Sunday, May 4, 2008

Parliament sessions on TV

Parliament sessions telecasted live on tv – that was the headline few weeks ago. The statement or move by the government took a bump last week when the first ever live telecast brought more negative then positive feedback.

“ Bigfoot, Big Monkey” were some of the words uttered by our MP’s. Many say is immoral, rude, wrong influence and so on. Critics also says that this is a wrong example of Malaysian. The very next day, our Information minister, Datuk Shabery Cheek said that his ministry will review the decision to telecast the parliament session as there are many complains.


Point to ponder, were Malaysians ignorant for the past 50 years that they didn’t know their MP’s attitude ? I still remember watching Parlimen hari ini on RTM1 at 11.30pm on weekdays. A short review on what happened during the sessions, and since then, the MP’s have been like that. So why now make it such an issues saying that its not proper to telecast it?

The Parliament never once had more then 18 MP’s on the opposition bench, and this session, we have 80 plus. Does this prove us that our former leaders were in their comfort zone all the while so much so what the oppositions said wasn’t taken into consideration?

Are our current leaders who are sitting in the parliament is finding it difficult to face 80 faces who is always on alert to shoot them?

The credibility of our MP’s is questionable now. I feel that our ruling government is finding it difficult to answer all the questions, and failing to answer those questions from the opposition bench, it will only bring their dignity and pride down. I would personally say that the opposition bench now has more learned MP’s compared to the ruling government’s side.

Personally, the sessions should go on as planned, let the rakyat know their representative well, let them know how good are they as that will only benefit the rakyat in deciding who to vote in the 13th general election.

To the BN MP’s try hard to refrain yourself from your harsh words, and to the BA MP’s, all the best in showing the rakyat what are you all made of.

4 comments:

susara said...

yeah i agree with you.
however the speaker in the parliament appears to be bias as well.that's what i had observed la.

Anonymous said...

i would agree with u. in the first place u know how "well" the media is rite. hehehe dont have to explain about it...secondly those immoral arguments in parliment,the only way to stop all this is to continue broadcasting live coverage from the parliment. let the public see and judge how polite and educated our MP's are. definetly the oposition bench is gaining their trust from the public. lets see what can they do for us now!!!

crono said...

For those who are not aware, the Parliamen Negara has always been synonymous with the Zoo Negara

The most absurd but funny thing is that despite the parliament being a place of intellectual argument and filled with adults, such kiddy trivialities like calling names still exist among all these 30-60 plus uncles and aunties.

They and their wrinkles are always one step away from making the whole session into an animal showcase each time. But it is also partially true that this untoward behaviour is provoked by the government party who always veto the opposition's plans and the most-of-the-times delirious speaker who perceive that they sit taller than the constitution itself by cowardly standing behind the unreasonable social contract in the 21st century towards the country's interest signed by our forefathers. We call ourselves a democratic country which resonates joke worldwide when we are confused between secularism and islamic state when the basis of democratic - the constitution - has said it all.

But still, we citizens should continue to be able to watch sessions of parliament on national idiot box - it is our rights and the government's responsibility. We didn't pay all those idiots just to sit comfortably on those chairs just to call each other names. Same goes with the press and publishing, where we public and journalists should be given every authority to dig up information pertaining to the country and government for the same reason.

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