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| Umno Youth was obligated to act, says wing's editorial |
| 2003-01-28 |
| Last week, Malaysiakini was shut down and its servers confiscated... In an editorial published oÂÂn its official website today, Umno Youth explained why it had to lodge a police report against malaysiakini and denied that it was a move to attract publicity. The editorial, 'Police report: Was Umno Youth's action uncouth?' dismissed as "shallow" allegations that Umno Youth was driven to act so to gain popularity. It pointed out that police action against malaysiakini "will oÂÂnly give enormous publicity to the website through local and international media coverage". Which it's done. So why would Umno Youth do such a thing? Acknowledging that while certain quarters felt that the wing's action was hasty and wrong, it added that Umno Youth was oÂÂnly executing its responsibility as a party that defends "race, religion and country" within the boundaries of the nation's laws, "period". Bold added... Yep. That's the important stuff, isn't it, Adolph? "Anyone who thinks rationally, without following their emotions and having a narrow understanding, will agree that the article [sic] published by malaysiakini under the heading 'Similarities between 'new Americans' and bumiputera' by Petrof (a pseudonym) is a lie, seditious and full of hatred towards a social contract agreed upon since 1957". The editorial added that those who studied the "article" carefully and recollect historical facts will not doubt [thank] the wing for lodging the police report. "This is because the special privileges accorded to the Malays and bumiputera is not an issue that needs debating. They are absolute and final." I don't always agree with the content on Malaysiakini, but they showed a lot of guts running that particular article. "Petrof" fried the race-religion-nation Brownshirts. It's worth a read in itself... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |