All Roads Lead to Jail
That seems to be the message of the Home Ministry with the latest bombshell – they want to increase the fine for replacing the MyKad (or MK) from RM10 to RM100 even though the actual cost is RM24.
The words used are not reassuring, “we have to be cruel to be kind” to the hundreds of citizens who lose their MKs via theft and robbery.
Can we also collect RM100 compensation from the police each time we are robbed to defray such losses? After all a crime is a good indicator that the police have failed to protect us.
The present charge is RM30 for a first time replacement and it appears that the authorities just want to make life more difficult for ordinary citizens. Senior citizens and school children that tend to lose their MKs more often are going to bear the brunt of such unthinking officials.
It seems we are facing a double whammy here. First of all we are threatened with a RM3000 fine or jail if we do not carry the MK and now the latest squeeze.
It is a form of taxation that is repugnant just so to make life convenient for the authorities to check on the thousands of illegal residents many of whom have obtained MKs via dubious means.
One just wonders how they check illegals that have been given legitimate MKs by the authorities. Instead of jailing citizens we should be arresting those responsible for the security breach that has occurred through the connivance of NRD officials.
Here is a related story.
There were reports of some people being detained under the ISA but the public has not been informed how serious the matter really is and damage control may have been incomplete.
This type of uncaring enforcement is more disastrous than electricity and fuel price increases as you have little control over the status of the MK.
Prices are simply being increased on the whims and fancy of people that really do not appear to be capable of thinking
The rules being proposed remind me of the great Gandhi who lead India to independence through a non-violent movement with a protest against the British Salt Tax.
If enough people ignore and disobey repugnant rules, the government will have no choice but to change the rules.
The question is, “Do Malaysians believe the Rules are justified?”
posted by H J Angus @ 11:05 am
3 Comments:
Angus, in my mind, if there is a regulation which says that the MyKad should be carried at all times, then it is our duty to do so. Instead of complying with this, why waste time on ifs and buts of not being in possession of it? Please refer to my post Carrying the MyKad. Why all the fuss?
malaysian
Thanks for your comments.
Of course you are free to have your own views on whether the rules are reasonable or not.
One thing in Malaysia is that we have too many rules and too little enforcement.
Simple example is the RM300 plus for not using a pedestrian bridge.
Many ignore this rule but few are arrested and charged.
Could it be someone got bribed RM50 to "close one eye"?
To be effective, the fine should be reasonable like RM20 and rigorously enforced all the time.
HJ, one of these days, if Dr M did not do Pak Lah in with his incessant volley of criticisms, most certainly the civil servants will inflict the gravest wound on his leadership.
The combined efforts of all the little and big Napoleans will one day be Pak Lah's Waterloo.
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