MCA leaders: Woof! Woof! Woof!

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MCA leaders: Woof! Woof! Woof!

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 10, 2023: MCA’s former vice-president Ti Lian Ker is now a Mr Nobody.

He is the epitome of a failed Malaysian politician - rejected by his party members and Malaysian voters.

Yet, he continues to “bark”, as all MCA Umno lapdog leaders do, and it is amazing why the media continues to quote him for opinions. The above image says it all about MCA leaders.

No News Is Bad News had opined often that MCA needs to reform to regain its political relevance and confidence of voters.

They should show that they have what it takes to help in Malaysia’s socio-economic development by providing constructive criticisms.

Instead, MCA leaders continue with their outdated confrontational politics with the DAP, retaining its Umno-lapdog style to curry favour for political mileage in Barisan Nasional (BN).

MCA is not going to win any political mileage with continuous attack of the DAP because the electoral results of the last three general elections clearly show MCA is “politically dead”.

No News Is Bad News reproduces below a rubbish opinion piece by Ti published by The Vibes:

OPINION

Let sleeping dogs lie, but do not let lying dogs lie! – Ti Lian Ker

MCA successfully managed hot-button racial issues discreetly, DAP barked about them to little effect

Updated 1 day ago · Published on 08 Oct 2023 1:52PM

Datuk Seri Ti Lian Ker claims that DAP has always made loud political statements or employed propaganda with underlying racial tones. – SAIRIEN NAFIS/The Vibes file pic, October 8, 2023

PART of being strong and resilient is having the ability to admit mistakes and to remedy or mitigate potential damage.

The English idiom “let sleeping dogs lie” refers to a situation whereby it is better to leave a problem or avoid stirring up a situation because trying to deal with it could result in an even more difficult or complicated situation.

This is exactly the reason why many racial issues, such as tertiary educational opportunities and the business quota for Bumiputera, were managed quietly and discreetly by MCA.

In 2009, the then prime minister, Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak, announced that the educational quota would be removed. He went further to assert that quotas were bad and that he would like to create a win-win situation for all.

The sixth prime minister had also announced the removal of the 30% Bumiputera equity requirements in 27 of the services sub-sectors, saying that this will make Malaysia more dynamic, particularly in the face of an impending global economic crisis.

The above two decisions were the result and success of letting the “sleeping dogs lie” by not engaging in a public debate or causing an uproar on sensitive racial issues.

The Bumiputera issue is a sensitive one that was being managed taciturnly by MCA within the Barisan Nasional framework and in the spirit of consensus. When Umno Youth and PAS were pushing for an extension of the New Economic Policy (NEP) and to increase the Bumiputera equity from 30% to 51% to reflect the demographic of our population, then again, MCA did not wake up the “sleeping dog” by engaging in a public debate on the issue of increasing the Bumiputera quota.

However, MCA president Tun Dr Ling Liong Sik had taken a six-week unpaid leave in protest of a purported decision to extend the NEP (expiring in 1990) and an increase in Bumiputera equity from 30% to 51%. There was no open debate as this strategic, subtle move by Dr Ling (who was trained at the Royal Military College) allowed the potentially explosive racial sentiments to be handled in a low-key manner.

Dr Ling quietly negotiated for a New Economic Consultative Council (consisting of an equal number of Bumiputera and non-Bumiputera members) to be formed to allow the sensitive nature of the demands to be discussed and managed in a round table, low-key, closed-door manner.

The result and outcome of the round table discussion was the New Development Policy to replace the NEP. Instead of focusing on the racial demand for 51% Bumiputera equity, the NDP focused on economic growth and ensuring that accrued benefits reached all sections of society.

However, DAP adopts the opposite approach. Theirs has always been loud political statements or propaganda with underlying racial tones. These political narratives and optics were targeted at the Chinese and calculated to cultivate hatred and anger aimed at MCA and Umno.

They have made promise after promise in the form of statements and publications. They have made many declarations, including an open declaration to remove not only the Bumiputera quota but also to deliver ethnic equality as a paramount or uppermost agenda.

All these statements and posturings have managed to gain support among the Chinese in particular. On the other hand, they have also awakened the Malays to be wary and suspicious of their every move.

I must applaud DAP leaders who have managed to carry this “lie” of racial equality and have continued to lie for nearly 60 years. Until today, these declarations are still published on their website (more explicitly in Mandarin), but then again, you cannot blame them as these declarations are stated as “irrevocable” and thus cannot be revoked without angering DAP’s supporters.

Instead of delivering their promises, DAP, who is now in psydo-power, is in a hurry to change their “chauvinist” clothing. After forbidding their assemblymen and MPs from wearing the songkok, they are now hurriedly donning the baju Melayu in full set. On race and religious matters, they are now bending backwards to discard their racial colourings.

Upon coming into power for the first time in the year 2018, their secretary-general renunciated himself as a Chinese. This is despite the fact that their promises, political undertakings, and declarations have always been promising the Chinese electorate and have yet to be honoured.

So instead of delivering on their many promises to the Chinese electorate, they are trying very hard to buy in the Malay electorate now. If this is not so, why is DAP focusing publicly on funding for Islamic religious schools and bodies, donning religious cosplay in mosques, etc.?

Their political operatives had also backfired badly when Ipoh Timor MP Howard Lee resorted to citing Quranic verses in a political display. This is not the first time a DAP leader recited Quranic verses, as his superior, Nga Kor Ming, has also enumerated Quranic verses many times since 2009, when they were “sleeping with PAS”.

In all honesty, DAP leaders should be quoting from the Bible, or mantras, or even the divination text of I-Ching, etc., in order for all Malaysians to be enlightened, understanding, and respecting each other’s religion. – The Vibes, October 8, 2023

Senator Datuk Seri Ti Lian Ker is a former MCA vice-president