KoSong: Dr. Chandra, what was good enough for the goose, wasn't good enough for the gander?

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

Saturday, September 22, 2012

Dr. Chandra, what was good enough for the goose, wasn't good enough for the gander?

"Chandra Muzaffar, Chairman of the 1 Malaysia Foundation and a leading BN ‘thinker’, has leapt onto the front pages of the news issuing dire warnings of ‘foreign plots’ to destabilise the government and indeed ‘global security’!

In the process he has astoundingly associated BN with a whole slew of slimy dictators, whom peoples across the world have been pleased to see the back of over the past several months and implied that getting rid of Mubarak, Gadaffi, Ben Ali and others was a bad thing because it might ‘destabilise’ Malaysia!

Plainly forgetting that Malaysia is supposed to be a democracy already and therefore supportive of such key aspects of the free world as press freedom, the right to freedom of speech and the right to peaceful protest, Chandra has also engaged in a rant against some of the world’s most respected pro-democracy foundations such as the Open Society Foundation and the Washington-based National Endowment for Democracy (NED).

He blames these institutions for their modest and open grants to civil society groups such as Bersih and Suaram and other groups who have been working to expose corruption and oppression in Malaysia.

But, what about the huge sums that have been channelled by UMNO/BN into his own organisation, 1 Malaysia Foundation? And what about the vast illegal sums that are taken secretly from state coffers to support his own political party’s 50 year stranglehold on government?..."

http://www.malaysia-chronicle.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=41386:afraid-of-a-malay-spring-najib--bn-make-fools-of-themselves-defending-dictators&Itemid=2

The following cartoon seems apt...

Update on Sept 23:

'Malaysiakini, Suaram and several other NGOs have come out with all guns blazing after an article by the New Straits Times on Friday linked them to a plot to destabilise the Malaysian government.

“No one called us to get our side of the story,” was the main reaction to the NST’s front-page report...'