Comments on: Can I Support A Politician Who Supports The ISA?

By: Singam

Singam — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:43:02 +0000

Alwyn asks a good question.

In theory, democracy appears to be a fair and equitable way to govern. Unfortunately, the corollary to the axiom “power corrupts” is the truism “power attracts the corrupt”. Those who seek high office are rarely driven by benevolent motivations. Only those with strong personal ambition have what it takes to play the political game and succeed at it.

If the person seeking high office also has a strong moral core, then we can expect a good leader who does what is good for the people. But all too often, politicians are people with the slick ability to put on a show of caring for their electorate in order to get their support.

George Bush pretended to be more Christian than thou and thereby cornered the votes of the Bible Belt. So how “christian” can a politician be? Would you trust a leader simply because he claims to be “christian”?

By: splim

splim — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:05:25 +0000

Will you ever find a politician is strongly committed to democratic principles and ideals but at the same time supports the existence of the ISA?

Good luck!

Of course there I noticed the qualification, “needs to be contextualized to the Malaysian situation”

Perhaps ‘evil’ can also be contextualized.

By: alwyn

alwyn — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:41:34 +0000

a quick question (which is, yeah, better suited to another article) : why democracy? is democracy necessarily the most ‘Christian’?

By: Kian Ming

Kian Ming — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:13:28 +0000

A simple and quick answer would be a strong commitment to democratic principles and ideals. Obviously, this needs to be contextualized to the Malaysian situation. That would be fodder for another article perhaps?

By: Sivin Kit

Sivin Kit — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:27:59 +0000

Kian Ming, in the Malaysian context, would you have a cluster of issues (apart from the ISA), that would be key in your thinking process? What would they be and why?