To say that our country, Malaysia, has gone to the dogs as in the English expression goes would be doing dogs a great dishonor.
Dogs are loyal animals, work hard for their masters and can become a friend for life.
f course, as a Muslim I have very little experience with dogs but reading and watching television gives me some idea about their worth.
Our MPs are our elected persons to do our bidding. They are supposed to be loyal to us who voted them in. Now they act as if we don't matter at all. Well, just declare a free election and we will see about that! So, at the moment, I prefer dogs to our MPs.
I would consider saying that the country has gone to the pigs but pigs are precious animals to some. Many people excluding Muslims and Jews rear pigs for their food. Pigs have their usefulness. Although they may be said to love rolling in what some may consider filth, at least they have worth. I can't say even that much for some of our MPs who are trying to forge ties with other worthless MPs saddled with corruption and murder charges that many in the public eye is already a forgone conclusion and verdict.
MPs in our country forget that they are there to ensure our own survival as a nation, not their own survival as ministers. MPs are there not to make sure that they become prime minister just because they think they are handsome enough or look best in their parliament suits. Some MPs are 'perasan' thinking they are prime ministerial material but is stupid enough to think that the coronavirus epidemic will not impact the economy and people's lives.
As a Malaysian I get sick of all the racial and religious bigotry that our MPs like to harp on as well as our academics in public universities. As a voter, I am completely exasperated when MPs who become ministers think they are next to God and won't even dignify a meeting with important groups and thinking individuals for opinions and consultation.
The guardians of the nation who sit 'above' politics must see that we are an evolving country with citizens who have access to knowledge and can do the jobs of any ministers ten times better. We are tired of our pre-packaged historical baggage of race and religion, and even economic rhetoric used to confuse and jumble our issues to the point that we can't move forward at all.
It would be a really sad day indeed if the 'guardians of the nation' allow a group of criminal MPs who are lower in worth and morality to whatever life on this planet that God has put in are made to be the government of decent, and hardworking Malaysians striving to put food on the table and dreaming of a kinder life for their children.
The 'guardians of the nation' who are supposed to be above politics must ensure that 'amanah rakyat' is to be ruled not by strength of numbers or statutory declarations but by people of worth and people of character that all spiritual faiths subscribe, to become the government of the people, by the people and for the people. We do not want a government of MPs, for MPs and by MPs who want the wealth of this country for their dishonorable selves and their unworthy children. What right have these MPs to take what is meant for the poor and destitute and fill in their own pleasures of holidays and horse ranch in a foreign country?
If Mahatma Karamchand Gandhi Ji were alive, he would call for a civil movement to reject the government of unholy and unworthy MPs even though it meets some words, numbers and letters of a constitution.
The constitution is not just letters and words but a spirit of honesty, dignity and honor, much of which many of the MPs in our Parliament are even unfit to pronounce.
Gandhi Ji would probably call for all economic activities to cease until the guardians of the nation who are above politics make sure that we the people get the government we voted in. Or else our votes, voting process and dignity of citizenry are not worth the plastic that encase our blue identity cards.
Worthless, completely 'sampah'. No, nowadays, even sampah has merit for recycling and for fuel. Our IC as a symbol for our integrity, hope and dignity as the people of this nation is soon to be worth much less than that.
Finally, if we allow the UNHOLY ALLIANCE to take place in our government, I don't really see much sense in being a citizen of a country not worthy of the idea of 'nation'.
(Professor Dr. Mohd Tajuddin Mohd Rasdi is Professor at a local university.)
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