Last night, there was a heavy traffic in Semenyih while my friends and I were going out for dinner. A crucial part of the road is blocked by an overturned lorry, that what would normally takes 8 minutes turned to a 30 minutes crawl. There was not a single police traffic there, that someone had to volunteer to handle the traffic.
Today, I discovered that there was no police there yesterday because they were all stationed at Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s gathering at Sultan Sulaiman Club field to mark the end of his exile from politics, the day known as the “Black 14″.
Great. Apparently the police has yet to learn the lesson to forgo the “permit is needed to make a gathering” law. Reports made it clear that the gathering was rather peaceful and it needn’t permit as it was done in a private property anyway, so what’re the police so worried? Instead, they’ve wasted my 60 – 16 = 44 minutes stuck in the traffic for nothing, plus with all the cars moving so slow, it’s bad for the environment too, so where are the environ-mental-ists, aren’t they going to criticise the police for causing more baby polar bears to be drowned due to excessively unnecessary burning of fossil fuel?
That’s my loss. The police, meanwhile, lost more of my respect for them. Buck up, will ya? So much for their claim that they’ll be fair to both side of the political camp, and yet, they’d never done anything this radical when bee anne made protests in Penang, Perak n Selangor.
