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‘elegant silence’ from pak lah

for some updates to the criticisms of dr m at pak lah, take a look here. here, and here. so it seems that our present PM had decided to remain silent (‘elegant silent’ so according to musa hitam) towards criticisms from the ex PM. hmm…. just like he remain silent on the issue of the PDRM opposing the IPCMC with its most out-of-the-world reasons?

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wits0 says:

12/06/2006 at 8:32 pm

When AI was charged with corruption, discerning ppl would have noticed that there was no reference to monetary corruption but totally focussed merely on ‘abuse of power’ , something which was cherry picked to completely obfuscate any reference whatsoever to the more prevalent and serious form of corruption.

The person living in a glass house and does not throw stone may not necessarily be clean or above board, just cleverly pragmatic and under the restraint out of sheer slyness. He dare not shake the Pandora Box to much because of the tons of skeletons they all have within it.

Best leave “elegance” out of it ; we are not dealing with bards or poetry here.

lucia: haha. i suppose ‘elegant silence’ is meant for those VIPs ministers only. if ordinary people remain silent, it would be ‘stupid silence’??Â
ong says:

12/06/2006 at 3:36 pm

Silence mean `no answer’ ! If a notoriously corrupt person accuse another corrupt person of `uncleanliness’ certainly it is very difficult for the accused to defend himself ! If he answers `yes’ it proved the point to 3rd parties. If he try to say `no’ then the accuser will say `you see, they are like that!’ Either way the accused would lose. If Pak Lah is clean he can just haul up a big fish and prosecute the person -this is the best reply. If he is not he is left with what he has now : silence!

lucia: usually people will say silence means consent or means yes. haha. aware of thisÂ after attending too many seminars when the speakers asked something, all the audiences remained silent, the speaker fed-up of us participants non responsive attitude so they will say ok lah silent means yes.Â
wits0 says:

12/06/2006 at 2:07 am

>nah. iâ€™m sure many people realised that. in fact even before pak lah >become PM, i heard this from lim kit siang at a DAP/keadilan forum in >penang.

Perhaps so but the BN/MCA ppl were likening him to the ancient legendary Chinese judge of impeccable integrity, Pow Kung via radio waves before the last GE. 😀
wits0 says:

11/06/2006 at 10:16 pm

On technicalities, Musa H is rather wrong(although he spoke often with more sense than the rest). Silence is not really elegant if that includes a less than clean slate in toto. Ong is correct to point that out, implicitly.

A clean slate would also have to mean that a person has displayed, e.g., no such thing as nepotism in his entire public service(in different roles) in his entire career. So, if a man in politics was called, “Mr Clean”, is merely a worldly accolate of the moment, not an exacting term. What subtlety ordinary people may have missed also was that if one is “Mr Clean”, the other simply is therefore inplicitly Unclean. 😀

lucia: “What subtlety ordinary people may have missed also was that if one is “Mr Clean”, the other simply is therefore inplicitly Unclean”

nah. i’m sure many people realised that. in fact even before pak lah become PM, i heard this from lim kit siang at a DAP/keadilan forum in penang.

but i do agree of course that the label ‘mr clean’ is not an exacting term.

btw, i just read in malaysia today’s blog about how ‘unclean’ pak lah is. well i suppose he might be like er… how does that saying goes… about someone who looks very quiet and clean but actually he is not at all. a lion in a mouse’s suit or what? haha. there’s no such saying as the mouse and lion lah. i just made it up.

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