Pig of an issue. Sontoloyo series 98c

1. The sejarah melayu tells us the agreement between sang sapurba and demang lebar daun.

2. It tells us what is loyal and disloyal.

3. The scope is narrow

4. What constitutes disloyalty are actions that humiliate and disparage the person of the king and to rise in arms to eliminate the king

5. To disagree with the king, in my mind, does not contribute durhaka.

6. Yes, you follow what the king has decreed out of deference of his majesty but it doesn't impute you agree fully.

7. In the case of the pardon of the kleptocrat in chief and invalid addendum, I disagreed with the pardon and agreed with the rejection of the addendum but will agree what the agong then decided out of deference.

8. I stand by my disagreement but am not disloyal to the king

9. This categorization into loyal or disloyal is used by Malay supremacists to exclude those who disagree with them as though their version of loyalty is the measuring stick.

10 . Hence, for instance, they smugly regard those who disagreed with the sultan of Selangor as regards pig rearing as disloyal.

11. Wrong tuan, you are disagreeing not rising up in arms , disparaging his person or humiliating him in public.

12. So don't say, because you don't want to reason out rationally, you say you mahu durhaka sama sultan ke?

13. This is the weapon of the Malay supremacist, the ultrapaleo conservative,the hater-using 'loyalty' to the sultan as weapon to rockclub others into submission and unquestioning obedience.

14. This is the weapon of choice for fascists like UMNO who thinks it owns loyalty. The sultan is sultan to UMNO people. Loyalty comes in grades with UMNO's taking precedence. UMNO determines your loyalty.

15. But I am not going to dispute the king's command as regards pig rearing by referencing provisions in the constitution.

16. That would make you appear combative, openly defiant and ill mannered.

17. That would give reason to the cave men politicians to spin that you are durhaka.

18. Instead I want to appeal to the sultans sense of fairplay and unhurried thinking and avoid palace intrigued thinking

19. To me, this pig rearing issue is a technology issue.

20. Technology can overcome the issues of offensive smell and hygiene issues without resorting to total ban.

21. And economically, the industry players producing negative externalities must pay for them.

22. In countries like China, Japan , Korea and in many western countries, pig rearing is carried out without unwelcomed externalities.

23. But in Malaysia, the sultan of Selangor's decree as regards pig rearing has unleashed a slew of bigoted punitive measures concealed behind religious facade.

24. Suddenly those who were never known to be religious before, wore skullcaps to issue piously pompous statements to ban pig rearing completely. No locations, however remote and not near any Malay Muslim habitations are suitable for pig farms.

25 . A prominent preacher chimed in, asking haughtily, what's so important about pork? Can import one la.

26. An equally well known Chinese Muslim convert mocked the issue by suggesting people operate pig farms in Chinese dwelling areas

27. I don't propose to amplify the stories of these luminaries .

28. Suffice to say the Muslim preacher has no calibre to manage an economy and the mualaf is uncle tomming.

29. Both have a receptive knucklehead audience .

30. MCA people are quick to scoop in muddy waters. They ridiculed DAP for being impotent in dealing with the pig issue.

31. They gleefully pointed out that in pas controlled states pig rearing is allowed. The same is prohibited in a PH controlled state.

32. In other words, they are saying the sultans in these states are more enlightened. The Selangor sultan is not.

33. That to me, is humiliating the Selangor sultan. Now, that is durhaka .

34. I think for this reason and others, chief Nazri Aziz once told me, he trusts DAP more than sly MCA.