It would be an empty victory if BN wins the next general election with a slimmer majority than the last one, because it would not be able to form a strong government, said former Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohammad.
“This is a question of the strong and the weak. When we are strong, people dare not challenge us. They know the majority are our supporters. If they challenge anyway, we’d show them,” he said.
He said a weak government is fearful of losing support, especially in a democracy, and this is why it has given up on using force and draconian laws.
“Take the Internal Security Act for example, what is there to be ashamed of ? When America and Britain were attacked by what they called terrorist, they arrested people and detained them without any laws, which is worst than us,” he said, referring to Guantanamo Bay detainees.
Mahathir said this at a forum in Shah Alam today organised by publishing house Karangkraf.
He was responding to a member of the audience who suggested action on those who ridicules almost every government policy, such as the Automated Enforcement System (AES) speed traps and the ban on the use of the word ‘Allah’ as the translation for ‘God’ in the Malay-language Bible.
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