{"id":962,"date":"2006-11-10T21:02:48","date_gmt":"2006-11-10T13:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=962"},"modified":"2008-11-26T23:21:27","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T15:21:27","slug":"958-of-the-moral-police-is-too-proud-to-apologize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=962","title":{"rendered":"[958] Of the moral police is too proud to apologize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/nst\/Friday\/National\/20061110083736\/Article\/local1_html\" target=\"_blank\">to be incredulous<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>KUALA LUMPUR: It wasn\u2019t exactly what he was asking for, but American tourist Randal K. Barnhart was happy to accept a verbal apology and a goodwill payment from the Langkawi Tourism Action Council (LTAC).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why does the tourism authority had to clean up the mess the <a href=\"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=926\">moral police left behind<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>I applaud the tourism authority for rising up to the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing how the religious department is pretending that nothing had happened, I couldn&#8217;t help but smirk when I read that the victim might sue the moral police:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Barnhart wanted three things: A letter of apology from the department, a letter that they will not be bothered again, and compensation of RM4,315 \u2014 the amount he paid to send his traumatised wife back to the United States.<\/p>\n<p><em>[&#8230;]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Barnhart said: &#8220;They <em>[the tourism authority]<\/em> apologised to me although they were not at fault, and I understand their concern.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But he added that he had heard nothing from the Religious Department and might take legal action, depending on his lawyer\u2019s advice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just sue, Mr. Barnhart. Just sue them good. I hope you&#8217;re planning to force the religious department into bankruptcy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find this to be incredulous: KUALA LUMPUR: It wasn\u2019t exactly what he was asking for, but American tourist Randal K. Barnhart was happy to accept a verbal apology and a goodwill payment from the Langkawi Tourism Action Council (LTAC). Why does the tourism authority had to clean up the mess the moral police left [&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-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","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=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}