I was, however, constantly checking out the progress of the Bersih 3.0 sit-in through various social media platforms, including Twitter and Facebook as well as some websites which provided updates from time to time.
IN OUR relationship with the state, we are only concerned about our well-being and interests as individuals. Basically, we would not want an oppressive state, a state which transgresses our basic rights with impunity.
IN TRYING to justify sociopolitical acts as well as legislations, nothing is more abused by politicians than Jeremy Bentham’s Principle of Utility (more popularly referred to as the Utilitarian Principle).
MR Brownlow: “In the eyes of the law, you are the more guilty of the two, for the law supposes that your wife acts under your direction.”
Mr Bumble: “If the law supposes that ... the law is a (sic) ass — a (sic) idiot. If that’s the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is that his eye may be opened by experience — by experience.”
IN any Westminster-styled democracy, a country’s administration consists of three main machinations – the Legislative, Executive and the Judiciary. The Legislative makes laws. The Executive runs the country; and the Judiciary adjudicates disputes and determines them.
“The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” — Thomas Jefferson (letter to Edward Carrington, 1787)
