Mahathir’s words

THE ALTERNATIVE MEDIA

Feb17th 2013 Written by chedet

///1. In the days of the print and electronic media Governments were able to exercise some control through licensing and laws. Liberal people condemn these controls because they deny freedom of the press. Freedom of the press is one of the
fundamentals of democracy.///–Mamakthir

The BN government claims to practice democracy and yet it would not allow the people to know what actually happen in the country. It fools the people by controlling what are reported in the print media through licensing. When people get to know more about how the government cheats, laws are introduced to minimize what they know. BN never practices democracy because it hopes to fool as many people as possible into voting it back to power.

///2. Then came the alternative media via the Internet. Governments not only find themselves almost incapable of controlling but the belief now rejects any attempt at control by the authorities. Actually there was always control by the owners, editors and even sub-editors.

3. In the alternative media just about anyone can put anything they like to say on the internet directly, with no managers, editors or sub-editors changing any of the contents. The freedom is almost total. This is the essence of democracy?///–Mamakthir

Only those who fear that people know the truth want to prevent people knowing them. Democracy provides that the stakeholders participate in the governance through supporting the right candidates to perform the designated functions. In that process, they participate in the selection of representatives with full knowledge to judge who ought to represent them. Free press contributes to the process of informing electorates.
Free press is the foundation of democracy.

///4. The first people to exercise this freedom are the purveyors of pornography. They promote their dirty pictures and blue films in the most explicit way. There is no censorship. And so children and young people now have access to this filth.///–Mamakthir

The computer and equipment which are the medium for viewing pictures in internet can be set to prevent children viewing those sites. Knowledgeable parents will know how to prevent the children access undesirable web sites. The Chinese believe that one should protect the chic from the predators instead of trying to kill off the predators. Mamakthir obviously belongs to a different culture.

///5. The effect is to undermine their moral completely. There can be no doubt that the increase in sex crimes such as rapes, child abuse, extramarital sex among young people, pregnancies, and illegal abortions, getting rid of unwanted babies by dumping them in rubbish heaps are partly due to access to pornography.///–Mamakthir

If there is such a problem in the country, there are other causes apart from pornography and the role internet plays. It is more probable that those who are familiar with the use of computer are the more educated lots and they know how to look after themselves.

Malaysia is not the only country which has access to internet. Do other countries blame the advent of internet for all the social ills in their countries?

Should the people be denied the learning opportunities provided through internet and the ease at communications just because some parents are kept ignorant in preventing their children accessing the undesirable web site?
Ws pornography blamed because the UMNO government face precarious prospect in GE 13?

///6. An unmarried couple put on the you-tube video clips of them having sex. They feel so proud of their shameful act. The Internet is also used to threaten ex-girlfriends with nude pictures of them.///–Mamakthir

There are 6 billion humans who can use internet for benefits. Mamakthir is happy that he could quote a few cases of misuse.

///7. Abusive language and racist remarks have also caused increased tension within society. Allegations of all kinds are made without any bases.///–Mamakthir

The worst racist remarks are made by Mamakthir and people who support him. Mamakthir uses internet to carry primarily racist remarks. Mamakthir does not care about tension within society as he even distorted history blaming Tunku who implemented agreement he emgaged with his coalition partner in the Alliance party as giving away citizenships to true Malayans. Mamakthir said it to divert attention on his treasonous act giving illegal immigrants Malaysian citizenships to get them to votes for BN? That is kettle calling silver pot black!

///8. Now we are seeing doctored video clips being put on You Tube. A short video clip recently showed the PM asking the audience in Penang whether they were ready for the BN. They were loud cries of “No” from the crowd.

9. Now it has been found that this was engineered by bringing a group into the crowd, equipping them with video camera and microphones. When the PM asked “are you ready for BN” this group shouted “No” in response. It seem that the whole audience shouted “No”. Actually only the special group shouted “No” into their microphones. The “Yes from the big crowd was not recorded and not included in the video on You Tube. ///–Mamakthir

It is technically possible to doctor video clips. Just because it could be done does not prove that it was actually done.

UMNO could have aired prepared video clips had Najib the foresight that the answer was “NO”. Why did Najib ask the question? Have his sycophants made him believe that he would get a “Yes” answer in that place? Chinese do not vote like Indian Muslims.

///10. Immediately this particular recording was put on You Tube and it went viral even though the video recording by others showing the crowd raising their hands and saying “Yes” was later put on You Tube, many do not bother to see it. They continue to believe in the fake video clips.///–Mamakthir

Except for the ostrich we know that those who surrounded Najib on stage shouted ‘Yes”, and Najib could not hear the crowd. That may be why three “Noes” were recorded out loud among the crowd.

///11. This is the direct result of the freedom offered by the alternative media. Lies can be made to seem to be the truth.///–Mamakthir

When “yes’ and “Noes” were heard, what is the lie and what is the truth?

///12. But the truth can also be made to look like lies. After an opposition leader was shown with a girl obviously having some kind of sexual relations, it was made to be a lie by showing how a video clip can be doctored.///–Mamakthir

Mamakthir is hounded by the imminent loss of BN in the coming GE and the appointment of Anwar as PM.

///13. A picture of President Obama is shown speaking at some kind of press conference. After finishing he was shown to walk off and he kicked violently at the door to open it.

14. Then a picture is shown of Obama speaking and then he walked off the stage through a door, which opened, without his kicking it. This was what really happened.

15. The purpose is to show how video clips can be altered. Therefore the opposition leader can claim that the pictures of him with the girl was actually not what happened, that it was doctored.

16. Thus truth can be made to look like a lie.///–Mamakthir

It seems that only those Mamakthir considers stupid need such vivid elaboration.

///17. The new software available can alter movies and still pictures in any way one wants to. In the movie the “Life of Pi” there were numerous scenes of a fierce tiger on a small boat in the ocean with Pi.

18. Pi was real but the tiger was created through the magic of computer animation. It looks very real, growling and roaring and threatening the man. If one is not told one must be amazed at the scenes shown on the movies. Of course the picture “Avatar” is all computer animation, as are all the cartoons and the human/animal or human/caricature interactions.///–Mamakthir

These explanations do not make Malaysians believe that the majority shouted “yes” that day.

///19. While the alternative media gives everyone freedom to publicise whatever, the hackers and others can also block out the entrees of whomever they chose to. So far I have to change five sites for my blogs as somehow or other they were tampered with. People could not access my blog and effectively I was silenced. I lost the freedom of the media even more than when Government could deprive me of my freedom.///–Mamakthir

Mamakthir complains about hacking on his web site and yet he laments that there should be internet. Mamakthir knows not what is wrong or right. He only knows his interests. Whatever benefits him is good and bad otherwise.