When Hadi is on a rampage of sheer incoherence - sembah derhaka?


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  • Wednesday, 08 Mar 2023

Democracy is not about toppling the government. If that is the definition, then Malaysia would have learned all the wrong lessons from the French Revolution of 1789.

In the aftermath of the "Storm of the Bastille" that removed the King, this dramatic action signalled the beginning of the French Revolution, a decade of political turmoil and terror in which King Louis XVI was overthrown and tens of thousands of people, including the king and his wife Marie Antoinette, were executed.

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