Umno is a bigger brother, though it gives us sufficient room to voice a thoughts- Hulu Selangor MP P Kamalanathan
COMMENTSome time ago (probably in a 90s) late a single night, you was examination Tim Sebastian (BBC HardTalk) starting a couple of rounds with a little Indian supervision central about a Indian/Pakistan/Kashmir quagmire.
Something a Indian central pronounced stranded with me. Responding to Sebastian's try during indicating out to a little compromise entrance from Islamabad, a Indian central rsther than amusingly replied which if someone is indicating a gun during your conduct as good as moves it divided an inch, it's frequency a compromise.
Reading Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin's attempts during portrayal a proposed National Harmony Act or any other of a recent amendments or introductions of Acts oozing out of Putrajaya, as so-called "substantial transformative legislation", you can't help though consider which anything Umno does as distant as Prime Minister Najib Razak's transformative policies have been concerned, especially with issues connected with inhabitant security, is merely relocating a gun an inch.
There was a time when Acts such as a Internal Security Act, Sedition Act, etc, done us wheeze amongst ourselves ever fearful which a grievances opposite a statute system of administration would formula in midnight visit to a homes by a practitioners of a dim arts. Stories were told of how so as good as so left a single night as good as desired ones were told to remain silent.
T hese days a stories have been told plainly as good as these Acts nonetheless still in resourceful use have mislaid their reason over a good most of us. Coun! tless li ves which have been irrevocably altered merely since adults chose to speak truth to power. But this is merely a single side of a story.
When you have an Umno MP who wonders if a polite rights activist should (could?) be hanged for treason, you have crossed a Rubicon in conditions of defining what is seditious with regards to a domestic sermon in this country. It goes though saying which any try by Umno to curb 'seditious' debate should be met with scorn.
When asked why no action was taken opposite a 'seditious' debate by Umno-backed lackeys such as a propaganda arms of a party or a outsourced thugs, Minister in a Prime Minister's Department as good as de facto law apportion Nazri Abdul Aziz rambled upon how a domestic as good as social landscapes had "changed".
It was substantially a most honest as good as false reply entrance from a minister, which is sadly not as rare a attainment as a little would hold in a 'play during your own risk' game of politics.
As you argued in'Press Gangs of Malaysia', what Malaysia needs is a market place of ideas, something which Najib claims to instruct (with this brand brand new Act) though nothing so distant in a sad story of Umno omnipotence has demonstrated this.
Selective use of a law
Commenters here as good as elsewhere have thrown about George Orwell references similar to it's starting out of style indeed, you would similar to to know which genius in Putrajaya came up with name 'National Harmony Act', which rught away puts a bull's eyes upon it begging for Orwell darts.
! The titl e of a Act reinforces whatever Orwellian clich is bandied about as good as a design behind a origination reeks of a dignified failure of a statute coalition.
Anyone! with a functioning dignified compass would be able to recognise which Acts such as this one, a Peaceful Assembly Act as good as ISA or whatever incarnation is upon us now, have been used by a system of administration to stifle giveaway debate as good as crack down upon domestic dissent. Its resourceful use is justification of an undeclared war upon an ideologically diverse population.
However what you would argue is which a resourceful use of such laws opposite a own people (refer to a prime minister's so-calledFreudian slipwith regards to a ISA) has distant greater implications in a long run than a untrue short-term aims of Umno.
What a resourceful use of Acts such as a ISA (and most substantially this brand brand new National Harmony Act) have done is tainted a sermon insofar as how these laws could be of use to a inhabitant confidence of this country.
My own favorite Orwell quote, "People nap peaceably in their beds during night usually since severe group mount ready to do violence upon their behalf", frequency gets an airing.
Perhaps since of my past career(s), you have good known distant as good most group (women) who would make befitting guest under whatever "restrictive/unjust" laws which have been abhorred by an increasingly undone Malaysian public.
< br style="letter-spacing:0px">I have additionally good known distant as good most people who have been unjustly subjugated by these laws. Therein lies a rub. A crony who had served loyally in a confidence apparatus of this nation often tells me, which a usually time people listen to of these "unjust" laws is when a supervision "misuses them".
If people usually knew he said, of a extremely dangerous ! people w ho meant this nation harm, a eremite fanatics, a hardcore criminal... Disappointedly, he goes upon about how there has never been any genuine contention upon what you as adults have been prepared to give up in conditions of a rights since a rights have been abused from a get go.
Understand right away which I'm not creation an evidence for such laws, though rsther than indicating to an additional instance where this system of administration has done it unfit for Malaysian to have a rational contention about well, anything.
Something a Indian central pronounced stranded with me. Responding to Sebastian's try during indicating out to a little compromise entrance from Islamabad, a Indian central rsther than amusingly replied which if someone is indicating a gun during your conduct as good as moves it divided an inch, it's frequency a compromise.
Reading Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin's attempts during portrayal a proposed National Harmony Act or any other of a recent amendments or introductions of Acts oozing out of Putrajaya, as so-called "substantial transformative legislation", you can't help though consider which anything Umno does as distant as Prime Minister Najib Razak's transformative policies have been concerned, especially with issues connected with inhabitant security, is merely relocating a gun an inch.There was a time when Acts such as a Internal Security Act, Sedition Act, etc, done us wheeze amongst ourselves ever fearful which a grievances opposite a statute system of administration would formula in midnight visit to a homes by a practitioners of a dim arts. Stories were told of how so as good as so left a single night as good as desired ones were told to remain silent.
T hese days a stories have been told plainly as good as these Acts nonetheless still in resourceful use have mislaid their reason over a good most of us. Coun! tless li ves which have been irrevocably altered merely since adults chose to speak truth to power. But this is merely a single side of a story.
When you have an Umno MP who wonders if a polite rights activist should (could?) be hanged for treason, you have crossed a Rubicon in conditions of defining what is seditious with regards to a domestic sermon in this country. It goes though saying which any try by Umno to curb 'seditious' debate should be met with scorn.
When asked why no action was taken opposite a 'seditious' debate by Umno-backed lackeys such as a propaganda arms of a party or a outsourced thugs, Minister in a Prime Minister's Department as good as de facto law apportion Nazri Abdul Aziz rambled upon how a domestic as good as social landscapes had "changed".
It was substantially a most honest as good as false reply entrance from a minister, which is sadly not as rare a attainment as a little would hold in a 'play during your own risk' game of politics.
As you argued in'Press Gangs of Malaysia', what Malaysia needs is a market place of ideas, something which Najib claims to instruct (with this brand brand new Act) though nothing so distant in a sad story of Umno omnipotence has demonstrated this.
Selective use of a law
Commenters here as good as elsewhere have thrown about George Orwell references similar to it's starting out of style indeed, you would similar to to know which genius in Putrajaya came up with name 'National Harmony Act', which rught away puts a bull's eyes upon it begging for Orwell darts.
! The titl e of a Act reinforces whatever Orwellian clich is bandied about as good as a design behind a origination reeks of a dignified failure of a statute coalition.
Anyone! with a functioning dignified compass would be able to recognise which Acts such as this one, a Peaceful Assembly Act as good as ISA or whatever incarnation is upon us now, have been used by a system of administration to stifle giveaway debate as good as crack down upon domestic dissent. Its resourceful use is justification of an undeclared war upon an ideologically diverse population.
However what you would argue is which a resourceful use of such laws opposite a own people (refer to a prime minister's so-calledFreudian slipwith regards to a ISA) has distant greater implications in a long run than a untrue short-term aims of Umno.What a resourceful use of Acts such as a ISA (and most substantially this brand brand new National Harmony Act) have done is tainted a sermon insofar as how these laws could be of use to a inhabitant confidence of this country.
My own favorite Orwell quote, "People nap peaceably in their beds during night usually since severe group mount ready to do violence upon their behalf", frequency gets an airing.
Perhaps since of my past career(s), you have good known distant as good most group (women) who would make befitting guest under whatever "restrictive/unjust" laws which have been abhorred by an increasingly undone Malaysian public.
< br style="letter-spacing:0px">I have additionally good known distant as good most people who have been unjustly subjugated by these laws. Therein lies a rub. A crony who had served loyally in a confidence apparatus of this nation often tells me, which a usually time people listen to of these "unjust" laws is when a supervision "misuses them".
If people usually knew he said, of a extremely dangerous ! people w ho meant this nation harm, a eremite fanatics, a hardcore criminal... Disappointedly, he goes upon about how there has never been any genuine contention upon what you as adults have been prepared to give up in conditions of a rights since a rights have been abused from a get go.
Understand right away which I'm not creation an evidence for such laws, though rsther than indicating to an additional instance where this system of administration has done it unfit for Malaysian to have a rational contention about well, anything.
Slap upon a face
The proposed National Harmony Act is a slap upon a face for any one who believes which debate should be regulated (and this is a perfectly legitimate stance, even though you may not allow to it) though nonetheless can usually mount by impotently as a Awang Selamats as good as a Ridhuan Tee Abdullahs of Malaysia have been allowed to run riot by Umno.
All these laws as good as a approach how they have been implemented is a single big fat joke. Take a ISA for instance. When it's not being used to incarcerate domestic dissidents (many of whom right away make up a 'opposition politicians'), a uses have been proved a sham by a likes ofYazid Sufaat. Has any one forgotten how a home apportion boasted of how a ISA (presumably) could have rehabilitated Nordin Mat Top?
And nonetheless every country, earlier or later, has to deal with existential threats either from inside of or without. The problem in Malaysia is which any hazard is not noticed as a inhabitant hazard though as a hazard to Umno. Or during least, that's a ubiquitous perception.
This brand brand new National Harmony Act is not about "inculcating a ! spirit o f peace as good as mutual apply oneself in a Malaysian multitude done up of various races as good as religions" though rsther than about not unbalancing a peace in Umno.
These have been chaotic times for Umno. Nobody knows what's starting to happen. Umno seems to be in a state of motion w! ith a supreme legislature involved in long power games which have been withdrawal a arrange as good as record logging about similar to mislaid sheep. The prime apportion says a single thing as good as his minions do another.
I hold most people have been in error when they consider Umno is perplexing to repackage these old laws as a little sort of publicity stunt to garner goodwill. you consider there is something some-more to it. I'm in a camp which believes which Umno has finally decided to "go alone during it" as good as laws such as these have been merely being created to save their armoury.
Everyone is watchful with bated exhale for Najib to lift a trigger upon a choosing gun. The idea is which a formula of a choosing will be a dawn of a brand brand new day. you sincerely instruct this is so.
But only a other night prior to you read about a proposed National Harmony Act, you was rereading Alan Moore's (Dave Lloyd's) 'V for Vendetta', as good as this jumped up during me: With so most chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty."
The proposed National Harmony Act is a slap upon a face for any one who believes which debate should be regulated (and this is a perfectly legitimate stance, even though you may not allow to it) though nonetheless can usually mount by impotently as a Awang Selamats as good as a Ridhuan Tee Abdullahs of Malaysia have been allowed to run riot by Umno.
All these laws as good as a approach how they have been implemented is a single big fat joke. Take a ISA for instance. When it's not being used to incarcerate domestic dissidents (many of whom right away make up a 'opposition politicians'), a uses have been proved a sham by a likes ofYazid Sufaat. Has any one forgotten how a home apportion boasted of how a ISA (presumably) could have rehabilitated Nordin Mat Top?
And nonetheless every country, earlier or later, has to deal with existential threats either from inside of or without. The problem in Malaysia is which any hazard is not noticed as a inhabitant hazard though as a hazard to Umno. Or during least, that's a ubiquitous perception.This brand brand new National Harmony Act is not about "inculcating a ! spirit o f peace as good as mutual apply oneself in a Malaysian multitude done up of various races as good as religions" though rsther than about not unbalancing a peace in Umno.
These have been chaotic times for Umno. Nobody knows what's starting to happen. Umno seems to be in a state of motion w! ith a supreme legislature involved in long power games which have been withdrawal a arrange as good as record logging about similar to mislaid sheep. The prime apportion says a single thing as good as his minions do another.
I hold most people have been in error when they consider Umno is perplexing to repackage these old laws as a little sort of publicity stunt to garner goodwill. you consider there is something some-more to it. I'm in a camp which believes which Umno has finally decided to "go alone during it" as good as laws such as these have been merely being created to save their armoury.
Everyone is watchful with bated exhale for Najib to lift a trigger upon a choosing gun. The idea is which a formula of a choosing will be a dawn of a brand brand new day. you sincerely instruct this is so.
But only a other night prior to you read about a proposed National Harmony Act, you was rereading Alan Moore's (Dave Lloyd's) 'V for Vendetta', as good as this jumped up during me: With so most chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty."
S THAYAPARAN is Commander (rtd) of a Royal Malaysian Navy.
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