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Friday, May 2, 2008 12:30 PM
The Parliament of Malaysia had its 1st proper sitting on Wednesday. And 1st time in the history, the proceedings were live telecast for 30 minutes. When this decision was announced, I remember thinking, well, this is us moving towards the direction of transparency prima facie. And so, all eyes were on the proceedings yesterday. It was also because of that, most of our beloved YBs seized the chance to be in the spotlight. Literally. And you know you surely will succeed when you use words like big foot and big monkey.
Names calling, are we in primary school or what?! What the hell! 1st of all, you are the representatives of the people, does this portrayed you as someone who is capable and we can depend on? What disappoint me the most are the conducts of opposition MPs. In my opinion, this is the 1st step of them undoing the baby step forward taken by them since the recent GE. It is obvious that the government came up with this live telecast idea as one of the step to appease the people. And after all that has happened, aren't they just giving an excuse for the government to cancel this thing. True enough, now our PM is saying that if the Information Minister suggest to cancel the thing, he will agree. (
clicky) If the oppositions behave accordingly and not react to any unparliamentary behaviors of BN, then they have no excuse to cancel this thing and blame it on oppositions as always. They are not saying that "it's all your fault", but it's implied. As always.
Of course, the PM says there is no question of transparency, because it is not a closed session and you can go to the Dewan anytime you want(ridiculous! it's not even practical and reasonable, we want to go, but it doesn't mean that we are always able to go) and the media is free to report anything they want(yeah right!). But, what's done is done, hopefully our YBs will step up and don't disappoint us. Quote Mr. Gary, "for the 1st time in history, our country is undergoing something very interesting(read: BN is not invincible anymore)." Therefore, I seriously hope that they won't disappoint the people who elected them and please provide us a better check and balance on the government.
Actually, what pisses me off most is "Oi, I haven't got the chance to watch the live telecast yet and now you want to cancel it already?!"
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