As for your friend, he is entitled to his opinion although it is quite one sided as I do not think all bloggers are liars, maybe wild though.. haha. However, I am truly impressed that you can keep calm and take the comments in a unbiased way, which most people in your situation would have probably ended up in and argument. Kudos to you BB.

What would be the point of getting hot over it?

I will b happy when Brownie settles down. VERY happy

Corruption occurs in every country, yes that happened. So does crimes like robbing and murdering. Every country have laws to punish those who rob, those who murders and also those who corrupts. They are all the same, criminals. What makes corruption so tolerable? Does he tolerate with murderers and robbers too?

Ask him if he were to hire someone to do a job for him and that person did not do a good job, as a boss, would he complained and fired that guy?

The same goes to the government, they are our worker. We “hire” them through general election and we “pay” them using our tax money. So basically we the citizen are their boss. If the boss are not happy with the work quality of the worker, then a boss gotta do what a boss gotta do by getting a better worker!

Every human are bound to err and could give in to their evil thought, whether they are a leader of a great nation or just a toilet cleaner.

Wow, this is quite a lengthy comment and quite a good read. This comment entitles u to a free supper anytime. Just sms or give me a call

As for your friend, it is perfectly alright for him to have his point of view. That is his right.

Maybe he just needs to be exposed to both sides of the story, because he sounds quite one sided. Labeling bloggers as jokes and liars are a bit unfair.

I know I can be a joker, but I’m no joke and no liar! Liar (wild) maybe la

Sometimes people become fixed in their thinking. I am also a little wild i think

Another thing is, I live my life as I want to and I don’t care what others think about me or about society. What matters is what I think

That is very matured of u

This person you met have his reasons for what he does.. and does everyone else. Regards of whether each and every individual is willing to voice their rights to the government or question what they do is up to every individual. Some may see that the government can improve in their point of view, some just thinks “oh hell. none of my business as long as I got job, can feed my family ok lah”

We parted amiably

Different people, different point of view.

I think u summarized it well

There is a difference between “Government” and the “ruling party”. We have to be loyal to the Government – give unto Ceasar what is Ceasar’s etc etc. But we don’t have to be loyal to the party that is managing the Government for the next 4 or 5 years. The party that manages the Government can change. It is like the school cafetaria. You can change the caterer yearly, but keep the cafeteria running. Dishonest politicians try to hoodwink innocent people into thinking that the ruling party and the Government are one and the same thing. They are not. Another way of looking at it: The Govenment is the chair. The party is the backside that sits on the chair. That can change and another backside will sit on the chair.

The other thing is transparency. Good, honest government should always be transparent, with very few exceptions e.g. national security. Government is “of the people, by the people, and for the people”. That means you and I (ordinary people) can form a government made up “of the people”. To do that, we have to be elected “by the people”. And if elected, we work “for the people”. No one has a God-given right to rule. (“He said citizens of a country shouldn’t bother about its government. Citizens should concentrate on the business of living and leave the governing to the government.) One of the last persons with a mandate to rule from heaven … well we know what happened to that person.

This poor soul, your friend who’s lost like your puppy, needs to go back to school to understand democracy. Hellooo … this is 2009. Not 1009.

There, I’ve said my piece. Politely, I hope.

Thanks for the opportunity.

Thank you so much for sharing your views on this matter. Thank you too for dropping by. I have bookmarked your blog so I can visit it from time to time. I hope u dont mind.

and i’ve no comments on politics.. =P

The important thing is that it is back

Jino, thanks for your viewpoint. I think a lot of people just dont want to get involved in anything as long as their livelihood is not affected directly.

[Jino] – A man’s not a man unless he knows how to shoot