Wong Choon Mei: Don’t Try To Teach Your Grandma How To Suck Eggs
Hantu Laut
Journalism…my foot! More like a frustrated reporter in a drunken stupor and a wannabe “fifth columnist”.
It is alright for America to carry out mass murders around the world
Written by Wong Choon Mei, Malaysia Chronicle.
In his first blog posting for 2011, former Malaysian premier Mahathir Mohamad speaks of the futility of using force, that “overwhelming military power” is nothing in “this modern age”. Sadly, he was advising U.S. President Barack Obama on Afghanistan and not himself or his off-on protege, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak.
Are the twisting of the courts to secure advantageous outcomes, the imprisonment of dissidents without fair trial, the arbitrary banning of books and cartoons, the wrongful use of government machinery to coerce electoral victories any less oppressive than guns and bloodshed?
Is a slow death less painful than a quick one?
The phrase Charity begins at home is not without its special wisdom, neither is Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones. Perhaps Dr Mahathir should help right the wrongs at home before casting his eyes overseas.
The methods and philosophies he promulgates in his home country should echo his stand for the rest of the world.