Why Mahathir so noisy?? - by Aegan

Past few months I saw Tun Mahathir keep condemning towards Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak development for country and community. Why suddenly Mahathir start to questions after 5 years Najib take charge as number one in our country? Is there any hidden agenda from Mahathir?

Yet Mahathir stubbornly refuses to accept or to admit to his mistakes. This is one man who refuses to face up to reality. He is not really interested in the welfare of Malaysians at all, not even the Malays or UMNO. He only wants to save his face and to make sure that his son Mukhriz will become Prime Minister no matter what deals he has to execute with the current batch of UMNO warlords to affect this.

Ruthless and completely selfish, Mahathir would think nothing of creating chaos just to fulfil that ambition. After all, he could de-register UMNO just to stay in power. Imagine what he won’t dare to do to get Mukhriz in as UMNO president. But it is this incessant interfering and trouble-making in UMNO that will be his tenth and last mistake.

Now let’s talk about Mahathir, the suitable person for crony capitalism. A controversial power plant deal which national utility Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) is now disassociating itself from shows that Mahathir-era crony capitalism still thrives in Malaysia.  

Not only that, Mahathir also choosing the wrong people for the wrong jobs. He also trusted the wrong people. All of the Malays tycoons that he picked had no real business savvy but were merely the trusted aides of former Finance minister Daim Zainuddin. That is why guys like Tajuddin, Halim, Rashid Husein of RHB Bank, Mohd Noor Mutalib and Abdul Rahman Maidin of MRCB fared poorly in the end. Some have even been hauled to court to settle debts.

Mahathir, in his foolishness, made was to pool the major part of the nation’s wealth in the hands of a few. This time he included non-Malays millionaires such as Vincent Tan, Robert Kuok and Ananda Krishnan. Tan has just announced his retirement, Kuok unhappy with the worsening racial system in the country has chosen to stay Hong Kong, while Ananda is wanted by the Indian authorities for allegedly having corruptly wangled a telecoms licence to buy into Aircel.

During his era non-Malays, of course, they have felt the pinch more. Many have been forced to go overseas to work and to study. That’s right, educational and employment opportunities are scarce for the non-Malays in the country. Again, the only group that benefited were the elite in the party, their families and cronies.

Even Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad took responsibility today for Ops Lalang in the year 1987 which security crackdown that saw a number of opposition politicians and government especially Chinese’s, dissenters detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA).

So Mahathir – despite his self-praise – was in fact rather short-sighted. Money was far more important to him than he cared to admit.