It is obvious who he is referring to but why? – kleptocrats said.
Well MAYBE Taikor was comparing Blog Owner RPK’s defiant response to authorities over the allegedly offensive 11 comments disparaging the King and Islam to two cases involving Screenshot’s commenters: –

· One by the nick of “Anwar” who compared Islam Hadari and money politics in unsavory language in a posting of September 2004; and
· Another, IImran who posted “Somebody, please shoot this Gunasegaram for good” and had a run in with P. Gunasegaram, the executive editor of theSun and NexNews Groups.

In the above 2 cases, the commenters were made to account in one way or another due to official action whilst in Malaysia Today’s case, the 11 posters and their IPs are still unknown.

YB,

It is evident that everyone here has got his/her points and way of looking at things and from what I can see there is no consensus. The proportion of voices expressing misgivings here, whether fair or not fair, versus those of support cannot be gauged by mere arithmetic of postings here because it may well be the case that many falling within the category may reserve their comments in an occasion of an auspicious announcement as such that was just made.

All I can say is that you have benchmarked sovereignly the highest ideals of politics of which your political career has exemplified and set the standards to which DAP is consequently also identified with – “Politics is a honourable calling demanding conviction, passion, selflessness and sacrifice”.

This is very well said. In sum, it is character – it is even more important than intelligence – and we are reminded, now more than ever, that it is dearth of these qualities amongst our ‘clever’ politicians that we find ourselves in the quagmire and morass we are in presently….

“…//….Let bloggers get directly involved in politics to cleanse and rid it of “dirty”, unscrupulous and unprincipled politicians!…//…”

This is an interesting concept because it prima facie decides that bloggers are ok in terms of “conviction, passion, selflessness and sacrifice” to rid politics of “dirty”, unscrupulous and unprincipled politicians!

Now that Rocky Bru was mentioned, why do we leave out the irrepressible RPK? :)

Myke, before you set the record straight with what the public might not know, let us just dwell for a moment what is on record that the public do know.

What is on public record is firstly what YB articulated in earlier blog thread, which I take it to be also the DAP’s position, that ours is a “secular state with Islam as the official religion and not an Islamic state” and this is based on the Merdeka social contract and Malaysia Agreement.

Now it is very strange to me that if we are a secular state why was it so wrong and offensive for the NST to publish a cartoon of a busker, apparently drawing on something, with a board next to him depicting that he was caricaturing the prophet, and the busker “Kevin” being described as achieving the goal of the most feared man in the world…?

No one would have taken notice or complained about this cartoon until it was brought to the public realm by Screenshots with these words (and I quote):

“Screenshots was alerted to look at a comic strip published in a national English tabloid today.
The readers asked me whether the cartoon is tantamount to mocking Prophet Mohammad? They also asked me, by carrying the derogatory comic at a time when the global controversy over the offensive caricature of Prophet Mohammad is about to ease off, whether it serves anybody any purpose? The tabloid that runs the above comic strip commands a sizeable reach as it has an audited circulation of 135,000 copies per day, making the cartoon extensively exposed since this morning. Why did the editors, including the Commander-in-Chief in the newsroom, decide to run the bad-taste comic today? Was there a hidden message from these seasoned mainstream journalists? To quote a minister, are there petualang and agen asing in our mainstream media? This is the full comic strip which apparently brings the Prophet to the profane, street-level. The national English tabloid in question is none other than The New Straits Times” (Unquote).
See this link : http://www.jeffooi.com/2006/02/post_6.php

Is the attack on the cartoon for whatever reason consistent in principle with the DAP’s position that this is a secular state?

Can someone enlighten me?

No I think Myke is displaying basic courtesy. He considers it discourteous and ungraceful to introduce hitherto unknown (likely unsavoury) information on a person touted to be probably the biggest catch in living memory’ for DAP, whom the DAP has recruited to contest the coming polls, in this very blog and thread of a welcoming speech for that person.

“..//…Justice and fairness are not for those who fight for justice and fairness, it is for Malaysians…//..”

Can we Malaysians reasonably expect entitlement to justice and fairness when we don’t think it important to give justice and fairness to the very people who fight for justice and fairness for us?

Godfather,

Your argument here – and the prevailing sentiments of many here – seem to be that for so long that the ruling coalition is the “the enemy”, then anyone, as long as he is able bodied, could flex a muscle or two and willing to fold up his sleeves and fight the common enemy, he is therefore acceptable as a friend, never mind other considerations or standards, never mind to look further into motives and other consistencies or inconsistencies or future consequences – all fade into unimportance, for the moment at least. Right?

I agree that this is a common human tendency. History bears many examples of this approach. The allies collaborated with Stalin to fight Hitler’s Nazis hegemony; when the Japanese attacked the British here too collaborated with the Communists etc

And I always thought that the traditional support for DAP has always been based on the fact that it (led by YB Kit) had taken the principled approach beyond all else. See what happened the last time the principled approach was relaxed for the expedience of joining up with PAS led Barsian Alternative : the traditional support moved away with our Opposition being PAS’ Hadi. You may say ‘piss into the wind’ for an eternity but you’re forgetting that situation in the country might be very much worse – than what it is now – had DAP not played the role of the barking dog so to speak to rake up into the public domain the abuse of power. The moment you place expedience more important than the principle you lose your moral compass and drift to unchartered waters.

Dear Dawsheng,

I hope you’re not suggesting that if today they were to put Uncle Kit into jail for no good reason, we Malaysians are not going to object with voices stentorian and go to the streets to stand up for him and protest his incarceration.

“…//… Mr Lim Kit Siang fight for justice and fairness for all Malaysians. Ask Uncle Kit. Has justice and fairness ever being accorded to him all these years in politic?…//…”

This is something only YB can answer.

But I think at least for now he is really Ok. Who for no good reason want to or dare to trifle with him? Woe betides such a person. Kit is by now an icon lah with a special place in the hearts of many and respect of even some of the more matured of his political adversaries in BN. Don’t believe you ask him. Even his old ‘adversary’ TDM had time to see whilst in hospital where the PM failed. He is also emplaced in various parliamentary select committees and invited in some government sponsored programs or trips befitting of his role as Opposition Head.

For those who don’t make self enrichment the main goal in life and who view a purposeful life to be measured against achievements and accomplishments in one’s calling – in his case politics – what more can one ask if one has the gratitude, respect and affection of all around whom he has touched their lives, fought their cause with great sacrifice in earlier years? It is a satisfaction that those who have not walked the path cannot possibly emphatise fully. That’s also a kind of reward. We all wish YB good health and happiness and I think – I also like to think – it is not all “blood sweat and tears” (to borrow Churchill’s expression), as bad as the way you have interpreted Eugene V. Debs. That’s just my opinion only.

Cheers. :)