BUT SPIDELY, SHOULD ALL THAT POWER BE CONCENTRATED IN THE HAND OF ONLY ONE?

"WITH GREAT POWER THERE MUST ALSO COME -- GREAT RESPONSIBILITY"

This news (see news report below) is of no surprise to the Warong Kopi. Make no mistake, laugh at no one, it happens all the time in ALL religious institutions. Few would resort to making a police report lest they make their own religion less palatable. Many would have paused and hoped that all would be resolved in the name of unity.

But why does any organisation go the way of intimidation and deception and why do some government take the same course?
It is because the power that should have been in the people’s hands gravitates towards the very selected few or even perhaps one.
Listen to what Woodrow Wilson has to say:

o “When I resist, therefore, when I as a Democrat resist the concentration of power, I am resisting the process of death because the concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human energy”

Let us as members be it of churches, temples or mosques stand up against any effort to have our power put in the hands of the selected few. This will only lead to pride, deception, intimidation and extremism.
Likewise, we the citizens of Negara-ku must be willing to be counted upon to oppose any concentration of power in the hands of the exclusive few in the executive branch of the government.
Such concentration of power can only lead to intimidation and corruption and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Let us resist, nay stop this shameful gravitation of power.
We the people must restore the checks and balances.
Our future, our children’s, our children’s children's future is in our hands.

o “The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of government power not to increase it.”

Police act on complaints against independent church

KUALA LUMPUR: The pastor of an independent church here is being investigated by the police following allegations of intimidation, deception and wrong teachings by several of its former followers.
Church bodies are also outraged over claims by the pastor that female members can be made more attractive and have better physique through his “miracle healings.”
The church, which allegedly has RM62.9mil in its accounts, has been under scrutiny by the Council of Churches of Malaysia (CCM) and the National Evangelical Christian Fellowship (NECF).
The two church groups confirmed that they had received complaints from members including receiving the recording of a sermon by the pastor, which was “clearly against the proper teachings of mainstream church groups.”