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If we had a film of the legislative events of the time of Maldives’ first Constitution (circa 1932), one would be tempted to label the period as the ‘Age of the Stupid.’ A legislative committee was working overtime to produce all sorts and manners of laws, which were becoming increasingly more difficult for citizens to bear. Thoroughly fed-up with the laws, the people of Male (‘Havaru’) came out on the streets, tore the laws and banished the legislators. More than 75 years after the episode we have a new Constitution and a sense of Déjà vu is permeating the atmosphere. Another Age of the Stupid?
In 1932 the Legislative Committee drafted laws to cover ‘monumental’ issues such as fire crackers (Lonumedhu Fataas), demolishing public wells on Male waterfront, cutting trees and 40 other similar topics. Visitors to Male soon found they had no place to take a bath. Boat owners found out that they couldn’t get timber to repair their dhonis. In short, the ill conceived laws made life impossible for the people.
After 75 years, today the new Constitution has given an endless list of rights, of which criminals are taking full advantage. A labor law is creating tension in the workplace and draining the government budget. A civil service law has led to loss of job security for hundreds of public servants. An information law is putting government officials in the dilemma of being legally obliged to provide information which is not readily available.
Looking at the legislative ‘masterpieces’ of today, future generations may be tempted to label the era as another Age of the Stupid.
6 comments:
good sense will prevail soon
There is too much detail in the laws without studyign the issue properly.
The Age of Uncertainity.The Age of Fear.The Golden Age of Thugs.The Age of Maldivian Barbarians.The Age of Wasted Youth.The Age of Ganja Manikufaanu.The Age of Yellow Monsters.The Age of National Disintegration.The Age of Uneducated Hooligans.The age of helplessness for the educated.The Age of Brown Sugar verses Hasish Oil.The age of hypocritic mullahs.The age of freedom for murderers rapists and a host of other criminals.The list goes on and on.......what ever the final name its certainly an age to be remembered mostly with horror revulsion and disbelief.
The problem is this: our reaction to the outer forces within oursleves is far more greater than the outerforces itself and eventually the whole reaction leads to a vicious cirle of actions and reactions.In this scenario of mending and moulding into a law abiding society we are right now run out of making laws and introducing rules to be followed.certainly we are not in shortage of laws and regulations rather we have lost lackadaisical approach to these laws due to selfish motives.This is why rights far outweigh the responsibilities. The laws will never solve any problem unless the makers and the recievers of the laws stop reacting to over come the evils of the outer layer while the forces of evil keep activating within.so the actions of changes should begin from within not without.
dissmiss the majlis and bring some useful guys there.
Why can't they make shorter laws and leave details to regulations?
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