An excellent speech by YB TS Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah

By the permission of Tengku Razaleigh webpage admin. Dedicated to all politician aspirant out there. Let us start a new real clear politics.

Thank you for inviting me to speak with you. I am truly honoured. I have played some small role in the life of this nation, but having been on the wrong side of one or two political fights with the powers that be, I am not as close to the young people of this country as I would hope to be.

History, and the 8 o’clock news, are written by the victors. In recent years the government’s monopoly of the media has been destroyed by the technology revolution.

You could say I was also a member of the UKEC. Well I was, except that belonged to the predecessor of the UKEC by more than fifty years, The Malayan Students Union of the UK and Eire. I led this organisation in 1958/59. I was then a student of Queen’s University at Belfast, in a rather cooler climate than Kota Bharu’s.

Your invitation to participate in the MSLS was prefaced by an essay which calls for an intellectually informed activism. I congratulate you on this. The Youth of today, you note, “will chart the future of Malaysia.” You say you “no longer want to be ignored and leave the future of our Malaysia at the hands of the current generation.” You “want to grab the bull by the horns... and have a say in where we go as a society and as a nation.”I feel the same, actually. A lot of Malaysians feel the same. They are tired of being ignored and talked down to by swaggering mediocrities.

You are right. The present generation in power has let Malaysia down.

But also you cite two things as testimony of the importance of youth and of student activism to this country, the election results of 2008 and “the Prime Minister’s acknowledgement of the role of youth in the development of the country.”

So perhaps you are a little way yet from thinking for yourselves. The first step in “grabbing the bull by the horns” is not to required the endorsement of the Prime Minister, or any Minister, for your activism.

Politicians are not your parents. They are your servants. You don’t need a government slogan coined by a foreign PR agency to wrap your project in. You just go ahead and do it.

my rambling on facebook. hahah

It amused me that we would argue more on petty issue such non presence till end of assembly rather than try to seek knowledge of what actually transpired from the speech. It just showed lack of depth and understanding about the more pertinent matters that need to be clarified and discussed.

KB is not answerable to only one person but he and the committee are accountable to all TG UMNO members.

UMNO as a party must not only be perceived as clean but must uphold integrity at the highest level in order to continue receiving resounding support from Malays grassroots.

If UMNO fail to do so, the perception of UMNO struggles for the Malays 'Dulu, Kini dan Selamanya' will slowly fade away.

Let's argue more on that, shall we?
And Happy 65th anniversary UMNO!