The One About Politics

(NOTE: This post might be offsensive to some readers. Please DO NOT read if you are sensitive towards political issues or anything related to politics, and easily offended by remarks made about politics. This author WILL NOT be responsible for any disgust or feel of being offended after reading this post.)

First of all, I hate politics. I really don't get it. Is power really THAT important? I believe that whoever serves the country better should be in charge. And since this is a democratic country, it would be: whoever the rakyat feels serves the country better.

Whenever I see any news related to politics in the newspaper, I would just skip it altogether. But with the endless politicking that's been going on, it has become unavoidable to come in contact with political news these days.

Since I'm an idiot about what goes on in the political world, here's a post about what I understand from what I've been reading in the past weeks... (Feel free to correct me, if I'm wrong.)

01. Election in Malaysia is NOT a fair process. (Source: Human Rights Watch)

02. If you are the ruling coalition and you win the election, the country will go on with business as usual. But if the opposition wins, the country gets endless politicking and finger pointings.

03. Being honest and telling the so-called truth can get you in trouble. Look what happened to that private investigator guy and Raja Petra.

04. If you're being accused of being involved in a murder case, nothing till will happen to you. But if you're not at the police station an hour before appointment time, 15 police cars and men in masks will show up at your doorstep to arrest you, without a warrant. (Don't laugh ok?! According to Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar, it's "the best option"!)

05. It's ok to make personal attacks on your opponent over and over again in a debate when you run out of points to say.

06. Those roadblocks that causes fuel-wasting traffic jams, "were carried out in the interest of the public". (Not sure how he know what our interests are, but that what Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar said.)

07. Demonstration is considered as an interference with our daily life, but roadblocks that causes fuel-wasting traffic jams aren't. (Here's another quote from Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar: "The public want their safety, not demonstrations or interference with their daily life.")

08. If you have constipation, you're most likely a sodomy victim!

09. If you are accused of sodomizing someone, you will be taken to a medical center to have your private parts measured, and you will not be shown of the accuser's report.

10. Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar said that "(Anwar) has strong supporters in the international arena... and we are going to stop him." So be very careful. If you have friends in the international arena, the government might just "stop you"!

As I'm not really in-the-know about politics and all, can someone tell me how is it possible for Anwar to have "strong supporters in the international arena" backing him up? When the Home Minister said that, does it mean that our government don't have any "strong supporters in the international arena"? If so, why doesn't our ruling government have "strong supporters in the international arena" but Anwar has it?

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