I'm not much into politics,but I do follow things that happen around the world.The political scenario in my country have turn for the worst.I thought the last election in March was the biggest thing to happen,but now there are new things unfolding,sadly,it is more about personal attacks rather than a political issue.
What I like to focus about is not one regarding the attacks being made,just read the newspaper or see the news and you will know what is happening.My concern are about bloggers.Bloggers are free to express what is on their mind.My country are not like China where you can be caught and imprisoned for writing certain things about the government,about freedom.We always hear people talking about freedom of speech,but what is actually freedom of speech?
Does freedom of speech mean we can say anything,or for bloggers to write whatever we want to write,even if it is not the truth?Can we write something like calling name to a certain leaders,writing about their families,wife,children?Do we know the truth that give us the right to write something about it or we just write merely on something that we hear,something that was told to us?
They say the media in my country,the newspaper and television are being control by the government,so the stories are pro-government,but they still got licensed to publish their own newspaper and distribute it.No bloggers have ever been caught and send to prison for what they wrote.Doesn't this mean you are free to express yourself?
To what extend do we exercise our right to freely express ourselves?To write something that we doesn't even know the truth behind it can be considered slanderous.Yes..we can be famous because we write about something that other people only dare to talk about while having coffee in some laid back coffeshop among very close acquaintance.People will wait for our latest posting to know what is the latest "news",but is it the truth or just hearsay?
We have responsibility,to ourselves,to our country and our religion.Do we want to be known as the one who created chaos in this little and peaceful country?Do we want to be known as the one who instigate the people to go against the government?Are we writing our blog for our own satisfaction or do we get paid to do it by somebody else?
We can be heroes,we can be champion,but let it be because we do something right,not because we spread rumours,because we spread slander.Be a real champion,fight for the people,not for certain individual who use who ever they can to achieve their dreams.
What I like to focus about is not one regarding the attacks being made,just read the newspaper or see the news and you will know what is happening.My concern are about bloggers.Bloggers are free to express what is on their mind.My country are not like China where you can be caught and imprisoned for writing certain things about the government,about freedom.We always hear people talking about freedom of speech,but what is actually freedom of speech?
Does freedom of speech mean we can say anything,or for bloggers to write whatever we want to write,even if it is not the truth?Can we write something like calling name to a certain leaders,writing about their families,wife,children?Do we know the truth that give us the right to write something about it or we just write merely on something that we hear,something that was told to us?
They say the media in my country,the newspaper and television are being control by the government,so the stories are pro-government,but they still got licensed to publish their own newspaper and distribute it.No bloggers have ever been caught and send to prison for what they wrote.Doesn't this mean you are free to express yourself?
To what extend do we exercise our right to freely express ourselves?To write something that we doesn't even know the truth behind it can be considered slanderous.Yes..we can be famous because we write about something that other people only dare to talk about while having coffee in some laid back coffeshop among very close acquaintance.People will wait for our latest posting to know what is the latest "news",but is it the truth or just hearsay?
We have responsibility,to ourselves,to our country and our religion.Do we want to be known as the one who created chaos in this little and peaceful country?Do we want to be known as the one who instigate the people to go against the government?Are we writing our blog for our own satisfaction or do we get paid to do it by somebody else?
We can be heroes,we can be champion,but let it be because we do something right,not because we spread rumours,because we spread slander.Be a real champion,fight for the people,not for certain individual who use who ever they can to achieve their dreams.
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Hi. Finally, I've come across a fellow Malaysian blogger who talk about the state of Malaysian politics in this view. Admittedly, I'm a left-winger but in the end, I think we should treat pep-talk the way we should outside blogsphere. Take it like a pinch of salt. In one ear, out another. These people have always been playing it dirty except nowadays, they play it out in the open. About the sodomy case, judging from the behaviour of our politicians, yes, to me at least, they can be that stupid to come up with the same story. Our politicans say the darndest things that there are books published for this.
salam.. apa khabar sekarang..
greetings from America. The ability to speak freely is something to be treasured. It should never be abused by saying things we know about aren't true or being verbally abusive of other people. In America the right to speak freely is guaranteed in our Constitution. We can blog whenever we want and I have said some unkind things about our president. Quite frankly, he deserves them. Freedom is precious and needs to be preserved at all costs. If you ever get the opportunity, you might find it interesting to read about Thomas Jefferson and what he said.
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Thanks for reviewing my blog.
Even here in my country (Kenya) we've had a lot of trouble lately but not at least it has subsided. But the tribal tension is still there. We hope the next general elections wont bring us war.
Blogger here are also very daring. At the height of the tension last year the Kenyan government banned all live reporting by the media and blogs really helped we Kenyans keep in touch with one another.
Thanks once again. You're welcome to my site once more.
Frustrated. Most of our politicians have their own agenda. Dirty politics and back stabbing are their games.In the end, we are the one who suffer....
I fully agree with you, great post! By the way, although your English is understandably not quite perfect, it is perfectly understandable ( I read the last post)!
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