Kulim Airport - the 'Motive'

MM Online tells us:

Penang Pas secretary Iszuree Ibrahim

Penang PAS secretary Iszuree Ibrahim accused DAP of wanting to turn Penang into Singapore and Hong Kong by moving its poorest out of Penang while prime real-estate now belongs to outsiders.

“Ramasamy [DCM II] said that decisions are made in favour of the Malays while other races are sidelined but in the name of progress, the poor in Penang be it Malay, Chinese or Indian are neglected,” he said.

“Ramasamy needs to stop his racially and emotionally negative connotations and focus on how to develop the northern state for the future generation.”

Iszuree Ibrahim in accusing the DAP of wanting to turn Penang into Singapore and Hong Kong obviously hasn't been aware that there are far poorer people in Hong Kong, and indeed more of them, than in Malaysia - and you know what, they are all Chinese.

OK, maybe in Singapore the Chinese and Indians are doing far better than we same lot in Malaysia but there still are some poor Chinese and Indians there too. I know more than one Singapore Chinese family who are quite poor though not as poor as some Chinese in Malaysia or even worse, many Chinese in Hong Kong.

how the Hong Kong poor Chinese live 

Iszuree seems to me like one of those typical Melayu who imagine every Chinese to be Midas rich, and if they were a bit more suspicious and prejudiced, those "rich" Chinese must have gained their ill-gotten wealth illegally, unlawfully and immorally off the poor backs of naive generous Melayu.

When I first went to KL for my first career job after I left school, I met a nice Malay bloke who was there with me waiting for the dreadful pre-acceptance interview - t'was quite a good job with long term prospects so both of us were more than anxious and apprehensive.

While waiting for our turn, he asked me what I'd do if I didn't get the job. I told him I'd apply for another one and just keep on applying until I succeeded, whilst keeping my temporary jobs of part time teacher, private English-language tutor to Thai students (wakakaka), and various odd jobs (don't ask what types, wakakaka again).

I was an amazingly handsome kid - can you see me in above photo (3rd row)?
wakakaka

He smiled and mocked me in a friendly way, "C'mon lah, Kaytee, your parents will give you a 'daddy scholarship' lah. Hey, maybe we'll meet again in England?"

He was not nasty or being sarcastic, but quite sincere and friendly. But no doubt he assumed that my parents must be rich, probably filthy rich as I was/am a Chinese. That's how many many Melayu believe Chinese to be, not realising there were/still are many poverty-stricken Chinese families in Penang (and no doubt elsewhere too in Malaysia).

Penang jetty & slums 

Yes, probably Iszuree Ibrahim might be one of these Melayu who entertained a fallacious perception of all or at least most Chinese being born rich. Thus he would imagine Chinese-dominated Hong Kong to be a hive of filthy rich Chinese, wakakaka. And which was what he accused the DAP of attempting to do to Penang, to turn the island into another Hong Kong 'paradise'.

Hong Kong 

While some criticised Dr Rama for an overtly 'racial' speech, I support the context of his angry message, that the government (doesn't matter whether BN or PH) wants to marginalise Chinese-dominated Penang, and best of all, in favour of Kedah's Kulim. That Mahathir and Mukhriz are Kedahans is a fact, and also that Mahathir has been known to be notoriously anti Chinese since Day 1.

He was also an anti-Tunku Abdul Rahman person who criticised Malaysia's 1st PM for allegedly pampering Chinese and for giving them citizenship





Malaysiakini - Tunku gave out ICs in broad daylight, Kit Siang tells Dr M

DAP has slammed former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s defence that his predecessor Tunku Abdul Rahman had also given out citizenship to foreigners, as that had been done in broad daylight while the alleged Project IC was covert.

“Tunku never gave out citizenship to subvert the electoral process but to ensure that in the run-up to Merdeka in 1957, non-Malays who resided in Malaya had a right to citizenship, which was agreed to by all including the Conference of Rulers - all done in an open and transparent manner.

“Did Mahathir conduct the Project IC or Project M in an open and transparent process, after getting the mandate from his cabinet, the Conference of Rulers and the Malaysian people, particularly the Sabahans?” asked party supremo Lim Kit Siang

Aiyoyo, George Santayana taught us that "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it", and it seems many Malaysians have NOT, wakakaka

Remember Mahathir had in 2004 asked Kedah to demand more honorarium from Penang, which the Island's government paid annually.

The honorarium started when the East India Company sapu-ed Penang from Kedah. But honorarium means a payment made without the giver recognising themselves as having any liability or legal obligation. In other word, Penang can legally refuse to pay, but it continues to do so as a hallowed historical muhibbah tradition.

The British colonialist administration also sapu-ed a strip of land across the channel as a buffer against attacks and named it Province Wellesley (today Seberang Prai). The annual payment to Sultan of Kedah was increased to 10,000 Spanish dollars per annum after the acquisition. Today, the Penang state government still pays RM 18,800.00 to the Sultan of Kedah annually.

But Mahathir wanted more, even when he was supposedly retired, which of course today we know was sheer bull - he had never ever retired, attempting to remote-control PMs AAB and Najib, wakakaka.

As if that was not enough, Mahathir said that Kedah should also demand from Penang payment for water supplied to the Island. 

He said Singapore had to pay a fee for the water they get from Johor so why not Penang. In 2013 when Mukhriz became MB of Kedah he raised this question again, to wit, for Kedah to charge Penang for raw water supply from Sungai Muda. Later we found out that it was not legal for Kedah to demand money for water from Penang.

But Mahathir has been like that, envying or worse, jealous of Penang doing better than Kedah, and I suspect, principally because Penang has always been administered by Chinese. His life-time grudge against Chinese has been invincible.

Oh, we lost our free port status? And hasn't Mahathir made Kedah's Langkawi a free port?

The architect for the Malaysian Matriculation Process has confessed it was a backdoor avenue for Malays to enter university with just a year's study, and expressed his displeasure that now non-Malays want to join the bandwagon - and recently, wasn't he happy that some 40% doctors or architects or whatever profession are Malays? OK, eff the Chinese but what about the marginalised Indians, Sarawak and Sabahan natives?

So, within the context of Mahathir the PM and son Mukhriz the MB of Kedah, and the senior's dislike for Chinese, especially those in Penang, DCM II Dr Ramasamy was not far off from the truth, the real intentions behind the development of an international airport in Kulim - especially not when Kedah already has Langkawi Intenational airport and Alor Setar airport (at Jitra) which can also be developed into an international airport too, with lesser cost.

And just examine the ridiculous proximity of the Proposed Kulim airport to Penang airport.