October 20, 2011
Hussein Hamid on Mahathir
by Hamid Hussein
Adelaide, Australia
“[Mahathir Mohamad has] . . . created a legacy so monumental that no one could have presumed his mantle.” That was what Abdullah Ahmad gushingly said of Mahathir when the ‘Great Man’ announced his resignation as Prime Minister. Tan Sri Abdullah was Group Editor-in-Chief of the New Straits Times when he wrote the above on 26 June 2002 following the News of Mahathir’s intention.
I believe that came from Abdullah’s heart for you cannot write anything so ‘Moving’ if it . . . does not come from the heart. Now let me tell you what comes from my heart when I read that.
Who would be foolhardy enough to presume the Mahathir mantle ? This man used money and power like no other PM of Malaysia has ever done ! Like no other Leader in most parts of the civilized world has ever done, save for some parts of Africa and some parts of our world where accountability for one’s action is easily dismissed through the barrel of the Gun !
Who would dare to presume the monumental mantle of this Mahathir who was instrumental in bringing into our way of life such concepts as Operasi Lalang ( ISA and the ends justify the means of preventive detention ), nepotism, money politics, greed, privatization, IPPs and Perwaja; the monumental mantle of this Mahathir that displayed such utter vindictiveness to [destroy ] those who simply do not agree with his point of view ?
It is a monumental mantle to have left as his legacy – negotiated tenders, a tainted judiciary, Bakun, Renong and its horrendous debts, Khir Toyo, et. al and the list is endless. The monumental man almost left us a crooked bridge as well.
Every government machinery, every high public office appointment, every political decision made during Mahathir’s time was at his pleasure and made to do your biddings.
Not Dollah, not anyone . . . nobody would be foolhardy enough to try and assume that mantle. All 
the personal excesses that we now talk about had its beginnings, development and reached its zenith during Mahathir’s time. Samy Velu, Rafidah, VK Lingam, Augustine Paul, L iong Sik, Vincent Tan, Abdullah Ang, Eric Cheah . . . the mind boggles at the billions these people made at the expense of the Nation !
Sir, you need to take responsibility.What defines greatness in a man ? “It’s not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness.” – Edward Gardner.
Billions in debt
Mahathir left us with debts measured in billions, not millions ! This man left us with monuments of First World stature but failed miserably to prepare our then third-world mentality to be ready for these iconic structures. If you bring a nation into an era that it is not ready for, you are being irresponsible !
If you cut corners and award projects to people who you think can do the job and they fail to do that job – you take responsibility !
If you do nothing about a Leader that robs his own people blind – like Samy Velu did to the Indians – then you take responsibility.
If you take power away from the Sultans and empower UMNO with the same power and UMNO abuses that power – you take responsibility !
When you remove two of your deputies and in so doing caused:
1) Within UMNO, a factionalism that forever weakened the party;
2) and had one of these removed deputies, Anwar, come back 10 years later and inflict upon UMNO its biggest defeat, you take responsibility.
When you take a dentist and make him Menteri Besar of Selangor – and this MB then proceeds to enrich himself so excessively that it finally culminated in the loss of Selangor to the opposition – then you take responsibility.
When you take Oil Royalties away from Terengganu and Kelantan because the people voted for the Opposition, you take responsibility for the suffering of the people within that state who are now without the funds for development.
When you use Petronas Money to bail out your son’s shipping company to the tune of hundreds of millions, then you take responsibility for abusing the trust the people placed in you as the guardian of public monies.
Can he walk down a street unmolested?
That a man of your previous stature would require me, a 62-year-old man living in Adelaide, Australia to write this biting and hurtful article about you simply indicates the depth you have allowed yourself to sink to.
Once you told us to look East. We looked East. You told us to buy British last. We bought British last. You told us to buy Proton, we bought Proton – albeit with a little arm-twisting. Possibly all those were relevant at that point in time. So Tun, using that analogy, let me respectfully tell you this: “Tun, you are no longer relevant”.
You are no longer relevant in UMNO except to serve the selfish purpose of certain factions. “ Hear 
! Hear ! ” or as ( the blogger ) Antares said for the benefit of Ibrahim Ali, “ Dengar, Dengar ! ”
You are no longer relevant to the Malays. You have done enough damage to us and we see through your deceptions.
You are no longer relevant to the people in this country. We have all moved on and demand a more open and responsible government. We see through your duplicity and untruths.
Tun, you are only relevant to those that still love you for what you are – a Grandfather, a Father and a Husband. Is it not time that you return their Love and their Need to have you back in their fold ? And that you return the Love and Respect that they give to you for what you are today ? An 86-year-old Grandfather, Father and Husband.
Sir, you would need all the goodness that is in Mecca, all the forgiveness that Mandela has shown to the very people that imprisoned him, and all the love that the families of Teoh Beng Hock, Kugan and Aminulrasyid have for their loved ones if you are ever to be forgiven by the people of Malaysia.
And I know that even with all that, you would still have a hard time walking down the streets of Kuala Lumpur without worrying that someone might spit on you . . . and that Sir is the whole Truth and nothing but the Truth . . . so help me God !
Din Merican: the Malaysian DJ Blogger 
My Fellow Kedahan did things his way. Opinion about him is divided. I too have disagreed with him, but I think that he did what he had to do and must face history’s judgement of his achievements and failures.
Politics and ethics, well. That is a tough call. But one thing is quite certain and that is, I believe, it takes a special breed of individuals to be in and survive politics. Tun Mahathir is one such person. I still have mixed feelings about Malaysia’s most controversial politician, leader and Prime Minister. He is one of a kind perhaps to have come out of Kedah Darul Aman, someone of my parents’ generation, who was admired by men and women of mine. Some of us like Hussein Hamid and I may have changed our minds.–Din Merican
Tun Mahathir is a “difficult” person. Try as you might, you will find bad deeds from him and if you are rational enough, good deeds also. A politician and a master tactician, he led a pack of wolves. Look at his nemesis, DSAI, forever defining the new politics in Malaysia. I think if you gauge a person by his enemies, Tun M is indeed a great person. He has changed the country and also the way we do things. To me Tun M is a tomyam. He is sour but somewhat pleasant with plenty of chillies in it making it hot but once consumed, it is uniquely satisfying unlike other food
This Mahathir Mohamad Sikandar Kutty is real poison !
He is like Mao:
did some good (such as resisting IMF pressure to carry out “structural adjustment” during the Asian economic crisis of the late 1990s) but lots and lots of bad things to Malaysia.
Barry Wain’s book is only the first instalment in the documentation of the damage and harm he has done to the country. And the waste of money from Malaysia’s oil resources. We’re going to learn more as scholars make use of the Wikileaks documents to examine his record !
Mahathir was able to do all that he did because we had a nation full of weaklings, underlings, eunuchs and cowards. Every man in BN, the civil service worshipped and obeyed him as god.
Do you think Mhathir would have done all these had he been in a civilized country, say UK, France, Germany, USA , Australia, NZ, Japan, etc.He would have been kicked out in disgrace within his first few months in office.
Had he been in India, Pakistan, Africa or one of the Middle east countries he wouldn’t be alive today. He would probably be in Hell.
Mahathir is half human, half ruthless beast!
Dear Hussein Hamid,
i agree with you and urge upon your goodself to continue living in the land of the mystique, for its a great land of First World status, and what you have highlighted befits your mental-make-up – sincerely. Specifically, what you have said : ‘This man left us with monuments of First World stature but failed miserably to prepare our then third-world mentality to be ready for these iconic structures….’
Mega projects & grandiose symbols were all for self-serving purposes by USE of crony system.
But Palace of this….and Palace of that…..Corruption Commission, Hall of Justice….and other Commisions like Royal Commisions… such collosal & lofty symbols….. he failed ” miserably to prepare our then third-world mentality…for these ionic structures….” The Symptoms are clearly manifest now, as we witness incredibily incapable public officials housing these Palaces….
Structures seem to ” crumbling ” in all directions being housed by third-world mentality! Have we got one single Judge as capable, if not legedary, as the Australian Judge who dealt a blow to Assylum-Seekers Swap Agreement between Australia & Malaysia ?
Housing these iconic structures with third-world mentality….was DELIBERATE – that’s where he is damned, inspite of his” brilliance ” in other things… Did he not say : (to the effect) ‘ Orang-orang cerdik ini, melawan towkay…etc ‘
True, we see very many brilliant Malaysians, particularly Malays, who have earned their professional degrees with Phds even, but was NEVER wanted by his ” politikus” culture & mentality…..
Right Sam01. And the disease of worshiping all that our leaders do and bending and grovelling before them is still ingrained in the BL psyche.
Just look at the crowd surrounding any minister or even, or should I say especially, the FLOM at any trite event that they launch and you get the picture.
The latest being the 1Malaysia Peoples Menu that is being dished out daily for the masses consumption. Wonder how they feel about having their mugs splashed all over the media for being 1 Malaysia Hypocrites.
In any civilized country these publicity stunts would be met with condemnation if for nothing else but the wastage of funds just to prop up the image of some three-bit official.
But this will go on. Until the next dog sits on the heap and then the fawning and grovelling will begin anew.
Tun M is indeed a great person. He has changed the country and also the way we do things. To me Tun M is a tomyam. He is sour but somewhat pleasant with plenty of chillies in it making it hot but once consumed, it is uniquely satisfying unlike other food.
zaidi – October 20, 2011 at 7:44 am
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I’ve never come across a comment this dumb from someone obviously retarded.
This tun may be brilliant in some way, such as how to enrich himself, his family, cronies, and those who kowtow to him. But he sure is someone who does not want anyone smarter, better than him, or defied his order, to be on his way, and that’s the faith of DSAI, Musa and so on. That culminated to what we have in the BN. Many capable and credible professionals were kept outside umno, which cause the party to come to this sad and pathetic stage. It is all the good work of one long…. Serving PM. Wonder when our beloved country will be able to see light at the end of the tunnel???
Let history judge Mahathir. It is too early to tell.
NOT ALL things done by Mahathir were bad for Malaysia. He did clean up the incompetencies of the civil service when he started out as PM but after that he misused the civil service for political purposes.
He did give Malaysia a respect among third world nations and he did develop the nation in his 22 years.
The problem with Mahathir was that he is a believer of the ENDS justifying the Means. And for that History will judge him unkindly.
If he had distinguish those policies that allows the ends to justify the means (such as racial harmony, the economy and the divisive religious issues) he would have stood head above shoulders of his predecessors.
History will judge Mahathir as a leader with too much arrogance and too condescending to others. By the 6th year of his prime ministership, he basically lost his sense of decency inasfar as his attitude towards Malaysians in general and to towards those he could exploit and manipulate their fears and ambitions.
On balance, history will not judge him too kindly especially his inability to let his successors to run the country and his constant interference in the day to day politics of the nation after he left active politics.
Cronyism and corruption will be words associated with the 22 years of Mahathir regime.
Mahathir’s open letter addressed to Tunku was widely circulated in campus. Frank and I remember picking it up to read. It was couched in polite language but the intention was clear. Tunku did the right thing and had him sacked from the Party.
Tunku did the right thing and had him sacked from the Party.- Mr Bean
But Tun Razak brought him back into active UMNO politics. Najib’s political problem is not Anwar, it is Mahathir and the pro Mahathir cabal in UMNO. Looks like the son as the current PM is paying the price for the sins of the father.
You guys are too kind.
The full impact of his Administration may not be felt for some years to come but already we are witnessing the consequences of his rule. He single-handedly engineered the destruction of the country’s institutions. It would take decades to undo the damage and longer before confidence could return.
But Tun Razak brought him back into active UMNO politics. — Frank
Razak didn’t live long enough to regret it but Hussein did.
These institutions constitute the social infrastructure needed for democracy to take roots – like free press, a neutral civil service, trade unions and associations, pressure groups etc.
and of course an independent judiciary.
No man had vilified the rulers as much as he did. He ‘stomped’ on them. He mocked at them. He displayed their excesses.
And today he is criticizing Aziz Bari for being disrespectful to the sultan.
What a slimeball.
You guys are more than “too kind”. Destroying independence of judiciary through abusing executive power is an act of dictator. From the perspective of sanctity of the constitution, upon which the nation is founded, he is a traitor. He did not uphold the constitution, from which he was bestowed the power as the head of executive.
Mahathir never SEMBAH sultans or Agong in the normal Malay way at public functions. He merely BOWS his head the way the Japanese would do to one another . Seen it with my own eyes and that reflects what he thinks of them. And he perfected the PROXY game to self and family enrichment. Ask Ananda of Maxis and Arumugam of GE !!
and the achievements of Hussein Hamid are……….I guess none.
It is always easy to criticise others and find faults of others – when you yourself have done nothing.
Remember leaders for the good that they have done and not for the things you dislike.
Otherwise, even Mohamed and Jesus have enough detractors who can write about things they do not like about both of them.
Yeah kassim…you’re right, this chap Hussein Hamid or whoever you’re is silly just like some Malaysian on this blog who desire to condemn the establishment from abroad.
People like Hussein should go back to his kampung rather than stay in Adelaide and open his paradigms../ and improve the villagers living standards…rather than be individualistic moron earning 5 or 6 figures income in faraway land, without contributing positively to local folks back home..!
TO HUSSEIN HAMID,
JFK ONCE SAID : ” ASK NOT WHAT THE COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU BUT ASK WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY “
I wont comment on Mahathir himself as enough has been said by all and by me before. But I want to touch on one aspect of his legacy which is now the bane of this country. In order to execute his executive powers, he needed his bureacrats to have legal and procedural power. While we all know that in some of our laws, the decision vests with the Minister in charge, the process and procedure towards that decion is vested with the bureacrats themselves. Thus the real power lies with the bureacrats, the enforcers and the regulators! As an example, all those laws which state that the decison of the Minister cannot be questioned in a court of Justice essentially gives carte blanch to the bureacrats. TDM was a strong character who brooked no fools. Thus it was always his decision then Today it is the decsion of the bureacratics since all our Ministers from the top down have no thinking capability or the balls to go against what his “Yes Minister” says. The latest exampple of absolute power going to the bureacrat is the changes in the Income Tax laws !!
The latest exampple of absolute power going to the bureacrat is the changes in the Income Tax laws !!- si rusa
Correct me if I’m wrong. All laws must be passed by Par;liament.
Our bureaucrats are just a bunch of ass-licking apparatchik idiots who spend more time working their ways to get datukships.
A bureaucrat who is a datuk is NOT because he/she served the country well, but he/she who is the most successful ass-licker of UMNO and UMNO-BN politicians.
Make a background check on those KSUs, Ketua Pengarahs and the underlings below them: They are all useless UMNO asslickers.
to the likes of orang desa and kassim – apart from the favoured few chinese and indian businessmen, there is a sense among ordinary non malays and even some malays that there is no future for their children in this country.
this feeling was not present before mahathir’s rule.
so while mahathir may have been good for some, the sentiments expressed by many in this blog suggest that he did more harm than good.
and as a result of him, we are in a downward spiral with very little chance of pulling out of it.
Hitting old kerbau again?
Don’t be too upset or suffer reading about this old man again. He is now suffering as well.
Look at how Mooyiddin slapping his face by reversing his PPSMI policy. Look at how Khairy and now Rosmah walking on his head and yet he is as helpless as an old kerbau.
Similarly, all of us are going through the same cycle of rise and fall, growing old ,sick and in fact dying every minutes. Just let it be.
Can Dr M walk down the street unmolested? Oh yes he can. I’ve met him twice at pasar ramadan. the third time was in the aisles of a supermarket. And you know what? many people, many of them youngsters, greeted him and asked for autographs and had pictures taken with him. There was only one aide with him the times i ran into him.Truly he is cool.
!0 years of history is the best antidote for the arrogance of power. In the affairs of state it takes 10 years before the full impact of policies begin to show. We still have a few more years left.
“Thus the real power lies with the bureaucrats, the enforcers and the regulators! As an example, all those laws which state that the decision of the Minister cannot be questioned in a court of Justice essentially gives carte blanch to the bureaucrats.”
The idea is to remove the common law right of judicial review which goes against the doctrine of separation of powers. But to then say that real power therefore resides in those who draft and enforce the laws is the kind of reasoning expected of a certain village idiot whose claim to his fifteen minutes of fame is his alleged roots in the desa; somehow being the village idiot gives him the right of free speech and somehow that right is denied those who happen to be living abroad but who have vested interest in seeing that their country prosper.
Correct me if I’m wrong. All laws must be passed by Parliament.
orangdesa – October 20, 2011 at 5:25 pm
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And all bills passed by Parliament must be signed by the Agong before they can become law. What does that make the Agong? True. If he doesn’t sign the bill into law, it becomes law anyway after 30 days. Never mind where the ideas behind the legislation have their origin. According to Si Rusa this makes the parliamentary draftsman the most powerful man in the country.
The Gaddafi is dead, long live The Mahatir!
Remember leaders for the good that they have done and not for the things you dislike. — kassim
So we are to remember Mahathir Mohamad for being Prime Minister, for presiding over a country his predecessors worked hard to bring stability and prosperity to and him reaping the benefits of their toil, the blood, sweat and tears of ordinary Malaysians who made it all possible? We are not to remember the many lives he destroyed by passing legislation, amending legislation that stood in his way, and invoking others to make a mockery of due process and constitutional supremacy, reducing the judiciary to just another cog in the wheel, just another apparatus of the political party in a one-party dominant political system? Is that it?
Never mind that he had stolen millions from taxpayers to prop up his financial empire, that of his family and created others to help cronies?
That is one retarded view ever to appear in Din’s blog.
Din
There seems to a lack of understanding of the point I am making. Bean is being obtuse. If you can’t read between the lines on the nexus between the bureaucrats and the politicians then we cannot progress. Look the ideas on re-drafting the laws comes from the very people who wNt to use the law as a tool to control. This is obvious. TDM was a strong character whom no one dared to challenge. But he even had to use Govt Procedures and the law to exercise control. Take your thinking from there.
The legacy left behind by TDM gives tremendous authority to the bureaucrats. If you don’t know this you are a fool. That is why you can’t get anything if you don’t pay for it.
As an example please review the recent issue on the appointment of the JKR DG as head of CIDB. Even the Minister could not do anything until there was full compliance with Govt Regulations! Or at the Land Registry. Go see for yourself
The point to note is that we need to change and return to the days when authority and power was properly divided between the three arms of the state. When TDM changed this we started to go down. And we are still going downhill!!
“If you can’t read between the lines on the nexus between the bureaucrats and the politicians then we cannot progress” si rusa
If you have to read in between the lines, find nexus where none existed in order make your point, the danger of ending up smelling your own ass is something even a fool would know.
Even the Minister could not do anything until there was full compliance with Govt Regulations! Or at the Land Registry. — Si Rusa
The legal ramifications of any controversial policy will first have to pass scrutiny by the State Legal Adviser, by the Solicitor General in the case of the federal government. That does not make the Solicitor General, adviser to the federal government anything but just another civil servant and General Orders, regulations under which as a civil servant he would have to comply.
Having said the doctrine of civil service neutrality has long been eroded by UMNO under Mahathir.
When TDM changed this we started to go down. And we are still going downhill!! — si rusa
Tell us something we don’t already know!
Si Rusa, the case of Dato Judin had nothing to do with Ministerial power, but erroneous transfer procedure. The ‘fault’ lay with the haste of PSD which is supposed to function independently of the political appointee. The minister has no power to insist on any transfer order without the blessings of the KSN and by extension the Cabinet.
Take your thinking from there. The legacy left behind by TDM gives tremendous authority to the bureaucrats — si rusa
The political party that has the mandate to rule the country does not run the civil service. But UMNO under Mahathir has reduced the country’s civil service into an apparatus of the ruling political party. The fact that government regulations will have to be complied does not mean power resides with bureaucrats. That is akin to saying justices that sit on the federal bench by interpreting the country’s Constitution make them supreme and not the Constitution.
Yup Bean, that about sums it.
The power of the flunkies is real in that they carry out the orders of the politicos. In fact, as long as there are no new directives, fiddling or major policy changes – they manage on auto. With the politicians stumping and hollering around the past 3+ years – doing nothing but guarding their asses, the senior Staff and Jusa levels have actually run the country. All that hogwash about KPIs is meant for lil Napoleons and Stalins to stamp their mark. The Service continues to thrive on bodekism and black magic, besides proverbial corruption.
The Auditor General’s office should be tasked to monitor efficacy of the delivery systems, not the PMO. Perhaps they don’t have enough capable accountants and auditors.
The legacy left behind by TDM gives tremendous authority to the bureaucrats. If you don’t know this you are a fool. — si rusa
It is clear who is the fool here.
People like Si Rusa would like us believe that the AG is powerful because he is the government chief prosecutor, ignoring the instructions given to him by his handler or handlers who are his political masters. How very naive of someone condescending in his attitude.
Even the AG is accountable in his use and abuse of his prosecutorial discretion given to him under Article 145(3)(3) Federal Constitution 1957.
Buat baik berpada-pada, buat jahat jagan sekali.
When an offender pleads in mitigation before his Maker that he has acted with a clear conscience, God may attest that he could be telling the truth because he did not possess any conscience at all, in the first place.
Having said that; being guided by the same demented logic that evil men possess, which tyrant, – from Hitler, Mao and Saddam down right to Mugabe, – has not similarly claimed the high ground that they had acted for the higher cause and common good of the mother/father land !?!
Whatever atrocities they had committed, it was always done in good faith.
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Ocho, look at how Pol Pot (Cambodia) and now Gaddafi died. Both in disgrace.–Din Merican
Brother Muammar Gadafi has gone to meet his 72 virgins.
Famous last words of a deposed despot :-
‘What’s going on, what did I do?’
““When we had him and we surrounded him he was talking like an idiot,”said 20-year-old Mohammad Elhweje, who was one of ten fighters from Misurata who captured him. “He was saying, ‘What’s going on, what did I do?’ No one could believe it.”
Precisely what happened next remains unclear, but at some point Gaddafi was shot in the head, giving rise to accusations that he had been executed.
Si Rusa sudah kena hentam kali ini. Jangan goreng too much. There are no in-between lines to read from your comments. So express clearly your thoughts, my friend. I am myself also trying to figure out your “nexus” thing. If you are vague, you lose your argument and cannot ask people to read between your lines. My blogger friends are intelligent people. So don’t underestimate them.
As far as I know, under Mahathir, bureaucrats just take orders. They don’t even think of how best to execute these order. Sometimes, even before Mahathir finishes his sentence, the overzealous ones are off and running to take action, usually the wrong action. They are just servants of UMNO and since the UMNO President is the Prime Minister, these bureaucrats take their orders from the Prime Minister. That is as clear as daylight.
Nexus implies a connection between almost equal power like business and government. It is based on mutual respect. Mahathir has a lot of respect for businessmen but tends to be demeaning towards bureaucrats who just makan gaji. Mongkut Bean, CLF, Frank, what do you think? –Din Merican
Si Rusa, just go and graze into the verdant field of ‘ignorance’ in the deep forest, coz you are irrelevant here….the lack of competence of public servants was the wish & desire of Dr Mahathir who had said : ” Orang cerdik-pandai…makan tuan….” , and all the iconic lofty structures/Institutions crumbled under its weight !
ocho onda, … ‘ buat baik berpada-pada, buat jahat jangan sekali…’ the predisposition of Hang Tuah ! Extreme mataphor of ” patience” – blind loyalty.
‘ buat baik berpada-pada… buat jahat…JAHAT sekali ! “, that of Hang Jebat !
who had said enough is enough…
Arab nations & middle east uprising…..Colonel Muamar Ghaddafi….tersungkor juga….
Din,
Saya amat bersimpati dengan Si Rusa kerana teruk di hentam oleh rakan2 blogger anda.
Pada hemat saya mereka ini nampaknya terus menghentam pentadbiran masakini, Nampak nya semua perkara yg dibuat tidak betul dan salah.
Adakah mereka yakin kalau PR boleh melakukan sebaliknya?...
Bolehkah org saperti DSAI kita percaya dan yakini utk membangunkan negara ini? tepuk dada tanyalah minda…
Memang mudah untuk mengkritik tetapi ingatlah sdra/sdri…dimana bumi dipijak disitu langit dijunjung..!
Orangdesa, kami langsung tidak sebut nama Anwar ataupun PR dalam perbincangan ini. Kenapa kau ni, berpendapat bahawa kami bertubi2 menghentam Pentabiran maskini? Jaganlah, sebagai katak di bawah tempurung.
Yang penting ialah UMNO telah merobohkan institusi2 terpenting saperti Kehakiman, AG dan Polisi Bekecuali (neutral) Perkhidmatan Awam yang sepatut. Kerajaan Negara ini tidak boleh di anggap sebagai kepunyaan mana2 pihak politik.
Adakah Berkhidmat Untuk Negara dan slogan2 lain sesama tanding atau setaraf dengan Urusan Seri Paduka Baginda?
Peringatan: Kami bukan se buah Negara Republik atau ‘One Party State’.
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Orangdesa,
Blog ini , tidak menyebelahi mana mana pihak. Kami hanya berbincang secara berhemah isu isu semasa. Ramai yang keliru dengan polisi blog ini dan mereka ini menggunakan ia sebagai satu platfom untuk mengeluarkan kata kata kesat. Apabila ia melampaui batas, blog ini tidak teragak agak menggunakan butang delete yang sedia ada untuk mencantas tulisan yang bercorak personal, kotor dan yang tidak berfaedah.
Harap saudara faham pendirian blog ini, yang ingin mempromosikan dialog yang membena, sihat dan rasional.–Din Merican
ayoh…mari kita bergurindam dan berseloka, jangan marah berjenaka…
Itu keta’atan membuta-tuli….merugikan diri sendiri ! Bumi memang dapat dipijak, tetapi ” langit ” mana dapat di-junjung, yang terserggam tersindiri ?
Segelintir yang memerentah memeggang ” kuasa” menghentam bangsa nya, untuk meneggak kepentingan sendiri ! Dimana letak-nya Nalluri….?
“Ocho, look at how Pol Pot (Cambodia) and now Gaddafi died. Both in disgrace.–Din Merican”
Exactly, DDM. Their conscience may be clear as a bell but it does not make them any less evil.
As in the case of Gaddafi, he remained delusional right to the very end, adamant that he did no wrong.
Gaddafi is the classic epitome of a man fallen from grace. He ended up cornered and shot like a mangy dog whose life is not worth more than a bullet. A very tragic ending for a man who once proclaimed himself the king of kings.
God will always be merciful but the fellow Libyans who had suffered under his dictatorship were not so.
‘ buat baik berpada-pada, buat jahat jangan sekali…’ the predisposition of Hang Tuah ! Extreme mataphor of ” patience” – blind loyalty.
Ab,
I think you may have taken it out of context. 🙂
The morale of the saying is that no amount of good deeds can outweigh a single misdeed. It is easy for people to forget the good that has been done than to forgive the bad deed that has been done, especially if it involves multiple grave misdeeds like that of apa nama,yang sengaja nya mudah lupa itu ?
That’s very beautifully put ocho onda……i accept what you say, thanks for pointing that out.
i was carried away by ” poor” Hang Jebat, who was labelled as the ” scoundral” and regarded a ” traitor” in the Malay hype till this day – a mere contrast between the two” pahlawans” of the glory days of ancient Malacca…
What do you think on ‘ The Legenda Of Mahsuri’ ? What has society learned about the question on ” intreagues” surrounding their everyday life in that ancient past ? Do we not see life as it is today….reflected in that different “mirror” of the past ?
In the early sixties or seventies, I remembered seeing Dr Mahathir in the kindergarten next to my family house in Jalan Kanchut, Alor Setar, guess he came to fetch his son or daughter, who was studying there then. It was that many years ago and he went on to become the PM of Malaysia.
For better or worst, let us all work together to get this beautiful country of ours back on her feet again. Unity is strength and let us compete among the world out there as that is where the real competition is. Let us be the champions among the Chinese in China, the Europeans in Europe, the Americans in America and so on.
Let us all be proud of what Lee Chong Wei has achieved in the world badminton arena as a Malaysian today. Before him, there were the famous Sidek brothers and also Punch Gunalan, all true Malaysians. We are a country with great and talented people and let us nourish them and bring them all to greater heights.
Let us not destroy what we have got, a beautiful country with beautiful people, people who have grown up knowing each other so well, so tolerant and respectful of each other way of life. Let us go back to the old ways of living together in harmony and preserve our ways of life.
The future is out there and let us set a strong foundation for our young and get them prepared to take on the best from outside Malaysia like what Lee Chong Wei is doing right now, battling it out with the best from China, Indonesia, Denmark, Korea and others.
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JS Lim, yes let us work together to rebuild this country. But there must be room for participation by all strata of Malaysian society. Elites do not know everything and they must listen and be humble enough to learn as they do not have a monopoly on insight and wisdom. Thanks for your comments. I hear you.–Din Merican
The more ” they” fear….the more they are tightening the grip ! And that is pathetic !