Self-installed kings
By Hannah Yeoh
May 7th – a black day for Malaysia. I struggle to find the words to describe this day. After witnessing the despicable manner of how BN and its agents rummaged and destroyed the sanctity of the Perak state assembly proceedings, I can't help but conclude that the recent premiership transition is a transition from bad to evil.
The events of May 7th saw the speaker's chair being destroyed during the forceful removal of Sivakumar from his seat. This is not simply a physical destruction of a chair, this is the destruction of the role of the Speaker, of any Speaker in a legislative assembly of a BN administration.
BN has shown that it has absolutely no regards for the rights of a duly elected Speaker of the House. BN violated the rules of the House by ordering plainclothes "officials" to remove the Speaker. This is nothing more than BN instituting "official" thugs to control the proceedings.
If BN can physically drag a Speaker out of his seat just to install their own man, imagine what they will be willing to do and have done all these years to ensure that they get it their way in other matters in running the state and nation.
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