Unbecoming to cause trouble in Parliament
SOME Umno Youth members must be out of their minds if they think that the way to fight the gutter politics of Karpal Singh is to brandish their own version of longkang politics!
Their intrusion into the august House of Parliament can be construed as treason of the highest order as they have not only invaded the physical space of the honourable Speaker and Members of Parliament but more significantly, the physical guardian of the Federal Constitution and everything that it stands for.
When these people defend their ketuanan and adab, the sovereignty of their Rulers, the Malay language and Islam, don’t they realise that they themselves must be exemplary in upholding all of these?
Do they remember at all that Islam and Malay adat is full of urgings for us to show good behaviour at all times?
When we accuse others of derhaka and treason against the Sultan, are we aware that the House of Parliament is the rightful abode of our constitutional monarchy, and to invade this sacrosanct space is more serious than demonstrating outside the Sultan’s istana?
What must our politicians be thinking when they engage their supporters in these absurd ways? Are they trying to provoke anarchy and rebellion among the irrational and the emotional? Or are they trying to wrest votes in the coming party and by-elections?
Instead of redeeming the party image and standing in the eyes of the electorate, they are only destroying it further. Ordinary Malaysians are a lot wiser than the politicians we have voted into power!
HALIMAH MOHD SAID,
Kuala Lumpur.
Published in The Star
