OCT 13 — Supposing you park your car along the double yellow lines and then walk away after locking the car.
When you come back to pick up your car, you find it clamped by the enforcement personnel.
If you are a normal guy, you might get a little emotional initially, but very soon you will recover your senses and know how to handle the situation in a more matured way.
This is the consequence you have to swallow for trying to flout the law for your own convenience.
Pay the fine and take it as a lesson. And perhaps you might just want to leave the place as quickly as you can to avoid yourself becoming a laughing stock.
I was talking about a normal person, but the question is, normal people are becoming a rare commodity in our society nowadays as we see the emergence of more and more unimaginable personalities.
For instance, there are two young Chinese men in Penang whose illegally parked vehicle was clamped by the MBPP enforcement officers.
When these two gentlemen came back to pick up their car, they felt instantly enraged by the sight of their clamped vehicle. They started to yell, and called the lady enforcers ‘dogs.”
The female Malay officers did not fight back but stood firm by their principle. Pay the fine and you’ll get your car unclamped.
Seeing that the officers were unperturbed by their howling, the two young men started to take out a few bills and tossed them on the floor.
Picking up the littered bank notes with a high degree of self-restraint, the officers subsequently unclamped the vehicle.
I felt disheartened watching the video clip.
I was wondering whether these two young men knew that they had done something very wrong in the first place. Or were they aware that these few lady enforcers were only carrying out their duties as public servants?
They could be least concerned how our Malay compatriots would feel or react seeing this. Are we trying to tell the world this is how our people behave?
Sure enough you can argue that this was only an isolated case, but the fact is, similar incidents have never ceased taking place in our country all these years.
Remember a talented musician dashing into the office of a power generating company, greeting the Malay staff that came his way with degrading curses in the likes of “dog” and names of human genitalia?
Remember how abusive words uttered in an emotionally charged rally were broadcast over the loudspeakers? And the stomping of images of rival politicians and holding of mock funerals for the same?
Indeed we all have heard such stories, and clapped in agreement, too. It’s like a community suffering from collective depression that necessitates the use of vulgarisms and violence acts to vent the inexplicable and uncontrollable emotions of individuals in this community.
Weirdly many do not see this as a form of malady but rather a proclamation of heroism.
Some ill-intentioned political entities have discovered the fact that this is the single most effective tactic to take control of the masses and incite antagonism. So they start to do this systematically, tuning it into a perfect weapon of mass destruction.
Anyone begging to differ would be labeled “dogs” and called names.
And such an anomaly has unfortunately evolved into a style some of our young Chinese Malaysians are so proud of associating themselves with. The more barbaric the more it fits into their own definition of self righteousness.
Respect for other fellow human beings has gradually slipped from their value system, and they find themselves increasingly estranged from the concept of rule of law.
The mere existence of other individuals and public interests has been banished from their worlds. All that they have is excessively bloated self conceit that has since occluded the normal functioning of their brain cells.
Such an attitude is often justified and rationalized by claims of “unfair treatment” as they fantasize themselves into victims of some untold iniquities that they must rise up and seek vengeance to square things up.
But, the moment you start calling someone anjing, it is natural that others would retaliate by calling you babi. Hence aggravated social confrontation sets in, ripping apart our country.
Indeed we have been plagued by too much frustration that we tend to attribute our woes to some other people. But, have we ever conducted an inner search into us to see whether we have problems ourselves?
It’s like an individual suffering from severe bipolar disorder, who is constantly locked within the vicious cycle of depression and excitement, in their own whimsical worlds that only they exist and they can dictate the world.
If this crisis is not going to be defused anytime soon, the future of this ethnicity is headed to extreme perils.
* This is the personal opinion of the writer or publication and does not necessarily represent the views of Malay Mail Online.
