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Pembaca yang mahir dengan Inggeris akan mencapai salah satu dari dua rumusan setelah membaca keseluruhan artikel ini. Pertama, ianya fitnah semata-mata, atau kedua, ianya adalah satu pendedahan dari musuh dalam selimut di kalangan pembantu Tun Dr Mahathir.
Rudin X berpendapat bahawa kedua-dua rumusan itu ada unsur kebenaran hingga suatu tahap. Banyak perkara yang diperkatakan dalam artikel ini, malah sesetengah ayat dan perenggan adalah asalnya tersiar dalam Wall Street Journal dalam tahun-tahun 80han dulu, sebelum akhbar itu bertukar kepada Asia Wall Street Journal. Sesetengah dari pendedahan atau tuduhan yang sama juga dibuat dalam majalah Far Eastern Economics Review.
Butiran yang disebut dalam artikel ini atau artikel lain dalam pernerbitan yang disebut bukanlah satu misteri. Semasa hidupnya dulu, arwah MGG Pillay pernah memberitahu Rudin X bahawa penerbitan-penerbitan yang disebut dipercayai mempunyai bajet yang besar untuk membolehkan maklumat dalaman yang terperinci “digoda” keluar dari kalangan orang-orang yang rapat dengan Tun Dr Mahathir, atau sesiapa pun watak yang menjadi tajuk utama berita.
Amati juga bahawa tidak semua rumusan atau tuduhan yang dibuat dalam artikel ini atau artikel-artikel lain dari FreeMalaysia adalah tepat.
Mahathir suffers fools and knaves
This is the first in a series of articles that highlight a recurring pattern in Mahathir’s lengthy tour at the helm of government: his readiness to pursue reckless schemes for personal or political enrichment and his talent for cover-ups and stonewalling when these gambits blow up.
The timeline of Mahathir’s rule is pockmarked with these explosions, but only a few minions have ever taken the rap. Even then, they have usually been restored to favored positions after the shortest appropriate period. That fact alone should make clear that they boast the most powerful of patrons – but that fact doesn’t stand alone. For most of these schemes have Mahathir’s fingerprints all over them.
A glutton for harebrained schemes
FreeMalaysia has been remiss for not earlier addressing Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's softer, naive, side. Yes, it's there. Consider, for instance, how easily he is taken in by con-artists and schemers. Think about how he so generously takes care of civil and political servants who faithfully guide his misconceived plans to their inevitable doom. And consider how readily he forgives himself and others for frivolously squandering many, many billions of ringgit throughout his 18-year-old regime on an array of harebrained schemes.
In short, Dr. M has been generous to fools and knaves, as long as they remained his fools and knaves.
Mahathir assumed the premiership in 1981 with an energy and zeal that few Malaysians had ever seen from the country's three previous prime ministers. "Clean, Efficient, Trustworthy" was his new administration's slogan and promise of a new form of open and accountable governance. But by the following year, he already was mired in the worst financial scandal in Malaysia's history – loan losses amounting to RM2.5 billion by Bumiputra Malaysia Finance, the Hong Kong subsidiary of state-owned Bank Bumiputra.
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