陳康南的言論另人擔心

Dr. George Chan’s opinion makes people worried

The president of Supp, YB Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Dr. George Chan Hong Nam, expressed extremely worried that some medias started the route to try to please the public with claptrap, and they even jutted out to react against the mainstream political sound opinion, these opinions lacked of political correctness, and caused the wide readers and the government to come into estranged affection, deviated the orthodox functions of the past medias.

He emphasized that as public organizations, mass media, frequently used “protect Democracy” as a pretext, and shouted out “the right to know” to people, exaggerating some government’s faults or politicians’ misbehaviour, caused people to prejudice the politicians and the government’s that then affected the cooperation in between the officials and the people to create a goal for a prosperous society.

He said, the purposes of some newspaper are for profit making only and publish many bad reports about the government and the society, this newspaper is unworthy for us to read and support.

He expressed that, in order to fish for the political capital, certain politicians started to make used of the media to create things just to frighten the people, distorting the government’s favourable policy to the plunderage of resources. On the other hand, described oneself as the people’s hero. Part of the public who do not have the analytic abilities probably can be misled, in which produced misunderstanding to the government, and finally affected the public policy to be carried out smoothly. He then added, the government development funds were limited, if the people are hostile toward the government, that area does not welcome the government and intends to overthrow the government, the government definitely will not develop this area.

Deputy Chief Minister’s opinion made people felt uncomfortable, if brother Nam thought that presently most people generally felt disaffection toward the government was due to the politicians’ misleading and the claptrap from the press, he should truly point out in the press which politicians and newspapers made such impractical opinion to defame the government, and he may make suitably clarifies, even he could take action to bring them to the court in order to ensure a correct understanding of the facts, but not to make threatened opinion to the kind citizens by saying not to develop those areas.

At present, our country adopts the free election democratic system, the people have the right to choose the ideal courageous person, if people prefer to elect the candidates of the frontier party to be the people representatives, the person in power use the people in certain areas do not welcome the government or intend to overthrow the government as an excuse to refuse to carry on any development to that certain areas. Had this lost the meaning of free election of democratic system? People are kind and neutral, people vote for the frontier party candidates, certainly do not mean that the people want to overthrow the government, the people only want to transmit some messages through their votes to the government, to express their dissatisfaction toward some policies and to spurn those representatives who are unable to express the public opinions. If certain policies, embark from the people’s point of views, regardless from any angles to look into them, still cannot find out any advantages for the people, the ruling party should have more ways and spaces than the frontier party to transmit the government’s messages to the people. Why do the people still tend to listen respectfully to and believe in the frontier party’s political view?

After the government increased the fuel prices, all domestic products inflated, the government warned the merchants cannot raise the daily necessities prices ceaselessly, otherwise will suffer official tackle seriously. Some reports showed in the Malaysian Website pointed out that one of the Mama Stall in West Malaysia, the price of the ice Milo was more expensive than the normal day for 20 to 30 cents and finally was fined twenty two thousand and five hundred ringgit. According to the report, the Domestic trade and consumer personnel department also confiscated 750 ringgit food and drink, and tore down the restaurant signboard.

On the other hand, the government allowed the profit-making highway to increase the toll fees, and expressed that if do not allow the charging highway to increase the toll fees; the government would compensate a large amount of money to the highway company. When the chargeable television channel collected high charges from the people, minister said, if the people complain of the high charges, they may choose not to watch. There are non-chargeable television channels like TV1, TV2, and TV3 available domestically, but the government has no intention to open for non-chargeable satellite television programme from other countries. BN government allowed the profit-making electrical company to have traffic hike, allowed city councils and local councils to collect higher assessment fees for the reason those department had not adjusted the assessment fees for several ten years. But the government had not considered the users for the electrical company and the houses too had increased how many times if compared to several decades ago? The increment of the customers does it not mean that the income increased, moreover, the profit increase too?

Because of all sort of charges increased, people do not have enough money to spend, the workers requested the employers to raise the salary, but for those hawkers who are also the bosses themselves too or the shop owners of the small grocery stores, whom could they request the increment of salary from? The similar income is insufficient to deal with the soaring expenses nowadays, how to survive if do not adjust the prices? The government has the responsibility to ensure that the highway company not to lose money in business, but do not care about the people, only suffering people know their own's pain.

Brother Nam should understand that the government has the necessity to examine those policies which caused people arose negative view, like what the SUPP Lanang sub-branch secretary said, the leaders and the members of the opposition party are not the enemies of the country, they are not the competitors for the ruling party, look into the people’s aspiration which raised by the opposition party positively, absorb the good lessons from the neighbouring country about the ignoring of the people’s aspiration and caused the collapse of the government.


砂州第一副首長陳康南表示非常擔心，一些媒體開始走向嘩眾取寵的路線，甚至突出反抗主流的政治聲音的言論，這些言論缺乏政治正確，使到廣大讀者與政府產生疏離作用，偏離了過去媒體正統意義上的上情下達的功能。

他強調，作為公共機構的大眾媒體，經常動輒以保護 “民主” 為藉口，為人民有 “知的權利” 而渲染、誇大政府的一些失誤或政治人物言行的疏失，使人們對政治人物，對政府的偏見，進而影響官民合作，共同創造繁榮社會的目標。

他說，有些報章就是為了賺錢而對政府及社會作出許多不良的報導，而這份報紙就不值得我們去看及支持了。

他表示，某些政客為了撈取政治資本，開始利用媒體來制造危言聳聽的言論，把政府的利民政策扭曲為掠奪資源。相反的，却把自己描述成民族英雄，部份沒有分析能力的公眾，可能會受到誤導，而對政府產生誤解，進而影響到公共政策的順利執行。他還說，政府發展基金有限，若人民仇視政府，該地區不歡迎及有意推翻政府，政府肯定不會對該地區作出發展。

副首長的言論令人看了多全身不自在，南哥既然認為目前人民普遍對政府感到不滿是因為受到政客的誤導和媒體的嘩眾取寵式的報導而影響，他應確實地在媒體指出是哪些政客和報章作出哪些不切實際的言論來底毁政府，並且可作出適當的澄清，甚至可以採取行動把彼得提控上庭以正視聽，而不是對善良的百姓作出不發展彼等地區的恐嚇性言論。

我國目前採取自由選舉的民主制度，人民有權力選出心目中的人民代議士，當人民傾向於投在野黨的候選人成為代議仕時，當權者却以該區人民不歡迎政府或有意推翻政府為由而拒絕對該區進行發展，是否已經失去了自由民主選舉的意義呢？人民是善良而中立的，人民票投在野黨的候選人，並不意味着人民要推翻政府，人民只是要通過手中的選票向政府傳達一些訊息，來表達他們對於某些政策的不滿以及唾棄一些無法表達民意的議員。如某些政策，從人民的角度出發，無論是横看還是竪看，都看不出那裡利民，執政黨應該比在野黨，有更多的管道和空間向人民傳達政府的訊息，為什麼人民傾向於聆聽和相信在野黨的言論呢？

當政府調高國內的燃油價格後，國內百物隨着水漲船高，政府警吿商家不可胡亂抬高日用品的價格，否則將遭受嚴厲取締行動的對付，馬來西亞網站的一些報導指在西馬一家嘛嘛餐館賣美祿冰比平時貴20至30仙而被罰款2萬2仟500令吉。據了解，國內貿易及消費人事務部還充公了750令吉的食物和飲料，並拆掉餐館的招牌。但另一方面，政府却批准賺錢的收費大道調高收費，並表示如果不批准收費大道調高收費，政府須賠償大道公司巨額款項。當收費電視頻道向人民調高收費時，部長說，人民如困嫌收費電視台的收費貴可以選擇不看，國內有的是無收費電視台如TV1, TV2, TV3 等！但政府却無意開放來自其他國家的免收費衞星轉播電視節目。國陣政府批准賺錢的電力公司調高電費，市政局和市議會調高門牌稅，理由是這些部門己經有幾十年沒調高收費了。但是政府却沒有考慮電力公司的用戶和房屋比前幾十年已增加了多少倍？增加的客戶不是等於收入增加，而且盈利隨著增加嗎？

由於種種收費的調高，人民的錢不夠用，工人要求老板加薪，但自己也身老板的小販或小雜貨店店主，可向誰來要求加薪？同樣的收入己不足以應付高昂的開銷，不調高物價如何生存？政府有義務確保大道公司不賠錢，苦哈哈的人民有苦唯有自己知。

南哥應該了解，政府有必要檢討那些引起人民負面看法的政策，誠如人聯黨南蘭律事務秘書所言，反對黨的領袖和黨員並不是國家的敵人，他們不是執政黨的競爭對手，正面看待反對黨所提出的人民的心聲，吸取鄰國罔顧民意導致政府垮台的教訓。