Shoot some more!
I just want to rub it in on P Gunasegaram's attempt to 'shoot' me down.
Remember 2002? Tourism Minister Abdul Kadir Sheikh Fadzir said taxi drivers should be shot.
Here's the BBC story:
Malaysia's tourism minister has suggested that taxi drivers who are rude to tourists should be "lined up against the wall and shot".Abdul Kadir Sheikh Fadzir said cabbies who took advantage of the country's visitors were the "new enemies... the same as Communists".
"I am not joking, This is a serious matter. If they can be shot, all the better," he was quoted as saying by the Malay-language Berita Harian newspaper.
You can read the full story here. It's BBC OK?
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all our ministers should be wearing bow ties....and then shot.
JEFF OOI says: Shot with a Canon? Say cheese!
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August 4, 2006 07:06 PM
Lets get all the taxi driver to log a police report! File for defamation too, he called them a terrorist!
Haha.. such a attention whore.
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August 4, 2006 07:20 PM
*edit: I meant communist, not terrorist.
Just incase he decides to go for the small fry when he misses the big one, I hereby clearify and insist that I am the attention whore. Hahaha..
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August 4, 2006 07:23 PM
Anyone wanna bet the minister will say the BBC "misquoted him". Although there is voice recording ;)
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August 4, 2006 07:25 PM
The CMCF should write a letter back to him to stop interrupting our work with your nonsensical complaint.
Did he report to the police since it is 'life threatening'?
Oh what a joke!
To me,the writer was just disgusted with the rubbish written by him. That's all.
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August 4, 2006 07:27 PM
I hope Gunasegaram will speak for those taxi drivers.
oh btw, Jeff, good to know that Gunasegaram is not only reading your blog, he is paying attention to the readers' comments too.
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August 5, 2006 01:12 AM
I have a good laugh reading the over reaction of Mr. Guna towards the Screenshots commentary.
And this 2002 BBC newsreport of another 'they should be shot' commentary just makes it more hilarious.
With all due respect, he (Mr. Guna) has all the right to react the way he did towards the commentary made Ilmran, I would too if its something of a life death matter.
But given the nature of commentary on a blog such as this; there are so many ways to interpret the word 'shoot' and instead one context was chosen. And that context, I guess all the readers do know aye?
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August 5, 2006 02:00 AM
guna...oh..guna...aiyoh yoh guna???
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August 5, 2006 09:32 AM
What was P Gunasegaran's comment at that time? Did he give allowance for the context? Did he complain to the police about the dire threat issued or did he take that Minister's comment to be nothing more than horeshit?
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August 5, 2006 07:33 PM