COMMENT | Unmasking Malaysia’s National Day charades

COMMENT | Is it unpatriotic to question the politicisation of the National Day by the government of the day by the Perikatan Nasional states?

The so-called “patriots” may be jumping up and down over the latest kerfuffle over the National Day theme but let us try and think outside the box for a minute and see whether the so-called “Green Wave” has a point.

There is no doubt that the copywriters who thought up the imaginative National Day themes with the choice words Madani, Harapan and unity were trying to brown-nose their political bosses after the poor showing at the recent state elections.

It is also nothing more than a veil of deceit designed to mask authoritarian tendencies...