Taking the sex scandal of Datuk Seri Chua Soi Lek just over a year ago as an example, Khir Toyo explained how the Barisan Nasional asked the former Health Minister to resign following a video recording of his extra-marital fling with a women.
Khir Toyo further adds that the current scandal involving the 39-year old PKR politician reflects poor leadership and hopes that Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim would 'clean up' the party.
Who is Khir Toyo to give us a lesson on morality?
The former Selangor Chief Minister made a grave error by comparing the latest distribution of nude pictures with the sex video of Chua. Both scandals are not the same.
Elizabeth Wong had her pictures taken while she was sleeping without her clothes on. Immoral? No. Every person has a right to his/her own privacy and there is no law to say one can or cannot sleep naked, let alone one's very own bedroom.
Emotional moment: Wong reacting as she announces her offer to resign during the press conference at the PKR headquarters in Petaling Jaya yesterday. (The Star, 18/2/09)
Elizabeth Wong had done nothing wrong. The real crime lies with the person responsible for distributing her nude pictures. Chua Soi Lek, on the other hand, had his extra-marital affairs caught on tape. Infidelity is immoral. Sleeping naked is not.
Now, I am not defending Chua's decision to resign following his sex video. I believe the private lives of every citizen-including a politician's-demand the same degree of respect. But the conservative civic conscience of ours simply cannot accept an 'immoral' public figure. Blame it on our Asian cultural dogmas, you may but it is a common expectation for the private and professional lives of politicians to closely entwine.
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