EMAIL DR TOKOH YG MEMBUATKAN AKU TERKESIMA.. Dear Aenid, Your name is uncommon and sounds mythlogically mysterious. Yet you are military blogger and interested in history as it was. Just like me. The subject fascinated and captivated me since childhood. It in the end it made me what I am today, only as I could be, a man of singular nation irrespective of race, religion or creed, with a dedicated national and social conscience. That is why I did not and could not join any political party. My priority is not party but nation and the needy ordinary people, not absolute or too dominant elitist or racist society. My hopes, in the face of racial and religious polarization and their progression, are alive again as I see myself in an increasing number of you and others in our younger generations which is where “Nation Malaysia”and its future really is, not in the bigots of race and religion on one hand and the extreme communal chauvinism on another, but holistically in the tenets and spirit of the Constitution that founded our very diversified and contentious multiracial nation in 1957 with independence. Our constitution was written n the only way it could have been written. It was so fair to all communities that it could never satisfy all the aspirations of ay singular community. It certainly never intended to satisfy the radicals of any community. That is why it is so fair. That is why some Malays feel they had given up too much; some Chinese feel they did not get enough and some Indians feel they got very little. Our Constitution is somewhere between the contents of the relatively more extreme 1946 Malayan Union and the 1948 Federation of Malaya Agreement. That was why when I joined the police to fight the communist terrorists I had no citizenship yet. I received mine only after I had been shot twice. Citizenship by right of birth was only after independence in 1957. It is people like you who now have to carry the torch consolidating what can be done in the meantime until positive education and national history as it really was, enlightens more so that intuitive and balanced liberalism without undue prejudice to the core values of our various diversified people can integrate our people more truly as Malaysians and we can call ourselves not only in talk but also in written official record as Malaysians. The book, Nation Before Self, was never properly edited and printed. If it had been done, it might not have been successfully published for a number of reasons. I suggest you go on Googles, type my name for more info on me. If you are interested to know more, we could meet sometime, somewhere in KL or Taiping at mutual convenience. Regards. Yuen Yuet Leng
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 14:39:26 +0000
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