On the contrary, the Bumiputra
Policy actually consolidated Dr M's autocratic grip over UMNO Malay
with a culture that is heavily based on ''politics of patronage''.
Unfortunately, his Malay community turned on him when he publicly
chastised and humiliated them - at an annual UMNO Congress - for
the lack of economic and social progress within the community,
inspite of the arbitrary Bumi Program, and for the lamentable state
of affairs of the Malays continued lack of motivation to excel over
the other Malaysian ethnic groups {races}.
The sacking of popular Anwar Ibrahim cemented the opinion of Dr M
being a autocrat, one who wields extensive political powers and
prepared to exercise the power to the fullest.
This divisive issue was one in a series that came after the
disastrous gamble in which Dr M lost, when the Supreme Court ruled
against him to dissolve UMNO as a legal entity after an internal
division between Dr M being challenged by Tunku Razaleigh.
Subsequent to these events, the Lord President of the Malaysian
Judiciary was removed from office, together with the Chief Justice
of Sabah and Sarawak, and several other Supreme Court Justices on
the side of the Lord President.
Dr M's politics of promoting his own ethnic community - at the
expense of the other communities - has resulted in louder demands
from within his own community, while the Chinese community remain
self-sufficient from their historical and traditional past in
commerce, the Indian community had remained largely as laborers
working in plantations.
It is regrettable that the political leadership from the Malaysian
Indian ethnic group - headed by Samy Vellu - indulges more in his
own political and social standing and that of his cronies, then
that of his own community.
At the age of 70 plus, he clings on to his position with no
successor planned to provide political leadership, nor any long
term vision for his Malaysian Indian community that is equal to
that of that promoted by the Malaysian Chinese Association
{MCA}.
If anyone is to be blamed, it is certainly not the British, but the
politics of the bargain along ethnic lines - during the birth of
Malaysia - started by Tunku Abdul Rahman, and subsequently refined
by the various successive Malay political leadership.
It is more then forty-five years since Britain has granted
independence to Malaysia, is it realistic for the Malaysian HINDRAF
group to blame the British ?
It is plain stupidity if they believe that they will succeed in
their
petition to the Queen of England.
