Fahmi reminds rakyat that a cat may look at a king By Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy

Malaysiakini : "Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up."

– V for Vendetta

COMMENT | Fahmi Reza is an attention seeker, but the artist-activist is seeking attention for all the right reasons and causes.

There was a time when the denizens of Madani were the opposition, and they embraced what Fahmi offered because they were too pusillanimous to speak truth to power as he did.

These days, Madani seems more interested in coddling the very forces it once claimed were destroying the country. To them, Fahmi is like that lone soldier on an island who doesn’t realise the war is over, and the supposed good guys won.

Fahmi, meanwhile, mocks the very constraints that are placed upon him. His old school dialectic of “elites and those in power” should tell you everything we need to know about his politics.

Hence, for activists like Fahmi, the war is never over because there will always be elites and those in power.

Robbie98 : If we want a living democracy we need to protect political cartoonist/ activists like Fahmi Reza . He reminds us that in a constitutional democracy there should be no sacred cows . 

We are a country which takes pains to put forward a view that majority oriented affirmative action policies are a necessity after 68 years of independence. We are proud to oriented and afforded previlages based on our race and not based on need . 

Yes , we need political satirist in our midst . As the author correctly points out " to highlight the absence moral,ethical , legal integrity " in our political and intellectual elites . Please do not harass cartoonists , political satirist like Fahmi in our midst. We need them to remind us to look in the mirror and that there should be no sacred cows if we hope to move forward as a progressive nation .

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