COMMENT | Bell and the cat - a fairy tale for our times

COMMENT | I prefer the Malay translation of this tale, “Loceng Dan Kucing”. It has rhyme, rhythm and a nice ring to it.

It may also encourage a professor or two to claim this tale originated in our part of the world. If priests and kungfu masters can fly in the face of reason, why not cats and bells, I say.

However, why talk of cats when the country is worried sick about yet another sacred cow? Here is a little-known fact: long before cows became sacred, long before MACC began acting like an apex predator, cats were revered. Killing a cat in Pharaonic Egypt could cost you your life.

More importantly, cats have left us with this all-important question: Who will bell the cat? It is another way of asking, who will put limits on those who exercise power in our name? And what will stop them from abusing this power?

Yes, limits must be placed but...