{"id":652,"date":"2005-11-04T06:11:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-04T06:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=652"},"modified":"2006-10-08T15:32:08","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T15:32:08","slug":"670-of-hypocrisy-in-malaysian-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=652","title":{"rendered":"[650] Of hypocrisy in Malaysian policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ah, yes. Malaysian students should not get themselves into opposition activities but it’s alright to join the ruling party’s Kelab UMNO Minnesota<\/a> or any other Kelab UMNO Luar Negara<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I received the following letters via Malaysian students’ association at my alma mater.<\/p>\n

\"Not<\/div>\n

Bah. If you are “Malayly-challenged<\/em>“, here’s a rough translation:<\/p>\n

President,
\nMalaysian students’ association (MSA),<\/p>\n

Students’ involvement in activities that go against government policy<\/u><\/p>\n

The government is seriously concerned with students’ involvement in activities sponsored by the Malaysian opposition parties, especially students that are subsidized by the government or any other government agency.<\/p>\n

As such, student leaders must remind their respective association members not to attend such activities.<\/p>\n

If there are students that are active in any opposition sponsored event, student leaders are requested to inform the Malaysian Student Department (MSD) at Chicago immediately.<\/p>\n

Director,
\nMSD Chicago
\n[Stamp]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Practice caution – MSA presidents are the newly-instated moles of the ruling party. Now, you<\/em> people will need to go underground. Heh.<\/p>\n

This policy is not new. It’s just that the ruling party (aka the government) in the past few years have been rather flexible on it. This development is a signal that the ruling party is re-emphasizing the policy.<\/p>\n

p\/s – read [672] Of Anwar Ibrahim at Michigan<\/em><\/a> for context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ah, yes. Malaysian students should not get themselves into opposition activities but it’s alright to join the ruling party’s Kelab UMNO Minnesota or any other Kelab UMNO Luar Negara. I received the following letters via Malaysian students’ association at my alma mater. Bah. If you are “Malayly-challenged“, here’s a rough translation: President, Malaysian students’ association […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-politics-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","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=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}