Quite a lot of people would have read Malik Imtiaz’s blow-by-blow dissection of Nazri Aziz’s tripe on the apparent ‘non-existence’ of a judicial crisis.
Apart from the fact that Nazri blows a gasket in that NST interview and uses words suggesting copulation with one’s mother, and apart from the fact that Nazri talks absolute nonsense about the majority and the minority, I find myself pitying him.
If you’ve not read Aniza Damis’ interview with our de facto Law Minister, I would like to bring your attention to one of Aniza’s responses: “That’s very irresponsible”.
For a minister in the Prime Minister’s department given such short shrift in a government-controlled media mouthpiece.. well, even his friends in high places can’t think much of him, can they?
Every time it becomes necessary for the government to deliver bad news backed by skewed logic and patently ridiculous claims, Nazri gets called up. When it’s time to put opposition members of parliament to pasture, figuratively, Nazri invariably rises to the occasion and shares with us the benefit of his pristine education. (The words ‘bodoh! bodoh! bodoh!’ come to mind.) Badawi, on the other hand, is left to bask in the glory of his own pronouncements.
Imagine the shock he must’ve felt when our Father For All Malaysians was contradicted in the very same venue he said things about scaring away investors and such. Ms Ambiga and Sultan Azlan Shah are correct - a good, respectable, efficient and expedient judiciary can only be good for legitimate businesses and investors.
Businesses and investors that operate on the basis of who they know and how much they can pay who they know off obviously don’t find a respectable judiciary convenient.
So I’m quite puzzled when Badawi focused on the consequences of the walkabout protest staged by the Bar Council as being bad for investors and such. Bad for which sort of investor, pray tell?
And if we can count on Nazri’s words about government seeing the wood for the trees, then putting two and two together, I can only wonder what sort of future our dear government has in mind with a dodgy judiciary, dodgy contracts, dodgy deals and dodgy money flowing into our national coffers.
Both Nazri Aziz and our Prime Minister should win a Darwin Award for their recent performance(1).
- An award honouring people who by their actions ensure the survival of the human race by removing themselves from the gene pool… (↩)