IS UMNO REALLY A MALAY PARTY: Najib vs Dr M turns into Bugis vs Keralite battle for Malaysia

Forget about 1Malaysia la. It is no more even a ‘Ketuanan Melayu’ or a ‘Chinese Tsunami’ or a 'Hindraf' battle any more. For our prime minister now has “invoked” his Bugis heritage in his rebuttal against the many issues raised publicly by his own mentor, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

Speaking at the unveiling of the annual reports for the Government Transformation Programme (GTP) and Economic Transformation Programme (ETP), aired on government television, it is reported that Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak the current prime minister of Malaysia warned that he and his men (and women included) are not turning back in this battle against the former premier who is also echoing what 52% of the voting population are asking too.

By harping on his Bugis heritage, we now learn that the PM and his entourage are battling against a Keralite. So who will eventually win and reign supreme to lord over the Malays, Chinese, Indians and others who have been sold the label of ‘1Malaysians’.

And if the Bugis win the battle, all non-Bugis will have a “million new pathways” – so promised Najib.

By the way, the PM in his address also urged the audience to "think maturely" and not be overcome with emotion when judging the government and its "noble efforts".

So dump all your emotions. Just “think” only. So we need to be re-wired to think robotic in our ways – devoid of any feelings.

Dr M

But wait a minute. Were the Bugis not behaving emotionally with that believe that, "Even if a tidal wave hits, breaking the rudder and tearing the sail, and even if a thousand vessels are swallowed by the ocean, it is more honorable to stay and fight than to turn back home," as claimed by Najib?

Please, please, please. Let us have some more sense and sensibilities around can we!

Who cares about promises after promises anymore really? We have “endless possibilities”; “1Malaysia”; and now “a million new pathways”.

In any case, BN coalition – UMNO, MIC and MCA as well as the PR coalition – Dap, PKR and PAS, are they all also not like ‘Greek philosophers, Muslim scholar Imam Ghazali, Mahatma Gandhi, John F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King’ fighting ‘for the right cause’ and facing ‘a variety of challenges’?

However the citizens’ fight is not one of wanting to have a “more developed Malaysia that is revered by the entire world”. Such a dream is called bullshit. There is no one nation in the entire planet that is “revered by the entire world”.

All that Malaysians want from the Bugis or Keralites is to let the Malaysians to have their own country back and to live peacefully, respectfully accepting each other’s strengths to help build this land we call Malaysia.

All that Malaysians want is to lift the oppressive regimes that place a yoke on their livelihoods and civil liberties and democratic rights to co-existence.

All that Malaysians are asking right now is:

What truly happened to the Altantuya Shariibuu; what is happening to the RM42billion of 1MDB; why the extravagant lifestyles of some personalities; why the race and religious drum beats; who are the corrupt and politically biased institutions – they want answers to these because Malaysians do not want to see their country ruined by Bugis and Keralites or any 'outsider' anymore.

Malaysians are revisiting the fundamentals as preached, strived for and anchored in by their Bapa Merdeka. Period.

Perhaps it is about right for all Malaysians to stop and think with feelings now more than ever before. What former Law Minister Zaid spoke about very recently hovering on the indifference of Malaysians must be taken very seriously.

Otherwise we must continue to be lorded over by Bugis and Keralites and what have you. MAILBAG