On Politics, Freedom and Harmony in Malaysia
(To auto scroll to the bottom, click here. ) The beauty in the basics of democracy is that there is mutual respect, ability to enjoy harmony in diversity and to agree to disagree. What is theory is of course not always the same in practice but in the case of Malaysia, I must say that the freedom I experienced living in what the world regards as a developing country is comparable even to some of the advanced democratic countries of the world. When I talk about freedom, I'm specifically referring to freedom of mind to believe what I choose to believe in, freedom to move around freely and safely in the country and with a freedom to chose my vocation and lifestyle with a choice of goods and services available in most other countries and perhaps even more. My feelings that the freedom I had experienced in Malaysia is comparable to America was shared in an early day post here. I stated that perhaps the well-defined laws in the US created the environment of mutual respe...