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.)

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Did most of us mistake someone else as the late Baharuddin Ahmad?

This picture and others of the man in the middle had been used and described as that of Baharuddin Ahmad...


This picture is that of the late Baharuddin Ahmad...

I have come across reports in Sin Chew Jit Poh as well as Bernama in which the police had denied the man in the first picture was that of the late Baharuddin.

There was a picture or video in Facebook which featured the man in the first picture, posted or commented by Wong Chin Huat which was later commented by Maria Chin Abdullah that he was not Baharuddin Ahmad and that we should stop the comments since a wrong picture had been used.

Anyway, I just wish to comment that since Baharuddin Ahmad died of heart failure or heart attack, I hope there is going to be some improvement in the way we treat similar cases in future. I sincerely believe that only those trained to deal with such medical emergencies should handle such cases because a well equipped ambulance together with well trained personnel could make a difference between life and death. Since one Christmas day dinner for old folks in Pusing when a committee member had a heart attack and died soon after he was carried by those around to a car and sent to the Batu Gajah hospital, I cringe each time I come across such cases.

In 1987, my eldest brother at the age of 51 suffered a heart attack and was wheeled into KL General Hospital. He died soon after. In 2008, his second son at the same age, suffered a heart attack in London. He was attended to by well trained personnel in a well equipped ambulance and sent to Guy's Hospital, a large teaching hospital and is home to the King's College London School of Medicine and Dentistry. He was treated immediately and had an angioplasty done. He is now fitter than before and said his previous NHS contributions had been well worth it.

I think the moral of my story is that apart from the advancement in medical science and treatment since 1987, how we handle a case of heart attack before a patient reaches a hospital and how he is treated would make a difference between life and death. I wish our policemen would treat fellow humans with decency and care when carrying out their duties and in a medical emergency, to treat a patient with utmost care and attention regardless of whether he has committed an offence. Further, to have actually fired tear gas and water cannons into a hospital building can be considered most callous and inhumane because instead of saving, the police was actually trying to hurt people who tried to hide in the hospital and in so doing endangering the lives of hospital patients. It is most unacceptable by any standard and to deny when there are photos and videos to substantiate seems indefensible.
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