO sees it. They insist that any interpretation other than theirs is an affront to Malay supremacy, although many in the community do not agree with such a stance as it smacks of oppression and racism. Nevertheless, racial supremacy has been the traditional tool used by UMNO to tie the Malay community to it.
“What I am saying is not surprising. In the 20th century, we have seen cases of punishment without trial in the United States, the holocaust tragedy in Europe, the slaughter of Palestinians in the Middle East and the ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Rwanda. Imagine, what is the outcome, if every generation of Malaysians question the social contract which were agreed upon by their forefathers,” said Najib.
Pakatan calls for calm
Meanwhile, Pakatan leaders have called on Malaysians to stay calm and ignore Najib’s invective. They slammed him for the “grossest” hypocrisy, pointing to his maiden speech to United Nations last month where he called for moderation and even offered Malaysia’s help in creating a movement of moderates over extremists.
“Shame on Najib for trying to frighten the people. This is the worst type of scare-mongering and bullying. If the people are still not convinced by now that he and his UMNO-BN must go, then this speech will convince them,” PAS leader Dr Hatta Ramli told Malaysia Chronicle.
“If Malaysians decide to change for the better, no one can stop the landslide, so stop the drama. Najib only shows his fear and hysteria of impending rejection by the people. He has degenerated so far down the line that he is even bragging to UMNO that he is willing to use force to thwart the wishes of the rakyat (citizenry). And the sad thing is, UMNO members are themselves deceived by this racial emotionalism.”
Malaysia’s 28 million population is expected to go to the polls again in early 2011. At the 2008 general election, the people gave Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim and his Pakatan coalition control of 5 out of 13 states. Significantly, they also withdrew UMNO-BN’s long-held two-thirds parliamentary majority. This majority has been blamed for the rampant corruption and abuse of power by the ruling elite as it gave them the power to ram through whatever laws they wished.
Malays form about half the country’s population, indigenous people about 10 percent, Chinese 28, Indians about 10 percent and rest by unlisted ethnic groups.
Pre-empting criticism from UMNO members
Political support amongst the Malays is split between UMNO, PAS and PKR. Chinese have abandoned BN’s MCA and Gerakan in droves and are expected to vote for the Pakatan in the next election. Indians and the Bumi or indigenous people are harder to read as both have traditionally been BN loyalists, although the Indians switched over to the Pakatan in 2008.
Despite rosy popularity surveys by pro-government bodies, there is also a growing number of pundits who believe that Najib may dissolve Parliament next year, but not the BN-controlled state governments so that he will not lose all should the people decide to go for change.
Some also believe Najib was trying to deflect UMNO’s attention from his weak performance and leadership by swinging sharply to the right and trying to out race-champion his deputy Muhyiddin Yassin, who is also the Deputy Prime Minister.
“Dissolving just the Parliament is one theory that is making the rounds. But it is hard to tell. The fact is Najib is a political coward. He may even decide not to call for a GE next year. What he is trying to do now is to rally support for himself from UMNO members and GE is always an effective way,” Batu MP Tian Chua told Malaysia Chronicle.
“UMNO members will get so hyped up by his speech, they may forget to blast him for his non-performance and flip-flops. He has been in power for nearly two years but has achieved nothing other than spending millions on expensive public relations and wasteful mega-projects. But whatever his strategy, he will not be able to fend off a challenge from Muhyiddin in the UMNO election next year.”
You expect us to capitulate? You expect us all to run helter skelter towards the so called protective embrace of Barisan Nasional and put you and your gang back into power to hold sway over us all again? You are stupider then I thought! Think man, think!
We have had enough of these annual threats from a myopic UMNO assembly. At least that Din guy, who also happens to be your cousin, injected some drama with his Keris wielding stunt. You Najib, like in Sibu, can only promise money or as in the UMNO assembly threaten us all – the Malays, the Chinese, the Indians the people of Sarawak and Sabah and all those that call Malaysia home with 'crushed bodies', 'lost lives', 'ethnic cleansing' if status quo is not kept!”
Pakatan calls for calm
Meanwhile, Pakatan leaders have called on Malaysians to stay calm and ignore Najib’s invective. They slammed him for the “grossest” hypocrisy, pointing to his maiden speech to United Nations last month where he called for moderation and even offered Malaysia’s help in creating a movement of moderates over extremists.
“Shame on Najib for trying to frighten the people. This is the worst type of scare-mongering and bullying. If the people are still not convinced by now that he and his UMNO-BN must go, then this speech will convince them,” PAS leader Dr Hatta Ramli told Malaysia Chronicle.
“If Malaysians decide to change for the better, no one can stop the landslide, so stop the drama. Najib only shows his fear and hysteria of impending rejection by the people. He has degenerated so far down the line that he is even bragging to UMNO that he is willing to use force to thwart the wishes of the rakyat (citizenry). And the sad thing is, UMNO members are themselves deceived by this racial emotionalism.”
Malaysia’s 28 million population is expected to go to the polls again in early 2011. At the 2008 general election, the people gave Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim and his Pakatan coalition control of 5 out of 13 states. Significantly, they also withdrew UMNO-BN’s long-held two-thirds parliamentary majority. This majority has been blamed for the rampant corruption and abuse of power by the ruling elite as it gave them the power to ram through whatever laws they wished.
Malays form about half the country’s population, indigenous people about 10 percent, Chinese 28, Indians about 10 percent and rest by unlisted ethnic groups.
Pre-empting criticism from UMNO members
Political support amongst the Malays is split between UMNO, PAS and PKR. Chinese have abandoned BN’s MCA and Gerakan in droves and are expected to vote for the Pakatan in the next election. Indians and the Bumi or indigenous people are harder to read as both have traditionally been BN loyalists, although the Indians switched over to the Pakatan in 2008.
Despite rosy popularity surveys by pro-government bodies, there is also a growing number of pundits who believe that Najib may dissolve Parliament next year, but not the BN-controlled state governments so that he will not lose all should the people decide to go for change.
Some also believe Najib was trying to deflect UMNO’s attention from his weak performance and leadership by swinging sharply to the right and trying to out race-champion his deputy Muhyiddin Yassin, who is also the Deputy Prime Minister.
“Dissolving just the Parliament is one theory that is making the rounds. But it is hard to tell. The fact is Najib is a political coward. He may even decide not to call for a GE next year. What he is trying to do now is to rally support for himself from UMNO members and GE is always an effective way,” Batu MP Tian Chua told Malaysia Chronicle.
“UMNO members will get so hyped up by his speech, they may forget to blast him for his non-performance and flip-flops. He has been in power for nearly two years but has achieved nothing other than spending millions on expensive public relations and wasteful mega-projects. But whatever his strategy, he will not be able to fend off a challenge from Muhyiddin in the UMNO election next year.”
You expect us to capitulate? You expect us all to run helter skelter towards the so called protective embrace of Barisan Nasional and put you and your gang back into power to hold sway over us all again? You are stupider then I thought! Think man, think!
We have had enough of these annual threats from a myopic UMNO assembly. At least that Din guy, who also happens to be your cousin, injected some drama with his Keris wielding stunt. You Najib, like in Sibu, can only promise money or as in the UMNO assembly threaten us all – the Malays, the Chinese, the Indians the people of Sarawak and Sabah and all those that call Malaysia home with 'crushed bodies', 'lost lives', 'ethnic cleansing' if status quo is not kept!”
Cakap Cakap....Stupid Idiots!
KUALA LUMPUR: Umno leaders, by virtue of their dominant position in Malaysian politics and governance, have a moral responsibility to manage race relations in the country.
"Diversity is the source of our strength thus far. What is important is how we benefit from this asset and make it a pillar of the nation's success," Umno president Datuk Seri Najib Razak said.
How very perceptive of Najib! Of course diversity is the source of UMNO’s strength. In as long as UMNO is able to maintain this diversity among the races they will be king. Divide and rule. And we are not unfamiliar with how UMNO benefits from this assest and make it a pillar of the nation’s success…..nation and UMNO being one and the same thing.
Yes UMNO leaders dominate over others by their propensity to be corrupt, deceitful and arrogant.
Their claim to have a moral responsibility to manage race relations in Malaysia is sickening to the core! What moral responsibility? UMNO will have one hell of a problem trying to find one politician amongst them that can be considered moral enough to pass himself of as a good muslim.
Think JJ, think Najib, think Muhyiddin and that Din guy…huh! All of them fakes! They champion the principles of Islam because it is in their interest to do so…and yet claim a moral responsibility to manage race relations! Manage race relations in order to have us all at each others throats!
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