Here we go again…
The former PM has come up with a personal statement. You can hop over here to read it. It’s written by Tun Mahathir himself and signed of as Malaysian Citizen and Commoner.
If you read it through; you should have noticed the boldfaced statement: A climate of fear has enveloped this country.
I still remember around early March-April when Tun started criticizing the present government. AP, Johor-Singapore ‘crooked’ bridge, sand, Proton…and so on. Now, this. A pronouncement that the government he helped build up has become to powerful for comfort. He laments that every legitimate avenue for dissent has been censured by the powers that be.
I must say that Tun is right here. He may have his misses, but he is right on with this issue.
The BN government has become so powerful that she cannot believe that she is leading the country to ruin.
I hope that this culture of auto-censorship will stop. What’s happening now in Malaysia is something out of Orwell’s 1984. Newspeak, where you auto-censor yourself into thoughless obedience. It could well turn out, with the way dissent is not tolerated that Vision 2020 may turn out to be our worst nightmare.
