a time comes when silence is betrayal...

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that time has come for us...

- Martin Luther King Jr, click here to listen to excerpts of this famous speech






recently in our news:
- Eight-month-old baby beaten to death
- Criminal past of dead baby's mother revealed
- Paedophile attack sparks awareness march
- Man arrested for sexually abusing step-daughter

the starfish story....

have you heard the starfish story?

A wise old man was on his daily walk along the beach. At a distance he noticed a little boy reaching down to pick something up and throwing it into the ocean, then tirelessly repeating it over and over again.

The old man curiously moved closer to find out what he was up to. The boy was picking up starfish left stranded by the ebbing tide, and tossing them back into the water, one by one, as if trying to save them all from dying and also from the hungry seagulls.

convinced of the futility of the task the boy had taken upon himself, the old man went up to him and said, "Son, hundreds of starfish dry up on this beach everyday. What you're doing simply won't make a difference."

Clearly hearing what the old man had said, the little boy bent down, picked up another starfish and threw it as far as he could, back into the sea. Then he looked at the old man, smiled and politely said,

"Well, it's made a difference to that one!"

a failed society....

A society can be judged by how it treats its weak...

true, it is the parents' duty to take care of their kids.....

but what if they don't?? what if they won't??? or simply cannot??

bail us out....

the legacy....

lets say you gave a builder 1 million dollars to build your house. it takes him some years to install 4 columns and a roof, worth only a fraction of the $1 million. rest of the money, he shared with his close friends and family, building their homes. now are you going to end up saying "oh how nice of the builder to put a roof on our house?".

what's worse? whenever you asked a question he locked you up, beat you up, to shut you up!

that is the legacy of our outgoing president, Gayyoom. we trusted him with billions of our tourism dollars while spending over $10 million annually on his palace alone. yet he let his close family and friends get away with embezzlement and theft of our money.... for 30 years!

what's even worse? for all this, we're having to reward him with yet another palace ... maybe that's politics, but i don't buy it!