The Star, page N18, 5th April 2007:
When you have a weak government, but who ironically are democratically elected by the people who had put them in power with the expectation that they would administer the nation with competency and ensure that the very people of the nation were provided with the best in terms of economic, social and security stability, instead we have a government who had not been able to control corruption, worse off, partake massively from breakfast to supper, and even in their nocturnal hours. Being incompetent and opaque, they now feared that the information world will expose their inefficiencies and inabilities, and extraordinary wealth and desires.
Now, the Minister is proposing to suppress the bloggers - the minister is calling for a legislation to be passed so that all bloggers will be required to be registered so that they can be tracked and controlled and suppressed. What was wanted was that only bloggers who are pro-government, pro-establishment, willing to spin and lie so that the people, the rakyat, will have only good news of things and that all failures and mismanagement should be curtailed and blanketed.
Is this the government we had elected? I am afraid, we did.
When you have a weak government, but who ironically are democratically elected by the people who had put them in power with the expectation that they would administer the nation with competency and ensure that the very people of the nation were provided with the best in terms of economic, social and security stability, instead we have a government who had not been able to control corruption, worse off, partake massively from breakfast to supper, and even in their nocturnal hours. Being incompetent and opaque, they now feared that the information world will expose their inefficiencies and inabilities, and extraordinary wealth and desires.
Now, the Minister is proposing to suppress the bloggers - the minister is calling for a legislation to be passed so that all bloggers will be required to be registered so that they can be tracked and controlled and suppressed. What was wanted was that only bloggers who are pro-government, pro-establishment, willing to spin and lie so that the people, the rakyat, will have only good news of things and that all failures and mismanagement should be curtailed and blanketed.
Is this the government we had elected? I am afraid, we did.
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14 comments:
After this compulsory registration of bloggers, malaysian schools and universities will need to study "The Thoughts of Chairman Abdollah", "The umno nep manifesto", "our great leader's islam hadhari", "malaysia the first islamic state in soutteast asia" ect. All these will make Kim Jong IL green with envy.
Hi Maverick,
You are spot on. This is a government which is weak on legitimacy. Sure, it wins every General Election, but it stays in power through manipulation and restriction of information and expression of opinions.
Yes, they have cause to fear Blogs, not because of any non-existent threat to national security, but a threat to Barisan Nasional/ UMNO. That, of course, is not valid basis for any legislation.
The Birth of the Malaysian "Mao Tze Tung"
Why wasting time controlling blogs when they can easily wipe clean their asses by getting the job done? Orhh, the later is something they can never achieve.
Bodoh ministers are running the country to the ground. What can we do? Just continue to vote for them while we can lor.
Charles Dickens once wrote, "The law is (sic) a ass...a idiot" (Unquote) Equally applies to the policy-maker. Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made, says another. Look from another point of view: we often hear the fairytale "frog" turning into a prince. In our country, our frogs far from turning into noble princes, often end up as ostriches. While many of us can take one small step forward, our powerful "idiots" take one giant step backwards.
The view "In our country, our frogs far from turning into noble princes, often end up as ostriches" is NOT true. Our frogs end up as VULTURES which then feed on us.
Thailand, Turkey, Brazil, Egypt and others have already done so.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/04/technology/thai.php
weak and scary.
the more the ministers spoke up against us bloggers, the more it is telling on them that they are scared of us!
Yes, I agree with you. Weak...
BTW, I dun understand how can this be done. The registration is limited to local host?
They can't impose the registration on blogger and other non-local host right?
Tiu ! I first one go register if they give free motorbike ! HAHAHAH!
well said... i am thinking if i should blog about this... heck, i may be overly sarcastic...
zewt, we are from GOM's era, sarcastic means we use our brains unlike these 'monkey' mps out there.
Hi Anon,
Thailand banned UTube that insulted the King, not what our Deputy Minister is suggesting.
"We have blocked YouTube because it contains a video insulting to our king," Winai Yoosabai, head of the censorship unit at the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, said.
The Thai ban on YouTube, the popular video-sharing Web site, came after YouTube's owner, Google, refused to remove the video clip, the communications minister, Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom, said.
The clip - crude, amateurish and lasting less than a minute - depicts the king with clown features painted onto his face and an image of feet over his head, a highly insulting gesture in Thailand.
agree with Kitty Kat man..where did this TOKOH WARTAWAN Info Min come from man? sounds like chairman mao himself...
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