When the story of Elizabeth Wong’s misfortune broke, I was a little angry. While I don’t always agree with her views, she at least appears to be genuine in her beliefs and convictions and appears to fight hard for them. What happened to her was despicable.

          Whatever the nature of the origin, BN has obviously tried to take advantage of the shameful act by her ex-boyfriend. Why, I wouldn’t be the least surprised if BN actually initiated the whole thing. Idiotic comparisons to prior but totally different incidents were made and there were mindless calls for her to resign. The whole episode is of course, pitiful. Pitiful for her but also on the political situation in Malaysia.

          What is equally bad however, is the sheer disrespect for personal privacy in cyberspace. I thought of a little experiment and decided to put up an entry with some words designed to catch voyeurs which I suspect would scour around once the story broke. True enough, suddenly my private journal became a lightning rod. Within a about an hour I had over a couple of thousand visits. The obvious search words all had to do with Elizabeth and her misfortune.

          I bet many of those who made the search were otherwise normal and respectable persons. I don’t pretend to be blameless and I would have no problems owning up to having seen nude picture many times. These however, are people who have chosen to pose nude and have decided to make some money that way.

          Elizabeth is an innocent person who knew nothing about her photos being taken, let alone circulated. So to those of you mongrels out there looking for her photos, I hope you just think for a moment, show some restrain and respect and behave like a decent fellow. Leave this poor woman alone in so far as this is concerned. If someone should send you these photos, please just delete them. Don’t look at them. Don’t especially forward them. You’d be going everyone a favour. Especially yourself.