Sunday, March 23, 2014

Disappearance of MAS Flight MH370 - An Isolated Case?

 
The deficient quality of the top leadership of Malaysia civil service has been glaringly exposed to the whole world through the unfortunate incident of the disappearance of MAS flight MH370. After 50 years of a blotched education policy, we now have a generation who can hardly speak and convey message to the world audience. Sadly, we have come to a phase of the blind leading the blind.
 
In the latest missing flight saga, we have read of one Malaysian senior official who said something like ".......we have carried out an expensive exercise" in one of the news briefings followed quickly by a correction of "..............we have carried out an extensive exercise".

Now, the government mouth piece is using the often-quoted words of "The missing MH370 flight is an isolated incident" to defend the handling of the case by their master.

 
The phrase "This is an isolated incident" is one of the many favoured statements used by either the government politicians or their mouth piece to defend their master. The sad thing is that even after two foreigners managed to enter the plane using stolen passports without being detected, they still insisted that their personnel had followed the standard operating procedures (SOP)!

When a group of Filipino armed rebels from Tawi-Tawi in southern Philippines entered Felda Sahabat 17, Kampung Tanduo in Lahad Datu in February 2013, certain official of the Malaysian security department used the "This is an isolated incident" to defend the handling of the case by Malaysian government.

When armed men made their way to a resort in Pulau Pom Pom in Semporna and shot dead a Taiwanese tourist before kidnapping his wife in November 2013, the phrase "This is an isolated incident" was again heard.

This is undeniably a phrase that was used more than it should be used. But then, we are famous for using ambiguous terms to defend what otherwise is an obvious case of deficient and inefficient governance Read Here.

One wonders whether we need ten more MAS planes to disappear before the authorities deemed serious enough to take pre-emptive actions?

2 comments:

Penny152 said...
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Penny152 said...

Another much used word is 'Don't speculate' Without much information forthcoming, of course people will try to speculate and analyse the situation.