Always right, as in Ops Lalang

MM Online - Unapologetic Dr M says would do Ops Lalang all over again:

f**k you lot, I'll never apologise when I'm always right  

Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said he would repeat his actions in the notorious Ops Lalang security crackdown of 1987 under the same circumstances today.

Speaking at a town hall session with youths here tonight alongside DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang, one of those detained using the Internal Security Act (ISA) in the dragnet, Dr Mahathir also insisted that his actions had not been an “abuse of power”. [...]

I can confirm I was happy to be arrested and imprisoned under Ops Lalang - Tun Mahathir was absolutely correct to detained me and the rest of the opposition mongrels

After Ops Lalang, the ISA gained a reputation for being a “white terror”, as the incident demonstrated the ease with which the colonial era security law could be applied on political dissidents.

Tonight, Dr Mahathir was also adamant that the ISA had not been used solely against political dissent.

“They (previous governments) did not abuse their power. Not all of ISA arrests were politically motivated,” he said.

The law was eventually repealed in 2012 by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

Continuing to defend himself on the ISA, Dr Mahathir also insisted that he made fewer arrests using the law than his predecessors.

He pointed out that he detained 1,200 using the ISA over his 22-year administration, versus more than 2,000 by the three prime ministers before him.

Dr Mahathir did not point out, however, the fact that the communist threat only ended in 1989 with the dissolution of the Malayan Communist Party; the ISA had been among laws enacted to combat the menace.

“Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tun Abdul Razak, and Tun Hussein Onn all arrested more people under the ISA, yet I am the one who gets [criticised,]” he said.

The first 3 PMs were combating the threat of armed insurgency which was what the ISA was meant for, and not in the way Mahathir was using it in Ops Lalang.

His DNA is such he will NEVER EVER apologise. As he has said, he will willingly do Ops Lalang again, which presumably means he will willingly do Memali, Forex, Maminco, Perwaja etc again as he is NOT at all apologetic for his sins. He may even jail Anwar again, and waste more money on his Proton, at taxpayers' expense.

If he gets into Putrajaya with Harapan, many have said he can't do much as Pribumi has only about 50 seats (assuming he wins in all his Pribumi seats in GE-14).

What he will do may be to merge his Pribumi with remnants of his UMNO Baru and with at least 112 seats combined in parliament, he may likely f**k Pakatan out if the Harapan people don't like.

After all he is always right.