Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 36, Number 4. 21st March 1973

Re: Gutless Wonders Unite

Re: Gutless Wonders Unite

Dear Editors,

Your utterly groundless, immature accusations against all Malaysian students at campus, excepting one, surprised me. Particularly insulting and provocative is your sentence: "If you and other Malaysian students had been less gutless and stood alongside Lee ..."

My dear Sirs, there is no magic in that chap Lee; his views do not necessarily reflect that of the Malaysians at Victoria, The exception offered to your hero from the barrage of insults in the "Salient" volume 36, Number 3, is itself evidence that he is the black sheep in a community which probably regards him as a pain in the arse. Would you stand alongside one whose actions you disapprove of ?Won't we be gutless if we were to subject our views to that of one, Lee's?

Human beings arc born with differences; only primitives assault another because different views arc being shed. Assaulting another person "an insignificant incident?" Would you like to be at the receiving end. Sirs?

We have accepted to satisfy the conditions of our student permits. Perhaps it was felt that before Lee achieves world fame, he might (perhaps) set his House in order: charity begins at home.

I would be glad if you retract your allegations.

Yours sincerely,

(L.C. Goh)