All Men Are Created Equal...

All men are created equal... but, you know what, this creature called Man very cleverly invented inequality.

Being fair... this is coffee table talk everywhere. New Cabinet line-up just announced. Poor KJ... got snubbed out. He's a smart fler and should be in by virtue of being the Youth Head. But he got snubbed! PM says KJ understands. (KJ must be seething!..) PM says his exclusion is to enable him to undertake the tasks as the movement's leader. Wah! KJ cannot multi task compared to his predecessors... if UMNO Youth Head has always been traditionally given a Ministerial post and now is not, I guess the DPM post also need not go to the Deputy Prez of UMNO! Anyone can be... especially one of those East Malaysians. Sarawak and Sabah combined together are after all bigger than Peninsular. So, if anyone should be Deputy PM, one of them should! Right now, if they abandon ship, BN will terkubur. East Malaysians still seem the lesser brothers in this relationship of unequal yoke.

The rule of law... it's supposed to be the guiding principle. But the authority of man has superseded it. We go more by the authority of man these days. When NEP was formulated, its intention was to help the poor Malays. When the authority of man is applied, it was used to enrich the already able and rich ones. And it has given birth to so many wrongs. It takes only one wrong to produce more wrongs. And also Kugan-gate.. poor guy. I mean I don't sympathize with him as an alleged car thief.. but then to go through that.... then after death also the body did not have any peace... 2 autopsies. And now after seizing the documents from UMMC, they say the second autopsy is not accurate. Aiyoh!! So many percanggahan. The docs they appoint are all really lousy! Like that how to promote our medical tourism thingy??? Two autopsies... two vastly different conclusions. Would you put your life in these docs' hands??? Scary! Scary! Scary!

Fair trials with witnesses... well, we've seen how our courts have turned to kangaroo courts. 2 low ranking officers now are baa-baaing away. They've been jampi-ed into goats - scape goats and sacrificial lambs. Reason? Something they did to a Mongolian lady. Then we've cases which seemed airtight suddenly go pancat... Mr Linggam? Whatever happened to him? Mr. Rahim Thamby Chik, has he ever languished in the jail? Mr. 2 Muhd - he was even made a Senator and a Minister. And the one linked to the goats is now occupying the seat of the highest political power! And, the outdated law meant to help overcome the commie problem is now used to silence and intimidate the people.

Servanthood vs political power... Who wants to be the servant when they can be the tuan? Hamba follows the orders of the Tuan... Leaders are to serve the people or people to serve the leaders? A tuan gets all the choicest while the hamba gathers the crumbs under the table. A tuan becomes the VVIP and gets all the VVIP perks while the hamba prepares and pays for those perks. Not a bad arrangement, some may argue. After all the tuan will feed the hamba and see to his needs. Well, that's political power smacked into our faces, the rakyat(s).... oops sorry, the hamba, I mean. This Easter I'm humbled by the humility of Christ... in his washing his disciples' feet... feet which must have been coated with whatever you find on the road.. I spent an hour scrubbing my car porch Saturday morning cos my wheels went over cow dung. Smelly and stubborn... had to scrub hard. Walk barefooted on the roads.... surely they must have walked on them too. Yet Christ through this act reminds us that to be a leader is to serve.

Moral absolutes... penarik beca has this to say... some Chinese voters voted PAS in Bukit Gantang because they say PAS 'talak lasuah punya'. (Ha! Ha!...read between the lines) Who says Chinese or the rest got no morals? They also have a corruptibility index for a candidate's (party) lah. And this round, PAS passed with flying colours. But at least you read from among their own telling people to pijak-pijak the PAS leadership if they makan rasuah. The last time the de-facto Law Minister, an UMNO insider tried to point out his bosses' tak berapa kena' actions... he got booted out! How to make sure moral absolutes remain as such...