Saturday, August 8, 2009

Selangor Beer Fiasco

I have no issues about the control of alcohol sales as if executed properly, its good! This way we can curb minors and in this case as stressed by PAS's Hassan muslims from purchasing alcohol beverages, namely beer. This is the same idea on cigarette purchase so that minors are prohibited from buying them.
But why must it be done so third world country style! If PAS Selangor insist on going their way, what is the difference between them and BN-UMNO? They are using the religious card to run the country. I know it is against muslim teaching to consume alcohol(beer) but there are ways, proper ways to do this. We cannot just one day say, hey we must stop alcohol sales in areas which have large muslim populations and then instruct officers to go to shops and confiscate the beverages. It is this sort of mentality and work order that give muslim's a bad rep! Why can't PAS Selangor draw up a plan, discussed it over with MB Khalid with the presences of other PR reps and work out a SOP for controlling alcohol sales. This way, we adhere to the rule of law, transparency and most importantly, we show that we are civilized Malaysians and we are capable of working and rationalizing out problems by coming up with proper working rules and regulations that benefit the rakyat and country. Why must PAS Hassan behave like a big bully and all hell break loose because of one person. This is the kind of work from someone who did not think things thru properly and shots his mouth!
I am so glad that MB Khalid held everything together and was calm headed enough to think things thru and finally gave a firm and logical way out to this fiasco. MB Ronnie was just doing the right thing, to make right what was wrong by returning the confiscated beverages but by doing so, he is now the target for racial slurs. He is now called a racist, a person who does respect Muslims and there are request from certain quarters to remove him. PR please get your act together because chances don't come twice, and if you guys continue going on like this, BN will catch up!

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