Monday, October 26, 2009

Better To have an inexperience Govt rather than a experience corrupt Govt

I refer to the Malaysiakini report 'SelCat: Select Committee or Selective Committee.'

In his article, the writer appears to be very harsh with the Pakatan Selangor Govt. For some reason only known to him, he does not believe the past abuses of the previous regime should be revealed and brought to book.In other words, it would be better to just forget about their mismanagement and let the perpetrators escape any punishment.The writer should be familiar with the saying that those who never learned from history are doomed to repeat their mistakes again.

Any ruling party in govt whether B.N or Pakatan must be made aware that one day when their term ends they will be held accountable for their actions and decisions.To even suggest that Selcat should only concentrate on current governance and forget about looking for past misdeeds is untenable. Such a policy if adopted would only encourage ruling party officials to have freedom to commit atrocities knowing full well that they will not be brought to book.

Looking at the writers article i am incline to think that he has a vested interest in the B.N govt. namely from a B.N component party like MIC.He then went on to criticise the Selangor Govt for suspending Khir Toyo and four of his fellow B.N members for between 6 and 12 months. Has he forgotten that M.P Gobind Deo was suspended from Parliament for merely uttering some words connecting the P.M to the Mongolian model, Altantuya? Why did he not reserve his judgements on the august house where the B.N govt dominate? So is he implying that its ok for the B.N govt to suspend opposition members in Parliament while it is wrong to suspend Mohd Toyo and his gang for refusing to attend Selcat Select committee hearings?

What is even more shocking is his comparison of Selcat with the' secret Police and the military courts of a Totalitarian Regime.' As if that was not enough he went further to criticise the lop sided membership of the Selcat composition. Has he studied the profile of B.N's lop-sided selection in states where B.N ruled. Why did he not raise any voice to protest about the lop sided composition?

What the writer fail to be charitable to the Pakatan Govt is that they have hardly even completed one term of their rule. whereas B.N had the luxury of 52 years in ruling this country. Unlike the writer, the electorate would not judge Pakatan harshly even if they have falter slightly in their governance.It would be far better to have an inexperience ruling govt rather than an experience corrupt govt.

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