So more and more Malaysians are calling for Pak Lah to step down. Muhammad ‘Mat Tyson’ Muhammed Taib yesterday equated such calls as unfair. How can one change the rules of a football game midway, he says, arguing Pak Lah ought to be allowed to finish his term as Prime Minister and leader of Umno.
Surely Mat Tyson has missed the point. Surely Mat Tyson is not a football player, nor a fan, not even a casual supporter.
For Malaysians to call for Pak Lah to take responsibilities for the state of the country is not changing the rules of the football game. It is an enforcement of the rules of the game.
A Mongolian woman gets blown up with military explosive, babies molested, little kids kidnapped and whisked off into thin air, snatch thieves roaming the cities, food prices going up up up, judges gallivanting with lawyers and businessmen, throwing some poor Indians into jail just because they’re fed up of being treated like pariahs and demand respect, muzzling the press and castrating all the editors-in-chief, satay sellers building palaces in Klang, highway tolls that never die despite being around for donkey years, petroleum money that is gushing out of Terengganu into God-knows-where so much so that even the Sultan is shouting ‘what the heck is going on?’ … the rules of our football game have been not only broken but stomped upon with glee and relish.
The players have gone offside so many times the spectators can’t even keep count. The referees have been issuing one yellow card after another. But the foul play continues. Not only are the players pulling shirts and using their elbows, they are now openly jabbing opponents in the eye and kicking them in the groin.
On March 8, a red card has been flashed. If the player won’t get off the field by himself, don’t blame the spectators for hissing and booing.
Everybody knows what the rules of the football game are. Mat Tyson, do you?
Thursday, April 3, 2008
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