Facing up to the truth of the matter

The Malaysian Insight The Malaysian Insight Updated 8 years ago · Published on 25 Mar 2018 3:00PM · 10 Comments

Many are calling for Steve Smith to lose his captaincy over the scandal. Some members of the Australian cricket team were caught tampering with the ball in its Test match against South Africa. – EPA pic, March 25, 2018.

MOST of Australia woke up to the shocking news that some members of its cricket team had been caught tampering with the ball in its Test match against South Africa.

In a country where sports heroes are respected and cricket players enjoy higher status than national leaders or corporate figures, this news has been treated as a national day of shame.

The shame has been palpable from the man in the street to opinion makers. They want the offending cricketers to be punished and punished severely, with many calling for team leader Steve Smith to lose his captaincy.

No one has tried to downplay the act of ball tampering which was against the spirit and law of the game.

No one has tried to make excuses or talk about foreign conspiracies about this blatant act of cheating.

To be fair, even Smith and the cricket player in question, Cameron Bancroft, put up their hands and admitted to cheating.

The reaction in Australia is understandable.

They know that this act of cheating was a poor reflection of their country. They know that it has damaged the country’s reputation across the globe.

What about us?

The way Australians have reacted to cheats in their midst puts many Malaysians in sorry light.

We are surrounded by thieves, bigots and those who have sullied the name of Malaysia all over the world – and yet we tolerate them.

Worse yet, we listen to the drivel they dish out every day. They show no shame, no remorse, no contrition.

Heck, they even pretend that they are the individuals who have been wronged or maligned. Just go through the whole 1MDB saga from the time it became public.

And what do we do?

We make excuses for those individuals who have brought disrepute to Malaysia’s name. We pretend as if their shameful acts have no bearing on us.

Every time we tolerate the nonsense and thievery, we are telling Malaysia’s next generation that it is acceptable to bring shame to your country; it is acceptable to turn a blind eye to wrongdoing and evil. – March 25, 2018.

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  • World apart. In bolih land cheaters, thievies and criminals are victim . The righteous whistle blowers are aggressor and should be imprisoned.

    Posted 8 years ago by Lee Lee · Reply

  • It is part of the culture, down to the genes, of the Malay world.
    The non-Malays merely adopted it to live in this Kampung world of modern day Pembesars and etc.

    Posted 8 years ago by Nice Frog · Reply

  • I say Malaysians should start small and start with ourselves. Dont just talk big, but do something, even if it is small. Do things like park your car a little further up from the place that you want to go rather double park right in front of it just so because it is convenient for you despite how troublesome it is for other people. Flush the toilet and clean it after you use it - dont just leave your mess for other people to clean. Treat other people like you would like we would like to be treated ourselves - if you get two people to do the same job, , they should get the same pay, regardless of whether they are from a different race or a foreigner or whatever. Spend time doing a job that you love and make your living by reducing the stress of others, instead of spending your time doing a job that you hate and making your living by increasing the stress of others. And please , say what we mean and mean what we say, or just be silent. The Malaysian insight perhaps can lead by example. TMI is obviously pro-opposition news media, but it goes around acting as if it is some independent media outlet that is only interested in keeping the people informed. Why pretend to be someone you are not. Why not just be proud of who you are ( i have more to say about TMI but i will stop here because they are closing down in a few days so why waste my breath ). We get the government that we deserve. If we don't like our government ( or our opposition) , it means we don't like ourselves. If we dont like both our governement and opposition, we should encourage each other to change, not just demand that other people to change . So the next time your friend parks double parks in front of the shop that you want to go to, tell them to go find a parking further up and say you would rather walk. Be the change you want to see. Its too late for TMI, but perhaps it is still not too late for malaysia. Perhaps.

    Posted 8 years ago by Nehru Sathiamoorthy · Reply

    • Weird!! I am seeing a Jekyl and Hyde in the "thambi Nehru". Looks to me that the "Nehru" is a site name use by many UmnoBn troopers to comment. Your reasoning of double parking sounds fair if it is ideal environment but if the city and suburban planning are lackadasical not due to financial incapibilities of providing basic amenities in transport and spaces of parking but sadly it is waylaid by intensive corruptions. Tell me how will it work and when election is around all beautiful empty promises are gushing without any inhibitions of shame. Can the 60 years of wrongs be falsely written to deflect the truth as what your "Nehru" slight bashing of TMI in its writing on being non independent . What a hypocrite you are!!!! Ain't the truth in reporting the wrongs of a party which so happen to be UmnoBN, should be the duty and responsibility of an independent writer/ media and not to be viewed as pro to the other side. Ain't TMI leading an example of being independent and showing righteousness in writting without fear and favour. Many readers and commenters are in agreement of TMI reporting save for a sole guy like you. Many can't be wrong when only one kind of individual like you are trying to be right. Again it looks like what they are writting is not your cup of tea and that audacious remark shows you are only a damn bloody a@#@hole. It is always easy to make a statement after a review in hind sight manner and it is 20/20 clear vison. So please stop that idiotic remark that "we get the government we deserve". This kind of statement is like a wanabee smart aleck of an arm chair Monday Quarterback giving an analysis of the Sunday Foolball game. No one knows what government will hold for the future as evidently all the manifesto and promises are made in the heat of election rhetorics and only after the winning it is where the monstrousity behavior surface. I am not saying that PH is good or will be good as we do not have enough of hind sight to determine but for sure UmnoBN has provided more than long enough of hindsight vision for us not to make a bloody mistake after mistakes again. So stop being a "Mr.Know All" when your maturity of thoughts and intellect are still in infant stage.

      Posted 8 years ago by Lee Lee · Reply

    • lol found ur instagram, not only are you stupid, but you're fucking ugly too, sathiadingdong. do the world a favor and shut ur stupid, ugly face.

      Posted 8 years ago by Tommy richard · Reply

  • Malaysians with their flexible principles and obsession with money condone cheating. In fact they even applauded cheating. And therein lies the irony of the 1MDB affair. The Chinese (and Mahathir) are outraged for no other reason that Najib’s heist has been far more successful than anything they have pulled off. Of course, being Malaysian they will NEVER say what they really think, instead they hide their jealousy behind their righteousness. Righteousness which is so thin it’s transparent to anyone but themselves. Malaysians of all persuasions are potentially corrupt, inefficient, incompetent and unprincipled as each other. The only real difference is that their differing delusions are based on differing religions. As the previous editorial suggested. Malaysia is a society based on bullshit. A society where bullshit destroys children and hence the whole fabric of society. The massive irony is that the two major opposing forces in politics are so alike as to be indistinguishable. The choice is between Malay based garbage and Chinese based garbage.

    Posted 8 years ago by Dennis Madden · Reply

    • Here comes another fake with utter rubbish comments . If you are incapble to provide good reading piece please stop and do not try to place a shield in hiding the truth.

      Posted 8 years ago by Lee Lee · Reply

    • More delusions from the Chinese. Whenever cornered, they invariably resort to insults, criticism...and of course comments on personal appearance. They can never come up with anything intelligent to say to support their righteousness. Simply to be Chinese is to be perfection. It’s no wonder the down-to-earth Malays prefer the garbage of BN government to the alternative

      Posted 8 years ago by Dennis Da Menace · Reply

    • To reply to a dullard , will be demanding too much from oneself as there not be any understanding or comprehending the subject matter. It has to be direct rebuke or a trauma to jolt at least a fraction of the grey matter so that there is a remote chance of a jump start in some small percentage of intelligence to tell oneself to shut up and no more making oneself a nuisance further.

      Posted 8 years ago by Lee Lee · Reply

    • Question of the week. How many different topics can the average Chinese include in one sentence? Lee Lee your attempts to appear intelligent has produced gibberish

      Posted 8 years ago by Dennis Da Menace · Reply