Serious stuff

First my most humble apologies to the readers for churning out below-par posts on my blog lately, the pressure of impending finals and the little free time left has been spent on going out with my friends instead. Thus the posts that i made lately are as raw and unkempt as the lalang growing in the garden. So after reading Dolphyn's post about the crisis in the judiciary, i felt compelled to put some in my own words too..

I would appeal for a more objective view to this judiciary crisis, there's no use in condemning those parties at fault because it does nothing to alleviate the problem at hand. It's also pointless to fire the current law minister because there's no guarantee that the next candidate is able to get the job done better than his predecessor.

And of course, the motion to set up a royal commission with full powers to investigate the authenticity of the lingam tape has been quashed and a small committee with only 3 members where their powers are so severely limited that they can only invite people to come forward to testify instead of ordering them to do so was set up instead, this is very much likely due to all cronies behind the scenes working to throw out the motion for fear of being implicated by the findings of the royal commission should it be allowed to set up.

So how do we get around all these? Staging more walks will not really help to the cause because those cronies will just shoot it down as being an act by the opposition to tarnish the government and if you are unlucky, the ISA would be used against you.

What is really needed is the voice of the public, whereby public polls are done to gauge the public reaction on certain issues such as this current judicial crisis. And these polls must be done by a reputable independent research company, not those sms to vote gig that you see on the tv station news bulletin or polls done by government controlled mainstream media. This is to ensure that the results are unbiased and unquestionable.

When the public voice has sounded, it must be heard. Such is the case in japan when former premier Abe who stepped down after his popular ratings among the public slided. So far the government has been pushing for a better public delivery system: reducing red tape, fast tracking approval process etc, an efficient public response system is needed too so that the government can act according to the demands of the people, and not those minority bunch whose only interest is their own. After all, a government is by the people for the people, it's high time we clean up our act!