229. Message for Malaysia

MESSAGE or massage for our leaders and people

It is indeed a great moment to write this message for the Golden anniversary of Malaysia.

Undoubtedly the nation is going through a very hazardous era in recent years with many unexplained

And unproven shootings of people for whatever reasons and now the nation is under the spell of gangsterism so much so that the Police is going all out suddenly to war against the gangsters and secret societies under operation code-named Ops Cantas Khas (Operation against terrorists).

While many were worried in the formative years of the early 1960s about the regional giants namely Indonesia and Philippines so much so that Sabah was pushed into the formation of Malaysia which happened 50 years ago on 16^th of September, 1963, the recent few decades of ironic developments by giving citizenships to 1-2 millions unqualified foreigners including illegal aliens entering Sabah coaxed by the several generations of socalled Sabah leaders and national leaders is actually handing over the sovereignty and integrity of Sabah as well as Malaysia into the hands of these foreigners beyond belief.

So for Sabah, it is neither here nor there as far as sovereignty, security and justice is concerned as the Federal policies are dicing with sort of unjustified apartheid and denied ethnic cleansing.   

With the initiated Royal Commission of Inquiry on Illegal Immigrants Sabah (RCIIIS) and hearings in the High Court at Kota Kinabalu started on 14^th of January, 2013 and soon ending on 20^th of September, 2013, much hope for the TRUTH  was dashed when the ex Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir testified in the Commission’s hearing on 11^th of September, 2013 denied everything about the Project IC and Project Mahathir.  It is indeed a great disappointment for the GOLDEN jubilee normally a year of change for the better.  Hopefully, the ex Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim would put the record straight on the very important matter on 19^th of September, 2013 when he would appear before  the RCIIIS.  The fact that the RCIIIS conducted in the jubilee year is already sort of blessing for corrective measures in Sabah and Malaysia for the first official Federal initiated RCI happening in Sabah.  Let the Jubilee ‘joy’ be ‘ruined’ or ‘burden’ not be made heavier by sort of distorted minds bent on lies and half truths. Let the Project IC and Project Mahathir be shined out into the TRUTH now without any further delay.

Let this message be to all Malaysians in Sabah, Sarawak, Peninsula Malaysia, Labuan and beyond.

Malaysia has a whole host of issues without any solution even after 50 years and such issues are endless with matching endless possibilities.   That is the real challenge for all Malaysians.

For Sabah in particular, the problems can be attributable to national policies bias against Sabah and Sarawak right from the day of 16^th of September, 1963 resulting in lopsidedness in everything you can name.  There are many reasons for this malaise in Sabah, Sarawak and Peninsular Malaysia but one key reason is that all key leaders must be born locally and not naturalized citizens according to the Constitution.  Would all living present and past leaders present their birth certificates and also DNA for public exhibits?  Those dead past leaders should have the birth certificates in the Archive.  Like a rotten fish, the head rots first and such impacts are relevant to Governance.

Economy is another area to be addressed nationwide but what can anyone deal with a scenario of near bankruptcy for various past developments as flows:-

1. We know who have ‘stolen’ so much money in Malaysia and siphoned off in 23 years of rule when I calculate the figure in excess of RM400billions.  This robbery is also continued by the subsequent leaders.
2. The confirmed failure of very costly program of New Economic Policy and the distorted results by several billionaires being proxies for the corrupted leaders hence distorted the racial distribution of wealth.
3. Our economy has been resources based and excessive lopsided exploitation resulted in irreversible re-structuring of the economy in a competitive world when value of our resources had been artificially low.
4. All development plans had been mismanaged with large junks of financial resources diminished by official corruption.
5. With so much official corruption albeit denied, there is really no real business that can generate the desired growth to feed the increasing population including massive aliens in Sabah and beyond.

On the wee hours of the day after polling on 5^th May, 2013 being the General Election 13, Najib asked “what the Chinese want?”  The question was met with a ‘firestorm’ from some quarters.  Why did not he ask “What the Malay want?” when BN/UMNO did not win the majority votes from all races of Malaysia including the Malays has also forsaken BN/UMNO to a certain degree.  Before the dust has really settled in September, 2013 Najib faced with a daunting task to retain UMNO’s leadership decided to ‘reward’ the Malays and the Bumiputra another sort of economic  ‘bailout’ on the eve of the Golden anniversary of Malaysia.  Is this what the Malays and the Bumiputra really want?  Isn’t this another extension of the ‘walking stick’ when the last one since 1970 is so easily forgotten like Dr Mahathir once said “Malays forgets easily”.  Are they getting a Golden walking stick or only some would exploit this new measure again to enrich themselves at the expense of the poor and desperate when we know such well intended effort would not reach the target groups in the remote areas?

The world is going through a very difficult time and Malaysia is no exception.  Is there really any solution to the global malaise? Would ‘humbleness’ alone be an ingredient towards solution soon?  Would we like to define ‘humbleness’ if this effort can bring about some changes especially in the elite factions in Malaysia?  Before any ‘humbleness’ can impact society, the massive ill gotten gains must be returned to the public domain for a rejuvenation and invigoration of the nation and its society.

No matter what, let us celebrate the GOLDEN Jubilee of Malaysia and lets pray for a new beginning in the nation.

Lets break the chain of the past and the people are set free, and really free to move forward for a better tomorrow.

VERY HAPPY MALAYSIA DAY 2013.

Joshua Kong