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State Reform Party, Sarawak (STAR) chairman Dr Patau Rubis
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Zaid blames UMNO for the nature of the Malay race to-day. I totally disagree... I have known many good UMNO leaders who are more than willingly to die for a better Malaysia. They were all prepared to sacrifice for a better world for the others...
But it is the system which brings everyone down from Tunku AR to Tun Razak, Tun Hussien Onn, Pak Lah and next Najib...I personally to TUN MAHATHIR after I saw him cried on TV on handing over power to young people and Pak Lah.. I told him not to be so saddened for it is the system that was bringing him down as it has done to Tunku and the others even after he steps down..
I know Mahathir and his wife even before I enter the political arena in 1982.... I know he is concerned about the backwardness of the Malays...it is in his book too called the Malay Dilemma...only in trying to help he left a situation where now Najib is facing the Malay NIGHTMARE... the split in the Malay community because as Malay voters are getting more and more demanding on a better governance etc...but will PR a better alternative...NOT until they can become more INCLUSIVE including accepting that KITA and Zaid has some contribution to make...
It is the system based on KETUANAN MELAYU... it makes our Government incompetent but expensive to run because many rich Malaysia expected others to work and them to enjoy the beautiful cars, houses, mistresses as well as wives...it is absurd to know that initially UMNO leaders manned their own office as office boy and secretary combined as Tun Gaffar Baba was.... but now mistresses maybe???? Before the usual talk during UMNO conventions was about mundane things as how they get to the Convention center... next the talks were what they are now driving but now amongst men their new wives or mistresses or even focus who drinks... this is how UMNO is being degraded by the system which must appreciates the person status by the newness of their cars, wives or mistresses.... as the coffee shop talk about me as pitiful because i still drive my 1995 Mercedes.... How many UMNO leaders and followers could have refused Datoship or Tan Sri like i did , i would.. not knowing that these are expensive to keep as well as buttressing the concept of KETUANAN MELAYU and drive an old Mercedes like me....they may not win even the Divisional Head post.... as UMNO members may just sneer at him....!
Please think about it because I had the experience of being told by my colleagues in the Ministry of Health long before i enter the political arena that even Hospital attendants appointed on the request of UMNO politicians often did not worked as expected because they deemed themselves to be the BOSS, not the Medical Officer or others in charge.... this knowledge that office boys, hospital attendants, drivers, etc are the masters as long as they have positions in UMNO or know the UMNO leaders... worse i was told if they are friends of the Sultan, or Sultan family....It is the Ketuanan Melayu which ties every PM, their hands... TAR Tun Mahathir etc are victims of their success because they did not see the need for a more civilized society based on meritocracy....
