An open letter to the Prime Minister.
August 26, 2015
An open letter to the Prime Minister.
By Din Merican
「In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.」– Eugene V Debs
Dear Prime Minister,
The late great American journalist, Edward R. Murrow, said, 「No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.」 Here in Malaysia, the ordinary Rakyat have ceased to be your accomplices.
In the GE-13, you lost the popular vote and were denied two-third majority in Parliament. If you were to hold an election today, I do believe you would lose, or barely win and only because, as former Bersih chairperson Dato Ambiga Sreenevasan said in her New York Times op-ed piece, 「Once again, the people of Malaysia risk being cheated out of an election.」
Your accomplices are those who in your own words benefited from the 「donation」 by concerned Arab potentates. Your accomplices are a person like the Inspector- General of Police, Khalid Abu Bakar, who instead of carrying out his mandate of protecting the Rakyat busies himself by intimidating and harassing people who point out that his Emperor and master (you) has no clothes. Your accomplices are in government institutions who, instead of carrying out their duties, concern themselves with ensuring that your position is secure. What happens to our country is secondary to them as long as they can benefit from your largesse.
You have either sacked or sidelined anyone – including Deputy Prime Minister and party Deputy President, Muhyiddin Yassin – who values UMNO over the man and ensured that dissent within your own party is met with the full force of the state or the malicious rumour mongering of cyber thugs in your employ.
The silencing of the respected Edge magazine and the harassment of its eloquent and erudite owner and its public spirited and brave editor was another failed attempt at controlling the narrative, and your reluctance to initiate proceedings against the Wall Street Journal is evidence of the bullying nature that characterized Umno rule under former Prime Minister Tun Mahathir, but you are elevating that to new heights.
You are a Prime Minister bereft of political or populist legitimacy and public trust. When Prime Minister David Cameron visited Malaysia, he was forced to confront issues created by your political and financial scandals, instead of fostering international ties with a foreign country. Your political career is defined not only by financial scandal but the cloud of mystery surrounding the murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu.
You are the most tainted Prime Minister in Malaysian history. You surround yourself with a cadre of sycophants who care more for their own position and what you can give them instead of the ordinary Rakyat. You may claim that you are beholden to the Rakyat, but the reality is that you think that the Rakyat are beholden to UMNO.
You claim that the Malay community would be 「bangsat」 without UMNO, but the reality is what I wrote in my open letter to former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir: 「The Malays have been conditioned by Tun Dr Mahathir (refer to his controversial book, The Malay Dilemma, and Dr Syed Hussein’s critique of it in his book, The Myth of the Lazy Native) to think that we have dilemmas. In truth, we all want progress, modernisation and national unity, and shun ignorance and backwardness.」
Instead of progress and modernization, you give us bigotry and fear, with members of your administration and most damagingly you, claiming that the Malays would lose power to the Chinese community and we would be nowhere without UMNO.
And yet your propaganda apparatus tout the 1Malaysia concept as something that should be emulated and feed BR1M to the Rakyat as if that paltry sum would cauterize the deep wounds you have inflicted on Malaysians.
As a contributing member of the Malay community whose fortunes and failures are part and parcel of my life, I cringe and feel a deep sense of hopelessness when I see an idea like Low Yat 2 in the wake of the Low Yat incident, which had nothing to do with race but was in fact an ordinary criminal act that was used by opportunistic members of your administration to further this sense of 「Ketuanan Melayu」.
Please do not be fooled by your foreign spin masters, no doubt purchased by foreign donations. Ordinary Malaysians regardless of race or religion realize that something is very wrong with Malaysia. They may not have access to the writings or ideas that the Internet offers, but their circumstances tell them that something is wrong with the economy, something is wrong with the social fabric, something is wrong with politicians and they know that all of this comes from Putrajaya.
You can blame the Chinese, you can blame China’s economy, you can blame the falling oil prices, but everyone knows that the economy has been mismanaged. That corruption is rampant. Everyone knows that money placed in your account benefited you through placating the various warlords who see to it that your position is secure.
I realize my words hold very little value to you, including what I said to you during our short conversation at the Maybank hospitality tent during the 2010 Maybank Open at the Kuala Lumpur Golf & Country Club when I counseled you to use the awesome power of your office with responsibility. You agreed with me and pledged to make Malaysia great again. What a lie it was and I believed you then, but not now, not a second time.
You have dismantled or neutered any mechanism that could remove you from power. The best thing you could do for this country is remove yourself from office. Allow UMNO the slight chance of reforming itself and perhaps attempt to get back to the ideals of the founders of this once great country.
I will be returning to Phnom Penh soon to resume my academic duties at the University of Cambodia, where I will enjoy the company of fellow academicians and students. Leaving Malaysia and being away from my dear wife, Dr Kamsiah, at this point in time when our country faces an imminent economic crisis (a worse case scenario being the recent prediction of former Finance Minister Tun Daim Zainuddin) as a result of your economic policies and politics is difficult for me.
It is indeed sad for me to acknowledge that you have failed in the performance of your duties as Prime Minister of our country. If you have any shred of pride and honour left in you, you should resign of your own volition. If you do not do so, you will face the indignity of being thrown out of office by all Malaysians who love their country.
Remember the wise words of Mahatma Gandhi. 「Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.」
Yours sincerely,
Din Merican
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中文翻譯 來自google translate
在馬來西亞歷史上最污染的首相
2015年8月26日
一封給總理的公開信。
丁美利肯筆
「在每一個時代它一直是暴君，壓迫者和誰已經把自己裹在愛國主義的外衣剝削者，或宗教，或兩者欺騙和威懾的人。」 - 尤金·V德布斯
親愛的總理，
已故的偉大的美國記者愛德華·默羅，說：「沒有一個人可以恐嚇整個國家，除非我們都是他的同夥。」在這裡，在馬來西亞，普通聯已不再是你的幫凶。
在GE-13，你失去了民眾投票和議會被剝奪三分之二多數。如果你今天舉行選舉，我相信你會失去，或勉強獲勝，只因為，前者凈選盟主席拿督安美嘉說，在她的紐約時報專欄件，「再一次，馬來西亞將會出現被騙的選舉。「
你的同夥是那些誰用自己的話受益於「捐贈」，由關注阿拉伯君主。你的同夥是一個人喜歡監察長警察，哈立德·阿布·巴卡爾，而不是執行保護聯他的任務誰被恐嚇和騷擾的人誰指出他的皇帝和主（你）有沒有穿衣服忙於自己。你的同夥是政府機構，而不是執行職務誰，以確保您的位置是安全的關心。什麼發生在我們國家是繼發於他們，只要他們可以從你的慷慨中獲益。
你要麼被解僱或邊緣化任何人 - 包括副總理和黨的副總裁，慕尤丁 - 誰重視巫統過的人，並確保你自己的黨內異議時會見了國家的全部力量或惡意造謠生事網絡的暴徒在你的雇用。
的推崇邊緣雜誌的沉默和口才和博學的所有者和公共精神和勇敢的編輯器的騷擾另一個在控制敘述失敗的嘗試，和你不願意提起訴訟對華爾街日報的欺凌性質的證據表明，前首相馬哈迪特徵巫統規則，但你的提升到新的高度。
你是一個總理剝奪政治或民粹主義的合法性和公信力。當首相戴維·卡梅倫訪問了馬來西亞，他不得不面對，而不是促進與外國的國際關係由你的政治和財政醜聞產生的問題。你的政治生涯不僅受財務醜聞而神秘的雲周圍的阿旦Shaariibuu謀殺定義。
你是最污點總理在馬來西亞的歷史。你置身於一個幹部誰更關心自己的地位和佞什麼，你可以給普通聯的他們，而不是。你可以說你是聽命於聯，但實際情況是，你認為聯是受惠於巫統。
你聲稱馬來社會將是「bangsat」沒有巫統，但現實是我寫在我的公開信前首相敦馬：「馬來人已經習慣於通過敦馬（指他有爭議的書，馬來困境，而它的博士賽義德·海珊的批評在他的書中，懶惰原住民的神話）認為我們有困境。事實上，我們都希望進步，現代化和民族團結，順愚昧落後。「
相反，進步和現代化的，你給我們的偏見和恐懼，你的政府成員是最破壞力，聲稱馬來人將失去動力的中國社會，我們將無處沒有巫統。
然而，你的宣傳機器宣揚的一個馬來西亞概念的東西，應該仿效和飼料BR1M到聯仿佛就是微不足道的會燒灼你已經遭受國人深深的傷口。
由於馬來社會的命運和失敗是我生命的重要組成部分，我畏縮，感覺無望的深刻感覺，當我看到劉蝶事件發生後，其中有沒有像蝶2想法的貢獻的成員做比賽，但實際上這是由您管理的機會主義成員進一步這一意義上的「馬來人至上」的普通犯罪行為。
請不要被你的外國軍師上當了，毫無疑問，外國捐款購買的。普通國人不分種族或宗教的認識的東西是非常錯誤的馬來西亞。他們可能無法獲得的著作或觀點認為，網際網路提供的，但他們的情況告訴他們，什麼是錯的與經濟，什麼是錯的社會結構，什麼是錯的政治家，他們知道，這一切來自布城。
你可以責怪中國人，你能怪中國的經濟，你可以責怪油價下跌，但每個人都知道，經濟一直管理不善。腐敗是猖獗。大家都知道，擺在您的帳戶中的錢，你受益匪淺通過安撫誰看到它，你的位置是安全的各個軍閥。
我知道我的話持有很少的價值給你，包括我跟你說，在2010年馬來亞銀行打開了短暫的交談在馬來亞銀行好客帳篷吉隆坡高爾夫鄉村俱樂部期間，當我勸你使用的真棒功率的辦公室的責任。你同意我，並承諾使馬來西亞成為偉大的一次。這是什麼一個謊言，我相信你的話，但不是現在，不是第二次。
你已經拆除或絕育，可以從電力刪除您的任何機制。你可以做這個國家的最好的事情是罷免自己。讓巫統改革本身也許試圖回到這個曾經偉大的國家的締造者的理想的輕微的機會。
我將回到金邊很快就恢復我的學術職務，在柬埔寨，在那裡我會享受同胞院士和學生的企業大學。離開馬來西亞是遠離我親愛的妻子，Kamsiah博士，在這個時間點上，當我們的國家面臨迫在眉睫的經濟危機（更糟糕的情況是前財政部長屯達因扎因丁最近的預測）作為經濟政策的結果，政治對我來說很難。
這實在是可悲的，我承認你沒有在你的職責總理我國的表現。如果你有驕傲和榮譽留在你的任何一絲一毫，你應該辭職自己的意志。如果你不這樣做，你將面臨被逐出了辦公室所有誰愛自己的國家馬來西亞的侮辱。
還記得聖雄甘地的明智的話。 「請記住，所有穿越歷史，有過暴君和兇手，一時間，他們似乎戰無不勝。但最終，他們都倒下了。始終。「
此致，
丁美利肯
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