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Though I would never accord a "70% good man" rating to Dr M, I have to agree that he did some good for the nation.

But his latest racist Ketuanan Melayu is nothing but that - a dangerous, desparate attempt at fanning favour using racist sentiments.

Hence there is more than ample cause to detain him under the ISA, as per Param's recent call.

Whatever good he has done, he is a danger to the security of the nation, and the ISA should be applied in all fairness.

What's fair to you may be unfair to me
What's unfair to you may be fair to me
Common sense tells us "What's fair is fair!"
Right thinking tells us "What's unfair is unfair!"

(C) Samuel Goh Kim Eng - 270508
http://MotivationInMotion.blogspot.com
Tue. 27th May 2008.

Minah: "Where's Neil, Saz?"

Saz: "Methinks he's down with megacolon after reading Chedet's tokyo blabberings."

Minah: "Poor old Neil. I asked him the other day what's the pulse of this nation and he replied he can't even feel his own pulse so why ask him."

Saz: "I can answer that, Minah. When you sit down and calmly analyze the whole situation, you will conclude it's all a sandiwara, a game, a tactic, a kabuki act."

Minah: "But isn't Mahathir right about Badawi?"

Saz: "Let me ask you back. What can Najib do even if Badawi resigns tomorrow that will be so different from what Badawi has not done today?"

Minah: "Then let me answer you by asking you back. What can Mahathir or even a Thamby Chik do tomorrow what they have not done for two decades which will not lead to the same problems which had caused the rakyat to vote against BN?"

Saz: "I know there are still some out there who will support them. People who were down who had benefited from the mahathirite policies and became middle-class citizens with a better living. Unfortunately they are now starting to find that what they earn nowadays cannot buy what they could buy in the past and there seems to be an impasse within the Umno that they had associated with their past wellbeing."

Minah: "But they also fail to continue just one more step in their assessment. That step is to ask why is the situation like this today if what has been done by Mahathir and all others were so right before?"

Saz: "They will say it's because of Badawi's administration."

Minah: "Yes, but what's so different in Badawi's administration from that of Mahathir?"

Saz: "Those outside will say it's the same old cronyism and nepotism, and close one eye on high-level corruption in order to maintain power hold within Umno so that money can be used during campaigning in order to maintain status quo, etc. We have been through all this before."

Minah: "Then it's the same thing, isn't it, except for Mahathir saying the government must be stronger and more forceful."

Saz: "Yes, but forceful about what? He seems to be saying the government must not allow for any dissenting voice from the rakyat. What is he asking for again? Another operation lallang, a clampdown, a teargas fogging as if the rakyat are dengue mosquitoes? What? The rakyat rebelled because Badawi hasn't done enough to dismantle the Mahathir legacies, not because Mahathir's legacies were not maintained more. Chedet seems to have conveniently chosen not to see this. In fact he stoked the herd so that he could use the same tactic that has been the underpinning of his policies - divide and control. Don't you therefore think it's rich of him to now pin the blame on anyone he dislikes as being the opposition who are "dividing rather than uniting"? He's weaponizing the disgruntlement of past supporters to stoke the call for eviction of Badawi."

Minah: "Yes, he seems to have reached the stage where he cannot see his own inconsistencies."

Saz: "But let me add that he is still being consistent in being inconsistent in one regard."

Minah: "Oh, and what is that?"

Saz: "He is consistent in not worrying how much anything really costs. And let me add that is the problem of his policies. We middle-class bumi's have enjoyed a lot of benefits under Umno but the costs are just not tenable anymore in today's situation. We are given special privileges but not taught the skills to maintain them on our own. We are given contracts but they're only from the govt and agencies, and because of the inequities, the private sector keeps away from us. We win scholarships to study overseas but we have to kill our own conscience when we accept them because we are awarded over the others based on catch-up sentiments alone, not the criteria of fair-play."

Minah: "But many will say we were not born into fair-start in the first place."

Saz:"That may be true but is it right and could it not have been done in such a way that it is not based on zero-sum? And because it is wrong, we are now in the quandary of not being able to sustain. Furthermore, there is so much dissatisfaction in the others that it is hard to come together as before when that is so much needed by everyone in order to make our nation great, to increase opportunities independent of race, to build harmony independent of religion."

Minah: "But the rakyat are coming together again, Saz. The GE12 results show that we have rejected unfairness, rejected injustice, rejected cronyism and corruption, rejected the racial and religious cards played by Umno for so many years - because people are waking up that the real costs are too much. Mahathir's Umno gives us what they say is 10 ringgit of something that costs only 4 ringgit and that after they have pocketed 3 ringgit and because of the mess, no one knows what has happened to the other 3 ringgit. No wonder those who have benefited from the old policies are starting to wonder if they could have benefited even more if such flicks had not happened."

Saz: "We only form 50 percent of the population, Minah, so we must at least now try to be more fair and just to the other fifty percent, policy or contract or constitutional clause notwithstanding. They are not our enemies. Heck, all grew up together, born in the same place, suffer from the same haze, drink the same muddy water. The opposition are also like us. Just like the ad says: 'we are motorists too'."

Minah: "Yes, when Umno says they need to struggle and fight, i have always wondered fight what and who? The others who are our bosses, staff, colleagues, neighbours, teh-tarik kaki's, childhood friends, fellow alumni, customers, suppliers, friends of our children, service providers to our parents, taxpayers of the benefits we enjoy, co-defenders of safety in our neighbourhood? Who are the people Umno should strive and fight against when it says it is fighting and striving for its members? Who?"

Saz: "A good question, Minah. I have another one for you. Chedet decried the rise of the opposition. Yet he is rankling against the Umno supreme council for not allowing open contest for the posts. Does that mean he doesn't allow opposition outside the government but wants opposition within the ruling party of the same government? Betul, tak?"

Minah: "Then let me add to that a question for you. If someone is fair, he should be fair all the way, don't you think? That's what being fair is all about, finding one middle path across many choices. My question is this but you can choose not to answer it: how can someone not be fair to half his family roots if he at the same time is espousing a racial line? Try answering that."

Saz: "I won't dare to. Some people may say i am being too racial. Nowadays if you say something that the govt doesn't like, it's seditious but if they say it then it's defending their rights. What about the rights of all created by the Almighty? Minah, the whole pulse of this nation is that it is at a crossroad where the traveller is standing and scratching his head and wondering whether to take one path or the other. Since the city-halls have been inefficient and leaky, they have not put up the road signs and there is no street lamp so it's dark. That traveller must therefore turn on the torchlight that the Almighty gave us, the torch light of our hearts. Like that traveller, we must decide for ourselves given all the goodwill in our hearts whether an issue is, well, take a guess. Give up? Well, if the issue is substantive or subsidiary. Like this Sabah illegal immigrants issue, is it substantive or subsidiary? If it is substantive, why bother how it is asked, let me ask you?'

Minah: 'On that one, just like the flimsy excuses given for negating the proposals on ACA independence, whistleblower program and so on, it is to prevent any investigation. It's like an X-file. Therefore i think the rakyat must clamour for it to be made wide open. The lack of transparency and accountability is the real hallmark of Umno, whether under Mahathir or Badawi."

Saz: "That is already so self-evident, Minah. Hey, i hope our Neil is alright."

Minah: "He's a very nice old man, Saz. Comel too."

Saz: "Speak for yourself, woman."

Mahathir dear Mahathir, as desperate as you are still vying for attention in today's state of politics, do you have to say things out like that? I really dont want you draining away the utmost respect I have for you...

We normal malaysian civilians are perfectly fine. There is no such thing as "possible unrest" here in this world i call mine. Stop inciting fear out of the people. Do you realize you are not only blackmailing Pak Lah, but also us the Rakyat. I hope most of the people are lik you and me, not buying all of this.

mahathir will cheat, lie and create disorder to get what he wants.

He is full of hate! We are saddled with expensive privatisation works which we are still paying for. He uses the typical malay chap for fools and make full use of them by instigating threats. I truly believe he was one of the leaders who planned [ DELETED ].

to me, he is one of the most respectable leaders that we ever had. maybe it is wrong for his to say this racial issues but see it on the other perspective. maybe he meant that all malays should unite to take the aab, his family n cronies out of umno instead of malays fighting with others.

to me, there will never be a racial clash and we never had it. we all knew wat happened on 513, and it happens because of politics and dr m might be preventing this from happening by removing...ahem. and i believe that we are mature enough to think what is right and what is wrong. at least on the ge2008 result have shown that we are mature enough to think on our own instead of listening to their....'virtual nirwana' that everything is great in malaysia.

and also, he never mentioned of other race so basically, he is asking the malays to unite to kick the...ahem and his..ahem...a$$. i was offended at first but after reading and some thinking, he might have his way of doing this. for us who believe in him....don give up, at least i have not do so...

possible unrest? mahathir can stoop that low just to fulfil his own dream. Does he care about the country?

Between Badawi and Najib, I'll vote for badawi, Najib is full of scandals, if badawi can hold on to his balls now, can you imagine what others would do to blackmail him in the future when he is PM?

I notice Mahathir landing at subang airport on monday, possibly using taxpayers private jet (Petronas ?) and badawi landing on Teusday night, also at subang, using another tax payers funded private jet.

Our politicinas are living a life above the means of any leaders worldwide, including those from singapore, UK and Japan.