Malaysia Is Watching
Who can forget our little friend in Klang, Datuk Zakaria Mat Deros? While most Malaysians got all patriotic on land about another Malaysian in the skies, I got drunk with friends and lamented the disgusting ’system’ (system implies order, and this case there was nothing but) in Malaysia that allows for criminals like Zakaria to continue to flourish.
When my, ahem, journalistic heroes, R. Nadeswaran (Citizen Nades) and Terrence Fernandez broke the story almost a year back, there was the usual initial outrage about a so-called government/civil servant using land meant for low-cost housing to build his 16-room monstrosity. I say monstrosity because a monster lives there. And he certainly is not blue and eats cookies.
Instead he is of a more vile variety, the kind that abuses privileges, has his peers turn a blind eye on his misdemeanors, which then, leads to more un-self awareness and now, he’s even happily flaunting this monstrosity to people less fortunate than him. The New Straits Times reported this week that the monstrosity has a fishpond and swimming pool, mini gold course, garage and many other extravagances. He so ‘graciously’ opened his house during Raya to a group of 100 orphans - for them to spend one night in luxury, saying, ” When and where else will they get such a chance?”
Action was taken against Zakaria last year when the (graciously silent) PM expressed that it was not fitting for an elected representative to commit such an offense. What action was meted out, you ask? Oh, just a paltry fine of RM 22,000. Yes, a ludicrous amount for a man who can afford a monstrous mansion built on land meant for the lower income group - built with no submission of building plans and bought for a premium of slightly more than RM 150,000.
And that’s the end of it I guess. Where are the moral guardians of the state now, the ones that are always so keen to spy and be harbingers of doom for the rest of us? Does no one in the government, even our PM (sometimes sleepy) care to point out the gross error of his ways? To add insult to our injury as a collective group of concerned and extremely pissed off bunch of Malaysians, he hosts orphans in his monstrous palace for a night?
He might have think he did right by them (by some deluded form of Datuk-myopia), but he couldn’t be any farther from the truth. And lest he forget, lest the PM forgets, lest the ruling coalition forgets - we are watching, oh yes we are, and we will NOT forget, nor forgive.
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why all this bad events are happening?Bekoz we allow it to happen. We have allowed our country to be corrupted, kaput. Instead of gemilang we get gilawang- politicians exist to nake hay while sun is shineing. Have lots of sex like dogs on heat then when tired of the bitch use c4 to remove the annoying bitch.