What are the core values common to all of us?
"Honesty, keeping promises, the pursuit of truth, responsibility, duty, fairness in interpersonal relations, concern for one's neighbours, respect for property, loyalty and duty to one's spouse and children, work ethic and keeping one's word are fundamental values we all hold dear to.The emphasis is upon the duty and responsibility of the individual. No society can function efficiently or humanely and no civilisation can endure without these values. They are values for individuals - not for society".The Western Democratic Tradition by Doctor Mark Cooray.
Hence the need for each and everyone of us to take personal responsibility for the state our nation.
Let us go into this with more depth. Who is responsible for the arrests of Bersih Activists? The IGP? You just cannot point your fingers at him although he was the one who gave the orders. Or maybe it is his political master at the Home Ministry? That Din guy who makes a career out of intimidating and threatening to arrest people for being a threat to national security! Was he not the one who declared the Bersih rally illegal and unleashed PDRM upon the Bersih activists? But then you and I know that he cannot arbitarily declare anything illegal unless he gets the okay from the cabinet - from the Prime Minister. And these are all politicians. Who elects the politicians? It is us. So the orders for PDRM to arrest the Bersih activists does not come from the IGP, nor the Home Ministry. It comes from the politicians we elected! It comes from you and me! Individual responsibility!
With this individual responsibility comes shared responsibility. Our shared responsibility to protect what we value about our lifestyles and our responsibility of ensuring that we have a good government that works to provide opportunities for us now and for future generations. The need to elect governments that are accountable to us for the things they do. We cannot do this alone - we need to collectively do this. Shared responsibility.
So together we are responsible for the state our nation is in. But it all starts with individual responsibility. Each and everyone of us must shoulder this responsibility willingly if we are to have the government we deserve. It is good to see what this proposed Bersih rally has unleash amongst the people of this country. There has been many outpouring of individual resentment even anger when the BN government attempted to stop the rally. And because of this anger which could be felt reverberating around the country, Najib could have only ignore it at his peril.
To his credit Najib did not. Now the stage is set for the next installment of this Bersih saga. Let us not speculate. Let us not second guess what those whose interest will not be served by us holding this Bersih rally will do. Truth is stranger then fiction. I say we sit back and watch the antics of these idiots. Nothing will give me more pleasure then to see them go head to head with their own activists to create riot and mayhem just so that Najib will have to declare a halt to proceeding again for Bersih rally. I say pleasure because while they can argue that self mutilation is a valid psychological problem nevertheless what they do will no longer harm us - only themselves.
When all is said and done let us not forget our personal and collective responsibility to ensure that there will not be any need for another Bersih rally after the 13th general election. No more...no more. Elect responsible politicians!
That businessman who willingly bribes a KSU in a Ministry to secure a tender he does not deserve to have......... was this you mate
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