COMMENT | The problem with political stability in Malaysia

“Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they’ve always made me glad.” - Malcolm X

COMMENT | Of course, I agreed with Wong Chin Huat when he disagreed with former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad when it comes to the latter’s contention that there should be legislation that only permits two parties.

Mahathir has never met a democratic first principle which he didn’t think needed to be ditched for hegemonic power.

Asked about something as trivial as freedom of assembly and association, the old maverick proudly claimed that there was “no absolute freedom”, even though he started not one but three parties (Umno Baru, Bersatu, and Pejuang) in an attempt to sustain political power and “good results” be damned.

“If you want total freedom, there must be good results. When you find that freedom destroys a society, you have to think about limits to freedom,” he said.