ASIA SENTINEL : Reformati kera dapat bunga / Monkey dapat flower reformati

 

 

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• withdrawing corruption charges a signal, if ever one was needed
• that 25-year-old reformasi movement is dead
• Madani has traded integrity for power
• deep and growing public fury
• Malaysia’s increasing slide toward endemic corruption

•  Perikatan Nasional is no reform bloc
• widespread featherbedding, rent-seeking of BN never even started to be rooted out
• MUDA never lived up to the rhetoric of Syed Saddiq 
• Chinese-dominated DAP have gone silent.

• It is a country that is stumbling from scandal to scandal  
• multi-billion dollar defense affair continued into Madani administration 
• distressing counterpoint to reformist rhetoric

• development model no longer enough to help Malaysia 
• growing more slowly than neighbours 
• lower share of employment at high skill levels 
• and higher levels of inequality
• collects less in taxes
• poorly in environmental management 
• and control of corruption
• aspirations of Malaysia’s middle-class not being met 
• economy hasn’t produced enough well-paying, high-quality jobs

• Malaysia has become difficult to govern
• Riddled with political scheming
• hampered by rising fundamentalist fervor
• beset by racial distrust and ethnic suspicions
• an education system in the thrall of Islamization
• civil service that has been deteriorating 

made worse by leader who has abandoned principles
reputation is dissolving 
no systemic reform on governmental or societal structure

• Raja Rozela Raja Toran resigned rather than agree to suspend case
• dropping case “utter waste of public funds”
  
• discharging at a stage where credible case already made out 
• seemingly groundless justifications 
• doubt integrity of nation’s criminal justice system
• evidence that certain individuals wholly immune 
• prima facie case was made 
• prosecution already proved each of the offenses 

• Ibarat kera mendapat bunga – Malay for a monkey with a flower
• betrayed reformist principles to stay at the top

 

My Comments :

There was no reformasi to begin with. It was just selling snake oil. Many Chinese and Indians got fooled by the so called reformasi bullshit. Since 1998.Now you are finding out.

Hello Chinese and Indian folks, let me make a prediction. The next step will be Arabisation on a scale never seen before.  Even Pas is going to be stunned. Just wait and see.

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