The Emperor is Dead, Long Live the Emperor!

Of late the name of the great Napoleon Bonaparte has been bandied about to compare government officials who thwart government policies. I used to admire Napoleon during my history classes as he was the one who made France a great empire after the French revolution. He made one great mistake by marching on Moscow and that brought about his downfall. Comparing our mini-officials to the great Napoleon simply shows that our leaders are ignorant about history.

It is quite disappointing to hear Pak Lah’s comments that MPs will not be able to vote according to their conscience even on matters pertaining to morality. It appears that our top leaders are scared of losing the control of their reins. Instead we have the myopic policy that everything that the Opposition proposes is evil.

Let us all tell the BN MPs that if they cannot even get this small concession from their dictatorial leaders, they should simply resign just like what Shahrir had the guts to do.

Our top leaders need to realise that their powers are derived from a mandate given by the people and they are always subject to the will of the people and not the other way round.

Shahrir is right - they all made a mistake. He himself, the Speaker, the Opposition leader and the Chief Whip who should have allowed some time for a debate. We have a Comedy of Errors in Parliament - which would have been more entertaining than Just for Laughs.

Some smart entrepreneur should buy the rights to televise the parliamentary proceedings. With the correct comments between the antics of our MPs “closing one eye” etc it may win some awards.

Not sure if it will be in the drama or comedy category.

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