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Media Statement by Lim Kit Siang in Petaling Jaya on Friday, 28th November 2008:  Pakatan Rakyat MPs will have to decide whether to collectively move a motion of censure against the Chair if Opposition MPs are constantly subject to trigger-happy suspensions while recalcitrant and renegade BN MPs are allowed with impunity to disgrace Parliament with gutter, racist and sexist language  Pakatan Rakyat MPs will have to decide whether to collectively move a motion of censure against the Chair if Opposition MPs are constantly subject to trigger-happy suspensions from the House while recalcitrant and renegade Barisan Nasional (BN) MPs are allowed with impunity to disgrace Parliament with gutter, racist and sexist language, again and again, with ever-increasing offence. The kid-glove treatment of the obstreperous and obnoxious BN MP for Pasir Salak, Datuk Tajudin Rahman on Wednesday, when he scored a disgraceful and dishonourable hatrick of hurling the racist remark of “keling” against DAP MP for Ipoh Barat, M. Kulasegaran, the gutter language of “boil” (dumb) against PKR MP for Gombak, Azmin Ali and the revolting sexist innuendo (see video) during the debate on DAP Serdang MP Teo Nie Ching’s motion to cut the Education Minister’s salary by RM10 for failing to meet his promises on Chinese and Tamil primary schools, qualifies as the “black mark” of all “black marks” of Parliament. Tajudin’s disgraceful “hatrick” is all the more outrageous and unforgivable after his November 5 “blot” in using the completely unacceptable and unparliamentary language of “bastard” and “bloody bastard” which he got away with utter impunity – not having to tender any apology or suffer any penalty. No one MP has brought more shame and disgrace to Parliament than Tajudin in the past 51 years and yet he enjoys total immunity and impunity for his most crude, uncouth and savage attacks on parliamentary decencies and niceties – which the Chair had totally failed to curb and control. It is not conducive to the promotion of a first-world Parliament if Opposition MPs could be suspended over the slightest infractions while grave and heinous parliamentary offences like those routinely committed by Tajudin are allowed to get away with total impunity – as illustrated by what happened in Parliament on Tuesday resulting in the suspension of DAP MP for Puchong, Gobind Singh Deo (see video). The question all Malaysians are asking is whether the Chair in Parliament is going to discipline Tajudin or whether there is going to continue to be the Nelson’s eye for the BN for Pasir Salak to bring Parliamentary dignity and honour to even lower public odium, contempt and disrepute. * Lim Kit Siang,  DAP Parliamentary leader & MP for Ipoh Timor