MY TAKE ON CURRENT MALAYSIAN POLITICS

[Slavomír Čéplö]

Bahasa Melayu, i.e. Malay.

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On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 5:38 AM,  <interpreterman at aol.com> wrote:
> I may have missed it; what's BM?
>
> Made BM the national language
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Schiffman <hfsclpp at gmail.com>
> To: lp <lgpolicy-list at ccat.sas.upenn.edu>
> Sent: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 9:54 pm
> Subject: MY TAKE ON CURRENT MALAYSIAN POLITICS
>
> MY TAKE ON CURRENT MALAYSIAN POLITICS
>
> I feel it is best to put it into the way I normally sum up my
> engineering stuff, so...here goes:
>
> BN
>
> Pros:
>
> 1. Been in power for 50 years. Know how to run a multi racial country.
> 2. Brought considerable development as compared to many other Asian
> countries.
> 3. Excellent medical policy for the public than very few other nations
> can compare with. (Malaysian pay RM 1 for medical treatment, foreign
> workers pay RM 5. No insurance policy requiments, etc as in most other
> countries)
> 4. Maintaining English as mainstream media since independance (Not
> translated to Thai or Bahasa Indonesia) has made Malaysians marketable
> worldwide and made the world open to Malaysians.
> 5. Made BM the national language that everyone (Indian, Chinese and
> Malay Malaysian) speaks well. (Not the "divide the population by
> language" policy adopted in Singapore) Gave the non-Malays an
> additional capability of speaking at lease 3 languages well.
>
> Cons:
>
> 1. Deciding to use racial based politics. (UMNO, MCA & MIC)
> 2. Deciding to continue with race based politics for 50 years.
> 3. Rampant abuse of power. (You can put all contract
> awards/Tenders/NEP/PETRONAS/ETC all under this.)
> 4. Rampant corruption. (This covers our Police Force and Judiciary)
> 5. Control over the media with limited free speech.
> 6. ISA used as a tool to silence opposition or unfavourable responses.
>
>
> CONS WIN 6 - 5
>
>
> PAKATAN
>
> Pros:
>
> 1. Change from race based politics.
> 2. Promises to eradicate poverty regardless of race.
> 3. Promises to eradicate corruption and abuse of power.
> 4. Promise to re-instill trust and commitment of our Judiciary and Police
> Force.
> 3. Has shown promise in Penang, Perak and Selangor so far.
> 4. Dynamic leaders. (Anuar, Karpal, etc)
> 5. More educated leaders.
> 6. Well planned agendas.
> 7. Seem to have large support base and growing.
>
> Cons:
>
> 1. No proven long term track record. (Mostly promises)
> 2. Dynamics leaders may have hidden agendas.
> 3. Weaker coalition with party members. (Keadilan, PAS and DAP have
> very different ideolody.)
>
> PROS WIN 7 - 3
>
> I GUESS, JUST AS WITH AN ENGINEERING SOLUTION, THE QUANTITY, QUALITY &
> FREQUENCY OF THE ABOVE POINTS WOULD HAVE TO BE CONSIDERED PRIOR TO
> DECIDING BUT I HOPE THE SUMMING UP HELPED THOSE WHO WERE A LITTLE
> CONFUSED WITH THE LOADS OF COMMENTS, VIEWS AND WRITE-UPS THAT WE HAVE
> BEEN BOMBARDED WITH!!
>
> http://nanda666.blogspot.com/2008/08/my-take-on-current-malaysian-politics-i.html
>
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