Where are the freedom of a journalist, an analyst, a strategic thinker when the Malaysia Government banned a book written by Mr Kim Quek. Regardless he is said to be a member of opposition leader’s party, but the issue is the government somehow rather has abuse its power to crack down on dissent. The book’s title “The March to Putrajaya — Malaysia’s New Era is at Hand” is not a SEMBERONO’s book, but the author has done a deep analysis eventhough the content somehow rather criticises the government.
However, Home Ministry Secretary-General Mahmood Adam said the book on the opposition’s rise and government’s shortcomings contained baseless accusations and twisted facts. A human rights group, Suaram, has urged the government to lift the ban and repeal the law.
In my humble opinion, we writers have our own guts and ethics, we are not the authors of love stories, who get the ideas from outerspace. When we wrote something, we did our own analysis, that’s why we jot down our references and bibliographies at the end of our writings. I still remember a word by Dr Mahathir “Malaysia was equipped with first class facilities but driven by the third world mentalities”. Look gentlemen, when somebody comment about you, you have to take it positively and correct it. You loose nothing infact you gain respects. There’s a Malay idioms saying that “Tidak akan hilang bisa ular kalau menyusur akar”.
No comments:
Post a Comment