Jojobeach,
What you have said is the birth right of every citizen. Down
here citizens' right to elect the government from the best
individuals of passion and talents and leadership is not possible
because the government has lost all the original visions of a good
government we have shouted for as a people during merdeka. Why?
Because once people are elected to power and people became naive to
acept propaganda without questioning the leaders with good and
independent views on roles and responsibility of government leaders
became bolder and bolder and will pass all sorts of laws to
increase their powers and ignore the people's needs. Today people
are suffering gladly because of their own naivety to accept all
such propagandas and nonsense. By using propaganda like "rule of
law", "racial harmony", "freedom of press is lawlessness", "yes-men
are million-dollar talents" "foreign talents create jobs" "small
and resourceless island", "meritocracy equal opportunity", "no free
lunch" we the people have been deceived into making men gods who
accordingly uses excuses to increase their power by passing
all sorts of power to rid of their oppositions, control all the MPs
into yes-men and circumvent and elliminate all of such citizens'
rights. Without citizens' exercise such right through the public
media or holding of protests to express their needs we will
continue to be governed by rogue government.