Happy Merdeka: Are We Malaysian First?

Sslee

Publish date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019, 07:06 PM

Dear all,

In the month of Merdeka, we Malaysians are caught verbally insulting and belittling each other with all sorts of labels thrown about on social media and main media. For more than 60 years, we have been together as a nation and what we have learnt during this period is mistrust, distrust and untrusts.

Deputy Defence Minister Liew Chin Tong has called Koon’s statement “regretful” and “misguided”. DAP senator asserted that the armed forces are not redundant as claimed as it is the first line of defence if Malaysia ever finds itself at war. Ex-servicemen Patriot echoed Liew’s remarks and called Koon’s post regretful and one that is formed by sheer ignorance.

Indeed it is a very unfortunate, regretful, unhelpful and uncalled for statement from Mr. Koon that had the tendency to aggravate the already strained interracial and interfaith ties on the back of several other issues that happen in the past few weeks.

Please do not further add salt into injuries and let cooler heads prevail. If we further inflame the volatile interracial and interfaith relationship, I am afraid our hard earned GE14 victory will be wasted and our hope of an inclusive PH government that will reform and rebuild our country, and set it on a course towards unity, justice and prosperity will be another unfulfilled dream.

Perhaps everyone should listen to Mr. Koon advice to read and reread the book “How to Win Friends and Influence People” by Dale Carnegie. https://klse.i3investor.com/blogs/koonyewyinblog/219044.jsp

I had posted another comment in Tun Mahathir blog

Dear PM Tun Dr. Mahathir,

With a very heavy heart and holding back my tears please allow me to remind right/fair minded Malaysians that we had set aside our differences, our past distrust and come together, united irrespective of ethnicity, religion and region in GE14 to vote out the corrupted Najib lead BN’s decadent, kleptocratic government. We voted for change and expecting an inclusive PH government that will reform and rebuild our country, and set it on a course towards unity, justice and prosperity.

Tun’s “Shared Prosperity 2030” is the road map toward such inclusiveness.

https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2019/05/10/dr-mahathir-announces-new-economic-model-for-malaysia-to-achieve-shared-prosperity-by-2030/

Moving forward, Dr Mahathir says the government has adopted the approach where “the nation’s development today provides shared prosperity to the rakyat”. This translated to stronger purchasing power for the people and narrowing the income and wealth gap and the extreme disparity in supply chain not just between classes, races, and territories, but within those categories as well.

Dr Mahathir said, “In its simple definition, the efforts towards shared prosperity will allow Malaysia to be a nation that grows continually and sustainably concurrent with fair and inclusive equitable growth across the value chain, classes, ethnicity and geography until it results in stability and harmony among the people by 2030.”

The 93-year old interim Premier then outlined the three main objectives of the shared prosperity model:

Overcoming the wage and wealth gap
Creating a progressive economy that hinges on knowledge and value with participation from all Malaysians
Turn Malaysia into a leading economy in Asia

To establish this, Dr Mahathir outline seven key pillars of the approach. These are:

better structuring of and improving the nation’s business and industry ecosystems such as via adoption of Industrial Revolution 4.0
application of digital economy, and adding more high-skilled jobs
exploring new growth sectors, and turning Malaysia from a consumer nation to one that produced more international standard products
reforming human capital, to improve labour market and wages
strengthening social well-being through needs-based policies
inclusive territorial development
improving society capital, combined with strong social support mechanisms.

To achieve these goals, Dr Mahathir also noted the need for a progressive fiscal policy, an administration with high integrity, an effective government institution delivery, better education, monetary stability, a comprehensive Big Data mechanism, as well as a civil and knowledgeable community.

Separately, Dr Mahathir also used this opportunity to issue a reminder to the four parties that form the ruling coalition that unity is key. He said that failure to set aside their differences would result in Malaysia become a “failed state”.

He warned, “These four parties came together to help topple the previous Barisan Nasional administration under Datuk Seri Najib Razak. But if we cannot put aside our differences, things will get worse.”

Yes things are getting worse because the past ghost is catching up with us and very sadly politicians are more interest in consolidating their power base than serving the people. It seems no one in Tun’s cabinet ministers, administration, PH politicians neither are interest nor understand what, why, where, when and how to implement Tun’s vision of “Shared Prosperity 2030”.

The politics of old ugly past decades of indoctrination of race and religion, born out of political expediency, convenience and mired in political one-upmanship which had produced a nation which is unsure of itself and people who are fractious, angry, suspicious and at odd with each other are now rearing its ugly head again. Gutter politics, politics of race and religion, politics of confusion, detraction, anger, hatred, racism are now the order of day with even Tun is caught with anger, ugly name calling and adding more political confusion/instability rather than rise above the noise, detraction, hatred and being a respected statesman to provide political clarity, direction and stability.

Are we “Malaysian First” when conditions required us to come together for our common cause or facing our common enemy. And we then relegated our “Malaysian First” to the back seat and unapologetically proclaim our self as fearless/noble defender of our race and religion when dealing with the hard question of race and religion and for one political expediency and political one-upmanship.

Are we Malaysians able to rise above our race and religion and truly call ourselves Malaysian?
Are we Malaysians can truly embrace and celebrate our diversity where different ethnicity, religions and cultures live in peace and harmony with mutual understanding, respect and acceptance?
Are we Malaysians able to harvest the best of every race/ethnicity to build a truly progressive and just society where the prosperity of the nation can be enjoyed together in a fair and equitable manner?
Are we Malaysians able to ensure that our children and grandchildren will live in a nation where they will be judged by the content of their character and not by the colour of their skin or religion?
Are we Malaysians able to rise up and live up the true meaning as proclaim by our Nation Founder Father Tunku Abdul Rahman at Independent day and Malaysia day: “forever a sovereign democratic and independent State founded upon the principles of liberty and justice and ever seeking the welfare and happiness of its people / ever seeking to defend and uphold peace and harmony among its people.”?
Are we Malaysians able to rise from the dark and desolate valley of racial divide, oppression and injustice to the sunlit path of racial unity, liberty and justice?
Are we Malaysians able to lift our nation from the quicksand of race and religion divide to the solid rock of brotherhood?

To PH Cabinets Ministers please listen to veteran newsman A Kadir Jasin advice: https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2019/08/01/enough-succession-talk-kadir-says-in-veiled-dig-at-azmin/

“Mahathir has said repeatedly that a Cabinet reshuffle is not on the cards and that he will keep his promise of transferring power to Anwar,” he said.

He added however that ministers should not “feel assured and continue with their moribund ways”.

“Maybe this is the prime minister’s way of saying, you chaps better shape up or ship out when I am no longer around to defend you.

To Education Minister Dr Maszlee Malik

https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2019/08/10/we-failed-because-education-ministry-didnt-get-priorities-right-says-daim/

Malaysia has failed because the government, through the education ministry, has not gotten its priorities right in focusing its efforts on the fourth Industrial Revolution (IR 4.0), says Daim Zainuddin, Putrajaya’s chief adviser

Dear PM Tun Dr Mahathir,

Many people has lost their confidence on your Cabinet Ministers and not helping is your many U turn and confusion policy: https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2019/08/13/wasnt-me-who-approved-company-for-3rd-national-car-project-says-dr-m/

To achieve Tun’s vision “Shared Prosperity 2030” a mindset change is needed for Malaysian to rise above race and religion and come together as one nation, one heart, one mission and one Malaysian to be an enabler in achieving the goal of having a progressive fiscal policy, an administration with high integrity, an effective government institution delivery, better education, monetary stability, a comprehensive Big Data mechanism, as well as a civil and knowledgeable community.

Thank you

Yours truly,

SS LEE

PS: No one can advice Tun what to do next but perhaps Tun should talk to Tun daughter Datin Paduka Marina Mahathir as of what is best for Malaysian.

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