While we are on this subject, I believe there are some inside the August House as well who are not averse to stooping down to despicable and dirty, low blows.

I recall the August House being forced to stoop low one by the now ousted (by the good people and quite rightly so!) Mr Kayveas of the MIC who on 28 June 2006 took an ill-mannered and inexcusable low blow at the same wheelchair bound parliamentarian – who as we all know is well-known in and outside of Malaysia as a tried, tested and well-proven political champion of democracy, and so someone who has clearly earned his well-deserved stripes and respect as it were – with this cruel and snide aside of his: “You are now in a wheelchair. Later, no one will know what your condition will be”.

On that same day, I recall one of the most IMO, uncouth MPs I have ever come across in any civilised democratic Parliament anywhere, the BN’s Mr Bung, also taking another uncouthly low blow at the same parliamentarian with this side remark: “Shut up and sit down. You are lucky you are only in a wheelchair and did not die. Even in a wheelchair you want to create trouble here”

And speaking of unacceptable low blows (unacceptable because they are totally unnecessary and in no way contribute to any real debate on any real in the House, other than being merely a high-testosterone/oestrogen-fuelled pointless show-off comment) one very low blow that particularly sticks in my mind is the cruel jeer I saw revealed on the face of a certain doctor (someone who I believe at one point must have taken the Hippocratic oath) and the cruel tone I heard in the snidey remark he made in reference to “Anwar’s black eye” when some newsmen were asking him to comment on the infamous incident in 1998/99 when the politically framed Anwar Ibrahim was beaten up by the now axed ex-IGP and cheap coward, Rahim Noor.

Perhaps the People should in future look deep and hard at the usually hidden characters of those standing at their democratic elections and watch probingly their performance before trusting them with their democratic votes and more importantly, with their delegated democratic power.

It is a general rule of thumb that generally principled people are not into putting on a show or performing acts of showmanship when it comes to serious things like governance and doing selfless public service in a statesman-like way.

“Imagine Power To The People” John Lennon.

ekans:

Thank you for pointing out my error with respect to the political party Mr Kayveas is a member of.

“Imagine Power To The People” John Lennon.