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Power corrupts, in this case, absolutely.
Spare a thought for a taxi driver, who died of a heart attack yesterday, due to non-availability of angioplasty procedure for the down trodden. He was only 33 had a wife and two children.

Maybe the Badawi should replect on this on his nect fishing trip to perth on the new jet.

A second term means someone would have to wait longer. Lets see who's more desperate. The people or that someone.

Apa pulak "separuh jalan"?

Awak bukan pemimpin sama sekali.

"If the choice is between public safety and public freedom, I do not hesitate to say here that public safety will always win," the prime minister said.

That remind me a talk between father and daughter.

"Daddy daddy, if you saw a RM5 and RM10 on the floor, which one do you pick up?", ask the daughter.

"Of course RM10 lah!". Daddy answered proudly.

"Daddy, you are very stupid lah! Why don't pick up BOTH?!"

The End.

I guess our AAB need some refreshment course to be a smarter leader. Public Safety and Public Freedom are equally important because they concern Public! We are your taxpayer and we pay your salary! Hello?

He said a true malaysian will be judicious in word and deed. Bravo. Is he hinting his own SIL, that thambyc and those umno diehards aren't true malaysians?

He talks about seat-sharing in the coalition. Why not extend the notion all the way to the base by talking about seats in parliament which are so dependent on rural weightage. Say an MP of 8,000 in a rural area equals an MP of 50,000 in an urban place. If dissenters are more in urban than rural places by dint of closure of transparency to the rural folks, then it will be inevitable the dacing will always be loaded. Therefore to predicate political fairness on just coalition allotment of seats is to ignore the views of voters who fall under the weightage trap. In this system, each vote doesn't count one-to-one because all they have to do is to focus on the rural folks who are least focused on the political ramifications of this country and too simple-minded to worry about what else they can get from a better governance system the moment they get some goodies from this system, in most cases paid for taxes collected from the urban voters. If he's fair and sensitive to complexities, he should try to remember this complexity about what constitutes true representation but then again that would be expecting too much from this guy who sees everything as for-us or against-us. Why not for the country for a change? Can he deny that some of the views of people who happen to carry the opposition flags are also as valid and relevant to the complexities facing this country and not to address them carefully is to run counter to the ideals of good governance? After all, whether incumbent or opposition, establishment or ngo, whatever, what matters should be what's right and integrity-based, innit?

He concludes by mentioning fairness, responsibility and self-belief. Those who had walked and are now in jail also tried those virtues. See where they got them? They wanted fairness of judiciary appointments so that investors won't have to worry about integrity of the judiciary system of this country. They wanted fairness in the distribution of goodies so that an entire race won't feel so marginalized that its suicide rate is higher than even the foreign workers who have already displaced them until it has grown beyond identification of ethnicity with economic function to ethnicity withOUT economic function.

He espouses responsibility. Can he spare a minute to list down all the irresponsible things he and his administration has been doing since the last set of promises? Sure, everyone knows many of the wounds were caused by his predecessor, and some may even conclude that the only reason why he maintains his inelegant silence is to cover up for them on account that if all was revealed, it would sunder the malay race, or its composite. But at what price this nation? And if he continues to do this, won't his sidekicks be taking it as accepted precedent to repeat them for another fifty years? Because he hasn't come clean on everything, hero becomes zero. And he knows that.

He lumps it with self-belief. Self-belief is fine provided the beliefs are founded on right principles not might principles. Is he so sure of his own self-beliefs that he can clampdown on the voices of frustrated rakyat just by a show of strength. He rationalises to himself that it is more for public safety than public freedom. Any of the rallywalkers bashed anyone who didn't shoot teargas and water cannons on them? Using the law one crafts in order to justify to the world one's right to muffle the voice of the people, and using the word 'majority' knowing full well the 'majority' will not be given the chance to air anything until the grievance or event is buried doesn't support one iota the supremacy of public suppression sold as protection of public safety.

He concludes by asking the rakyat to start building our hearts and minds as we enter the next fifty years as a nation. What nation do we have so far in the last fifty years in the first place that a country's socalled leader has to only now ask that the rakyat build their hearts and minds. Not build, just plain vanilla rebuild will do. But then again how to rebuild if so many things are seen to be wrong and out-of-whack with reality finally reflected in grievances surfacing only recently from not only simple folks but also intelligent educated lawyers?

He caps it with a call for value-adds. From where, one asks? The market performances are fine but they are rooted in selling property and commodities. Where's the intellectual capital? From those public universities that are now after fifty years of continuous downslide being primed for reinvention by the mere flick of being given a new nickname while policies continue unabated whose implementations cause the very brain drains that must be averted in order to really recover past glories now gone forever?

A student goes up to the next higher class after he has passed his examination or cross the bar. Which exam or bar has he passed or crossed in the last term?

The yacht may be sailing plainly but if it is starting to have holes on the undersides, better make sure there are no jaws ahoy. The seas of the world are awash in sharks. Can we survive another term of this fella?

A govt that kids itself that it is doing the right thing starts to kid itself that it cannot do the wrong thing. A govt that asks for constructive criticism but hides information, facts and truths from the rakyat until found and then tries to manoeuver itself out is only kidding itself that it is right and everyone else wrong. A govt that makes laws so that people who are forced to ignore them in order to exercise their basic rights is no different from a tyranny incarnate. If might is always right, bullies would have ruled this world. It is therefore wiser to have one thinking and discerning voter than a hundred herd-followers.

Status quo hiding behind change does not change make.

Thanks for mentioning the tragic matter, sydput. A most caring state this govt is all about creating.

Indeed.

The propulsion to write is almost gone.

Its gonna be another bleak 5 years. I hope all the silent votes will really speak and count.

They that can
give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor
safety- Benjamin Franklin

I have erection to worry about now, election can wait- A sleepy Bedouin

Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Urm...Malaysia to Pak Lah...I don't think that's for you to decide....