Naïveté
Lim Mun Fah, Sin Chew Daily
The conviction of Anwar Ibrahim in his sodomy trial has added a new element of dramatic twist in the Kajang by-election, while Karpal Singh’s conviction of sedition charge puts the judiciary system once again in national limelight. In the meantime, the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 with 239 onboard has not only cast a cloud of dismal over the country, but far beyond as well.
All these incidents have popped up one after another within a short span of several days, dealing a heavy blow on many a dejected Malaysian.
Different people have reacted in very different ways in line with their varying mentalities and political stands.
Politics is about managing the masses and as such, some who care so much about political developments in the country would naturally care more about them than a civilian airliner going off the radar.
But something we can be very sure of is that more people would put their attention on the missing plane with 239 lives aboard, praying persistently for their safe return.
Sure enough we can concern ourselves with the by-election in Kajang and judicial judgments at the same time we care about the safety of MAS air crew and passengers.
You can have your views as I have my principles, but there isn’t an absolutely right benchmark between these two ends, nor the so-called selective right or wrong.
Some of the things are facts that no one should attempt to distort while others are non-factual that must never be justified deliberately.
An unintended crash between the conviction of Anwar Ibrahim and Karpal Singh with the by-election in Kajang has sparked furious arguments over the impartiality of the country’s judiciary system. And naturally many Malaysians will be hooked on this subject of contention, but the unfortunate MH370 incident that took place around this time has somehow managed to chuck some of the public attention away from it.
It is purely exploitative to put all these together and peg them to politics, querying accountability as an outlet for frustration. This is not only illogical, but also irrational.
As for those rumor-mongers flapping their whips nonchalantly on others on high moral ground, they are but abusers of liberty who adore total commotion in the most unspeakably evil fashion.
Sure enough politics can come under anyone’s criticisms, and judiciary under watchful scrutiny, but all these have to be carried out in an orderly and reasonable manner based on facts and reasoning to be convincing.
For instance, the mysterious disappearance of the airliner together with its crew and passengers has brought to light the fact that two Iranian men boarded the aircraft with fake passports, triggering fears of terrorism while exposing the gross deficiency in KLIA’s security inspection procedures. Meanwhile, the responses of the government, MAS, DCA and airport authorities after the incident have come under heavy fire from the public, exposing a severe drawback in the authorities’ crisis management capability. Such irregularities should indeed be sternly reprimanded.
Such irregularities and flaws are naked truths that no one–not the authorities or relevant agencies–shall try to dismiss as unintentional lapses nor override in the name of preserving social harmony.
Anyway, please, be a little more matured and reasonable when dealing with things. Not all things ought to be politicized or postulated as political conspiracies. Unfounded allegations are not truths, but testimonies of our political naïveté.
