I am very saddened with what has occurred over the past two days.
I have never met Ms. Wong. She is not a wakil rakyat in my constituency and any news of her I receive from the media. Yet over the past 11 months or so, she has proved to be a dedicated and selfless assemblywoman and Exco. A shining example of why the people of Selangor ‘voted for change’ last year.
Yet despite her steller performance thus far, the people of Selangor may be deprived of her. All because of the heinous acts of certain individuals who perpetrated a gross invasion of a person’s privacy.
I am not going to immediately blame Selangor’s opposition party for what has happened, despite what some have claimed. Yet I have no doubt that certain political lowlifes like Mr. Mohd. Khir Toyo will definitely exploit what has happened for their selfish political aims. Mr. Khir wasted no time in urging Ms. Wong to resign, even before seeing the supposed photos. Ms. Azalina Othman, the minister, echoed a similar call, saying that Ms. Wong should ‘do the right thing and resign’, although I suspect that with Ms. Azalina it had become personal. My ‘favourite’ UMNO deputy president hopeful Mr. Mohd Ali Rustam also gave his two cents (or less) worth on the whole issue.
However, I do say that some Barisan MPs and assemblymen had the decency to offer their sympathy to Ms. Wong. Such bi-partisan acts are most welcome.
The main problem that I have with this whole issue is how easily some of us have ‘jumped the gun’. From my knowledge, these pictures have yet to be distributed to the public. Only a few newsmen have seen them. Yet so very many of us have claimed that this is a ‘morality’ issue, led of course by people like Mr. Khir and Mr. Ali Rustam. According to the latter, the act of being photographed naked is something that cannot be accepted by the people of this country. Of course, netizens quickly asked; if Mr. Khir or Mr. Ali was photographed naked having a shower (God forbid), should they resign too?
Let’s get this straight. What our politicians and leaders do in their own private time is none of our bloody business. We did not elect them to be monks and nuns, celibate from worldly pleasures. We elected them, theoretically, because we believe that they will dispense they will serve us as our representatives.
So Mr. Chua Soi Lek should not have resigned. His extra-marital affair is a betrayal of the trust of his wife and his family. Not the trust we place upon him as a lawmaker (then) and minister.
Ms. Wong should also not be allowed to resign. Even more so because she is a single woman and have committed no crime, either legally or ‘morally’.
Ms. Wong is clearly a victim in all of this. We might not know who took those pictures and distributed them, but we know that the taking and distributing was without Ms. Wong’s consent. This in itself should put beyond all doubt that Ms. Wong’s privacy has been violated and that we should sympathize, not ostracize her.
If I could say something to Ms. Wong, I’ll tell her this: “Stay on and fight!”.
What a spin, I give you that!
As a leader, what message is she giving to your school-going daughter and son? That it is okay to have pre-marital sex if you’re single and in private? Why doesn’t she sue the bugger left and right and also not resign?
Elizabeth, Vijandran, Soi Lek, Hassan Omar, Rahim Tamby Chik, Perfumo …… all should resign. There are no two ways about it!
Dear ex-boyfriend,
Moving away from Elizabeth for a minute.
What exactly is wrong with pre-marital sex?
There is nothing in life more disgusting than marriage. To legalise the enslavement of a woman and reduce her to nothing more than a farm hen for the state; pumping and discharging children on an annual basis so that they can be coerced with the same History or Sejarah and be indoctrinated with more Government propaganda, is simply vile!
Is this how we treat women? Reducing them to an unpaid housekeeper that’s made to sweep the floors and mop it later, clean the windows, dust the fan, maintain the garden, calculate the utility bills, pay the utility bills, buy the groceries, cook the food, wash the dishes, take the garbage out, be a sex slave, carry a child, go through excessive labour pains, take care of the child, raise the child, pay for the dumb kid’s education, sympathies with his stupidity and watch him leave ungratefully.
And when you think it’s time for the woman to get some rest, she has to put her husband to bed every night, clean his wheel chair, do his laundry, wash his dentures and scrub the fecal stains off his underwear.
Oh and please don’t tell me that’s Love. The Love ended the moment he said “I take you to be MY wife”.
I think a woman should have the right to have sex with who she wants, when she wants and where she wants to. And I think you should too!
In fact, if you think about it, the reason why most of these useless male politicians are out there squabbling like little children is because they aren’t getting their fair share of sex – old outdated primitive male chauvinism coupled with religiously promoted sexual repression are going to give you the likes of Khir Toyo and Najib Tun Razak.