"They just need to repackage the word 'emergency' to avoid public panic. They won't call it 'darurat' but will give it a new name. Something for Covid-19."
- From a source reportage by The Malaysian Insight.
COMMENT | There has been much hand wringing over this backdoor government’s possible use of “emergency” to disrupt the democratic norms and processes of this country. Highly intelligent folks have been giving the rakyat the low down on what exactly is an “emergency declaration” and why we do not need it.
All the rakyat really have to understand is this. One, this is not the
kind of emergency that you think it is, the kind where there will be
armed forces on the streets with possible shoot to kill orders and with
movements restricted when the country shuts down because the state
restricts...