Indonesian anti-smut MP caught ogling filth

"We need to be cautious. We need to make sure we're not violating any privacy laws."

Disgusting. Because it happens to be about a disgraced Senator, caution is required. If it was Joe Vindaloo, he'd be in prison before anyone even knew about it.

Anyone else read "Prosperous Justice Party"

As "Preposterous Justice Party"?

'"staunchly Islamic" Prosperous Justice Party,'?

"staunchly Islamic" Preposterous Justice Party.,

Fixed that.

How come...

every time a politician takes a moral stand against something, they are always found to be engaged in what they are taking a stand against. Happens every time, like Nick Clegg against nepotism last week.

Hardly surprising

don't most people say what any prospective electorate, employer, policeman, judge etc. wants to hear rather than the absolute truth?

I see no problem in hiding irrelevant truths, we are all entitled to some privacy, hypocritical lying to hide very relevant truths in order to gain the trust of ones peers is something else altogether.

Good grief...

... if he does get fired, he should be able to get a job over here as an MP - he'll fit in like a pro.

Without his help...

If the law is controversial, now that he has fallen from grace and resigned, is it likely to be repealed?

Or would legislators trying to do that be seen as less than staunchly Islamic... and thus targets for terrorists?

title

I wonder if he claimed it on expenses?

hypocrisy

I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning. It's the smell of... politics. And self-important busy-body puritans whose main concern is that someone, somewhere is having more fun than they are. Frankly, I hope they throw the book at him.

hypocrisy

Isn't it amazing how often the prudes who imagine the terrible harm in anything to do with the body and sex are later found to be complete hypocrites. It couldn't possibly be that the prurience is really in their own minds, could it? There should be a criminal offence of political hypocricy.

I have a little mental list which I must make into a written one. These are what I can recall off the top of my head, there are more:

1. Senator George Foley, US ex senator - law against children and Naturism - resigned when his relations with child interns were found out.

2. Arfinto - this example

3. Wasn't there another case of a politician caught watching something similar in similar circumstances?

And then there is the related Jacqui Smith incident. Her seeking to censor the internet via the backdoor couldn't possibly be anything to do with that expenses claim could it?

Should we take seeking to deny people freedom of expression and consumption on sex and body related issues to be a symptom of a dirty mind? Is it an indicator of paedophile tendencies?

Laws

I think all laws should be automatically repealed after 5 years. This would mean the various parliaments would spend their life redebating and reinstating basic laws (like try not to stab your neighbour because he has the wrong colour shirt) that they would be unable to introduce the sort of terrible legislation that marks most government.

However the real truth is that the problem starts with democracy. If you give every unthinking stupid, moronic, idiotic, sun-reading, blithering idiot the vote then you get the thick t**** 'electing' the sort of stupid idiotic unpleasant power grabbing hypocritical oafs we have had in our parliament for at least the last 40 years.