10 years after the black eye incident
Thursday, July 17th, 2008 | 11:07 am @ SK
Once again, the Special Squad cops with balaclavas who whisked the PKR de-facto leader Anwar Ibrahim away in such an abrupt manner put Malaysia in the wrong limelight.
In another word, Malaysia itself is like a drama where new chapters unfolded and there is never a single day without fresh conspiracy theories and accusations, worse, for a certain political advantage, every single soul in this country is inconvenienced. You setup roadblocks everywhere in fear of public protest?
Prior to that, Malaysia stocks fell to a 16-month low, our Ringgit slumped the most in two weeks, investors left the domestic scene in a lurch and many more explosive allegations never cease to plunge the country into crisis mode.
Not long ago, Anwar was freed on bail. Today, Malaysia Today’s Raja Petra Kamarudin is to be the next on the list, being charged for criminal defamation and he appears to be in the mood to fight.
"I’m in the mood to f*** the government. What more do you want me to say?" he said.
How about the next in line? Never know.
However, I notice that desperate moves start to show its tails, with sign of massive crackdown much akin to the Operasi Lalang, but the bottom line is, no one really believes that Anwar or RPK’s arrest will end the power struggle in Malaysia as the country in 2008 is different from what it was in 1998 in several key respects.
A short moment after the forceful capture, blogs and other Internet-based news sources like Malaysiakini, Merdeka Review and etc. started to spread the news in an effortless manner. Netizens and online alternative medias now inform public discourse, even as the mainstream media continue to be dominated by parties in the ruling coalition.
Malaysia ought to serve as a statutory warning to fast-growing Asian nations about the pointlessness of chasing the dream of Western-style prosperity while failing to build strong democratic institutions.
It’s wishful thinking that the latter would miraculously appear when the Barisan Nasional government chooses to believe that its continuation of a very long and old legacy of BN administration in place.
July 17th, 2008 at 9:18 am
July 17th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Hello,
I personally think that the federal government is making huge reformations since the rakyat urge for it.
With the propaganda of strong opposition led by DSAI created PR to influence most of the citizens with promises of reformations once they have take over the current government by september 16.
The previous arrogance of federal government had paid the cause. Protesters and most citizens had begone to be un-confidence with the current PM administrating the country.
But we forgot that his current leadership had made merge the reformations of media press, judicials, educationsa adn opednness in speeches and democratic pratice in the country for the opposition parties. Otherwise, the debate would be impossible.
ACA had also revolutized by which its party has become more independent. They can decide either to investigate cases or not without the permission authorise by AG.
The federal government is now desperate in doing their jobs, and at the same time seeking back for rakyat’s support in continuing their mandate to rule the country for many years to come.
September 5th, 2008 at 5:28 pm