The Rat Race Part V – Ch. 3: A Rat’s Look At Malayan History

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3.1: PRE-INDEPENDENCE (BEFORE 31 AUG 1957) – THE EVENTS

For the earlier series, please refer to:
http://www.usj.com.my/bulletin/upload/showthread.php?t=22866 post #3.

During our younger days, we found history deathly boring. We did not realize then that history was a very powerful tool used by the Ruling Class for indoctrination, manipulation, propaganda, misinformation and spreading of lies.

There is a saying:

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. George Santayana

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” Joseph Goebbels

In studying history, it is not important to know the names, the precise dates and who did what. What is more important is to understand the sequence of the events and their results. That will enable us to create the mental models to process new information and assess the impact on the future.

This is the key point: The mental model enables us to assess new information quickly and to decide whether it is important or relevant to us. If not, we discard it. That way, we reduce our information load. Important information, once it is absorbed into our mental model in a pictorial form, is more easily remembered and retrieved for future reference. That anchors us on a more solid foundation and helps us to resist the manipulation of the politicians.

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3.2: PRE-INDEPENDENCE (BEFORE 31 AUG 1957) – A RAT’S INTERPRETATION.

FROM BEGINNING TO 1942

We are now ready to examine ourselves based on the ideas that had been developed in the Rat Race series. Most of us go through life running the Rat Race, focused solely on making money without being aware of the larger development around us - developments that have a greater impact on our lives, namely how the Ruling Class manipulate and exploit us.

The manipulation revolves around an attack on our minds, in particular our emotions of fear and greed. Other emotions come into play as well – hatred, envy, dog-in-the-manger attitude (if I cannot have it, you shall not have it). Basically it can be classified as craving and aversion at the subconscious level. For the purpose of these Rat Race series, we shall focus on the coarser emotions as they are easier to recognize.

Pre-British history before 1786:
The Dutch were in control of Melaka because of its central position as a port in South-East Asia. They were not so interested in the hinterland of peninsula Malaya. Malay society revolved around isolated sultanates with the sultan who individually ruled over disparate states such as Johore, Perak, Kedah, Selangor, etc.

The Pyramid model was very simple. The Sultan represented the Ruling Class and he had the aristocracy to support him. Beneath that was a sprinkling of traders followed by farmers and peasants. It was a feudal society - Feudalism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism. The Sultan had the power of life and death over his subjects and loyalty to the sultan was absolute.

British Colonial History from 1786 to 1942
The British had a more comprehensive strategy than the Dutch. From their experience in British India, they first concentrated on securing access to island ports. They made use of the superior naval force to take over land from the sultans or pit one claimant to the throne against another. At later periods, they would make use of civil unrest in the states to get the sultans to submit to their power.

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We appreciate that learning history is never a favourite subject of many people. Maybe comics is more readable. This was what a group of students believed and they came out with this book: Where Monsoons Meet - A People's History of Malaya by Musimgrafik. This book is highly readable and recommended for reading by all Malaysians. You can get it at MPH or Gerakbudaya at RM 18 per copy. I am trying to get it at a lower price. PM me if you are interested.

The theme of the book is similar to what we have advocated in the Rat Race series. Our problems are economic and class-driven. Race and religion are used by the Ruling Class to exploit the masses to maintain their hold in power.

What the book demonstrates is that for the peasant and working class, it did not really mattered who ruled the country. They are exploited anyway. The only consolation is that with the Sultans and the local chiefs, it was "our" people instead of the "Orang Putih".

Even today, we have Dr Mahathir trying to play the Malay racial card when he knows very well that he is an Indian! The cynicism of people who are obsessed with power is mind-boggling.

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3.3: 1942 TO 1945 JAPANESE OCCUPATION DURING WW II - A RAT'S INTERPRETATION

War is a powerful factor in redefining a Pyramid and shocking the Rats out of their old mindsets. The years of conditioning are destroyed overnight and the Rats wakes up to a new and painful reality. Such was the effect of WW II on Malaya.

Japan, in her drive to industrialize, needed raw materials. As she had started her development much later than the Western powers, she found her access to such material blocked by the colonies held by the West. She resorted to invading Korea and China, the two remaining countries in Asia not fully in Western hands. So started the Japanese East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. As in all wars, this war was over power and resources.

Next she trained her sights on South-East Asia, which had abundant oil, rubber and tin. While Britain was busy fighting Germany in Europe, Japan decided to grab Malaya and South East Asia.

Japanese Occupation from 1942 to 1945
The Japanese invaded Malaya from Southern Thailand and Kota Bahru in 10 Dec 1941, 2 days after they had crippled the American fleet at Pearl Harbour in Hawaii. So successful was her campaign that she reached Singapore in less than 2 months by Feb 1942. The native Malayans realized with a shock that the invincibility of the white man was a myth. They saw over-night how the Whites went from Tuan to prisoners of war (POW) that were treated worse than rats. The British Pyramid was shattered. A new Pyramid came into being.

At the top of this Pyramid was the Japanese Army Command.
Below that was the Bureaucracy staffed by Japanese and aided by Malays, who were treated better by the Japanese compared to the Japanese treatment of the Chinese. This was a classic divide-and-rule tactic which split the two races and created a lot of bad blood between them.
The Lower Class was occupied by the Malay peasants, Indian and Chinese immigrants.

And at the very bottom were the newly-created slaves. These were the Prisoners of War and the conscripted labour from the conquered territories. The Japanese were absolutely brutal in their treatment of the Malayan people, in particular the Chinese. About 200,000 of these slaves including 42,000 prisoners of war were packed off to work on the Death Railway from Siam to Burma. Nearly half died.

The harsh treatment of the Chinese by the Japanese caused many of them to flee into the jungles to fight the Japanese under the Malayan People Anti-Japanese Army, led by Chin Peng.

By Aug 1945, after 2 atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, the Japanese in Malaya surrendered. For 4 or 5 weeks until the British arrived to take over Malaya again, the country was ruled by the MPAJA and the Malayan Communist Party. This was a period of revenge killings between the different participants of the war, mainly between Chinese and Malay. The British arrived in Sept 1945 to retake Malaya. The Japanese Pyramid disappeared and the British set about building a new Pyramid.

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3.4: World War II – The Clash of Pyramids

INTRODUCTION:
War is a period when great changes are wrought on nations and on history. World War II will go down in history as a period when the greatest devastation was visited on the whole world. It is estimated that 72 million people perished. Empires changed hands. The spoils of war go to the victors.

Let us examine WW II from the perspective of the conspiracy theory by the Financial Class. We will see that war is merely a clash of the Ruling Classes of different Pyramids. They have been playing this game profitably since the late 1600’s. Their objective is the control over land and resources.

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This has been a very difficult section to draft. We are dealing with so much misinformation and distortion of the past. What we learn in history is what the Ruling Class wants us to learn.

UMNO was formed as a reaction by a right-wing Malay aristocratic class in the Malay Civil Service to the Malayan Union. They allied themselves with the working class and the peasant class to oppose the Malayan Union but promptly dropped their allies when the British offered them a chance to power.

UMNO then packaged themselves as the protector of the Malays, although in reality, they were part of the Ruling Class from the beginning with strong feudal leanings that treated the peasants as Rats. It speaks for their staying power and strength of deception that they have managed to maintain the charade for over 60 years.

The key to bear in mind is that all Rulers regard their subjects as potential enemies to be suppressed. That is why they have a strong law-enforcement arm and secret service.

Read on in the attachment.

This ends Part V of these series

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UMNO was formed as a reaction by a right-wing Malay aristocratic class in the Malay Civil Service to the Malayan Union. They allied themselves with the working class and the peasant class to oppose the Malayan Union but promptly dropped their allies when the British offered them a chance to power.

UMNO then packaged themselves as the protector of the Malays, although in reality, they were part of the Ruling Class from the beginning with strong feudal leanings that treated the peasants as Rats. It speaks for their staying power and strength of deception that they have managed to maintain the charade for over 60 years.
We have said: Those who do not know their history will be condemned to repeat it.

1946: UMNO played out their allies, PUTERA, AMCJA. etc, after their success to get the Malayan Union abrogated. UMNO then proceeded to negotiate with the British to form the Federation of Malaya in 1948.

1970's: PAS joined the Barisan National formed by UMNO. A few years later, they were kicked out by UMNO and they lost the State of Kelantan to UMNO.

Now PAS is talking to UMNO again. Looks like every 30 years ro so, a new group in PAS comes to power with all the previous memories erased.

Don't they ever learn?

Fortunately, Perak MB Nizar is sticking to his principles on staying put with PR.
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Kedah Pas chief warns DAP not to interfere
ALOR STAR, July 29 — Pas yesterday warned the DAP against interfering in the former's affairs, stressing that it had the right to discuss with anyone including Umno.

Kedah Pas commissioner Datuk Seri Azizan Abdul Razak said the party would not follow the instructions of anyone in its struggle and as such, the DAP, which was its ally in the Pakatan Rakyat, had no right to stop or determine Pas’s actions.

"Pas, the DAP and Parti Keadilan Rakyat only cooperated as Pakatan Rakyat to face the Barisan Nasional in the general election. (It is) not an alliance like the BN," he said.

"Malaysia is a free country, so why must we follow others' instructions," Azizan said when commenting on DAP chairman Karpal Singh's statement that the PR review Pas’s participation in the light of it having discussions with Umno on Malay unity.

http://themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/malaysian-news/34-malaysian-news/2322-kedah-pas-chief-warns-dap-not-to-interfere

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In Part IV of the Rat Race, we mentioned that one of the mental model of the Pyramid is use of colonialism to control the apex of the Pyramid.
See here: http://www.usj.com.my/bulletin/upload/showthread.php?t=22660.


Basically, the British ruled Malaya through colonialism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonialism) . When they decided to grant Independence to Malaya, they wanted to continue their control of Malaya. This they did through the use of UMNO as their front, with the strategy of Neo-colonialism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neocolonialism) .


This is what Tulang Besi has described in this well-written article.

http://www.malaysiawaves.com/2008/08/how-umnoputra-elites-are-fighting-back.html