Right speech - one of the eight fold path

When we don't have things to say, we should keep quiet and listen instead of saying something stupid. This is a simple wisdom but not many people knows how to manage it. Most people think that by saying something makes them look good in the eyes of others. It is plain stupid. I have seem many occasions when a person response just for the sake of responding, they really make a mockery of themselves. They could utter un-coherently or say something stupid or utter a noise which have no meaning. Why should we do this things ? We can just keep quiet or say no comments or be truthful and say "nothing to say". Admitting that we do understand the question or admitting that we do not have anything to say is acceptable. We do not need to answer all the things posed to us by other people. Just like the case of the Sarawak report, it should be an open secret instead of kept under OSA and that Kechil Kurup say it is treason and we should charge the people who release the report. I think this is the reverse they should do and release the report as it is and face the music after that. This is the right thing to do. By barking back and trying to protect or hide things ,this is as worst off as telling other people that they are have some thing to hide. If we are righteous, we should not be afraid of such smear campaign , we can stand up and take the right action. Right speech, does not mean talking or talking back with the right words only, it can mean that we keep quiet by taking the right actions. Namaste.