Law School so far

I have been restraining myself from commenting on contemporary political and legal issues, even when people ask for it. For the life of me, I don’t know why would people want to ask me for such things. It’s worth as much as the next guy’s opinion.

So I leave subtle, general comments in Twitter and Facebook. Hey, I can’t totally restrain, but at least I can minimize the amount of interactivity between me, the topics, and other people who might like to beg to differ my opinion. Being in law school, believe me, there are a lot of such people.

It’s Ramadan, guys. I do love political banters here and there but I think I should really relax, chill, and like what Pn. Nazidah used to say “Balik belajar consti lah dulu!” because I realise a lot of people commenting and having their say in these issues are frankly people with baseless ideas and merely philosophical ideals.

It’s actually quite saddening to see a lot of the Bumiputras in my faculty are just trying to get through law school just so they could have that law degree and eventually live life with loads of cash.

Don’t get me wrong, I do wish all the best for my batch mates financially. However, there are really a lot of things to be discovered and movements to be involved with while we’re still sitting here in this cozy academic environment. We really do have the most complete law library with books from even the 1700s, lecturers who are drafting laws for the Attorney General’s Chambers, passionate individuals spearheading the plight of mother earth and then some. It’s shameful some of us couldn’t be bothered with all this going on around.

What I’m really getting at here is that a lot of people complain about how things are here, but only few make the effort to actually make this world a better place. We’d rather pick up a picket sign and protest than picking up a pen to write down knowledge. So what if your voice is loud but your thoughts are screwy? How sustainable is that?

Everything starts here, it starts with that mind of yours, with the pen you’re holding, with the ideas you have in your head. I know it gets too hard sometimes but what kind of nation would this be if we all are just mindless beings just waiting to pounce whenever someone yells at us to strike down authority? You live by the sword, you die by the sword. Would that really be a better place to live in.

I have always been asking myself who the heck are these people running the country. Where did they come from? Were they student leaders, what did they major in when they were in their university, were they involved in any movements promoting a better world?

Come on. Some of them can’t even deliver a speech properly, constantly fiddling around with prepared texts, some of them lie to your face with a huge smile on their faces. Who are these people we’re trusting?

A lot of people come to me and say these credentials are immaterial. You can’t simply judge a person’s administrative capabilities through their formal education level. Personally, for example, I would like for the Minister of Internal Affairs to have aced human rights law when he was in college. Or at least, you know, graduate in a related field.

I say to them, if they couldn’t handle studying for a degree, why in the bloody hell do we trust them taking charge of a nation? The age of passion alone has died. We need a balance of intelligence, leadership, and ingenuity. All of these qualities are essential for a working democracy, especially in our democracy where interests intersect all the time because of our multiculturalism. We have a thinner line dividing every party’s interests and everyone wants to bend and dance around that line.

To get people really united, we must have a common enemy rather than a common leader. We all know hatred goes well within the roots of what we are capable to feel. We are heading towards a stupid direction and we have a ridiculous presumed enemy. That has to stop. We must establish the enemy now and the enemy now is ignorance.

Kill it.