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《人生如戏》>>12/07/2011《政府，谁？》周嘉惠
《政府，谁？》>>>周嘉惠
净选盟誓言在7月9日举行大游行的计划，山雨未来风已灌满楼。警方采取的“先发制人”手法，灵感大概源自美国反恐战略，不过凡是有参加过2007年净选盟第一次游行经验的人，恐怕始终都搞不清楚我们要反的“恐”究竟是“恐怖”，还是“恐惧”？“恐怖”的话，是什么在恐怖呢？“恐惧”的话，又是在恐惧些什么呢？
当多数人还搞不太清楚状况之时，倒是有人一口咬定净选盟的真正目的其实在推翻政府。
从新加坡电影得来的刻板印象是，在那个岛国“没有政府”是很有“天塌下来”意味的。总的来说，我们好像没那么歇斯底里，只不过“推翻政府”这顶大帽子感觉上还是蛮有压力的。但是再深入想想，实际上“政府”到底是什么呢？
假如去敲小明家的门，我们清楚知道来应门的小明是长怎么个样子。但是，如果我们去敲政府的门（假设我们知道上哪里去敲门），有谁能够描述政府是长什么样子吗？请举手！没有吧？
确实，没有具体形象的事物最可怕，因此够格的恐怖电影是不会安排几个丑八怪到处追杀主角的。任由想象力去自由建构的形象才最恐怖，因为只有我们最清楚自己害怕什么，所以自行想象出来的恐怖形象绝对每一次都可以正中红心。M奈特沙马兰电影的成功之处，在于他对恐怖气氛，而不是恐怖实体形象的营造。
好吧，政府的确不是小明。那么，政府是谁？政府是那些占了我国人口百分之五的庞大公务员群体吗？我们都知道不求有功，但求无过的公务员是所谓“吃公粮”的，理论上他们是公仆，但留给大家的整体印象却更像是公爷。如果不论形象，只讲实质，公务员其实只是政府的雇员，并不等于是政府。比利时已超过一年“没有政府”，但是公务员按显然不错的既定制度在无政府状态下，让国家继续正常运转，实在功不可没！
政府的观念似乎越想越抽象。从比利时的经验来看，再套句过去流行歌曲的词，政府其实更像是我们的一种习惯，而不是我们的爱。这就好比平时我们穿鞋又穿袜，那是习惯。假如有一天突然没袜子可穿，确实会感觉有点怪。
再换个角度看，对我们这些市井小民来说，政府会不会就等于由那几十位成员组成的内阁呢？啊！这个想法似乎比较靠谱。他们掌握了资源分配的权力，可以随意“你帮我，我帮你”，还可以不时做出一些普通人办不到的事情，譬如正副首相官邸平均每天水费超过一千令吉，电费超过五千令吉。或许官邸有人肠胃不好，经常拉肚子吧？
“人生而平等，但却无往不在枷锁之中”是卢梭代表作《社会契约论》中的名句。《社会契约论》还有许多针对政府而论述的内容，恕我不便在此转述，恐怕引起有关部门（即是什么部门呢？）误会又有外国势力欲插手我国内政，而将卢先生列入黑名单，禁止他入境。
或许我还该代为澄清，卢先生绝不是中国籍人仕，警方至少不用担心他会是为了共产主义复辟而可能派来的特务。至于不久前我们家老大跟共产主义的一名重要头目言谈甚欢的镜头还历历在目…，唉！这局势我也无语了，忽然很想看场电影解闷气，《无间道》或No Way Out（1987）都行。
12/07/2011 《南洋商报》《言论》版
附：文章被删得一塌糊涂，真不知道干嘛还要用我的名字刊登？这是原版。不知道No Way Out是什么电影的话，上网查一下啦！
文章后交由《当今大马》当作读者来函（22/7/2011）刊登：http://www.malaysiakini.com/letters/170775
净选盟誓言在7月9日举行大游行的计划，山雨未来风已灌满楼。警方采取的“先发制人”手法，灵感大概源自美国反恐战略，不过凡是有参加过2007年净选盟第一次游行经验的人，恐怕始终都搞不清楚我们要反的“恐”究竟是“恐怖”，还是“恐惧”？“恐怖”的话，是什么在恐怖呢？“恐惧”的话，又是在恐惧些什么呢？
当多数人还搞不太清楚状况之时，倒是有人一口咬定净选盟的真正目的其实在推翻政府。
从新加坡电影得来的刻板印象是，在那个岛国“没有政府”是很有“天塌下来”意味的。总的来说，我们好像没那么歇斯底里，只不过“推翻政府”这顶大帽子感觉上还是蛮有压力的。但是再深入想想，实际上“政府”到底是什么呢？
假如去敲小明家的门，我们清楚知道来应门的小明是长怎么个样子。但是，如果我们去敲政府的门（假设我们知道上哪里去敲门），有谁能够描述政府是长什么样子吗？请举手！没有吧？
确实，没有具体形象的事物最可怕，因此够格的恐怖电影是不会安排几个丑八怪到处追杀主角的。任由想象力去自由建构的形象才最恐怖，因为只有我们最清楚自己害怕什么，所以自行想象出来的恐怖形象绝对每一次都可以正中红心。M奈特沙马兰电影的成功之处，在于他对恐怖气氛，而不是恐怖实体形象的营造。
好吧，政府的确不是小明。那么，政府是谁？政府是那些占了我国人口百分之五的庞大公务员群体吗？我们都知道不求有功，但求无过的公务员是所谓“吃公粮”的，理论上他们是公仆，但留给大家的整体印象却更像是公爷。如果不论形象，只讲实质，公务员其实只是政府的雇员，并不等于是政府。比利时已超过一年“没有政府”，但是公务员按显然不错的既定制度在无政府状态下，让国家继续正常运转，实在功不可没！
政府的观念似乎越想越抽象。从比利时的经验来看，再套句过去流行歌曲的词，政府其实更像是我们的一种习惯，而不是我们的爱。这就好比平时我们穿鞋又穿袜，那是习惯。假如有一天突然没袜子可穿，确实会感觉有点怪。
再换个角度看，对我们这些市井小民来说，政府会不会就等于由那几十位成员组成的内阁呢？啊！这个想法似乎比较靠谱。他们掌握了资源分配的权力，可以随意“你帮我，我帮你”，还可以不时做出一些普通人办不到的事情，譬如正副首相官邸平均每天水费超过一千令吉，电费超过五千令吉。或许官邸有人肠胃不好，经常拉肚子吧？
“人生而平等，但却无往不在枷锁之中”是卢梭代表作《社会契约论》中的名句。《社会契约论》还有许多针对政府而论述的内容，恕我不便在此转述，恐怕引起有关部门（即是什么部门呢？）误会又有外国势力欲插手我国内政，而将卢先生列入黑名单，禁止他入境。
或许我还该代为澄清，卢先生绝不是中国籍人仕，警方至少不用担心他会是为了共产主义复辟而可能派来的特务。至于不久前我们家老大跟共产主义的一名重要头目言谈甚欢的镜头还历历在目…，唉！这局势我也无语了，忽然很想看场电影解闷气，《无间道》或No Way Out（1987）都行。
12/07/2011 《南洋商报》《言论》版
附：文章被删得一塌糊涂，真不知道干嘛还要用我的名字刊登？这是原版。不知道No Way Out是什么电影的话，上网查一下啦！
文章后交由《当今大马》当作读者来函（22/7/2011）刊登：http://www.malaysiakini.com/letters/170775
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Friday, July 08, 2011
Tuesday, July 05, 2011
Legally Bersih2.0
Yeh! Yeh! Kita menang!…hmm…or did we?
NO HOLDS BARRED
Tuesday, 05 July 2011
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Bersih 2.0 will hold its rally for electoral reforms in a stadium and not in the streets, the group said today fresh from an audience with the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong in Istana Negara. “We accept the government’s offer to hold the demonstration in a stadium. We will not hold it in the streets,” Bersih 2.0 chief Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan told reporters today.
NO HOLDS BARRED
Raja Petra Kamarudin
Datuk: Tan Sri!
Tan Sri: Calm down, Datuk….apa hal bising sangat ni?
Datuk: I have some good news, Tan Sri.
Tan Sri: Ah, what is it this time? Ambiga has migrated and has applied for Australian citizenship?
Datuk: No lah, Tan Sri. Better than that.
Tan Sri: What can be better than Ambiga leaving Malaysia?
Datuk: The BERSIH march is off…cancelled…batal.
Tan Sri: Hmm…that is certainly good news. How come?
Datuk: Ambiga had an audience with the Agong this afternoon and BERSIH has agreed to cancel the street march and hold a rally in the stadium instead.
Tan Sri: His Majesty agreed to meet Ambiga?
Datuk: Yes.
Tan Sri: So that means His Majesty recognises BERSIH?
Datuk: Looks like it.
Tan Sri: So that means we can’t ban BERSIH then.
Datuk: Why not, Tan Sri?
Tan Sri: Aiyah...if His Majesty had an official meeting with BERSIH this would mean His Majesty recognises BERSIH.
Datuk: So?
Tan Sri: So it means we can’t ban BERSIH. If not then His Majesty would be guilty of collaborating with an illegal organisation and we would have to arrest His Majesty under the Internal Security Act.
Datuk: Oh…I never thought of that.
Tan Sri: Yes…and that’s why you are a mere Datuk while I am a Tan Sri.
Datuk: That also means we cannot allege that BERSIH is backed by the Communists and Jews. If not then His Majesty would be guilty of working with the Communists and Jews.
Tan Sri: Now you are getting it. So how can that be good news?
Datuk: Didn’t His Majesty think of this? Aiyah…why so stupid?
Tan Sri: Hey, that is seditious. You can’t call the Agong stupid.
Datuk: No, I didn’t mean it like that. I meant it was stupid of us to allow the Agong to meet Ambiga.
Tan Sri: But we dragged the Agong into this. So how can we prevent the Agong from meeting BERSIH?
Datuk: Ia lah. We made a big mistake in issuing that statement from the Agong.
Tan Sri: Hey! Cakap baik sikit!
Datuk: Sorry, I meant we made a big mistake in asking the Agong to issue that statement.
Tan Sri: That’s better. Don’t ever say we issued that statement on behalf of the Agong.
Datuk: Okay lah, but at least the street march is off…now it’s been reduced to just a rally in a stadium.
Tan Sri: How many people do you think will attend the rally?
Datuk: Not sure. Maybe 100,000…could even be 200,000. Now that it is no longer an illegal assembly and there is no danger of arrests many more people may turn out. Those who were initially afraid to turn out may now turn out since it is safe. Mana tahu? Could even be 300,000 people.
Tan Sri: How would 300,000 people park their cars at the stadium?
Datuk: Oh, cannot lah. There is not enough car park space for 300,000 people. They will have to park their cars elsewhere and walk to the stadium…or take public transport.
Tan Sri: So, to get to the stadium they will have to walk, right?
Datuk: That’s right.
Tan Sri: Which means they will be marching to the stadium instead of marching to the Agong’s palace, right?
Datuk: Yes, that’s right…oh…I see what you mean.
Tan Sri: Yes, that’s what I mean. So the march is still on then. Only now it is a legal march, not an illegal march. And they will march to the stadium instead of to the palace. And we can’t do anything about it because the Agong has agreed to this. We can no longer arrest the marchers.
Datuk: Aiyah! This is a disaster. We got tricked. What to do, Tan Sri?
Tan Sri: What can we do? His Majesty has just given BERSIH legitimacy and it has been agreed that a legal rally can be held in the stadium and because of the huge crowd that may turn out they cannot drive to the stadium but will have to march there dressed in yellow shirts.
Datuk: Mampus!
Tan Sri: Yes, mampus. This is even worse. At least if they proceeded with the original plan we can ban BERSIH and declare it a menace to society and a threat to nation security. Now we can’t touch them. We can’t even arrest anyone on 9th July. And because the rally is legal more people will come out. They are not scared any more. And Umno Youth and PERKASA can’t march on the streets in opposition to BERSIH. If they do we will have to arrest them.
Datuk: Alamak. We can’t touch the BERSIH marchers but will have to arrest the Umno Youth and PERKASA marchers. And Khairy already said if BERSIH cancels the street march he is prepared to work with them. So Umno Youth must now support the BERSIH rally at the stadium.
Tan Sri: Exactly. Now you know why I am a Tan Sri and you are just a Datuk?
Datuk: And that means we can’t also ask the Agong to revoke Ambiga’s citizenship.
Tan Sri: Revoke citizenship for what? For obeying the Agong by cancelling the street march and by holding a rally at the stadium like how Najib asked them to?
Datuk: Somehow I think we have been had…suckered big time.
Tan Sri: Aiyah…please get out of here and leave me alone. I need to draft my resignation letter.
Datuk: What should I do, Tan Sri?
Tan Sri: I suggest you also go draft your resignation letter. Najib will want both our heads on a silver platter after this.
NO HOLDS BARRED
Tuesday, 05 July 2011
.
Bersih 2.0 will hold its rally for electoral reforms in a stadium and not in the streets, the group said today fresh from an audience with the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong in Istana Negara. “We accept the government’s offer to hold the demonstration in a stadium. We will not hold it in the streets,” Bersih 2.0 chief Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan told reporters today.
NO HOLDS BARRED
Raja Petra Kamarudin
Datuk: Tan Sri!
Tan Sri: Calm down, Datuk….apa hal bising sangat ni?
Datuk: I have some good news, Tan Sri.
Tan Sri: Ah, what is it this time? Ambiga has migrated and has applied for Australian citizenship?
Datuk: No lah, Tan Sri. Better than that.
Tan Sri: What can be better than Ambiga leaving Malaysia?
Datuk: The BERSIH march is off…cancelled…batal.
Tan Sri: Hmm…that is certainly good news. How come?
Datuk: Ambiga had an audience with the Agong this afternoon and BERSIH has agreed to cancel the street march and hold a rally in the stadium instead.
Tan Sri: His Majesty agreed to meet Ambiga?
Datuk: Yes.
Tan Sri: So that means His Majesty recognises BERSIH?
Datuk: Looks like it.
Tan Sri: So that means we can’t ban BERSIH then.
Datuk: Why not, Tan Sri?
Tan Sri: Aiyah...if His Majesty had an official meeting with BERSIH this would mean His Majesty recognises BERSIH.
Datuk: So?
Tan Sri: So it means we can’t ban BERSIH. If not then His Majesty would be guilty of collaborating with an illegal organisation and we would have to arrest His Majesty under the Internal Security Act.
Datuk: Oh…I never thought of that.
Tan Sri: Yes…and that’s why you are a mere Datuk while I am a Tan Sri.
Datuk: That also means we cannot allege that BERSIH is backed by the Communists and Jews. If not then His Majesty would be guilty of working with the Communists and Jews.
Tan Sri: Now you are getting it. So how can that be good news?
Datuk: Didn’t His Majesty think of this? Aiyah…why so stupid?
Tan Sri: Hey, that is seditious. You can’t call the Agong stupid.
Datuk: No, I didn’t mean it like that. I meant it was stupid of us to allow the Agong to meet Ambiga.
Tan Sri: But we dragged the Agong into this. So how can we prevent the Agong from meeting BERSIH?
Datuk: Ia lah. We made a big mistake in issuing that statement from the Agong.
Tan Sri: Hey! Cakap baik sikit!
Datuk: Sorry, I meant we made a big mistake in asking the Agong to issue that statement.
Tan Sri: That’s better. Don’t ever say we issued that statement on behalf of the Agong.
Datuk: Okay lah, but at least the street march is off…now it’s been reduced to just a rally in a stadium.
Tan Sri: How many people do you think will attend the rally?
Datuk: Not sure. Maybe 100,000…could even be 200,000. Now that it is no longer an illegal assembly and there is no danger of arrests many more people may turn out. Those who were initially afraid to turn out may now turn out since it is safe. Mana tahu? Could even be 300,000 people.
Tan Sri: How would 300,000 people park their cars at the stadium?
Datuk: Oh, cannot lah. There is not enough car park space for 300,000 people. They will have to park their cars elsewhere and walk to the stadium…or take public transport.
Tan Sri: So, to get to the stadium they will have to walk, right?
Datuk: That’s right.
Tan Sri: Which means they will be marching to the stadium instead of marching to the Agong’s palace, right?
Datuk: Yes, that’s right…oh…I see what you mean.
Tan Sri: Yes, that’s what I mean. So the march is still on then. Only now it is a legal march, not an illegal march. And they will march to the stadium instead of to the palace. And we can’t do anything about it because the Agong has agreed to this. We can no longer arrest the marchers.
Datuk: Aiyah! This is a disaster. We got tricked. What to do, Tan Sri?
Tan Sri: What can we do? His Majesty has just given BERSIH legitimacy and it has been agreed that a legal rally can be held in the stadium and because of the huge crowd that may turn out they cannot drive to the stadium but will have to march there dressed in yellow shirts.
Datuk: Mampus!
Tan Sri: Yes, mampus. This is even worse. At least if they proceeded with the original plan we can ban BERSIH and declare it a menace to society and a threat to nation security. Now we can’t touch them. We can’t even arrest anyone on 9th July. And because the rally is legal more people will come out. They are not scared any more. And Umno Youth and PERKASA can’t march on the streets in opposition to BERSIH. If they do we will have to arrest them.
Datuk: Alamak. We can’t touch the BERSIH marchers but will have to arrest the Umno Youth and PERKASA marchers. And Khairy already said if BERSIH cancels the street march he is prepared to work with them. So Umno Youth must now support the BERSIH rally at the stadium.
Tan Sri: Exactly. Now you know why I am a Tan Sri and you are just a Datuk?
Datuk: And that means we can’t also ask the Agong to revoke Ambiga’s citizenship.
Tan Sri: Revoke citizenship for what? For obeying the Agong by cancelling the street march and by holding a rally at the stadium like how Najib asked them to?
Datuk: Somehow I think we have been had…suckered big time.
Tan Sri: Aiyah…please get out of here and leave me alone. I need to draft my resignation letter.
Datuk: What should I do, Tan Sri?
Tan Sri: I suggest you also go draft your resignation letter. Najib will want both our heads on a silver platter after this.
Sunday, July 03, 2011
Friday, July 01, 2011
02/07/2011 《游行自由与法治》2.0 >>陈莉珍
《游行自由与法治》2.0>>>陈莉珍
如果我没有詮释错误，上週<游行自由与法治>一文刊出后，网路上有人认为我具备担任首相政治秘书的潜能。
如果我是首相的幕僚，针对凈选盟2.0游行一事，我会如何献议呢？
与一个在香港工作，且参加过六四和平示威的朋友聊起这事，他给了我一些启示。
如果我是首相的幕僚，我会建议：（一）让警察发出集会准证，不管是支持凈选盟的，或反对凈选盟的，让大家都有机会表达自己的诉求；
（二）游行前，召集组织者，要他们確保游行的路途不会妨碍到商家做生意，或者让大家在某广场上或室內体育馆静坐示威；
（三）当天，確保警察部队动员所有的人力，维持现场秩序、確保游行不会造成交通阻塞、设立医药站，为身体突然不適的游行者提供治疗服务、提供饮水机、垃圾桶；
（四）游首相本人一起加入凈选盟游行。有人或许会反对，认为首相参加游行，就代表著承认之前的选举有问题。不过，选委会既然独立，选举如果有问题就是选委会失责，作为一个在奉行民主制度国家的政府，自然也有討伐这个独立机构的权利。这与当年检討大马“司法制度”是否独立的问题，如出一辙。
我不反对以集会方式表达自己的诉求，亦赞同这是宪法赋予我们的权利，更没有反对人民通过自己的言论检討有问题的制度，如凈选盟要求改革选举制度。像很多人一样，我也希望有一个公平、干凈的选举制度。
有律师说，赋予警察发集会准证权力的法律，即警察法令第27（5）条是违宪的，不过，始终没有人否认参与集会的人会被一套“违宪”的法令对付，或许与其等候立法者在国会推动修改法律，不如提上法院，让法官审判，届时人们就有机会让法院检討这套“违宪”的法律。
没有人可以准確预测参加示威群眾人数的多寡，不过有人估计，人数会比2007年的5万人多。面子书上支持“凈选盟2.0”游行的人都在照片上贴上了黄色的徽章，而我面子书帐號里贴上黄色徽章的朋友与日俱增。
凈选盟虽然多次澄清不含任何政治议程，不过，反对党搭个便车就“凈选盟2.0”大事炒作一番也是不爭的事实，首相如果要力挽狂澜，或许可以认真参考我的拙见，否则將会有再一次將对付自己的武器拱手送入反对党的手中。
假如国阵要证明这是个奉行且推崇民主的政府，“凈选盟2.0”是个很好的表现机会。
02/07/2011 《星洲日报》《言路》版
附：看来作者其实是明白大游行的意义何在的。
如果我没有詮释错误，上週<游行自由与法治>一文刊出后，网路上有人认为我具备担任首相政治秘书的潜能。
如果我是首相的幕僚，针对凈选盟2.0游行一事，我会如何献议呢？
与一个在香港工作，且参加过六四和平示威的朋友聊起这事，他给了我一些启示。
如果我是首相的幕僚，我会建议：（一）让警察发出集会准证，不管是支持凈选盟的，或反对凈选盟的，让大家都有机会表达自己的诉求；
（二）游行前，召集组织者，要他们確保游行的路途不会妨碍到商家做生意，或者让大家在某广场上或室內体育馆静坐示威；
（三）当天，確保警察部队动员所有的人力，维持现场秩序、確保游行不会造成交通阻塞、设立医药站，为身体突然不適的游行者提供治疗服务、提供饮水机、垃圾桶；
（四）游首相本人一起加入凈选盟游行。有人或许会反对，认为首相参加游行，就代表著承认之前的选举有问题。不过，选委会既然独立，选举如果有问题就是选委会失责，作为一个在奉行民主制度国家的政府，自然也有討伐这个独立机构的权利。这与当年检討大马“司法制度”是否独立的问题，如出一辙。
我不反对以集会方式表达自己的诉求，亦赞同这是宪法赋予我们的权利，更没有反对人民通过自己的言论检討有问题的制度，如凈选盟要求改革选举制度。像很多人一样，我也希望有一个公平、干凈的选举制度。
有律师说，赋予警察发集会准证权力的法律，即警察法令第27（5）条是违宪的，不过，始终没有人否认参与集会的人会被一套“违宪”的法令对付，或许与其等候立法者在国会推动修改法律，不如提上法院，让法官审判，届时人们就有机会让法院检討这套“违宪”的法律。
没有人可以准確预测参加示威群眾人数的多寡，不过有人估计，人数会比2007年的5万人多。面子书上支持“凈选盟2.0”游行的人都在照片上贴上了黄色的徽章，而我面子书帐號里贴上黄色徽章的朋友与日俱增。
凈选盟虽然多次澄清不含任何政治议程，不过，反对党搭个便车就“凈选盟2.0”大事炒作一番也是不爭的事实，首相如果要力挽狂澜，或许可以认真参考我的拙见，否则將会有再一次將对付自己的武器拱手送入反对党的手中。
假如国阵要证明这是个奉行且推崇民主的政府，“凈选盟2.0”是个很好的表现机会。
02/07/2011 《星洲日报》《言路》版
附：看来作者其实是明白大游行的意义何在的。
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