It has not surprised me that Rural and Regional Development Minister Shafie Apdal has today turned down my invitation to watch my Chinese New Year satire video.
This is what DAP Parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang said on February 4 regarding Shafie’s earlier silence after I had explained that I did not touch on Lahad Datu incident at all in my video:-
“ I am not surprised that Shafie has kept his silence because he had been caught red-handed making a fool of himself saying something he knows nothing about – unless he knows Mandarin and Cantonese to understand the video dialogue, which would make him even more culpable as deliberately telling a lie.”
Shafie has been most irresponsible for accusing me of mocking the Lahad Datu tragedy as well as our security forces. Now that he has admitted that he did not watch the video before making the serious accusation, he must at least admit his mistake and make a public apology.
I must also remind him the effect of his mistake by repeating what Lim Kit Siang has commented on Feb 4 as follows:-
Shafie succeeded in getting the police to swing into immediate action within hours with the Police Internal Security and Public Order director Datuk Seri Salleh Mat Rashid declaring that Teresa’s video clip would be investigated for sedition and defamation.
Shafie must therefore prove that he has the courage to own up to his mistake and openly retract his false allegations against me.
Shafie should also tell the public where did he get the wrong information about my video? Was it from MCA?
I must express my shock at the political shallowness displayed by Wanita MCA chief Heng Seai Kie when she has , in today’s Chinese media, accused me of spoiling the nation’s leaders image as well as lacking in patriotism.
My video’s contents are in fact a collection of issues talked about by the public in their daily conversations and in social media. The issues reflect the public sentiment.
How can she equate criticisms against government policies and failures as spoiling image of the nation’s leaders, and worse, equate this as my lacking in patriotism?
Suffice to say that her political shallowness is shocking indeed.