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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.
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Lim
Kit Siang, DAP
Parliamentary leader & MP for Ipoh Timor
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