The corruption of Mahathir
SOROS REPLY TO MAHATHIR
adapted from Bangkok Post
I have always said Dr Mahathir is a menace to his own
people. Now only you can see the effects of his foolishness when the ringgit
has halved its value overnight and your economy goes kaput. Single handedly you
have caused hardship to millions of your own people. You have built useless
mega projects at tremendous cost to the country.
The telecoms tower in Kuala Lumpur and the highest
building in the world show how stupid you are. Not only does it cause massive
traffic jam, it has totally no purpose. If you need high ground for telecoms
antennae a nearby mountain is there for free. This tower has no purpose from
the ground up to 300 metres. The satelites make this totally unneccesary.
A fool and his money are soon parted. The only thing
is you are the fool and the money belongs to Malaysians. You make 20% in evey
project, you have real estate in Japan and billions of shares corruptly
acquired. Your 3 sons are worth 8 billion US$. Where do they get this money? Of
course, corruption. You are known as the Marcos of Malaysia, having enriched
yourself to the tune of billions.
You dare to shed crocodile tears during UMNO delegates
meeting about the ills of corruption. Yet you are the most corrupt of all the
prime ministers before you. A thief is crying thief and hopes people look the
other way. Who dares to say anything when the chief is caught with his hands in
the candy jar?
You said wisdom is not the monopoly of the West. So is
foolishness.
You have more foolishness than most people would
believe. Billions are used to build two high rise Petronas buildings that
benefit nobody. It now stand tall, a symbol of stupidity and irresponsibility
Instead they just add on to traffic jam. What is this reclamation of 10 islands
off Kedah? Totally absurd and stupid. Of course your benefit is 20%. And the
bridge across from Malacca to Sumatra across international waters? Why not
build a bridge to the moon? I am sure you still can get your 20%.
You called me a Moron. How can a Moron make so much
money. By allowing short selling and borrowing millions of shares from your
banks we fund managers made millions out of your inexperience and poor
regulations. You lose all Malaysians money, therefore you are the Moron. Now
you know too late and start crying over split milk. In Australia you are known
as the recalcitrant ego maniac; in UK the corrupt bastard because of your
stupid purchase of our movie studio and the 290 million ringgit Lotus racing
car plant and the shady Pergau dam loans from the UK. They are useless to us
and you still want to buy them. What about buying British reject submarines
through your agent, of course. The agent/ broker is designed to make millions
out of Malaysian government. Your purchase of our battleships is at least 50%
more than others are paying. Your purchase of 9 hospitals from UK lock, stock
and barrel does not support your local architects or your industry and the
British send you obsolete medical equipment.
The design is atrocious, one end to the other is half
a kilometer and there is no CT-scan, an absolute necessity. In the Uk your face
appears in no less than 17 newspapers as a corrupt dictator. In Malaysia you
are known as the (IBM) International Big Mouth. In Japan they call him the
'smallest one' (brain size). In Pacific island the Santa Claus (giving advice
left and right). In south America they call him the parrot (he talks a lot but
does not know what it is about).
In Manila the living Marcos.
In Malaysia they are spending millions to lure
tourists and you talk rubbish scaring every foreigner away. "When he is
dumb he is doubted a fool, when he opens his mouth it removes all doubt."
While I agree the West does not have the monopoly to
wisdom, your actions are not the wisest either. Your EAEC has totally no
support even in Asean. Your South-South dialogue mets with the same fate and
what is this I hear of the Bridge from Malaysia to Indonesia covering 20 miles
across International shipping lanes? How crazy can one get?
Even the Japanese don't have the money. This world's
stupidity seems to be concerntrated in one man's mind - yours.
The multimedia super corridor - MSC -. Well in USA its
most stupid concept because we Americans, would have thought of it light years
before. Even if it makes money, we can copy this concept can't we? Why do you
want to spend your hard-earned money doing questionable projects? It will be
like the Bakun project. Abandoned fund wasted and another white elephant. I
always say politicians should not be involved in business. Your ministers are
also businessmen and almost every official is enriching himself. Look at
Rafidah Aziz, selling thousands of Approved Permit for cars each worth 20-30
thousand Malaysian dollars. Why not your government sell them and make the
money?She has acquired millions of shares meant for bumis for free before she
agrees to list them. Look at your Selangor Chief Minister collecting millions
for approving high rise buildings from businessman. He is worth a few billions.
Unfortunately he was caught with a few millions pocket money in Australia.Every
Chief minister is awarding useless projects to his cronies then collecting
secret pay offs on the side.The Land development Boards and the Economic
Development Boards are used to bailout any loses suffered by politicians.The
profits they keep, the loses they force the Government bodies to absorb.How can
your poor ever close the gap when every good deal is snatched by your
politicians?How can your country get out of poverty if all the billions of
corruption money is taken out of the country?
Look at the Sarawak Chief Minister selling billions
worth of timber concessions under the table; selling every piece of state land
to businessman without tender; using his own companies to obtain lucrative
government contracts; selling approval signatures for a fee 'you pay I
approve'. He has 8 billion US stashes overseas. Thousands of acres of land are
given to one or two companies while thousands of poor people still live in
cardboard makeshift homes; have no water and shit into the river. Thousands of acres
of land are sold to companies for plantations while the native don't have even
one acre to their name. He is selling sand near the beaches to one company for
earth filling and then ask the government to spend millions to protect the
coastline when erosion occurs. He lost 300 millions of the sarawak government
money trying to make computer chips. He has built a port in Northern sarawak
town in water so shallow it needs dredging every year.
The Prime Minister built highways without tender, your
cronies get the deal and the price double. Your Langkawi airport runway is
built is double the cost by your own company Ekran.
The Malaysian nation has lost at least 30 billions
during your last 10 years of corrupt rule. One billions lost from the purchase
of phantom skyhawk war planes nobody has ever seen (are they still in the
Nevada desert USA?). 3 billion lost from the London tin scandal (you thought
you could corner the London tin market without knowing the Americans have a stockpile!
Stupidity at its best. 6 billion Perwaja steel mill where nobody even know
where the money goes, 3 billion bank Bumiputra scandal where George Tan bribed
all the bank officials to lend him the money. 6 billion forex lost by Bank
Negara (the fool and his money are soon parted) and 6 billion to build three of
the worlds tallest buildings (built by Japanese and Koreans and furniture
imported from France - not Malaysia) and 1 billion lost from purchase of
British warship including fees paid to the broker and under the table. Add the
10 billion you stole and 5 billion taken by Ministers.
In the 1997 the World Journalists meeting voted Dr
Mahathir the Prime Minister of the Decade. It sounded strange to everybody
until it was revealed those who voted against are threatened by IRD officers
and with losing their jobs. In New York the United Nations 1997 meeting,
the most corrupt Prime Minister of the decade is
President Suharto and second Dr Mahathir (Actually Dr Mahathir should take
first place but bribed the Indonesian to take honour of Number One.
There are Fifty thousand of your university students
are not given places in Malaysia but are good enough for places overseas
resulting in billion of dollars lost.The British and the Australians are
thinking how stupid.Your best students are sent overseas raising their
standards while as in most countries the best are kept in local universities
and the rejects sent overseas. A university student in Hong Kong is much more
prestigeous than any Australian counterpart.
You have been colonised by the British so long you
cannot even educate your own people. Look at Hong Kong or Singapore less than
5% study overseas. All the money saved. Your country could save billions if
every student overseas is recalled to a local university, and at the same time
raising your own standards.
Your people are still without shoes, without land to
farm, without homes, bathing in rivers shitting in hole in the ground, without
water and electricity. Your cities are concrete jungles without greenery and
open spaces. Your KL is jammed with traffic. Yet you still keep on building
high rises. You should come down from the clouds and stop daydreaming and
firmly plant your feet in the ground. Your schools are cramped 500 students to
an acre and thousands of acres are given free to some politician who leaves
them idle. Your parks are being taken by politicians to build shophouses and
every cabinet minister is a landgrabbing businessman who build roads only to
their cronies' land.
The Malaysians' prayer
"Ya Allah, we thank you for your gifts of timber,
oil and grain. But then the devil sent us corrupt Mahathir without a Brain And
look we are back to square one again So just take Dr Mahathir back to Hell And
we will be alive and well."
In China people have been shot for embezzling one
thousand dollars. With 8 billions you have stolen therefore you would be shot
80 thousand times.
Now you are leading an anti-corruption campaign. We
all know what you should do. Look yourself in the mirror. You see the crook
there? Then use your left hand and handcuff your right hand.
You have put the opposition leader and his son in jail
when they said in parliament you are the richest PM in the world. And his
colleague
Mr Karpal Singh too for 2 years. So I get a reward or
bribe if I now say you are the poorest PM in this world?
Your 3 sons are sitting in the board of directors of
more than 200 companies. They must have been educated in Harvard school of
business and obtained distintions? Or is it "you don't know me you don't
do business in Malaysia" law that applies. Billions of ringgit of
Employee's Provident Funds and public Petonas funds are used to bail out your
sons who make losses investing in every venture you thought you could make
money. How unethical and corrupt.
Every one of your politicians are sitting on the
boards of tens of companies making thousands without any effort, lending their
VIP names to borrow millions from local banks without collateral. Now these have
become non performing loans. Now you want 20 millions Malaysian to sacrifice
for the folly of ONE man? Why not the fool resign and admit he wasted and took
most of the money. I could teach you how to put your economy on tract but first
you must apologize to the Jews and the Malaysian people as well.
'SOROS'