We Need Politicians Who Can Take Blames

Rais warns of legal action against errant private groups and bloggers. Read more here.

Again, warning by the authority of Malaysia against bloggers. Mr. Rais was saying "those who have broken the laws have to face legal action." This is very true indeed. Those who have broken the laws must face legal action, flog and kill them if necessary during detention, just like how the police killed the poor car thief suspect (read my lips, suspect only) Mr. Kugan. Talking about legal action, I wonder why no legal action was taken against the murderer (i.e. policemen) who killed Mr. Kugan. Enough, that's not my point of writing this article.

I supposed, Malaysia is the only developing country in the world that persecute someone who is telling the truth. Forgive me if I've exaggerated, but I have done my responsibility to put Malaysia in the 1st place ahead of all the developing nation. Yes, Malaysia Boleh!

Maybe it's just a kind of perception that the blogs out there are more a reliable news than the mainstreams. I mean, well, the blogs can't be always right, can they? But why are we believing in those blogs more than we believe in the mainstreams? I don't know about you guys, but my reason is simply because the mainstreams never publish the another side of a story and sometimes faked a story for their credit. They are out to protect the interest of political parties who own them. And that makes me really pissed. Although blogs are not always accurate and more often government-bashing, I chose them because they represent the true feeling of the people, whether rich or poor, tall or short, fat or slim, etc...

That is why we don't see many anti-government websites in the developed countries compared to Malaysia because their newspapers often practice in a more neutral way. The role of government-bashing, and policy-bashing already taken up by the newspapers. Therefore there is really nothing much to write about in the blogs about their government. Furthermore, most of the news are published online for people to comment, therefore providing a platform for criticism. Are Malaysian mainstream newspapers ready to do that? I doubt it because there is really no freedom of speech for the mainstreams.

The Malaysian government (especially The Information, Com­munications, Culture and Arts Ministry) should ask why there are more anti-government bloggers cropping up everyday, rather than trying to control the large number of them. Please put more time on reforming your news agent before lashing out at bloggers for disseminating untold stories. That's the problem with Malaysian Ministers, they consistently blame others for undermining the government, but failed to see the plank in their own eyes, and that's hypocrisy.

Yes, we need a Minister who is willing to take blame and be ready to make correction before it gets out of hand. They have to learn that by admitting mistake, doesn't mean they will be condemned forever. Instead, they will come out stronger and therefore earn the respect of the people.