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Friday, July 16, 2010
Opinion by X-Men, and Anonymous KI-Media Reader

Books are a compilation of personal experiences good and bad, thus in the free world these personal experiences help shape the future so one may prevent such reoccurrences in one's nation or country. Should students become limited with their search for the truth then knowledge itself has been kept away from what will be told. This behavior is not a good way for anyone, not to mention the country. I think the reason why free speech is not allowed in a country such as Cambodia is because of enormous wealth to be discovered and to be made. When people are free to speak and to offer their opinions which translates that the government itself is not doing an exceptional job thus it will lead to a replacement of the government itself. And when those who are at the top of the food chain seem that the public have intervened it will become a huge problem for them. When it becomes a problem to them it means that their personal interests have become inconvenienced. Knowledge also means wealth. The more you know the more you earn the less you know the less you earn. Because of this simple expression the government prefers to keep the public at a distant path of knowledge, thus it leads to a very minimum of personal expressions. Education is the key to solve many problems because it is human that creates all of these problems among themselves. Those who have power want more power while those who have less power also want more power as well. Having said that, I urge the government to really encourage people to speak more based on the actuality of the reality and not based on defamation and accusations. When we learn to criticize anyone we must have everything in our perspective before we begin to judge and vice-versa. In addition, I urge the Ministry of Information (MoI) to focus on what they can do to work with the public working together in reshaping Cambodia into a better place and less focus on trivial issues. We are still facing with many great challenges ahead in the coming years, thus the MoI should learn to accept that some criticisms might actually do some good for their future growth and not just fear and be intimidated by what is meant to be well thought expression and not just a lousy worrysome over some odd trivial opinions.

Hope to speak again soon.

X-Men