I refer to the report in The Borneo Post BN members walk out on Chong with the sub-headline ‘Left with insufficient quorum, Kota Sentosa rep forced to end reading of motion'.

It was said in the report that Chong Chieng Jen (DAP-Kota Sentosa) could not finish tabling his land motion yesterday after Barisan Nasional (BN) members walked out of the Sarawak state legislative assembly (DUN) chamber. Imagine that!

These BN (Sarawak) people must be really trying to prove to all Sarawakians that they are really imbecilic. This is surely a first for any state assembly in Malaysia and probably even the world for that matter - a comfortable majority government walking out on its own assembly.

After the brutish and idiotic shenanigans in the Perak state assembly, such stupidity from the BN should perhaps be expected from these bully boys. Something must have seriously discomfited them. What was it? Ah, yes - land!

Being the serial land-grabbers and grave-robbers that they are, no wonder! Chong should do this (present his motion) every time the state assembly is in session. Will the BN keep walking out?

As also stated in the report ‘The motion was presented to introduce a bill under Standing Order 45, promising better protection of the rights of landowners'. Absolutely nothing wrong with this.

But the BN can't have this now, can it? If the law gives better protection to the rights of landowners, how to grab their land while they are sleeping?

Chong rightfully told reporters outside the DUN: ‘I am disgusted with what BN members have plotted.' All Sarawakians must be disgusted with such behaviour by the BN.

It was reported that the Minister for Land Development James Masing said that the opposition must learn their lesson. And what lesson is that - that the BN can behave as irresponsibly as it likes just because it has a majority? Don't we all know that already?

He is quoted as saying ‘By now, they should know they don't have the majority and the sooner they learn the lesson, the better it is for them.' To this I say: Why don't you just keep walking out every time the opposition opens its mouth? That will really teach them a lesson.

Believed to be the first walkout by a majority government any where in the world, the BN has shown the world just how silly it is.

James Masing also said: ‘We have had enough of the opposition's antics and we want to teach them a lesson'. Ya, right! And the lesson is, don't bring up what the BN doesn't want to hear in the state assembly or it will walk out. Oops! But the BN is in the majority, so why should they want to walk out? And how will that teach the opposition a lesson?

Further whining from James Masing: ‘They did it to us when the chief minister delivered his winding-up speech. The opposition members were not in the chamber'. Who wants to hear a winding-up speech by Taib when everyone is only looking forward to his resignation or conceding defeat speech?

More inanely he also said, ‘We are sending a strong message to them. ‘We are the boss'. They must know that they are just small fish, trying to score political points'. Strong message indeed, walking out of the state assembly! Usually that option is reserved for the small fish who get bullied by the boss.

‘They have been tabling the same motion over and over again and what they propose is actually what we are doing for the rakyat. They are trying to gain political mileage and we are not interested in that. It has nothing to do with whether the motion is benefitting the rakyat or not,' Masing added.

Of course the BN can't have anything to do with any motion benefitting the rakyat! That would go against the grand scheme of things set out by their great leader Taib Mahmud to keep the people enslaved and subservient to them so that they can do as they please with the state and its resources, especially the land.

According to The Borneo Post, at a separate press conference, Deputy Chief Minister Dr George Chan said the government was ‘finding ways to adjust the Land Code' so that landowners could renew their land titles once they expired.
Seriously, how long would or should that take the government?

He felt that there was no need for the opposition to spend time tabling a similar motion, saying that the move was just to gain political mileage. ‘Some land titles in Bako under Section 47 have been released and this is what we are doing. Do not just talk about it all the time but look into the needs of the people'. No political mileage here of course.

‘And now he (Chong) wants to start another bill talking about the same thing. Don't you think it is a waste of time? We don't want any party to get political mileage by just talking. It is time we do some action,' he added. Indeed, high time. But is it negative or positive action?

Citing an example, Chan said the Supp Youth team had gone to Bako to help landowners there renew their land titles. ‘We don't want to spend time talking and talking. Do something and see how we can help the people on the ground. That is why we feel that there is no need for us to debate (on the motion) anymore,' the Supp president added.

Perhaps this is what he should have said:

‘There is no need for us to debate on anything, we can just do as we like. We talk only to distract the people from what we are really doing, and that is robbing the state and the people of its/their land and resources for the benefit of our boss and ourselves'.

Time for the rakyat to teach the BN who's the real boss.

Sarawakians for Sarawak!