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I believe the political structure in Malaysia is weakly constructed - we have a very weak opposition party. I mean yeah, we disapprove of the GOP's action in regards to this and that. But when it really comes to casting that final vote, will you check the opposition party box?

No. Because they are incapable. BN is the better of worst. We need a two or three strong party system (hate to say it but think US) where anyone of them are capable to run this country. When you have two parties working for the best interest of the people, there isnt really an 'opposition' party.

But social, racial and personal interests prove to be too much of a hurdle to create a strong coalition that can not only keep a clear checks and balances of the governing party, but actually leads the nation should the calling arrives.

It is all about race, is about which race is holding the cards, after 49 years of merdeka, we still cannot see further as one but through racist eye. Where is the minister who shouts 'racist' and 'perkauman' on this issue?

To create an issue, always use the Chinese as the bogeyman. Just throw an issue of Malay being discriminated, being lag behind, being at the disadvantage, drum up the feeling of hatred towards other race and suddenly those who played up this issue will be regarded as a warrior and saviour. Never mind the government has set up numerous agencies to help the Malays and the poor but somehow the aid has never been utilised and distributed effectively. Question need to be asked on this is 'is the Chinese based political party or the Chinese Chief Minister is to be blamed?'

Pak Lah in his national address on national day stressed the importance of national unity. Behind his back, his son in law is playing racial cards and using race to divide and rule. The drum beat is getting louder, the war dance is beginning to take step. Is Pak Lah destroying the country?

UMNO leaders would never blame themselves. They will point fingers at other people, especially those from other races, and if they cannot do anything, they will flare the emotions of their party members and Malays at large to cause disturbance. This is the typical kampung politics practiced by the current generation of UMNO leaders.

The only hope is KJ. But then, everyone from every political parties are trying to shoot him down. He should be supported because he is the only glimmer of hope to the institution of politics in this country. A bright young Malay like him will bring up his friends, whom are all similar kind to him - overseas graduates, professionals and well-traveled - to important positions in this country. Let him try to do this and shed away the current generation of UMNO leaders.

I also thought KJ was our only hope but like the others he has resorted to racist games. Now we know he too can be bankrupt of ideas. So our hope on him has gone to despair knowing there's a potential racist in our midst.
A lot of the blame also goes to a large segment of the community that suscribe to the ketuanaan policy, that they feel they are the privileged people and must be on top of the food chain regardless of merit and a level playing field. Their leaders are only dancing to their tune. That's why Malaysia can never be a matured democracy and wawasan 2020 is but a dream. At the rate we are going we will be like S Africa's former apartheid regime and we are fast becoming a 4th world banana republic.
To check the rot our beloved PM must exercise leadership and arrest anyone including those from his party who incite racial hatred like what KJ is doing. There's no other way to stop the rot.

Looking at the turn of events and the frequent usages of racists' based remarks, I am beginning to believe Tun MM even more that he has made the wrong choice. Hopefully Najib is reading this too and learnt from all these childish antics. Tun MM's son in law never behaves so childish.Maybe Tun MM educate them much better and teach them better ethics. I am sure I wont make same mistake again too , come the next election, neither would I create more jobs here and neither would I hire any Malays, let the "crazy" Umno politicians take that burden instead of just organising racists' ceramahs.

Abdullah Badawi has lost control. He has said that the CM position in Penang not be question in the spirit of BN. Despite that, they were there to embarass him.

AAB should look for the mastermind of this posters and banners and subject these people to Dispilinary action under the BN umbrella. AAB is also BN Chief..and this action from UMNO in Penang clearly shows Penang UMNO don't give a hoot to his leadership. What next..will the other states show defiance too. I think it is coming..and will come if AAB turn the other way and buat tak tahu

I never cared before. All is equal.

But not anymore after outburst from Tun Dr Mahathir. He opened my eyes and mind to the danger lurking.

KJ was an option. No more.

Newsflash: As reported by Straits Times, Japan is considering pulling out investment in tit-for-tat move, for Pak Lah is considering to cancel incinerator project already awarded to Japan last year.

Enough damage already done. At the present rate Malaysia is going downhill, anyone against Pak Lah, Khairy and their supporters are my options in the next election, BN or not.

"Enough damage already done. At the present rate Malaysia is going downhill, anyone against Pak Lah, Khairy and their supporters are my options in the next election, BN or not." - IImran

Except those supporting Anwar.

Common folks,this is nothing but a charade by UMNO with the knowledge and connivance of leaders of UMNO from top to bottom.It has shaken Gerakan and in addition, the PM has ordered his 2nd Finance Minister to study and fulfill the requirements of the Malays in Penang.Their purpose is achieved. How simple.
The question I wish to ask Gerakan and MCA is why do remain in BN and you , both parties, as you claim, representing the Chinese, have no sense of pride.Do you need the CM's that badly. Let UMNO have it.MIC has been in slumber for 25 years.It is bad debt written off. No one should forget that the Chinese and the Indians are among the oldest, most cultured,rich and magnificent civilisations of the world.You, the Chinese and the Indians should get out of BN for the sake of the respective communities, at least, as a mark of respect to those civilisations.They will survive. How long and how insults should you take?
I know it is like throwing pearls to the swine but I had to try.

What has happened to Penang reflects what has happened to the rest of the country.

Some of the grassroots saw an opportunity to sloganize their message that a non-malay party will marginalize them. Unfortunately, the situation is not that simple, for it involves the relative position of Penang, to wit Malaysia, in the scheme of things in the global business world dovetailed back to the local rubric.

The chief minister should have seen it coming. He made a pr mistake by saying that he handed their grouses to his committees. Grassroots can't take such things; they don't care about internal organizations, only what can be delivered to their doorsteps tomorrow to alleviate their plight. He needs to explain to them that if they want openings, federal must allocate more funds on the one hand, and the grassroots themselves must be willing to sell their land so that developers can build businesses to create openings and new homes for them. Ecotourism is not necessarily a viable conduit for new openings unless favourable factors are already in place which will attract energetic investors. And that will take years. Something which the state should have factored in its planning.

In any case, he must be seen to roll-up sleeves in their midst; his umno sidekicks could have been a bridge. Both were conspicuous by their lack of photo presence with the grassroots in the main media, regardless whether they had or did not have meetings.

But these too will not be enough. Even years back we had laboured our brows on what has happened to this silicon island-nee-oriental pearl. It's sad that it has become like this. NST's shameen recently spun a piece saying how much FDIs this country was raking in. He mentioned Dell, Infineon, Siemens and Intel. Those names were mentioned before. In fact, those names were the same ones mentioned year in and out. That itself, compounded by the unearthly quiet of the normally voluble AP minister, already speaks volumes of the actual FDI situation of this country. FDI in oil is not FDI where it impacts directly the pockets of the grassroots. They need jobs and openings to beat immediate problems. The bottomline is that this country is no longer a flavour of the month with investors and any semblance of future economic activity will be coming only from tourism and construction borne on the wings of the 9MP. However, just as we have lost main ground in manufacturing, we may yet lose main pace in tourism because, frankly, what's there to really stir the emotions of tourists to come and spend vigorously? And construction only stirs the honeypot for some, not necessarily those in the state concerned, especially if the skills of those in the state have not been honed in the past cobwebby years. Again, groundwork needed that paces with gestation periods.

And, as verdant nationalists, we are embargoed from comparing the malays of balikpulau with the malays of that PCK dot of SEAsia. Latter, we are told, are making it on their own standing and rubbing shoulders with the best of the world in an island no different in lack of resources as the one we're anguishing about. Latter, we are given to believe, have used both brains and brawns to come up and compete, and earn good income. Former, we have seen, are wont to heckling and following the rantings of their new crusader, a foreign-trained youngster with a WD40-lubricated tongue whose brain has boiled to amok temperature in his desire to appear as the new champion of malay rights and privileges. And where are these rights and privileges in that PCK pimple of SEAsia?

Why not the KJs of umno youth avail themselves to more productive things?

Like fight for Penang to get back its free-port status and help the state develop a new marketing plan to propel her into the 21st century, instead of being the same backwater of the last?

Why not consider seriously new models for the state - instead of being a pearl this or a chip that, a monte-carlo of new asia instead? But without the casinos and f1.

Why not modernize the minibus system and bring it back to create immediate relief for both employees and customers?

Why not plan a localized disney-type merryland based on wide-span designs taken from all the indigenous elements of Southeast Asia, Europe too if you must, that will pull in visitors by the millions, especially those enroute to Bangkok, or from India and China? Folklore comics animated by the best of USM using local polymorph materials designed on the mainland. Add-on SEAsia's biggest and bestest acquarium, complete with mini-sub rides.

Why not use the best of oxford's english to powerpoint a presentation to attract more new investors and make the per capita FDI of Penang and her neighbouring states the benchmark by which the rest of the country shall have to try and emulate?

Why not resource a new product that will equal the success of the local nutmeg that will spawn new cottage industries for the grassroots? Exotic soaps, beautifying lotions, nyonya face powder, asian viagra?

Why not take the 2nd-Home programme to the next level with a special add-on for Penang?; expats as community mentors who can tap their past experience for mutual gain, so that their being able to make income to pay for their stay will attract even more to come.

Why not train the grassroots to see what the rest of the real world is doing, thereby creating the very modules to reacquaint the grassroots elsewhere with what the world can offer?

Why not make cheap products made elsewhere sold in bulk or bench in Penang as mobile shoppers new paradise?

Why not use Penang as a special immigration zone to allow for more expats from China and India to set up entrepreneurial businesses without fear or fanfare, given the new proclivities of these countries to invest overseas?

These things will help the grassroots get jobs and give them a fresh start in life beyond selling coloured water of suspicious content, or rattan baskets by the roadsides.

Without economic propulsions, political inversions will rise which will further reduce the investments needed to propel economies. A vicious cycle.

Every state of our country, not just Penang, is locked between the horns of a dilemma - trying to catch up when so many factors are already stacked against us - and then creating some of those factors in the very process of trying to catch up.

Why not do the practical things first and break the chains that encircle the mind?

Aren't the Malays supposed to be a polite and humble race? Or to hell with that for development's sake? Or are these people following musa hitam's advice to be 'kurang ajar'? It is really unbecoming and utterly rude for banners such as shown to be displayed - why use the kampong folks for such a purpose. The irony of it all is that Penang is the PM's state; and we had a malay as deputy cm for years, and also in the exco, why can't these people do something about the situation instead of resorting to such embarassing tactics. Look at what mahathir did for langkawi - he thought of what was good for the people and the area and just went ahead to do it - but you must have the guts, and the people must be capable to pursue the ideas, or else they will remain as ideas or all the money will go to just a few, and the whole community will remain as they were before

and after all these sandiwara, the victor, KJ assumes the CM post....end of road for gerakan state...sigh...

I think KJ is playing his cards extremely well. He is 100% politician in making. What better way to gain grassroot support and recognition if he does not create a controversy against him. Look at all the past leaders. He is just doing that. How much he will gain out of this? Well as long as we have UMNO members that can be easily tricked by him, he can play the game as long as he wants.

Unfortunately other BN component parties have fallen for his tricks too. They should completely ignore and should not pay any respect to him & his comments. The more they talk about his nonsense the more he's gonna gain popularity. Sad to say we Malaysians think the person with loud noise makes better leader. Best thing to do is, ignore this high-profile brilliant boy, or shall I say idiot.

Anyway he is nobody at the moment. Don't make him popular by giving him unnecessary attention. A barking dog is not a good guarding dog.

Diam diam ubi, berisi.

Tin kosong, berbunyi.

KJ to save Malaysia? My toes are laughing. Ha! Ha! Ha!

Where's the ISA? Throw these racists into jail. It is killing the country! For the sake for everyone's children and grandchildren, get rid of racist clowns and racialism.

I am voting for the opposition and that's a promise.

Come on guys, the chief minister of Penang is the worst guy ever to lead penang ever.. As a penangite myself i don;t understand how they guy manage to keep his job for this long. I hate the guy. He needs to resign iimediately.

Hey Jeff, interesting (if grainy) photo of Khairy. Where did you get it from? Is this from the same event where Hishammudin brandished the keris? (I assume it's yours, since there's no photo credit for it.)

JEFF OOI says: A reader scanned it for me, from a Malay newspaper.

To quote Quest:

To create an issue, always use the Chinese as the bogeyman. Just throw an issue of Malay being discriminated, being lag behind, being at the disadvantage, drum up the feeling of hatred towards other race and suddenly those who played up this issue will be regarded as a warrior and saviour.

Folks

As every thinking Malaysian knows, UMNO Youth was and is NEVER a solution to Malaysia's racial problems. UMNO Youth is THE Problem.

And the racists hiding in UMNO are smart, they deliberately use UMNO Youth, with all the wannabe leaders and coat-tail hangers, to become headkickers, especially to other Barisan Nasional component parties and Opposition parties.

Malaysia will never progress to achieve its potential as a nation of great achievers, of brilliance, of global competitors, as long as the citizens allow the likes of UMNO Youth to exist.

Organisatons like UMNO Yout, MCA Youth and MIC Youth should be disbanded and banned.

UMNO Youth being the headkicker of the dominant ruling party is acting like a parallel govt in dictating policies on national issues.

That is why Dr M should be supported to marginalise the upstart son in law and not to allow the deputy UMNO Youth Chief to use our country as his playing field for his selfish ends and for the parochial ends of his cronies in UMNO Youth.

Folks

Gerakan is a non-entity in the politics of today in Malaysia.

Gerakan's presence in Govt is at the pleasure of UMNO and UMNO Youth.

Gone are the days when Gerakan was the voice of the intellectual class that care for the nation's interest. Those days of Dr Lim Chong Eu had long gone.

Gerakan is irrelevant.Anybody who had voted for Gerakan to be in power are wasting their ballot papers. They should have their heads checked, if they are not politically naive.

Koh Tsu Koon is a Chief Minister with UMNO's blessing and not on the blessings of Gerakan voters. Lets face it. That is the goddamn truth which Gerakan members refuse to admit.

Gerakan is a poor imitation of the English-speaking membership that exist in the castrated MCA.

Just want to know :
1. Should CM or MB in all states be rotated?
2. What is the Gerakan chances in the next election, if they witdraw from BN?
3. Which race is actually MARGINALISED?

Answers:

1. No, CM or MB post should not be rotated. However the post should not be monopolised by any one race or party. It should be best man/party wins.

2. If Gerakan withdraw they have no problem winning every chinese majority constituency. It shows they can stand up to UMNO and it's about time they did.

3. Non Malays esp Indians are the most marginalised in this country.

We are also marginalised in Kedah, Perlis, Kelantan and Trengganu. Why not rotate us to become Menteri Besar? In fact, we are marginalised in Malaysia. Why not rotate us to become the PM? Do what you want others do to you. Is this not taught in all religions?

It'll be like that for the fourth, fifth, sixth ... Chinese generations. So learn to be a global Chinese to ease your disappointment and pain. Our forefathers may look to China and said that is their tanahair but I find my home closer here. What a dilemma!

So you work hard and you save hard and also you try to avoid all the blood sucking systems out there and finally before Bolehland aka BN-punya gives you the sucker punch below the belt that will K.O. you, vote them out.

Seeing this news, I really felt a sense of hopelessness and despair about this country.

Malaysia I cry for you.

I propose creating a welfare fund for the malays in Penang. This will address the imbalance that they are experiencing. To get people to donate to that fund, we should have an eye catching collector. Its best to have a monkey collect the donations. Therefore it should be called the welfare monkey fund.

On contrary of majority view, i believe the series of events were orchastrated.

The sole purpose :

It is to secure symphaty vote from ethnic chinese in Penang to vote chinese based parties into power considering that DAP/PKR stand to secure more seats than what they currently have.

Boleh! don't cry but instead prepare for the future.

Prepare for the time when Bolehland finishes her black gold under her.

Prepare for the time when the inefficiencies in the country collapse under its own weight.

Prepare for the time when our own Asian neighbours use us as their backyard plantation.

Prepare for the time when our schools churn out blue collar workers to be posted overseas.

Prepare for the time when inflation is high and kais pagi for pagi and petang for petang.

Prepare for the time when most countries have their MNCs sprouting the world while Boleh keeps killing its offsprings.

Prepare then when all these things come, it should not surprise us as brothers battle for the small langsat in their miserable garden while forgeting the world to conquer with the gandingan bahu.

Let me share with you how to nurture a kid. I offer my expert advice having helped my mother literally brought up two youngest siblings from day one they arrived on earth and their adulthood.
Ever noticed that a baby will wailed heartbrokenly when it was forced out of the cosy womb? It's a simple message to tell us that they are upset with us for forcing them out of their cosy womb and into the glokal world they know nuts about. It is normal human reaction to fear when you realise deep within the inner helpless of not possessing the knowledge nor the ability to respond to anything that might destroy your existence.
You see, coming out to the big world outside was easy journey for the babe. The good doctor helps smoothen their delivery passage. However, not so easy for the underrated mother who did most of the donkey work. From backaches carrying the babe in the womb, feeding and nurturing it, enduring the morning sickness, pretended that yeah, pregnancy is a wonderful state of being even though its ever so often the baby kicks up ruckuses in mommy's womb because it will force its demands to be supplied at its whims and fancies for it needs the the supply of goodies to grow, lots and lots of it. Doesn't this sometimes makes one feel sorry for the poor pallor and constitution of mommy?
Yet, we tolerated this, we console the mommy that she is ever so beautiful with the mommy glow because we know that a baby born is a hope born for the survival of our species.
And what do we do in order to make the hope comes alive through this beacon? We shower the babe with care and affection. Most of the times, adoring parents gave too much to the pandering of the baby to the extent the young kid grew to depend on it, propagating and enlarging further its comfort zone. Whines and tantrums becomes an important tool to blackmail parents to demand for extra comforts irregardless of whatever troubles it may cause the parents to cater to the well being of the youngster.
What might be done to tell the youngster that this sort of behaviour is unacceptable? Simple solution, just exercise your parental rights. No behaviour, no goodies - tell the kid why and make sure to tell him or her what will happen should the tolerance threshold be broken. The parent just have to make sure the kid be trained and disciplined to understand this rule. Try a few times, each time with different ways, don't give up easily to deceptions.
I find psychological approach the best. Simply because kids needs long gestation period to adopt to new ways of thinking and paradigm because their undeveloped minds needs laborious training on the road to acquire and use reason.
Find a suitable carrot, dangle it and make sure the kid knows that it can have it only when it has earned it. It is a plus if you can find a reason to praise it for notable exemplary behaviour. Get all the brothers and sisters to corperate by sharing this concern and take joint action in the resolving the upbringing of a problematic kid often generates the happy result of a well mannered, polite and respectful to the parents, elders, family and the community. This person can thus be well equipped to exercise self determination responsibly without causing grief to the family and community.

I hope the cabinet can organise the tour to rural areas in some parts of West Malaysia and most parts of Sabah & Sarawak to see if Balik Pulau is worst than them.
Very soon Mat Rempit will roam the street and if they have problems with the police they can just call Putra Jaya or Kris welding heros to free them. The gang will get bigger and the streets,the highway will be under their control soon.
It looks very true that the PM is loosing control of the management of the Party, the BN and the country.
What next....I shiver!

most agree that AAB has lost control...but the more frightening thing is whether AAB knows that. His closest aides must tell him..it is no longer Alice in Wonderland..or maybe it is a sinister plot among his people to make look bad by not giving him correct feedback. In short,no one is telling the truth but feeding him with only "feel good' news

When I was a kid, my dad used to tell us that when we are eating, we must never look at what others have on their plates. I never realised what was the rationale of that lesson until now. Someone ought to be telling those folks in Balik Pulau about "The Cheese" (http://www.whomovedmycheese.com/) that's been moving along all these years. They, and those guys sitting on their butts better realise sooner the better, that the world's 'cheese' is moving along at a more furious space than ever. Instead of just blaming the chief minister...

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Its simple folks, you vote for them and that is what you all get.

other races will forever be a bogeyman under BN.

I agree with Thirdshifter. Someone else better should take over.

the SIL, with 25 years of his life overseas fed with silver spoon and schooled in international schools, and gathered RM9.2 million in a few short years to buy ECM-Libra shares. - Has he ever experience what is called sidelined ?

Does he know the meaning of being sidelined ?
Has he experienced being at top of his class & the exam result, yet couldn't get a place to further his study.
Does he have to pay about RM10K more (than his bumi neighbour) to buy a house ?
Has he been running around trying to get employed by the govt.and rejected just because he does not belong to the elite group ?
Has he ever been by-passed by all his not so experienced / junior / not so capable colleuge for promotional oppurtunity in his working carrier ?
.... the list just go on and on ...

Yet this Ulta man is accusing others for sidlining his elite group.
My dear Golden Ultra-Man, do you have a conscience ?

Instead of just talking why don't the people do something to retaliate against UMNO politics. I had hope for the country but now I despair for the country.

I acted. I pulled out all my investments in Malaysia and invested elsewhere. My employees, many malays, lost their jobs. The malays think that jobs come with the mere wish by the government.

Now my investments elsewhere are profitable. I am able to support non malays of malaysia as well as of elsewhere with educational scholarships. Why should I help the malays when the UMNO government discrinmates against the others, solely to help the malays.

Do not just talk, think of what you can do to help the deprived non malays. All the talk will not change the racist attitude of the UMNO.

Every little bit helps.

Veritas,

I have been thinking on how to pull out your investment in this country and yet be able to help fellow sidelined countrymen.

How can we do that?

Veritas

You need to qualify slightly your statement

This UMNO Govt is only helping the UMNO-Malays. And they only help their damn cronies.

Believe me, there are very deprived Malays out there in the rural areas whose fate is worse than the non Malays and the this UMNO-ridden Govt just do lip service to these poor Malay kampung folks.

And if this UMNO Govt bureaucrats know that a Malay is a PAS member, or is a strong supporter of PAS, and he applies for or seek help for business opportunies or his/her children want Govt scholarship, then that PAS Malay might as well consider himself as a non Malay. He is as deprived. Just ask some of the Kelantan Malay folks who happen to be on the short end of the stick of the cronyism of UMNO's politics.

I don't FULLY agree with your generalisation.

It is like the Malays saying all Chinese in Malaysia are rich towkays, and that is wrong, right??

Frank&Honest

You may be right. But having a bleeding heart for the non UMNO malays will not move one bit to encourage them to change the UMNO mindset.

But when they realise that the country needs the non malays and foreigners too to create jobs and to improve their well being, it may shake them to change the UMNO mindset. Only the malays can change the UMNO mind.

Vertias

You said....Only the malays can change the UMNO mind.

You are ABSOLUTELY right. I cannot agree with you more.

Only our fellow Malay brothers and sisters can change the negative, parochial and dangerous racial politics of UMNO and UMNO Youth. No amount of shouting, chest-beating, whinging of the non Malays will change the mindset of the below-standard mindset of UMNO leadership. A degree from Oxford has shown to make LITTLE difference to make a dent on UMNO Youth, in fact the degrees from University of Dublin and Oxford had been used to exploit the communal fears of the Malaysian society through their "elitist language" learnt from overseas to impress our innocent and fair-minded kampung folks during their raucous UMNO and UMNO Youth rallies and assemblies.

It will take another 5-10 generations to wipe out this backward looking mindset of UMNO and UMNO YOuth.

The sad part is they know that their politics is hindering the country from achieving the highest potential and be a real player globally, but they DON'T CARE one hoot about it? The leadership is more keenn to enrich themselves and their cronies and families.

Veritas

You said...when they realise that the country needs the non malays and foreigners too to create jobs and to improve their well being, it may shake them to change the UMNO mindset.

Yes, they do realise that. Dr Mahathir in one UMNO General Assembly told them exactly that. I can't remember which year, 2002 or 2003 UMNO Assembly.

Dr. Mahathir did say to that effect that if all the business asnd buildings in Kuala Lumpur owned by non Malays, what is left is what you see in Kampung Baru, something to this effect. It was during that speech, he was talking about the "crutches".

Somebody on this blog can reprint that speech or you.

I think the only way forward is to support voices in the wilderness among our Malay brothers and sisters who see the dangers in the current mindset of UMNO and UMNO Youth. I am talking about people who we should give support to are Dr Bakri Musa, Din Merican, Farish Noor, even Raja Petra Kamaruddin, and others, whose voices are being shut at the moment.

UMNO and UMNO Youth is taking the socio-economic problems of our country as a racially-based, and the reasons are obvious. Their survival as an entity depends on it, while the fact is economic wellbeing is nothing to do with race, it is a class-issue.

There are severe marginalisation of Malaysians in all races. The Malays in the rural kampung outside the Klang Valley, in Kedah, Perlis, Trengganu and Kelantan, the Indians in the estates, where MIC prefers to think they don't exist, and the Chinese working 20 hours a day in the charkoay stalls and foodstalls making ends meet daily.

The issue is not trying to be bleeding hearts for Malays or non Malays.

Our bleeding hearts is race-neutral. What is what our religion taught us, right?

Frank&Honest,

Sorry, the malays do not realise that they are the ones who can change the mindst of UMNO. They still strongly support the UMNO racial policies. Policies adopted at the recent UMNO meetings - NEP etc. etc. Also, Mahathir had said that in all his years and efforts he had failed to change the malay mindset. There you have it.

God helps those who help themselves. The non malays are doing their best to help themselves against tremendous odds. They deserve help. Sometimes they succeed, often they have to slave away. I use the word SLAVE. The malays are not helping themselves by shaking up UMNO to change the UMNO mindset. Why? Why shold they expect any help if they do not help themselves first. They should help themselves first before they deserve help.

Frank&Honest,

All the talk is not going to change things. What have or can the brave words of Bakri etc. do. What effect have those words have on UMNO thinking & policies. None!

Only action will have any effect. They country may have to suffer by such action but to get better if may have to get worse before any improvement. There may be more unemployment and social imbalances but that is the price which the country have to pay for a better future. Are we prepared to pay that price? UMNO is prepared to pay the price for what it wants, even if the country suffers. I am prepared to pay the price because I can see it happening if UMNO does not change. That is why, like many others, my investments are elsewhere - some even bodily go elsewhere!

UMNO just act to please their voters, even when there is something should be done or shouldn't be done. Do you think if opposition party take charge, they will change the way ??? People's thinking is the problem, not the party.