striving for the best is patriotism

our PM, pak lah said that a person can be a patriot without having to defend the country in a war. now why didn’t he added in “… without waving the jalur gemilang about or displaying it here and there.”

well i kind of agree with pak lah. he sure make sense much more than mr bow tie (or even his deputy) who encourage you to fly the flag and put forward the ridiculous idea of closing all toll collection booth for 10 mins on merdeka dy. i suupose striving for the best to bring glory to the country include people like lennard tan who swim across the english channel at record-breaking feat?

to some people, like alina rastam who wrote in sun2surf, patriotism means having a long-term commitment to the well-being — political, economic, physical, spiritual and so on –of Malaysia and its people, and a willingness to contribute in some way towards
enhancing this.

another writer who writes to NST also has a good point when he said “we cannot enforce patriotism, just as we cannot inculcate fashion sense”. but sad to think that we have 2 ministers (the semi value minister when he agree to mr bow tie minister’s suggestion of closing toll booth for 20 mins.)