Those who did not protest Bung Moktar Radin's bad behaviour yesterday in Parliament - and who appeared to support him - should share the blame, says a reader.


On MP: Why is 'about to die' Karpal here?

Tom Peters: Bung's remark that "Karpal should be 'grateful that he did not die' but merely became wheelchair-bound" may be taken well in his environment but when this prescription is pasted against logic and common sense to which we subscribe, they appear out of place, doesn't it?

No family of any man, Bung's included, will take this without feeling hurt but knowing Karpal, he understands Bung and his ilk, in that Bung's apparently worn and torn from a different set of circumstances, not one generation of wear, but several, and those who did not protest his bad behaviour and who appeared to support him would probably share the same circumstances. Although one would naturally go 'red' with Bung's sort of remark, I take consolation in understanding him myself and I suggest we all do the same, to keep sane, that is.

To cure this sort of ill, firstly, I would suggest an urgent discourse through the media. Though a short-term measure, such a discourse will amplify this recurrent issue and would evoke the sense of shame in the promoters of this sort of behaviour. I do give the benefit of doubt to these promoters to indeed have a sense of shame.