Pakatan under Mahathir is BN Redux

When you read Commander (rtd) S Thayaparan's piece titled: Promises broken because of weak opposition? Not really, you would realise by then that Pakatan under Mahathir's control is nothing more than BN Redux.

The word 'Redux' is an adjective meaning "brought back; resurgent". What the Commander said is that Pakatan today is just another BN (brought back by ... guess who? wakakaka), and he blames that frightening observation on Pakatan's supporters or "base".

I call those PH supporters (base) the goofy gullible guppies, wakakaka.

some are not only gullible but morons with reading problems, wakakaka 

Commander wrote: Harapan is waffling on its promises because its base does not demand that it keeps them. Often, this base and various political pundits make excuses for why Harapan needs time to fulfil certain promises instead.

This may be true in specific issues – like education reform, for instance – but where repealing certain laws, abandoning certain propaganda organs, or just fulfilling certain promises such as recognising the Unified Examination Certificate (UEC), this excuse of needing more time is complete horse manure.

What Commander said of the excuse by Pakatan of needing more time, for example, to recognise the Unified Examination Certificate (UEC) (as an example) is SHEER BULLSHIT.

Pakatan or its Education Minister has refused (perhaps under "someone's" instructions and control) is because he knows the supporters (Pakatan base) would even make excuses for his refusal, a la Commander's write-up on "Often, this base and various political pundits make excuses for why Harapan needs time to fulfil certain promises instead".

Today in this post I will focus ONLY on one subject, the UNwillingness (horse manure, wakakaka) of the Mahathir-government in recognising the UEC,

As I had earlier written, the Government's anti UEC policy began with Mahathir 43 years ago.

Mahathir as then Education Minister in 1975 hated the UEC so much, that he threatened the Chinese educationists about issuing the UEC.

On this episode of Mahathir's anti-Chinese outburst, Dr Kua Kia Soong enlightened us via an extract of FMT:

Dr Kua Kia Soong

he could live peacefully in Britain if he wishes but chose to remain in Malaysia to fight and struggle for the reform battle

[his wife is British & he was told by British authorities he is eligible to stay in Britain permanently]

At independence in 1957, there were 86 Chinese secondary schools in Malaya.

It was only after the 1961 Education Act that many of these schools were forced to become English-medium (yes, not Malay-medium) at the time. Only 14 Chinese secondary schools remained as “independent” schools.

It was after the “Independent Schools’ Revival Movement” in the 1970s that the number of MICSS (Malaysian Independent Chinese Secondary Schools) climbed to 60.

In 1975, when the MICSS decided to hold its first Unified Examination (UEC), the Chinese education leaders were summoned to Parliament by then Education Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad and were told in no uncertain terms to cancel the examination “or else…!”

He did not ask for any response and dismissed the Chinese educationalists with a curt "That is all."

The Chinese education leaders carried on regardless of the consequences and the UEC has been held every year since. To date,there has never been a leak in any UEC examinations and the curriculum and marking of exam scripts are carried out every year with professional precision.

Finally, Dr Kua gave a flying kick into the face of our so-called Education Ministry by telling us:Malaysians should also know that there are hundreds of non-Chinese students in the MICSS and more than 80,000 non-Chinese students in Chinese-medium primary schools of Malaysia.

This is in sharp contrast to Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) that does not admit ANY “non-Bumiputeras” into this public institution even though “non-Bumiputera” taxpayers have also paid for this institution.

Does UiTM violate national sovereignty? This Bumiputeras-only policy definitely violates the International Convention for the Eradication of Racial Discrimination (ICERD).

A form of the previous White South Africa's apartheid policy and current Israeli 'Jewish State' status.

In March this year (just before GE14), the Malaysian Chinese News published Tun M: Delay in recognising UEC as Umno is afraid of losing Malay votes, extracts of which follows:

On how Pakatan Harapan would support the development of Chinese education in the country, including building Chinese independent schools and recognition of the Unified Chinese educational certificate (UEC), Dr Mahathir replied: “Right. However, Chinese independent schools are set up by the Chinese. They want their Chinese education, mainly education from China.”

What utter bull.

What a humongous lie that Chinese independent schools want their Chinese education to be mainly from China. Wah, Mr Tai Tok-Kok. That has been the perpetual bullshit to suppress the recognition of the UEC.

Despite the Chinese independent schools following as closely as possible the Malaysian educational requirements, Mahathir has singularly been the man who was strongly (and I suspect STILL is but perhaps now silently, wakakaka) against the UEC.

Under him, the previous Malay-dominated government was determined, whatever, whenever, however, to NOT recognise the UEC, which ironically has already long been recognised by 400 foreign tertiary educational institutions throughout the world, including universities in France, Germany and Russia, let alone the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, NZ, Singapore and Chinese speaking nations like China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

It has been 43 years since Mahathir threatened Chinese educationists NOT to issue the UEC, so Commander Thayaparan has been spot on when he wrote it's COMPLETE horse manure why Harapan needs time to recognise the Unified Examination Certificate (UEC), ...

... more so when (as Commander wrote) ... Mahathir Mohamad was an Umno operative, he made unilateral decisions all the time. He got things done with just a stroke of a pen. Of course, during his brief tenure as opposition leader, he disavowed those things which were deemed not kosher and pleaded ignorance.

But hasn't the Old Fox been up to his unilateral dictatorial self again?

But Commander also wrote:

Seriously, even if the MCA said something constructive, the mobs would tear them to pieces.

metamorphosis of gullible guppies into vicious rabid hell-hounds 

Meanwhile, DAP political operatives hardly raise their voices against anything Mahathir says, because to do so would mean that they were somehow in charge.

And God knows, we do not want to spook the Malays. Or, at least, I hope that is the reason, because if they truly supported whatever the prime minister says or does because they think he is right, we are truly screwed.

Someone like Kua Kia Soong questions why Harapan is reneging on its election promises or at least waffling on them, and he is vilified. But every one of his articles is a reminder that the promises made could be carried out if there was a political will to do so; or if there isn’t, if Harapan supporters kicked up a fuss.

Every time the MCA raises an issue, they have their track record about collaborating with Umno thrown back at them. Never mind that the real power brokers in Harapan are not only cut from the same mould as Umno, but as the weeks have dragged on, are demonstrating that they are playing the same games they did when the party was at its nadir.

UMNO ke-3?