Remember 1999

In 1999 the Chinese community taught Lim Kit Siang a prodigious, powerful & painful lesson for slutting around with PAS in the ill-fated Barisan Alternatif. Only PAS benefited from that coalition.

On the other side of the coin, Mahathir won the 1999 general election with a magnificent 148 out of 193 seats, after obtaining Chinese support with the help of Suqui, a Chinese group of over 2,000 NGOs. After Mahathir won the 1999 general election he treacherously turned around snarling and bearing his fangs at Suqui, accusing the Chinese group of being alike communists and the Al-Ma'unah terrorist group.

have you heard of Al-Ma'unah?

After that group's arrest, I questioned the Government's action in using the Internal Security Act to detain the 27 Al-Ma’unah members ........ instead of charging them for robbery, kidnapping, firearms and murder ........ [from Wiki]

yes, we also believed the tragedy was stage managed by 'someone'

then we are brothers 

In 2008, Lim KS seemed to have forgotten that lesson and took a chance again with his slutting around with (would you believe, again) PAS, telling the Chinese community they could trust PAS and to vote for the Islamic Party.

Since the Chinese had punished him 10 years earlier they must have decided to forgive him and listen to his deceitful advice on voting for PAS.

As was inevitable, predictable and foreseeable, he once AGAIN broke off with PAS, in just less than 2 terms.

Now he again wants us to put our trust in a known foe of the Chinese community, Mahathir Mohamad, a.k.a as Lau Mah.

Those younger Chinese who haven't lived under the reign of Lau Mah have even hero-worshipped the Old Horse who has sneered at and marginalised their parents and the Chinese community.

Lau Mah has been been a man who threatened Dong Jiao Zong about the UEC, incarcerated many Chinese politicians and educations in Ops Lalang, and betrayed Suqui in the most blatant grotesque treacherous fashion by obtaining their support to win the 1999 election and then, post-election, calling them as akin to communists and Al-Ma'unah.

The Chinese Press remind us: The horrible operation Operasi Lalang had caused the four Chinese educationists namely Lim Fong Seng, Sim Mow Yu, Tuang Pik King and Kua Kia Soong being arrested under the Internal Security Act, especially the 76-year-old Sim Mow Yu who was detained in a dark small cell, where one couldn’t differentiate day and night, for up to 60 days.

Sim Mow Yu 

Subsequently he was brought to the Kamunting Detention Centre and detained for more than seven months. This was how Mahathir treated a veteran of Chinese educationist.

Dr Kua Kia Soong 

In the “Suqiu” memorandum issue in 1999, Mahathir had burnt the bridge after crossing it. In his Merdeka Day speech after the general election, Mahathir had strongly accused the Chinese associations which drawn up the Suqiu memorandum as communists, and also as the Al-Ma'unah (Islamic extremists group).

He also reiterated that Chinese had controlled majority of the wealth in the country.  

Even after retiring, he had always made racist remarks, for instance he had criticized Chinese educationists as the real initiator of apartheid at an event organized by the Perkasa in 2009, just because they had rejected vision school.

He had also talked about the Chinese dilemma, alleged that the Chinese were trying to control the national economy and also aimed at controlling the national political rights. Time and time again, he accused the Chinese community of unwarranted moves, and made other ethnic groups, especially the Malays, hate the Chinese.

At that time, Lim Kit Siang had written article to rebut Mahathir, accusing him of “racism that never repents”, and responded to Mahathir’s “Chinese Dilemma” with “Mahathir Dilemma”.

But recently, it was Lim Kit Siang who defended Mahathir, so how should the people react?

  

We feel very sad; what we want is for Malays to be awakened, even to abandon racial privileges, eliminate racism.

In worshipping Mahathir for the sake of votes, even if Umno is overthrown, but the core idea and political model of Malay supremacy still prevail, it will be revived and put into practice again.

Why should we trust Lim Kit Siang's on-off-on-off-etc political advice? He has been inconsistent in his political alliances and had led us astray where he convinced us to basically waste our votes on PAS in 2008 and 2013.

Why should we believe him again in 2018?

Are we mugs? Does he expect us to believe it's another made-in-heaven political alliance a la Pakatan Rakyat (then with PAS), when the man he has now embraced is the biggest and most consistent anti-Chinese politician?

No, thus we should again teach him the lesson of 1999, never to betray and exploit Chinese loyalty.