I was rather furious upon learning that Malaysian Deputy Natural Resources and Environment Minister Datuk S. Sothinathan is being suspended from his post because he questioned the Malaysian government’s position on issue regarding de-recognition of an Ukrainian university.

Quoting The Star:

Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Mohd Nazri Abdul Aziz said Sothinathan “broke ranks with the front bench” when he stood up in the Dewan Rakyat to question Dr Latiff over the CSMU issue.

Following the ruckus, Nazri said he had informed Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, who is the Barisan Whip, of the incident.

“I provided the tape and Hansard of the proceedings to Datuk Seri Najib for him to have a look at it so that he can inform the Prime Minister,” he told a press conference at the parliament lobby.

It seems that when one joins the government, one doesn’t have the leisure to have diverging views, much less question any of the government’s policy. So much for a democratic society.

After reading The Star's article concerning the issue however, I’m not sure whether I should be more mad at the government or The Star. No thanks to the The Star’s article, I had to read eight goddamned paragraphs in order to learn why Datuk S. Sothinathan is being suspended.

Eight! Reuters on contrary needs just a paragraph to answer the goddamned why. And Jeff Ooi, which is a blogger, does a better job at reporting the issue than The Star, which is a national newspaper.

Point to The Star – get to the goddamned freaking point, punk! What the hell the editors at The Star are doing anyway?

p/s - just a few days ago, I found out that the relationship between pollution and environment is described in Kuznets curve. I talked about relationship between development and environment at length in two posts (here and here) only to find out that somebody had proposed it years earlier. It could easily have been Hafiz curve or something. Sigh...

LOL!