Joke for chilli eaters…
Sim Kwang Yang
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So now, it’s official. The government will take action against malaysiakini for their April Fool’s prank because they “tell lies”, according to the ominous announcement by one junior minister in Parliament recently.
By now my friends involved in this Internet publication should be running desperately for cover. The reporter and the editor responsible for this allegedly heinous crime should now be packing their toothbrushes, and saying goodbye to their loved ones, anticipating an uncertain period of incarceration under any one of our many laws tailored for the purpose of fixing irreverent journalists. Meanwhile, subscribers to malaysiakini shiver in their boots; will their identity be uncovered in this witch-hunt of a dragnet?
Of course, the scene at the new malaysiakini office will be one of hysteria and chaos, as their skeleton staff members race against time to pack away their precious computers and servers. Another raid, another confiscation by the you-know-who, and they can kiss their costly equipment goodbye.
The whole affair sounds like a page taken out of a typical novel by Franz Kafka. (Some budding writer in Malaysia should really write a novel of the absurd with malaysiakini people as their anti-hero.) On the other hand, another writer with the mental bend of a Dostoevsky may give the story a darker nihilistic tone on the inevitability and inaneness of evil working in the world. There would be great confusion about where the evil lies. (more…)
