How can a minister of our federal government encourage, “or em-courage and empower undisciplined and disobedient kids to break the law without regard, through organising and financing the breaking of multiple sets of laws, bylaws, and common sense?” This is Malay hedonism at its worst.
My basic question to him is: Would you allow your kids (assuming they are Mat Rempit) to participate in this illegal, immoral and idiocratic race?”
If this question, and the right answer, is not obvious in the mind of the minister and the entire cabinet; they should all resign as they are irrational, irresponsible, immoral and unaccountable as parents; both to the Almighty and God-ordained children; even if they are only a single parent, or even with foster children. Why?
Authority and accountability
Who is author of life? If one does not have an answer to this question, then in fact, one does have a very real and serious problem. We could not have evolved from dust to become human intelligence. We could not have evolved out of monkeys to become rational and intelligent man and women.
The Chief Author is always our creator. Let me give a simple example for our common and mutual understanding. Who is the author of life for children, or as children? Who are our creators; if not the parents.
Some humans, for various reasons cannot, or will not have children. That, too, is human creativity and choice. Non-parents cannot ever experience the complete essence of such creative authorship, accountability, and responsibility for the life of others.
Authorship also establishes creatorship. Creatorship is the innate human ability to, like God, create something out of nothing. Just applying and utilising our human and natural endowments; parents can create children.
Once the children are born, another creative natural process takes place. Our sense of responsibility and accountability overwhelms us because suddenly we also become parents; being a father and a mother; responsible for the children of our flesh and blood.
Authority also establishes responsibility and accountability. But I suppose the real question is: to whom are we really and fully accountable and responsible to, in the ultimate sense, if not to God. Responsibility for original parenthood always belongs to the original male and female parents. There can never be human and unnatural homosexual parents; that is the nature of human creativity and its limits; and most religions would agree with this theology.
Why city-racing is immoral, illegal, and irresponsible
Any motorbike is simply an improved bicycle or a motorised system of transport in any modern way of life. Actually no such vehicle needs to move at a faster rate than about 95 to 130kph. At that speed, one always assumes straight and unhindered surfaces; usually called a race-track.
Driving or moving within the city is a challenge anywhere in the world. Some better-planned cities have more well-designed public transportation systems, and therefore can bar cars and other motorised vehicles from polluting the air and crowding the streets. But this is a luxury few can afford.
Therefore, in most modern cities, motorised vehicles like motorbikes and scooters are allowed into the city. That never means that one is meant to speed through the roads to get where one is destined to be, or not. Usually, on all busy or crowded streets there are speed limits or bumps to slow traffic down.
Who are the Mat Rempit?
I understand that the term ‘Mat Rempit’ is a Malaysian invention of three words; one of which is Malay and the other two are English. Mat is the common lingua franca of Malaysians for a common name; therefore, for example, we use the term Mat Salleh to refer to foreigners or those of European heritage. So, Mat is a popular Malay name.
I understand ‘rempit’ comes from two English words; ramp-it, which means to revolve up one’s engine by pumping more fuel into the engine. Again, I am reminded of two other words, ‘go’ and ‘astern’, which when joined together becomes the composite Malay word ‘gostan’; meaning to reverse a vehicle.
Therefore, ‘Mat Rempit’ are younger and undisciplined kids who race around in the city streets and usually riding smaller two-stroke-engined motorbikes which make a lot of noise. One stand-up comedian in Malaysia has fun making jokes about them.
Who will insure them?
Which insurance company will insure for such a race? Or course, one has to cover this as ‘normal insurance’ does not cover ‘racing’ which is in fact putting oneself in greater extra danger than normal speed limit-based riding. Therefore, by officially suggesting and proposing such a mis-adventure, the minister is in fact em-powering and em-couraging violation of laws and all modern systems and designs for any kind normality.
Why not ‘Uberise’ them?
While I was writing this column, CNN announced that some creative businessperson in Bangkok has introduced an ‘Uber’ version of motorised two-wheel transport for over-crowded and congested Bangkok. Now, that is a positive solution to motorbike owners who want to feel important and want to be recognised.
Maybe the youth and sports minister might want to ‘reorganise all the Malaysian Asssociation of Youth Clubs or MAYC into an Uber-service for the benefit of Mat Rempit; but, surely no racing on the streets of KL or any other city.
Idiocracy defined
Wikipedia defines ‘Idiocracy’ as a 2006 movie with that title. As Malaysians, we do not need to watch that film because we have an even more exciting movie called the ‘Federal Government’; full of idiocrats, who are called cabinet ministers.
An idiocrat, in my lingua, is an idiot who pretends to be smart but has zero knowledge of, or about the governance of this federated nation-state of three constituent members. They think we are a nation of 13 ‘states or like entities’. Such idiocrats, apart from zero knowledge about the concept of units of analysis; do not understand the nature of any democracy. So, it is really my composite word of two words, ‘idiots’ and ‘democracy’.
These idiots do not understand the principle of rule of law and confuse it for the non-principle of rule by law. Rule of law is Malaysian constitutionalism wherein our democracy and our royalty are defined by the federal constitution. Even our nature of religious life is defined by the constitution which declares itself the supreme law of the nation-state as a federation. Is there any confusion about this?
