When you’ve got to stay above the shit, you’ve got to stay above the shit. It’s a matter of having the right stools for the job, failing which, grab an inflatable and make like a floater. The consequences of not staying above the shit is having your aspirations flushed away like yesterday’s curdled remains.
Gross enough, I know, but I can’t help it, what with the flurry of activity surrounding blog freedoms, blog responsibilities and blog sensitivities. It’s like a regular circus, these days. So what do you do? You try to stay above the shit once having experienced how dirty you can get when wallowing in it. I guess the important thing to remember now is that whatever you say online can and will be compared to content codes, prohibitions and the like.
That’s why we should never say what we want to in the way that they want us to, I suppose. Which makes things difficult in many ways. You can’t, for example, talk the way Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz does over here. That’s just too forward, to much lambast and not much fact; too much accusation and not much rationality. It’s a perfect example of how you can get into trouble by saying:
“We might as well establish a select committee on allegations from the DAP that Chin Peng was the ‘Bapa Kemerdekaan’,” Nazri said. Lim immediately called on Nazri to retract the remark.
But really, LKS shouldn’t be calling Datuk Nazri out: he should allow Datuk Nazri the full force of his comment. We should all allow Datuk Nazri to speak his mind since, being such a public figure, I’m sure the public would like to know what he’s said parliament.
This way, people can think for themselves what kind of person Datuk Nazri is; if he wishes to invoke his special privileges in parliment, and is triumphant about the vast majority behind him, I’m quite certain that there will be a lot of people who will believe Datuk Nazri. They would probably judge him on the content of his statements, which is also, in a way, helpful.
