{"id":848,"date":"2006-07-29T05:04:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-29T05:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=848"},"modified":"2006-10-09T22:27:49","modified_gmt":"2006-10-09T14:27:49","slug":"846-of-fascists-and-flags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=848","title":{"rendered":"[846] Of fascists and flags"},"content":{"rendered":"

Malaysian citizens are paying taxes to fund a lot of funky stuff. We already have moral police<\/a> and moral court<\/a>. Now, we are going to have flag police!<\/p>\n

In the New Straits Times<\/a> today:<\/p>\n

Culture, Arts and Heritage Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim said yesterday many rich and famous citizens had a lackadaisical attitude towards flying the Jalur Gemilang on special occasions like National Day.<\/p>\n

“We’re not saying they are unpatriotic, rather they take things for granted. It would be embarrassing if an officer of the law knocked on their door and asked them why they were not flying the flag…”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe we should be flying Nazi flags instead.<\/p>\n

Patriotism can’t be forced upon. Dr Rais Yatim should realize that.<\/p>\n

\"Mohd \"Mohd \"Mohd<\/p>\n

<\/a>p\/s – I’ve just realized that my photo<\/a> is currently on the front page of Malay Wikipedia<\/a>. It’s the featured photo for July 2006<\/a>. I’m honored especially given the fact that that photo of mine is the first photo to be picked to be on Malay Wikipedia’s new Featured Pictures section.<\/p>\n

Getting a photo into English Wikipedia’s Featured Pictures<\/a> however is much harder than Malay Wikipedia. Unlike the latter, the former Wikipedia is more established and there are a lot more photographers on it – amateurs and professionals. Thus, the requirement is far stricter. I myself nominated two of my photos (of which I thought were exceptional) for consideration but both efforts failed. But I’ll try again and again and again…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Malaysian citizens are paying taxes to fund a lot of funky stuff. We already have moral police and moral court. Now, we are going to have flag police! In the New Straits Times today: Culture, Arts and Heritage Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim said yesterday many rich and famous citizens had a lackadaisical attitude […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","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=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}