Who does Kadir want as the new PM and DPM?

By MT Webmaster Last updated Apr 18, 2016

I mean, you seem to know that Najib cannot do the job so you must know who can. And what will this person do that Najib is not doing to ensure that 100% of Malaysians will be employed? Are we going back to what used to happen in the past when the government employed all Malay graduates to make sure that none are unemployed?

THE CORRIDORS OF POWER

Raja Petra Kamarudin

Now that the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report has been released, the Anti-Najib Campaign (PAC) is launching another round of attacks. This is so that they can control the discussions and debates in the media, both mainstream and online.

Kadir Jasin, the ANC propaganda chief, has given his statement, as reported by Free Malaysia Today (read the news report below). Muhyiddin Yassin, in turn, has given his views regarding 1MDB and why Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak must resign in his long posting called ‘Jika Najib seorang yang bermaruah, dia sepatutnya meletak jawatan sebagai Perdana Menteri’ (READ HERE).

But then, if you were to view the video of the statement by the PAC Deputy Chairman (BELOW), you can see that things are not as cut-and-dry as Kadir and Muhyiddin make it appear to be. So Kadir and Muhyiddin are not really as honest as they are pretending to be.

Kadir said, “Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak and his underlings get really bashed up by readers each time they post something in Facebook or their statements are carried by the alternative media.”

But then of course! This is because Pakatan Harapan and the ANC have a huge team of cyber-troopers (while Barisan Nasional does not). And their job is to flood the Internet, Blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc., with comments. DAP, in fact, has its separate Red Bean Army whose job is to post nasty comments vilifying anyone and everyone who say positive things about the government and/or negative things about the opposition.

The objective of this exercise is to create an impression that the opposition has massive support while the government has almost zero support. And the sheer numbers online who are whacking the government is supposedly proof of this.

But then this has always been the modus operandi of the opposition since back in 1998. They play the numbers game to overwhelm you and create the impression they have the majority support and are winning.

They did this in the Sanggang by-election. They did this in the Indera Kayangan by-election. They did this in every by-election. They had massive crowds at the opposition events while Barisan Nasional could not even attract 100 people at their events. But then, when the votes were counted, Barisan Nasional and not the opposition won the by-election.

So be careful with this numbers game. And I wrote about this back in December 2000, which was carried in the PAS party newspaper, Harakah — ‘Crowds do not translate to votes’.

And worse of all, this psy-war game you are playing — that you are winning because you have the crowd — can backfire when you start believing your own propaganda. Never become the victim of your own propaganda like what the opposition is so fond of doing.

For example, Anwar Ibrahim and the Pakatan Rakyat leaders told Malaysians they are guaranteed of winning the 2013 general election (in spite of me saying that the most they can win is five states and less than 100 Parliament seats). I even told the Chief Editor of Free Malaysia Today this but he said that the sentiments on the ground show the opposite.

Then, when Anwar realised they are not going to win after all (and if I already knew this days before the general election surely Anwar would have known as well), Anwar began to prepare Malaysians for defeat and the reasons as to why Pakatan Rakyat is not going to win.

And this was when Anwar started talking about election fraud and phantom voters from Bangladesh and so on. People really believed this to the extent that DAP Chinese supporters who could not speak Malay properly, let alone sing Negaraku, stopped dark-skinned people on the streets and forced them to sing Negaraku or else get assaulted.

And until today we still have people saying that Barisan Nasional is not the legitimate government and Najib Tun Razak is not the legitimate Prime Minister because they did not win more than 50% of the votes even if they did win 60% of the seats.

Let’s say, hypothetically, in the next general election, Barisan Nasional wins 52% of the votes but somehow in all the ‘wrong’ places, which results in them winning only 49% of the seats. Will Anwar and the Pakatuns agree that since Barisan Nasional won 52% of the votes, and even though they won just 49% of the seats, then Barisan Nasional should continue in office with Najib as the Prime Minister?

I will bet all the tea in China that Pakatan Harapan will say that the coalition that won the most number of seats (which is the opposition) should form the government and not the coalition that won the most number of votes (which is Barisan Nasional).

So you see how dangerous it can become when you start believing your own lies and become a victim of your own propaganda? And this is something that the opposition is always so fond of doing. But when people like me slap them on their face to wake them up from their khayalan and to force them to do a reality check, they get very angry and start calling us names.

Anyway, what are Kadir (BELOW) and Muhyiddin (HERE) trying to say? Why don’t they just come out and say it instead of going round and round but not really landing anywhere.

Are they saying that Najib stole RM42 billion of 1MDB’s money and maybe even more than RM50 billion? Are they saying that RM2.6 billion or probably even in excess of RM4.2 billion of 1MDB’s money was transferred to Najib’s personal bank account?

If that is what you are trying to say then say it? If you think that is what happened then you must have some form of evidence to prove that it did happen. If not you would not believe that this is what happened.

So say it in very clear terms and challenge Najib to take you to court. Then, in court, you can adduce the evidence to prove that you are right and that Najib is a thief who stole billions. And if Najib really did steal billions he would never dare take you to court. So you are quite safe in calling Najib a thief.

Enough of this ‘we lost the last general election because 50,000 Bangladeshis voted’. And then when asked to file election petitions to get those seats where the Bangladeshis voted’ to be declared null, you do not do so.

Then you say that the lights mysteriously went out in this constituency and that constituency when the votes were being counted. But then you cannot tell us which constituencies all that happened. And the one-and-only constituency that you are able to name, the DAP candidate in that constituency denies it and says that never happened.

So now let us have facts and not insinuations, innuendoes, hearsay, unfounded rumours, and spin doctoring. Say it! Najib stole RM42 billion and maybe even more than RM50 billion and at least RM2.6 billion and maybe even RM4.2 billion of that stolen money was transferred to Najib’s personal bank account.

And if you do not dare say this because you cannot prove it, then best you just keep your mouth shut because we have been hearing your moaning, whining and bitching for more than a year and it is getting very tiring. In fact, it is almost as tiring as having to endure those Christian missionaries knocking on my door on Sundays to talk to me about how if I embrace Jesus then I am going to be saved and will be forgiven for all my sins and will get a free pass to heaven.

Kadir is telling us that we should not vilify Mahathir who has done so much for Malaysia. Did Kadir advise Mahathir to also not vilify Tunku Abdul Rahman who had done so much for Malaysia? Why is it okay for Mahathir to vilify ‘Bapa Merdeka’ but we must not do the same?

Do you know, during the Tunku’s time, for every RM5 the government spent, RM1 went to running the country and RM4 went to developing the country? Then, 30 years later, during Mahathir’s time, for every RM5 spent, RM4 went to running the country and RM1 to developing the country. Of course, some will argue that the cost of ‘running the country’ includes debt servicing — so technically that involves also developing the country. But that would just mean Malaysia’s debts had increased drastically 30 years after Tunku’s time.

Tunku’s focus, as was that of his successor Tun Abdul Razak Hussein as well, was rural development and agriculture. Mahathir changed that to heavy industries and the building of monuments that required vast sums of money when he took over. And because he stayed 22 years as Prime Minister he managed to create so much damage to Malaysia’s economy.

Of course, people will say that Mahathir was a great Prime Minister and the proof is in the monuments that he built. Yes, but at what cost? And for how many generations to come are we still going to have to pay for all this?

What is even more troubling is that the government poured money into the urban areas. The rural areas did not get much money or got less money.

Kelantan fought for years to just get what it was promised to develop its water supply. Mahathir, in fact, joked that if you want tea coming out from your taps then go to Kelantan because the colour of the water in Kelantan is just like tea. Mahathir even said PAS cannot run the country since they cannot even run Kelantan properly, which has the highest number of cholera deaths due to its bad water supply.

Terengganu lost its 5% oil royalty, which was transferred to Umno, so that the money could be used to organise boat races, etc., instead of using the RM1 billion a year to develop the state. And Terengganu is almost 100% rural, even the main towns like Kuala Terengganu, Dungun and Kemaman. How do multi-million ringgit boat races help the kampung people?

Kadir laments about the shortage of jobs, in particular for university graduates. And Kadir lays the blame entirely on Najib, as if it his fault. First of all, this is a global problem and not exclusive to Malaysia. Secondly, the problem is more a Malay than a non-Malay problem. Non-Malays are able to find jobs easier in the private sector than Malays are (especially for those who speak Chinese and whose English is good).

Since Mahathir and Anwar changed the English-medium education system to Malay-medium, many Malays can no longer articulate well in English — and for sure they do not speak Chinese. And that is why the private sector is reluctant to employ Malays.

In the past this problem was ‘camouflaged’ because the government employed all these graduates, especially the GLCs at both state and federal level. Today, because of that ‘open-employment’ policy, the government and GLCs suffer from too many employees and this is costing the country a lot of money (now you know why the 1:4 running cost-to-development expenditure ratio has reversed).

Actually, in the past, they created a fallacy that all graduates were able to find employment. The ‘secret’ policy at that time was to absorb the graduates even if you did not need them. The government could not afford a high-level of unemployed Malay graduates because then they would turn anti-government. And once they turn anti-government, and since they are graduates, the kampung people will listen to them.

Anyway, since Kadir knows so much, tell us whom you are proposing as the person who should take over from Najib, and of course from Ahmad Zahid Hamidi as well. Kadir and Muhyiddin have said so much but that is the one thing they refuse to tell us. Who do you want as Malaysia’s new Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister? And is the Prime Minister merely an interim Prime Minister who is there to warm the seat for the Deputy Prime Minister?

Yes, we need facts, not rhetoric. It is easy to condemn when you do not need to come out with any ideas. Everything is wrong. Nothing is right. This man just cannot do the job. Then when we ask who should take over and how is he going to perform better, all they can say is: we kick Najib out first and then discuss all that later.

I think that is the same thing that ISIS is saying.

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Kadir: Counter-productive to continue to rubbish Mahathir

Kadir advises mainstream media they shouldn’t go overboard in tearing into an old man who has contributed a lot to them and the nation.

(Free Malaysia Today) – It’s clear that former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, 91, who has been in retirement for 12 years, has the increasing support of the people despite being hemmed in and condemned by the mainstream media, a veteran newsman noted in his latest blog posting.

“Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak and his underlings get really bashed up by readers each time they post something in Facebook or their statements are carried by the alternative media.”

“It’s little wonder that the mainstream media, the official organs and propaganda pamphlets for the powers-that-be, has been experiencing shrinking sales day by day.”

In this contest of wills, added former New Straits Times Editor-in-Chief Kadir Jasin, those on the take would have to convince the people that Najib is as clean as they come.

“They would have to convince the people that there’s closure on 1MDB.”

“They would have to convince the people that the economy is expanding, hundreds of thousands of jobs are being created, every graduate is assured of a job, all eligible students get loans and scholarships, the national debt is lower than during Mahathir’s time and during his predecessor Abdullah Badawi’s time, that GST is not a burden at all, and consumer prices are stable.”

Kadir was pushing the line that the mainstream media was barking up the wrong tree by condemning the ordinary citizens who signed the Citizens’ Declaration.

“It’s also counter-productive to continue to rubbish Mahathir.”

The veteran newsman hastened to add that he understands the dilemma that his former charges and colleagues found themselves in.

“I know that they are wage-earners. There’s no need for them to convince me.”

“I would advise them to take care of their jobs. Many people are unemployed these days. It’s not easy to get a job.”

Still, advised Kadir, they shouldn’t go overboard in tearing into an old man who has contributed a lot to them and the nation.

“They should keep in mind that at the end of the day, what’s important are the circulation figures, as evident in the bottomline.”

“If circulation figures continue to drop, just because of them blindly supporting Najib, not only are they endangering the sustainability of their respective media, and placing their jobs in jeopardy, they would in fact come to a point — sooner or later — where they would not have a channel to continue defending their man.”

The veteran newsman reminded his former colleagues to dwell on the fact that the mainstream media, despite being giants in their time, were now on their knees.

“It’s no match for the alternative media, especially the online news portals.”

Returning to those “on the take”, he conceded that they would never believe or acknowledge that Najib, their political master, was involved in criminal wrongdoing.

“The evidence is there in the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Report on the 1MDB scandal, and the proof with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), Bank Negara and investigations by international agencies.”

“1MDB, SRC International Sdn Bhd, and the RM2.6 billion ‘Arab’ political ‘donation’ in Najib’s personal accounts, were all about corporate wrongdoing and criminal breach of trust (CBT).”

Those on the take, lamented Kadir, would continue to ignore the evidence and proof stacked against Najib and instead point the finger of blame at Mahathir as if this would solve all their problems.

Raja Petra Kamarudin RPK