{"id":135,"date":"2008-11-25T14:39:28","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T06:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/limguaneng.com\/?p=135"},"modified":"2008-11-25T14:39:28","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T06:39:28","slug":"public-discourse-must-be-based-on-facts-reason-and-principles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/limguaneng.com\/index.php\/2008\/11\/25\/public-discourse-must-be-based-on-facts-reason-and-principles\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Discourse Must Be Based On Facts, Reason and Principles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Penang State Government regrets that Barisan Nasional leaders, Utusan Malaysia and some publications stubbornly persist in refusing to publish the vandalisation of the BM\/Arabic road sign in Lebuh Acheh two days ago.<\/p>\n<p>By continuing to provoke racial sentiments in opposing the BM\/Mandarin and BN\/Tamil usage of road signs and not BN\/Arabic road signs, Barisan Nasional leaders, Utusan Malaysia and some publications are practicing double standards and dangerously politicising this issue to divide Malaysians.<\/p>\n<p>The Penang State Government believes in freedom of expression and is willing to hear public criticism of its policy.<\/p>\n<p>However, such public discourse must be based on facts and not falsehood, reason, not emotion and principles, not prejudice.<\/p>\n<p>The Penang State Government believes that the people believe in facts, reason and principles and will not allow these irresponsible elements undermine their confidence in the Penang State Government&#8217;s effort to promote their welfare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Penang State Government regrets that Barisan Nasional leaders, Utusan Malaysia and some publications stubbornly persist in refusing to publish the vandalisation of the BM\/Arabic road sign in Lebuh Acheh two days ago. By continuing to provoke racial sentiments in opposing the BM\/Mandarin and BN\/Tamil usage of road signs and not BN\/Arabic road signs, Barisan &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/limguaneng.com\/index.php\/2008\/11\/25\/public-discourse-must-be-based-on-facts-reason-and-principles\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Public Discourse Must Be Based On Facts, Reason and Principles<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/limguaneng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/limguaneng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/limguaneng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limguaneng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limguaneng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/limguaneng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/limguaneng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/limguaneng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limguaneng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limguaneng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}