This has been forwarded by a friend from Malaysia.
Hope it will be a great read for all forummers who can conclude for themselves.
I ACCUSE ONCE AGAIN, DR. MAHATHIR MOHAMAD, EX-PRIME MINISTER OF MALAYSIA (1981-2003)!!
by Donplaypuks®, intrepid correspondent for Malaysian justly accusing affairs
Once again, I regard it as my duty to pay homage to and keep alive what I regard as the greatest newspaper article of all time - 'J'accuse', written and first published on 13th January 1898 by that great French writer, Emile Zola. As a documentation of all the positive things about us humans - thinking intelligence, inventiveness, creativeness, courage in the face of hopeless odds, inspirational - nothing comes close.
I have written several blogs relying on J'accuse as the inspiration:-
Once again, I draw on Zola and J'accuse to warn you of the dangers of "self-appointed dictators" hiding in laughable patriots' clownish costume. At the risk of being repetitious, let me remind you of that famous cliche that "patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel."
And now, when that scoundrel has been caught in the glare of huge search lights, naked with his pants down (again), he would have us believe that government policy is legal if effected by him, even if it is TOTALLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Which begs the question of how our Constitution could reign supreme as the protector of the rights of Malaysian citizens, if Mahathirism could blatantly be allowed to ride rough-shod over it.
And make no mistake. Dr. Mahathir Mohamad is in self-denial and wallowing in classic CYA (cover your ass) mode, when he shamelessly whimpers that he had the power to give away blue Identity Cards (IC) and citizenships to illegal immigrants in Sabah, as part of legal government policy when he was Prime Minister of Malaysia from 1981-2003.
Article 19(3) of our Federal Constitution states"The periods of residence in the federation ... required for the grant of a certificate of naturalisation are periods which amount in the aggregate to not less than 10 years in the 12 years immediately preceding the date of the application....". Was this complied with? What skills could these ILLEGAL immgrants have brought that could pass the "desirable skills" citizenship test in Malaysia?
Let me be even more accusatorial. Mahathir is plain lying, and he knows too that he is lying. Traitorus and treasonous conduct? You bet! Gross abuse of power? Totally!
Mahathir did that to ensure that his grip on power would not lapse, if and when, and now they surely have, Sabahans realise that Mahathir was just as much a colonialist, as the British and others we replaced, were!
For no government policy can sanction the award of citizenships to illegal immigrants, with the right to vote in State and general elections, if it is tainted with the broad brush of racial and religious bigotry! And that's exactly what Mahathir set out to achieve. His aim was to re-engineer the population mix of Sabah, by secretly awarding citizenships to mainly Filipino and Indonesian illegal Muslim immigrants, some of whom were clearly terrorists!
To achieve this, he and his Cabinet Ministers illegally ordered and approved the forging of birth certificates, and relaxed the rules for issuing blue IC's.
If it was all that legal, why was it done in complete secrecy? Why has he been denying anything of that nature occurred all these years?
But there is something even more despicable of the man dubbed 'Maha Firaun' or 'Great Pharaoh" which monicker I am told is something that Dr.M loathes even more than being labelled a 'self-appointed dictator.'
He claims his actions were no different from that of Tunku Abdul Rahman, the Prime Minister at Independence in 1957, in awarding citizenships to Chinese, Indians and Others.
And therein lies the GREAT LIE!
The great and much-loved Tunku, regarded universally as the one true Prime Minister of ALL Malaysians, his Ministers and administration:-
1. DID NOT secretly award Malaysian citizenships based on whether anyone was a Muslim or not. Religion and race did not come into the equation.
2. Awarded citizenships in 1957 AFTER open discussions and agreement by all the Sultans (Rulers), UMNO, MCA, MIC, the British Administration and various NGO's and prominent individuals. This was seen as social justice to a group of (largely) immigrants who had been brought in under contract labour tems from China, India, Sri Lanka, etc., to develope Malaya.
These immigrants had contributed spectacularly to the Malayan economy over a period of some 150 years, in developing an advanced infrastructure and catapulting the country on to the world stage in the production of (primarily) rubber and tin, the priciple export commodities of Malaya. Only an insane man would deny the Indian/Chinese nexus in the road, railway, port and plantation and mining industries. Many had fought to defend the country against the Japanese, and later, the Communists.
They were not the children of the 'come here, gone tomorrow' class of 'get rich quick' immigrants. Malaya owed them, and the Tunku and Rulers rewarded them for their loyalty, with a non-religious and non-racial embrace that was surpassed only by its magnanimity.
And this senile old self-induced selective amnesia suffering shrivelling old goat and bigot would have us believe that his despicable manipulations were in the same class as that of the Tunku and the Rulers?
There, I have warned you of our, the Malaysian Peoples', real enemy. He is this waxing and waning demagogue, whose deliberate policy all these years, has been to divide the Malays, Chinese, Indians, Sarawakians, Sabahans and others and the Muslims, Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Taosist too, in order to cling on to power and destroy us completely. His party, the new one that illegally transferred assets of that of the old honoured one, no longer represents the majority of the Malaysian Malays, or decent human beings! How can it, when it will not even bring murderers (who ordered the killing of Altantuya?) to book!
You have been warned. I have stuck this warning label on every article I have produced. Caveat Emptor! Read it. Memorise it. Vote our enemies out. That is our duty to our children and to those yet to be born in Malaysia.
I accuse Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, and I accuse justly!
Hope it will be a great read for all forummers who can conclude for themselves.
I ACCUSE ONCE AGAIN, DR. MAHATHIR MOHAMAD, EX-PRIME MINISTER OF MALAYSIA (1981-2003)!!
by Donplaypuks®, intrepid correspondent for Malaysian justly accusing affairs
Once again, I regard it as my duty to pay homage to and keep alive what I regard as the greatest newspaper article of all time - 'J'accuse', written and first published on 13th January 1898 by that great French writer, Emile Zola. As a documentation of all the positive things about us humans - thinking intelligence, inventiveness, creativeness, courage in the face of hopeless odds, inspirational - nothing comes close.
I have written several blogs relying on J'accuse as the inspiration:-
Once again, I draw on Zola and J'accuse to warn you of the dangers of "self-appointed dictators" hiding in laughable patriots' clownish costume. At the risk of being repetitious, let me remind you of that famous cliche that "patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel."
And now, when that scoundrel has been caught in the glare of huge search lights, naked with his pants down (again), he would have us believe that government policy is legal if effected by him, even if it is TOTALLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Which begs the question of how our Constitution could reign supreme as the protector of the rights of Malaysian citizens, if Mahathirism could blatantly be allowed to ride rough-shod over it.
And make no mistake. Dr. Mahathir Mohamad is in self-denial and wallowing in classic CYA (cover your ass) mode, when he shamelessly whimpers that he had the power to give away blue Identity Cards (IC) and citizenships to illegal immigrants in Sabah, as part of legal government policy when he was Prime Minister of Malaysia from 1981-2003.
Article 19(3) of our Federal Constitution states"The periods of residence in the federation ... required for the grant of a certificate of naturalisation are periods which amount in the aggregate to not less than 10 years in the 12 years immediately preceding the date of the application....". Was this complied with? What skills could these ILLEGAL immgrants have brought that could pass the "desirable skills" citizenship test in Malaysia?
Let me be even more accusatorial. Mahathir is plain lying, and he knows too that he is lying. Traitorus and treasonous conduct? You bet! Gross abuse of power? Totally!
Mahathir did that to ensure that his grip on power would not lapse, if and when, and now they surely have, Sabahans realise that Mahathir was just as much a colonialist, as the British and others we replaced, were!
For no government policy can sanction the award of citizenships to illegal immigrants, with the right to vote in State and general elections, if it is tainted with the broad brush of racial and religious bigotry! And that's exactly what Mahathir set out to achieve. His aim was to re-engineer the population mix of Sabah, by secretly awarding citizenships to mainly Filipino and Indonesian illegal Muslim immigrants, some of whom were clearly terrorists!
To achieve this, he and his Cabinet Ministers illegally ordered and approved the forging of birth certificates, and relaxed the rules for issuing blue IC's.
If it was all that legal, why was it done in complete secrecy? Why has he been denying anything of that nature occurred all these years?
But there is something even more despicable of the man dubbed 'Maha Firaun' or 'Great Pharaoh" which monicker I am told is something that Dr.M loathes even more than being labelled a 'self-appointed dictator.'
He claims his actions were no different from that of Tunku Abdul Rahman, the Prime Minister at Independence in 1957, in awarding citizenships to Chinese, Indians and Others.
And therein lies the GREAT LIE!
The great and much-loved Tunku, regarded universally as the one true Prime Minister of ALL Malaysians, his Ministers and administration:-
1. DID NOT secretly award Malaysian citizenships based on whether anyone was a Muslim or not. Religion and race did not come into the equation.
2. Awarded citizenships in 1957 AFTER open discussions and agreement by all the Sultans (Rulers), UMNO, MCA, MIC, the British Administration and various NGO's and prominent individuals. This was seen as social justice to a group of (largely) immigrants who had been brought in under contract labour tems from China, India, Sri Lanka, etc., to develope Malaya.
These immigrants had contributed spectacularly to the Malayan economy over a period of some 150 years, in developing an advanced infrastructure and catapulting the country on to the world stage in the production of (primarily) rubber and tin, the priciple export commodities of Malaya. Only an insane man would deny the Indian/Chinese nexus in the road, railway, port and plantation and mining industries. Many had fought to defend the country against the Japanese, and later, the Communists.
They were not the children of the 'come here, gone tomorrow' class of 'get rich quick' immigrants. Malaya owed them, and the Tunku and Rulers rewarded them for their loyalty, with a non-religious and non-racial embrace that was surpassed only by its magnanimity.
And this senile old self-induced selective amnesia suffering shrivelling old goat and bigot would have us believe that his despicable manipulations were in the same class as that of the Tunku and the Rulers?
There, I have warned you of our, the Malaysian Peoples', real enemy. He is this waxing and waning demagogue, whose deliberate policy all these years, has been to divide the Malays, Chinese, Indians, Sarawakians, Sabahans and others and the Muslims, Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Taosist too, in order to cling on to power and destroy us completely. His party, the new one that illegally transferred assets of that of the old honoured one, no longer represents the majority of the Malaysian Malays, or decent human beings! How can it, when it will not even bring murderers (who ordered the killing of Altantuya?) to book!
You have been warned. I have stuck this warning label on every article I have produced. Caveat Emptor! Read it. Memorise it. Vote our enemies out. That is our duty to our children and to those yet to be born in Malaysia.
I accuse Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, and I accuse justly!
