Without getting into race, religion and language, we need to emphasize human rights and international law. True, many Malays may be as marginalized as others, Indians for example. But thats not the crux of the matter. The issue is right and wrong. We cannot continue to tolerate a situation where we have lost our sovereignty to a handful of crooks in Putrajaya, in particular the Umno Supreme Council. This brings us to the question of legitimacy. The Government in Putrajaya lacks legitimacy for a number of reasons. The main reason is that it has become virtually impossible to change the Federal Government through elections. It has been estimated that with as little as 18.9 per cent of the votes cast, BN can still secure 112 seats in Parliament to form the Federal Government. At the moment, they have 134 seats including Teluk Intan, with 47 per cent of the popular votes cast last May. What this means is that we are a long way off from changing the Government. No change of Government means no change in Government policies which affect the Indians and others. Its pointless bringing in the Tamil Tigers and other unrelated subjects when Hindraf Makkal Sakthi enters the debate with its emphasis on human rights issues. . It’s irrelevant and immaterial. That’s getting into the politics of distraction and disruption to cloud the issues. The UN should come in, sooner or later, to supervise the setting up of an Interim Government pending free and fair election, help clean up the electoral rolls, and ensure free and fair elections. There should be a list of people banned from taking part in elections for violating the Constitution. The Judiciary should be made more representative of the demography of the nation. The Malay-packed Judiciary’s efforts to rewrite the Constitution through creeping desecularisation and creeping Islamisation should be reversed. Also, we need to determine the basis for Sabah and Sarawak to be in Federation with the peninsula. At the moment, there’s no basis. The Government in Putrajaya has been in non-compliance on the Malaysia Agreement almost since 16 Sept 1963. Then, there’s the added matter that there was no Referendum in 1963 and instead Sabah and Sarawak were dragged by the British and Malayan Governments into Federation with the peninsula to facilitate the merger of Chinese-majority Singapore and ostensibly Malay but multiracial Malaya. Singapore was kicked out of the Federation two years later in 1963 just because MCA feared the PAP. Sabah and Sarawak were not allowed to leave. That’s like adding further insult to double injuries. A so-called Review of MA63, supposed to take place in 1973, never materialized. The Federation has degenerated into a unitary state. Again, we come back to the issues of legitimacy and sovereignty. The sovereignty of Sabah and Sarawak, as in peninsula, rests with the people. After 50-odd years, it cannot be business as usual in the Federation of 1963.
Posted on: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 02:35:21 +0000
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