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Burger-and-butt shows herald new political reality
Published:  May 19, 2012 9:54 AM
Updated: 1:57 AM

VOXPOP 'Selling ‘beef' burgers in front of a Hindu's house is actually much worse than the bum-wiggling carried out by the so-called army vets.'

Tsu Koon slams butt dance as 'crude and insensitive'

vox populi small thumbnail Malaysian Born: This is like the shoe-throwing incident involving President George W Bush in Iraq.

While many Asian leaders joked about it and various groups defended the perpetrator, they did not think that the same logic allows a shoe to be thrown at our leaders too.

Can you imagine if senior party leaders and even cabinet ministers have to accept getting a filthy shoe thrown in your face as part of the new political reality, not so funny, is it?

The same deterioration in respect and decency in political discourse seen elsewhere is becoming a reality in Malaysia.

Selling ‘beef' burgers in front of a Hindu's house as a form of protest is actually much worse than the bum-wiggling carried out by the so-called army veterans as the latter is only reflective of a lack of breeding and intellect.

I cannot imagine that those buffoons are representative of Armed Forces veterans at all. It's time to grow up and start behaving like common decency and dignity are part of the political process.

Kairos: While it may be true that the burger hawking and butt dancing are not offences as they are conducted in a public space, yet there is something called decency, respect and decorum that is of a higher value than any law.

Deputy inspector-general of police Khalid Abu Bakar obviously do not see this. Any decent and moral Malaysian would hold on to these values and without any hesitation label these despicable acts as ‘kurang ajar'.

It is totally alien to the Malaysian culture of mutual respect for each other's race and religion.

What kind of a police officer is Khalid, who says that such disgraceful behaviour is acceptable in the Malaysian society? Has he lost his senses and his morality?

AA: No, don't condemn them please. Let these jokers be, so that they remind us whom not to vote for.

More BN stooges should come out and play their role by flipping burgers, making satay, do butt exercises, hip gyrations, hold funerals for living persons and birthday celebrations for dead ones, etc.

We Malaysians tend to forget very easily. NFC is just one of the latest scandals, the country has been rocked by scandals like these for the past 30 years and yet we keep on voting for BN.

Incidences of injustice towards the people during Bersih rallies are just a small part of a long string of atrocities committed by BN. Yet we forget.

If PM Najib Razak can postpone the elections for two more years, quite a number of people, including those who marched in the Bersih rallies, will go back to voting for BN.

So let these jokers be. I hope they will continue with their antics to keep reminding forgetful Malaysians why they should not vote for BN.

Hwa Shi-Hsia: That's funny, I haven't heard of KTK (Gerakan chief Koh Tsu Koon) saying anything to criticise the equally crude demonstrations in Penang against his successor, Lim Guan Eng.

Maybe his moral sense only works outside of Penang.

Asuka: For those readers that run down Koh with personal attack, shame on you. You are no better than the hypocrites in Umno and Perkasa.

When Koh don't make comments, you attack him for not having courage. When he speaks up, you say there is no point. I feel that we must encourage more people to condemn this type of shameful act.

Cannon: It's good for KTK to speak up, but he should not just leave it at that. He should raise the issue with the cabinet.

There are nine political parties "representing" the interests of the Indian community within the BN. A prominent member of the Indian community is singled out for harassment by Ikhlas and by ex-servicemen. Yet not a single Indian party spoke up.

The silence of the MIC is deafening. It goes to show the irrelevance of the race-based BN component parties in articulating the interests of their ethnic communities.

DPM mum on Scorpene submarine suit

Malaysian First: DPM Muhyiddin Yassin has no comment because he knows that they are hiding something which they do not want the public to know.

It's public knowledge that hundred of millions were paid as commission or kickbacks, or whatever you called it. What I am saying is that these monies are taxpayers' hard-earned monies.

How could Najib, the DPM and the defence minister (and don't you forget former PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad too) do such a thing against the rakyat, against public interest?

The people demand to know the truth. Let the truth prevails. That's all we ask.

Starr: How can the government be so irresponsible to maintain its silence over the issue?

The French court's inquiry involves serious allegations of corruption in the sale and purchase of two Scorpene submarines by a French defence contracting company and the Defence Ministry of Malaysia and yet the government sees fit to remain silent.

Isn't the government duty-bound to explain the issue to the Malaysian public and attend the proceedings as stakeholders?

Disbeliever: Muhyiddin is not fit to be the DPM. Just because Tenaganita director Irene Fernandez highlighted the exploitation of foreign workers, she has been labelled as "unpatriotic".

So it looks like Malaysians are only patriotic if they become ‘yesmen' and do not question the government even if the latter carry out policies that may be detrimental to the well-being of Malaysians.

Anonymous #96323524: What do expect DPM to say with regards to the Scorpenes? The implicated guy is his boss. He is not stupid to tip the scales. Scared of being ‘cowgated' later. Have a heart.

 


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