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Monday, July 14, 2014

Some thoughts on Negara-Ku – OMG!



We can start by recognising the system is broken. The 1957 majority recommendations of the Reid Commission were not followed.
For their own reasons, the British assented to a dissenting opinion by the Pakistani judge justice Halim Abdul Hamid to be adopted together with the recommendations of the Alliance Party, despite objections at the Legislative Assembly by one K. Devaser, a lawyer and president of MIC.
The British and Alliance completely ignored the “considered opinion” of their royal highnesses at that time (see #2 below).
Thereafter, the National Operations Council and Emergency Rule for two years set the stage for a revised Malaysia, possibly the architects of the riots had a hand.
Then, we have undergone 45 years of departures from the 1957 Constitution, only mitigated by the last six years when the people (Malays, Chinese, Indians, Sabah and Sarawak folk) voted out the two-thirds majority of the regime.
Negara-Ku seeks to stop the rot and return to first principles. A welcome platform, currently non-political, that will appeal to Middle Malaysia of all races and religions.
First, like any heavy vehicle rolling out of control towards the precipice, we have to stop the strong forward momentum of the racist and religious ascendency brigade.
Having brought it to a complete stop, then we have to revert back to where we began leaving the highway going towards a modern 21st century egalitarian Malaysia with a GDP 5.5 times that of Singapore, in proportion to our population sizes and given our similar people, history, starting point and our huge oil and gas surpluses (2013 contribution: RM63.2 billion or 30.3% of GDP).
Sadly, our 2013 GDP is only 1.05 times that of Singapore’s.
The other 4.45 X GDP has been lost to mediocrity, marginalising the Chinese and Indians, expensive white elephant projects, creative uplifting of government procurement projects, crony projects, 40+ ministers in the world’s largest Cabinet, leakage.
Here are some suggestions:
1. Take a different line from Putrajaya by having all communication in four languages, Malay, English, Mandarin and Tamil so that all four races, like in 1957, are given equal respect. This still remains the case in Singapore. Also this will increase the reach of your messages.
2. Educate the masses. Refer back to 1957 Reid Constitution. If possible, restate their royal highnesses’ counsel’s 1957 statement to the commission that their considered view was that “it would not be desirable and they were not in favour of inserting some declaration such as has been suggested that the Muslim faith or the Islamic faith be the established religion of the Federation”; I believe very, very few people are aware of this historical fact – make them aware.
3. Educate the public on the 1957 Constitution weightage for rural constituencies and what happened to it. Also the commission's recommendation to review certain articles in 1972 (never done).
4. The Sabah and Sarawak Agreements review after 10 years in 1973 (never done).
Publicise the recent speaker's decision not to allow debate and the reasons given.
5. List the 50+ amendments involving more than 600 changes (Prof Shad Faruqi) chronologically, the intention, bias and recommended actions to amend/retain/review.
This will be a good starting point for Negara-Ku.
6. On day-to-day basis, track racist and religious supremacist statements put out by certain organisations and put them up on bulletin board with authoritative critiques. This was done in the US presidential campaigns by some groups, analysing and critiquing content published by different parties and supporters. Open an Intense Debate discussion forum like TMI does, to let citizens comment. You will need moderators. They will be available on a voluntary basis.
7. Like the bulletin of atomic scientists, show a clock face on your masthead, to give an immediate assessment on the state of race relations in the country. “Midnight” depicts open racial conflict, "5 minutes to midnight" means we are close to it, “noon" means we are on an even keel.
Negara-Ku is an excellent non-political start that:
1. harnesses the support of Middle Malaysia;
2. performs an effective check to the overtly racist and religious-supremacist platforms that seem to be funded by a weak leadership; and,
3. keeps both BN and PR on their toes.
Ultimately, Negara-Ku may even become a political party that performs a balance between the competing alliances of PR and BN, a role played by the Liberals in the UK.
Please get your website up and running and inform the public how to register as members.
* OMG! reads The Malaysian Insider.

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