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This time it's from the man they called the 'Conscience of Parti Gerakan'. Via Malaysiakini:

As we move forward, the government cannot just be contented with promoting development to the neglect of promoting human rights. Civil and political rights such as the right to free speech, right to dissent and right to assemble are as important as economic rights such as the right to a job, to housing, to medical care and education.

Promoting economic growth while curbing civil and political freedom will not lead us to the achievement of a developed nation. This is not what most Malaysians want. What they desire is a nation that achieves material progress that is equitably distributed, while allowing a great deal of space for the exercise of political and civil rights, of which the right to start an electronic website or blog, even if this is critical of the government, is one.

Words had it that Dr Toh Kin Woon, now an executive councillor in the Penang state government, will not seek re-election in the coming poll.