Reckless Bloggers can be prosecuted

Read this before you read my post :)

http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/8/18/nation/4540459&sec=nation

Honestly, racism is a sensitive issue and it should not be tolerated. I am a bumiputera and I have nothing against the muslims or the malays in my country. I am a proud Sabahan of course and I'm proud of how my country turned out to be.

However, the Malaysian government is trying to find ways to stop people from speaking their minds. The Malaysian government and the muslim leaders are biased in so many ways in terms of fairness. I know that this is a serious issue but from my point of view the government is only trying to find ways to implement this law to catch those who are against them.

Lets take the sodomy law as an example, this issue is not really used against the Malaysian public, the government only use this law against other politicians or individual who goes against them when they have no other way to shut them up. Then there was the joke that a certain newspaper in Borneo posted up about the muslim god that wasn't intended on condemning the religion. The religious leaders however took it personally and assume that the Malaysian Muslims is sensitive towards the issue. And to show that the muslims have power, the newspaper was shut down for that joke.

So in terms of not posting any racial issues online, the government will target those who go against them by carefully scanning their blog, once they see a little bit of ramblings that involve a little bit of racial issues they would use that particular law to shut them up, take Raja Petra, editor for malaysiakini.com, the government follow his blog closely and when he talked about a little bit of racial matters they immeadiately arrest him due to disturbing the "peace" in Malaysia.

For those of you who don't know who Raja Petra is, you can google him up.

The internet is a strong form of media for the people of Malaysia to read up about the real stories that involves the government or public figures as the Malaysian Media, (eg Newspaper, Television, Radio) are all closely monitored by the government and theres a gate keeper in these forms of media to not let certain issues that condemns the government to leak out to the public.

This is why the government is finding ways to shut the bloggers who speak their mind up.

I personally think that this is unfair and is a way for the government to try and silent those who have a voice in Malaysia. I personally think that a new government should take over and give equal attention to other politicians in terms of the mass media, because if they commit an action that they think is right, they should have an answer to back it up, rather than just do something without the people's knowledge in it.