Proposal shot down

CNN has just reported that the plan asking single women travelling abroad to have a letter from the parents will be shelved.

This is the news:

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A Malaysian minister has shot down a colleague’s plan to restrict women who travel abroad alone.

Foreign Minister Rais Yatim had wanted the women to carry a letter from parents verifying the reason for the journey. He said this would weed out genuine travelers from those being used as drug carriers.

But Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar said Monday such a plan “will not be practical.” He is in charge of immigration and the final authority on implementing the plan.

The plan was also condemned by women’s rights groups as repressive.

Rais Yatim’s proposal was born out of concern over government statistics, which showed that 119 Malaysians, 90 percent of them women, are imprisoned abroad for drug-related offenses

Malaysian government has been known  to do ‘flip flop’ act very often. This is another one of those plans that were thought of but that did not get any feedback from the ground. anyone worth his salt would have known that this type of restriction placed on half of the population will not be popular and will not be feasible.

I wonder whether these politicians have any so called think  tank around them. If they have, and I am sure they have, do these ministers listen to their think tanks? Or do these think tanks have common sense?

You really do not need Ph.Ds or even bachelors degree to know that such restriction over the whole womanfolk is wrong.

Maybe We need politicians with better calibre and better common sense.

Pls read mypost yesterday: see the logic, dear minister?