When one mentions integrity, it is often related to the financial aspect of it -- for example leading to actions such as corruption and bribery. And when integrity is linked to political activities, one cannot refrain from thoughts of money politics.
IWG would like to highlight other aspects of integrity. At our launch we mentioned the two dimensions of integrity that we will focus on viz. integrity in action and integrity in stature. While the first focuses on what a person or organisation does, the latter zeros in to what he or it represents or stands for. They are portrayals for the outside world , or the faces that others look at the person or organization. These are the aspects of MCA that IWG watches and focuses on.
....IWG thus calls upon the party to place greater importance on Responsibility To Prevent rather than to be involved in posterior tussles of defence. It is often said that giving reasons and excuse are signs of inferior qualities.
- Dr Daphne Loke, Chairman, MCA Integrity Watch Group, Jan 17, 2009
The statement above was extracted from the MCA Integrity Watch Group website.
The group was form on Dec 15, 2008 to check on the integrity level of MCA's leaders and members in the party. Since then this group has been issuing statements on matters related to some issues that can be related to the party leaders in their website or media here and here. As this comment was written, a check on their website shows the last message posted was a Chinese New Year greetings on Jan 21, 2009.
All has been silence since then. There was not a single comment on the integrity and morality related to the Perak state government debacle or the proposed low cost airport in Labu, Negri Sembilan.
Has the group been told to toe the line? Or they had wisely realised their expectation for a level of integrity had exceeded far more than MCA leaders can chew? So they decided to be silent without giving any reasons and excuse which are considered signs of inferior qualities.
If one knows some practices are unhealthy but elected to keep quiet about it, isn't one's integrity is at stake too especially if one is a watchdog on integrity? - Loka
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