Malaysia: 62 years of corruption and still going strong
So Saifuddin is talking nonsense. First of all, kleptocracy has been around since the time of the First Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, and since the time of Merdeka in 1957. Secondly, corruption did not end in May 2018 when Pakatan Harapan took over the federal government. And if Saifuddin thinks otherwise he is a far bigger idiot than he looks.
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Raja Petra Kamarudin
Malaysia’s foreign minister Saifuddin Abdullah says the world no longer recognises Malaysia as a kleptocracy (READ THE NEWS ITEM BELOW).
What? Just 11 months after Pakatan Harapan takes over the federal government and Malaysia has now successfully eradicated the 62-year disease of rampant and blatant corruption (today called ‘kleptocracy’)?
Hello! Brader! As long as we have capitalists in this world, that is as long as Malaysia will remain corrupt. You need to get rid of greed to eradicate corruption.
Super-rich people are greedy (that’s how they became super-rich). They are never satisfied. They always want more. And when they want more they will resort to any means, fair or foul, to acquire wealth.
Saifuddin Abdullah is suggesting Mahathirism is not kleptocracy
Look at Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad as one example. At his age, and with the billions his family has, right down to his cucu, what more does he need? Actually, this is not about what he needs, this is about what he wants. And people are driven by their wants, not by their needs.
Basically, you are driven by your lust. Your lust for power. Your lust for position. Your lust for wealth. Your lust for popularity. Your lust for recognition. Your lust for pleasure. And more.
People like Tun Daim Zainuddin, Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary, Robert Kuok, Vincent Tan, Francis Yeoh, Ananda Krishnan, Quek Leng Chan, Teh Hong Piow, Lee Shin Cheng, Chen Lip Keong, Lim Kok Thay, Lau Cho Kun, Jeffrey Cheah, Koon Poh Keong, Lim Wee Chai, and the other top 100 richest Malaysians are greedy people. They have billions but that is not enough. If they can they want trillions. So, they bribe their way (or use ‘cables’) to get richer.
Has Saifuddin forgotten this kedai roti man from Bandar Malaysia?
Okay, we call it ambition. But another word for ambition is greed. Both ambition and greed are about wanting. And wants are not needs. Wants are lust.
And do you notice that the list of the top 100 richest Malaysians is mostly Chinese? That is why the Chinese look down on the Malays and think they are better than the Malays — because the list of 100 richest Malaysians is mostly Chinese.
Of course, there are Malays as well. Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. Tun Daim Zainuddin. Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary. These are the Malays on the list of 100 richest Malaysians. But ALL the Malays on this list became rich through politics.
Yang ini, proxy Mahathir, bukan kleptocrat ke?
Yes, that’s right, they joined Umno and through Umno became rich. But this is NOT about Umno. Umno just happened to be in power. If PAS instead of Umno had won the 1955 and 1959 elections, then they would have all joined PAS instead of Umno — Anwar Ibrahim included in 1982.
So Saifuddin is talking nonsense. First of all, kleptocracy has been around since the time of the First Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, and since the time of Merdeka in 1957. Secondly, corruption did not end in May 2018 when Pakatan Harapan took over the federal government. And if Saifuddin thinks otherwise he is a far bigger idiot than he looks.
Brader, political corruption, not prostitution, is the oldest professional in the world. Ask the Christians. They will tell you the Jews killed Christ because Jesus wanted to eradicate political corruption and the Jews got the Romans to kill him instead. At least that is what the Christians say.
Anyway, corruption has been around in the country since the time of the British more than 200 years ago, long before Umno was born. Yap Ah Loy used to “grease the palms” of the British to get licences to set up opium dens and brothels along Jalan Ampang in Kuala Lumpur. So the Chinese have been bribing the British long before they bribed the Malays. But a person like Saifuddin would not know this.
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One year on, Saifuddin says the world knows Malaysia no longer a kleptocracy
(MMO) – Pakatan Harapan (PH) has successfully changed international perception of Malaysia that was seen as a “kleptocracy” under Barisan Nasional (BN), Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah said.
“Can you imagine the new foreign minister going to international forums representing Malaysia that used to be synonymous with kleptocracy?
“But the international community understands what is New Malaysia,” the foreign minister told a media interview in conjunction with PH’s first anniversary of its first term in office.
Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak is currently facing a corruption trial related to a former subsidiary of state investment firm 1MDB that was embroiled in a global financial scandal under his administration.
Saifuddin also listed Malaysia’s warming ties with China and Singapore as among his ministry’s achievements.
He declined to rate his performance over the past one year on a scale of one to 10.
“I think we did fairly well. It’s not fair if I were to self-evaluate. Six or seven is very low, but I don’t want to give a number.”
The PH government managed to reduce the cost of the China-backed East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) project from RM65.5 billion under the previous BN administration to RM44 billion.
Malaysia’s relations with Singapore, however, have grown trickier during Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s administration, as both countries wrangle over water and territorial boundaries.
