The motion to suspend opposition MPs Anwar Ibrahim, Karpal Singh, Sivarasah & Azmin Ali from parliament for six months is a prime example of abuse of parliamentary majority.
The motion would be passed effortlessly by Barisan's brute majority in the parliament. The consequence is severe and unfortunate for our parliamentary democracy.
The august house will now be inflicted by the Perak disease which has brought chaos to all sittings so far. Imagine what can a day long state assembly sitting can do to a healthy debate on important bills and budgetary decisions? Nothing. The parliament may well be going the same way if a GE is not called by the next sitting in March 2011.
If any, the Barisan government should rise above the APCO fiasco and provide a solid explanation to dispel what the opposition had claimed. Opposition leader Anwar had linked Prime Minister Najib Razak's '1Malaysia' to the 'One Israel' policy introduced by Labour Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak in 1999.
He said that the international public relations consultants, Apco Worldwide, who are well-paid PR advisers to the Najib administration, were behind both policies. When challenged to furnish proof of his assertions, the opposition leader, in a follow-up speech, gave a detailed exposition, backed by documentary evidence.
He adduced evidence that Apco Worldwide had been PR consultants to some of the world's more putrescent dictators, like the late Sani Abacha of Nigeria, and Hindu chauvinistic governor of the Indian state of Gujarat, Narendra Modi. (Terrence Netto. Mkini)
If the allegations against Apco were true, i.e. working with some of the most controversial regimes in the world, Barisan should justify to us why so much taxpayers' money is being used to pay Apco for some superficial PR consultancy.
If the Malaysian government behaves and governs fairly, there is no need to engage Apco in the first place. There are many more capable local consultants who can do better job than the likes of Apco. Why can't our top notch ambassadors and embassies overseas help to do the PR and networking work for the government? Aren't they paid and financed to do precisely that?
By using a brute parliamentary majority to suspend Anwar and three other MPs from parliament does not win Barisan any brownie points. It only proves the inferiority and guilty conscious of the ruling coalition.
Worse if Barisan uses this opportunity to pass any bills or amend the constitution since it has a mathematical two-thirds advantage in the house. That would tantamount to a rape of democracy.
How can Barisan help to restore our confidence in the coalition if it continues to behave this way?
11 comments:
Can you expect a mad dog or even a dog to stop barking ?
Just like these animals Umno is brought up and trained in these manners and it is now in their blood so don;t expect anything else or you will be disappointed like you and all decent Malaysians do. I am not Khoo are you ?
One thing for sure these good for nothing morons from Umno is good at is to dress up as though they are going on their first dates going to a gala dinner. But not in their baju Melayu but in their thousand dollars suit even though according to Umno to be considered as a Malay aside from being a Muslim one must be habitually dressed in the Malay attire. How often do you see the Umno ministers dressed in baju Melayu or wearing a songkot ? So are they really Malays ?
They are supposed to be out there to work and service the people but are they dressed accordingly like the ministers in Singapore.
To serve the people instead of showing how good they are at suspending M.P. to get their 2 third Majority.
Their Singapore counterparts at most times are without even a tie and rarely a suit which is most practicable for the tropical temperature Malaysia is in. This is a typical example of the Ketuanan Melayu must project an image that they are supreme ! Or at least supreme in their western dressings while everybody else is asked to habitually wear a baju Melayu and songkot !
Can't you see that as it is impossible for BN to restore confidence, they have to silence the opposition.....
so instead of asking questions like these, why don't you suggest something useful that we could do to convince the BN supporters not to vote for BN the next time around?
GE13 will be decided by the fence-sitters. Such events will help sway them to the right camp.
BN is stricken with the mad cow disease.... This mad cow has sodomized parliament, raped democracy and bastardized justice.
The Speaker has proven himself to be a moron, an imbecile stooge of BN.
Why is bugis running our country done? Is Najib from bugis? Previously, son of a indian man that also running this country. Why there is no true blue local running this country.
things are not going to change thy kingdom come.......the best option is to just leave for the sake of the kids.......with the judiciary and police tainted to the core, there is no wait way for the people to receive justice and fair play.
With political situation deteriorates by day, I am hopeful of a real uprising (e.g. nationwide street protest)if GE 13 are not called soon.
We the people need to claim back our power. If the Phillippinos can do this in the 80's, why can't we??
We have had enough!!
"Worse if Barisan uses this opportunity to pass any bills or amend the constitution since it has a mathematical two-thirds advantage in the house."
Is the 2/3 based on the total MPs (222) or MPs that are present in the House? I think it is the former. If that's the case, BN can suspend all the opposition MPs and they still can't amend the constitution.
Halo dun be hypocrites ok.,.pakatan n bn also same..dun forget selangor also suspend mps.,.dun be goondoo...focus on bread n butter issue cn
we would like to repeat this again, "If you don't like it here, you can go elsewhere!".
People who cannot stand and are not grateful to UMNO and BN, please pack your bags and leave Malaysia. Go as you please, we will have less people to share our land, our oil, our resources.TQ
Just wondering what is CSL and MCA stand on this issue.So quiet
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