Minister, who cares who copies who?

YOURSAY 'It will not make an iota of difference so long as you and your cohorts are still in power endlessly plundering and destroying.'

Shahidan: Israel copied 'Endless Possibilities' from us

Louis: It must be really an honour that the Israelites, the race with the highest Nobel Prize winners per capita, copied the slogan ‘Endless Possibilities' from us. I really wonder how many Israelis know where Malaysia is, let alone copy slogans from us.

Slumdog: Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Shahidan Kassim is claiming credit for a worthless slogan and making noise about nothing.

Hasn't he got something more substantial to boast about like what his government is doing about endemic corruption in the civil service?

2zzzxxx: Shahidan, does it mean that Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak copied the slogan from his favourite nation, Mongolia, which used the slogan in 2012?

Onyourtoes: First, Shahidan, you better be very sure before you get sued by the Israeli government or its consultant.

Second and more importantly, no one is impressed whether it is "endless possibilities" or "no possibilities".

As far as Malaysia is concerned, it will not make an iota of difference so long as you and your cohorts are still in power, endlessly plundering and destroying with impunity. Endless stupidity.

Cascara: I didn't know Malaysia and Israel had so much in common. It was '1Malaysia/One Israel' before, it is 'Endless Possibilities' now.

Odin: Shahidan, Malaysia is the Land of Endless Possibilities - endless possibilities for you Umno lot to milk millions and billions from the nation's resources; endless possibilities for you lot to procure girls young enough to be your daughters and aging-never-quite-made-it starlets and keep them in luxurious condominiums and bungalows to satiate your lust; endless possibilities for you lot to lie and cheat the ordinary people; endless possibilities for you lot to show clearly to the ordinary people that you are thicker than two short planks; endless possibilities for you lot to make the auditor-general produce tens of volumes every year to show how obsessed you are with stealing.

Jaguh: Firstly, slogans mean nothing; secondly, even when you need one, there is no originality.

Mongolia and Israel; both have some form of stigma with Malaysia. I sum up the whole thing as pure stupidity with zero creativity.

Armageddon: Who cares who copy who? What's important is the intent of the slogan.

We preach 1Malaysia, and yet at the same time, with the back-up from certain right-wing NGOs, we are practising 1Racism.

AJ: Israel's 'Endless Possibilities' mean completely different from Umno's 'Endless Possibilities', no matter who used it first.

Just to name a recent few, lying about the K-Pop event, lying about not bringing back ISA in any form, the absurdity of the Auditor-General Report 2012, facing an inevitable Goods and Services Tax (GST), and now using the police to collect on Automated Enforcement System (AES) summonses.

Endless possibilities in robbing the rakyat.

Tehachapi: Like the 1Malaysia slogan, this ‘Endless Possibilities' tagline will also suffer its ignoble end and will be made a joke.

Ib: A great slogan to describe the rot we see. Police losing their guns and handcuffs, the Registrar of Societies (ROS) using selective persecution, escort vehicles killing our own national cyclists, headmasters sending children to eat outside the toilets... it's endless.

Anonymous_40c3: In view our education system is one of the best in the universe even better than United Kingdom and United States, there is no doubt that we are right and have first right to usage since our primary school goers can deliberate with pin point accuracy who was first. Malaysians, be proud of our achievements as we are world beaters in sloganeering.

Wira: I googled the slogan ‘Endless Possibilities' and came out with a title of a game song posted in 2008 on YouTube.

You guys all shamelessly copied the slogan from Sega, the sonic game creator. Shahidan, even a three-year-old can tell you 2008 is earlier than 2013.

Swipenter: None of our slogans coined by our PMs starting from former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad have any real meaning and substance in them. Just meaningless jargon.

Kangaroocourt: Oh yes, and the stars and stripes of the US flag was blatant plagiarism of our Jalur Gemilang. Even our NegaraKu was plagiarised in Mamula Moon. We should sue for copyright infringements.

MockingYou: Okay, let us put it this way; Israel copied your slogan because you copied their oppression.

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