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This is not a national issue.

We don't need UMNO supremacy anymore.

The old man is bent on creating instability. Now he does not care if the country goes to the dogs as long as his personal interest is served.

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I think Dr M has bitten off way too much for himself to chew.

Not only has his massive closet (KLIA hangar-sized!)of putrid skeletons coming back to haunt him now when he is again trying to use his old divide and conquer Ketuanan Melayu tricks.

Not only have many of his old hangers-on and cronies jumped ship.

Not only have the people, in particular the Malays whom he mesmerised for so many years, become wiser, and wise to his tricks.

But Dr M's own physical limitation which is something he cannot do much more about.

I don't think his body has enough in it any more for him to sustain his stirring of various pots for what he proclaims to be altuistic reasons.

It may not be long before, as the doctor himself declared, the gangrene is removed, by the doctor himself if he keeps pushing the pace as he has been doing of late.

Sigh.

Whether with Badawi or not, Malaysia are really in deep shit after 2016. The mainstream media can spin whatever they want, umno and TM can play whatever politics they want.

But none of the Malaysia premier talk about the imminent crisis of 2016. And none talk about how to remove the oil subsidies.

You know what actually angers Dr. M?

1) Of course, what drove him to the ultimatum is he being pictured as one of the six crooks in our judicial scandal. And he even tried to retaliate by talking about exposing all the judges who tried to lobby him.

2) His baby, Proton was no longer protected. What cheers him up will be perpetuating Proton's protectionism until another 20 years and in the process, he wouldn't care a bit of how rakyat will suffer buying other marques expensive cars.

3) And he also prefers that highway concessionaire agreement will not be reviewed because it provides a lot of money to UMNO and all the cronies.

4) And it is too late because Pak Lah is politically weak (it was clearly demonstrated by him not being slow to solve T'ganu & Perlis recent Menteri Besar woes).

When you are politically weak, you are easily attacked by the opposition for an example, and in the end UMNO & BN has to be much more transparent. And he doesn't like being transparent.

Okay okay I am done.

he talks nothing about reforming the country, nothing about fighting corruption, nothing about bringing our education to the next level.

this whole mess is his, not badawi's.

This has everything to do with the investigation into Lingam.

Mahathir is trying to frame the Lingam incident as just a case of lobbying over on this website. So pathetic.

Taj: 'Neil, you've been quiet.'

Neil: 'i didn't want to write anymore but just happened by the newsstand a while back and saw the headlines.'

Taj: 'Which one? That Mahathir had resigned from Umno?'

Neil: 'The other one - that 1,000 new RapidKL buses were in the junkyard.'

Taj: '(arched eyebrow)
Now, now, Neil, how can that be more interesting than Chedet resigning from Umno?'

Neil: 'Taj, you yourself already know inside you the answer to that.'

Taj: 'Yes, you're right; i do. In fact, i think Badawi has been quietly absorbing all the punches thrown at him by the same man who pulled him up who now wants him out. That's admirable.'

Neil: 'But CheDet said he resigned because he wanted Badawi out because of cronyism and nepotism.'

Taj: 'Considering his own impending deconstruction once charges are filed under the Lingam case, he's like the barbecued satay calling its skewer burnt.

CheDet played his trump-card yesterday. Some will say he rather destroy Umno Baru in order to weaken the judicial process that will soon land him in court than face the music of the same type of cronyism and nepotism that he says Badawi is practising. After all, he can always start Umno Terbaru after that.'

Neil: 'That depends whether a deal was cut with Najib out of their meeting.'

Taj: 'If that is so, it's insidious, don't you think? Imagine, the Executive being able to influence what goes on in the courts. Especially if this Executive should also be in one.'

Neil: 'But on second thoughts, he himself said he welcomed going to court so that he can finger which judges had lobbied him before.'

Taj: 'Saying that out loud is warning them not to push him too much in public. Ruthless, don't you think?

One thing you can say of him, he's a fighter but he isn't above using every trick in his book.'

Neil: 'The one i don't like is him raising the racial card again. In fact, using it shows how desperate he, and all his ilks and supporters, are. He used it despite everyone reading the result of GE12 as showing that the rakyat have moved away from that spineless trick. Here's a man, once a world-renowned statesman who had moved with kings and celebrities, who when the guns are pointed at him, thinks nothing of pulling an innocent bystander towards him to act as a shield to take the bullets. Have pity and mercy on the rakyat! After so many years of being torn asunder by political shenanigans that played the racial card to the hilt, octagenarians who have been right in the thick of causing all these tensions and divisions between brothers and sisters who looked up to him before should not play the same dirty trick on them again.

Let me ask you since you're a muslim - how would the great Allah look on men who divide men?'

Taj:'Many will still support him and say you have misunderstood. They will say ketuanan melayu is still needed in order to give our malay community a sense of security against themselves for they themselves have long realized that they are weak and need some form of protection amidst all the changes of modern-day life.'

Neil: 'Then let me bring you back to why i am writing this in the first place. If what you say is true, can you do it better so that helping the malays won't result in 1,000 RapidKL buses growing weeds in the junkyard while thousands of malays, chinese and indians daily have to suffer for hours waiting for trains which don't arrive, or are packed like sardines, in order to travel between stations which are not interconnected because of our great public bus-train system, courtesy of the same CheDet's administration who on being told his EPU chief had a hundred grand in his drawer could only say with indignation that the ACA officer who said that to him was rude. How about him being rude to the wallets of the millions of taxpaying rakyat for having to pay hiked tolls outcome of that one hundred grand?'

Taj:'Wow, now you're angry.'

Neil: 'I'm not finished yet. When the Lingam tapes were released and the result implicated him and others, all he could say was that Anwar releasing it in batches showed intention to blackmail. Why wasn't anything said about the content of the tape?'

Taj: 'Yeah, Neil. They're all the same. When caught, deflect, shield or thunder.'

Neil:'I'm angry because the Umno machine that this man appears to personify is all about squander and trickery. You can add lies, semantics, polemics, diatribes and histrionics. It doesn't matter, Taj. The bunch of hoodlums who typify Umno whether of Lama, Baru or soon Terbaru are all the same. They talk about ketuanan melayu, add some mythical social contract, and then practise selective distribution of the rakyats' money, and when found out, lie with a straight face.'

Taj:'You mean the PSD explanation of how its scholarships are awarded, don't you? Yes, i see your point. The chief took great pains to explain the criteria. His marcomm even writes an explanation. But neither explained what are the racial criteria that was practised for those selected for overseas courses. Even if i can believe all were ranked properly for the thirty percent that was contributed from co-curricular and household income, i too cannot believe the seventy percent as applied on academics for overseas courses was done not based on race. There was a big hole in their explanations. I am sorry you noticed.'

Neil:'i thank you for bringing that up, Taj. Umno continues to talk about change and reform. But it keeps doing the same dirty tricks, and adding layer after layer of denials, now made even more clever by ruse and deflection. Who do they take the rakyat to be?'

Taj: 'CheDet stands guilty for opening the floodgates to that sickness. As a practising doctor, he knows for each medicine, there will be contraindications. But his ego has gotten so swollen, he believed he alone holds the key to help his patients overcome those contraindications. My friend, too much antibiotics breed and spread more diseases throughout the whole society.

I remember once being in the lobby of his office. I was sitting at the sofa. In and out in a constant stream i saw those Umno cronies walking into his office carrying building plans and proposals. I remember asking myself what has happened to open, even negotiated tender, where are the checks-and-balances, why am i seeing a short-cut against the entire govt machinery so that approvals to partake of rakyats' funds are made impromptu by one man, and his sidekicks? Those were the questions that passed through my mind, Neil.'

Neil: 'Badawi himself could have made right what was so wrong that the rakyat had given him the ultrabig mandate then. He could have stopped the wang ehsan thing. He could have done a lot more to really transform and liberate this nation. But he didn't. Instead he let that unprincipled, racist and dumb-aleck opportunist of his turn the tide against him. He himself flimflammed so much the boat was swinging one way and the other, rudderless and on auto-pilot.'

Taj: 'They're all the same, Neil. Umno in any form is kaput. They may talk cock but we shouldn't be bothered. They're just made up of corrupt ball-carriers and sexists who think nothing of putting the blame on the Chinese and Indians, then give their wives junket trips through NGO donations, then parcel out side-deals and perks for themselves, then make a mess of every project big or small that they run, and then stand before the crowd with a mike and point at Karpal Singh so that the hoi-polloi will be inflamed to go amok and throw molotov cocktails like this is taliban-land.'

Neil: 'And when singaporeans invest in Johor, it's sovereignty assaulted but when the emirates do so, it's all quiet on the southern front.'

Taj: 'Shsssh, Beil. By the way, let me ask you, what do you think of what Karpal Singh had done.'

Neil:'I'll answer your question if you answer mine first.'

Taj: 'Which is?'

Neil: 'If the PDRM chiefs know that one of their ex- is a director in Grand Saga, would it be as right for them on the one hand to close an eye when the MP's car was damaged and then say he broke the law and did not deserve any apology, and to push through the contract for the CCTVs and helicopters knowing another officer was a director in the proposed supplying company, on the other hand?'

Taj: 'Neil, that's not fair; that's two questions.'

Neil: 'ok, i lied.'

Taj: 'On the matter of public interest real and in substance and never form, on the matter of really defending principles of integrity, justice and fairness, and on the matter of upholding the latest version of incorruptibility of the blue force to whom the rakyat are placing their faith and trust in again, the answer to your questions is No.'

Neil: 'Then why has Badawi's administration, or Parliament even, allowed for them to remain unresolved?'

Taj: 'Because they're too mired in their own problems to dot the i's and cross the t's. They're all drowning, Neil; things have gotten out of hand, they have other things on their mind. They hope the rakyat won't notice and will therefore forget.'

Neil: 'Ok, let's see what will happen after this. Now to answer your question. KS spoke on points of law. To that extent, he was right as a lawmaker. But he should have exercised more discretion, knowing on matters of religion, one should have consulted the sultanate first.'

Taj: 'Knowing you as a verdant monarchist, somehow i expect that from you, Neil. But we should be concerned about the reactions. See what happened. They filed a police report against him and in the other matter of apostasy, some of the skullcaps wanted to impose a death sentence on the poor woman.'

Neil: 'Then let me throw you one. Do you think Umno as the main admin is derelict in not addressing such a matter directly and immediately to show it can be sensitive and fair, since it is asking just that of the other races?'

Taj: 'Neil, when has Umno ever been really fair and sensitive? It takes a chunk off you, then goes before the lights to give you back an ounce, and then pays someone to write somewhere applauding its generosity. We know all that too. Just as we know some of those anonymous and chinese-sounding namesakes praising CheDet in blogs have been written by the same mahathirites.

Neil, why can people say it the way it is, admit to reality the way it is, and face up to the dire challenges we face as a nation the way they are?'

Neil: 'Maybe because if they do, they will break down and cry that we are really all in deep shit and it's too late.'

Taj: 'Quietly they have extending the year from 2011 to 2014. With prices creeping up to 130 per barrel, does it matter, since they also say they won't want to practise subsidies anymore?'

Neil: 'Let me try and sum it all up for you.

CheDet has resigned. So what. Badawi is fighting for survival. So what. Ku Li is staying on. So what. Najib is denying this and that. So what. Muhyiddin is talking polemics. Sp what. Hishammudin has sheathed his keris. So what. Khairy is handing out model answers. So what. Toyo won't explain the missing files. So what. Taib says he can't speak english. So what not.

The rakyat must do one simple thing now. Just deUmnofy Umno from your minds. Pull yourselves out of your own propaganda-bombarded minds so that you can see more clearly how you have all been screwed.'

Taj: 'Yes, what has Umno really done that can't be done better, cheaper, faster and more lasting? Look, CheDet was angry about the second causeway not on. Is he as angry about the second bridge not on? Why not? Look, if you give me 100 Billion and say go transform the malays, i can do a better job, in fact give you back 120 Billion worth of results. And more importantly, without one sen at the expense of the other races. Everybody will go up. Everybody will prosper. The country will be great to live in, corruption will be bastardized. Malaysia will be honoured. We will have a real future.

What do we have now, Neil?'

Neil: 'One thousand junks called buses.'

This is the comment what I had posted in MM's post on his resignation...

You are a politician through and through. And at this time and your age, you are still playing politics. Incredible !! What surprise me is that you had decided to re-use the “Racial Card” again in your political game.

I am not sure what do you feel personally (or any market survey done by your proxy or feelers or whatever), I think there is no market for racial politics now.

I think the general Malaysians had enough of the various “Divide and Rule” tricks inherited from our Colonist master – British (who by the way had exploited our country totally to enrich themselves, just like you and your cronies – many would say).

This 50 years of Divide and Rule policy or trick is hurting and ruining our country. Look at the rich and the poor, the gaps are so big as the rich are getting much much richer while the poor are getting much much poorer. 50 years of Independence, we have the tallest twin towers in the world and yet we have far many Malaysians who are still living in abject poverty. 50 years of Independence, sadly, again far too many Malaysians are still not able to unite and genuinely work together as one to solve common problems and develop our country. All because of the “Divide and Rule” trick.

50 years of Independence, our previous so called leaders had played this dirty Divide and Rule trick repeatedly so that the dominant race must blame the other races whenever there are problems. They also played this trick so skillfully and repeatedly to enrich no one else but themselves and cronies. This game was played up over and over again so that even the poor of the dominant race (who were actually suffer the most from this dirty political trick) can be distracted and forget to find a suitable long term solution to the various problems at hand.

I think the recent GE results had shown up rather clearly this time, the Rakyat had enough of the 50 years of Divide and Rule. It is a dirty political trick. It is a game of hate. We had enough and we want change. We had made up our mind and we had also decided in the GE. We will not fall into this trick ever again.

What we want is a new “Unite and Rule” trick in this game of politics - A government by the people for the people.

It's so nice to note that most online comments here portray the rakyat's thoughts so well.

Mahathir's just pissed that everyone's bringing up all the wrongs he did and are no longer listening to him.

Well at least he has one loyal son..loyal to the party, of course.

What better way to show you're not your father's crony to the world?

Either that or he's spying for him...