Umno's Race Politics For Their Own Survival

Umno has learnt that it can easily get the Malay votes by championing their "rights" and by playing the race and religious cards. Previously it got the non-Malay votes by scaring them with the spectra of May 13 and made used of the leaders of the BN component parties to influence their respective ethnic groups.

But in 2008, thanks mainly to the internet, many Malaysians realised that BN was essentially made up of a bunch of crooks and thieves who were siphoning off their money on a massive scale and sent a clear message through the ballot box. The many scandals (e.g. Altantuya, IPPs, NFC, Scorpenes) and the revelations by the AG indicate that in 2011 the BN thieves and their cronies could have stolen a whopping RM60 billion. Most Malaysian are disgusted and fed up with the BN thieves and these crooks can sense that they might lose the next elections and be brought to justice. Hence they are likely to use every dirty and crooked method they can think of to remain in power.

Bersih 2.0 & Najib

UMNO is desperate. Najib is now resort to the same trick he used in the 1987 Kg Baru rally to scare off the Chinese. Najib was the Umno Youth Chief then who warned the Chinese reporters that he could not guarantee the safety of the Chinese reporters who were at the rally location... Now, he made use of , PERKASA, an UMNO agent to warn the Chinese again. Ibrahim Ali is just a spokesman, the real devil is UMNO who is behind all these, it aims at stirring up racial sentiment.

Whether or not UMNO takes action against Ibrahim Ali, UMNO will eventually be the winner. If UMNO were to take action now against Ibrahim Ali, UMNO will appear to be “intolerable towards racism” (the fact is they take so long to act). If UMNO doesn’t take action now, Ibrahim Ali will continue to stir the racial sentiment as per UMNO’s agenda. This will help UMNO to regain some Malay votes that lost to Pakatan Rakyat during the General Election 12.

My take, UMNO will continue to allow Ibrahim Ali to create trouble until the days when Najib is about to call for General Election 13, Ibrahim Ali will be arrested for whatever reason. This will help UMNO/BN to gain some non-Malays votes. With this, UMNO will be the ultimate winner.

UMNO is Malaysia’s Number 1 public enemy.

Indecent Portfolio Exchange

I’m puzzled and angry with what the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi did to ensure that his position in UMNO is secured. What the hack is the need for Abdullah to exchange portfolio with Najib? Is this in the best interest of the country? If Abdullah really see the need, I’m supportive of the swap. But it seems to me that Abdullah does this just to silence the calls for him to step down earlier. He simply put his personal interest above everything.

Finance Minister is an important portfolio because the minister is managing the country’s wealth. Is Najib really the best candidate for Finance Minister’s post among all the UMNO MPs? What kind of logic to arrange Najib to take up the Finance Minister portfolio just because of Najib is the PM in waiting (or will this ever happened)? Why not just pass down the baton to someone who is more capable?

In the corporate world, the head of a big corporation is hardly double up as the head of Finance or Chief Financial Officer simply because they need someone to dedicate his/her time into the financial aspect. PM’s work load should be very heavy, if the PM is also assumes the finance portfolio, he will be less effective compared to the person doing it full time. Enlighten me, which country’s President/Prime Minister taken up both PM & Finance Minister portfolios?

I can see one big problem in UMNO is, they like to do things the traditional way be it right or wrong (for instance, the party chairman will automatically be the PM). If UMNO can not find a suitable candidate among their own peoples, they can be more open minded by reaching out to other component parties in BN to find the best candidate for the post. It is also hard to believe that, there is no one capable of the job other than those from UMNO. The UMNO leadership should be more open minded in matters that concerning the well being of the country, not to benefit UMNO only.