uncreaming attitude

WHEN a person is wheelchair bound but yet portrays a gusty image and tries his best to make the world a better place, is it justified to call him names?
This was what happened in our ‘circus’ (I find the debates conducted in our parliament are more of a joke rather than anything serious). Democratic Action Party (DAP) veteran member Karpal Singh was involved in an accident last year but that has not stopped the lawyer by profession from attending parliamentary proceedings.
Nevertheless, it was rather uncalled for Barisan National back bencher Bung Moktar Radin to throw childish remarks at Karpal. The Kinabatangan man was quoted saying “why is he (Karpal) still around when he is about to die”.
Bung Moktar later added “he should have been grateful he didn’t die but to be wheelchair bound only”.
A heated argument followed with some of the excerpts below;

Bung: “He (Karpal) is already insane, asking nonsense.”

Karpal: “Kinabatangan is insane and has no right to be here, he is an animal.”

Bung: "He is the insane animal. He is about to die, why is he still here?"

Karpal: “Expel this animal from the House.”

This is a shocker as I have read in the past how shallow some members of the parliament can be. Not too long ago, a Penangnite member of parliament debated on the appalling standards of Malaysian football, saying “they ought to be lined up on the Penang beach so that another Tsunami will carry them away”. Who is he to judge good or bad the Malaysian soccer team is? In fact, has he actually spent a whole 90 minutes watching an FAM match at the stadium? Or better still, can he name the first eleven of the national team?
Back to Bung Moktar’s childish antics, he is known to be the jester of parliament, having pride in taking cheap shots at the opposition and often praising a certain private TV station, thus the huge amount of publicity. Sadly, he, like many others who sit in the ‘House’(said to be the highest and respectable institution of a working government) fail to discuss on pressing matters and instead waste time on cheap talk. Note on the name calling, reminds one of the good old days in pre-school.
A person should be judge professionally, judged upon his substance and not how he looks or the way he walks. While this is in no way a form of support towards DAP, however, it is rather sad to see a BN person ridiculing a man in a wheel chair. Harshly put, Bung seems to suggest ‘cacat’ people are a dying lot and are a waste of time. That’s how I see his words and one wonders how this would affect our unfortunate friends out there.
At present time there are many places which are 'unfriendly' to our special friends. Those on the wheelchair will find it impossible taking the STAR LRT, sitting on the new Rapid KL buses and even doing their banking. Despite shouts by activists, nothing solid has been done throughout the years.
As said by Earl Hickey (from the TV show My Name is Earl), “I believe in Karma”. What goes around comes around and Bung Moktar better hopes his praying five times a day would help him avoid being in a wheel chair and later ridiculed by his fellow mates.
There was a drummer on NTV7's latest reality show Rock Unite and he obtained praises playing the drums brilliantly despite with one hand only.
They claim the younger generation have lost the plot, but from what is observed, can the younger generation be blamed for having a lousy bunch of older generation ahead of them? Actions like this further suggest our Parliament is a joke and Malaysians are rude after all. Sigh!

Note: The article is not in favour of any political party and believes in neutrality.
p/s: Name me one political party which can equate BN (they are no angels themselves?) Keadilan was so a ‘release me from jail’ party, DAP can’t ever get their act right within their own ‘kind’ while Pas…you guys can dream on taking over the country. Sigh!

-The Man Who Sold The World-