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.)

Saturday, January 08, 2011

We don't use common sense anymore, do we?

The appointment of Khusrin as Selangor State Secretary for whatever reasons best known to the decision-makers but claimed to be apolitical, against the wishes of the State CEO, went against the grains of common sense. But did they care?

It could be part of a bigger scheme of things to create trouble: the appointment could lead to actions taken by MB which could be unpopular to the people, or as suspected, the appointee could be a mole within which would at least create suspicions at every turn.

We have just had the open verdict of the coroner in the Teoh Beng Hock's case. As a result of the public uproar over the 'not a suicide and not a homicide' (someone actually commented that it means he should still be alive!), the PM and cabinet have decided to have a Royal Commission of Inquiry, but limited to checking on the investigation procedures of MACC! In other words, at the end of the Inquiry, we already know the best we could get is that certain procedures were wrong or correct procedures were carried out excessively, or something to that effect. Just like the 'open verdict' of the Inquest which anybody could have guessed correctly.

The family of the late Teoh Beng Hock wanted justice, but our PM and other decision-makers insisted on beating around the bush instead of finding the culprits directly responsible for his death. If the RCI of Anwar's black eye could reveal the then IGP as the guilty party, the scope of TBH's RCI should also be widened so that it could reveal the real culprits too. But do they care?

I wonder if those who were responsible for the death of Teoh Beng Hock, as well as those who could have made a difference between a whitewash and a thorough investigation but did not do the necessary, could sleep well. Maybe there are indeed people without conscience.

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