Mahathirism

Mahathirism - an action, attitude or culture which bears the ultra and arrogant mindset of Malaysia's 4th Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamed. Tun, Dr.M, Ma yee sang, Dictator, Autocrat, ultra-Malay.

As a young Malay (only by the definition of Malaysia's constitution, otherwise he's quite a mix of different races), he was an ultra, fighting for the Malay agenda. After the May 13th incident, Dr. M wrote a personal letter to then PM Tunku Abdul Rahman calling for him to be personally responsible and to resign. Seeing the danger that these ultras posed to UMNO and the Malay + Malaysian agenda, there was a need to act, so the Tunku expelled him and the other ultras from UMNO. Dr. M then authored the Malay Dilemma underlining his argument for special rights to the Malays.

Fast forward a few years, Dr. M became UMNO President and Malaysia's 4th PM. Widely regarded as the Bapa Perindustrian Malaysia, he brought radical changes to industrialised the Malaysian economy. Proton, Petronas Twin Towers, Multimedia Super Corridor etc etc. Many Malaysians 'look up' to our Bapa Perindustrian. Some say that 'Well yes he was corrupted, but at least he brought progress and modernization to the country'.

Huh? Couldn't Malaysia progress and modernize all the same without Mahathir or Mahathirism? I don't see Australia or Hong Kong lagging behind..they don't have any dictators or autocratic Prime Ministers. Worse, Malaysia's so called progress is built on weak foundations. Malaysia's skyscrapers, grande federal administrative territory, modern airport are the first part of the phrase 'First World Infrastructure, Third World Mentality'. This is bound to crash just as what we see in Indonesia during the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis.

As of this moment, Dr. M is vigourously trying to bring down his successor PM AAB. Some of his accusations toward our PM now are true to what voters feel especially his inability to rein in on the Little Napoleons and his arrogant SIL. But a lot of Tun's arguments and accusations don't quite make sense because it was all the left over products of what we call Mahathirism. Take Rafidah Aziz and Samy Vellu for example. Weren't they his bootlickers once? And the use of the ISA on Hindraf..didn't Mahathir use the ISA to silence opposition too? What about the accusation that AAB is allowing cronyism and corruption? WTH this mad Doctor's name was SYNONYMOUS with Corruption and Cronyism.

In fact, we should be respecting AAB for daring to lose and working towards a healthier democracy with more opposition. Had it been Dr. M, it would surely have been Ops Lalang II. Hooligans will be let loose on the streets. A state of Emergency would be declared. And all states including Opposition led ones would have been controlled by KL directly under the PM.

BN is shitting in their pants thinking about the Kataks from their camp who may jump anytime to BR. Let's hope the BN MPs don't forget what Mahathir did in Sabah in the 80s. Money was pumped in, incentives were given, federal funds withheld, everything was done to ensure Sabah does not fall into opposition hands again. Retribution huh? Too bad the retribution isn't going to hit the culprit if it does happen.

Now he's saying it's not his fault that Tun Salleh Abbas got removed as Chief Judge. Who else would gain from the removal of the Tun Judge if not for the Tun Ultra who was trying to do consolidate power unethically?

Mahathir is also the main culprit in the Lingam case. Quite obvious huh? Notice anything missing from his list of criticism of AAB as to why BN didn't win as much? That's right..Lingam! Any election analysts would point to the high-profile case as one of factors for low public confidence in Abdullah's anti-corruption drive. But not our Tun Dr. M, because he 'cannot recall, cannot remember' why the judiciary is rotting.

Anyway, Mahathir is a thing of the past now although Mahathirism still lingers on. Of course he comes up and say things once in a while but he did help the opposition win bigger this time so we should thank him too. Hopefully, with Tun's help as the Opposition within UMNO, PM AAB will be pressured to work harder on his Election 2004 promises. That is if he even survives the UMNO elections and/or the rumoured katak migration.

To Dr Mahathir: Behold the fruits of your doing!