{"id":1326,"date":"2007-08-05T23:03:09","date_gmt":"2007-08-05T15:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1326"},"modified":"2009-04-25T20:07:42","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T12:07:42","slug":"1321-of-mandate-derived-from-the-people-not-otherwise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1326","title":{"rendered":"[1321] Of your mandate is derived from the people, sir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is amusing how Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi yesterday said that he had granted freedom to Malaysians. In the Malay daily Utusan Mingguan today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Saya bagi banyak kebebasan dan semua orang boleh bersuara, macam-macam boleh cakap tetapi pandai-pandailah uruskan kebebasan, kalau tidak dihargai semuanya (kebebasan) akan hilang&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/utusan.com.my\/utusan\/content.asp?y=2007&amp;dt=0805&amp;pub=Utusan_Malaysia&amp;sec=Muka_Hadapan&amp;pg=mh_01.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Amaran PM \u2014 Keamanan boleh tergugat jika kebebasan bersuara disalah guna<\/em><\/a>. Utusan Mingguan. August 4 2007]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That could be roughly translated into:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve granted freedom and all may speak freely but do practice freedom responsibly or else, it will disappear&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Prime Minister forgets that he derives his mandate from the people; we, the people do not derive our rights from the PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is amusing how Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi yesterday said that he had granted freedom to Malaysians. In the Malay daily Utusan Mingguan today: &#8220;Saya bagi banyak kebebasan dan semua orang boleh bersuara, macam-macam boleh cakap tetapi pandai-pandailah uruskan kebebasan, kalau tidak dihargai semuanya (kebebasan) akan hilang&#8221; [Amaran PM \u2014 Keamanan boleh tergugat jika [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[157],"class_list":["post-1326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-liberalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3811,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions\/3811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}