Foremost, rest in peace to former South African President Nelson Mandela who passed away last Thursday. A real statesman like him will be greatly missed.
(Here’s one fine example of “instead of giving priority to the minorities, just concentrate on the majority”, courtesy of the Taliban – never forget one’s history even if it took place thousand years ago when “ketuanan” thing was almost non-existence and traders, preachers and intellectuals from every great civilizations made this country their home and trading port. Image source: Wikipedia)
Let’s start with this:-
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said those who avoid paying tax can be regarded as having betrayed the country. This, he said, was because the responsibility to pay tax was one of the pillars of patriotism.
“The definition of patriotism in our country is that we must discharge our responsibility to the country for the good of the people and the nation.
“When we pay tax, we are helping the people. We instil this spirit, with this our country will be more successful,” he said when opening the National Economic Empowerment (Pena) Conference at the Federal Territory Mosque auditorium here today.
(Source)
You see, sometimes, I am not sure if we are suppose to be pitiful or angry on how Najib – the Prime Minister is behaving and making public statements. And for him to come out and call the tax-evaders traitors was rather confusing. While we strongly agree that tax-evaders should not be let off the hook and we strongly support any means to bring them to book, the real question is whether this another wayang kulit to deflect the attention on the latest fiasco on his wife?
I don’t know but one thing for sure, it is bad timing for Najib to say these things. After all, if he is saying that whoever don’t pay their taxpayers as traitors, what about those who misuse the taxpayers and remains unpunished & unaccountable to anyone? What you call them these daylight robbers – ahem, national heroes?
From one pro-BN blog, the same sentiments was echoed and the over-spending and the abuse of taxpayers money is very worrying (ha ha, after riding high on Anwar’s sodomy’s case some time ago, these guys now realised that there are better ways to be sodomised left, right & centre and the Government is dishing it out on a regular basis. Interesting to see them being very restless now):-
Then it gets a bit more interestingly dumb…
Johor Umno Youth deputy chief Khairul Anwar Rahmat today urged Putrajaya to form a committee to audit non-Bumiputera companies for not hiring Malay chief executives (CEO).
They (the Malays) are given low wages, poor chances and positions far from CEO positions, therefore Pemuda Johor welcomes (Khairy’s) call,” Khairul said during his address to Youth delegates at Umno Youth Annual General Assembly held in the Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC), today.
(Source)
I just do not know whether it is even possible to comment on one of the dumbest statement of year. Not sure if one can stoop that low to even to think of this idea of forming a committee to investigate the non-bumiputera companies who do not have a Malay as the CEO.
Why stop at a committee? Why not go ahead and make a law that all CEOs must be a Malay? The level of greediness for high pay & position without the hard work & the experience is astounding.
Think about it – if I am a businessman and it’s my money, my main goal would be to get my company profitable, be a market leader in whatever industry I am in and make my shareholders very happy. For that, to run the company, I would pick the best, the most skilled & experienced people (with proper tactics and vision) to run the company.
It does not matter whether that person is a Malay (my ex-boss was one fine CEO and he was highly professional too), Non Malay, Mat Salleh or even Martian. No one in their right mind would take any half past six idiot with nothing to show as the CEO – there must certain minimum qualifications attached to it and “color of the skin” on its own is not one of that qualification.
Same shit happened here and makes the call to bring back brilliant Malaysians from abroad to serve the country ends up just another loud fart in the wind. Of course, we can always trust them to put the cherry on the cake…
Kedah delegate Tajul Urus Mat Zain said the government’s move to gazette the land will only result in it losing votes at the next general election. Tajul, who is also Kedah state exco member and Tanjung Dawai state assemblyman, said almost every house might have a candi underneath.
“Instead of giving priority to the minorities, just concentrate on the majority.
(Source)
Let’s face the hard-cold fact – the real history is dead in this country and everything simply boils down to race and religion and it gets manipulated even more by short minded politicians, out to score some cheap points. Just because the candi was used to be a Hindu temple more than a thousand years ago, it does not mean it is not part of the rich history of this country.
One cannot be so ignorant – after all, the Malay culture has been richly infused with the past Arab, Hindu, Buddhist & Chinese influence and same goes to others who come to this great country (good example, we have even ang-pows in yellow packets for Deepavali now, ha ha).
In fact, one would not be wrong to think that the ancestors of the present people in Kedah could have been the builders the very candi that the developer had “ignorantly” demolished. So can this important link to the past be easily wiped out with a stroke of a pen?
And if indeed the Government only focus on the “majority”, then you can count on losing every historic monument that is not related to the “majority” in this country one day. Still remember the uproar on our mission based national schools?
Still remember on how the Taliban demolished the thousand year old Buddhas of Bamiyan just because it does not conform to the “majority” belief in the country? Interestingly the excuse that Taliban gave in demolishing the statute was this – “…destroying the statues in accordance with Islamic law and it is purely a religious issue…”.
Are we seeing the same insane thing creeping up in Malaysia?