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Posted: 21 Feb 2013 03:15 PM PST

Najib is playing a dangerous game in using 'Tanda Putera' to try to swing support for Umno. The similarities between 1969 and 2013 are uncanny.

Mariam Mokhtar, FMT

As we approach the 13th general election (GE13), Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak's interpretation of "1Malaysia" gets more bizarre.

To herald in the Year of the Snake, Najib made the surprise announcement that the Chinese would be treated to a special performance by the Korean entertainer Psy. Earlier this week, after much delay and heavy censorship, the Indians were finally allowed to view the film, "Vishwaroopam".

The Malay masses, always on the wrong end of the stick when it comes to Umno's largesse, were forced to view the Umno propaganda film "Tanda Putera".

Psy's performance allegedly cost RM3 million for a mere 12 minutes. The ban on Vishwaroopam caused promoters to suffer significant financial losses. Much of the box-office takings were diverted to pirated DVDs which were openly sold throughout Malaysia.

"Tanda Putera" cost RM4.8 million and is funded by the National Film Development Corporation (Finas) and the Multimedia Development Corporation (Mdec) – in other words, the taxpayer.

We are told that "Tanda Putera" uses the May 13 racial clashes as a backdrop to the relationship between the deputy prime minister of the time, Abdul Razak Hussein, and the former home affairs minister, Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman. For health reasons, Ismail had retired from politics but Razak managed to persuade him to come out of retirement to help resolve the crisis.

The screening of "Tanda Putera" was deferred twice, last year. On Sept 13, it was claimed that there was insufficient promotion for the film, then on Nov 15, the Cabinet decided that certain scenes were "inappropriate".

Were the bans designed to create more hype around the film and so increase the curiosity of some members of the public?

Last Monday, around 3,000 Felda settlers who were in Kuala Lumpur to hear Umno leaders including former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad, received an unexpected addition to their programme. Najib ordered that "Tanda Putera" be screened and journalists were asked to leave the hall.

It is outrageous that Najib uses racial sentiments to scare the voters into voting for Umno. How can the wounds from May 13 heal, if they are continually being re-opened?

The film was shown after Mahathir had told the Felda settlers that they were beholden to Umno. He said, "The comfort today is due to hard work as well as the government's help, can't people be a little grateful and appreciative?"

Lessons from history ignored

The greatest tragedy of the May 13 riots is that Umno ministers have not learned any lessons from history. The legacy of Mahathir means that his loathsome influence still continues after he resigned as prime minister.

In the book, "The Reluctant Politician" about Ismail, by Ooi Kee Beng, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah claimed that Ismail was the one who wanted Mahathir expelled from Umno and twice prevented Mahathir from being re-admitted into Umno.

The book also states that Ismail banned offending documents criticising the Tunku from being circulated because law and order was breaking down, and he was adamant that there would be "no coup in the country and no coups in the party".

Ismail was known for fair play and correctness, and the book claimed that "every Malay colleague… including Mahathir, feared Ismail". Ismail was always ready to debate and he was highly principled.

Malaysia is still haunted by the May 13 riots and each one of us has to bear our share of shame and guilt. How many of us can truly call ourselves Malaysian?

Some of us demand that vernacular or religious schools be kept. Universities have special quotas to meet. Particular jobs, contracts or positions are given to certain sections of the community. Are we prepared to dispense with all these racial policies?

Najib is playing a dangerous game in using "Tanda Putera" to try to swing support for Umno. The similarities between 1969 and 2013 are uncanny.

In 1969, it was believed that there were two factions in Umno – the "ultras" who included the young Mahathir; and the "old guard" or the moderates who were led by Tunku. Today, a power struggle exists in Umno between the old Mahathir and Najib.

The communists were made a convenient scapegoat for the May 13 disturbances. In the past few years, the communist element is again being blamed for troubles in Malaysia.

Even PAS leader Mat Sabu was accused of being a communist sympathiser when he alluded to Malay freedom fighters who used communist ideals to fight for independence of Malaya.

Bersih marchers were not spared when former Inspector-General of Police Hanif Omar claimed he recognised communist elements from video footage of people on the march.

In 1969, the ruling Alliance party suffered a significant decline in support. In an echo of the past, the loss of support that BN suffered in 2008 is predicted to continue to GE13.

The opposition took control of Kelantan and Penang in 1969 and states like Selangor and Perak did not have a clear majority. In 2008, Kelantan, Penang, Kedah, Selangor and Perak fell to the opposition although Najib later grabbed back power in Perak.

In the 1960s, the Malays were suffering economically. Despite various programmes to help Malays in the lower income bracket, most of the benefits have been abused by Umno Malays to help themselves, and not their poorer cousins.

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No respite from Evil of Government

Posted: 21 Feb 2013 12:11 PM PST

The term Bumiputera was coined by Tunku Abdul Rahman to include the Malay-speaking communities -- Bugis, Javanese, Minang, Acehnese, Arab Muslims, Indian Muslims etc -- in Malaya who are not considered Orang Asal of the peninsula. Only the Orang Asli in Malaya are considered Orang Asal of the peninsula. By right, all citizens by operation of law in Malaysia who are the issue of operation of law citizens should be considered Bumiputera.

Joe Fernandez

The minimum wage rate in Malaysia will merely discourage locals and encourage more foreigners to come over. It's half of what it should be.

Even Thailand's minimum wage rate is double that in Malaysia.

The foreign labour influx in Malaysia is a scam for politicians to rake it in and continue sending non-Malay job seekers in particular fleeing from Malaysia.

Malaysia also keeps 350,000 Malaysians of ethnic Indian origin alone deliberately stateless in order to:

(1) maintain a domestic reservoir of cheap labour in the twilight zone,

(2) reduce the official number of Indians in the country,

(3) keep them out of the electoral rolls; and

(4) schools; and

(5) enable the local authorities and police to prey on them, as on unlicensed Indian traders, for political reasons.

The stateless can't open bank accounts, get legally married or travel outside the country.

Their children, besides not being allowed to enter schools, remain stateless too.

The stateless cannot get legally married to Malaysians. If they live in sin their children become the victims.

If a marriage certificate is obtained after the children are born, these children suffer the curse of statelessness.

There are also thousands of stateless people among the Orang Asal in Malaysia. They are only given documents if they became Muslims. This reduces the number of Orang Asal in the country while increasing the number of "Malays" on the electoral rolls.

Already, non-Muslim Orang Asal with a bin or binte in their names are routinely classified as Muslim in their MyKads by the National Registration Department unless they can manage to get an impossible declaration from the Syariah Court that they are "no longer Muslims".

These people continue going to Church and eating pork.

They can't get married in Church and undergo traditional wedding ceremonies in the villages under customary Adat.

In the cases of marriages not legally registered or where the parents are not married, the children are not considered Malaysians.

Meanwhile, the NRD issued a statement on Thurs 21 Feb, 2013 that "Native Status is not for the Department to determine". What's there to determine if birth certificates and citizenship status are in order?

The Chief Secretary to the Government has also issued a policy circular -- administrative law -- in Nov 2010 clarifying that half-Native children can opt to be considered Natives (Orang Asal).

All Orang Asal are Bumiputera (son of the soil) but not all Bumiputera are Orang Asal.

The term Bumiputera was coined by Tunku Abdul Rahman to include the Malay-speaking communities -- Bugis, Javanese, Minang, Acehnese, Arab Muslims, Indian Muslims etc -- in Malaya who are not considered Orang Asal of the peninsula. Only the Orang Asli in Malaya are considered Orang Asal of the peninsula.

By right, all citizens by operation of law in Malaysia who are the issue of operation of law citizens should be considered Bumiputera.

As late as the 1890s, 85 per cent of the Malay-speaking communities in Malaya were either immigrants or the descendants of recent immigrants, according to Professor William Roff in an Australian National University study, "the Origin of Malay Nationalism".

It's believed that many of these people were not required to determine their citizenship status, as in the case of the non-Malays, in the wake of the British departure in 1957. This includes the family of former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. The family hails from Kerala state in southwest India.

The multitude of sins could be covered up under the umbrella term "Malay" which is politically defined in the written Malayan Constitution now being passed off as the written Constitution of Malaysia in defiance of the unwritten Constitution of Malaysia.

The definition allowed the insertion of the "Special Position of Malays and Orang Asal" and "Legitimate Interests of non-Malays" Article 153 in the Constitution. The Article is being observed in the breach in all its deviations and distortions.

The Federation of Malaya is also masquerading as the Federation of Malaysia which, according to Putrajaya, will be 56 years old this year i.e. the years being calculated from 31 Aug, 1957 and not from 16 Sept, 1963 when Malaysia came into being through a joint decision by the Malayan and British Governments after a vote was taken in Singapore.

No referendum was held in Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei and Malaya on Malaysia.

In Brunei, the British eyeing its oil and gas resources advised the Sultan not to join Malaysia. This was also after a rebellion in Brunei over no referendum being held in the sultanate on Malaysia and the Sultan's initial decision to join Malaysia.

The MyKad system was in fact started in Malaya by the British during the communist terrorism years (1948 to 1960) to combat the menace and should be done away with. Probably, no other country in the world has a MyKad system.

The Pakatan Rakyat (PR) has no policies on all these issues created by the Evil of Government which affect the minorities, Sabah and Sarawak. Instead, they are harping on populist policies which not everybody buys because they "sound too good to be true".

Sabah standoff: Karma

Posted: 21 Feb 2013 12:03 PM PST

Even before the landing of 200 men in Lahad Datu last week, the Sultanate had already sent armed men in small groups to Sabah to escape notice from authorities. The armed groups are being coddled by Tausogs in the Malaysian state.

Ramon Tulfo, Philippine Daily Inquirer

If Malaysia is clumsy about handling the Sabah standoff, it will have the same problem the Philippine government had when it fought a Muslim rebellion in the South in the 1970s up to the 1980s.

Malaysia is in a no-win situation as a result of the standoff in Sabah.

If it uses deadly force on a small group of armed Filipino Muslims now holed up in the village of Tanduo in Lahad Datu town in Sabah, members of the fiercest of Philippine Moro tribe, the Tausogs of Sulu and Tawi-Tawi, will retaliate.

If, on the other hand, Malaysia compromises with the armed group purportedly belonging to the Sultanate of Sulu, it will be perceived as a weakling by its neighbors.

Which will Malaysia choose, fighting a rebellion in the Sabah state or swallowing its pride and compromise with the Sultanate of Sulu?

Better to be perceived as a weakling rather than have a bloody civil war in Sabah.

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There is no record of the number of Filipinos, mostly Tausogs, in Sabah.

But a friend of mine who used to be in the Philippine military intelligence estimates that one-third of the population in the Malaysian state is Tausog.

Many of the people in Sulu and Tawi-Tawi have relatives in Sabah, which is just one hour by speedboat from Simunul in Tawi-Tawi.

If the Tausogs in Sabah rise up in revolt against the Malaysian government, their relatives in Sulu and Tawi-Tawi will go to Sabah and fight with them.

To the Tausogs, the claim of the group purporting to represent the Sultanate of Sulu that Sabah belongs to the sultanate is legitimate.

The Sulu Sultanate, long dormant and somewhat forgotten because of the war waged by the Tausog-led MNLF against the government, is still revered by Moros in Sulu and Tawi-Tawi.

Tausogs respect the Sultan of Sulu in much the same way Malaysians pay homage to their royal family.

If harm is done to Rajah Mudah Agbimuddin Kiram, brother of Sultan Jamalul Kiram, who ordered the Mudah Agbimuddin to enter Sabah, his fellow Tausogs in Sabah and in Sulu and Tawi-Tawi will take up arms against the Malaysian government.

Filipino Muslims declare a rido or vendetta against people who harm their relatives.

The Rido has set off feuds between families or clans that last for decades.

Most of the Tausogs in Sabah have relatives in Sulu and Tawi-Tawi who are ready to take revenge if harm is done to Rajah Mudah Agbimuddin Kiram and his armed followers in Lahad Datu town.

My source in Sulu said that even before the landing of 200 men in Lahad Datu last week, the Sultanate had already sent armed men in small groups to Sabah to escape notice from authorities.
The armed groups are being coddled by Tausogs in the Malaysian state.

The ocean border between Sabah and the Philippines is porous or easily penetrated.

Most of the tens of thousands of Filipino illegal immigrants in Sabah entered through this porous border.

It's very easy for armed Tausogs to enter Sabah and wage a guerrilla war against the Malaysian government should hostilities break out between the Sultanate group and Malaysian police.

Tausogs love to fight and look for reasons to pick a fight.

If Malaysia assumes a violent stance against the Sulu Sultanate group, the Tausogs will have a reason to fight them.

* * *

When the government was fighting the MNLF in the 1970s through the 1980s, Malaysia was secretly supporting the rebellion in the South.

Weapons coming from Libya and other Middle East countries passed through Malaysia on their way to the MNLF.

Now, it seems the shoe is on the other foot.

The law of karma is being played out.

The systematic water torture

Posted: 21 Feb 2013 11:48 AM PST

It is irresponsible of the Federal Government to use water to hold the people to ransom by manufacturing a water shortage in Selangor.

Stan CH Lee, Free Malaysia Today

Under Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor (Syabas), Malaysians are paying more and more for water that is not even fit to drink.We have been living with murky, tea coloured water for years, forcing us to spend thousands on home water filters.

Imagine, just to get clean water to drink. This alone is the clearest sign that the water concessionare is not doing its job.

Like all BN privatisation projects, this is a lopsided contract favouring cronies over the people's welfare.

When the CEO is paid a whopping RM425,000 a month basic pay, in a loss-making concern, you would think he should be more than satisfied with his pay. But no, he still needs to make even more money by buying pipes from his own company in Indonesia – in clear breach of the terms of the privatisation contract.

I for one do not understand why a contract cannot be nullified if terms are breached.

And now there is the ongoing water crisis in Selangor.

Looming large in the background is the BN backed Langat 2 project – ostensibly conceived to alleviate future water shortage by getting water from Pahang.

The catch is, you need to cut through the Main Range to bring the water over, resulting in a mega billion ringgit bill. To be paid by – you guessed it – increasing the water tariff on a monopolised water supply.

This has been in the pipeline for a while now since BN days and waiting to be fast tracked for negotiated tender and award – no doubt to another BN crony with absolutely no track record but plenty of cables.

But there is a stumbling block.Water is under state jurisdiction – and the Selangor state government, now under Pakatan Rakyat, has an alternative source of water from Perak that will cost only a fraction of what Langat 2 is projected to cost.

This will go a long way to help people mitigate the rising costs of living. So there is a stalemate. BN wants to spend billions on Langat 2. Pakatan does not.

Kredit: www.malaysia-today.net

Jumaat, 22 Februari 2013

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