{"id":4888,"date":"2009-08-05T12:07:33","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T02:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=4888"},"modified":"2009-08-07T17:30:33","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T07:30:33","slug":"2054-of-a-follow-up-to-the-era-of-paternalism-is-not-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=4888","title":{"rendered":"[2054] Of a follow-up to <em>The era of paternalism is not over<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themalaysianinsider.com\/index.php\/opinion\/hafiznoorshams\/34053-the-era-of-paternalism-is-not-over\" target=\"_blank\">The era of paternalism is not over<\/a><\/em> for my column at <em>The Malaysian Insider<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=4880\" target=\"_self\">also here<\/a>) to provide contrary case to Prime Minister Najib Razak&#8217;s statement that the days of government knows best is over.<\/p>\n<p>Today in <em>The Star<\/em>, his cousin, Minister\u00a0Hishammuddin Hussein strengthens may message by leap and bound:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hishammuddin said that in a weakened global economy the people were prepared to be led by an authoritative government that is able to provide the best for them. [<em><a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2009\/8\/5\/nation\/4455373&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\">Hisham: Rally a failure, shows street politics not favoured<\/a>. <\/em>The Star. August 5 2009]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He was saying that in respond to the peaceful anti-Internal Security Act march that was met with force by the authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote The era of paternalism is not over for my column at The Malaysian Insider (also here) to provide contrary case to Prime Minister Najib Razak&#8217;s statement that the days of government knows best is over. Today in The Star, his cousin, Minister\u00a0Hishammuddin Hussein strengthens may message by leap and bound: Hishammuddin said that [&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":[839,841],"class_list":["post-4888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-internal-security-act","tag-paternalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888","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=4888"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4891,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888\/revisions\/4891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}