Did You Vote In A Lizard?

(Yesterday I saw a lizard crossing the road. All the cars halted to let it pass.)

“At noon in the desert a panting lizard waited for history, its elbows tense, watching the curve of a particular road as if something might happen.”

- William Stafford


The lizard thinks it has all the time in the world to wait,
Or it thinks something is going to happen soon.

- Ghostwise

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“The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.” [Ford Prefect]
“Odd,” said Arthur, “I thought you said it was a democracy.” [Arthur Dent]
“I did,” said Ford. “It is.”
“So,” said Arthur, hoping he wasn’t sounding ridiculously obtuse, “why don’t the people get rid of the lizards?”
“It honestly doesn’t occur to them,” said Ford. “They’ve all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they’ve voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.”
“You mean they actually vote for the lizards?”
“Oh yes,” said Ford with a shrug, “of course.”
“But,” said Arthur, going for the big one again, “why?”
“Because if they didn’t vote for a lizard,” said Ford, “the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?”

– Douglas Adams, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish


Did you vote for a lizard?
Or did you vote for the other lizard?

- Ghostwise

The Government Is A Temporary Servant Of The People.

(The early results of the Malaysian election showed a strong swing to the opposition. The people is expressing their dissatisfaction with the corruption in the country. This is one of the most significant landmark of Malaysian politics. Whoever wins know that they can no longer ignore the voices of the people.)

It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

- Hubert H. Humphrey


When the government caters only to the rich and powerful, then it is a government that has lost its moral right to govern.

- Ghostwise

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The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

- Mark Twain


When a government forgets that it is the servant of the people, it is time to change that government.

- Ghostwise