— no wonder the masses are agitated
By Ooi Kee Beng
The Malaysian Insider
February 22, 2009
Extract of the article above:
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In truth, the political game in Malaysia has reached the level where intrigues and hidden tactics are the order of the day, where the mass media, the police and the judiciary are no longer expected to act professionally, objectively, and with integrity.
Politicians, even leading politicians, are certainly not expected to act like statesmen, and in a non-partisan manner.
Under such circumstances, no one really expects any proof to be reliable or made readily available. Indeed, proof becomes rather superfluous where faith and trust in the institutions of state are in short supply.
Perception is everything in politics, and in Malaysia, where the BN has been in power since independence and controls — and has consequently compromised — all the institutions of government to varying degrees, any episode that hurts the opposition is invariably believed to bear BN’s fingerprints.
No evidence either way, be it in the Perak crisis or the Wong case, or even in the many politically charged criminal cases being heard at the moment in Malaysian courts, is taken at face value by the public.
Malaysia’s addiction to conspiracy theories is quite incurable, fed as it is by dose after dose of bewildering episodes and partisan posturing.
It is not only Perak that is suffering a constitutional crisis. The whole country is mired in a misguided democracy. — Today
Politicians, even leading politicians, are certainly not expected to act like statesmen, and in a non-partisan manner.
Under such circumstances, no one really expects any proof to be reliable or made readily available. Indeed, proof becomes rather superfluous where faith and trust in the institutions of state are in short supply.
Perception is everything in politics, and in Malaysia, where the BN has been in power since independence and controls — and has consequently compromised — all the institutions of government to varying degrees, any episode that hurts the opposition is invariably believed to bear BN’s fingerprints.
No evidence either way, be it in the Perak crisis or the Wong case, or even in the many politically charged criminal cases being heard at the moment in Malaysian courts, is taken at face value by the public.
Malaysia’s addiction to conspiracy theories is quite incurable, fed as it is by dose after dose of bewildering episodes and partisan posturing.
It is not only Perak that is suffering a constitutional crisis. The whole country is mired in a misguided democracy. — Today
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The writer is a Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
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Source: The Malaysian Insider
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2 comments:
Well, there is worse anarchism going on in Bolehland. You remember the outrage of Malaysians when a MAS assistant pilot whose wife was expecting her 3rd child was caught with "violent children porno" in Australia? Well, that man is the son of MACC's Chief, Said Ahmad Hamdan. Read more:
http://sjsandteam.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/macc-chairmanthe-father-of-child-pornography/#comments
jar,
kautim alredi and its now Malaysian Agency for Cars and Cows to return favours by damning Khalid.
Hamdan, you want to be a fat cat politician, just join UMNO and stop hiding behind cars and cows, ok.
When Teresa sued Toyo, she was ISAed for her own good.
When Ronnie Liu sued Toyo, he was charge by the police.
When Khalid sued Toyo, MACC was used to go after him.
Walau, who is this powerful Toyo?
Anyone still dare to sue Toyo?
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