retarded thinking from our minister

ok ok i guess i’m late in blogging on this issue. several like lone and sharizal had already blogged on it (and i had made comments there). but i’m not so free lah to blog anytime i like. i’m working remember. therefore i have time to blog only at night… or rather in the wee early morn (after midnight).

actually i did not notice this news at all until the witty (or witless?) one, wits0 pointed it out under comments in my blog subject de mahathirising malaysia’ see also my very angry comments there.

currently on the travel-makan list i’m in, we had been talking about the disabled persons and one member said not to refer to them as mentally retarded. i agree, and it suddenly dawned on me that ahhh…. i know who are the mentally retarded persons. they are persons like our dear deputy home minister, datuk chor chee heung.

from the star:
The Government will no longer approve applications to import and publish reading material that contains elements ‘calculated to entertain by frightening.’

These materials will create an unhealthy picture on the minds of the readers, and influence them by such far-fetched ghostly stories, he said.

create unhealthy picture on the mind of readers?

hello, mr deputy home minister, do you have a mind of your own? obviously you don’t as i can see you are retarded with that kind of thinking. we do have a mind of our own, and we don’t need you to come and read our mind for us. we don’t need you to tell us what to read and what not to read. we don’t need you to play moral guardian to us. we don’t need you to judge for us that reading books on mystery, ghosts, supernatural, etc. will be unhealthy for us.

i am very mad because these categories of books that our retarded minister wanted to stop issuing permit for import happens to be my favourites.

mystery – does this includes writers like my all time favourite, agatha christie? and what about sir arthur conan doyle, the creator of sherlock holmes? (btw, i had blogged about both these favourite authors of mine here). doyle’s sherlock holmes stories, most of them are the ‘frightening’ type like ‘the hound of baskervilles’, and ‘the speckled band’.

from the star:
The Government will no longer approve applications to import and publish reading material that contains elements ‘calculated to entertain by frightening.’

entertain by frightening. ahh… isn’t that precisely the reason we want to read mystery, ghost, supernatural, etc, stories? we want to be entertained and at the same time frightened. it’s precisely the frightening part that will get us entertained. and after all it is only a story. why then bar these kind of books?

*sigh*