THE OPPOSITION by Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamed

'The Government has gained nothing and has lost a lot due from trying to please the Opposition. Has the Government learnt the lesson?'

'Apparently the Government is still bent on pleasing the Opposition rather than Government supporters. There is now a move to accede to the Opposition demands for meritocracy. Three laws are to replace the Sedition Act which will have the effect of ending the affirmation Action of the New Economic Policy'

Tun Dr. Mahathir

Wahai PM Najib Razak, don't be fooled by the title of this post by Dr. Mahathir because I think it is meant for you and you only as Presiden of UMNO and Prime Minister of Malaysia:

THE OPPOSITION

1. In a democracy there should be Opposition whose job is to oppose the Government. In the more mature democracies the Opposition may at times support the Government or take a bipartisan stand. But mostly, and certainly in new democracies, the Opposition simply opposes.

2. The objective of the Opposition is to bring down the Government and to take over. They are not really interested in issues or the wrong things the Government is doing. These issues are good only for blackening the governing party so as to bring it down..

3. It is a mistake for the Government to accede to or meet the demands of the Opposition. Acceding to their demand will not result in their supporting the Government. They will make sure their supporters too will not switch their support to the Government.

4. They will either belittle the Government’s decision or they will come up with new issues.

5. This was what happened to the Government’s decision to drop the ISA. The Opposition never said thank you or praise the liberalism of the Government. Certainly they would not support the Government because it had met their demand. The attack against the Government continued. And the resulted was the performance of the Goverment party becoming worse than when the ISA was in the statute books.

6. On the Government side compliance with the Opposition stand angers its supporters. They would regard the Government as weak and withdraw their support.

7. In the case of the ISA the law enforcers too felt they have been betrayed. The crime rate grows and the security people gets the blame.

8. The people will also feel betrayed and angry with the rise of crime rates

9. The Government has gained nothing and has lost a lot due from trying to please the Opposition. Has the Government learnt the lesson?

10. Apparently the Government is still bent on pleasing the Opposition rather than Government supporters. There is now a move to accede to the Opposition demands for meritocracy. Three laws are to replace the Sedition Act which will have the effect of ending the affirmation Action of the New Economic Policy.

PM Najib will shoot UMNO in the foot if he continues to defy the wishes of UMNO supporters and voters and continue to please those who will not ever vote for him or UMNO. Please take this as a notice before GE14.

I end this post with a good question asked by my blogger friend from The Lions's PawPrint blog:

Hello? Hello?

Am I the only one that seem to have the idea in effect, Malaysia has not had a Prime Minister since October 2003?

In fact, to expand the whole thing further, it would seem that no one has been running the country at all since then.

Pretty much the only thing that has stopped the country from falling into anarchy are our million-plus civil service, including and especially our security forces.

Therein lies the problem : Malaysia, for a lack of a better word is seriously f-ed if we can’t find any leaders of calibre soon.

The opposition which briefly dazzled many -including yours truly- in 2008 as a fresh breath of air turned out to be even worse poison that Barisan ever was. The DAP keeps gnawing away at anything Malay and Islam (and irritating the majority Malays in the process) while Pas is still playing the Blind (and may I add : the Bodoh) and letting the DAP run roughshod all over it all the time.

We need leaders with real calibre to come run the country and when I mean calibre, I don’t mean those syok sendiri “intellectuals” who join fancy named NGO’s or have blogs which write fancy articles on how Malaysia should be.

This doesn’t mean I’m anti-intellectual or against intellectualism, far from it. We need leaders that can relate to the common people, the uncle at the grocery shop, the cikgu at school, the officer we meet at the government department, these kinds of people. Not people who just know how to talk and write things that are far divorced from reality.

And someone better emerge fast, the longer we wait, the f-ed we’re gonna get. And something that keeps running in my mind over and over again : Is the DAP really wishing for that thing to happen again? It seems ridiculous at first but somehow they seem to putting us on a pathway toward it again. I wonder…

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