“DPM and PM are both liars” Richard Teo

Of course! Read the ASEAN Charter Abdullah signed, so much for respect of human rights, is all farce you know what I mean?

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“Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Monday said he would not sacrifice his sense of accountability to the greater public, especially in the face of police intelligence about planned fighting or other violent intents.

“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.

“Malaysians must never, ever, take their peace for granted and they must continue to be responsible to each other,” he said at the Khazanah Global Lecture Series at the Putrajaya International Convention Centre (PICC), here.

He said responsibility, particularly to each other, as an integral value of the nation, was as important today as it was in 1957 or 1969.

“If we are to evolve into a society that can peacefully live with media freedom, public debates or public show of expression, the value and the burden of responsibility must lie with the ordinary people, not just with those who manage the country,” he said.”

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I hope Malaysians can read between the lines here. I have a few questions about what Abdullah said in the news spin, firstly, what is the different of public safety from public freedom, are not the two the same thing in actual, if not closely connected, where you can’t have one without the other? And between the two how the hell public safety will always win over public freedom when we have lost our fundamental rights to feel safe even in our own home from rampant crimes in the country. When we don’t have public safety in the first place, how can anyone win and over public freedom? And since when public freedom has became the enemy of public safety?

He said we shouldn’t take our peaceful nation for granted. Granted! And that’s why we took it the streets and vent out our anger and frustration.

It is not peaceful when we have pedophiles crawling the country raping young girls and boys, ordinary citizens robbed, kidnapped and murdered in broad daylight, gangsters are calling the shots and the streets are filled with all kind of illicit drugs. And this is what Abdullah want us to ignore because this is his so called public safety, indirectly he is telling us rampant crimes and corruption is our values and we must condone it, we are the kingdom of social ills. And there lies the great responsibilities of the oridnary citizens, we must sacrifices our public freedom in order for him to continue as Prime Minister and his vision of peaceful country, for him, his family and his cronies.

In Malaysia….

“In this age of relative affluence and stability, we sometimes forget that there are many groups within the country — each with their own set of demands, each with their own set of sensitivities.

“These differences are very real, yet we do not descend into sheer unmitigated chaos. Why? Because I think there are enough of us who do not forget, who know and remember our complexities,” said Abdullah.

“Those who do not forget understand that our situation demands balance, conscientiousness, and a sense of accountability to the whole (society) rather than to a few.

“For me, this characterises a true Malaysian. A true Malaysian understands very well the impact of careless words and actions. A true Malaysian is acutely aware of who will be provoked into retaliation and who will actually suffer the consequences.

“Because of this, a true Malaysian will try to be judicious in word and deed, even when striving for change,” he said.

Fairness, responsibility and self-belief were the three values that had dominated Malaysia for 50 years as a nation and these would continue to shape the nation in the next 50 years, said Abdullah from his observation being in the public service for over four decades.

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Somewhere not too long ago….

“Comrades,” he said, “I trust that every animal here appreciates the
sacrifice that Comrade Napoleon has made in taking this extra labour upon himself. Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a pleasure! On the contrary, it is a deep and heavy responsibility. No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be? Suppose you had decided to follow Snowball, with his moonshine of windmills–Snowball, who, as we now know, was no better than a criminal?”

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