MM Online - Guiding light — Lim Sue Goan (extracts):
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PM Tun Abdul Razak asking acting PM Tun Hussein Onn to implement the meritocracy system?
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Malaysia’s richest man Robert Kuok recalled in his memoir that the nation’s second prime minister Tun Abdul Razak had asked acting PM Tun Hussein Onn to implement the meritocracy system while he was undergoing treatment in London.
However, Hussein said admittedly he was powerless in effectuating the change.
With our Umno leaders today prioritizing their hold to power, getting the message across to them is even more unthinkable.
We have sadly missed the opportunity for some real reforms and as such we are destined to continue ploughing on down the road of racist politics.
Quoting Robert Kuok: “The train of the nation had been put on the wrong track. Hussein wasn’t strong enough to lift up the train and set it down on the right track.”
With our Umno leaders today prioritizing their hold to power, getting the message across to them is even more unthinkable.
We have sadly missed the opportunity for some real reforms and as such we are destined to continue ploughing on down the road of racist politics.
Quoting Robert Kuok: “The train of the nation had been put on the wrong track. Hussein wasn’t strong enough to lift up the train and set it down on the right track.”
That's hardly believable when Razak was the man who introduced the NEP after the May 13 riot.
Since Merdeka to May 13, the Malayan/Malaysian Constitution already had a 15-year affirmative action for Malays, but May 13 somehow told Tun Razak that was NOT enough, thus he constructed the NEP.
We now know that even 150 years for affirmative actions won't ever be enough.
One of the men by his side had been Mahathir, the then-Young Turk who berated Tunku for his love-of-Chinese and was even rumoured to be among those who had wanted to remove the kind hearted just man from his PM position.
The then young man who lost his Alor Setar Selatan seat in 1969 after telling the Chinese voters in his constituency he did NOT need them, went on a merajuk tirade including blaming PM Tunku for the ills of the Malay community. He was expelled from UMNO.
Those Mahathir-ist Young Turks wanted a PM who's more Malay than being mere Malay to ensure the Malays had a fair share of the national 'gravy'. There was a tremendous grudge against the Chinese getting the lion's share of it.
That the national 'gravy' was brought about by careful business policies and practices, hard work and prudent spending were probably not even considered.
Robert Kuok's story of how Tun Razak wanted more and more of MISC's shares at par value for the Malays has been an indication of the Young Turk's lust for the national 'gravy' minus the risk of capital investment and minus hard work. Oh, by the by, it's known that Tun Razak asked Mahathir to return to UMNO.
Yes, once Tun Razak cooked that 'rice' of an idea that The national 'gravy' was justified for due rewards for 'some', that wonderful 'privilege' became a sweet national 'bubur' cum santan, so how could Tun Hussein reversed that 'bubur' back into rice grains?
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Perkasa is NOT only a Malay Supremacist organisation to pressure UMNO into maintaining the ketuanan status of Malays but also as a pressure group to oppress-suppress Chinese ability to advance too ahead, as indicated by its warning of 'war' to the government not to recognise the UEC (which has nothing to do with opposing Malay ketuanan status - just jealous lah) Perkasa was formed in 2008 by Ibrahim Ali with Mahathir as adviser. Why only after 2008 elections and by whose instructions? But as we know, Ibrahim Ali has been Mahathir's stooge on the ketuanan front though we need to look more into the formation of Perkasa. Contrary to government policy that May 13 was started by the communists, Ibrahim Ali stated that May 13 happened because the Malays were not satisfied. |
Besides, Tun Hussein as PM was besieged left and right by the 'ultras' from Razak's PM days. If Hussein Onn had implement the meritocracy system, wouldn't he have been made into another Tunku (much disliked by young Malays at that time) by you know who?
Hussein's strange choice of DPM should be explored to know what pressure he was under to make such a decision against his personal views. But as an indication, his post UMNO political beliefs were dead set against the rule, policy and political machinations of Mahathir.
