Our politicians are truly 1st class and such heroes to progressive society. The Star reports:
Local women intending to travel abroad alone may need family consent in a bid to prevent them from being used as “drug mules” by international syndicates. Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim said a proposal to this effect would be made soon to the Cabinet, following several incidents where women were used to smuggle drugs overseas.
Out of 119 cases of Malaysian women hauled up before foreign courts, 90% were linked to drugs, he said.
1st off, how does family consent prevent silly young things from becoming drug mules? What if the girl has no living relatives? And what about the woman’s right as an individual? Also, the reason its girls and not guys are getting caught is because of the assumption that custom agents are less likely to suspect women of being drug carriers and hence not search them. IT DOES NOT actually mean that men are more savvy, intelligent or superior.
It gets better:
“Both ministries (home and foreign) agreed that factors like family, religion, immigration laws and preventive measures need to be considered before a Malaysian woman goes abroad alone,” Rais told reporters after officiating at the Malaysian Silambam Association’s Jelebu branch here yesterday.
Let me state that I think this is such a stupid waste of time. The foreign ministry should be concerned with ensuring that the Malaysians in prison overseas are getting their appropriate legal rights, and try to bring them home to serve out their time in prison here. They also have a ton of things to do for improving the relations of our nation with our neighbors and getting ASEAN working before the world completely bypasses South East Asia. The government need not interfere in the lives of the people to this extent in the 1st place. If they deem it necessary, at least don’t be bigoted about it. Also dear government please please please stop factoring religion into every thing. Its a secular state.
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