The real crap are Economic Corridors, stupid!

Early of this December , we have been shocked by large demostration by Indian people at Kuala Lumpur . The people called themselves as HINDRAF voiced up their disatisfaction of how the Indian people has been discriminated economically and their standard of living is very poor compared to Malay(landlord race) and Chinese(same as Indian minority immigrant) . Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi and the leading party , UMNO has used this sudden issue to run away from of government's well-known weaknesses since the old man replace Dr Mahathir as Prime Minister .

The Hindraf issue has swayed public and online attention from the true crap faced by the nation under the current administration. There is likely to be more than meet the eyes. "Could it be distraction to grab the attention of the public away?", asked conspirasy theoreticians are sayingIf there are poor Indians being given a crap deal in the estate, deal with it. For the other demands which are crap, screw them!

If the claim that Indian grievances have been given crap attention by certain Government officials and politicians, every Malaysians are getting that same crap! Crap to those officials and politicians. Yes, crap the oppositions too for not properly delivering the issues in the Houses.For that there is no any reason for Malays to lose their head over this. Let not our attention be swayed by some extremist Hindraf nutheads or Malay hotheads. Violence and vigilante-ism will only make things worse and worst.The economic corridors launched are craps that the public should focus their attentions and it is outcry worth shouting out. Much has been said in this and other blogs. There are few blog postings on the Internet that highlighted few pertinent issues and developments on the Economic Corridors. Extracts of the postings are edited and reproduced below.Infringement Against the Federalism SpiritThe Penang Watch blog wrote an article entitled "Anti-NCER/PGCC movements a reflection of rejection of federalising powers?".

After five Economic Corridor announced and launched, some patterns can be discerned as a shift of power to the Federal Government from the State Government. Increasingly, the State Governments, who rely on Federal Government on development allocations, can only exchange these funds by giving up control over development.Some relevant characteristics of the Economic Corridors:1. It is based on real estate or land speculations.2. It is run by Federal Agencies through implementation Agencies chaired by Federal Ministers or Politicians or GLCs representatives.3. The Local Councils may lose oversight or approval power over such projects, thus making them redundant. Council rules on densities and land use are altered to suit federal needs.4. State governments can only watch with bewilderment on what goes on in their own land, even though land is about the only things left in their hand.5. This Federal juggernaut need to be stopped. Otherwise, they may be waiting for the day when the redundant State Government is disposed off or made into symbolic, titular state reps.These are genuine craps because the direction the Economic Corridors are heading is against the spirit of the Federation of Malaya Agreement in 1948. The basis of the Federation of Malaya is the sovereign Malay states in Semenanjung Tanah Melayu combined to become the Federation.

Lets be reminded that this Agreement was the replacement to the historical dispute of Malayan Union of 1946. UMNO was formed to struggle against the termination of the State sovereignty and advancing the British colonialisation process .

The presence of Singapore in Malaysia in 1963 revived a 1920s "Malaya for Malayan" political slogan of Tun Tan Cheng Lok as "Malaysian Malaysia" slogan. Tun Tan had in fact made a significant contribution to the British towards the centralisation Malayan Union idea during his exile from Japanese Occupation in India.Singapore was eventually "kicked" out of the Federation. In their exuberance to campaign this similar "centralisation" idea to a fragile race relation Malaya, it had resulted in racial clashes. Their absence did not do tide down the situation as racial strife continued and culminated into the tragic May 13, 1969 incident."Malaysian Malaysia" promotes "equality" without "fair" consideration for the economic condition of the Bumiputera. Malaysian Malaysia is Malayan Union II which UMNO had fought against to preserve the sovereignty.

It was Tun Abdul Razak's wisdom to reform the nation towards the proper path of racial unity.The current Economic Corridors can hereby be summed up as an indirect attempt to dismantle the Federation. The Economic Corridors will reduce the relevance of the state and ultimately lead to the dissolution of the states. Perhaps the unity state could be a Republic practising laisse fairre economy with no social or welfare consideration for the people.There are those that believed the greater relevance of Khazanah was a consolidation of economic power for the convenience of a certain "invisible hands". The Economic Corridors seemed to be a political power consolidation exercise disguised as centralisation of economic management. Thus the Economic Corridors could have wider implication to the political, economic, legal and security spectre of the nation.The scary reality of sleepy Abdullah Badawi as an incompetent yet powerful Prime Minister is that the true power lies within the instruction of his advisers. It is a hypothesis accepted widely by the public that he is now at the behest of Western powers and he doesn't know it. By the time the whole power consolidation and societal restructuring exercise is comleted, thats likely to include a review of the Social Agreement, the next Prime Minister will be an extremely powerful leader.

Of late, the Economic Corridors has been dubbed "Kerry-dor" by political pundits (It comes from the name Kyari Jamaludin,Prime Minister beloved son-in-low) . It is implying of Khairy Jamaluddin's hand in this manipulation of power to build himself into a powerful Prime Minister-by-40. In reality, it is plain jane Malayan Union III.The sad reality the proud UMNO members have to live with the guilt that it is the few top UMNO leadership that conjured and forced this idea on the reluctant people, particularly of Johor.Thats Crap! Crap! Crap! When will the members have the crap to throw that nincompoop crap out?