In a classic D’oh incident, foreign minister Rais Yatim has gone and stuck his foot right into his mouth in typical Malaysian BN knee jerk reaction. I got the jerk part right!
Apparently, Rais Yatim wants young women travelling alone to get parental consent before leaving the country. This is to prevent them from being use as drug mules. Erm yes… and? I mean come on. If the women allow themselves to be used because they are promised thousands of RM so they can buy that latest LV bag, why bother? Let them get thrown into prison for their stupidity and greed.
The rest of us good girls aren’t likely to want to carry drugs any time soon and I don’t see what’s wrong with women going off on a holiday by themselves. What if they are orphans. Does it mean they can’t leave the country? Come on, young women above 21 are adults. The Federal Constitution allows us the basic freedom to do as you wish so long as we don’t flout the law.
Traveling alone isn’t flouting any law. What if I have to leave the country for a business trip? Next thing you know, they’ll ban us from carrying bic pens because we will poke someone’s eyes out.
Rais, if you want to closet all women and lock them up at home so they don’t go galliavanting around the world getting ideas about how women’s right should be in this country, and how a country ought to be run, just try to pass that bloody law and watch while the men of the country get torn from limb to limb. Women will not tolerate such nonsense!
Argh! the stupidity!!!