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Melayu mudah lupa and now rakyat also mudah lupa.

In Msia, the politicians trake turns to create scandals to draw attention away from a previous one. And by that time it would hv been long forgotten.

So now when KJ was in hot soup over ECM, he needed another hot case to save his arse but there was nothing forthcoming in the horizon so he created one on his own. So the deal now is not on ECM anymore but on his remarks against the chinese community. And once he "explained" himself and everyone accepted it, the ECm case would hv been in 6ft underground already.

Look at all the previous hot cases all now no where to be seen.

SMART ARSE fellas!

It's shocking that nearly 50 years after independence our politicians are still "misunderstood" and "misquoted". Either we have politicians who are dim-wits who speak with "forked tongues" or we have reporters who are hard of hearing. Whatever it is, it is sad that an Oxford graduate politician has nothing new to offer except to flog the racial horse.

You are right Khairy is THE problem! In fact politicians are here to divide and rule the country. It was same back in May 1969 when politician see that they are losing their grip, they stir up racial riots. Malaysians be careful for now. Falling politician is like falling comet, it burns. Khairy is trying to grasp anything to stop his final descend.

Perhaps if we look at a bigger picture than just Khairy, what would we see?

I see a political party's youth wing which seems to glorify racism.

An even bigger picture than that would lead one to see the race-based political parties which dominate the Malaysian political arena.

Just like 'big brother' UMNO, MCA and MIC are also each champions of a specific race, albeit with less fervour and much less arrogance. Let us not focus on the smaller component parties, some of which can possibly claim to be non-racial based, for now.

(It is worthwhile to consider the possible scenerio should the racial breakdown of the Malaysian population be say, 60% Chinese. What sort of fervour and arrogance will MCA display if it had the sort of numerical strength whihc UMNo now has? What if it was 60% Indians - how then will MIC act?)

So what do we see? Instead of condemning any party member who practises racsim, he is viewed with favour. Instead of condemning racist policies, those who dare to propose noj-racist policies stand real risks of being sidelined (if they are lucky) or persecuted as traitors of their race.

So is Khairy THE problem?

Yes, and No. He is but a product of the system.

There is every likelihood that he is made of much sterner stuff than his current behaviour seems to indicate.

There is every possibility that a great statesman may lurk within that young man.

But will our current political system and structure nurture any good qualities he may have?

What sort of politician thrives in the system we now have?

Or to put it slightly differently, what sort of politican does one have to be, or become, in order to thrive in the system we now have?

Leithaisor, i agree with you.
but that sob is still a real pita racist if he choose to use that tactic. his fil, for e.g. is one of the rare umno leaders who doesnt do that. and that on its own is at least applaudable.
and no, we still cant agree with any get-rich-quick schemes for him to amass his fortune on his way up. otherwise, we'll just have same-o same-o money politics and corruption for decades more to come. no matter if he's a smart and charismatic leader or not.

The real problem is the future of Malaysia.

KJ is overseas-educated and (I'm guessing) should have a world-view of looking at issues. He is after all English-speaking, educated, savvy and urbane

If even the KJ-generation still relies on pandering to racial comments, will M'sia ever change???

As an Oxford graduate, as a Deputy Chief of UMNO youth, as a son in law of PM and as the upcoming young leader in the Malay community, he needs to understand that he can be the catalyst to everything he pursues and in this case, he can also be the 'batu api' to fan racial hatred to his audience. To say he is misunderstood is an understatement. He played his political card to gain political mile no matter how low he stooped. Care not about the country, most important, his political ambition needs to be prioritised even to the extend of playing with racial sentiments. The whole UMNO youth looks like trouble, starting with the keris wielding chief, deputy fanning racial tunes, and Putera UMNO engaging with Mat Rempit and recognising them as "Oh my god" Mat Cemerlang. Now seriously, is this the real UMNO?

Leithaisor....you're damn right.....

This young man, KJ,is a young punk,who is in hurry to move to the top in our country's leadership.It is very obvious he learned nothing at Oxford about decorum,broadmindedness,behaviour and outlook necessary in every ordinary citizen in a multiracial country like ours, leave alone in our politicians.He has chosen the well known path UMNO youth leaders of the past and moved up to the very top. Can anyone imagine our future leadership in the making in UMNO and UMNO being the socalled dominant partner of our national leadership..
This young chiku was born 18 long years after our Merdeka and he obviously not aware of the coming together of the Malays,Chinese and Indians in the form of UMNO,MCA and MIC to fight, negotiate and obtain Merdeka.He is not also aware the understanding among our leaders then about power and wealth sharing among the various communities.May be he and UMNO do not want to remember and recall all that including constitutional guaratees for all.
Let me ask what is so wrong if MCA asks for the fair and legitimate rights for the Malaysian Chinese community. They are expected to as it is declared duty.
What disturbs me deeply is the contempt the punk has for the second largest partner in the BN government.How will he then regard the other smaller partners in the BN!
He must be confident that MCA will take in its stride as usual if MCA's track record of the past is anything to go by.
If this youn upstart is any example about our country's future leadership, the country' future and well being is in safe hands.
I am sure the Chinese in Malaysia will want to know what the UMNO topguns think about his statement and what MCA is going to do about it.

Leithaisor

Good analysis. I agree with you fully.

The son in law has all the ingredients for him to be a greate statesman and possibly a desirable leader.With his background and education, he should have all the POSITIVE QUALITIES, and all the opportunities avail to him to package himself to the public as a decent, honest, genuinely interested and condern in the destiny of the nation as a whole.

Unfortunately, he chose to manifest his ugly and negative attributes to the public. Perhaps that is his karma. Perhaps he is too young and naive to have been manipulated by those out to destroy him and by those who seek to exploit his connections to reach the top of the heap.

Having a potential positive attribute of leadership is not good enough. What counts is the manifestation of the good attributes.

Can he salvage himself out of the bottom of the pit?

He should take a few steps back, remove himself from the limelight for some years, get more experience and let age guide his maturity instead of preempting it, and repackage his own image to the Malaysian public.

That assuming the Malaysian public ( and Dr M) can be forgiving and has a short memory.

But history shows that Malaysians are a forgiving lot, especially when political leaders had been incarcerated, jailed, exiled or simply charged with unforgivable corruption.

The son in law might just make it, but I am afraid hi arrogance does not allow him to do so. That's could be his karma, unfortunately.

But you never know, Malaysian politicians are like plastic leopards, they can remould their skins.

In Singapore, 70% of their population was Chinese. I did not see racism was used as a political tools. Malaysia should learn from Singapore Chinese how they rule the Island.

His ambition has clouded his judgement and ignited his impetuosity. He thinks by throwing himself into the political fray with greater fervour, he can unshackle the ecm shares sully. He picks the easiest, cheapest and lowest tool - maligning the Chinese - but forgets that people have longer memories. Of him talking to the MCA youth as if friends in the past. So that would make his behaviour out to be hypocritical. So early in the political path, that's already a self-condemnation.

He should ask himself whether he knew that it was the MCA which had financially bailed/helped out Umno in the heydays of the Alliance when Umno ran out of money for its political campaigns. He should further ask himself how it was that Umno has been able to enrich its own coffer since then. He should accost himself whether his behaviour and statements of late haven't in fact inflamed the fragility of ethnic relations that will have to form the foundation, wobbly as that already is, for the actualization of this nation's progress in the coming years of massive global changes.

With so much promise, he could have taken the statesman's road - be fair, be right, be noble, be productive. But he couldn't wait; his itch was too strong to follow the path of his predecessors who had only succeeded in their own make by taking the path of hypocrites - through finding faults in others when the only fault lies with themselves.

To this bunch of jokers in Umno youth past, present and future, give one reason what it is that the Chinese in Malaysia have done wrong to the Malays and the country. Just one will do; there's plenty of time for the answer, since no one is going anywhere.

It is a sign of weak character to put the blame on others when the weakness lies with oneself. If the problem is within Umno, solve that, but don't try to be funny with the goodwill, so far given without conditions, given with so much personal sacrifice, by the other communities. By creating imaginary external threat to force internal consolidation and perhaps some form of heroism, he has committed a bigger mistake - making the Malays in Umno out to be fools and novices. Are they still?

And another thing, it is not manly to blame the press for misquoting. An oxford education should mean clear thinking and crisp communication.

IamAlien

You said...Malaysia should learn from Singapore Chinese how they rule the Island.

I think it has something to do what psychologists or pyschiatrists call "insecurity complex" or "inferiority complex" or "false sense of superiority complex".

Studies showed that Bullies exists, not because of their own acknowledgement and need to show off of their strength, but to hide their inferiority complex and sense of self-insecurity.

People who are confident of themselves DON'T usually to rough-ride others. who don't have the means to retaliate.

People who are sure of who they are, and who are confident or their own ability, don't need to suppress others.

People who are insecure are the ones who seek to suppress and bully others.

You may want to draw your own conclusions.

Lets remind this Khairy fellow that it's the Chinese that pays the most income tax (Dr.M mentioned)and it's the chinese that build KL what's it today.
So by being the biggest contributor to the country's income, isn't it a right for the chinese to demand a fair share?

Khairy is power crazy...so does he give a shit to others?. If it is not the Chinese he is blaming..he will find another convenient scapegoat..maybe blame PAS or Samy Vellu.

The thing with this upstart is that UMNO Youth fear him becos of he is son in law..

Even Hisham is keeping quiet...and no comments from him..despite him as Youth head.

Let us be precise about learning from S'pore Chinese.The majority of S'poreans are Chinese but what we have to learn from is from the S'pore Govt,to be on the dot,Harry Lee.Remember the pre-LKY days, S'pore was a mess. It took a man of Harry Lee'stature, vision, determination,foresight, integrity ect. to gather men of talent to share and work towards his vision for S'pore.The results are there for everyone to see.That is the type of leadership and men of quality we have been lacking and continue to.Then there were men like Devan Nair, Rajaratnam Toh Chen Thye,Goh keng Swee etc men of immense talent and stature as good and even better than LKY.
If S'pore was left to the Chinese alone without the combined leadership,S'pore would not be where they are today.
We can only dream about such leadership.

c'mon khairy, lky also oxbridge you also oxbridge, what he can do you can do.
visions takes time to develop but integrity, honesty, sincerity, and hardwork starts now! don't take shortcut. shortcuts mostly don't work. no matter you are malay or chinese or indian, christian or muslim.

If PM Abdullah Badawi claimed that he want to be the PM for all Malaysians, he should then publicly reprimand Khairy on utterly such remarks and remind his MPs and UMNO members not to use other races as bogeyman for UMNO internal problem.

This will definitely win the respect and credibility of all Malaysians for he practise what he preaches.

We need leaders that are not racially bias to build a nation for all Malaysians and not just UMNO, MCA or MIC.

certain people here thinks that Singapore was built up by the lky. It was not.Singapore was not a backward swamp before lky took over. pre-lky days, singapore had the second highest per-capita income in asia next to japan. It has the only international airport in Malaya. The original University of Malaya was situated in singapore and not the ones you see in KL today. Even P.Ramlee had to go there to make his movies.There were no ports in malaya then except those in Penang and singapore.All trains in Peninsular Malaya lead to singapore (not KL). It was the centre of commerce and trade and major commodities produced in malaya were traded in singapore(not KL). Exxon and Shell had major refineries built there. The ones in PD was probably built to please the Malaysian government.The british was reluctant to release singapore to join Malaysia.Upon receiving independence from Malaysia, malay reserve land in singapore were abolished and taken over by the government on assumption that they have to maximise land usage. the irony now is that reclaimed land are being sold as bungalow lots for the rich who are mostly non-malays.
If there are any incorrect data, please comment.

Leithaisor is so right which leads me to believe that there is really no hope at all for the Malaysian political arena.

What more with our racially structured political parties like UMNO, MCA and MIC. And the continuous support of each community towards their parties. Sigh...

certain people here thinks that Singapore was built up by the lky. It was not.Singapore was not a backward swamp before lky took over. pre-lky days, singapore had the second highest per-capita income in asia next to japan. It has the only international airport in Malaya. The original University of Malaya was situated in singapore and not the ones you see in KL today. Even P.Ramlee had to go there to make his movies.There were no ports in malaya then except those in Penang and singapore.All trains in Peninsular Malaya lead to singapore (not KL). It was the centre of commerce and trade and major commodities produced in malaya were traded in singapore(not KL). Exxon and Shell had major refineries built there. The ones in PD was probably built to please the Malaysian government.The british was reluctant to release singapore to join Malaysia.Upon receiving independence from Malaysia, malay reserve land in singapore were abolished and taken over by the government on assumption that they have to maximise land usage. the irony now is that reclaimed land are being sold as bungalow lots for the rich who are mostly non-malays.
If there are any incorrect data, please comment.

I would add that if the govt is sincere in preventing such stupid remarks from being made by any parties in the future, they should have a law to put any one who made such racialist remarks under the ISA. These remarks are sensitive and very often used to garner political support of one race at the expense of another. No point opening one's mouth to hurt another's feeling and then apologising. The harm is done. Politicians!

caribenar, two wrongs dont make a right. locking up people, including those who make racist comments, without trial is not a sustainable long-term solution to our challenge as a nation.
what we need is to get rid of the isa and restore the judiciary. but i'm getting OT here...

iamAlien, dont talk cock...there is nothsing we can learn from Singapore Chinese. I am a Malaysain Chinese. You are all products of a "plastic mould"....you cannot shape your self or your thinking...it is all done by big brother using the same time-tested mould. Here we stab in the front and never at the back....poor Mike Seow and Devan. I dont care much about anything plastic because they are not biodegradable...but you name me one top military personnel (of consequence of course)of Malay stock in the SAF...any pilots?...logistics? food supplies maybe. So what is there to learn. Have you heard of the little katak under that small coconut shell? We dont mind you posting but dont ask us to learn from you...just look afoter your plastic moulds....make more babies, because when I was working there it was "STOP AT TWO".
Best of luck Planet Plastic.

I think we shouldn't deny the contribution of LKY. Start with one to one, he can make the currency conversion to 2.33 to 1 now. I'm sure he and his team must have done something to reach this astonishing level.

It is true that lot of services are done through S'pore during pre-LKY period, but please note that S'pore no longer enjoy these benefits after its independent. It lost almost all of these pre-independent benefits within 5-10 years after independent, but why the country is still prospering? For those who denied the contribution of LKY, do you really know the hardship he and Singaporean gone through during that period? (Civil unrest, high unemployment due to losing status as ‘distributor’ of Malaya, no natural resources, removal of British army, etc)

Let’s take SIA as example, after the separation, it virtually lost all international routes and no domestic routes to serve, but why it becomes one major airline in the world and still making profit despite the oil price surge?

I’m a Malaysian who hopes that our country will achieve the Wawasan. I’m so worried now as we only have 14 years left.

KJ's statement did not hurt the chinese community at all. The chinese are just as busy as usual. The group that is hurt is the chinese politician. are they truly hurt? That is an interesting question or it is just playing the same game like KJ - political mileage? As far as KJ's statement is concerned, the damage is on UMNO. Who is he to comment that UMNO is weak in 1999 ? Was he there? I believe , Umno was so united in 1999 that enable the BN to win the General election. IF UMNO was not strong , i m sure the component parties might have shifted camp. He should think before commenting on the position of UMNO. in 2004, UMNO supposedly to be on its peak, i am curious why he commented that UMNO is weak and led to component parties leaders to forward a memorandum. Apparently , he is criticising the president of UMNO that is making the party weak. I thought umno is at its strongest moment as they had a landslide victory in the last election. I wonder why he is shooting his own toe.

UMNO is still strong, dulu, kini dan selamanya. I think it is the individuals or may be even the leaders. MAy be it isKJ himself.

now umno members are confused and so to speak chinese political party is taking advantage.

zorro, check with facts first:

/// but you name me one top military personnel (of consequence of course)of Malay stock in the SAF...any pilots?...logistics? ///

First, if there aren't any top military personnel of Malay stock - what does that mean? Does it automatically mean Malays are suppressed? Oxford only had one Malay (okay, maybe more than one - but very few). What does it say? Racists? Or just that some people are not good enough?

Go check your facts. There are Malay fighter pilots, let alone pilots in SAF. Malay Logistics officers - plentiful.

Now ask yourself, how many Chinese pilots in RMAF?

Very few non-Malays get scholarships in Malaysia and the bulk of scholarships go to Malay. So, are you suggesting that Malays are much more capable than Chinese and Indians?

"Today, Malay servicemen serve in a wide range of important vocations. We have Malay pilots, commandos and air defence personnel. Those who have shown the potential to take on higher appointments in the SAF are given every opportunity to do so. Malays have held key appointments such as being Commanding Officers and Operations Officers of units." By Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong

http://app.mfa.gov.sg/pr/read_content.asp?View,3676,

Obviously some of you were "Seperti Katak dibawah Tempurung Kelapa". I'm i right?

i think there WAS a problem with malays in SAF. probably our neighbour's gov had recognised that, took corrective actions and moved on.
we? we jog on the spot and move back a little if the wind is strong.
we may continue to look at other societies who are on par or worse than us, and feel satisfied, but if we don't grow up, it's just a matter of time before they overtake us like taiwan, singapore, thailand did.
of course, since we are some where in the middle among the countries, there are still plenty more we can look down at to feel proud of ourselves. so let carry on as usual shall we? see you at the bottom.

Comments made above comparing singapore to malaysia revealed deep racial sentiments. NEP possibly assisted the malays to achieve some economic benefit, at great cost to the country.
Unfortunately, instead of being thankful for the sacrifices made by other races to assist the malays, it seems that malays are demanding more.
On the achievement of SIA, I believe upon seperating MSA(Malaysia-Singapore Airlines) it was SIA that inherited the bulk of the airplanes and landing rights while MAS had to start from scratch. Most international flights were done through singapore. KL was a mere local destination served by singapore airport.