Two-party/coalition system not good for Sabah, Sarawak
Patently, Pairin is evidence that Putrajaya is treating the people of Sabah and Sarawak as if they are wearing penis sheaths, living in caves and on trees tops, and swinging from tree to tree.
Joe Fernandez
INSIGHT … Sabah and Sarawak are not autonomous in Malaysia as long as Putrajaya is in non-compliance on the constitutional documents on Malaysia.
If Sabah has autonomy as Huguan Siou and Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) President Joseph Pairin Kitingan claims, why is the Chief Minister of this nation in the Federation, for example, appointed by the Prime Minister in Putrajaya?
Pairin no longer makes any sense.
The 12th General Election was supposed to be Pairin’s last election in Keningau.
He was thinking of giving way to the younger Kitingan in politics, Jeffrey, or his son.
Now, he’s saying that the 13th GE will be his last time in Keningau.
Putrajaya forced him to stand again in Keningau to prevent Jeffrey from entering Parliament and raising Sabah and Sarawak issues.
The key issues are the 20/18 Points, Malaysia Agreement, the unconstitutional Petroleum Development Act, the illegal Oil Agreement, Donald Stephens, revenue-sharing, illegal immigrants on the electoral rolls, the lack of security in Sabah, colonialism, and Sabah and Sarawak being the poorest nations in the Federation after 50 years in Malaysia, in stark contrast to Brunei and Singapore.
If Pairin still has any dignity left in him, he should immediately stop this charade of a campaign.
He should be ashamed of continuing to politicise the position of Huguan Siou which is supposed to unite the people, not divide them.
Why is he doing this to the Orang Asal?
Why is he in cahoots with the very people in Putrajaya who are colonising Sabah and Sarawak?
What sins have the Orang Asal committed to get this shoddy treatment from Pairin?
Hudud, for example, is not in the Malaysia Agreement but Pairin just keeps quiet. At least Bernard Dompok, his one-time right hand man, spoke up against the barbaric criminal code.
What is Pairin’s stand, to cite another example, on the Batu Sumpah in Keningau which is one of the constitutional documents on Malaysia?
He just plays deaf, dumb and blind on issues that really matter to Sabah and Sarawak.
Instead, he seems to be very proud of the RM 250 million water treatment plant which the Federal Government will finance in Keningau with a soft loan for the amount.
This is like adding insult to injury. The Federal Government is behaving like an Ah Long in Sabah.
What happened to the nearly RM 50 billion that Putrajaya collected from Sabah alone last year?
The writing is on the wall.
If Pairin can’t win after the votes of the illegal immigrants on the electoral rolls are discounted, his election is null and void.
The Election Court can then hand the seat to the runner-up.
No need for fresh election.
Patently, Pairin is evidence that Putrajaya is treating the people of Sabah and Sarawak as if they are wearing penis sheaths, living in caves and on trees tops, and swinging from tree to tree.
Barisan Nasional (BN) and Pakatan Rakyat (PR) in Borneo are against the concept of the autonomy of Sabah and Sarawak in Malaysia.
BN has been a failure for 50 years in Sabah and Sarawak and is failing in Malaya. PR is trying to emulate the failure of BN in Sabah and Sarawak while trying to capitalise on the ruling coalition failing in Malaya.
Hence, a two-party/coalition system is only good for Malaya.
If people in Borneo don’t realise this today, they will realise it tomorrow.
We need a three-party/coalition system i.e. including a Borneo-based 3rd Force in Parliament to steer evenly between the two-Malaya based national coalitions, BN and PR.
We cannot allow Malayan parties to take Borneo seats in Parliament or in the Sabah and Sarawak state assemblies.
A 3rd Force can support either BN or PR in Parliament to form the Federal Government without itself being part of such a Government.
The 3rd Force should only be in the Federal Government if it can win at least 50 seats in Parliament and can then go on to initiate, form and lead the Federal Government in a temporary coalition with either BN or PR.
In that case, the 3rd Force will hold the Prime Minister’s post despite holding less seats than its partner in Government.
Otherwise, no deal.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
There are no permanent friends, and no permanent enemies in politics, only permanent interests.
It’s important not to get carried away by our own bullshit in politics.
At the local level, the Sabah Progressive party (Sapp) is projecting itself as a Sabah-based local party, and implying that the State Reform Party (Star) is a Sarawak-based party which has been going nowhere for the last 16 years.
Star is a Borneo-based national party unlike the Malaya-based BN and PR who are only after the seats in the two Borneo nations especially in Parliament.
Sapp was in cahoots with Umno from 1994 to compromise the autonomy of Sabah and only left BN in 2008 when it found itself irrelevant in the coalition since the PBS rejoined.
Sapp is trying to re-invent itself in opposition at the expense of the Orang Asal before frogging back to BN. At present, Sapp is an annoying nuisance like a mosquito.
To cover up this hidden frogging agenda, Sapp is claiming late in the day that it will join PR after the 13th GE.
All along, Sapp had claimed that it could not join PR because it was fighting for the autonomy of Sabah to which PR only paid lip service.
Sapp leaders think the people have forgotten 1994 when their party broke away from PBS and stabbed the people in the back on autonomy.
Sapp has committed hara kiri with its statement on PR and is using autonomy as a fig leaf.
Politics is all about restructuring political power and restructuring the allocation of resources.
The best government for Malaysia is one which is either a minority government or one with a simple majority and lives in fear of the people.
No ruling party should be in power for more than two or three terms at a stretch.
Government must be constantly cut down to size. It must be as small as possible.
The bottomline is that all governments are evil and an unnecessary intrusion into people’s lives.
We don’t need governments for development.
The politicians will run up the National Debt Burden to put their hands in the National Cookie Jar to feather their own nests under the guise of bringing development to the people.
The people are the best agents to develop a country.
Joe Fernandez is a graduate mature student of law and an educationist, among others, who loves to write especially Submissions for Clients wishing to Act in Person. He also tutors at local institutions and privately. He subscribes to Dr Stephen Hawking’s “re-discovery” of the ancient Indian theory that “the only predictable property of the universe is chaos”. He feels compelled, as a semi-retired journalist, to put pen to paper — or rather the fingers to the computer keyboard — whenever something doesn’t quite jell with his weltanschauung (worldview) or to give a Hearing to All. He shuttles between points in the Golden Heart of Borneo formed by the Sabah west coast, Labuan, Brunei, northern Sarawak and the watershed region in Borneo where three nations meet. He’s half-way through a semi-autobiographical travelogue, A World with a View.
