Should you celebrate this Merdeka
After Perak?
After Teoh Beng Hock?
After 589 arrests in a single day on August 1?
After the great lie of 1Malaysia?
Are we truly Merdeka?
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AAre We A Free Nation?
— A Joint Merdeka Day Message
30 August 2008
Independence means that the nation is free from any imposed political domination, citizens are sovereign and are masters of their own destiny. For that to be true, they must at least be able to think freely, express and exchange opinion, and, obtain and disseminate information without fear or favour.
As we celebrate the 51st anniversary of our Merdeka tomorrow and the 45th anniversary of Malaysia’s establishment in two weeks’ time, we should be celebrating our political adulthood. We should be proud that as citizens, we are atruly sovereign people, ruled by nothing more than the collective free will of our citizenship. We invite all Malaysians to ponder before lighting fireworks and joining the parade: Are we truly free? Are we truly sovereign?
People are the boss 