ABUSE OF THE LOBBIES OF PARLIAMENT AND THE COURT BUILDINGS BY THE PARLIAMENTARIANS, PRESSMEN AND PUBLIC. – PART I.

…BAN UNAUTHORIZED PERSONS FROM COVERGING IN THESE LOBBIES.
By Mansor Puteh



IN SOME COUNTRIES JUST BY GOING TO A POLICE STATION ONE CAN BE CHARGED FOR TRESPASSING AND BE AMPLY FINED FOR THAT!

IN MALAYSIA, ONE CAN CREATE A RIOT THERE AND ALSO IN THE LOBBIES OF PARLIAMENT AND THE COURTS AND FEEL TRIUMPHANT, NEVER MIND CAUSING UNNECESSARY RUCKUSS IN THE COMPOUND OF POLICE STATIONS WITH USELESS STREET THEATER.

DO THE LAWMAKERS AND OTHER POLITICIANS AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC IN MALAYSIA KNOW THAT THEY ARE ABUSING THESE AREAS?

Were the lobby of the parliament and the courts ever designated as places where the representatives from the media and the public can do their job of ambushing the parliamentarians?

Were the same lobbies been designated for places for the members of parliament and lawyers to hold their official press conferences at and the public to loiter at?

There is even a special corner in the lobby of the parliament where press conferences can be held. Who approved this? Was there any debate on this in parliament and by the members of the public?

Isn’t it such an awkward place for the lobby of the parliament to have? It is rowdy at times where all hells had broken lose on many occasions with allegations and counter allegations made.

Most unnecessary news, scandals and controversies have been created here and at no other place.

But what the newspaper editors do not know is that they are trying to get their reporters to get follow-up stories on what is debated in parliament, when the issues are not reported yet and made known to their readers and public.

They want to jump the gun.

This probably means that what the members of parliament have said in it to be uninteresting or not intelligent, as only those that touch on sensitive issues seem to get more attention than those views and proposals that are useful to the country and people.

No wonder, the media have unknowingly created fools out of some of the members of parliament who seem to enjoy being the center of attention for being clowns that they do not realize that they have all become.

And there are only a handful of them who want to look like clowns. They say some of the most idiotic things. They can never serve anyone but themselves.

So no wonder, not many smart and intelligent people who have been attracted to run for parliament.

Only those who do not have much else to do or who are stuck in politics who are interested to stay on since the road ends there with most of them.

They do not have a life. They can never move on to doing better things abroad where it matters more.

They are such a pathetic lot for having stayed on in politics for so long, and for some of them to be given posts in the cabinet from one ministry to another like it is easy to create leaders this way.

In Malaysia, ‘leaders’ can be created from nowhere and from nothing. A person can be an unknown, yet, the next day he is somebody worthy of attention.

Their only claim to fame is that they are able to allow themselves to be subservient to the higher authorities in their own party so this way they could rise in their party hierarchy.

In most other developed and civilized countries, ministers are not moved from one ministry to the other. They are given the post once. They cannot be reshaped and be reborn to become ministers of any other portfolio.

So that is why one can see how unparliamentary they are by shouting and complaining and not knowing how and when to speak in any debate.

They seem to enjoy being in the center of attention despite knowing how clownish they are.

They aim not to speak to the speaker or to the others in the hall, but to the media.

So as long as the media gives them ample coverage they will repeat what they do all the time.

The fact that this is the trend in Malaysian politics proves that all the political parties in the country do not have a pool of people whom they can develop to become their new generation of leaders.

They still have to use the same persons for different roles, even if the former roles they were given were not executed well.

And where one can see this happen? The parliament lobby and other functions where they give lengthy speeches that are not directed to anyone.

And by being prodded by the media, they gaffe and in the process few defamatory suits have also been known to emanate from the unnecessary discourses that had taken place here. They mostly involve personal issues concerning their interpretation of things.

And all this happened while the issues debated in parliament are sidelined. This caused laws which should have been passed by parliament to ensure public safety are not done.

Front-page and controversial news in Malaysia seem to be created at these two places – the lobbies of parliament and the courts.

Can we blame all this on the many courtroom television dramas from America that were broadcast on Malaysian television in the 1960s and 1970s for having given the lawyers, politicians and journalists an idea of how they ought to conduct their official and official businesses so they can be seen to have absorbed some form of the American experience in their lives?

Unfortunately, not many of those characters central in the Malaysian political scene and of journalism have had prior experiences living and studying in America.

So this explains why and how they are too eager to Americanize their behavior and attitudes.

Most of the characters were students at a time when questioning the authority of the teachers was taboo. So now that they have gained some measure of authority themselves, they start to reverse what they had experience and now want to start questioning everything.

To them, there is no authority other than themselves. They have become the beast they had tried to belittle when they were young. And they are the untouchables – being people of high standing who can afford to be dragged into controversies.

Not being in any controversy is not being modern or advanced.

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