{"id":941,"date":"2006-10-31T22:02:16","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T14:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=941"},"modified":"2006-11-28T14:19:09","modified_gmt":"2006-11-28T06:19:09","slug":"937-of-disband-the-moral-police-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=941","title":{"rendered":"[937] Of disband the moral police and strengthen democratic institutions instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the <a href=\"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=926\">disgraceful thugs<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Well, the moral police department spokesperson said that the harassment on the American couple was done <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2006\/10\/31\/nation\/20061031182958&#038;sec=nation\">according to procedures<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ALOR STAR: Religious enforcement officers followed procedures when conducting a khalwat (close proximity) raid at the condominium in Langkawi rented by an American couple.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This shows that the case is systematic in nature, not isolated. So, all the more reason to get rid of it. We better disband it quickly before it <a href=\"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=936\">hurts our economy<\/a> further.<\/p>\n<p>All those resources used to support the moral police department should be diverted to effort to build lasting democratic institutions. Like the reinstatement of local elections for instance. The reinstatement of local elections is one of the best ways to prevent councilors and representatives like Zakaria Md Deros from abusing power granted to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the disgraceful thugs? Well, the moral police department spokesperson said that the harassment on the American couple was done according to procedures: ALOR STAR: Religious enforcement officers followed procedures when conducting a khalwat (close proximity) raid at the condominium in Langkawi rented by an American couple. This shows that the case is systematic in [&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":[],"class_list":["post-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941","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=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}