More shit slinging fun courtesy of your Malaysian Parliament and elected representatives! LOL

ROTFL.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry at the sordid state that the parliamentary debates have become. It would be terribly comical and funny, if it had not been so tragic!


This is how real parliamentary debates ought to look like:

**More women in parliament, please! Good ol' Mags, wotta trooper**


Politicians have a DUTY to their constituents to know exactly the issues which concern their constituents and be well-prepared to debate issues in a constructive manner. The Malaysian Parliament's shit slinging and name calling is childish and alarming -- it highlights the gross incompetency of Malaysian MPs.

Malaysia is a country led by a parliament largely composed of incompetent individuals posessing of no standards whatsoever. Uncivilised, uneducated and uncouth.

The ability to respond to insults and deflect negative attention in a graceful way is the hallmark of a great statesman, the existence of which happens to be a factual impossibility in the Malaysian Parliament. Search at the end of a rainbow you just might find him/her behind a pot of gold.

What has become of the democratic processes so fundamental to a sovereign, self-governing nation that exists by the mandate of the people? The answer is undoubtedly dismal. We shall all languish in the abysmal pit of institutional inertia, unable to move backward, paralysed from moving forward -- a country whose elected representatives repeatedly disappoint, and let down their constituents.

Politicians forget that they only exist for the benefit of their electorate. Tragically, most often end up pursuing their own interests or the perceived interests of their electorate, which are often horribly maligned and skewed from reality.

A healthy democratic parliament ought to be in agreement on at least the most basic and fundamental constitutional principles that underpin the very nation itself.

This means that fundamental constitutional issues such as human rights, judicial independence and government accountability -- which are absolute and cannot be compromised -- are not to be sidelined in the interests of debating and ocassionally cat-fighting over the divisive "race" issue.

The divisive "race issue" is a problem that parliament has created for itself. The Reid Commission only recommended a social contract with a recommendation for a limitation period of 15 years whereupon such a contract will be up for review. (NB: I've used parliament here -- but more appropriately this is because of the parliamentary majority -- the government/ruling party effectively exercises the legislative functions anyway).

Having allowed the problem to fester for more than 3 generations, parliament has created a mess that if left unchecked, will surely cripple the nation in the next decade or so. The lacklustre economy, and the increasing inability of the country to catch up with industrialised peers like South Korea, and the rapidly developing Taiwan, Thailand and the Phillippines are all proof of the inability of the country to attract and retain talent for the development of the knowledge industries required to elevate Malaysia from a third-world developing nation to that of an industrialised nation.

Clearly we are far from achieving that goal.

We should all drink deeply from the cup of nihilism and surrender to the inevitable.