NOV 4 we had longed for to begin this essay by sketch courtesy to a unfortunate death hazard received by inherent law consultant Prof Aziz Bari for expressing an perspective regarding a recent stately decree.
But as happens to all reporters who have been delayed to write, events have overtaken my thoughts.
And so we have to begin with a military anathema upon a Seksualiti Merdeka festival.
I am not sure if a media intends to cast a military as buffoons though when a efficient authorities have been quoted as justifying their anathema by suggesting which "the law in a country [does] not recognise any deviationist activity which could destroy a practice of eremite freedom" we feel during a complete loss.
How upon god's great earth does a legal holiday which tries to raise awareness of a legitimate rights of LGBTs to next to insurance before a law become a plan to destroy eremite freedom.
Admittedly, we am a gay atheist, along with being a Johor Baru-born, Singapore-bred, amicable science-trained, Pakatan Rakyat-voting, occasional gym-going, bald, untamed Malayalee-type of Indian.
Before we proceed any further let me contend which we do not hold there is any reason to fright which my sort will one day rule a universe as well as abolish a drug of a masses. No, we (actually there aren't most in my small box) will substantially sojourn in a extrinsic small corner forever.
I know this competence not encourage everyone most being addicted to their fears though that's all we can offer.
Anyway, if a military wish to anathema Seksualiti Merdeka they unequivocally ought to have a improved reason similar to a fact which they have been bowing (on hands as well as knees) to a Perkasa-PAS Youth bandwagon.
Did we only mention which we identify politically with a Pakatan Rakyat coalition? Well we do, which is, until such time which we feel which members of a bloc unequivocally have no clue what a democracy is in its essence.
Surely they do no! t consid er which democracy is merely an opportunistic slogan to take power, as well as a numbers game most appropriate won by pandering to a fears as well as desires of a majority?
While Perkasa's mount does not surprise me in a slightest it being consistent with their purpose in a regime's low intensity warfare we wonder how PAS Youth squares their call for democracy as well as remodel with their mount against elemental liberties. That is a elemental liberties of some members of a Malaysian community.
If PAS Youth cannot make a distinction in between their personal eremite views as well as a joining to democratic governance, then they have been small some-more than amicable fascists.
If PAS Youth cannot bear which others have pleasures which they select not to enjoy, then they have been small some-more than envy-ridden wannabe tyrants.
And if PAS Youth does not uphold a physical inlet of state, then supporting them is tantamount to assisting a hangman tighten a knot around my small magnanimous neck.
Yesterday, we was indignant which those aligned with a stream government put a self-evident gun to Aziz Bari's conduct as well as by we do so hold us all to ransom.
Today we feel which those aligned to parties we have upheld all these years have put a gun to my head.
Worse still, we feel which in wanting a game-changing governing body as well as meaningful which we could never perspective for a trivial Barisan Nasional, we have put a gun to my own head.
Yes, we straightforwardly admit. we am obliged for this gun (or pick-axe if we similar to a colourful reference to a assassination of Leon Trotsky instead) placed in between my eyes.
Will there be redemption? Will anyone in a Pakatan Rakyat verbalise up against a amicable fascists in their ranks?
Cannot someone in PAS, a DAP or PKR instruct these indignant immature men upon what democrats mount for? What principles democrats reside by?
Is a Youth wing so enamoured of their informative fig! ht plan which they can't see over their pious noses to a awaiting of shift which everyone can embrace? And not only they shift they want?
Can Anwar, Mat Sabu or Lim Kit Siang insist what they meant by democracy? And do they intend to plague LGBTs when they take Putrajaya?
You may ask me because we am tainting them with a PAS Youth brush? Well it's simply because a destiny of a Pakatan Rakyat lies in precisely these wings. PAS Youth, PKR Youth, DAPSY all these waving wings.
Pakatan Rakyat: have been we democrats or fascists? (BN: no need to ask we folks, we know what a answer is.)
Do your parties allow to democracy as a principle of governance?
Don't your parties support internationally recognized standards of tellurian rights? Or is someone starting to mount up as well as rehash which old chestnut about how Asian values talk about from Western values as well as so we can plague those we have traditionally designated as a degraded other.
There have been utterly a few intellectuals watchful in a wings we can circle out to do your bidding upon this score.
I wait for with bated breath.
Perhaps upon a Aziz Bari box a lines were transparent it was a book we have all come to know as well as love. It's a easy book of us as well as them, great guys as well as bad guys, Pakatan Rakyat as well as Barisan Nasional.
But a campaign against, as well as subsequent banning of, a Seksualit Merdeka legal holiday is explanation of how inadequate this book is.
Damn, unequivocally existent Malaysian governing body is complicated.
By a way, we do not wish to lose steer of a persecution of Aziz Bari, nor of a genuine hazard of assault which is emerging in a politics.
But for currently we wish to register my deepest despair which those we had pinned my hopes for shift upon competence not be who we consider they are. And they competence not be who they contend they are.
I use a word "despair" very purposefully. Because despair is a poison which ri! ps out a innards of a democracy as well as allows it to be hijacked by all demeanour of power inspired cynics as well as opportunists.
And despair would be a very bad finish following a personal joys we felt during a conclusion of a 2008 general election.
* Sharaad Kuttan is a publisher in poke of a nice frock with a word "AMBIVALENT" embroided in sequins across it.
* The views expressed here have been a personal perspective of a columnist.
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