Nobody has the right to reveal a classified document. If they do, they have to pay the price.
“When a document is classified under the Official Secrets Acts, it is a secret document,” said Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu. (NST, 2 Feb 2007)
What Samy and the Cabinet didn’t tell you is this.
Apart from the obvious fact - that business agreements signed by the government on behalf of the rakyat should be made public - these documents can be declassified.
Take for instance, the big hoo-hah formerly known as the “Crooked Bridge”. The Cabinet hurriedly declassified them and gave to the press, in an attempt to deflect criticisms and accusations by the former Prime Minister.
But with those few careless remarks and a stubborn streak displayed by the Works Minister, we are ever more curious about the rest of the existing agreements and business deals, and wonder….
What are the bare facts behind them?
Note : There is no such thing as Freedom of Information as it is defined by Western democracies. What we have are chains of individuals calling themselves the "Government" dishing out goodies based upon mutual benefits between the ruling elites and the corporations. Any questions raised by the people will be quickly quelled
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