N45 Dr Halimah Ali: gelagat MP di Parliamen

Kira-kira 20 hingga 30 ahli Pemuda Umno yang dipercayai dari Selangor and Kuala Lumpur telah "masuk" di bangunan Parlimen lantas mengepung YB Karpal Singh yang berkerusi roda. Bagaimana mereka boleh masuk itu satu cerita lain.

Ahli Parlimen DAP juga mengadu bahawa anggota keselamatan Parlimen tidak berbuat apa-apa untuk melindungi Karpal.

Karpal pula dengan tegas berkata: "Saya mungkin kurang upaya, tetapi saya tidak tunduk kepada ugutan mana-mana pihak."

"Sekiranya Karpal gagal memberi sebarang bukti, rakyat Malaysia bolehlah menganggap dirinya seorang penipu yang sudah hilang segala kredibiliti dan kewarasan," cabar Khairy.

Peluru: Karpal dikepung Pemuda Umno

Pengerusi DAP Karpal Singh dikepung sekumpulan anggota Pemuda Umno di bangunan Parlimen petang tadi, menuntutnya meminta maaf kepada pergerakan tersebut kerana mendakwa mereka menghantar peluru kepadannya.

Ini ekoran tindakan Karpal menggunakan perkataan 'celaka' yang ditujukannya kepada Pemuda Umno semasa perbahasan di Dewan Rakyat semalam, serta mendakwa pergerakan itu menghantar peluru kepadanya.

Karpal bagaimanapun menarik balik perkataan "celaka" itu setelah diarah oleh Timbalan Speaker Datuk Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar.

Kejadian itu berlaku pada kira-kira jam 2.30 petang tadi ketika ahli parlimen Bukit Gelugor itu masuk melalui pintu utama bangunan tersebut.

Kira-kira 20 hingga 30 ahli Pemuda Umno terbabit dan mereka dipercayai dari Selangor and Kuala Lumpur

Bagaimanapun, Karpal kemudiannya menelefon ahli parlimen Batu Gajah, Fong Poh Kuan yang kemudian tiba bersama beberapa wakil rakyat Pakatan Rakyat lain.

Ekoran itu berlaku kekecohan antara kumpulan penyokong Umno dengan wakil-wakil rakyat pembangkang di situ sebelum pengawal keselamatan tiba untuk meleraikan mereka.

Ketika ditemui pemberita, kumpulan tersebut menunjukkan kad keahlian mereka dalam Pemuda Umno.

Ahli Parlimen DAP juga mengadu bahawa anggota keselamatan Parlimen tidak berbuat apa-apa untuk melindungi Karpal ketika mereka tiba di situ.

Ahli Parlmen DAP, Lim Lip Eng (right) juga mendakwa beliau telah dipukup oleh kumpulan anggot Pemuda Umno itu.

Menurutnya, beliau dipukul beberapa kali di muka dan bahagian badannya.

Bagaimanapun, kumpulan itu bukan kumpulan yang sama yang menghadiri sidang akhbar Naib Ketua pergerakan itu, Khairy Jamaluddin di bangunan Parlimen pagi tadi.

Dalam sidang akhbar teresbut, pergerakan Pemuda Umno memberi tempoh 24 jam untuk pengerusi DAP itu mengemukakan bukti Pemuda Umno bertanggungjawab atas kiriman peluru dari Ipoh baru-baru ini.

Khairy berkata tuduhan yang dilemparkan anggota parlimen satu tuduhan liar, gila serta berniat jahat.

"Karpal sepatutnya tidak bersembunyi dan berselindung di belakang kekebalan seorang ahli parlimen dengan membuat tuduhan yang tiada asas dan kebenaran."

"Jika beliau ada bukti bahawa peluru tersebut dihantar oleh Pemuda Umno, kami dengan ini mencabar Karpal untuk menunjukkan bukti dalam 24 jam".

"Sekiranya beliau gagal memberi sebarang bukti, rakyat Malaysia bolehlah menganggap dirinya seorang penipu yang sudah hilang segala kredibiliti dan kewarasan," Khairy.

Sementara itu, Speaker Dewan Rakyat, Pandikar Amin Mulia kesal dengan kejadian tersebut, yang menurutnya, pertamakali berlaku di Parlimen.

Katanya, beliau akan meminta Kementerian Dalam Negeri supaya menyiasat perkara itu dan berjanji akan memastikan parkara itu tidak berulang.

Manakala Karpal pula dengan tegas berkata: "Saya mungkin kurang upaya, tetapi saya tidak tunduk kepada ugutan mana-mana pihak."

Sementara itu, Pengerusi Kelab Penyokong BN, Datuk Tiong King Sing memberitahu pemberita bahawa kesemua 22 anggota Pemuda Umno yang terbabit, telah ditahan oleh polis Bukit Aman.

Bagaimanapun, ini dapat disahkan dengan pihak polis.

Beliau juga turut memohon maaf kepada Karpal atas kejadian tersebut dan berkata akan meminta Speaker menghad jumlah penyokong parti politik yang dibenar masuk ke Parlimen.

Malaysiakini

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You've got me feeling emotions

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"You cannot control people's emotions."

This is the excuse given by Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Aziz, for the sexist and degrading comments made by two male MPs to a female MP while in the midst of a parliamentary debate.

So, once again, a high emotional pitch seems to be good excuse for bad behaviour. Or is it? Interestingly enough, the good Datuk then contradicts himself by saying that such statements (the offending remarks) were part and parcel of parliamentary debates and Parliamentarians should not be easily offended by the heckling between MPs.

But Datuk, emotions cannot be controlled, right? I can't help it if I feel angry and offended. And given that I wouldn't be able to control myself, my words and actions under such circumstances (short of breaking the law) could certainly be excused, right?

Please tell me this is right because I've been told that I'm quite an emotional person and I would love to use this as justification for extreme rudeness.

Or is this excuse only available to a privileged few?

We're constantly reminded not to stir up "warrior blood" because hey, someone could suddenly snap and give in to a fit of amok and then people could literally lose their heads.

But then again, why have I never heard anyone being warned against inciting the anger of, say, women - a group that makes up half of our population?

Is it because women are not given to violence and are therefore "safe" to be demeaned at will? Is it because, despite the tired old stereotype of the hysterical female, women are actually the cooler-headed sex and are able to face insults with grace and intelligence?

Or is it because, despite protests to the contrary, there is actually a deep-seated, subconscious belief among a lot of men that women are too trivial for their feelings to matter?

Recall, for example, the dark day when our female senators were arm-twisted into voting for the Islamic Family Law (Federal Territories) Amendment Bill 2005 in spite of their protests that the Bill was discriminatory towards women.

Then, Minister in the Prime Minister's Department (Religious Affairs) Datuk Dr Abdullah Md Zin was quick to accuse the women senators, as well as women's groups, of "being too emotional".

So if women get angry at laws and policies that affect their lives in fundamental ways, they are wrong? If women get angry at remarks that are meant to belittle them, they are wrong?

But if men get angry in the midst of a discussion in an august House of Parliament, and indulge in behaviour that should be beneath them, they are not wrong?

Wow, what blatant double standards.

But then again, why am I not surprised? After all, we've been conditioned from the earliest age that it's perfectly acceptable for men to give in to their "manly" emotions - anger, aggression, lust, to name a few.

If they get into fights, well, "boys will be boys". If they disturb girls, "boys will be boys". If they make sexist jokes, "boys will be boys".

So then it's up to girls to watch what they wear, how they act, where they go, because men "can't help themselves" and therefore it's the woman's fault if she is raped, right? How many times have we heard this one?

And is it so far removed from what happened in Parliament that day?

Well, I for one, am sick and tired of "emotions" being used both to exempt some people from common human courtesy, as well as to trivialise the real concerns of others. Such an attitude is an insult to all thinking people, women and men.

If we can't control our emotions enough to respect the dignity of others, and if we can't be accountable for the damage that we do when we do lose control, what business do we have being humans? We may as well be as animals and live by mob rule.

Now that's something to get emotional about.