It is very funny how the opposition always liked to pick on somebody regarding minor matters. Take for example, the allegations made by Mr. Opposition that the Prime Minister had yet to pay his 11 traffic summonses.
PM: I didn’t know I had 11 unpaid summonses
KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was unaware that he had 11 unpaid traffic summonses.
He said he did not know about them until he was informed by Deputy Inspector General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan yesterday and would pay them all tomorrow.
“I was just informed by Musa. I did not know about them. The last time I had summonses, I paid them all. Thank you for letting me know.
“I will find out who were driving the cars on those days,” he told reporters after launching the police family day celebration here yesterday.
The Prime Minister was asked to comment on an allegation by DAP that he had 11 unpaid traffic summonses.
On Thursday, DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng claimed that police had given Abdullah discounts worth 70% on his 11 summonses.
Lim said the police website www.rilek.com.my showed that three cars, with the registration plates WJB2800, WLP3142 and WCH13, under Abdullah’s name, accumulated a total of RM3,300 in fines from June 29, 2002 to Aug 3, 2005.
The amount was reduced to RM1,000 after the discount.
The 11 offences were traffic obstruction, parking at no parking areas, parking at the wrong side of the road and speeding.
Read the rest of the article here.
Now, it IS highly likely that the PM had forgotten about the summonses, no? Or is it also not possible that those cars were not driven by the PM at the time when the summonses were issued? Now Mr. Opposition, do you remember the last time you forgot to pay your bills? Do you ever pay your own bills anyway? I am sure you have a secretary or personal assistant who handles all these mundane stuff. Now, how would you feel if somebody criticises you because you forgot to pay your electricity bill?!
We do forget things, don’t we?
Or do you think that just because he is the Prime Minister, he is supposed to have super-duper memory and that he cannot allow his memory to fail him, not even once?
Or is it your job as the opposition to just criticise anything pro-government? Why did you NOT talk about the ordinary-man-on-the-road who probably has more than 20 unpaid traffic summonses?
Maybe it’s high time that our MPs, pro- or against-government debate about the more pressing issues concerning the growth of the country and the rakyat than to yell at each other over what to wear to Parliamentary meetings and who has the highest number of unpaid traffic summonses.
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It’s about double-standard, no one give it a f*ck whether he is the PM or whoever it is.
pelf: Yea, it’s ALL about the double-standard that we are practising and I don’t us being a developed nation by 2020. In terms of sky-scrapers, maybe yes (because most sky-scrapers are designed and built by foreigners, whose brains are preperly evolved with time). But in terms of our mentality, nope. Sad, I know.
I do agree with you - it’s a small matter which the opposition or anyone else shouldn’t really worry about. In fact by trying to score some points the opposition comes out looking petty.
pelf: Exactly - they make themselves look like they are wasting the rakyat’s money debating on unnecessary matters instead of spending those money to upgrade existing facilities etc.
The whole point in politics is to make your opponent look bad … and this is exactly that. Is it trivial? Of course. But it goes to show, if he cannot keep track of things and follow rules like the rest of us … what is he doing running a country?
pelf: Like I mentioned, he MAY not be the one driving. OK, even if he was driving and was caught speeding, he was given a fine, fair enough no? A Prime Minister is also a human being like you and me and Tom, Dick and Harry. And nobody can escape making mistakes. And if you think that “being summoned” is highly correlated to one’s ability to “run a country”, I am sure you wished GOD be our Prime Minister instead for he makes no mistakes..
I don’t see a reason why the PM should be given 70% discount. He is already a very extremely wealthy man. I don’t even get RM 0.10 discount for that stupid ticket, considering the fact that I am just a poor student. *arghh!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
pelf: This I agree. Maybe you should write and get your question and dissatisfaction on print
We as the rakyat demand 70% discounts on our traffic samans as well!
pelf: Hhahaa.. Do you want to be one of our next MPs?
Sitting on the fence, you can’t help to laugh how absurb such matters are and why we still have the third world mentality *rolls eyes*
pelf: Why..?! Because … *you know I know la*
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