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Democracy and freedom of expression
In The Wolf as well as a Silence of a Lamb, we said, among others:
The core of democracy is representation. It is a system of governance where a people have been represented by representatives who have been inaugurated by a people. These representatives afterwards form a government. The supervision than governs a people. A state is afterwards formed, consisting of a supervision as well as a people it governs.
More importantly, we attempted to correct a renouned notion which democracy was a cause of liberty. After alluding to Marx Utopian state, we opined:
The viewable smirch in Marx's speculation of a ideal society creates democracy a really alluring alternative. If during all, it pushes to a fore a false notion which autocracy is a product of democracy, when in actuality democracy is only but a single of a most (flawed) ways of safeguarding liberty. Liberty is not caused by democracy. It rather is a cause for democracy.
And we asked a little sobering questions:
That brings us to a little sobering thoughts. Can autocracy be usurped by democracy? Is it probable for a democracy to fall short autocracy in itself? In which event, what will happen to democracy? Can it exist but liberty?
I would like, in this article, to enhance a theoretical postulation which a basement of democracy is autocracy as well as freedom, in conditions of a leisure of countenance of a people in a approved state.
I feel which a low understanding of this area of a democracy speculation is important, more particularly due to a current climate in Malaysia, where BERSIH is formulation a convene for electoral reform upon a 9th Jul this year whilst during a same time, a usual suspects of horror as well as doom, Perkasa, Ibrahim Ali as well as their ilk have been formulation to create disturbances.
Democracy, to my mind, starts w! ith an c ountenance of will by a people or a group of people. The will which was being expressed was t! he will to be represented in a governance as well as administration department of a state which a people formed.
That will was expressed through a routine of elections.
It would not thus be distant fetched to say which a state of democracy is anchored to, as well as in actuality born, out of which countenance of will. The countenance of a peoples will is therefore a bearing of democracy.
However, a countenance of a peoples will does not end with a cast of characters of votes. A loyal as well as energetic democracy requires successive rendezvous of minds in between a State as well as a people. The inaugurated representatives have been not angels. They have been not gods. Being tellurian who have been garbed with power robes, temptations lurk in each corner. Abuse of powers as well as positions have been only but a finger snap away. Powers corrupts. Absolute powers corrupt absolutely, said a really correct man.
Furthermore, democracy is also tied up to charge by numbers. Which means, a infancy would win a right to rule. Regardless, a success of a approved State is not in a manner in which a infancy rules. It is measured by looking during how a infancy balances as well as treats a rights as well as final of a infancy with a viewable desires as well as wants of a minority bearing in thoughts a general gratification of a State as a whole.
In such a energetic as well as colourful state of things, countenance of a people continues as well as contingency be allowed to continue if a suggestive democracy were to exist.
The people demonstrate their will as well as mind. The State, around a government, listens as well as acts. The routine continues. It is this successive as well as mutual rendezvous of a will as well as mind, in between a people as well as a State, which gives democracy a soul.
Democracy does not meant a people expressing their will by cast of charac! ters the ir votes once in 5 years as well as after which a inaugurated deputy could pretence which they have been mandated to do anything during their whim as well as whim until their 5 year tenure ends during which time they come back for a new mandate. That is only at certain time of year absolutism. A benevolen! t absolu tist even a police - State masked as a democracy where democracy is used to legitimise a States gusto for sadistic as well as sinful intents.
When there is a general intention to demonstrate a peoples will, it is not for a State to forestall such countenance of will by citing confidence or economics reason. In a colourful democracy, a obliged State should act to facilitate a countenance of which will in a peaceful as well as orderly fashion. That is a duty of a State.
A State which act to forestall a lawful countenance of will by a people which it governs is a State aroused of a own voice. That State loses a dignified legitimacy to order as well as to be respected.
The State contingency remember which a will of a people is insidious. That it exists inside their mind. What they wish to do is a demonstrate which will.
Even when such countenance is supressed, either by a overt acts of a State of any of a machinations, a will still exists. It will not go away.
Although a countenance of a will might be prevented, a will cant.
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In PWD, two DGs force crisis
Although Datuk Mohd Noor Yaacob was allocated to a in front of upon May 1, a male he is ostensible to have transposed Datuk Seri Judin Abdul Karim stays in his office.
Judin was in lieu of which development assigned as arch senior manager of a Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) a some-more youth post. This apparent demotion but prior to disciplinary action, thus contravenes a Public Officers (Conduct as well as Discipline) Regulations 1993.
The Malaysian Insider understands which Judin, who has been director-general for three years, has selected instead to stay put whilst Mohd Noor continues to work from his aged bureau as a departments emissary senior manager ubiquitous II.
A legitimate PWD director-general (DG) is consequential since all open functions contracts have to be signed by him, supervision officers said.
According to multiform former leaders of a polite service union, this should not have happened nor has it precedence.
One former comparison Cuepacs military officer pronounced which a dialect conduct can customarily be demoted if it was endorsed by a house of conduct, implying a disciplinary case.
If there was any abuse of power, it would meant a sack but in this instance, there was no disciplinary case. Therefore it breaches a Public Officers Regulations, he said.
Mohd Noor was promoted by a Chief Secretary to a Government Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan during a finish of April.
It coincided with Judins reassignment which a obligatory feels is a demotion, according to Pokok Sena MP Datuk Mahfuz Omar who raised a emanate in Parliament yesterday.
There is something not! right i n a PWD. There is a confused administration there as well as in a works! ministr y, he pronounced when contacted by The Malaysian Insider.
The PAS clamp boss pronounced which whilst Mohd Noor attended meetings as well as carried out a duties of a DG, a question arose of how a situation occurred in a first place.
Mahfuz pronounced which Judins argument is a CIDB arch senior manager post is reduce than a senior manager general.
Judin considers himself mistreated with a demotion as well as we understand he refused to accept a papers notifying him of a change in designation, he said.
He combined which a move was even foreigner as Judin has three years to retirement whilst a male dictated to reinstate him has customarily a single prior to reaching age of pension.
Mahfuz also pronounced which a senior manager ubiquitous customarily gets to retire in which position, as well as multiform blogs as well as websites have already speculated which a changes were political in nature.
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So a reduction of distinguished African leaders with a little accused of genocide, mass murders as well as dictators have been all sitting gentle listening to an Asian leader, priesthood about governance as well as virtues of great supervision is not anything brand new in tactful behaviour. Even a UN is filled with great leaders as well as insane men. So you can't unequivocally error 1Malaysia for being a hypocritical even if BolehLand is spoken an Islamic State as well as a leaders have been great Muslims you can supposed.
But afterwards a little Islamic nations as well as Muslim rulers have been even worse than those Muslim leaders as well as Islamic nations in Asia as a former has no compunction to fire as well as attempted murder their people who demonstrate or make use of religious punitive punishment similar to a recent beheading as well as of march a dirty abounding have been living similar to Sultans of ole disposing opponents who dare challenge their power.
And which binds true for a little clearly courteous as well as Christian leaders as well who sleet bombs upon villages far away from their homeland in a name of peace, justice, democracy as well as of march making income from war.
But for BolehLand, you have been unapproachable or rather a supervision is unapproachable to say which given you do not reside to a Rome Stature you have been fine to entice those accused of crimes against humanity.
And a preference to entice Mugabe is since it's a supervision preference if you have been not to misquote what 1Malaysia was quoted to have pronounced Whatever you confirm is a process of a Government."
Thank goodness which it is a proce! ss of a supervision as well as not of a people! Because you as well as friends of mine would certainly not entice a mass murderer. We goal a BolehLand supervision would not even suggest to those who conflict a invitation of known criminals tha! t these leaders have not been proven guilty or only since a West accuse them of crimes against amiability or mass murderer, a male got to have a fair trial first, huh?
So if it's a process of a government, it leaves a rest of millions rationale minded ordinary adults hands clean as well as not dripping in blood.
In this general relations as well as diplomacy, heads of state handle civilly among themselves. Like ASEAN, they unequivocally have been powerless as well as do not care a hoot about abuses there as well as how they treated with colour a Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung SSK. Most likely a leaders all know they have been only as badly behaved as well as beat up their own people as well as bluster them similar to a rest, so noone wants to be seen some-more a hypocrite than others.
OF march those who wield troops or economic power have thick hides which they have been means to evangelise to others about morality, democracy as well as virtues of great governance as well as all that. Like a US of A as well as UK for one.
And there have been leaders who consider they have been great leaders since behind home they have been a jaguh kampungs as well as a Cabinet as well as party members all sembah in slavish tractability as well as they have as well as make use of a State institutions as well as equipment to whack those who conflict them if so required. Mix it with a tak malu as well as of march a critical Malaysia Boleh spirit, such personality or leaders can stand in front of obtuse as well as a little some-more dictator dictators as well as mass murderers as well as evangelise about great governance, even mouth-watering them to sense a great most success stories of a land!
That most you must applaud a leaders for being unequivocally u! napproac hable of their achievement. There is this need to gloat about a government's success so which a adults should be beholden for a most blessings which a supervision has finished for them as well as vote them you can supposed? This 'you see others look up to us as well as it means you have been you do something good' benefit is critical so which a adults will continue to believe which their supervision is a 'can or rather has finished no wrong' in a eyes of unfamiliar le! aders, i ncluding mass murderers, dictators, even those branded 'pariah' ones as well as a occasion horse opera leaders.
So upon an general as well as tactful level, being great to a head of state is some-more than only exhibiting civility. It's also about a apply oneself of a strong alternative God, a quest of money, which is. And it is not startling which traffic is at a behind of a thoughts of BolehLand. You can sell to these countries, you can make income as well as making income from nations whose people have been oppressed as well as living in poverty is great as it creates us BolehLand people abounding upon a highway to a high income multitude right?
In history, even a holy book tells us for money, male will do anything, even justice with a devil. So it's unequivocally zero if BolehLand leaders justice with mass murderers or dictators. It's a obtuse evil, right?
When a gathering of general leaders is in session, a sign is keep your God, a real God, which is, aside as well as turn one's courtesy to a a single male has loved given God created male - a adore of money, by trade, declaring fight to plunder a resources of a subjugated, even for nations to open their borders.
And in a quest for money, men have compromised beliefs as well as even ganged up with those robbers to sanction their movement as legitimate. That may be very old story how male by their leaders have sole their beliefs as well as courted crooks as well as thieves. Today you call it by most names, a latest is Langkawi International Dialogu! e, huh?< div>YAHMEH!!!
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Who will be Malaysias Obama?
It was a good knowledge examination in CNN how upon which night in US, Obama became President-elect. That election energised people across a US as good as a world. There was good goal as good as expectation. How we wish you could say a same about Malaysias leaders.
Here, there is an air of resignation, of politics as usual, like a passageway for liquid politics of sex videos. We need a leader who can energise us, whom you can relate to, as good as who embodies a prophesy for a New Malaysia. We need to get a large commission of a adults involved in a village process which is what Obama managed to do.
So, who can be Malaysias Obama? we consider you have elections function in a next 6-odd months. We need change, though will substantially not get it this time. The 3 choices this time are likely to be Najib Tun Razak (who has unhappy some-more than delighted), Anwar Ibrahim (lets goal he governs as good as he talks), as good as a dark equine in Muhideen Yassin (also a total disappointment). we consider you will have to wait a couple of some-more years prior to Malaysias Obama emerges.
What helped Obama was a Internet in raising cash for a campaign as good as mobilizing millions of supporters across a country. In Malaysia, which shift will come in 5-6 years nonetheless you saw something close to it in a 2008 elections with a mobile platform. But you additionally need leaders who can consider large as good as put Malaysia first, though sad you dont have which kind during this moment.
So, who will be Malaysias Obama? Any ideas? If we had to collect a single person, it would be Nurul Izzah Anwar Ibrahim. She is young even younger than Obama, relatively young compared to a people you have now. She is liberal, hardworking as good as left by benediction of fire when her father was thrown in jail for sodomy as good as portrayed a! s a bigg est sex maniac in Malaysia, all trumped up by a system. She survived all which shame as good as continued to ! be a goo d efficient Member of Parliament as good as to a people in her constituency. Mind you she is a women, a mother, a daughter as good as what shame she has been put through, as good as she still stands tall in annoy of all a shit thrown during her father.
Obama used a electronic media effectively to build his brand as good as channelise a tremendous await for his outline of goal as good as optimism. A couple of years down a line, you competence have a large number of Internet subscribers though we seriously doubt which you will have a politician who can rise above a cesspool as good as beget a same kind of enthusiasm between common people.
Of course a dual names we have referred to a stream PM, his Deputy, has been a large disappointment. They may be in effect campaigners as good as communicators though they rely heavily upon a same old plan of divide as good as rule. In summary, a poke for Obama is starting to be a long as good as hard one.
- Selvarajasomiah
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Nurul Izzah: Ibrahim Ali a coward
Nurul additionally lambasted a inaction over Ibrahims threats. file pic
Threats similar to which have been usually released by cowards. Its mind-boggling which a authorities have unsuccessful to reprimand him accordingly.
While you hold which you should apply oneself a right of all Malaysians to verbalise freely, this freedom is not something to be abused or to be used irresponsibly. As such, you am truly unhappy by a insinuations as well as potential language used by Datuk Ibrahim Ali, with regards to a Bersih 2.0 convene happening this Jul 9, a PKR vice-president told The Malaysian Insider.
Malay rights group Perkasa kicked off a Bersih 2.0 counter-protest in Kampung Baru yesterday by burning images of Bersih authority Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan as well as issuing a notice to a Chinese to stay indoors as anything could happen.
Ibrahim, who had appointed himself war general, pronounced if electoral reform coalition Bersih goes through with a Jul 9 rally, he will not be hold obliged for any untoward incidents which may occur.
Imagine if disharmony erupts. If a Bersih convene is not cancelled... you hold a Chinese village will have to batch up upon food, he had said.
Today, Nurul Izzah pronounced Malaysians should not be intimidated by Ibrahims threats.
Let us not be afraid to mount up for what you hold in. Let us not be stopped, for a sake of a better Malaysia, a Lembah Pantai MP said.
PKR Information Chief Chua Tian Chang opted for a more spiteful response to Ibrahims threats targeting a Chinese.
Thanks for his regard for Chinese. If [anything] would happen, you suspect all could be affected, right? But Datuk Ibrahim only worries for safety of Ch! inese, v ery considerate, he said.
Pakatan Rakyat (PR) component parties as well as activists have been gearing up to impetus upon Jul 9, a second such convene by choosing watchdog Bersih.
The initial convene in 2007 saw up to 50,000 people take to a capitals street, before they were diluted by military armed with tear gas as well as water cannon.
The 2007 convene has been credited for a PRs jot down gains in Election 2008, where a antithesis agreement was swept to power in five states as well as won 82 parliamentary seats.
PAS has promised to bring a little 300,000 protestors this year in hopes which it will galvanize await for a antithesis in a next general election, expected to be called within a year.
Perkasa has pledged to send 20 buses from each of a 10 peninsular Malaysian states, in further to supporters from 164 other non-governmental organisations.
Umno Youth has additionally pronounced it will impetus upon Jul 9 to opposite a Bersih rally.