How should we judge a government?

In Malaysia, if you don't watch television or read newspapers, you are uninformed; but if you do, you are misinformed!

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." - Malcolm X

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience - Mark Twain

Why we should be against censorship in a court of law: Publicity is the very soul of justice … it keeps the judge himself, while trying, under trial. - Jeremy Bentham

"Our government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no
responsibility at the other. " - Ronald Reagan

Government fed by the people

Government fed by the people

Career options

Career options
I suggest government... because nobody has ever been caught.

Corruption so prevalent it affects English language?

Corruption so prevalent it affects English language?
Corruption is so prevalent it affects English language?

When there's too much dirt...

When there's too much dirt...
We need better tools... to cover up mega corruptions.

Prevent bullying now!

Prevent bullying now!
If you're not going to speak up, how is the world supposed to know you exist? “Orang boleh pandai setinggi langit, tapi selama ia tidak menulis, ia akan hilang di dalam masyarakat dan dari sejarah.” - Ananta Prameodya Toer (Your intellect may soar to the sky but if you do not write, you will be lost from society and to history.)

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Pork-barreling ok here?

"From the universal standards of free and fair elections, vote-buying is universally rejected and even given a nasty nick name `pork-barreling'.

Vote-buying as practiced in Malaysia is often a double crime - firstly, in trying to influence the voter/s through giving cash or kind, or promising the same; secondly, it also involves abusing public funds usually by tapping illegally into government coffers ie, the people's fund. The public is robbed collectively when a politician abuses with impunity his/her position to steal public funds to buy votes and improve his/her sagging electoral appeal.
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The EC claims that it has no investigative power and thus pushed the job to the MACC. The MACC claimed that their legal definition of corruption was so very different from the Election Offenses Act that they would not touch the matter. And so the truth is, the very law prohibiting vote-buying does not have an enforcer!"

More where that came from:

http://www.malaysiakini.com/letters/130342
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